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Did anyone notice the Bissell vacuum cleaner commercial during the show
QUESTION: Did anyone notice the Bissell vacuum cleaner commercial during the show?
ANSWER: Of course, Whit Bissell was one of Hollywood's greatest character actors.
Usually playing doctors, scientists or bankers, he appeared in literally
hundreds of films and TV shows. He was a favorite of both Anthony Mann and
Irwin Allen!! And he was a genre favorite who acted in Invasion of the Body
Snatchers, The Time Machine, I Was A Teenage Werewolf/Frankenstein and many
more. He was well-liked in Hollywood, and died a couple of years ago at the
Motion Picture Home. His role is pretty small in this episode, but it's
always nice to see him.
Same with William Schallert, who didn't play many bad guys. He already had
regular gigs on Dobie Gillis, The Patty Duke Show, and Get Smart by the time
this show aired. Turner Classic Movies is showing another of his bad guy
roles in The Man from Planet X later this month.
William Campbell had appeared on the show before as Trelane. It's obvious
Kirk and Koloth had met before, and I'm sure there was an interesting
backstory there. I don't know if Koloth has ever appeared in any of the
Trek novels or comics, but I'll bet the first meeting of these two captains
would be pretty entertaining. Campbell also had a successful B-movie career
appearing in a number of Roger Corman films like The Young Racers. His
brother Robert was a prolific writer at the time, and was nominated for an
Oscar for co-writing the Lon Chaney bio Man of a Thousand Faces with James
Cagney.
Paul Baxley, who gets a few lines here, was the show's stunt coordinator, I
believe. He's one of the most famous stuntmen in the business, and has a
brother or a son named Craig Baxley, who was also a well-known stunt
coordinator and is now a director. Paul directed a few TV shows such as
Dukes of Hazzard.
During Kirk's first appearance in Lurry's office, Bissell steps on one of
Shatner's lines as he is handing him the quadrotriticale. It's sort of a
punchline, so I'm surprised Pevney didn't reshoot it. Bissell appears to be
adlibbing it.
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