Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Nerys Myk]

Was there two WWWest series? I remember one in black and white and another one in color. Or were they the same?

Same.

 

[Christopher]

Was there two WWWest series? I remember one in black and white and another one in color. Or were they the same?

Its first season was in black-and-white and the rest in color. American TV in general switched over to color around 1966 give or take a year, so a lot of shows from the mid-'60s started out in B&W and then switched to color -- Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Man from UNCLE, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, The Andy Griffith Show, etc.

 

[johnnybear]

The Fugitive had four seasons, three of which were in b/w and the last which was in glorious colour!
JB

 

[The Old Mixer]

Season 3 of 3 (1966):

 

[johnnybear]

Joanne Linville, Morgan Jones in Moonshot, an episode of The Invaders!
JB

 

[J.T.B.]

Richard Evans and James Gregory in The High Chaparral, "The Hair Hunter," 1968.

 

[johnnybear]

Max Kleven, Jerry Ayres, David Armstrong in Wall of Crystal, an episode of The Invaders!
JB

 

[Forbin]

My wife was binging the complete Twilight Zone in her craft room. Stuck my head in in time to see George Takei in The Encounter.

 

[Maurice]

Remind me of Wild Wild West (the series). They had Steampunk Bionics in some of the episodes. Usually, it was Loveless who was a short person, who invented them.

1. Little person is the preferred term and...
2. Why did you feel it necessary to point that out?

 

[J.T.B.]

Whit Bissell as a Navy doctor in The Caine Mutiny, 1954.

 

[Discofan]

1. Little person is the preferred term and...
2. Why did you feel it necessary to point that out?

1 Ok.
2. Because it's something people tend to remember. Do you only say things that are "necessary"? Most people I know talk a lot about things that aren't necessary at all, like the weather for example. Necessity is not only the mother of invention it's also the one of infinite boredom.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Still another bit of coincidental timing in shared casting between Mission: Impossible and Trek...Diana Ewing is in this week's 50th anniversary episode of M:I, "Live Bait," the same week that "The Cloud Minders" aired. Also guesting John (Commissioner Ferris) Crawford, Anthony Zerbe, and a very young Martin Sheen.

 

[johnnybear]

Anthony Zerbe may have been in Trek but he wasn't in TOS I'm afraid!
JB

 

[The Old Mixer]

Never said he was, just noting who else was in the episode. And looking it up, Sheen was pushing 30, but he looked like he was barely out of his teens.

 

[johnnybear]

Martin Sheen played a very young space soldier in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare, with David Frankham as well in 1963! Great episode if not a bit scary!
JB

 

[johnnybear]

Garry Walberg in The Condemned, an episode of The Invaders!
JB

 

[MAGolding]

On March 1, 2019 I watched an episode of Tales of Wells Fargo on Heroes & Icons, "Rifles for Red Hand", originally aired 15 May 1961. In it Stanley Addams ("The Trouble With Tribbles" & "More Tribbles, More Troubles") portrayed Sam Tustin, a much more sinister character than Cyrano Jones.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0717185/

 

[Discofan]

Garry Walberg in The Condemned, an episode of The Invaders!
JB

One thing that's rather unique with The Invaders is that they would start each episode by giving a visual list of the guest stars. They don't do that anymore. More often than not the guest would play a bad guy ( a human traitor or an Invader).

 

[Christopher]

One thing that's rather unique with The Invaders is that they would start each episode by giving a visual list of the guest stars. They don't do that anymore.

Far from unique -- it was common in '50s and '60s shows, and a routine feature of Quinn Martin shows like The Invaders. It even persisted into the '70s in some cases. I'm pretty sure Wonder Woman did for at least part of its run.

 

[GNDN18]

Here we see actor Robert Lansing inspecting the title card for contractual percentage compliance.