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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

Quite a few Trek alumni in Cannon's S1 ep "Scream of Silence."
Charles Dierkop as a kidnapper who spends the entire episode in bed, wounded.
Jason Evers as gubernatorial candidate Tim O'Connor's manager, who isn't gonna let a kidnapped son stop his boss.
and Whit Bissel as the unsuspecting chauffeur.

 
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Watched Eastwood's great Hang 'em High (1968) yesterday. The cast was chock-full of great 60s actors, but of note here was Mark Lenard, playing a fiery prosecuting attorney in one too-short scene.
 
I've said this before, since WestTV started broadcasting, there are a lot of Westerns airing that I've never seen before with TOS alumni.
Last night's episode of Gunsmoke had Michael J Pollard followed by Lancer had which had Craig Huxley.
 
Just popped on whatever was on the H&I network for breakfast yesterday, because I didn't have time to watch an entire show before I had to run. It happened to be an episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive, and the guest star happened to be Phillip Pine, and the location happened to be Vasquez Rocks! :lol:

 
Gene Lyons as a criminal who has just been released from prison on this morning's Have Gun, Will Travel.

I had to look up who that was. I know many TOS actors' names on sight, but that's not one of them, somehow. I guess I haven't seen enough of him in other works for his name to register.
 
I woke up early this morning to catch the last act of Mannix on MeTV, and, William Shatner was the politician in the mobs pocket.
He was wearing the same, or similar, hairpiece as in his appearance in the Six Million Dollar Man.
 
I woke up early this morning to catch the last act of Mannix on MeTV, and, William Shatner was the politician in the mobs pocket.

Oh, that was the episode that was an almost verbatim remake of a season 1 Mannix episode by John Meredyth Lucas, in which Charles Drake (Commodore Stocker) played the equivalent of Shatner's character.

I may have mentioned that Charles Drake is the only TOS cast member to have appeared in a Marx Brothers movie. He was the heroic/romantic lead in their last movie as a full team, A Night in Casablanca.


He was wearing the same, or similar, hairpiece as in his appearance in the Six Million Dollar Man.

Wow. That was the scraggliest and most unflattering toupee I’ve ever seen on him, though not the fakest (that would be the one in the first TekWar movie).
 
Does animation count?
If so, i caught a portion of Hanna Barbara's "Challenge of the GoBots" this morning, and, the Renegade base is hidden in a mountain that looks suspiciously like the Vazquez Rocks.
Makes me wonder if the animators reused that same background plate in other series.
 
Does animation count?
If so, i caught a portion of Hanna Barbara's "Challenge of the GoBots" this morning, and, the Renegade base is hidden in a mountain that looks suspiciously like the Vazquez Rocks.
Makes me wonder if the animators reused that same background plate in other series.

There was a '90s show called Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys, with Babylon 5's Jerry Doyle as the title hero and Michael Dorn and Malcolm McDowell as the main villains, where there was a running gag of a whole series of planets named "Vasquez [Number]" that all featured that rock formation.
 
My wife's a Woody fan so we watched Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask last night. Some big names of the period, but only a couple of Trek alumni.

In the sequence where the human body is presented as a vehicle operated by work crews and technical staff, Stanley Adams is the stomach digestion supervisor. When the body they're running fails to get an erection during extramarital sex, they discover an angry priest has taken over the conscience - it's Jay Robinson. :lol:

 
My wife's a Woody fan so we watched Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask last night. Some big names of the period, but only a couple of Trek alumni.

In the sequence where the human body is presented as a vehicle operated by work crews and technical staff, Stanley Adams is the stomach digestion supervisor. When the body they're running fails to get an erection during extramarital sex, they discover an angry priest has taken over the conscience - it's Jay Robinson. :lol:


Man, it's been decades since I watched that movie on television.
I'm going to have to see if it's available for streaming somewhere.
 
Night Galley's episode "Cool Air, Camera Obscura, Quoth The Raven" has Rene Auberjonois in Camera Obscura and Henry Darrow in Cool Air.

I was doing a rewatch the other night and completely forgot both actors had parts in that episode.
 
Night Galley's episode "Cool Air, Camera Obscura, Quoth The Raven" has Rene Auberjonois in Camera Obscura and Henry Darrow in Cool Air.

I was doing a rewatch the other night and completely forgot both actors had parts in that episode.
Were either of them in TOS? 'Cause this is a TOS thread about TOS actors in the TOS forum. :)
 
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