This episode has Shatner at his best/worst, are there any cast memories recorded, what anyone else thought of Shatner wandering about shouting and emoting more than usual?
Any cast memories of "Turnabout Intruder"
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"Captain Kirk, Space Queen."
Right. At one point, when he was supposed to carry the guest star, he just dropped her on the bed out of exhaustion. To cover he said "baby, you know I love you, but you gotta lose about ten pounds off that ass!"
Shatner was drinking so much cold medicine he acted drunk
He had the Asian flu, which killed more than a few folks in '69, so it's not exactly a laughing matter.
As for other recollections of that last week of filming, I suggest Joan Winston's essay in the Bantam publication, "Star Trek Lives!" If memory serves, the title is, "Chopped Chicken Liver Will Only Get You So Far, or, My Week On The Star Trek Set".
She's also the source for the tidbit that CBS was ready to pick up Star Trek for a fourth season, on the condition that Leonard Nimoy was still available, but since he'd already signed with next-door neighbor Mission: Impossible, it never got past the talking stage.
As for other recollections of that last week of filming, I suggest Joan Winston's essay in the Bantam publication, "Star Trek Lives!" If memory serves, the title is, "Chopped Chicken Liver Will Only Get You So Far, or, My Week On The Star Trek Set".
She's also the source for the tidbit that CBS was ready to pick up Star Trek for a fourth season, on the condition that Leonard Nimoy was still available, but since he'd already signed with next-door neighbor Mission: Impossible, it never got past the talking stage.
Eisenhower dying was the reason it wasn't aired till after summer reruns, eh? I remember the delay but not Ike dying. Shows where my priorities were, doesn't it?
I saw Shatner on... Mike Douglas? He seemed to be "promoting" the new episode, and joked around about the gender switch... he may have mock-filed his nails, I can't remember.
I saw Shatner on... Mike Douglas? He seemed to be "promoting" the new episode, and joked around about the gender switch... he may have mock-filed his nails, I can't remember.
I never heard the 'CBS wanting ST for a Season Four' story before. Would Roddenberry have come back full time? Would CBS have programmed a MI/ST night?
They COULD have done it w/o Nimoy - just cast a 'young hot Vulcan' type, just like GR was going to do for Phase Two. Even though the Spockies would have revolted, the publicity would be priceless! Besides, if properly done, Spock would be just memory by the middle of the season.
They COULD have done it w/o Nimoy - just cast a 'young hot Vulcan' type, just like GR was going to do for Phase Two. Even though the Spockies would have revolted, the publicity would be priceless! Besides, if properly done, Spock would be just memory by the middle of the season.
CBS was debating at that time. A year earlier, they actually wanted a season 4 of Lost In Space but Guy Williams (who played 'John Robinson') was VERY unhappy that the show had become the 'Dr. Smith, Wil Robinson, Robot' show and he and te others who were told they'd be the focus of the show when it started, had had enough and didn't want to continue.
It's possible CBS saw the early demographics from Nielson - they were a 'new' aspect of ratings in 1969; (NBC didn't look at them closely until after they axed Star Trek), and perhaps CBS considered thge 18-49 demo appeal attractive.
What timeslot did LIS have? It might just have been worth it to switch to the Tiffany Network.
Lost In Space had been Wednesdays at 7:30 pm from the 1965/66 through the 1967/68 seasons, according to Wikipedia's roster of network programming. Of course, it didn't air in 1968/69 or 1969/70; CBS's Wednesday 7:30 show in 1969/70 was The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, feeding into The Beverly Hillbillies. (Both of those were top-20 programs in the ratings.)
Looking at the action CBS schedule ... there's not really an obvious place to put Star Trek. Maybe, I guess, Sunday at 9 pm where it would feed into Mission Impossible, replacing the musical-variety show The Leslie Uggams Show, but that puts it in a death-march spot against Bonanza.
While that may well be so, Guy Williams and June Lockhart were the "money stars" of the show. Hell, Dr. Smith wasn't even IN the original pilot...he was an afterthought! It's hard to believe the "Will & Robot" show would have done as well as the "Will & Robot & Dr. Smith" show.
It's also one of the Season Three episodes preserved on the Blue Pear LP, "Star Trek Bloopers". Someone found ST voice tracks in a trash bin and put them onto a bootleg album.
It includes Harry Landers mumbling and stumbling through take after take in his role of Dr Coleman - must have driven everyone crazy - and the cast and crew saying goodbye (perhaps forever?) to Majel Barrett as she finished her last scene as a brunette Chapel and left the soundstage (having already souvenired all of her blonde Chapel wigs in previous episodes).
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