Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

Janet MacLachlan, Jason Wingreen in The Blue Flash, an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man!
JB

 

Starring Rodney Allen Rippy. Thank God he and Gary Coleman were too young for Star Trek. Coleman was on Buck Rogers, and we all know how that went.

 

...Amazing?

 

It depends on what you're in the mood for.

 

After a season of 1-hour episodes, Twilight Zone returned to the 1/2 hour format for their 5th season, and knocked it out of the park with the beautifully written, utterly heartbreaking "The Long Morrow," starring Robert Lansing and Mariette Hartley.

 

I wasn't aware at first whom Rodney Allen Rippy was during the episode?
And even after seeing that he is getting on in age these days from his role as the young kid with the broken up bike, I still didn't know who he is???
JB

 

I just remember him as a cute kid who was popular for being popular. I think he got started in a commercial or something, then he'd pop up here and there, so audiences would go "Hey! There's Rodney Allen Rippy!"

 

I am 2 seasons into the 1960s Mission Impossible and it seems to be filled with actors who worked on Stsr Trek, or vis versa........so many in fact that i feel they were walking from one show to the other. Lol

 

Trek and M:I (and Mannix) were sister shows from the same studio and the same exec, Herb Solow. They had the same casting director too, I believe. So it's no surprise they shared a lot. They used a lot of the same backlot sets and locations, too. Surprisingly, though, the only composers they had in common were Gerald Fried and Jerry Fielding (although George Romanis did one episode each of M:I and ST:TNG).

 

There ya go!

 

Jeffrey Hunter playing Fred MacMurray's son in the western "Gun for a Coward".

 

Who played the other two sons?

 

Michael Forest as one of three alien invaders "inconspicuously disguised" as a belligerent biker gang in a small town, in the Twilight Zone episode "Black Leather Jacket."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734557/?ref_=ttep_ep18

 

The 4D Man (1959)
Robert Lansing
Lee Meriwether
Guy Raymond

 

Oh. I just rewatched that. It's still in the Blu-Ray player. I'm going to have to look again.

 

That link also shows that Robert Strong appeared as a Romulan in the movie

 

Just watched an episode of The Dick Powell Theatre - "Colossus."

William Shatner, Robert Brown, Frank Overton. and also Geraldine Brooks, who'd co-star with Shatner the following year in The Outer Limits - "Cold Hands, Warm Heart."

 

Grace Lee Whitney in Mannix


same episode
Harry Landers/ Arthur Coleman (Turnabout Intruder) in Mannix