Which Potential Guest Star Would Have Killed A ST Episode?

[The Old Mixer]

How about Alan Hale, Jr., bringing along some winky-nudgy Gilligan's Island references?

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(Couldn't find a clip of him playing a bartender called Gilligan on Batman.)

 

[Spock's Barber]

How about Alan Hale, Jr., bringing along some winky-nudgy Gilligan's Island references?

"Gilligan, little buddy!" would morph into "Chekov, little buddy!"

 

[The Old Mixer]

Would a Skipper outrank a Captain...?

 

[Melakon]

Alan Hale Jr. would have made a good Cyrano Jones.

 

[CrazyMatt]

Don Knotts as Dr. Richard Daystrom.

DON KNOTTS: Colleagues. Colleagues laughing behind my back at the boy wonder and becoming famous building on my work. Building on my work.

MCCOY: Jim, he's on the edge of a nervous breakdown, if not insanity.

KIRK: The M-5 must be destroyed.

DON KNOTTS: Destroyed, Kirk? No. We're invincible. Look what we've done. Your mighty starships, Four toys to be crushed as we choose.

KIRK: You can save the M-5 if you talk to it and make it stop the attack!
BARNEY DAYSTROM: I can make it stop. I created it. (goes to Spock's station) M-5 tie-in.
M5: M-5.
BARNEY DAYSTROM: This is, (calmer) this is Daystrom.
M5: Daystrom. Acknowledged.
BARNEY DAYSTROM: M-5, do you know me?
M5: Daystrom, Barney. Originator of accidental forearms discharges. Born
BARNEY DAYSTROM: Now cut that out!

 

[Green Shirt]

How about Alan Hale, Jr., bringing along some winky-nudgy Gilligan's Island references?

"Gilligan, little buddy!" would morph into "Chekov, little buddy!"

Russell Johnson could play the science/engineering guy who would always solve the ship's problems. Shields down? No problem - a giant coconut shell will do. Some energy field blocking communications? No problem - two cans and a long string will do. Phasers inoperative? Well, you get the idea.

 

[Melakon]

Russell Johnson actually did want to do a Star Trek, but didn't get a chance. He had the sci-fi credentials, having been in It Came from Outer Space, This Island Earth, Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Space Children, two memorable episodes of "The Twilight Zone" involving time travel, and as an astronaut on "The Outer Limits". He was about ready to quit show business entirely until getting "Gilligan" at age 40. Prior to Gilligan, he was known as a dependable character actor in dramas. He died earlier this year.

 

[BK613]

Lucille Ball

 

[Melakon]

Desi Arnaz. William F. Buckley, Jr. Tiny Tim. Richard Nixon.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I know Liberace parodied himself in Batman, but in ST....sorry I just can't see him in any episode.

Trelane.

Yes. Many TOS fans just assumed Trelane was a thinly veiled knock on Liberace, anyway.

 

[E-DUB]

Johnson was also in an episode of "The Invaders". He played a lawyer defending a man accused of murder after killing one of the aliens. (Johnson's character was also one of the aliens.)

I didn't feel obligated to put spoiler tags on a 45 year-old tv series.

 

[Green Shirt]

How about Alan Hale, Jr., bringing along some winky-nudgy Gilligan's Island references?



(Couldn't find a clip of him playing a bartender called Gilligan on Batman.)

I wonder if the line about the desert island was an ad-lib, judging from Conrad's reaction.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Professor Irwin Corey as Dr. Richard Daystrom. Absolute, total, epic, screwed up ST episode.

 

[f14peter]

Ugh! I would have thrown a brick at the television if the producers had cast Diller or Cox in ST. Oh the horror!!!

And what is the problem with Wally Cox? ... The man was the voice of Underdog 'fer chrissakes!

As Cyrano Jones he might have pulled it off, but I wonder what would newbies to ST would say if Cox was in 'Tribbles'....."That's Underdog!!!"

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Wally Cox ...

The Bedford Incident (w/Richard Widmark & Sidney Poitier), Fate is the Hunter (W/Glenn Ford & Rod Taylor), Spencer's Mountain (W/Henry Fonda & Maureen O'Hara), Morituri (W/Marlon Brando, Yul Brenner & Trevor Howard) and a few others.

Indeed, mostly known for his typecast roles in TV, and while never the star of a film, he did rub acting-elbows with some pretty big names.

Yea, I agree with Danger Ace, Wally Cox had the chops and could have done either Barris or Cyrano Jones in any of a dozen styles.

 

[Spock's Barber]

No offense, but Wally's voice was too squeaky. I like Stanley Adam's deep tone/

 

[Silvercrest]

I know Liberace parodied himself in Batman, but in ST....sorry I just can't see him in any episode.

Trelane.

Yes. Many TOS fans just assumed Trelane was a thinly veiled knock on Liberace, anyway.

Oh? I thought he really was Liberace and that there is no such actor as "William Campbell."

On-topic, I suspect casting Cesar Romero as Lokai (opposite Frank Gorshin) would have killed the episode, but I bet it would've been worth watching anyway.

 

[Nerys Myk]

No offense, but Wally's voice was too squeaky. I like Stanley Adam's deep tone/

Wally as Hengist/Redjac

 

[Spock's Barber]

No offense, but Wally's voice was too squeaky. I like Stanley Adam's deep tone/

Wally as Hengist/Redjac

...but I liked hearing Piglet's voice come out of Hengist's mouth.

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

Wally Cox is in the very first episode of Mission: Impossible as a member of the team, playing a safecracker who has to be smuggled into a compound. He has one scene wearing an athletic shirt, and his arms were muscular. In real life, he was athletic, rode motorcycles, and was a qualified electrician, wiring his own house.

True (though I did not know about the electrician part)!

Speaking of that episode, didn't Engineer Singh (The Changeling) have a small part, as the guard who checked the papers when Peter Lupis and what's his name drove into San Costa, or whatever that place was called?

 

[Spock's Barber]

Rodney Dangerfield.