Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Forbin]

Hm. Mark Leonard played Japanese in a Hawaii 5-0 episode. Screen grabs could give us an interesting alternate universe image of Spock and Sarek... I dunno, in disguise together?

Come to think of it, Montalbahn played Japanese on 5-0 also. He was slightly more convincing than Mark Leonard. If there's a degree of convincing slightly more than "not in the least."

 

[The Old Mixer]

Saved from the asteroid, Miramanee's planet opens for tourism:

(The Brady Bunch, "A-Camping We Will Go," Nov. 14, 1969)

 

[johnnybear]

Obviously that Asteroid Deflector was still working years later then, or was it earlier, and the Brady Bunch were the ones who screwed up the controls to start with?
JB

 

[Nerys Myk]

Obviously that Asteroid Deflector was still working years later then, or was it earlier, and the Brady Bunch were the ones who screwed up the controls to start with?
JB

Pretty sure it was Barney Fife who mucked it up.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The asteroid was karma for all the times Opie threw that rock.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

This morning's episode of 'Have Gun, Will Travel' is brought to you by Gene Roddenberry.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Although a number of those countries were portrayed as major powers analogous to the USSR, since of course most of them were stand-ins for it.

I doubt any of them are in Central Asia, though, since their populations were always depicted as European/white. The original M:I almost entirely avoided doing episodes in Asian countries, except for the one episode set in Japan which very unconvincingly pretended that Leonard Nimoy with latex epicanthic folds could fool real Japanese people. And it's kind of fortunate that they did, because '60s TV portrayals of non-Western countries tended to be pretty racist. (The Man from UNCLE seemed to go out of its way to portray negative and condescending stereotypes of as many cultures as possible -- even Inuit.) And the '80s Mission: Impossible revival, which was filmed in Australia, did a lot of episodes set in Asian or Pacific countries and was often dreadfully racist about it.

Not to derail this thread but that particular episode of M:I (Butterfly) had some of its locations filmed at the Huntington Library/Museum in Pasadena, California. It's well-known for its Japanese and Asian Gardens. In fact several television and movies film there when they want to depict an Asian country.
I visited there almost 20 years ago and was actually quite surprised to see and walk through locations that I had previously seen on television.

 

[Forbin]

I remember a fair number of fictional Latin-American countries that the IMF team operated against as well.

I wondered, in my recent rewatch, if they were actually fooling the locals by speaking English with an outrageous foreign accent, or if we were hearing the local language translated for our benefit - with an outrageous foreign accent.

 

[The Old Mixer]

12 O'Clock High, "Interlude" (Nov. 27, 1964), has General Savage engaging in an all-too-brief romance with a British Navy lieutenant (Dana Wynter) while on leave in Scotland, only to learn that his love came home because she was dying.

 

[Christopher]

12 O'Clock High, "Interlude" (Nov. 27, 1964), has General Savage engaging in an all-too-brief romance with a British Navy lieutenant (Dana Wynter) while on leave in Scotland, only to learn that his love came home because she was dying.

I'm confused -- are you mentioning this because Robert Lansing was a regular in the show, or because Dana Wynter was in The Questor Tapes?

 

[The Old Mixer]

Robert Lansing was the series lead in Season 1.

 

[Christopher]

Robert Lansing was the series lead in Season 1.

Yeah, but then why specify that episode instead of another?

 

[The Old Mixer]

It's all in the screencap.

 

[CRM-114]

Possibly stretching the definition of "guest star", here's Jeffrey Hunter as a construction foreman/insurance scam ringleader in The Green Hornet episode, "Freeway to Death".

 

[CRM-114]

Steve Ihnat as an Army officer trying to find his brother's killer (seen here with Bob the Discount Klingon in his human guise, Captain Greer) in The Mod Squad episode, "Search and Destroy".

 

[gottacook]

Surprised no one's noticed this triple until now: The cast of Easy Rider (1969) includes Robert Walker (Jr.), Sabrina Scharf, and Michael Pataki.

 

[J.T.B.]

12 O'Clock High, "Interlude" (Nov. 27, 1964), has General Savage engaging in an all-too-brief romance with a British Navy lieutenant (Dana Wynter)

Huh, she played a Wren officer in Sink The Bismarck (1960), too.

Also in 1964 on The Virginian...

Dandy sleaze Warren Stevens teams up with dirtbag Steve Ihnat in "The Hero."

And Skip Homeier...


...and Rex Holman make return appearances in "The Brazos Kid,"...

Spoiler: OT

...(along with Barbara Eden in a red wig)...

...as does Mariette Hartley in "Felicity's Spring."

 

[FormerLurker]

Steve Ihnat as an Army officer trying to find his brother's killer (seen here with Bob the Discount Klingon in his human guise, Captain Greer) in The Mod Squad episode, "Search and Destroy".

Egad! That mustache makes Steve Ihnat look like Graham Chapman! I half expect him to start spouting nonsense about Tigers in Africa!

 

[Christopher]

Egad! That mustache makes Steve Ihnat look like Graham Chapman! I half expect him to start spouting nonsense about Tigers in Africa!

No, no, it's too silly. Stop the sketch at once!

 

[Forbin]

Steve Ihnat as an Army officer trying to find his brother's killer (seen here with Bob the Discount Klingon in his human guise, Captain Greer) in The Mod Squad episode, "Search and Destroy".

I bet I have that very screencap earlier in the thread, from my Mod Squad rewatch.