He just didn't seem that type of actor, but then again didn't he appear in an episode of The Bionic Woman in the second season? The one with Vincent Price?
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^What do you mean, "that type of actor?"
HaHaHa Well Windom was a top of the range style actor usually and the latter half of The Six million dollar Man was not that good in my opinion! But like I said I'm sure he was in a Bionic Woman episode!
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Yes he was! As Warfield in the episode, Black Magic! Maybe he was a bit hard up for cash that week perhaps? 
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Windom did all sorts of episodic television that was no more or less cheesy than the bionic shows. Just in the '80s alone, he did all the schlockiest stuff -- Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, The A-Team, Mama's Family, The Facts of Life, Automan, Hardcastle and McCormick, Airwolf, Knight Rider. You can't say that someone who did Automan and Airwolf was too classy for Steve Austin. And of course his most famous role was his recurring part on Murder, She Wrote as the sheriff of Cabot Cove -- i.e. the most incompetent lawman in television history, since the per capita murder rate in his town was immense and he couldn't solve a single one without the help of a mystery novelist.
He had to be incompetent to make Jessica(?) look good.
Just as Lestrade's incompetence made Sherlock look like a genius in comparison.
He may have been a sheriff in an episode, but his recurring role was as a local physician, Dr. Hazlitt, who was Jessica's friend and gave her an assist in her cases as needed.
No if he appeared on Automan then he was certainly not too classy for Six Million Dollar Man! I love the early seasons of the show with enemies like The Seven Million Dollar Man, Dr.Dolenz and the Gary Lockwood pair of brothers and of course Big Foot but the later episodes were a bit of a snooze! 
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Oh, right, I was getting him mixed up with Tom Bosley. And the guy who replaced him, Ron Masak.
Let's not forget John Astin, who was the sherriff for about an episode, until it was revealed he was the killer.
Say, did you become a Trek novelist with the expectation that starship crews would regularly come calling asking you stuff like how to use the warp drive?
I didn't even know Windom was working in the80s. His big era was the 60s when, as I said, he was in EVERYTHING. I mean it. He was not at all choosy. ANY drama or sitcom could be counted on to cast Wm. Windom if it ran for any length of time. He thought Trek was one of his "cheesy" roles... he made what he considered silly, exaggerated faces when going into the Doomsday Machine, because he didn't respect ST, as most people didn't respect science fiction. I hope he changed his mind about that later.
His most famous role was as cartoonist James Thurber in his sitcom "My World and Welcome To It", which was good.
His most famous role was as cartoonist James Thurber in his sitcom "My World and Welcome To It", which was good.
He appeared in the Frank Sinatra movie The Detective in 1968 playing homosexual killer Colin McIver! He was a man disgusted with himself for his night ventures and ends up with a rich kid who belittles him later on. He kills him in the most horrible way possible and later on commits suicide after a man is electrocuted for the murder instead! Sinatra also feels guilty for railroading their chief suspect into admitting his guilt!
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He commented more than once while guesting at conventions that he was surprised that his 'silly, exaggerated' faces were so effective at getting across what Decker must have been going through mentally. He said he was actually thinking about what he wanted for lunch that day.
WOW! What a chaos to be in! 
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Yeah, I saw that movie, unfortunately. Just your typical homophobic garbage from the sixties. Very forgettable.
Happened to tune in GETTV a few minutes before The Lieutenant started yesterday, and they were showing the very violent 60's cop show The Felony Squad, and just happened to come upon, as a mob boss, Mark Lenard! Also, Marty Milner, pre-Adam-12, as a reluctant hit man.....interesting stuff..
Just caught the tail end of an Ironside episode on Decades and there was William Shatner as a detective being fired by Jessica Walter.
There was also a pre-Barney Miller Jack Soo playing a detective as well.
I also have to say that was one of Shatner's poorer-looking hairpieces. The hairline was too straight and the dye job the makeup department gave it was distracting. It was too dark; not like his normal brown-blone hair.
There was also a pre-Barney Miller Jack Soo playing a detective as well.
I also have to say that was one of Shatner's poorer-looking hairpieces. The hairline was too straight and the dye job the makeup department gave it was distracting. It was too dark; not like his normal brown-blone hair.
I don't think it was the show's makeup department to blame. That would've been "Amy Prentiss," a backdoor pilot for a short-lived spinoff of the same name starring Jessica Walter, and it aired just a month after Shatner's Six Million Dollar Man appearance, "Burning Bright," in which he also sported a really awful-looking and atypically dark toupee. As soon as I read your description of the rug, my first thought was "Oh, that must've been around the same time as 'Burning Bright'," and I checked and I was even righter than I knew.
I remember "Amy Prentiss". That show was terrible. We only watched it once at my house because it was so bad.
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