William Shatner on Good Night America in 1975
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The audience costumes are fantastic. Is it just me or is it early Shatner putting down the fans? I think I'm looking for it so maybe I'm imagining it. That girl jumping over the desk.
Ackshually, many poodles were scalped while making his 80s wigs.
You're not thinking of Robert Reed from the Brady franchise, by any chance?
I've always thought it was a crying shame that Bill went for the "Shatner Turbo 2000". I mean, I think he looks great in this interview and wish he could have brought that look to TMP. I remember while watching TMP when it was first released how jarring it was to see both his acting AND his look so different from TOS. And since I was getting bored, I had lots of time to obsess over it.
I have watched this interview before. Yeah he took a bit of a shot at the people sitting there in the audience. He tried to sell his other projects in the interview. He thought star trek was over and was clearly worried he was permanently type cast with less future work a head. Kind of felt a little bad for him.
I think this is a good observation and I do agree. Nobody realized yet that Star Trek was well on its way to becoming an absolute phenomenon. Roddenberry may have had an inkling that something special was taking place, but it was still too early. The only thing that he and Shatner really knew is that the TV series had found a new life and a new audience in syndication. But nobody really had any idea about what was to come.
Shatner did go on to have some success in network TV. But that success was miniscule compared to what Star Trek did for him. Nimoy had some success. I loved the program "In Search Of." But, again, that isn't what Nimoy is remembered for.
I think by the time that Shatner did his famous "Get a LIfe" sketch on SNL he had a pretty good idea of the absolute phenomenon that the show, and the idea in general, had become. I think that's why he agreed to do that sketch to begin with. He knew that nothing, short of getting busted for molesting children, would knock him off the perch he was on.
Shatner did go on to have some success in network TV. But that success was miniscule compared to what Star Trek did for him. Nimoy had some success. I loved the program "In Search Of." But, again, that isn't what Nimoy is remembered for.
I think by the time that Shatner did his famous "Get a LIfe" sketch on SNL he had a pretty good idea of the absolute phenomenon that the show, and the idea in general, had become. I think that's why he agreed to do that sketch to begin with. He knew that nothing, short of getting busted for molesting children, would knock him off the perch he was on.
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