Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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@M'Sharak said "typically," not "always."
Says he, while at the same time vigorously shoehorning into the discussion a situation experienced by the lead actress from a very recent show having:
A) nothing to do with the gist of the post to which I was responding
B) only the thinnest tangential relevance to the gist of my post
C) nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of this thread, which is... [ checks notes ] ... TOS* guest actors.
And then, apparently deciding that nitpicking a non sequitur wasn't sufficient on its own, and that a leap full into hyperbole was needed, another shoehorn was deployed in order to forcibly introduce the topic of... slave labor?!
But... cherrypicking. Okay. Fine.
* That's Star Trek. 1966-69.
Barbara Anderson in this mornings episode of 'Night Galley', again directed by Jeff Corey.
Steve Ihnat in Cry Uncle, an episode of The Fugitive!
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Charles Napier, Charles Picerni in The Slam, an episode of The Incredible Hulk! Plus for all DS9 fans Marc Alaimo plays Captain Holt in the episode!
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Jeff Corey "Plasus" in ST seen in "Barney Miller". Like in Shawshank "These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. After long enough, you get so you depend on 'em. That's "institutionalized."" He was an inmate who got out on parole and thjen broke his parole to go back to jail. ...."Are you as brave with mortae as you are with a phaser?"
He was on Night Court a couple of times. One as a fill in judge who goes bonkers and the other as Santa Claus on a very early episode that notably also has Michael J Fox in it.
Quite good! I like the 1st season best.
After that, I keep wondering what's the commander of an Air Force bombing group doing sneaking around behind enemy lines so much...
Yeah, some of the story choices are a bit odd. I haven't seen the Gary Seven episodes yet. Those are coming up next
Isn't the other one the guy that was almost Matt Decker?
Season 1, with Robert Lansing as the lead, was the strongest; the show was going for meaty, semi-anthology-style drama then. By Season 3, it had been dumbed down somewhat into more of an action/adventure show...hence all of the "landing party adventure" plots.
A big problem with "12 O'clock High" and "Combat!" in the later seasons was the switch to color.
Up until that point, they could rely on old B&W stock footage from WWII. There was a lot of it to choose from.
When they switched to color, they had less to choose from and had to shoot a lot themselves, which upped the budget considerably.
"The Rat Patrol" was all in color, but was considerably easier to have a bunch of guys in jeeps with the occasional half track or tank, while they didn't have to film a squadron of B-17s or show German artillery...
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