Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

A special Mannix triple feature. "Run, Sheep, Run" 1967 stars Malachi Throne and John Abbot, And a first I've found, an audio sound. The exact same beeep, beeep tone used to signal a closed communicator was used as a mobile car telephone tone!

 

Have Gun - Will Schallert... The inestimable Mr Schallert was featured in "Justice in Hell," as the least objectionable and most erudite citizen of a frontier town which gives sanctuary to wanted men.

 

And speaking of the utterly ubiquitous Bill Schalert, I randomly watched the 1956 Lone Ranger feature film today, and there he was as a minor government functionary, along with Michael Ansara as "Angry Horse," Perry Lopez as a young rancher, and heck, even Beverly Washburn as a young girl!

Yes, yes, forked tongue.

 

I'm shamed to say I never made this connection - Michael Pataki, the Klingon who started the fight in Tribbles, was a regular in the second half of the Get Christie Love series, as Christie's goofy comic-relief partner. It was just such a different character I completely failed to see it.

 

He was the lunatic Count Myron Mallachi in Happy Days too in Fonzie Loves Pinky three part episode!
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Joseph Ruskin, Charles Napier in Satan's Witches, an episode of Starsky & Hutch!
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Saw the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Uncle Simon" last night, and there was Ian Wolf as an aged estate lawyer. My wife blurted "Was he born 80 years old??"
Another sci fi luminary featured in the episode was Robbie the Robot with a goofy 50s tin-man replacement head.

 

More TZ tonight, and there's a bedraggled, yet still lovely, Anoinette Bower with Richard Basehart in the classic "Probe 7, Over and Out."

 

That man was never young.

I had to say it, I had no choice.

 

Vic Perrin pops in for about half a minute to lay some exposition at the end of the Twilight Zone Episode, "The Ring-a-Ding Girl."

 

The Outer Limits alien parasite episode "Corpus Human" stars Robert Culp as a doctor who hears the aliens (who are disguised as rocks) (Yeah) plotting, but Barry Atwater (billed as G.B. Atwater) is the poor scientist who gets possesed. The voice of the alien parasites was Bob Johnson, who did alien voice-overs on five TOS episodes. And of course Vic Perrin narrates the series. Bonus costar is Salome Jens, who is quite lovely without a pound of shape-shifter latex on her face.

 

On a roll here. The Outer Limits ep "Nightmare" features Whit Bissel as a general, and David Frankham as a guinea pig. Bonus TNG guest John Anderson, totally recognizable by his voice and expressions, even in that fright mask.

 

"It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" on The Outer Limits, and attacked Michael Forest. Barbara Luna was around too, tho less distressed.

 

Monty O'Grady in Hutchinson:Murder One, an episode of Starsky & Hutch!
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Outer Limits just keeps on keeping on with the Trek actors. Alfred Rider showed up in "The Borderland" as a real weasel, willing to fatally sabotage a scientific experiment that threatened his seance business.

 

Oh, Man, "The Zanti Misfits" was shot entirely on location at Vasquez Rocks. Some great scenes at "Kirk's Peak."

 

Mariette Hartley in The House On The Hill (2019) playing Ellen Snow!
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Morgan Woodward in Foxy Lady, an episode of Starsky & Hutch!
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Grace Lee Whitney has had enough of Robert Fortier's shit! The Outer Limits ep "Controlled Experiment" features Barry Morse and Carroll O'Connor as a pair of Martians stepping out of phase while using a time control device to rewind and replay (over and over) A floozy's murder of her cheating boyfriend, to better understand human nature. In the end, Morse gets sentimental, deflects the bullet, and gets them to make up.



I suppose the novelty of backwards-running film and slow motion playback was fun in 1963, but it was a really tedious gimmick to sit through a dozen times nowadays.