Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Neopeius]

Question: would folks prefer I do my weekly roundup of Trek actors from 55 years ago in my current Trek rewatch thread or in here? I'm thinking it probably makes sense for me to break up the pertinent subject matter by topic rather than having a single thread anymore.

 

[The Old Mixer]

As I recall, Digits was trying to steer that in here in the first place.

 

[Neopeius]

As I recall, Digits was trying to steer that in here in the first place.

So that's a yes?

 

[J.T.B.]

I think that would work very well.

 

[Forbin]

As long as it's only TOS actors and guests, I suppose so.

 

[Neopeius]

This week I watched a lot of television (it was my last week of vacation) but saw surprisingly few Trek folk. On 1-13-67's The Man From U.N.C.L.E., I spotted Peter Brocco as a scientist:

But the jackpot was, as it often is, on Trek's sister show, Mission: Impossible (1-14-21):

First, this fellow:

And here's the great one:

Proof that gods and Klingons have consorted throughout history...

 

[Christopher]

Proof that gods and Klingons have consorted throughout history...

Until the Klingons killed them.

 

[Forbin]

Speaking of Peter Brocco, we saw the Twilight Zone episode "Hocus Pocus and Frisby," starring Andy Divine as that guy who sits around the old Franklin stove in the general store spinning tall tales that nobody believes. Frisby gets kidnapped by aliens, and there's Brocco standing in the background in the flying saucer cabin, practicing to be an alien for 5 years later.

 

[FormerLurker]

This week I watched a lot of television (it was my last week of vacation) but saw surprisingly few Trek folk. On 1-13-67's The Man From U.N.C.L.E., I spotted Peter Brocco as a scientist:

As an aside, the other guy was the minister in the original Parent Trap with Hayley Mills.

 

[Forbin]

Theo Marcuse's shiny little head showed up running an illegal back-room poker game in the Twilight Zone we watched tonight, "The Trade-Ins."
And, btw, this may be the single most heart-breaking and heart-warming episode. It gets even more so as my wife and I grow older together.

 

[Neopeius]

Here's an interesting two-fer.

There was a Fall half-season show called The Man Who Never Was featuring Robert Lansing. It was actually pretty good, but it was expensive and the setup really couldn't sustain that many episodes. So it ended with on January 4, 1967 after a run of 13.

Of course, we all know Robert Lansing:

While we were watching, the score kept pinging on my ears as Trekian. A bit of "Shore Leave" and a lot of Spock's theme from "Amok Time".

Sure enough...

 

[Forbin]

Back to watching Have Gun - Will Travel, and noticed the ep I just watched, "The Chase" was written by Fred Freiberger. And of course there are tons of eps written by Roddenberry.

 

[Forbin]

Back to watching Have Gun - Will Travel, and noticed the ep I just watched, "The Chase" was written by Fred Freiberger. And of course there are tons of eps written by Roddenberry.

One of which I just watched, "The Return of Roy Carter," featured a return, also, of a character named Robert April. My wife and I were watching together, and right at the beginning, Paladin mentions his old acquaintance Robert April. I said "Ah! This one was written by Roddenberry." My wife asked how I knew, and I told her I thought she was a better Trekkie and should be ashamed. .

 

[FormerLurker]

One of which I just watched, "The Return of Roy Carter," featured a return, also, of a character named Robert April. My wife and I were watching together, and right at the beginning, Paladin mentions his old acquaintance Robert April. I said "Ah! This one was written by Roddenberry." My wife asked how I knew, and I told her I thought she was a better Trekkie and should be ashamed. .

Did she smack you?

 

[Forbin]

Young Frank Gorshin turns up in a minor role as a smartass who gets beat up for being a smartass in the Have Gun... episode "The Sons of Aaron Murdock."

 

[Neopeius]

Baby Frank!

This week on the Galactic Journey through Star Trek, we first John Hoyt take a comedic turn on the 1-16-67 Monkees. I'd only seen him in serious roles, but he does humor very well. He was hysterical.

The next day, Commodore [ed] Stocker (Charles Drake) appeared as a con man alongside Anne Francis:

 

[FormerLurker]

That's Commodore Stocker. Decker tried to blow up the Doomsday Machine.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The next day, Commodore Decker (Charles Drake) appeared as a con man alongside Anne Francis:

MeTV's weekly airings just happen to currently be in 55th anniversary sync; this was playing in the wee hours last Monday morning, the 17th.

 

[Neopeius]

MeTV's weekly airings just happen to currently be in 55th anniversary sync; this was playing in the wee hours last Monday morning, the 17th.

Nice. And in related news, the Young Traveler is very happy since in the last week, she's got to see her favorite men on TV:

Brian Kelly (Flipper), Robert Culp (I, Spy) -- both shirtless, all of the Monkees today, and on What's My Line? (also today), Tony Randall and Herb Alpert were in the same room and they shook hands!

We're getting her Vo, Vo, De Oh, Doe, Randall's latest album, for her birthday in March It will just have come out.

 

[J.T.B.]

I finally watched the 1972 Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV movie. The end credits made the screen grabs easy:









Elisha Cook, of course, was also in the other major TV vampire event of that decade, Salem's Lot.