Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[DarrenTR1970]

John Hoyt as a teacher alongside Glenn Ford in 'The Blackboard Jungle'.

 

[johnnybear]

Brian Tochi, Vince Howard in Trail of The Serpent, an episode of The Streets of San Francisco!
JB

 

[johnnybear]

William Shatner (yes that William Shatner) William O'Connell, John Wheeler, Paul Baxley in Big Bad Mama (1974)
JB

 

[The Old Mixer]

"A Taste of Money" (Feb. 26, 1971) features Peter Brocco as the Felix in a pair of roommates who turn out to be older counterparts of the Odd Couple.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

They just added 'Buzzr' to my over the air channels and they're showing a block of Match Game episodes with Lee Meriwether in the bottom row.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Dr. Spock, I presume?

Mission: Impossible, "A Ghost Story" (Feb. 27, 1971)

 

[johnnybear]

Clint Howard in The House On Hyde Street, an episode of The Streets of San Francisco!
JB

 

[The Old Mixer]

Being the father of Vulcan philosophy comes with its perks...like sitting next to the Governor of Hawaii at Islanders games:

Hawaii Five-O, "The Grandstand Play (Part 1)" (Mar. 3, 1971)

 

[The Old Mixer]

Tonight's 50th anniversary episode of Ironside ("The Summer Soldier," Mar. 4, 1971) guests Walter Koenig as a peddler in PCP-laced tobacco. FWIW, the uncle whose tobacco shop he's using is played by Theodore Bikel.

 

[M'Sharak]

Tonight's 50th anniversary episode of Ironside ("The Summer Soldier," Mar. 4, 1971) guests Walter Koenig as a peddler in PCP-laced tobacco. FWIW, the uncle whose tobacco shop he's using is played by Theodore Bikel.

I remember that one. Koenig's character turned out to be pretty unpleasant.

 

[Forbin]

Vincent Price discusses events with Elisha Cooke Jr in The House on Haunted Hill.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

DecadesTV is airing a 'Route 66' marathon and the current episode guest stars DeForest Kelly and Authur Batanides.

 

[johnnybear]

Arch Whiting, Alex Henteloff in The Albatross, an episode of The streets of San Francisco!
JB

 

[Forbin]

I'm rewatching Archer from the beginning during breakfast these days, and there was just a season 3 episode ("Draft Problem") featuring a Yakuza crime lord voiced by George Takei!

 

[J.T.B.]

Whit Bissell plays outside his normal type as George Custer in Cheyenne, "The Broken Pledge," 1957.

 

[Christopher]

Whit Bissell plays outside his normal type as George Custer in Cheyenne, "The Broken Pledge," 1957.

I'll say. Bissell would've been around 48 when the episode was made, and Custer would've been about 33 at the time it takes place (I looked it up).

 

[johnnybear]

Clint Howard in Solo:A Star Wars Story (2018)
JB

 

[The Old Mixer]

James Gregory vs. Linc!







The really dramatic moves, like Linc diving off the picnic table, were done in long shots by stunt doubles.

(The Mod Squad, "A Quiet Weekend in the Country," Dec. 3, 1968)

 

[johnnybear]

Jeff Corey in Shattered Image, an episode of The Streets of San Francisco!
JB

 

[The Old Mixer]

Familiar face-wearing Substitute Artie Frank Harper meets Jim West at a familiar locale:

(The Wild Wild West, "The Night of the Winged Terror – Part I," Jan. 17, 1969)