Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Forbin]

Michael Pataki thinks the 12th precinct should be hauled away AS garbage! He guests in the Barney Miller ep titled "Rape." Perhaps a too-light sitcom treatment of a serious subject. His wife accuses him of forcing her against her will when she didn't want to. Rape within a marriage was certainly a controversial subject to examine at the time, and the show never shied away from such things. But they ultimately had to remember they were a comedy show, and the couple makes up by the end and the wife drops the charges if he promises to treat her with more respect, and maybe go dancing once in a while.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Gene Coon wrote this morning's episode of "Have Gun Will Travel" and Michael J. Pollard appeared as Barney Fife's cousin on "The Andy Griffith Show".

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Tonight's Creature Features Friday is showing a 1989 sci-fi movie The Terror Within and the opening shot is of the Vasquez Rocks.

 

[Forbin]

Those rocks got around!

 

[M'Sharak]

Tonight's Creature Features Friday is showing a 1989 sci-fi movie The Terror Within and the opening shot is of the Vasquez Rocks.

I also see a still that looks like Bronson Canyon / Bronson Caves, and yup.

Locations within a short drive of most L.A. studios FTW.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/trek-settings-costumes-and-props-in-other-productions.316639/

 

[Forbin]

Back to 1955 Science Fiction Theater episodes. Phillip Pine shows up as a lab assistant in "Before the Beginning." He's involved in experiments trying to discover the origins of life.
Dane Clark as the lead scientist who's working too hard and ignoring his sick wife - could the experimental "photon gun" save her life?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Gene Coon wrote this morning's episode of "Have Gun Will Travel" and Michael J. Pollard appeared as Barney Fife's cousin on "The Andy Griffith Show".

Wouldn't that make him Andy's cousin too?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

They dropped that idea after mentioning it once.

 

[Forbin]

Dee! Science Fiction Theater's ep "The Long Day" features Dee Kelly as an ex-con who just moved into a new development with his family. The developer wants to drive him out, and gets a couple of friends to join him. The plan is to sneak over at nightfall with baseball bats and stocking masks and rough him up. But.... SCIENCE! The local Army base is testing a powerful aerial flare that can light up a whole battlefield. It goes out of control and hovers over the town. Night never falls, and the men think some "higher power" is pointing out that THEY are the evil ones. Ooooh.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Youtube's MST3K channel is showing a German version of Hamlet that has been dubbed into English and Ricardo Montalban voices Claudius

 

[vandevere]

Youtube's MST3K channel is showing a German version of Hamlet that has been dubbed into English and Ricardo Montalban voices Claudius

I thought that was him! But I didn't know where to check...

 

[Poltargyst]

Those rocks got around!

They had a really good agent.

 

[Forbin]

Science Fiction Theater, "The Sound of Murder," has Whit Bissel show up for a bit, in a story postulating the possible future tech of using an electronic device to mimic a person's voice and frame him for murder.

 

[Forbin]

Skippy! Science Fiction Theater continues to provide. "The Other Side of the Moon" stars Skip Homier as a scientist who develops a new telescope camera that may have detected alien activity on...

His costar is the ever-lovely Beverly Garland, before her iconic roles in Swamp Woman, It Conquered the World, Alligator People, and My Three Sons.

 

[Forbin]

They're everywhere!
Vic Tayback works the good side of the law in Mary Tyler Moore's "Second Story Story."

 

[Poltargyst]

Skippy! Science Fiction Theater continues to provide. "The Other Side of the Moon" stars Skip Homier as a scientist who develops a new telescope camera that may have detected alien activity on...

His costar is the ever-lovely Beverly Garland, before her iconic roles in Swamp Woman, It Conquered the World, Alligator People, and My Three Sons.

Dang, she got all the good roles.

 

[Forbin]

And Whit Bissel pops up on Sci Fi Theater again, just two episodes later! In "The Green Bomb," he's a nuclear scientist who's acting suspiciously, making security chief Kenneth Toby (on loan from his arctic base?) wonder if he's stealing secrets.

 

[Forbin]

Watching The Adventures of Superman on H&I this morning, and there was Peter Brocco as a gang leader who discovered a way to make his hoods invisible.
Pic:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0506630/mediaviewer/rm3051078400/?ref_=tt_md_1

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I just saw "Everybody Tells the Truth" (All in the Family, 1973). The guest stars were an unknown Ron Glass (Barney Miller, Firefly), and Ken Lynch (Chief Vanderberg, "The Devil in the Dark").

All in the Family had Ken Lynch on as a refrigerator repairman, and I spent the episode thinking they cast him because he was the Lonely Maytag Repairman in all those commercials. But that was Jesse White. I got a false memory from somewhere. And then I started thinking Jesse White had been on Star Trek, but he never was. He was on everything else. It's a big night for false memories.