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TOS "Preunion" on the Outer Limits

Forbin

Forbin

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Just watched the 1964 episode "Cold Hands, Warm Heart."
Star: The Shat!! As an astronaut! Who saw a monster on the wing of his spaceship!

Supporting cast:
Lawrence Montaigne (Stonn, Amok Time)
Malachi Throne (Commodore Mendez, The Menagerie)
James B. Sikking (Capt. Styles, ST:III)

And on the same DVD was "Demon with a Glass Hand" costarring Arlene Martel (T'Pring) (who is even more beautiful when she looks like a normal person), and "Expanding Human" costarring James Doohan.

Fun!
 
'Nother tidbit... "Demon..." was written by Harlan Ellison and is argueably one of the best episodes "Outer Limits" presented.

Sincerely,

Bill
 
I love The Outer Limits. IMHO there are only five or six episodes in the whole three years that aren't quite worth it. There are many more Star Trek links throughout the series. Most regularly, Wah Chang did a lot of the monsters on TOL and more than a few of them turned up in TOS. In fact two such costumes appeared in the menagerie where Captain Pike was held in "The Cage."

I used to make sport of spotting all the actors who were in episodes of Star Trek, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, and Perry Mason, all of which were produced about the same time with a surprisingly limited pool of actors. There is a lot of overlap.

(It's also fun to spot crossover actors between Star Trek: The Next Generation and Matlock.)

--Alex
 
Redfern said:
'Nother tidbit... "Demon..." was written by Harlan Ellison and is argueably one of the best episodes "Outer Limits" presented.
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And considerable credit for "Demon With a Glass Hand" also goes to another future TOS stalwart, associate producer Bob Justman. Ellison's script had action spread out across Los Angeles and was too expensive to shoot. Justman had the brainstorm of staging the entire episode within the Bradbury Building, and that made it feasible. It was that same genius for cutting costs without losing quality that made Justman so crucial to ST's success.


Albertese said:
Most regularly, Wah Chang did a lot of the monsters on TOL and more than a few of them turned up in TOS. In fact two such costumes appeared in the menagerie where Captain Pike was held in "The Cage."
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And the Horta was a repainted (?) version of an amoeba-creature suit from an Outer Limits episode. Janos Prohaska played the creature in the OL episode, then brought the suit into Gene L. Coon's office to show it to him, and Coon was impressed enough to write a script around the creature.


I used to make sport of spotting all the actors who were in episodes of Star Trek, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, and Perry Mason, all of which were produced about the same time with a surprisingly limited pool of actors. There is a lot of overlap.
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You should try it with Mission: Impossible, TOS's sister show (which can be streamed or rented in its entirety on Netflix). There are countless cast overlaps there, primarily Leonard Nimoy becoming one of the show's regulars from 1969-71. There are even glimpses of some of the lesser-known background players from TOS, like Eddie Paskey and Nimoy's stand-in Frank da Vinci.
 
Not to mention Wild Wild West, you can safely watch any episode of that and get a familiar TOS Trek actor. For TNG, I would also suggest LA Law...
 
Oh, I forgot to mention - the Venus probe Shatner flew was called "Project Vulcan." :lol:
 
Forbin said:
Just watched the 1964 episode "Cold Hands, Warm Heart."
Star: The Shat!! As an astronaut! Who saw a monster on the wing of his spaceship!

Supporting cast:
Lawrence Montaigne (Stonn, Amok Time)
Malachi Throne (Commodore Mendez, The Menagerie)
James B. Sikking (Capt. Styles, ST:III)
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Ah yes... Project Vulcan (!!)
 
And I just watched "I, Robot" with Leonard Nimoy as the smartass reporter (a role owned by Gene Kelly in Inherit the Wind). I knew Nimoy was in this episode, but it was a pleasant surprise to find the female lead was Marianna Hill! Another confluence of Trek prelumni!
 
Forbin said:
And I just watched "I, Robot" with Leonard Nimoy as the smartass reporter (a role owned by Gene Kelly in Inherit the Wind). I knew Nimoy was in this episode, but it was a pleasant surprise to find the female lead was Marianna Hill! Another confluence of Trek prelumni!
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The newer Outer Limits series re-did this episode, with Nimoy as the lawyer. It was directed by Nimoy's son Adam.
 
Forbin said:
And I just watched "I, Robot" with Leonard Nimoy as the smartass reporter (a role owned by Gene Kelly in Inherit the Wind). I knew Nimoy was in this episode, but it was a pleasant surprise to find the female lead was Marianna Hill! Another confluence of Trek prelumni!
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I just checked out this episode as soon as I heard the name Marianna Hill :). She was cute but still young, a scant 4 years from fully blossoming on TOS. You can tell she was still pretty awkward, acting-wise.
Nimoy is captivating in this, though the reporter role is not as interesting as the defense lawyer's.
Another Trek alum in this episode is John Hoyt from 'the Cage' pilot, playing an expert witness for the prosecution.

The following isn't Star Trek-related, but I noticed the robot from this episode (nicknamed Adam Link), and of how his design was very similar to a comicbook character from a few years earlier, the Human Robot from Atlas Comics (1954). The Human Robot is better known today as the character M-11 from the Agents of Atlas. Apart from the face, Adam's body is very similar to M-11.
 
Gah! How did I miss John Hoyt?!

Last night I watched "The Inheritors," starring LORD Garth.
 
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