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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

As I type this, there's an episode of The Rifleman on featuring a stern schoolmaster who must be an ancestor of Kodos the Executioner....
 
In the same ep, Mannix gets in a fight on Rigel 12:
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Though I remember Gene Dynarski well from '60s, '70s and '80s shows, my first thought was to Seinfeld and that Mannix must have been picking on his dad. "Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!"

You couldn't turn on a TV in the late 60s and early 70s without seeing Pamelyn Ferdin.

Or even HEARING her, as she was the original voice of Lucy in the Peanuts specials...

Not the original (Tracy Stratford), nor the one from "The Great Pumpkin" (Sally Dryer) but the next one.
 
Mannix vs. T'Pring. In a 3rd season ep called "Murder Revisited", Arlene Martel appears as twins! One hot, one mousey. Naaah, even when she tries to be mousey she's hot.

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Just saw three consecutive Man from UNCLE episodes with Trek guests: "The Arabian Affair" with the late Michael Ansara and Robert Ellenstein (inexplicably, since he was playing a character two decades older and wearing bad old-age makeup), "The Tigers Are Coming Affair" with Jill Ireland and Lee Bergere, and the rather incoherent "The Deadly Toys Affair" with Arnold Moss and John Hoyt, though Angela Lansbury was the main guest.
 
Last week I got Season 1 of Adventures of Superman, starring George Reeves. It's black and white, released around 1952 or 1953. In "The Runaway Robot", I recognized John Harmon as a two-bit crook. He was the Rodent who kills himself with McCoy's phaser in TOS: The City on the Edge of Forever, and Tepo in TOS: A Piece of the Action.

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This episode starred Russell Johnson as the boss bad guy. Johnson was veteran of science fiction films during the 50s and 60s, but most famous as The Professor on Gilligan's Island. Apparently he wanted to do Star Trek, but never got a chance.
 
Me-TV played a few episodes of Mod Squad the other week. This show already has a strong Trek connection, with one of the stars being Tige (Bob the Discount Klingon) Andrews, and one of the producers being Harve Bennett. But in addition to that, one episode featured William (Nilz Baris) Schallert as Sammy Davis Jr.'s boss in the priesthood, and another had Warren (Rojan) Stevens out to settle an old score with Vincent Price.
 
For TNG fans, another episode had Andy Griffith witness a murder committed by Stanley (Kosinski from "Where No One Has Gone Before") Kamel.
 
^Well, I do know this wasn't Ireland's final UNCLE appearance. She was married to David McCallum at the time, and thus made several guest appearances, though only the first two were as the same character.

EDIT: Oops, a couple of posts snuck in before me. Spoilers! I'm only up to early season 2 so far.
 
^Well, I do know this wasn't Ireland's final UNCLE appearance. She was married to David McCallum at the time, and thus made several guest appearances, though only the first two were as the same character.

EDIT: Oops, a couple of posts snuck in before me. Spoilers! I'm only up to early season 2 so far.

Ya got something to look forward to! :)
 
I don't know... what was great about Price was that he could be menacing, debonair, and snidely funny all at once -- like Colicos as Kor, DeLancie as Q, or Robinson as Garak. There wasn't much room for humor in Kodos.
 
I don't know... what was great about Price was that he could be menacing, debonair, and snidely funny all at once -- like Colicos as Kor, DeLancie as Q, or Robinson as Garak. There wasn't much room for humor in Kodos.

Price would have found a way! Most of his films were B's, but his dedication to his work is what made them memorable.
 
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