I know Liberace parodied himself in Batman, but in ST....sorry I just can't see him in any episode.
Which Potential Guest Star Would Have Killed A ST Episode?
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Trelane.I know Liberace parodied himself in Batman, but in ST....sorry I just can't see him in any episode.
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.
I'm not sure what the intent of this all is, if the object is to throw out names of people who were primarily known as comedians at the time. TOS generally cast actors with a history of theatrical work and 1950s dramatic television. Of all the guest actors, Frank Gorshin is the only one I can think of primarily known for comedy at the time, but he had done dramatic work. His showing up was when Freiberger was calling the shots anyway.
Here's some more ridiculous examples, since it seems to be what the thread's about-- Jim Nabors, Jerry Van Dyke, Milton Berle, Pinky Lee, Stanley Myron Handleman, the Smothers Brothers, Don Knotts, Avery Schreiber, etc.
I'm not sure what the intent of this all is, if the object is to throw out names of people who were primarily known as comedians at the time. TOS generally cast actors with a history of theatrical work and 1950s dramatic television. Of all the guest actors, Frank Gorshin is the only one I can think of primarily known for comedy at the time, but he had done dramatic work. His showing up was when Freiberger was calling the shots anyway.
Here's some more ridiculous examples, since it seems to be what the thread's about-- Jim Nabors, Jerry Van Dyke, Milton Berle, Pinky Lee, Stanley Myron Handleman, the Smothers Brothers, Don Knotts, Avery Schreiber, etc.
I know Liberace parodied himself in Batman, but in ST....sorry I just can't see him in any episode.
Not even as ... wait for it ... Trelane!
Update: Sorry, Geoff beat me to the punch. Dagnabbit!
Actually, didn't they try to get Milton Berle for A Piece of the Action?
Correction: http://www.startrek.com/article/spinrads-long-lost-star-trek-script-found
Or how about Sonny Bono as Adam in "The Way to Eden," and Cher as Irina Galliulin? (Oh, wait -- that epsiode already sucked.)
Right! That's exactly what I mean.
Ignore the Herbert, brother. He does not reach.
I know, right? I mean who could note like:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNQYHvhnms[/yt]
Classic!
When I saw Jane Wyatt show up in "Amok Time" during first run, my reaction was "Hey, it's the mom from Father Knows Best!"
And Niles Baris was Patty Duke's dad and Dobie Gillis' teacher.
That's great! I would have died laughing when Hitchcock got out of the shuttlecraft in that same black suit, black tie and white shirt that he wore forever.
Don Knotts could have been cast-against-type as the booming Guardian of Forever voice.
He could be pretty dramatic: "Your ship, your world, all that you knew has been nipped. Nipped in the bud!"
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