Watching Star Trek for the first time (again)

[Neopeius]

This one is really interesting. This is from Kraft Suspense Theater, July 1, 1965 (just a few days ago). Note the two actors. And since they are currently filming Trek's second pilot, this must have been one of the gigs they did right before! Interesting that they'd be cast together on consecutive projects:

 

[johnnybear]

Another interesting connection here was that David Opatoshu and Jill Ireland were in two episodes of TOS that followed each other!
JB

Unless you were watching in BBC order of course!
JB

 

[Neopeius]

From last week's rerun of The Virginian (originally aired December 2, 1964):

Lt. Stiles grills Yeoman Colt:

 

[mb22]

She may have on the set been filming "The Cage" the very day that show aired (Memory Alpha says that bridge scenes were done that day).

 

[Neopeius]

Sorry for the long delay. I suspect I'll be watching more television when the Fall Season starts next week. I did see Lt. Bailey on an episode of something last night but I can't remember what.

However, here's a real rare sighting: Ensign Thule on the January 11, 1965 (summer rerun) episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!:

 

[johnnybear]

Is that Ron Veto with the smile? I've probably seen that episode and never realised it was him!!!
JB

 

[Neopeius]

Is that Ron Veto with the smile? I've probably seen that episode and never realised it was him!!!
JB

Sure is!

Okay -- the new season of TV is going, and I've been watching the boob tube all week. I've still only seen half of what there is to see (hey, can't watch all three networks at once... yet) but I did find a lot:

On 12 O'Clock High (Sep. 13), they unceremoniously killed Robert Lansing and, in the process, the show. Feh. But there's Paul Carr, in a performance that had to have been filmed pretty close to his July turn on the second Trek pilot.

Speaking of Robert Lansing...

He's the guest star on Sep. 15's The Virginian. Or maybe that's Gary Seven time traveling.

Malachi Throne was in another Western, the debut of Big Valley, also on the 15th:

The next three are all from the CBS Thursday Night Movie (Sep. 16): The Manchurian Candidate

Whit Bissell (Mr. Lurry from The Trouble with Tribbles) he was also in one of the tv shows, too, but I can't remember which one)

James Gregory (from Dagger of the Mind)

And Reggie Nalder (the Andorian, Shras, in Journey to Babel)

Feel free to add any from this week that I missed!

 

[The Old Mixer]

On 12 O'Clock High (Sep. 13), they unceremoniously killed Robert Lansing and, in the process, the show.

Hey now, I like Paul Burke!

 

[Phaser Two]

Most of these actors (not Lansing - good-looking guy anywhere apparently) look better on Star Trek! Particularly noticeable with Yeoman Colt and Malachi Throne but applicable to Stiles and Dr. Adams, too. Whit Bissell looks good as a lieutenant colonel (could be major - can't exactly tell the color of the oak leaves) in an Army (I think - could be Air Force) uniform. He had a military bearing and a commanding, presence-filled voice even as the retiring Lurry.

I'm starting to realize just what a good job Fred Phillips, Theiss and their crews really did.

Thanks so much, Neopeius, for all these great pics.

 

[Neopeius]

Most of these actors (not Lansing - good-looking guy anywhere apparently) look better on Star Trek! Particularly noticeable with Yeoman Colt and Malachi Throne but applicable to Stiles and Dr. Adams, too. Whit Bissell looks good as a lieutenant colonel (could be major - can't exactly tell the color of the oak leaves) in an Army (I think - could be Air Force) uniform. He had a military bearing and a commanding, presence-filled voice even as the retiring Lurry.

I'm starting to realize just what a good job Fred Phillips, Theiss and their crews really did.

Thanks so much, Neopeius, for all these great pics.

Glad you're enjoying them. My wife and I were discussing just this morning how Lansing just has "it" -- really a tragedy they cut him from 12 O'Clock High. Though they kind of said all they needed to with that show.

Anyway, the week is just about over, but here's a couple more I found!

I am for you, Arthur Batanides! (from the Sep. 15, 1965 ep of Amos Burke, Secret Agent)

And from the premiere episode of Get Smart (Sep. 18, 1965 -- tonight!)

You know, Michael Dunn is quite handsome. He was great as "Mr. Big" (stealing a joke from Rocky and Bullwinkle)

 

[johnnybear]

Get Smart was in b/w? I never knew that!!!!
JB

 

[Phaser Two]

Glad you're enjoying them. My wife and I were discussing just this morning how Lansing just has "it" -- really a tragedy they cut him from 12 O'Clock High. Though they kind of said all they needed to with that show.

Anyway, the week is just about over, but here's a couple more I found!

I am for you, Arthur Batanides! (from the Sep. 15, 1965 ep of Amos Burke, Secret Agent)

And from the premiere episode of Get Smart (Sep. 18, 1965 -- tonight!)

You know, Michael Dunn is quite handsome. He was great as "Mr. Big" (stealing a joke from Rocky and Bullwinkle)

Lansing did indeed have "it." Just looked him up and I never knew that Lansing was a stage name, apparently taken from Michigan's capital city.

Aw, the Arthur Batanides pic reminds me of what a sweet guy D'Amato was. Either he was some actor or he was like that in real life as well. Or both. The woman with him looks familiar so I looked up the ep on Wikipedia, and apparently that's Michele Carey, but I can't figure out where I've seen her before. Bonus info - that episode's title was . . . "Balance of Terror"!

After my earlier comment above, I looked up Whit Bissell and it turns out he played military officers all the time! No wonder.

Michael Dunn was a good-looking guy and a terrific, terrific actor. One of my all-team favorite Star Trek guest actors, and considering that PS is near the bottom of my list of favorites, that's saying something. That's how fantastic he was as Alexander.

 

[Henoch]

The woman with him looks familiar so I looked up the ep on Wikipedia, and apparently that's Michele Carey, but I can't figure out where I've seen her before.

Probably on Wild Wild West, or with Elvis or where I remember her from, the John Wayne movie, El Dorado.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Lansing did bring a little something extra to the role, but Burke was a perfectly good leading man in his own right, and more in the youthful, handsome, Kennedyesque leading man mold that also gave us the likes of Robert Conrad as James West and William Shatner as James T. Kirk. The Season 2 premiere of 12OCH seemed oddly vindictive to me for the way that it made a point of giving Savage an on-camera death in Lansing's absence via body double, then had General Britt emphasizing that Gallagher was the right man for commanding the 918th because he didn't want a Savage crony in the position. (For those who haven't seen it, Carr was playing one of the Cronies of the Week in question.)

They could have just followed the 1949 movie upon which the show was based, which established that Gregory Peck's General Savage was only filling in as group commander temporarily to get the unit up to snuff, as he was over-ranked for the position, which was normally a colonel's job; and had Savage turning over command of the 918th to Lt. Col. Gately (Hugh Marlowe) at the end of the film. Paul Burke's Joe Gallagher, as introduced as a guest character in the first episode of the series, was a renamed version of Gately, getting exactly the same storyline in that episode as Gately had in the film. Maybe they thought it was a stretch for Savage to get bumped up to a desk at wing HQ without ever showing him in scenes there.

 

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Michael Dunn was a good-looking guy and a terrific, terrific actor. One of my all-team favorite Star Trek guest actors, and considering that PS is near the bottom of my list of favorites, that's saying something. That's how fantastic he was as Alexander.

Supposedly considered to play Spock as well.

 

[Poltargyst]

Supposedly considered to play Spock as well.

Michael Dunn was considered to play Spock?

 

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This memo was in this thread: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/martin-landau-as-spock.155932/

TO: Krewin Coughlin
From: Gene Roddenberry
CC: Herb Solow
Date: October 14, 1964
Subject: STAR TREK CASTING

Here are some of the names which have been considered or suggested by anyone for the various STAR TREK roles:

ROBERT APRIL: Paul Mantee, Tom Tryon, Robert Webber, Robert Wright, Rod Taylore, Jack Lord, Richard Egan, James Coburn, Leslie Nielson, Robert Horton, Earl Holliman, Robert Loggia, James Donald, Sterling Hayden, Larry Blyden, Steve Forrest, Jason Evers, John Russell, Patrick O’Neal, Liam Sullivan, Jeff Hunter, Howard Duff, Mike Forrest, Warren Stevens, Skip Hemier, Rhodes Reason.

MISTER SPOCK: Leonard Nimoy, Rex Holman, DeForest Kelly, Michael Dunn.

JOSE TYLER: Joby Baker, Marc Cavell, Victor Arnold, Robert Brown, Joe Bova, Ross Martin, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Dern.

DOCTOR BOYCE: Martin Gabel, Paul Stewart, Edward Binns, Jim Gergory.

NUMBER ONE: Magel Barrett, Lee Meriweather, Jeanne Bal, Sarah Shane.

COLT: Jennifer Stuart, Shary Marshall, Joyce Meadows, Jill Ireland, Audrey Dalton, Fay Spain, Joan Huntington.

VINA: Yvette Mimeaux, Jill St. John, Carol Lawrence, Ann-Margret, Dorothy Provine.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Um...yeah...they were gonna get Ann-Margret...

 

[mb22]

Um...yeah...they were gonna get Ann-Margret...

Star Trek is all about optimism...

 

[The Old Mixer]

I sense "L'il Gene" at work.