Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Forbin]

Meg Wylie! As a disgruntled wrestling fan accused of attacking Lou Ferrigno with a folding chair, in the Night Court episode "The Battling Bailiff."

 

[FormerLurker]

That must have been a strange one for Lou Ferrigno. He's usually the largest in the room, but Richard Moll is taller than he is.

 

[Forbin]

That must have been a strange one for Lou Ferrigno. He's usually the largest in the room, but Richard Moll is taller than he is.

And Moll picked him up to save him from the purse beating!
(I'm sure he just hopped up on a box, but the gag was Bull being stronger than him).

 

[Forbin]

Samuel T Gogley, Jr. on the wrong side of the law, in the 1985 Night Court episode "Married Alive." Elisha Cook plays a horse cab driver named "Wilbur Posten." Tho his horse was not named Ed.

 

[ItsGreen]

Twenty-three year old Elinor Donahue aka Trek's "Nancy Hedford" playing "Miss Ellie" in her first appearance on the Andy Griffith show, while uncredited she did appear in the first season with credits later on as a regular.

 

[Forbin]

Sad to report that this is the last episode of Sonny & Cher in the Best-Of collections we have. A November 1973 episode with Teri Garr playing a maternity ward nurse trying to keep control of the expectant fathers.

 

[J.T.B.]

Twenty-three year old Elinor Donahue aka Trek's "Nancy Hedford" playing "Miss Ellie" in her first appearance on the Andy Griffith show, while uncredited she did appear in the first season with credits later on as a regular.

Small correction: Donahue's first appearance as Ellie Walker was episode 4, "Ellie Comes to Town." Her credit, like those of Griffith, Ron Howard and Don Knotts, was audio-only, announced over the opening theme.

 

[ItsGreen]

Small correction: Donahue's first appearance as Ellie Walker was episode 4, "Ellie Comes to Town." Her credit, like those of Griffith, Ron Howard and Don Knotts, was audio-only, announced over the opening theme.

I stand corrected, thank-you!

 

[ItsGreen]

Marianna Hill aka "Dr. Helen Noel" in Quincy, M.E....(Quincy recently replaced Mannix on the schedule)

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Thanks to MST3K, I just watched a trailer for a movie called 'The Bubble' and Vic Perrin has a small role in it as a taxi driver.

 

[Forbin]

We've been watching Addams Family during dinner this week, and of course Ted Cassidy is a regular as Lurch. In the ep "Lurch's Little Helper," Gomez, Fester and Pugsley decided to build a robot helper for Lurch. Guess who guest starred? And since Forbidden Planet counts as the inspiration for TOS, I think Robby belongs in this thread.

 

[ItsGreen]

Barbara Babcock in Quincy M.E. as Dr. Asten's wife Melissa.

 

[ItsGreen]

Three adversarial characters in Trek, actors seen on other shows this week!

 

[DarrenTR1970]

James B. Sikking and Ian Wolfe in 1974's 'The Terminal Man'.
Also in the same movie, Richard Dysart and Donald Moffat share a few scenes together eight years before they would star in John Carpenter's 'The Thing'.

 

[ItsGreen]

Stanley Adams in Adam-12 (heard the voice before I saw the face!)
and Ricardo as a Blackfoot named Iron Shirt starring with Clark Gable

 

[Forbin]

Warren Stevens looking natty as one of those small town martinets who makes the mistake of trying to hire Paladin as an assassin on "The Eve of St. Elmo."

 

[Forbin]

The Have Gun - ... episode "The Savages" was a Roddenberry script. An art collector hires Paladin to guide him, and his strangely childlike daughter, to the camp of a reclusive sculptor. But the collector does not tell Paladin his real reason for wanting to find the artist - revenge for his wife's death and his daughter's psychosis.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Warren Stevens looking natty as one of those small town martinets who makes the mistake of trying to hire Paladin as an assassin on "The Eve of St. Elmo."

Villain in a Wheelchair was a major trope in the 1960s. And For Your Eyes Only paid homage in 1981.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCripple

 

[Forbin]

Ay yi yi - Willam Schallert is supposed to be Chinese. Have Gun - Will Travel, "Lady of the Fifth Moon."

Also supposed to be Chinese was Bethel Leslie, as both an ancient Chinese woman, and her granddaughter, for whom Paladin fell.

 

[M'Sharak]

Villain in a Wheelchair was a major trope in the 1960s. And For Your Eyes Only paid homage in 1981.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCripple

Not listed by TVTropes, but The Wild Wild West had at least two "villain in a wheelchair" episodes, including one featuring this guy.