Mudd's dime bag

[RobertScorpio]

I am not sure where I read it. But I read somewhere that the guy who played HARRY MUDD was the one who introduced Shatner to "pot" back in the 60s. Is there any 'illegal substance" to this statement???

Rob
Scorpio

 

[golakers]

Well, Roger C. Carmel died of a drug-related heart attack in 1986.

You can find all the details at www.findadeath.com - actually a very interesting site detailing the last moments of many famous people.

So, I wouldn't put it past him. However, it looks like the yeyo was his drug of choice.

 

[Shatmandu]

Why, that good for noth-thing -thing -thing ...

Joe, in a black nightie

 

[Kryton]

Roger used to have Norman "coordinate" him every night before sleepy-time.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Roger used to have Norman "coordinate" him every night before sleepy-time.

Hmmm...was that part of the directors cut?

Rob
Scorpio

 

[cooleddie74]

This is the first I've heard about Roger C. Carmel introducing anyone on the TOS cast to drugs. It's news to me...although I was aware he died in the late 80s from a drug-related cause.

 

[Amaris]

Sad, too. I just watched "I, Mudd" from my VHS Collector's Edition, and I am always delighted by his performances as Harry Mudd.


J.

 

[cooleddie74]

He also had a funny recurring role on THREE'S COMPANY as one of Mr. Furley's old friends or business partners. Was on it several times. Shame they never made him a part of the supporting cast.

 

[gastrof]

Scenario: You're trapped on an elevator with Michael Bolton, Kenny G and Yanni. You have a gun...but with only one bullet in the clip. WHAT do you do?

Ummm....

Suicide?

 

[HobartFloyt]

I am not sure where I read it. But I read somewhere that the guy who played HARRY MUDD was the one who introduced Shatner to "pot" back in the 60s. Is there any 'illegal substance" to this statement???

Rob
Scorpio

After actually sparing a brain cell or two on the matter, I think it's unlikely that Carmel actually introduced Shatner to illegal drugs. I mean Shatner had been in Hollywood for years by that time and I expect there would've been plenty of opportunity to become acquainted with the weed well before the mid Sixties.

Now if the story were that Carmel sold Shatner some pot, I'd file it under the "Yeah, sure, why not." category.

 

[Outpost4]

Actually, the late '60s were just about the right time for Shatner et.al. to get introduced to drugs. While certainly "reefer" had been around for decades, it was a jazz/beatnik kind of thing. White bread America could and did ignore it. Alcohol was by far and away the drug of choice.

The Beatles didn't get introduced to pot (by Bob Dylan) until 1964. San Francisco's Haight/Ashbury district wasn't a going thing until 1966. Living in Los Angeles, I didn't see pot until 1969, and I was in high school, prime drug culture. Certainly it was out there before 1966, but in was a very small community. William Shatner has always struck me as a conventional guy, and conventional people didn't consider smoking pot until 1966/67. By 1970, a lot of conventional people were smoking pot (sorry TLS and NCC-1701, that's just the way it was). You can blame the soldiers coming back from Vietnam as much as the Jefferson Airplane.

 

[T'Bonz]

In the late 1960s in Southern California (San Diego area,) pot was in the high schools. I know, as my sister was a teen then, tried it and threw up. Her best friend died in either 1969 or 1970 from a heroin overdose.

 

[cooleddie74]

Scenario: You're trapped on an elevator with Michael Bolton, Kenny G and Yanni. You have a gun...but with only one bullet in the clip. WHAT do you do?

Ummm....

Suicide?

You're learning, Grasshopper.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I am not sure where I read it. But I read somewhere that the guy who played HARRY MUDD was the one who introduced Shatner to "pot" back in the 60s. Is there any 'illegal substance" to this statement???

Rob
Scorpio

After actually sparing a brain cell or two on the matter, I think it's unlikely that Carmel actually introduced Shatner to illegal drugs. I mean Shatner had been in Hollywood for years by that time and I expect there would've been plenty of opportunity to become acquainted with the weed well before the mid Sixties.

Now if the story were that Carmel sold Shatner some pot, I'd file it under the "Yeah, sure, why not." category.

Carmel was on a few episodes of HAWAII FIVE 0, he played the Russian Ambassador. I remember Jack Lord saying, in an interview, that Carmel's dressing room reaked of pot so bad that the real HPD was sent to the studio several times. They had gotten 'tips' about pot smokers on the set. Jack Lord had to use his 'weight' to get the cops to let it go....funny stuff.

Rob
scorpio