Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Not to mention Catherine Mary Stewart's grandmother in "The Last Starfighter".
Little boys would have had bulges Spielberg didn't want to explain.
Bill Catching in The Galaxy Being, the premier episode of The Outer Limits!
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This morning's Have Gun - Will Travel on DVD was "Taylor's Woman," written by Gene Roddenberry, which was basically Taming of the Shrew. Kathy Brown stars as Harry Carey Jr's housekeeper. A controlling, barking, righteous harridan who insists on marrying her employer for his own good. The man hires Paladin to find some way to get rid of her. In the process of trying to "break" her 
, Paladin discovers she loves her boss and will do anything to get him to love here. Paladin shifts his goal from breaking her, to instructing her on how to be a soft and gentle dove. Of course, Carey comes around in the end. Just so it's not 100% misogynistic and sexist, the last scene lets us know she hasn't lost her free will and determination to have her way - just with a softer art of persuasion. It's still pretty misogynistic, tho. That's our Gene!
, Paladin discovers she loves her boss and will do anything to get him to love here. Paladin shifts his goal from breaking her, to instructing her on how to be a soft and gentle dove. Of course, Carey comes around in the end. Just so it's not 100% misogynistic and sexist, the last scene lets us know she hasn't lost her free will and determination to have her way - just with a softer art of persuasion. It's still pretty misogynistic, tho. That's our Gene!
It would have been hilarious had she encountered a Talosian-looking alien (if her character had actually encountered any aliens).
Cleaning out a cabinet, I found an old VHS copy of a few episodes of the 1966 series T.H.E. Cat. So old and so bad a copy, it was practically posterized solid black and solid white images. But even in lousy video quality, I recognized Roy Jenson as a crooked cop. And there was Cloud William, beating up the main character. 
Oh, the episode title was "To Kill a Priest," and the priest being threatened in the episode was Jason Evers.
Oh, the episode title was "To Kill a Priest," and the priest being threatened in the episode was Jason Evers.
In Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), the protagonist is stranded in Manhattan and goes into an all-night bar, where he meets a sweet waitress played by Teri Garr. She writes on his check: "Help! I hate this job!" He looks up at her across the room, and her silent look and nod is priceless. It doesn't work as well in a still, but it's one of my favorite unspoken "lines" in a movie, ever.
"The House on Greenapple Road" was a 1968 TV movie that was later adapted to a TV series, "Dan August." The series starred Burt Reynolds, but the movie starred Chris George. It featured a cavalcade of late 60s TV actors including, for our purposes, William Windom, Joanne Linville, and Paul Fix. Honorary mention to Walter Pidgeon for Forbidden Planet. Also stopping by was Chris George's soon-to-be wife, Linda Day, prior to her tenure on Trek's studio-mate Mission: Impossible.
For Hitchcock fans, the plot involved Janet Leigh as a housewife who was suspected of being murdered when her kitchen was discovered slathered in copious amounts of blood. Later she's found alive, but in hiding in a local country club. Chris George finally finds her when he rips a shower curtain back and finds her lying in the shower, cowering.
For Hitchcock fans, the plot involved Janet Leigh as a housewife who was suspected of being murdered when her kitchen was discovered slathered in copious amounts of blood. Later she's found alive, but in hiding in a local country club. Chris George finally finds her when he rips a shower curtain back and finds her lying in the shower, cowering.
Jeff Corey as a judge suffering a nervous breakdown on Night Court. As an aside, I didn't know Mr. Corey was that tall. He's easily looking Harry Anderson, John Larroquette and Mac Robinson in the eyes and they're all well over six feet.
Jeff Corey's height is given on IMDb as 6'0", but I recall he did often seem to tower over a lot of "leading man" types who measured more in the 5'7"-5'9" range.
Me again. The first regular series episode of Dan August (1970) was graced with the presence of Diana Muldaur, as a suspect and old school flame of Dan's who was skinny dipping with the murder victim just before the crime.
Tapping the Forbidden Planet cast once again, Ann Francis played the (nicely) aging alcoholic housewife cougar rather than Janet Leigh in the TV movie.
Tapping the Forbidden Planet cast once again, Ann Francis played the (nicely) aging alcoholic housewife cougar rather than Janet Leigh in the TV movie.
Some of Doohan (Sargon's voice in "Return to Tomorrow," M-5's voice in "The Ultimate Computer," etc.)'s work on TAS was fairly impressive. I recently rewatched "The Infinite Vulcan" and had to look up to confirm it was he doing Agmar and Keniclius 5.
Bad times at Vasquez Rocks. Have Gun - Will Travel, "The Predators."
I'm watching Beneath the Planet of the Apes on Movies Network and as Brent and the gorilla are fighting atop the wagon cage, they pass by the Vasquez Rocks. It's also seen in the back projection as well.
Maybe I watch too much old TV
Sonny & Cher's show of March 20, 1972 (featured guest Merv Griffin).
The big finale was a "pre-revolution Russian opera as written by Xavier Cugat."
Teri Garr played a matronly Russian dowager. She must have been hot under all that padding!
And it's still hard to wrap my head around Steve Martin being in the chorus.
Sonny & Cher's show of March 20, 1972 (featured guest Merv Griffin).
The big finale was a "pre-revolution Russian opera as written by Xavier Cugat."
Teri Garr played a matronly Russian dowager. She must have been hot under all that padding!
And it's still hard to wrap my head around Steve Martin being in the chorus.
