Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Ah, yes. "Snowball in Hell" from season 1, filmed at the Vasquez Rocks fortress also used in "Arena," and using a lot of Gerald Fried music (albeit recycled cues from "Odds on Evil").
^You mean Roger Perry?
Of course not! I meant Roger Peeey!
(stupid "t" being next to the "r"
Thanks for the catch.)
Young Frankenstein for our Sat night movie tonight. It's been a while. Teri Garr is just such a delight. I probably mentioned it before, but I'm old and don't remember - Teri grew up in my home town in NJ, and hung out with my older cousins before I was born. Here's a pic of her with a couple of my cousins in 1957. Teri's on the left (no kiddin').
I have a Tim Russ one, though it's weird. In the 1989 pilot episode of the Alien Nation TV series, which had flashbacks to a sequence from the 1988 feature film (despite not being in continuity with it), the 33-year-old Russ played a character who had briefly appeared in the movie sequence played by Clarence Landry... who was 42 years older than Russ and was credited as "Old Man Driver."
Well, since this is the TOS forum, we're only doing TOS actors and guests in this thread.
I recently caught a younger-than-usual George Takei on a 1960 episode of Hawaiian Eye on MeTV+ that I had on in the background. It looks like Barbara Luna was in the episode as well.
Susan Oliver is making an appearance as a hotel/casino owner in the current episode of 'Alias Smith and Jones'.
Not in that photo but also appearing in same ep as "Desk Sergeant" was Jack Perkins, known to fans of Trek for the line "You bring this network's ratings down, Flavius, and we'll do a special on you!"
By the way, for Batman fans out there, I have to say, I've enjoyed Green Hornet much more. It's by the same producer, but it's a smarter show. Highly recommended!
Both shows were true to their source material. Contrary to popular belief, Batman '66 was a surprisingly faithful recreation of what Batman comics were typically like in most of the '40s through '60s, and actually toned down a lot from the extreme goofiness of the '50s and early '60s. And Green Hornet was similarly faithful to the tone of the original radio series and film serials, though it updated the Hornet's technology to be more cutting-edge. (They anticipated remoted-controlled camera drones by decades.)
Batman may have been faithful to the comics, but I find Adam West utterly unwatchable. And somehow the wacky show has limp editing, making the scenes take about twice as long as they should and the jokes fall flat.
There are occasional bright moments (the rationale for the kidnapping of Chad and Jeremy was genuinely funny), and Burt Ward is a delight as Robin, but on the whole, we found it a dull show and gave up after concerted effort.
Green Hornet, on the other hand, was a show I had not expected to like. I'd just stuck it on the station because I'm a completionist. As with I, Spy the year before, I found myself catching a few minutes here and there and being engaged. Then one night, we caught the beginning, and Lorelei refused to let me turn it off. That's when it entered regular rotation on our viewing schedule.
Then my wife, who is a big DC fan and loves identity-porn watched an ep, and now she's in on it, too.
So, to each their own, but Green Hornet is tops in our house.
To each their own; I'm not concerned with value judgments. It's just that there's a perception that Batman made fun of something that was originally more serious, so people often expect TGH to be a spoof as well. I'm just pointing out that both shows were faithful to the things they were adapting, so the difference between them is inherent in their respective sources.
By the way, for Batman fans out there, I have to say, I've enjoyed Green Hornet much more. It's by the same producer, but it's a smarter show. Highly recommended!
I had the opposite reaction. I loved the heck out of Batman, in part because I zeroed in on it at age 5 and it took. Every aspect of it works for me except when they have a draggy, subpar episode. Adam West was fantastic, and as a kid I thought his costume was the last word in cool. And I'll never get over how good the Batmobile looks. Don't get me started on Julie Newmar. So hot.
But when I saw The Green Hornet as an adult, I didn't like it. I was expecting a romp, and it came across as serious. But it was a serious show stuck in a comical production design: the fireplace as a secret elevator, the car that flips upside down, things like that. It set my expectations to Funny, and that made the serious tone seem dull. Also, the leads, the costumes, and the car didn't light up the screen for me. Batman is a tough act to follow.
Warren Stevens is playing a reporter on the current episode of Route 66 Decades TV binge. It's one of the episodes that George Maharis missed while in the hospital recovering from hepatitis. His replacement, Glenn Corbett should be showing up in a few episodes.
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