Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Forbin]

I never knew that. I thought he was just a producer. He was also a design artist? That's wild.

Okay, I had to check, because I admittedly had a hazy memory of what I read as it flashed across the screen, and I'm old.

The exact credit is:

" Production Manager
Robert H. Justman."​

Sorry, folks, I screwed that one up completely. twice.

 

[Poltargyst]

Has anyone mentioned that William Shatner is hosting a new show on the History Channel called The Unexplained? William Shatner is 92 years old, and he has just taken a NEW JOB. (And he looks like he's 62).

And while I'm talking about shows about supernatural stuff, has anyone mentioned Leonard Nimoy hosting In Search Of back in the 70's? I used to love that show and thought he was the perfect guy to host it. I remember Nimoy also hosted Ancient Mysteries in the 90's.

 

[Forbin]

Has anyone mentioned that William Shatner is hosting a new show on the History Channel called The Unexplained? William Shatner is 92 years old, and he has just taken a NEW JOB. (And he looks like he's 62).

And while I'm talking about shows about supernatural stuff, has anyone mentioned Leonard Nimoy hosting In Search Of back in the 70's? I used to love that show and thought he was the perfect guy to host it. I remember Nimoy also hosted Ancient Mysteries in the 90's.

I should see if i can find the super-8 version we did in the early 80s, called "In Search After..." One of us had a gorilla suit, so we just had to do a bigfoot documentary in my back yard, with him driving a lawn tractor in the background of the narrator speaking.

 

[Poltargyst]

And while I'm at it, of course, William Shatner hosed 911 in the 80's and 90's.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I just went to the IMDb page for the Columbo episode "A Stitch in Crime" to double check the name of Leonard Nimoy's character, and I saw a listing for Majel Barrett as "Hospital Administrator (voice) (uncredited)."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069900/​

Pretty interesting that she did a voice role in Nimoy's episode, especially considering that Walter Koenig turns up as a police sergeant in William Shatner's episode "Fade in to Murder"! Koenig doesn't share any scenes with Mr. Shatner, though.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074328/​

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I didn't know about this movie until this clip was posted on another forum. Here's William Shatner, Andy Griffith, Robert Reed and Marjoe Gortner in a made for tv movie called 'Pray for the Wildcats.'

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And they're wearing division colors as well.

A few observations on that clip:

1) MAN, that scene is paced horribly. It's about a minute and a half of a bunch of guys just watching a woman dance with no escalation or development until Griffith's character starts acting out of line. Shows and movies really were a lot slower in the pre-MTV era.

2) Griffith seems to be channeling his "A Face in the Crowd" characterization of Lonesome Rhodes.

3) Shatner had some really dodgy hairpieces in the 1970s before he began getting good paydays again with the Star Trek movies.

4) Those faux-Star Trek uniforms are such an odd choice, too. They're pretty distracting.

EDIT: HA! I just looked up the movie on IMDb. Andy Griffith's character is named "Sam Farragut"! Now I'm wondering if someone connected to the production was a Trek fan...

It also aired against Gene Roddenberry's pilot movie "The Questor Tapes," oddly enough (January 23rd, 1974). And beat it in the ratings, too!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072024/

 

[Nerys Myk]

It also aired against Gene Roddenberry's pilot movie "The Questor Tapes," oddly enough (January 23rd, 1974). And beat it in the ratings, too!

Interesting. I remember watching both. Must have caught Wildcats in a rerun or something,.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Interesting. I remember watching both. Must have caught Wildcats in a rerun or something,.

I looked it up. "Pray for the Wildcats" started an hour before "The Questor Tapes," so you could've watched the first half of the Shatner movie before switching over to Questor.

 

[M'Sharak]

And while I'm at it, of course, William Shatner hosed 911 in the 80's and 90's.

I imagine that was supposed to be "hosted," but it's funnier this way.

 

[Forbin]

Just popped on H&I while painting a model, and there was Joseph Ruskin as an evil corporate interrogator, on a season 2ep of Wonder Woman titled "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk." Other notables gathered from around the old TV dial were Phillip Michael Thomas as the slick evil corporate mastermind, Gary Burghoff as the innocent twerp caught up in intrigue and Michael Cole as a henchman.

 

[Forbin]

Things I once knew and had forgotten:
My wife decided she wanted to revisit the silly 60s sitcoms during our dinnertime watching, so we got Addams Family and The Munsters on DVD. Anyhoo, I had known, but forgotten, that the unaired pilot proposal episode of the Munsters featured a different Mrs. Munster - our favorite Court Martial counselor, Joan Marshall.

And it was in color! Those of you painting the Moebius Munsters model kits take note, they were all blue.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Things I once knew and had forgotten:
My wife decided she wanted to revisit the silly 60s sitcoms during our dinnertime watching, so we got Addams Family and The Munsters on DVD. Anyhoo, I had known, but forgotten, that the unaired pilot proposal episode of the Munsters featured a different Mrs. Munster - our favorite Court Martial counselor, Joan Marshall.

And it was in color! Those of you painting the Moebius Munsters model kits take note, they were all blue.

Looks more Morticia than Lilly.
I assume they were going for a deathly greyish pallor.

 

[Forbin]

in The Munsters ep 2, "My Fair Munster," Grandpa whips up a love potion for their 'homely' niece Marilyn, and of course Lily and Herman get it instead. While the neighbor lady tries to ooze thru the fence to get to Herman, timid mailman John Fiedler goes from being scared of Lily to full-on Pepe Le Pew.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

in The Munsters ep 2, "My Fair Munster," Grandpa whips up a love potion for their 'homely' niece Marilyn, and of course Lily and Herman get it instead. While the neighbor lady tries to ooze thru the fence to get to Herman, timid mailman John Fiedler goes from being scared of Lily to full-on Pepe Le Pew.

Let's not kid ourselves: Lily Munster was immensely hot. In a child-friendly, sex-starved culture, spooky can be the smoke-and-mirrors excuse to cover sexy. Look at the Hammer films. Look at endless horror comic book lines published during the period.

For frustrated husbands and sons who'd get busted if they tried sneaking a copy of Playboy into the house, Lily was a bigger draw than Marilyn. And Morticia Addams merits the same notation.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Lee Meriwether played Lily Munster on The Munsters Today, 1988-1991. Herman Munster was John Schuck, who played the Klingon Ambassador in TVH and TUC.

 

[Talos IV]

The DANIEL BOONE episode mentioned earlier ("Requiem for Craw Green") not only features Jeffrey Hunter as a guest star -- it also has Sabrina Scharf, John Crawford, and Pamelyn Ferdin in it.

 

[Forbin]

Munsters ep 3 features stuntman Paul Baxley as a purse snatcher with a stocking over his head. His IMDB lists him as being in 11 TOS episodes. IMDB shows him as this guy:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0062656/mediaviewer/rm2865375489/?ref_=nm_md_1
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0062656/?ref_=nm_mv_close

 

[DarrenTR1970]

3) Shatner had some really dodgy hairpieces in the 1970s before he began getting good paydays again with the Star Trek movies.

Thanks to BUZZR, I've seen his appearances on 'Match Game' and he could give Charles Nelson Reilly a run for his money in the bad toupee department.

 

[Forbin]

Starting another F Troop rewatch, but I think I covered everything already the last time.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I just watched an episode of the game show, 'What's My Line' and Leonard Nimoy was the guest and Greg Morris was one of the contestants trying to figure out who Nimoy was.