Nichelle Nichols in The Lieutenant

[Agenda]

Here's a scene I found from one of Roddenberry's series before Star Trek. It's perhaps the first time she ever appeared on television.

Nichelle is at 1:17. Also notice that the guy who was on the Galileo Seven is playing her boyfriend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfiVZii8CgE

BTW, I didn't post the video.

 

[Maurice]

Here's a scene I found from one of Roddenberry's series before Star Trek. It's perhaps the first time she ever appeared on television.

Nichelle is at 1:17. Also notice that the guy who was on the Galileo Seven is playing her boyfriend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfiVZii8CgE

BTW, I didn't post the video.

Yeah, it's been up for a quite a while. I started a topic about it about 9 months ago, but it was short-lived. It's too bad so there's so little of this show out there, as it's an interesting curiosity, being the only non-Trek series (not pilot) Roddenberry ever had on TV (ideas of his exploited by others after his passing not withstanding).

 

[Orne]

Interesting if you look at the production-credits (aside from some good casting, Robert Vaughn, Dennis Hopper), but Norman Felton/Arena Productions also responsible for 'Man from Uncle' a year later. And 'introducing' Nichelle Nichols.....looks like most of the episode might have been written around her, she was pulling her weight in that one scene shown.

 

[Christopher]

^Well, "Introducing" is a credit that was once used frequently for debut appearances, or rather for the first prominent appearance of someone the filmmakers or studio wanted to call attention to as a prospective star. It doesn't necessarily mean the whole story revolves around the "Introduced" cast member's role, though. For instance, the credits to TWOK read "Introducing Kirstie Alley as Saavik," and while Saavik was a prominent character in the film, she was still secondary to the major players. So it suggests Nichols was a featured player, but not necessarily the featured player.

 

[VulcanVixen]

The boyfriend, wasn't he her(Uhura's) "ideal" man in one of the episodes, I forgot the name, but it's the one where one of his friend's wife is like this Doppleganger and she sneaks onto the ship by pretending to be one of the officer's she killed.

 

[Christopher]

The boyfriend, wasn't he her(Uhura's) "ideal" man in one of the episodes, I forgot the name, but it's the one where one of his friend's wife is like this Doppleganger and she sneaks onto the ship by pretending to be one of the officer's she killed.

No, as stated in the first post, that's Don Marshall, who was Lt. Boma in "The Galileo Seven" (and a regular in Irwin Allen's Land of the Giants). You're thinking of Vince Howard from "The Man Trap." Not much resemblance.

 

[smalltalk66]

I've seen this. Interesting how much pancake makeup they applied to make her look lighter-skinned and more appealing to *ahem* Southern audiences.

 

[Agenda]

I've seen this. Interesting how much pancake makeup they applied to make her look lighter-skinned and more appealing to *ahem* Southern audiences.

Are you sure it's not just the lighting? She doesn't look much different in tone from the guy she's with. And he looks darker skinned in the earlier scene.

 

[Red Ranger]

I've seen this. Interesting how much pancake makeup they applied to make her look lighter-skinned and more appealing to *ahem* Southern audiences.

Are you sure it's not just the lighting? She doesn't look much different in tone from the guy she's with. And he looks darker skinned in the earlier scene.

You can count on your hands the number of times, when there's a black couple on TV or the movies, that the man is lighter-skinned and the woman is darker-skinned. BTW, that clip wasn't bad. I always liked that guy Don Marshall. -- RR

 

[Maurice]

Or....they could just really have had a lot of fill light.

 

[T'Girl]

It appears to be filmed outside, maybe they used some of those big reflectors for extra light.