Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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"The Big Prophet" (Jan. 11, 1968) is a very interesting installment of Dragnet 1968. Liam Sullivan is the sole guest, playing a Timothy Leary stand-in who spends the entire episode debating the pros and cons of drug use with Friday and Gannon.
And though no arrest is made in-story, you knew this was coming:
And though no arrest is made in-story, you knew this was coming:
Well done, Old Mixer! If you've ever noticed when the Hulk is raging across New York he's actually wearing little green slippers to protect his delicate feet!!!
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Well, he’s not a guest star, but that’s Shatner on the left. He plays a preacher in the 1964 flick The Outrage. He doesn’t have much to say. He spends most of the movie listening to Edward G. Robinson.
I must confess, I grabbed that off the internet somewhere a while back, so due credit to whoever made it.Well done, Old Mixer! If you've ever noticed when the Hulk is raging across New York he's actually wearing little green slippers to protect his delicate feet!!!
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Well done, Old Mixer! If you've ever noticed when the Hulk is raging across New York he's actually wearing little green slippers to protect his delicate feet!!!
JB
A production necessity, of course. Every time they couldn't control the surface Lou Ferrigno was moving around on, he wore the slippers to prevent some accident resulting in his needing to go to the hospital.
Which was frequently an issue given how much location filming the show did.
Maybe that was the bar on Janus VI? Maybe the original chief of the place was one of the first to die and Vanderberg took over soon after from his bar duties? Could anyone have seen Ed Appel as the new Spock as rumoured in season two? Brad Weston looked more like Ethan Peck as Speck I'd say! 
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Krako-Jacko!!! I love it!!! 
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Vic Tayback as a krako-jacko hit man in the 5th season Mod Squad "The Twain."
And after being nabbed by Bob the Discount Klingon:
"Discount Klingon"? What's that?
Probably a reference to Tige Andrews, whose appearance as Kras in "Friday's Child" was infamously underwhelming as TOS Klingon makeups went.
I didn't notice he was that different from the other Klingons of the TOS era.
In "Friday's Child" and "The Trouble With Tribbles," makeup artist Fred Phillips forgot how he'd made up the Klingons in "Errand of Mercy," with greenish-brown pancake makeup and trifurcated eyebrows, so he just put beards on them and that was about it. The original makeup returned in "A Private Little War" and throughout season 3 (though they slathered on the pancake extra-thick in "Day of the Dove").
I never really equated it with the makeup...just that he was the most underwhelming TOS Klingon who had that major a role, coming in a disappointing fourth to the "Big Three".
Having since seen more of him in The Mod Squad, I'm a little more forgiving of his turn as Kras.
Having since seen more of him in The Mod Squad, I'm a little more forgiving of his turn as Kras.
Hmm, yeah, I guess those were the only four sizeable Klingon roles. Krell from "A Private Little War" was only in that one sequence; the ship commander in "Elaan of Troyius" just showed up on the viewscreen a couple of times; and "Kahless" in "The Savage Curtain" was, well, I have to say it, forgettable.
Kang (Michael Ansara with toupee) partnered with Kras (Tige Andrews) on the current episode of 'The Mod Squad' on Decades TV's tribute to Peggy Lipton.
I hadn't even been thinking of Kahless, so now that you mention it....
He did spend that episode playing second banana to Colonel Green.Similar threads
