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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

But that's not the surprising part. In the episode "Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers" Woodward appears in a single scene, as the accidentally-heisted corpse of said dad. His only action is to flop over from being propped up against a wall in an alley, and then to roll his face into a hat when Joe Coffee releases his shoulder.

Since it was at the end of a multi-episode arc for the character, I'd guess that they filmed this shot during his work on the previous episode or two, while they had him available.
 
Mannix looking at John Colicos (6 times in the series he was featured) thinking,
"What, you again!"
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The voice of the Zuni doll in "Trilogy of Terror" was Walker Edmiston who also voiced the dummy head alter ego of Balok. (edit correction as per below: it was Edmiston who dubbed over Clint Howards voice)
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Barney Miller needed a crazy ranting civilian thratening to blow himself up for the episode "Doomsday," so who better than William Windom, who'd already been in a Trek episode with Doomsday in the title where he blew himself up? :lol:

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Windom plays a civilian who's sick of all the crime, pollution and political corruption. Alas, nothing has changed since 1975.
 
The voice of the Zuni doll in "Trilogy of Terror" was Walker Edmiston who also voiced the dummy head alter ego of Balok. (edit correction as per below: it was Edmiston who dubbed over Clint Howards voice)
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Watched that last night on Svengoolie. Without looking at the credits, I would have guessed it was Frank Welker doing the voice.
 
Barney Miller needed a crazy ranting civilian thratening to blow himself up for the episode "Doomsday," so who better than William Windom, who'd already been in a Trek episode with Doomsday in the title where he blew himself up? :lol:

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Windom plays a civilian who's sick of all the crime, pollution and political corruption. Alas, nothing has changed since 1975.

Windom also did a voice-only role as an unseen cellmate in the two-parter "Contempt," when Barney is locked up by a judge for refusing to identify an informant.
 
Back to watching Have Gun, Will Travel in the mornings. Hal Needham seems to be regular background/tertiary character. In "Tax Collector" he had a few lines, then fell out a 30 foot tree, bounced off the shore of a river, and dead-floated downstream for a while.
 
Vic Perrin as the narrator of the educational short film "Busy Bodies" currently airing on RiffTrax's YouTube channel.
 
Have Gun - Will Travel episode "The Gold Bar" features John Fiedler as, what else, a mousey bank clerk, who succumbs to temptation and steals a gold bar from his bank. When he meets a Girl In Trouble™ while on the run, he has a change of heart and asks Paladin to help him return it.

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If I wanted to stay strictly on topic, I could just mention that Jason Wingreen was in "Love and Wishing Star," one of the segments of the October 6, 1972, episode of Love, American Style. But there was a much more interesting Trek find in "Love and the New You," starring Cass Elliot and Shecky Greene. Get a load of the groovy threads that somebody dug up in wardrobe:
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Vic Perrin guested on Have Gun - Will Travel five times (according to IMDB) as various characters. The last ("Everyman" 1961) was as a town drunk who Paladin saves from some bar toughs, and who repays the favor in the nick of time later. It was definitely Vic taking the bottle-smash to the head (you could see his face clearly). I'm assuming it was Hal Needham doing the smashing, but that's just a guess. It was a bit of a melee.

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