Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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I picked up the Rat Patrol DVD set at a local used book store. Only cost me $4 so I figured why not? There's something about that show that bugs me. I can't put my finger on it. It might be the 30 minute running time. Seems like it would have been a lot better if they had done hour long episodes. I also really don't like the mish mash of weapons and vehicles. I realize budgets and limited availability of certain pieces, even in the 60s but at the beginning of the show they are armed with some odd Spanish (I think have to look it up again) machine gun. They couldn't find a few Tommy Gun props lying around?
I picked up the Rat Patrol DVD set at a local used book store. Only cost me $4 so I figured why not? There's something about that show that bugs me. I can't put my finger on it. It might be the 30 minute running time. Seems like it would have been a lot better if they had done hour long episodes. I also really don't like the mish mash of weapons and vehicles. I realize budgets and limited availability of certain pieces, even in the 60s but at the beginning of the show they are armed with some odd Spanish (I think have to look it up again) machine gun. They couldn't find a few Tommy Gun props lying around?
Well, I think at the time "The Rat Patrol" was considered more of a kiddie show (at least the actors said so), so whatever you do, Don't take it seriously! View it in the same spirit as "Tarzan" where Tarzan gets shot in the chest, and then just... Gets Better.
(Also, I believe that the 1st Season was filmed in Spain. So, that might explain some.)
Look for the sets in 2nd season "Darer's Go First Raid" It's the same fort as the one in Star Trek's "Arena."
Well, I think at the time "The Rat Patrol" was considered more of a kiddie show (at least the actors said so), so whatever you do, Don't take it seriously! View it in the same spirit as "Tarzan" where Tarzan gets shot in the chest, and then just... Gets Better.
(Also, I believe that the 1st Season was filmed in Spain. So, that might explain some.)
Look for the sets in 2nd season "Darer's Go First Raid" It's the same fort as the one in Star Trek's "Arena."
Well, he is Tarzan after all. Maybe I'll try watching it with the same mindset I have when watching the A-Team. That should work
12OCH continued to use stock footage in Season 3, cheating by tinting it blue. I don't think that was the reason for the show's change in direction. Season 3 was only a half-season, so the writing would have been on the wall for the show at that point. I'm of the impression that the show was changing its story style in an unsuccessful attempt to save itself; and the change started in S2, which was the transition between the dramatic story style of S1 and the action/adventure situations of S3.
Indeed...I've seen it described as a live-action Saturday morning cartoon, and I think that hits the nail on the head.
The last coupla Twilight Zones we watched:
"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" starred William Windom, because they needed someone good at playing a guy at his wit's end:
"A Quality of Mercy" featured Nimoy, basically sitting in the mud in the background after his closeup at the beginning:
"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" starred William Windom, because they needed someone good at playing a guy at his wit's end:
"A Quality of Mercy" featured Nimoy, basically sitting in the mud in the background after his closeup at the beginning:
Brian Tochi in Night Terrors, an episode of Star Trek:The Next Generation!
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His life came full circle!Brian Tochi in Night Terrors, an episode of Star Trek:The Next Generation!
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Only the one episode and no real lines either! 
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Warren Stevens is the guest actor on the current episode of 'Daniel Boone'.
Just watching the final episode of 12 O'Clock High.
Yeah, they used color stock footage all right...
From "The Enemy Below" and "The Incredible Mr. Limpet!"
Yeah, they used color stock footage all right...
From "The Enemy Below" and "The Incredible Mr. Limpet!"
Watched Planet Earth today for the first time in decades. Ted Cassidy was still there as the savage "White Comanche"
. Diana Muldaur was the 'guest star.' Majel showed up, but only on a comm screen. There was a character named Balok if that counts .Written by Roddenberry, Produced by Justman and Directed by Marc Daniels.
I don't remember if I enjoyed these TV movies or not when they first aired, but, oh BOY have they aged badly. Especially Planet Earth, where Dylan Hunt has to infiltrate a female-dominated society who drugs their males into servitude ("women's lib gone mad!"), and show them the error of their ways. Oh, Gene, Gene.
That is my favorite episode.The last coupla Twilight Zones we watched:
"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" starred William Windom, because they needed someone good at playing a guy at his wit's end:
The Decades Binge is now up to Fall 1966 episodes of Daniel Boone; the show was Star Trek's lead-in on Thursday nights that season.
I honestly believe he was the inspiration for the snarky, dry-witted Alfred we started getting in Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns and all subsequent versions of Batman, both comic and dramatic presentation.
George Takei
Walter Koenig
Majel Barrett
Grace Lee Whitney
Wil Wheaton
Bill Mumy
all guest stared on Diagnosis Murder "Alienated."
Walter Koenig
Majel Barrett
Grace Lee Whitney
Wil Wheaton
Bill Mumy
all guest stared on Diagnosis Murder "Alienated."
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