Yep. Sorry 'bout that.
So it's David Janssen (from The Fugitive) playing the dad of Susan Gordon (from "The Fugitive"). Whew.
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So it's David Janssen (from The Fugitive) playing the dad of Susan Gordon (from "The Fugitive"). Whew.
I just love coincidences. Thanks for pointing that out!
Just watched this as 50th anniversary business and was going to post something myself. I'll add that her role was very brief but significant, as it was Bob (Robert Culp) admitting to his liaison with Yarnall's character to his wife, Carol (Natalie Wood), that got the whole open marriage ball rolling.
There is the line
"He can't be left alone with that blonde man-trap."
in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). That sense of the word is slang/a euphemism for a seductress.
Also:
If anything, she was worse since she had enough money to implement her desires. They were merely in the trade for business reasons. No—Eloise would be something to steer clear of. Alexander was right. She was a mantrap. — 2011, J. F. Bone, The Lani People [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mantrap]
Given the plot of "The Man Trap," in which during most manifestations of the creature males are lured to their deaths by the illusions of seductive females, I suspect that the intent was either to have a double meaning between human trap and seductress, if not to lean towards the seductress sense of the term.
And since that was posted, unfortunately, she died.
This week's 50th anniversary episode of That Girl has the cue for the title card freeze-frame being delivered by...This Guy:
("Write Is Wrong," Nov. 6, 1969)
("Write Is Wrong," Nov. 6, 1969)
John Hoyt is a guest at the Shady Acres Hotel on this morning's episode of Petticoat Junction.
Just watched third-season MANNIX episode, "Who Killed Me?"
There's Susan Howard (Mara, "Day of the Dove"):
and Yvonne Craig (Marta, "Whom Gods Destroy"):
and Hal Baylor (Policeman, "The City on the Edge of Forever"):
and the episode was written by Stephen Kandel ("Mudd's Women," "I, Mudd").
There's Susan Howard (Mara, "Day of the Dove"):
and Yvonne Craig (Marta, "Whom Gods Destroy"):
and Hal Baylor (Policeman, "The City on the Edge of Forever"):
and the episode was written by Stephen Kandel ("Mudd's Women," "I, Mudd").
I always interpreted "man trap" in this case as a female who traps males instead of a mechanical trap for humans. It is possible I read or heard a woman described as a "man trap" somewhere.
Addition:
Arrgh! How could I have forgotten where I read a woman called a man trap?
In the famous comedy play Our American Cousin the most famous line is when Asa Trenchard says to Mrs. Mountchessington:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_American_Cousin
John Wilkes Booth waited until everyone was laughing loudly at that line to shoot Abraham Lincoln.
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Yes, obviously in the context of the Trek episode it's being used as a metaphor. I was simply pointing out that Star Trek did not invent the phrase, that it's been in use both literally and metaphorically for a much longer time.
As for the intent of the Trek title, it's possible that it's the sexist slur you mention, but not necessarily. After all, we saw the salt vampire impersonate a man to seduce Uhura. So I think it was being used in the broader sense of an entity that traps and kills humans, rather than the specifically gendered sense.
It's possible, but I doubt it. I already thought of that, which is why I said "most manifestations" and not all. Uhura's encounter was the exception, not the rule. The use of "Wrigley's pleasure planet" seems to be intended to make a point.
I don't think it's exclusive, more likely a double-meaning. But they certainly didn't skimp on the sexual subtexts, really in every manifestation including Uhura's.
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I believe @Shaka Zulu is referring to an episode of The Zero Hour radio drama series entitled "Sky Lab Are You There?" That's unrelated to the Outer Limits TV show.
Kor
How did you ever get to see this show, and what channel is it on?
EDIT: I just found out it's on MOD DVD from Warner Archive.
Actually, he quit Intertect in anger, so goes the word of the show's creators.
Mannix probably won't be on Netflix any time soon (all that I've ever seen on it is Star Trek: TOS ), so DVD is your best bet.
Mannix: The Complete Series
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