Billy Mumy in "And the Children Shall Lead!" Anthony sends Mr. Spock to the cornfield!
Who never guest starred on TOS that should have?
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Here's an idea...
Rowan & Martin's LAUGH-IN was on NBC, wasn't it? It would be hilarious to see some of their regulars appear in TOS, like Ruth Buzzi, Goldie Hawn, Henry Gibson or Lily Tomlin. And since LAUGH-IN was a replacement show for THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., maybe we could see Robert Vaughn as well.
And don't laugh, but it would be interesting to see some HEE HAW regulars appearing as colonists on some isolated planet.
Rowan & Martin's LAUGH-IN was on NBC, wasn't it? It would be hilarious to see some of their regulars appear in TOS, like Ruth Buzzi, Goldie Hawn, Henry Gibson or Lily Tomlin. And since LAUGH-IN was a replacement show for THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., maybe we could see Robert Vaughn as well.
And don't laugh, but it would be interesting to see some HEE HAW regulars appearing as colonists on some isolated planet.
"Up the Long Ladder," TOS-style.
Honor Blackman would have made a great Romulan.
Hey, if the Duke could play Genghis Khan in The Conqueror . . .
Those are pretty good.
Honor really fits right in that role.
Between the studio making noises about a lawsuit (as well as intervening with regard to his draft status, thus displaying more than a little political heft) and staring at the prospect of trying to raise a family on an Army paycheck, I can't really blame Duke for not enthusiastically running down to the recruiting office and risking a career he'd been building for around twenty years.
Agreed. Some serious thread drift here.
Bob Newhart would have made a great ship's counselor (if they had them then).
That would have been neat, an actor playing a role in two different series with the same episode title.
That would have been neat, an actor playing a role in two different series with the same episode title.
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^And the use of that episode title was a deliberate Prisoner homage.
But there is a Joseph Cotten-William Shatner connection of sorts: Cotten played the sheriff in White Comanche.
It was the show that bumped Star Trek to 10:00pm Friday nights (causing Roddenberry to walk, etc, etc). So you at least know why no one was invited to guest in Trek's third season (Laugh-In's first season).
Desilu studios tried to call them, but they kept getting some salesman when dialing BR549.
Yevetha
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Hee Haw was a CBS show, so that wasn't gonna happen.
Although, CBS, in keeping with its long tradition of picking up NBC castoffs and turning them into hits, was interested in picking up Star Trek for a fourth season, provided Nimoy was still available (unfortunately, Leonard was in such a hurry to get the hell away from Star Trek that he signed with Mission: Impossible the first chance he got...oops).
Although, CBS, in keeping with its long tradition of picking up NBC castoffs and turning them into hits, was interested in picking up Star Trek for a fourth season, provided Nimoy was still available (unfortunately, Leonard was in such a hurry to get the hell away from Star Trek that he signed with Mission: Impossible the first chance he got...oops).
Did Uhura speak french?!
He was going to be Bele in a sequel to "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" planned for the fourth season.
No, they were going to cast Maurice Evans as a similarly named character and have him quote Shakespeare a lot.
(We're doing '66 Batman Riddler allusions, in case anyone's confused.)
I'll second Barbara Stanwyck. She was 58 when she moved from movies into television on Big Valley in 1965. She would have brought the same level of class to TOS that Jean Simmons brought to Norah Satie during TNG's Drumhead. I wouldn't dare put her under alien appliances. Though, If I could skip the mini-skant and put her in Number Ones pants, I could see her as a Starfleet Commodore in any of the TOS episodes. 1960's sexism be damned.
Or perhaps recasting of guest roles. Just suggesting alternate spins on the original stories by changing gender. Stanwyck as Sandoval, head of the colony on Omicron Ceti III, from This Side of Paradise. Perhaps Stanwyck as Flint from Requiem for Methuselah. Giving Flint an entirely different Earth history. And a different sensibility for what constitutes companionship? Would this sophisticated woman prefer Spock over Kirk?
Or perhaps recasting of guest roles. Just suggesting alternate spins on the original stories by changing gender. Stanwyck as Sandoval, head of the colony on Omicron Ceti III, from This Side of Paradise. Perhaps Stanwyck as Flint from Requiem for Methuselah. Giving Flint an entirely different Earth history. And a different sensibility for what constitutes companionship? Would this sophisticated woman prefer Spock over Kirk?
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