Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[DarrenTR1970]

Whit Bissell is appearing on this evening's episode of "Hawaiian Eye".

 

[Forbin]

Sonny & Cher's second episode, Jan 3, 1972, had Teri in a couple of pop-up gags. Here she is being interviewed about a nuclear test explosion in Alaska, and saying there were absolutely no side effects:

The punchline: "Thank you, Walter Hickle."

 

[M'Sharak]

Here she is being interviewed about a nuclear test explosion in Alaska, and saying there were absolutely no side effects:

Interviewer is played by Murray Langston, later to become known for his appearances on The Gong Show as "The Unknown Comic".

 

[Forbin]

Also, what knockers! :O

 

[M'Sharak]

Why... thank you, Doctor.

 

[Forbin]

HA! I turned on Heroes and Icons last night at 8, expecting an episode of TOS, but they were running a Twilight Zone marathon instead. I was confused for half a second, because there was Shatner anyway - hanging out of an airliner shooting at a gremlin!

 

[Forbin]

Sonny & Cher episode 4 - Teri pops up (literally) as an audience plant asking a question:

then in a sketch as a slave girl flirting with Samson (Carrol O'Connor) when Delilah slinks in:

 

[J.T.B.]

Jill Ireland (with Sean Connery), Hell Drivers, 1957.

 

[Forbin]

Nice little threefer in the Have Gun - Will Travel ep "The Burning Tree." Paul Fix as a sheriff with a hobby, Eleanor Donahue as his daughter, and Whit Bissel as Paladin's prisoner, a serial lady killer looking for #8.

 

[Forbin]

No Trek actors in the next HGWT ep, but "Cage at McNaab" is a Gene Roddenberry script. A woman hires Paladin to help appeal her husband's death sentence, but when he goes to visit the convict in solitary, it turns out she's paid off a guard to knock Paldin out and swap him for her husband. In fact Paldin is concussed three times in this ep!

 

[FormerLurker]

You need to be careful with the abbreviations. I initially thought HGWT meant Huge Gaping Wide Twinkies.

 

[Forbin]

The next ep of Huge Gaping Wide Twinkies, "The Caravan," again had no Trek actors, but was shot entirely at Vasquez Rocks. Even tho they were supposed to be on a week-long trek ( ) thru the desert, Kirk's Rock was always sticking up in the background.

 

[PCz911]

The next ep of Huge Gaping Wide Twinkies, .

Sorry, I’m not familiar with this Twinkie reference (beyond the snack).
I googled and tried urban dictionary but couldn’t find a reference. What is it?

 

[FormerLurker]

Sorry, I’m not familiar with this Twinkie reference (beyond the snack).
I googled and tried urban dictionary but couldn’t find a reference. What is it?

See the next two posts above Forbin's.

 

[Forbin]

 

[Forbin]

Teri in the 7th Sonny & Cher ep, doing a Russian gag in a Vaudeville-style skit with scattershot political gags about the 1972 election.

Ya know, my old brain remembers S&C as hippies, but their show was more like Vegas and nightclub acts.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Ya know, my old brain remembers S&C as hippies, but their show was more like Vegas and nightclub acts.

They rebranded in the 70s. Sonny was a clever businessman.

 

[Forbin]

They rebranded in the 70s. Sonny was a clever businessman.

He was indeed! There's an interview on the disks where he says the only reason he's actually part of the act is that Cher was painfully shy about being up there alone (at first), and he always made sure his part was minimal and she was spotlighted.
If only he could have found a way to be up there and NOT sing OMG he was awful!

 

[M'Sharak]

He was indeed! There's an interview on the disks where he says the only reason he's actually part of the act is that Cher was painfully shy about being up there alone (at first), and he always made sure his part was minimal and she was spotlighted.
If only he could have found a way to be up there and NOT sing OMG he was awful!

Sonny had been a successful songwriter and producer in the 1950s / early 1960s. I think he'd done some minor session work as a musician (with what would become known as "The Wrecking Crew") on recordings by some of the acts he produced, but his transition to stage performer was indeed in support of Cher. The hippie costumes were part of the look adopted for the TV show, because that was deemed to be what would sell at the time.

 

[Forbin]

Been watching Barney Miller for dinner this week, and of course James Gregory pops up at random as crusty old Inspector Luger, to say something totally inappropriate.