From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 08:32:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.155006.9238@i88.isc.com> jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.211126.10616@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>Thanks to all those e-mailing me on the etymology posting about the movies
>>and TV.  There are a few corrections and additions:
>...
>>The movie City Beneath the Sea starred Stuart Whitman and Robert Wagner, and
>>featured Robert Colbert, who played one of the three crew members on the ship
>>in Amazon Women on the Moon.  (The others are Laird Creagar and Joey Travolta,
>>who was carrying the monkey.)  The movie was apparently an attempt to recycle
>>some of the special effects (and actors) of both the movie and TV version
>>of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; all three are Irwin Allen productions.
>
>You forgot to mention that Robert Colbert was also one of the stars
>of "The Time Tunnel"; one of the early episodes was set on board
>the maiden voyage of the Titanic, which was of course at sea...

Yes, another Irwin Allen production, but undersea isn't on the sea.

And you forgot to mention James Darren of the Time Tunnel and also Whit
Bissell, who was also in at least one of the other Irwin Allen items.  James
Darren is also remembered for his top-40 hit Goodbye Cruel World (I'm off to
join the Circus; please Mr. Barnum, save a place for me).

Robert Colbert was a regular on the Soap The Young and the Restless until
he was replaced by Jerry Douglas who appeared in the Outer Limits episode
about the Martian sand dragons with Adam West of TV Batman fame and also
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (and Mara of the Wilderness, a movie that Scheuer
forgot to list in his book!), and featuring Ted Knight years before he was
in the Mary Tyler Moore show as Ted Baxter.

Since we have already mentioned StarTrek in this thread, it is noteworthy
that William Shatner not only appeared on the Outer Limits with Malachi
Throne and the plotline revolves around a "Project Vulcan", but also in
the famous Twilight Zone episode about the monster on the plane's wing that
no one else ever sees.  This was also redone for the Twilight Zone movie which
had some SNL members in it, and was also parodied on SNL with Martin Short and
Jesse Jackson, who walks off the set refusing to finish the skit.

Also, Leonard Nimoy of StarTrek is known for various projects, from directing
movies (even non-ST ones), starring in later versions of the original but
revamped Mission Impossible, costarring in the remake of the Invasion of the
Bodysnatchers, etc., but is anyone familiar with his earlier work as about
fifth lead in a serialized space thriller called either Satan's Satellites
or Zombies of the Stratosphere.  I think the original is the series from
1952 (!) and a somewhat later pared-down feature film version is the other.

Martin Landau appeared in an Outer Limits episode as a mutant (The Man
Who Was Never Born), and later Mission Impossible with Barbara Bain, and
later still with Barbara Bain in Space: 1999.  (And more recently in the
movie about Tucker.)  Nick Tate of Space: 1999 appeared in the ST:TNG episode
as the flakey pilot who strands Picard and Wesley on a desert planet where 
there is this shielded fountain and device which eventually wraps Tate up.

There was an early '70's TV show called Starlost which starred Keir Dullea
of 2001, which was produced by SFX person Douglass Trumbull, who did the
effects for 2001, Starlost, and also some of the StarTrek movies.  One of
the guest stars was Walter Koenig who plays Chekov on ST:TOS and movies.  I
believe there is a "movie" shown infrequently which is actually a compilation
of several episodes from the video-taped series reprocessed to look more like
film.

cj "who needs a cascade?" l