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Richard Boone Born June 18th, 1917.

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[JohnHopper]

BIRTHDAY MEMORIAL • MARTIN LANDAU (June 20, 1928-July 15, 2017)

Martin Landau Biography
Martin James Landau (June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American actor, acting coach, producer, and editorial cartoonist. His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959). His career breakthrough came with leading roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and Space: 1999 (1975–1977). Continue to read at Wikipedia.

THE WILD WILD WEST SEASON 1

Episode #11
“The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen” (1965)
creator: Michael Garrison
producer: Fred Freiberger
associate producer: Richard Landau
production associates: Gene Fowler, Jr. and Leonard Katzman
assistant to the producer: Don Leonard
story editor: Preston Wood
writer: Stanford Whitmore
director: Irving J. Moore
director of photography: Ted Voigtlander
composer: Richard Markowitz (stock)
theme music: Richard Markowitz
regulars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin
guests: Martin Landau, Joan Huntington, Shary Marshall, Ted Markland, Toian Matchinga, Gregg Martell, Marianna Case, Nelson Olmsted, Don Rizzan, Ray Kellogg

Quote:
“Nothing will stop us now. In the next three days, all the power in this part of the country will be past into the hands of the right people… right thinking people. (…) And we will begin the establishment of a firm, orderly, disciplined government.”
—General Grimm (actor Martin Landau) talking to his men in the test arena.

Summary:
After his meeting with Lola Bracer (actress Toian Matchinga), the niece of Senator Rawls (actor Nelson Olmsted), in the Mission Hotel in San Francisco, James West heads to Mars, Nevada, to investigate on her fiancé and activist Jack Talbot (actor Ted Markland) who joins the training camp of the fanatical and self-proclaimed General Grimm (actor Martin Landau)—who owns a private army with a diehard Spartan doctrine—that has designs on the Southwestern United States! His tactics are simple: superiority of individual soldiers, supported by subterfuge, will win the day, ensuring the land is ruled by the ‘right kind of people.’ If James West and Artemus Gordon cannot infiltrate Mars military academy and put a stop to his plans, the United States may lose a good chunk of its land…

Comments:
That episode will influence the season 3 “The Night of the Legion of Death” (see the separatist leaning, the private army, the kiss shield strategy), also guest starring Toian Matchinga. There’s one editing mistake or a rough jump cut that omits one brief moment during the end of Act 2: Talbot yells to alert his people, a few seconds later, a change of angle shot occur and Talbot is dead in the hot box! In the revolutionary and military camp, women are equal to men: see the case of commanding officer Sgt. Musk and, especially, during the tag scene when she is desperate to have lost her unique status. Oddly enough, the militants raise their arms and fists to salute like bolsheviks and, moreover, wear a Karakul (a Russian ambassador hat). Pay attention to the name of the town: Mars, Nevada; Mars is the Roman god of war! The detail of the trident weapon is again a reference to Roman mythology: Neptune, and, in the test arena, the combatants reminds the gladiators. The coup in a military Fort plot was already used in a famous Rawhide season 3 episode entitled “Incident of the Running Man”. As in the infiltration-oriented “Night of the Casual Killer”, one insider unmasks Jim. During Act 3, Artie makes a clay work and finishes up a prototype of a M16 machine gun. Actor Robert Conrad does martial arts during season 1. The music editor tracks many times an ominous martial cue from a Rawhide score entitled “Six Weeks to Bent Fork” by Hugo Friedhofer and you can listen to it in the following scenes: Jim enters Mars military academy and witnesses the combat training of the militants in Act 1, Jim hides from Otto during the outside training and Jim uses the kiss shield strategy on Sgt. Musk in Act 2, Jim hides on the roof of the barracks, watches the search party, travels from roof to roof, lands on the ground, uses a horse to head to the test arena and finally after winning the duel, the armed militants follow Jim with their rifles in Act 4. During the final showdown in the test arena, we clearly see the stuntman posing as Martin Landau. You will witness a television connection to a British spy series: the season 4 “The Danger Makers” from The Avengers because we see a secret organization of kamikaze renegade army types.

The Gadgets:
Inside the train and at Act 3, Artie uses a remote-controlled pair of loaded revolvers planted on a table. At the start of Act 4, to avoid the firing squad, Jim uses a tabacco bag filled with explosives that he lights and launches at the armed militants as a diversion to run away.

Jim’s Covers:
At first, Jim keeps his identity and, from the prologue, he fights like a tiger against three henchmen—among them, Otto—in the elevator and in the fourth floor hallway of a big hotel when Lola Bracer shouts and interrupts the brawl. Notice the typical fancy jacket with a dark velvet collar initiated by third producer Fred Freiberger that he wears. Jim as a green recruit then joins up Mars military academy and fails to antagonize two members: the sentry and Sgt. Musk. All militants in the barracks suspect Jim. He then trains in the art of combat with his comrads. Jim stays away from Otto who comes out of the headquarters and gets well with militant Jenny in order to release Talbot from the hot box punishment. Militants watch Jim from the top of the test arena. Jim is tested in close combat at the bottom, meaning two armed militants—one with a trident and a net and one with a sword—and one martial arts militant fight him. After winnning, Jim is accepted by General Grimm. Later that night, Jim asks Jenny to go to the train to alert Artie about a coup in a military Fort. On his way to free Talbot, Sgt. Musk orders Jim to go to the Canteen and enjoy himself when Otto comes out from the barracks so Jim uses the kiss shield strategy on Sgt. Musk to avoid Otto! When Jim releases Talbot, he yells to alert the militants that Jim is a spy! Talbot dies, the men and General Grimm arrive and Jim explains the incident. One minute later, Otto spots Jim and confesses to General Grimm that he is the secret service agent. After searching the office of the headquarters and being caught in the act by General Grim, Jim is told he will be executed by a firing squad at dawn! The day after, Jim is escorted by two armed guards to the execution pole and Sgt. Musk reads him the charges when he asks her to get a last request. He rolls a cigarette from a small bag of tabacco given by Artie. He lights the fuse of the bag and launches it at the firing squad to create a smoke screen and flees. Jim hides on the roof of the barracks and ends up in the test arena where the militants and Sgt. Musk wait for him and point their rifles at him. Enter General Grimm! Jim challenges him and asks a duel. At first, General Grimm refuses but Jim tricks him and toys with his pride. General Grimm removes the scabbard of his riding whip that reveals a sword. Jim disarms him. A militant throws him a lance but Jim succeeds in breaking it. General Grimm orders a weapon to Sgt. Musk and a militant throws him a trident. General Grimm tightens Jim up with the stick of the weapon and pushes him against a long blade coming out from the wall. Jim quickly turns over and Grimm is impaled and dies. The armed militants follow Jim with their rifles and give up.

Artie’s Covers:
Artie wait for in the train in the first half of the narrative. From Act 3, Artie receives the visit of the two Mars impostors: Jenny disguise as the civilian wife of a soldier and George as a calvary trooper. Jenny stands for Jim and pretends that Artie is General Grimm’s head of intelligence but George doesn’t believe it and threatens Artie with his handgun. Thanks to a floor remote control, Artie activates with his foot a pair of loaded revolvers planted on a table and pointed in the direction of George. Jenny passes him the informations about Jim. Artie ties up George and gives Jenny his handgun and leaves. Appearing as tin soldier-like Patriots member Colonel Cross in the canteen to join up, Artie introduces himself to General Grimm who tests him with a tough ordeal executed by Jim who fires his revolver at Artie carrying an axe in front of his face. Jim succeeds in and Artie is spared. Sgt. Musk congratulates Artie and female private Cloris gives him a reward kiss for his bravery! Jim and Artie trespass the office of the headquarters and search secret documents when General Grimm catches them in the act. Artie escapes from the room in a hurry by jumping out of the window!

The Government Officials:
Senator Rawls warns Jim about the political activist fiancé of his niece at the start of the prologue. Cavalry Captain Sandy O’Brien meets his old friend Artie at the train in Act 2.

Review:
It’s an exciting infiltration narrative in the line of the Trojan horse strategy and a strong political lampoon on Mussolini’s Italian black shirts throughout a separatist and putschist leader and his irregular army. This is one of the best episodes under the regime of third producer Fred Freiberger thanks to the series’ best director: Irving J. Moore. This is the second of a secret society/political subversive troika initiated with “The Night of the Dancing Death” (in both Jim infiltrates an organization, escapes from his execution, fights the almighty leader in a special room and in both the social standing of woman is tackled) and will end with “The Night of the Freebooters”. Actor Martin Landau shines as a first-rate guest who remains one of the most memorable foes of season 1 along with Nehemiah Persoff (“The Night of the Inferno”), J.D. Cannon (“The Night of the Deadly Bed”), John Dehner (“Night of the Casual Killer” and “The Night of the Steel Assassin”), Peter Mark Richman (“The Night of the Dancing Death”), Leslie Nielsen (“The Night of the Double-Edged Knife”), Lloyd Bochner (“The Night of the Puppeteer”).

The Book:
The Wild Wild West, the Series
by Susan E. Kesler
foreword by producer Bruce Lansbury
(Downey, Arnett Press, 1988, 251 pages, ISBN 0-929360-00-1)

The DVD Set:
The prints of season 1 are not restored and still look good enough. Unfortunately, the inferior print of this episode looks rather terrible and needs a serious update because the picture quality is not sharp and the contrasts are unbalanced. A blu-ray edition is really needed and with real English subtitles and not cheap closed captions!

Guest Actor Notes:
Martin Landau was in the same promotion as Steve McQueen when he entered the Actor’s Studio in New York; he guest starred in two Steve McQueen’s vehicles: an episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive entitled “The Monster” as greedy elephant trainer Khorba and the western film: Nevada Smith (1966). He was best-remembered as spy Leonard in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959). In the late 1950’s, the first people he met in Hollywood were New Wave director Monte Hellman (who taught Landau the art of photography through a 24x36 camera) and writer-producer Bruce Geller, creator of Mission: Impossible. In 1964, he refused the part of Mr. Spock for Star Trek produced at Desilu. In 1966, Landau accepted the Desilu part of master of disguise Rollin Hand for the pilot of Mission: Impossible which remained his greatest achievement for television and in which he displayed a wide array of vivid performances. In 1974 and after his Rollin Hand part, he played Commander John Koenig, his second iconic character, in the British science fiction series Space: 1999. Landau’s ability to play so many picturesque characters may be attributed to his drawer background. He previously appeared in three of the greatest anthologies of all time (twice in The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, twice in The Outer Limits), in two major Sixties espionage series (I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and on countless western series like Maverick (the season 2 “High Card Hangs”), Sugarfoot (the season 2 “The Ghost”), Lawman (the season 1 “The Outcast”), Tales of Wells Fargo (the season 3 “Doc Holliday”), Rawhide (the season 1 “Incident Below the Brazos”), Wanted: Dead or Alive (the season 2 “The Monster”), Johnny Ringo (the season 1 “The Derelict”), Tate (“Tigrero”), Wagon Train (the season 4 “The Cathy Eckhart Story”), Bonanza (the season 2 “The Gift”), Outlaws (the season 1 “The Avenger”), The Rifleman (the season 4 “The Vaqueros”), The Law and Mr. Jones (the season 1 “Lincoln”), The Tall Man (the season 1 “Dark Moment” and the season 2 “The Black Robe”), The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (“The Day of the Killer”), A Man Called Shenandoah (“The Locket”), The Big Valley (the season 1 “The Way to Kill a Killer”), Branded (the season 2 “This Stage of Fools”), Gunsmoke (the season 12 “The Goldtakers” which is the best episode of that season all the way!).

Stock music:
“The Night of A Thousand Eyes” by Richard Markowitz
“Night of the Casual Killer” by Robert Drasnin
“The Night of the Inferno” by Richard Markowitz
“The Night of the Sudden Death” by Richard Markowitz
“The Night of the Deadly Bed” by Robert Drasnin
“The Night That Terror Stalked The Town” by Richard Markowitz
“Six Weeks to Bent Fork” by Hugo Friedhofer from Rawhide


The Wild Wild West | The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen | General Grimm interrogates Talbot

The Wild Wild West | The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen | General Grimm talks to Sgt. Musk

The Wild Wild West | The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen | General Grimm explains his Doctrine to Jim

The Wild Wild West | The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen | General Grimm challenges Artie

The Wild Wild West | The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen | General Grimm faces Jim in the Test Arena

Pictures of General Grimm (actor Martin Landau).

 

[JohnHopper]

BIRTHDAY MEMORIAL • MARTIN LANDAU (June 20, 1928-July 15, 2017)

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE SEASON 2

Episode #11
“The Council, Part I” (1967)
producer: Joseph Gantman
executive producer: Bruce Geller
associate producers: John W. Rogers and Robert F. O’Neill
executive in charge of production: Herbert F. Solow
script consultants: William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter
script supervisor: Allan Greedy
writers: William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter
director: Paul Stanley
cinematographer: Michel Hugo
composer: Jerry Fielding
theme music: Lalo Schifrin

Quote:
“I only get the makeup. You get to remove all my makeup in front of three men who will kill you if they see what you’re doing.”
—Rollin Hand (actor Martin Landau) talking to Cinnamon Carter.

Tape scene:
Jim drives his blue convertible car, stops it and parks. He enters a building and climbs the first floor and stops to push a ring button. He steps into a recording studio and locks the door. He then heads to the control room, opens a record player in which he finds an A4 envelop. He activates the device and listens to a vinyl.

Summary:
To get the Syndicate’s records of their illegal Zurich bank accounts and sink the underworld, the IMF poses as Senate Committee agents (Jim and Barney) to provoke big shot Frank Wayne (actor Paul Stevens). They abduct him in a sordid hotel (Bedford Hotel, room 426), shows him the corpse of courier Jimmy Bibo (actor Nick Colasanto) and beats him for a full confession. Rollin, disguised as Wayne, guns Barney down in front of his gangster pals and run.

Cast and details:
• Head mobster Frank Wayne played by Paul Stevens
• Mob delegate Vito Lugana played by Vincent Gardenia
• Mob delegate Al Morgan played by Paul Lambert
• Corrupted Zurich courier Jimmy Bibo played by Nick Colasanto
• Laconic hitman Johnny played by Robert Phillips
• Wayne’s attorney Cheever played by Vic Perrin
• Wayne’s girlfriend Ginny played by Joan Staley

Guest IMFer
Featuring guest IMFer agent plastic surgeon Dr. Emerson Reese (actor Stuart Nisbet).

Jim Phelps
Jim Phelps poses as New York-based Senate Committee’s new chief investigator Carl J. Daly.

Barney Collier
Barney poses as a US Marshall in order to add a bug in Wayne’s furniture: a small statue in a bookcase.

Willy Armitage
Willy poses as a policeman who keeps room 426.

Rollin Hand
Rollin poses and disguises as gangster Frank Wayne. First, Rollin studies his part thanks to Jimmy Bibo’s confession: see the mannerism training in Act 3. Rollin fashions a face mask while watching Wayne through a two-way mirror and listens to his voice through a pair of earphones.

Characters’ Associations

Jim and Barney
They trespass the living-room of Frank Wayne, search and mess the room up. Wayne threatens to get Jim kill. On their way home and on the car, Jim and Barney listen to Wayne’s living-room conversations. Later on and at the exit of a building, Jim orders Wayne to follow him to a committee of the U.S. Senate and Barney plants a subpoena on his upper pocket jacket when hitman Johnny reacts. Barney masters and disarms him. They drive Wayne to a sordid cheap motel and let him see the corpse of Bibo covered with some earth. Jim interrogates and slaps Wayne and eventually leaves the room to join back Rollin and Cinnamon in the next room. Barney passes him a cup of coffee and Wayne disarms him and holds him prisoner. On his way to head to the door with Barney, Rollin in disguise neck chops him from the rear.

Jim, Barney, Willy and Dr. Emerson Reese
They all watch the forced burial of punished Jimmy Bibo who digs the ground with a shovel and under the close surveillance of hitman Johnny. Bibo is hit and driven unconscious by Johnny who covers him with some earth: end of Act 2 and start of Act 3. Jim orders Willy to throw three stones to distract and to make Johnny go home. Jim and Willy dig the earth to get the body of Bibo. Resurrected from the dead by the IMF (thanks to a device called the aerator and Dr. Reese’s drug) and coerced to inform them about Wayne’s behaviour (smoking, talking, walking, etc...) in order to help Rollin in his part.

Jim, Rollin and Dr. Emerson Reese
In the New York apartment, Jim terrorizes and threatens to let Jimmy Bibo die so that he talks about Wayne. Rollin listens to Bibo and memorizes the idiosyncrasy of Wayne. In the end, Dr. Emerson Reese injects a sedative to Bibo.

Willy and Barney
Willy and Barney customizes the rooms of the Bedford Hotel with a two-way mirror so that Rollin paints his latex mask.

Rollin and Cinnamon
In the New York apartment of the IMF, Rollin briefs Cinnamon about her function in the charade to come. Rollin and Cinnamon prepare a mold for a face mask.

The Mob
Wayne and his team (Vito and Al) judge Jimmy Bibo, suspected of stealing money, while hitman Johnny shaves Wayne. Bibo is threatened by Wayne who uses his razor and cuts his coat. Wayne plants a white rose on his coat as a sign of conviction and Johnny leads him to the execution place: a clearing in the estate. From Act 4, Johnny receives a call from Wayne and, accompanied by a silent henchman, rushes to the sordid hotel and disguise as a janitor and beat up Willy as a cop and cuffs him in the room. Willing to knock Willy with his handgun, Rollin-as-Wayne is stopped by Barney who gets shot by Wayne. They all leave in a hurry and resume to the office building! The partners of Wayne orders him to leave the country tonight but Rollin-as-Wayne refuses!

Comments:
During the apartment scene and sat on a swivel chair, Jim shows his part 2 gadget: a false back in suit with a scalp. After “The Slave”, this is the second two-parter of season 2. Actor Vic Perrin returns from the season 1 “Shock” and is known as the Control Voice of The Outer Limits. Jimmy Bibo reminds Augie Gorman from the season 1 “The Ransom” as well as Jim’s threatening mood reminds Dan Briggs. The building of Wayne is also used for Intertect Ltd. on Mannix. And the estate of Wayne is also used in a season 1 episode of Mannix entitled “Make It Like It Never Happened”. Paul Stevens is dubbed by Martin Landau’s voice. Find a brand new files for Cinnamon, Rollin and Barney. A brand new file for Cinnamon is seen in the season 2 “The Seal”: Lady beautiful. Beyond the plot, the IMF plays God and resurrect a freshly buried corpse which reminds another episodic series from CBS: the season 5 episode of Rawhide entitled “Incident of The Four Horsemen”.

Review:
This is perhaps’ the greatest Syndicate plot ever thanks to writers William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter. This is a highlight for actor Martin Landau who plays two parts that are central to this cruel film noir-gangster-doppelgänger story. This is the preparation’s first part. Two scenes are among Mission: Impossible’s most violent ones: Wayne is armed with a shaving razor and cuts Bibo’s suit, the burial of Jimmy Bibo who digs his own grave. The episode is fancy thanks to director Paul Stanley’s inspired film-making. So good that Paramount has released it as a feature film: Mission Impossible versus the Mob (1969). This is the first score by the legendary Jerry Fielding but contains stock music too.

Guest Actor Notes:
In the late 1950’s, Landau met writer-producer Bruce Geller hence Geller’s creation of the character of Rollin Hand that Geller first called Martin Land. He didn’t appear in the following Mission: Impossible episodes: “Fake Out”, “The Short Tail Spy” (both from season 1). Mission: Impossible’s season 1 earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series. During the first season of Mission: Impossible, he was only credited as Special Guest Star and from season 2, he became a regular character and therefore appeared in the main titles.

Stock music:
“Trek” by Gerald Fried
“Memory” by Lalo Schifrin
“The Survivors” by Walter Scharf
“Pilot” by Lalo Schifrin


Mission: Impossible | The Council, Part I | Main Titles/Trailer

Mission: Impossible | The Council, Part I | The Acting Training of Rollin

Mission: Impossible | The Council, Part I | Rollin prepares the Face Mask

Pictures of Spy Rollin Hand (actor Martin Landau).

Posters from Mission: Impossible Versus the Mob (1969).

 

[JohnHopper]

BIRTHDAY MEMORIAL • MARTIN LANDAU (June 20, 1928-July 15, 2017)

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE SEASON 2

Episode #12
“The Council, Part II” (1967)
producer: Joseph Gantman
executive producer: Bruce Geller
associate producers: John W. Rogers and Robert F. O’Neill
executive in charge of production: Herbert F. Solow
script consultants: William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter
script supervisor: Allan Greedy
writers: William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter
director: Paul Stanley
cinematographer: Michel Hugo
composer: Jerry Fielding (stock)
theme music: Lalo Schifrin

Quote:
“No one’s gonna tell me what to do. No more. From now on, we do things my way. Do you understand? My way.”
—Rollin-as-Wayne (actor Martin Landau) threatening the mob council.

Part 1 preview:
A 4 minutes 33 seconds trailer of the previous part including the tape and the apartment scene.

Summary:
While Dr. Reese changes the face of the real Frank Wayne (actor Paul Stevens), Cinnamon unmasks piece by piece Rollin for $5,000 in front of three mobsters: Al, Vito, Johnny. Rollin is now Frank Wayne and photographs secret fiscal documents on the sly. Jim’s car is booby trapped with sticks of dynamite, put in the tailpipe, in order to erase him from the map. After Rollin-as-Wayne threatens the council’s members with a locked pistol, big shot Jack Rycher (actor Eduardo Ciannelli) order Johnny (actor Robert Phillips) to execute him.

Cast and details:
• Big Shot Jack Rycher played by Eduardo Ciannelli
• Mob delegate Vito Lugana played by Vincent Gardenia
• Mob delegate Al Morgan played by Paul Lambert
• Laconic hitman Johnny played by Robert Phillips
• Wayne’s attorney Cheever played by Vic Perrin
• Wayne’s girlfriend Ginny played by Joan Staley

Guest IMFer
Featuring guest IMFer agent plastic surgeon Dr. Emerson Reese (actor Stuart Nisbet).

Cinnamon Carter
In her office, Cinnamon poses as makeup artist Cora who uses a bogus sillicon air pistol to reshap the face of Rollin-as-Wayne during Act 1 and avoids the death sentence at the last minute after the plastic operation at the start of Act 2. Before Rollin-as-Wayne leaves, Cinnamon gives him a suitcase tha contains a portable ultraviolet lamp with goggles for his skin that hides a safecracking unit.

Rollin Hand
Rollin poses as Frank Wayne and saves Cinnamon from being eliminated by Johnny who eventually pays her $5,000 for her services and uses a safecracking device (a motorized pulley hidden inside his skin treatment suitcase that also contain a mini camera with a flashlight) and carries ultraviolet goggles to save him from his inability to close the automated bookcase that hides the safe while Al and Vito knock at the door! Armed with a locked pistol, Rollin-as-Wayne fails to shoot big shot Jack Rycher who orders Johnny to execute him!

Jim Phelps
Jim-as-Daly burst into the office of Wayne, threatens and slaps Rollin-as-Wayne when Johnny stops and strangles him with a hot towel and punches him in the stomach! Inside his car, Jim wears a false back with a scalp of himself and opens the car’s floor and the mobile manhole cover to escape into the sewer and trigger the explosion safely via a remote control in Act 4.

Willy Armitage
Willy poses as a blue collar for the Department of Public Works and replaces a heavy manhole by a light one that spins.

Barney Collier
Barney makes a hole in the floor of Jim’s car, customizes and synchronizes two elevators to substitute Rollin’s lookalike for the outcome: nice use of split screen. Notice Barney close-up elevator footage culled from the season 2 “The Widow”.

Characters’ Associations

Barney and Jim
In a warehouse, they customize a car.

Jim, Willy and Barney
In the elevator of the mafia building, Jim and Willy bring back the unconscious body of Wayne disguised as Rollin and Barney operates the cabin and, later on, injects him a drug to awake him.

The Mob
At the end of the beauty operation, Vito orders Johnny to gun Cinnamon-as-Cora down. Back at the office, Vito tests the girlfriend of Wayne and makes her meet Rollin-as-Wayne to witness her visceral reactions. Despite the refusal of Vito and Al, Rollin-as-Wayne orders Johnny to kill Jim-as-Daly. Furious to learn that Johnny got rid of Jim-as-Day, Vito and Al take pistols and head to the office of Rollin-as-Wayne to shoot him straight but he reminds them that only a council can judge him. After failing to gun the big shot down, Rollin-as-Wayne is sentenced to death by Jack Rycher who puts him a white rose on the lapel of his jacket as a death sign and throws him out of the room like garbage when Johnny follows him. Rollin-as-Wayne escapes in the elevator for the body exchange while Johnny takes the stairs. After killing the real Wayne in disguise, Johnny drags his body to the trunk of his car when the police arrives in the basement and one cop shoots Johnny with a pump action shotgun.

Comments:
This Part 2 features a suspenseful and intricate reverse plastic surgery scene performed by Cinnamon during Act 1 that includes a phony injection of procaine as an anesthetic, the removal of a latex face mask by adding a cream, the sham of dying hair and the addition of blue contact lenses but actually Rollin removes his brown ones. This fancy episode will influence two season 3 episodes to come: the two-parter Syndicate saga “The Contender” (also directed by Paul Stanley and written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter) and “The Cardinal” (also guest starring Paul Stevens).

Review:
It’s a fabulous Part 2, especially during its final Act and stronger than Part 1 which is odd. The doppelgänger theme works very well and Landau’s performance is memorable. The most violent scene remains: Jim-as-Daly attacks Rollin-as-Wayne in his office and Johnny brutally fights back! The death of Frank Wayne is depicted through Wayne’s eyes in a realistic way, i.e., subjective p.o.w.! Now, the question that comes to mind is how can Rollin continue working on the US ground, knowing that the Mafia has judged him for treason? Despite Fielding’s original music from Part I, it contains stock music.

Stock music:
“Pilot” by Lalo Schifrin
“The Council, Part I” by Jerry Fielding
“The Survivors” by Walter Scharf


Mission: Impossible | The Council, Part II | Main Titles/Trailer

Mission: Impossible | The Council, Part II | Rollin-as-Wayne spares Cinnamon-as-Cora

Mission: Impossible | The Council, Part II | Rollin-as-Wayne fails to be shot by Vito and Al

Mission: Impossible | The Council, Part II | Rollin-as-Wayne fails to gun Jack Rycher down

Mission: Impossible | The Council, Part II | Wayne-as-Rollin is gunned down by Johnny

Pictures of Spy Rollin Hand as Gangster Frank Wayne (actor Martin Landau).

 

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Just a mini tribute to Jacqueline Scott. Born June 25th, 1931.
Best known by me for playing Richard Kimble's sister on THE FUGITIVE.

 

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Jamie Farr (July 1, 1934) 90th Birthday Tribute
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Jamie Farr (born Jameel Joseph Farah; July 1, 1934) is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Corporal Klinger, a soldier who tried getting discharged from the army by cross-dressing, on the CBS sitcom M*A*S*H. After M*A*S*H, Farr reprised the role of Klinger for AfterMASH and appeared both in small roles on popular shows such as The Love Boat and as a host or panelist on game shows including Battle of the Network Stars. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985… Continue @ Wikipedia

Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Jamie Farr as Santini























We Wish Jamie Farr Continued Good Health On His 90th Birthday!!​

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Continued from May 4th - The Gary Lockwood 87th Birthday Tribute: Gunsmoke: The Raid: Part 1

Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904-June 12, 1980) Birthday Memorial

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Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the Western series Gunsmoke. Stone was born in Burrton, Kansas, to Herbert Stone and the former Laura Belfield. There, he graduated from Burrton High School, where he was active in the drama club, played basketball, and sang in a barbershop quartet. Stone's brother, Joe Stone, says their uncle Fred Stone, was a versatile actor who appeared on Broadway and in circuses). Although Stone had a congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy, he turned it down, choosing instead to become an actor with a stock theater company headed by Helen Ross. In 1955, one of CBS Radio's hit series, the Western Gunsmoke, was adapted for television and recast with different actors for various reasons (William Conrad was judged too obese to play Matt Dillon on camera, Georgia Ellis wasn't viewed as quite telegenic enough to portray Kitty on television, etc.). Howard McNear, the radio Doc Adams (who later played Floyd the barber on television's The Andy Griffith Show), was replaced by Stone, who gave the role a harder edge consistent with his screen portrayals. He stayed with Gunsmoke through its entire television run, with the exception of 7 episodes in 1971, when Stone required heart surgery and Pat Hingle replaced him as Dr. Chapman. Stone appeared in 604 episodes through 1975, often shown sparring in a friendly manner with co-stars Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis, who played, respectively, Chester Goode and Festus Haggen…Continue @ Wikipedia

Gunsmoke (1955-1975)

Part 1 Recap + Series Theme

S11E19 The Raid Part 2 (Jan.29.1966)

Directed by
Vincent McEveety

Writing Credits
Clyde Ware
Norman MacDonnell
John Meston
Charles Marquis Warren​

TODAY, July 5th was the birthdate of Milburn Stone, one of the great cast members of the Gunsmoke television series. He co-starred in a whopping 605 episodes, more than anyone except it’s star James Arness who appeared in 635. With 168 acting credits across 40 years, Gunsmoke was his final and most definitive. He was a superb actor and no one could have played the role of “Doc Adams” better than he did. Deservedly so, it was easily his signature role. In The Raid, Part 2, he is taken hostage by the vicious Stark Gang. The story gave him a chance to show off just how good an actor he was and he did not disappoint. Mr. Stone, I aim to do you proud today.

Stars
James Arness - Matt Dillon
Milburn Stone - Doc Adams
Amanda Blake - Kitty
Ken Curtis - Festus
Gary Lockwood - Jim Stark
John Kellogg - T.R. Stark
Percy Helton - Mr. Early
Preston Pierce - Jeff Fraley
Ted Jordan - Shiloh
Glenn Strange - Sam
Jeremy Slate - Web Fraley
Richard Jaeckel - Pence Fraley
Jim Davis - Clell Williams
Michael Fox - Hotel Clerk
Michael Conrad - Cash McLean
John Anderson - Les McConnell
William Fawcett - 1st Stage Man
Phil Chambers - 2nd Stage Man
Fred Coby - 3rd Stage Man
James Nusser - Louie Pheeters
Leonard P. Geer - 1st Posse Man

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Walter Bacone Dee Cooper Eddie Hice Bert Madrid Ed McCready Mathew McCue Robert Robinson Charles Seel Chick Sheridan Rudy Sooter George Sowards

Produced by
Philip Leacock
John Mantley
Music by
Franz Waxman
Cinematography by
Harry Stradling Jr.
Editing by
Albrecht Joseph
Casting By
James Lister
Art Direction by
Raymond Beal
Set Decoration by
Herman N. Schoenbrun
Makeup Department
Glen Alden
Kay Shea
Production Management
Robert M. Beche
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Christopher N. Seiter
Art Department
Clem Widrig
Sound Department
Jack A. Finlay
Vernon W. Kramer
Camera and Electrical Department
Richard Craig Meinardus
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Alexander Velcoff
Music Department
Gene Feldman
Script and Continuity Department
Edle Bakke
Additional Crew
Herbert DuFine
George Walsh​

When bad guys are often referred to as desperados they could have had the The Stark Gang in mind. In the conclusion of this sterling two-part classic we see how badly things can deteriorate. For Doc Adams, it’s a living nightmare trying to stay alive.

The Raid, Part 2 begins following another brazen bank heist by the gang in Dodge City during which Jeff Fraley (Preston Pierce), is severly injured. Brother Web Fraley (Jeremy Slate) is at odds with gang leader Jim Stark (Gary Lockwood) over where he should be taken for treatment.

Web Fraley: Easy, Jeff. Take it easy. It, uh... it don't look good, Jimmy. He took two right in the belly.
Jim Stark: All right, then we get him across the county line to Mullenville and leave him there. All we can do.
Web Fraley: But we really don't know them folks in Mullenville. They-they-they stayed in line as long as we was all in town, but no telling what they might do to Jeff if-if we leave him there alone.
Jim Stark: He stays in Mullenville. We go on just like planned. Ain't no changes, Web. You stay with him if you want to, but the money goes on with us.
Web Fraley: That's how you figure, Jimmy?
Jim Stark: That's how it is, Web. Long as things is done my way they come out right. (sniffs) You got a complaint?
Web Fraley: We go along with you, Jimmy, but a man can't be...
Jim Stark: A man can do what needs to be done. When he don't, something happens like that marshal showing up. Now, take your choice, Web. Mullenville or right here. Stay with him if you want to, but the rest of us and the money... it goes on just like planned.
(hoofbeats approaching)
Shiloh: Hey, Jimmy! McConnell and Pence are coming. They're bringing somebody.
Web Fraley: Yeah!
Shiloh: Oh, Web, we brought the doc with us.
Pence Fraley: Huh? How's he doing, Web?
Web Fraley: All right. Right over here, Doc, come on.
(whimpers) He caught two of 'em right in... right in the gut.
(whimpers)

Jim Stark: All right, where's Clell, what are you doing here, and who's that?
Les McConnell: I was just going to ask you what happened. We didn't know what was going on when that boy rode into town at 1:00 instead of 1:30.
Jim Stark: He came in at 1:00?
Les McConnell: That's right.
Jim Stark: Ooh, that Clell Williams. Can't anybody around here obey orders? And you... You were supposed to stay in Dodge another day.
Les McConnell: I know. Pence saw Jeff go down, lost his head. First thing I know he's running off after that doctor. So I didn't think it would be too healthy for me to stay around.
Jim Stark: All right, all right, all right. Let's get out of here. We must have left a trail a blind man could follow.
Pence Fraley: Now, hold it, Jim. The doc here, he's got to have some time to patch him up.
(scoffs)
Jim Stark: He can have all the time he wants, once we get to Mullenville.
Pence Fraley: Jeff is never going to make it to Mullenville.
Jim Stark: Web... you'd better talk some sense into his head.
Web Fraley: We're gonna stay here. Us and the doc.
Shiloh: Me, too, Jim. He's one of us. You take your half the money and go on ahead.

Jim Stark: Ain't no time for a split now. I take it all. Anybody can't get back to Missouri, they're not apt to get their share. You know the rules.
Pence Fraley: Maybe some of us figure that one of your rules ain't worth a man's life.
Jim Stark: Well, then some of you ought to figure on waiting here. Starting right now or till a posse comes breathing down your back! Okay, boys, you call it.
Les McConnell: Uh, Jimmy... Jim, you're calling the turns. We all agreed on that. But I think we can let the doctor have a little while. I can guarantee there'll be no posse leaving Dodge City for a spell.
Jim Stark: How do you guarantee that?
Les McConnell: When I saw Jeff get hurt, saw Pence going for the doctor, figured we might need a little time. So, uh... made sure we got some.

After plans didn’t quite didn’t work out as smoothly as possible, Les McConnell, (John Anderson) sets a number of fires throughout Dodge so that the gang would have ample time to make their escape.

(men shouting)
Townsmen: MAN: Everybody out of there! Come on out!
Sam: Marshal, Delmonico's is on fire! There's a fire in the stables, too!
Matt Dillon: All right, get a bunch over there and get this fire out with the bucket brigade! Take the horses out of the stables as soon as you can!
(men shouting)
(woman screams)

Doc works feverishly trying to save Jeff Fraley’s life.

Web Fraley: Doc... Here, you'd, uh, better go mighty easy in the digging, Doc. This here's our baby brother.
Pence Fraley: Well, now, Doc, you pay attention. You do the best you can for him, you hear?
Web Fraley: Yeah, that's why we brought you out here, Doc. You gotta keep him alive!

Doc Adams: Or you'll kill me? That it? Why don't you do that? Why don't you just shoot me right now? I haven't got anything to say about this at all, have I?

Web Fraley: You got everything to say. Uh... If Jeff lives, you live.
Doc Adams: All right, shut up. Take a hold of him, there. Don't let him move.
Pence Fraley: Oh, no, he's not gonna move none. No.
Jim Stark: Just how much longer they gonna be?
T.R. Stark: Take it easy, Jimmy. We'll make it out.
Jim Stark: I should have killed him. I should've killed them both. No man ever talked like that to me.
T.R. Stark: We need 'em, Jimmy boy. We're a long ways from Missouri.
Jim Stark: Well, we ain't getting no closer just setting here.
T.R. Stark: Look at McConnell. He ain't fretting. That means that Dodge City's in bad trouble. They won't be bothering us for a spell. You can count on...
Jim Stark: I still don't like it. First time anything has ever gone wrong. That boy coming in early... Clell knew better than that. You, uh, you don't suppose he killed that old man and them girls, do you?
T.R. Stark: Clell don't take to harnessing, you know, he... Lots of men don't. Keeping him out of Dodge like you done...
Jim Stark: They'll stay harnessed, the whole lot of them. That's the only way we ever got anywhere. So help me, if Clell killed them people...
T.R. Stark: That's why we need the Fraleys, Jimmy. Once we get to Oklahoma, everything will be all right.
Jim Stark: All right... All right. But once we hit the Neosho, we ain't gonna be dragging no dead weight.
T.R. Stark: Maybe the marshal got Clell and McLean. Maybe we cut some time off if we head straight south.
Jim Stark: We're going straight to Mullenville. I want to hear what Clell has to say before I kill him.

Back to the fires in Dodge, still blazing out of control.

(men shouting)
(Sam shouting indistinctly)
Matt Dillon: All right, we'll get down there in just a minute, Sam. All right! Ed? See if you can round up some more men, get 'em down to the stable. Festus!
Festus: Yeah?
Matt Dillon: Take over here, will you?
Festus: All right, Matthew!
(men shouting)
Townsmen: Come on, get that water up and get back and get some more water! Come on!

Doc strikes up a friendship with Less McConnell and speaks his mind.

Doc Adams: Ooh, let's hold it here a minute. What's the matter? Well, I'm... I'm tired, that's what's the matter. I'm going to get my breath here for a minute. I don't care what you do.
Les McConnell: Now, you got it wrong, Doc. Jimmy doesn't hold with killing.
Doc Adams: Yeah, I'll bet the Stevens family would be awful happy to hear about that.
Les McConnell: Doc, if that old man and his daughters got hurt, Jim Stark had nothing to do with it.
Doc Adams: Oh, no, of course not. No, he's a fine fella. Good Samaritan and everything. Gives money to folks. A poor Confederate veteran, abused by Federal troops. Well, he's overplayed that a little this time.

Les McConnell: I'm afraid you're wrong there, Doc.
Doc Adams: For five years now... Five years he's been getting away with murder and robbery. Everything. He won't... won't get away with it this time. He picked the wrong town and the wrong man. Pretty soon now Jim Stark's going to look over his shoulder and there he'll be.

Les McConnell: Who?
Doc Adams: You know who.
Les McConnell: Doc, by the time your friend the marshal's able to come for us, we're going to be in Texas, scattering like the four winds.
Doc Adams: Yeah, you're pretty sure of that, ain't you?
Les McConnelI: I personally saw to it that Mr. Dillon wouldn't have a hope of starting for us till tomorrow morning. Yeah.
(men shouting)
Matt Dillon: Now, boys, listen to me! They got Doc with them and they're putting miles between us while we stand here arguing. Now, if we don't get started, we're going to be chasing the wind. Now, I'm going. Those of you that are with me, get mounted.

Sam: I'll ride with you, Marshal.
Matt Dillon: No, Sam, I want you to stay here and take care of things in town. Kitty, don't worry. Everything's going to be all right.
Kitty: Matt... bring him back.

End of the line for Clell Williams (Jim Davis).

Clell Williams: Hiya, Jimmy!

Jim Stark: Hold it right there, Clell.
Clell Williams: We been fretting a mite, Jimmy. Leastway, McLean here has. But I knowed everything'd go off just as smooth...
Jim Stark: Then how come the Stevens boy come into Dodge at 1:00 instead of 1:30?
Clell Williams: We done everything you said, Jimmy. We tied up the old man...

Jim Stark: You were supposed to scare that boy, Clell, then let him go in time to reach Dodge at 1:30.
Cash Mclean: I told you, Clell. I told you.
Clell Williams: Shut up, McLean. Wasn't anything we could do, Jim. Boy got away before we could stop him.
Jim Stark: Because you was liquored up, Clell! Because you had your mind on them girls.
Clell Williams: Now, you know I wouldn't do anything like that, Jimmy.
Jim Stark: You didn't even stay to keep the marshal busy. You lit out. You left him on us.
Clell Williams: I knew everything would be all right, Jimmy. I knew he wouldn't get back on time. You said to meet you here, not be late. So we came fast.

Jim Stark: You're a liar, Clell. You went against my orders, just like you done in Mullenville. Well, that's fine, boy, just fine. If you figure on taking over, giving orders yourself...
Clell Williams: You know better than that, Jimmy. I never had any idea...
Jim Stark: Go on, Clell. Go on. Take over.
(glass shatters)

End Of Clell

​

Cash Mclean: Jimmy, I tried to stop him, but if you don't believe it, I guess you'll have to kill me, too.
Jim Stark: You get on the other side and get... get some saddles on them fresh horses.

Stark tries to make good with the family that Clell brutalized. Meanwhile his lies disgust Doc. Jeff is given one extra day to recover enough to travel with the rest of the gang.

Doc Adams: You think people believe that? Does he think so?
Les McConnell: Well, sir, there's some say Jimmy's ma survived that Federal attack. And some say she runs a saloon in Dakota Territory. Likely the same ones that claim not all that money gets back where it belongs.
Doc Adams: Poor folks, they don't know what kind of a man they're helping. And you... You're as bad as he is. Maybe even worse.
Les McConnell: Please, Doc, I thought we were friends.
Doc Adams: Oh, well... Great friend you are. Dodge City'll vouch for that. Dodge City and a lot of other places.
Web Fraley: Hey, Doc, get in here, quick.

Meanwhile, Marshall Matt Dillion and his posse are on the trail.
[Gunsmoke theme plays in the background]

Jim Stark: Your wife's a real good cook, Mr. Early. We're much obliged.
Mr. Early: Oh, thank you, thank you.
(groaning)
Jeff Fraley: Pen...
Web Fraley: Doc. Doc?
Jeff Fraley: Pence.
Web Fraley: How's he doing, Doc? Is he any better?
Doc Adams: He's got an awful fever. He's burning up. Some cold clothes, I figure.
Pence Fraley: Somebody get some cold water, quick.
Web Fraley: Kid, you hang on, huh? Doc here's gonna fix you up just fine. Yeah. Ain't you, Doc, huh?
Doc Adams: Well, I've done just about all the fixing I'm gonna be able to do. He needs rest. I've told you that. He needs a lot of rest.

Web Fraley: Yeah.
(groaning)
Web Fraley Jim.
Jim Stark: We tell the Earlys what to do, Web. They'll fix him up real good.
Web Fraley: But we can't leave him here alone with the Earlys... What can we do?
(groans)
Jim Stark: He can't even ride. We can't walk all the way home.
Pence Fraley: Doc, what if he was to rest here tonight?
Web Fraley: Yeah, then he could ride tomorrow. Jim, we can give Jeff one night.
Jim Stark: What do you mean, one night?
Web Fraley: Well, we can't leave him here alone. They'd hang him for sure.
Pence Fraley: We been together a real long time, Jim. Now all we're asking you is just the one night.
T.R. Stark: McConnell, how long you figure we got?
Les McConnell: I don't see how they can get out of Dodge much before tomorrow morning.
Jim Stark: All right. I reckon we owe Jeff something. But this night pays it off. For good.
Web Fraley: Okay
Cash Mclean: Saddled and ready, Jimmy. All fresh mounts. We'll be in Oklahoma by sunup.
Jim Stark: We're staying the night.
Cash Mclean: Staying?
Jim Stark: Yeah. Get yourself something to eat, take first watch.
Cash Mclean: Oh, yeah, sure, Jimmy. Anything you say.
Jim Stark: Get back down the trail a piece and, uh, keep your eyes open.
T.R. Stark: All right, Jimmy. What about the horses?
Jim Stark: Leave 'em saddled. Looks like we're staying the night to give Jeff a chance to perk up. Like as not, he'll take a turn for the worse before the night's over.

Stark has a proposition for Doc.

Jim Stark: Don't look to me like he's breathing there, Doc.
Matt Dillon: Oh, he's breathing, all right. Some better than he was.
Jim Stark: Amazing. He's a tough kid. Mm. Always was. You and me both know he ain't gonna be fit to ride in the morning, don't we, Doc?
Doc Adams: Well... he's gonna be in bad shape, if that's what you mean.
Jim Stark: That's what I mean.
(short chuckle)
Jim Stark: You know, Doc, I... I like you. I'm gonna see you get back real soon. You see, if Jeff... dies... say, in about one hour? Then we'd hightail it out of here and you'd be free as a bird.
Doc Adams: If he dies?

Jim Stark: Like I said: I like you, Doc. But if he's still hanging around my neck in the morning, I ain't gonna like nobody. You better think it over real good.

Proposition For Doc

​

Marshall Matt Dillion and his posse approach the hideout of the Stark Gang.

(galloping hoofbeats approaching)
T.R. Stark: It's McLean.
Les McConnell: Something's wrong.
Cash Mclean: They're coming. Maybe an hour back.
Web Fraley: Who's coming? How many of 'em?
Cash Mclean: There's a whole mess of'em, riding right up the valley.
Les McConnell: Dodge?
Cash Mclean: I didn't wait around to get no close look.
Les McConnell: They started from Dodge already?
Jim Stark: All right, all right, they're out there. That's all that matters. Web, Pence, we're riding. We got fresh horses. We run off the rest. If they came all the way from Dodge, they'll be dragging tail by now. Now come on, let's move. Pence.

Closing in on the Stark Gang, no Doc in sight.

Matt Dillon: United States Marshal. I'm looking for a gang of men that rode by here not long ago.
Mr. Early: Huh? I don't know nothing about no gang of men.

Festus: Aw, foot. We tracked 'em right smack to your place.
Mr. Early: I tell you, I don't know nothing about no gang of men.
Matt Dillon: Mister, you know what the law says about helping criminals escape. Now you tell me what you know, or I'll throw you in jail.
Mr. Early: Oh. Well... Well, all right. A gang of men did ride in here about an hour ago. They-They forced their way into my house, they ate all my food, and then they-they took my riding stock and they headed north. And that's all I know.
Townsman: They been here, all right, Marshal. We found tracks going south not more'n an hour old.
Festus: There ain't no sign of nothing, Matthew. A spare bullet, a piece of biscuit or anything.
Matt Dillon: All right, let's move out.
Townsman: Marshal, we ain't got a prayer. Them riding fresh animals.
Townsman: We're plumb wore out, Marshal.
Matt Dillon: Boys, we came out here to do a job, we're not quitting till we get it done.

Matt Dillon: All right, let's mount up. Sure hope Doc's all right, Festus. Did you see all the blood on the floor in there?
Festus: Sure did, Matthew.
(horse snorts)

Reality check from Doc.

Pence Fraley: Hey, Jim! Whoa, Jim! Whoa, boy, whoa. Jim, we got to have that doc for five minutes, Jim.
Jim Stark: All right, yonder over to that draw. Come on, now, come on!
Pence Fraley: Doc, he talked to us for a little bit, then he kind of just slipped off like.
Web Fraley: He's starting to get better, ain't he, Doc?

 

[The 1960's]

Jim Stark: Pence? Did it ever come on to you Doc might be trying to slow us up just so his friend the marshal can keep on us?
Pence Fraley: No, I don't reckon he'd be that stupid.
Jim Stark: Well, Jeff don't seem none too good to me. I don't figure him to make it. You, Doc?
Doc Adams: Well, I don't figure any of you to make it. He's not.

Web Fraley: Huh?

Doc Adams: Unless he gets some attention. And you're not. You got a posse behind you and Lord knows how many lawmen ahead of you.

Cash Mclean: Jimmy, that marshal ain't never gonna turn back. Things are gonna get pretty tough before long.
Jim Stark: All right, let's get a move on like we planned. That's five minutes.
(grunts) (sighs heavily)

Dillon and the posse continue tracking Stark and his gang.

Festus: More blood, Matthew. One of them fellers must be hurt pretty bad. A bunch like them, you'd figure they'd just run off and leave anybody that's hurt that bad.
Matt Dillon: Well, they probably would, Festus, unless it was one of the Fraleys or the Starks. Tell you what I can't figure. I thought for sure they were headed for Silver Creek. But look at these tracks. They're headed dead south.
Festus: They can't go too far south, Matthew. There ain't nothing but desert out yonder.
Matt Dillon: I know. Let's get started.
Festus: Matthew? We can't go much further. We ain't none of us got a lick of water. And if we don't get us some rest directly, why...
Matt Dillon: Festus, we can't take a rest. That bunch isn't taking any. All right, boys, let's get started.
Townsman: Marshal, a man's got a right to kill himself. But pushing a dumb animal till he busts his heart open, it don't make sense.
Matt Dillon: Boys, listen to me, all of you. I'm gonna tell you the truth. If we let them get away from us now, they're gone for good. We'll never see any of them again. That what you want? Giddyup!

Still coming.

Cash Mclean: Jim. They're still there. About four or five hours back, but still coming.
Jim Stark: All right. The marshal figures to hang on. We'll see if he can carry them horses across the desert. McConnell How far to them salt plains?
Les McConnell: Oh, we should be able to make it before sundown.
Jim Stark: What's between us and them?
Les McConnell: Not much, just a way station for the stage line and a couple of dirt farmers.
Jim Stark: All right, good. We'll get a change of fresh horses and make sure the marshal and the posse stay just like they are.
Festus: Um... they're heading for them salt flats just sure as you're a foot high, Matthew.
Matt Dillon: 50 miles across and no water.
Festus: I've heard a buzzard can't even make it across there.
Matt Dillon: Well, they're desperate men, Festus.

Matt Dillon: No.
Festus: Matthew, we...
Matt Dillon: Looks like they knew about the way station, too.
(gunshots)

Matt Dillon: Hold your fire in there!

Man: We've got more than one gun! And we ain't figuring on laying them down! Who are you?!
Matt Dillon: United States Marshal out of Dodge City! Put your guns down and come on out!
(door opens)
Man: If this is a trick...
Matt Dillon: It's no trick, Mister. We're after the Stark gang.
Man: They was here all right. You say you're from Dodge?
Man: That's where they killed them folks, ain't it?
Matt Dillon: Where'd you hear about that?
Man: A feller on the stage gave us the story. We didn't put much stock in it till that bunch got here.

Matt Dillon: Did they have a doctor with them?
Man: Little feller with a moustache?
Festus: That's him. Was he all right?
Man: Well, as far as I can tell. They didn't come inside, but he got in a wagon with a man looked like he was hurt.

Matt Dillon: What do you mean a wagon?
Man: They took one of ours. They tried to get all our fresh horses, too. But Orly here managed to get three out and hid them behind the hill.
Matt Dillon: Mister, we could sure use those horses.
Man: You're welcome to them, Marshal. I hope you get the whole rotten gang. We got one. I reckon they figured we wasn't worth no more trouble, so they took off, headed south.

Festus: "South"? That means they're still headed for the desert, Matthew.
Matt Dillon: Yeah.
(wind whistling)

The group begins splintering. Going crazy. All for one.

Cash Mclean: We'll never make it. We got to go back.
Jim Stark: Shut up, McLean. Ain't nothing back there but a rope. We're going on.
Cash Mclean: My animal's give out. When that desert cold sets in tonight, he won't last till daybreak!

Jim Stark: Well, then, you can ride in the wagon or you can walk or you can crawl! But we're going on!
Web Fraley: Not us, Jimmy. My brother Pence is back there dead. Trying to get supplies for all of us. I ain't gonna let Jeff go, too, just on your say-so. We're gonna take our half the money and go around.

Jim Stark: Well, Web, you never had no shakes for knowing something! All right. Now who figures Web's got the best hand to play on.
Cash Mclean: Jimmy, ain't nobody trying to cross you. They're still a-coming back there. It ain't a-working out this time.
Jim Stark: One side of the fence or the other, McLean! Man who straddles the top is sure to get brought down.
Les McConnell: Jimmy food and water and fresh horses we got go a long way for three.

The posse hears distant gunfire. They find Web and Pence Fraley shot dead!

Festus: You sure did right to stay on their tails that a-way, Matthew. They ain't even got each other now
Matt Dillon: Uh-huh, but they still got the money, and they still got Doc, Festus.

Festus: Gonna wait for the posse, or go ahead on?
Matt Dillon: Oh, it'll probably take the boys a while to round up the rest of that fresh stock. No, we're gonna keep on their tail. Time's one thing we're not gonna give 'em.
(wind howling)

Stark is close to insanity. Doc’s life is in grave danger. Les McConnell continues to protect him.

Doc Adams: That bothering you?
T.R. Stark: That's all right. It's all right.
Doc Adams: Well... (clears throat) you're pretty lucky. Take one in there, no excessive bleeding, no infection. Pretty lucky fella.

T.R. Stark: Maybe I live right. You done a good job. I ain't much sorry we brought you along.
Doc Adams: I know. I know that. You needed me. If you hadn't have, why, I'd be lying back there with the Fraleys. Your brother'd have seen to that.
T.R. Stark: Jimmy don't kill without no good reason, Doc. He took a lot from Pence and Web before they... they wore him thin.
(wind whistling)
Jim Stark: Go, get it. Come on.
Jim Stark: All right, Doc, get up.

Doc Adams: I Well, wait a minute...
Jim Stark: I said get up!
Doc Adams: I Well, you told me...
Jim Stark: I know what I said, but I made a mistake. Ain't no time to rest. Now, your friend, the marshal... He's still back there.

Les McConnell: Jimmy, we're, uh, ready to roll, now these horses got some rest.
Jim Stark: They must have rode all night long. There's only two of them. They can't go much longer without sleep.

Doc Adams: I don't think they're gonna stop to sleep.
(cocks gun)
Jim Stark: I reckon they'd stop long enough to get you buried decent, right, Doc?
Les McConnell: Uh, Jimmy, we got fresh water, horses are all right. They don't stand achance of catching us.
Jim Stark: We got no use for him. We got no use for him. T.R., you reckon you're feeling fit enough now?

T.R. Stark: Fit as a fiddle, Jimmy boy.
Les McConnell: Still got a ways to go, Jimmy. Might just be a nice ace in the hole if we got up against it.
Jim Stark: How's that?
Les McConnell: Well, Matt Dillon sets a pretty great store by him. Most of the folks in Dodge do. Something should go wrong, we might be able to swap his hide for a few extra miles. No harm in carrying him along till we see.
T.R. Stark: I can ride now, Jimmy. We-we can make better time.
Jim Stark: Y-Yeah. T.R., T.R., I want you to ride in the wagon. I want you to... I want you to rest nice and easy like. (laughs) You see that wagon? You see that wagon? That wagon full of supplies. That's gonna get us across the middle of the desert. Why, your friend the marshal... your friend the marshal... He's-he's gonna be feeding the buzzards, Doc. (laughs)

Stark continues to unravel.

Festus: Matthew, we ain't gained an inch on them all day, and they ain't losing a step. Maybe we could take a run at 'em. They ain't but a mile or two. These horses ain't in too bad a shape. Maybe we could get within rifle range.
Matt Dillon: Festus, don't forget one thing. They still got Doc with 'em. Biggest problem's gonna be getting him out alive.

Stark spots Matt and Festus closing in

Jim Stark: Hey, hyah. There's only two of 'em, but they're still coming.

T.R. Stark: We got the edge on 'em, Jimmy, plenty of water, horses. They can't last much longer.
Jim Stark: It's Dillon, you hear me? It's Dillon! He done all this. He kept that posse still coming. I ride straight into hell, and he's still back there!
T.R. Stark: They're crazy, that's what. He-He's no... he's no lawman. He's crazy.
Doc Adams: I told you.
Jim Stark: You told me what?!

Doc Adams: You picked the wrong town.

Jim Stark: Shut up, Doc! Shut up. McConnell, get them horses up in the rocks, tie 'em good. Jimmy... All right. He wants Jim Stark? Let's see what he does when he gets Jim Stark.
(wind whistling)

Stark Unravels On Doc

Jim Stark: T.R.? You remember, Dillon's mine. He's mine. McConnell, don't you fire till I tell you, you hear?
(hoofbeats)

(gunshot, horse neighing)

 

[The 1960's]

Jim Stark: I got him! I got him! (gasps) I got Dillon! Dillon!

Matt Dillon: Festus, cover me. I'm gonna try and get a little closer.
Festus: All right.

Jim Stark: Did you see him fall off that horse? I saw him take it in the belly. I saw him take it.
T.R. Stark: Jimmy, you don't know you killed him.
Jim Stark: Don't tell me. I got him. I got the lousy, stinking, badge-toting Marshal.
T.R. Stark: Listen to me! Listen to me! He's not dead!

Jim Stark: You're crazy, T.R.
T.R. Stark: Jimmy, I saw him roll. He's there. He's there waiting...!
Jim Stark: I tell you I killed him! I killed him! He's finished. You don't believe me, I'll show you.
(Jim groans)
Jim Stark: T.R.? T.R.?!

T.R. Stark: Jimmy. Dumb kid.
(panting)
Nob... Nobody could ever... tell you nothing.
(panting)

Jim Stark: T-Teddy? Teddy?
(cries)

Jim Stark: Teddy?! Teddy?! Come on, Dillon! Come on! Where are you? Come on, Dillon! Come on out of there! Where are you?!

Matt Dillon: Right here, Stark.

(grunts)
(groans)

(gunshot)

Festus: Let's go get Doc.
Matt Dillon: Festus, don't forget. There's one of them left.
(gunshot)
Les McConnell: Drop those guns. Or I'll kill him.

Matt Dillon: You kill him, McConnell, you lost your ticket out of this desert. Now drop the gun, let him go.

Les McConnell: Hahaha hahahaha.

Les McConnell: Let's go, Doc.

McConnell gets it.

Festus: You all right, Doc?
Doc Adams: Am now.
Matt Dillon: Doc, you know, that was quite a chance you took, making that move.
Festus: Left a trail of blood clean across Kansas and then wind up with a mouth full of blow sand.
(clicks tongue)

Matt Dillon: That's something I never will understand. Why is it the McConnells and the Starks keep thinking that's an easy way to make a living?

Spoiler Clip Stark Gets It

Closing Credits

Milburn Stone Related Media

The Phantom Cowboy (1935)
Stars Ted Wells Doris Brook George Chesebro Milburn Stone​

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Bill Collins meets up with his look-alike the Phantom and is soon involved in his fight with Buck Houston. Houston has a big robbery planned but the Phantom beats him to it. Bill fights off Houston's men only to find the Phantom shot and dying and unaware that Houston is about to finish him off also.

Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
Stars Warren William Gail Patrick Ralph Morgan Milburn Stone​

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A prosecutor trying a case where a husband shot his adulterous wife begins to suspect that his own wife is having an affair, and starts to have his own thoughts about killing her.

Port of Missing Girls (1938)
Stars Harry Carey Judith Allen Milburn Stone​

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Nightclub singer Della Mason (Judith Allen)witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster, she secretly boards the ship of Captain Josiah Storm (Harry Carey), a woman-hater, and the ship sails from San Francisco headed for China. Della is discovered by Jim Benton (Milburn Stone, the ship's first mate and he pleads her case to the captain. He leaves her in under the protection of Minnie (Jane Jones)at "Minnie's Joint in Shanghai, until her innocence can be established.

The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)
Stars Milburn Stone Marjorie Weaver Edgar Kennedy​

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The Great Alaskan Mystery is a 1944 Universal film serial about government agents trying to stop Nazi spies from getting their hands on futuristic weapons. James 'Jim' Hudson (Milburn Stone), an adventurer and accompanied by allies, goes after Nazi agents who have a new death ray called the Paratron...

Chapter 1: Shipwrecked Among Icebergs



Chapter 2: Thundering Doom



See all 13 Chapters here.

The Judge (1949)
Stars Milburn Stone Katherine DeMille Paul Guilfoyle​

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A crooked lawyer blackmails a client into a murder plot against his wife.

Racket Squad (1950-1953)
Stars Reed Hadley Hugh Beaumont Keith Richards​

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This series dramatizes confidence games which fall under the jurisdiction of Captain John Braddock.

S03E35 The Case of the Sure Thing (Sep.07.1953)
Stars Reed Hadley Milburn Stone Louise Currie​

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Braddock looks into a possible bookmaking swindle.



The Case Of Officer Hallibrand (1955)
Driver's Education Film With Milburn Stone​

Produced in 1955 and then revised in 1967, "The Case of Officer Hallibrand" is a driver's ed film that features Milburn Stone, best known for playing Doc Adams the chief medical examiner on the TV program Gunsmoke. Presented by the Marathon Oil Company, the film was a stable in driver's education classrooms for three decades. It's portrayal of American driving habits through the perspective of a traffic policeman, including drunks, elderly and inattentive drivers, sleep-deprived cabbies, and more

Gunsmoke's Doc and Festus at Houston Airport (1966)​

This film is from KHOU-TV Channel 11 in Houston. February 23, 1966. Ken Curtis and Milburn Stone are in Texas for an appearance at the Houston Stock Show at the Astrodome.

The Dean Martin Show (1965-1974)
Stars Dean Martin The Dingaling Sisters Ken Lane

S05E12 Episode #5.12 (Dec.04.1969)
Stars Dean Martin Romy Schneider Milburn Stone​

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Milburn Stone sings “When You and I Were Young, Maggie."





Just a good old Western Documentary

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979 TV-Movie)​

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This special, hosted by Glenn Ford and set in a western saloon, served as a reunion for many of the people who played in popular western series and films over the years, including cast members from "The Lone Ranger", "The High Chaparral", "The Virginian", "Lawman", and many others.

In Memory Of Milburn Stone On His Birthdate

Later today Shirley Knight Birthday Memorial - Martin Landau Memorial​

 

[The 1960's]

Shirley Knight (July 5, 1936) Birthday Memorial
Martin Landau Memorial​

Shirley Knight Hopkins (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American actress who appeared in more than 50 feature films, television films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in her career, playing leading and character roles. She was a member of the Actors Studio. Knight was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).[1] In the 1960s, she had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films such as The Couch (1962), House of Women (1962), The Group (1966), The Counterfeit Killer (1968), and The Rain People (1969). She received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the British film Dutchman (1966)…Continue @ Wikipedia

Martin James Landau (/ˈlændaʊ/; June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American actor, acting coach, producer, and editorial cartoonist. His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). His career breakthrough came with leading roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and Space: 1999 (1975–1977)…Continue @ Wikipedia

Last year when we did a memorial Tribute for Mr. Landau, I regretted not having the time to present his appearance in this classic episode of The Outer Limits. My favorite science-fiction tales always involve time travel so this one is right at the top of my list. The performance by Shirley Knight is not to be overlooked either. Of all her 178 film credits she had to be at her loveliest right here. It is for that reason I have chosen to make this dual Martin Landau and Shirley Knight Memorials. It has only been four years since Ms. Knight left us. It is quite touching that this was a science-fiction love story and that the two were good friends in real life. In fact, Shirley Knight was a student in an acting class taught by Martin Landau just 5 years before. I hope you all enjoy!

The Outer Limits (1963-1965)

Intro Theme

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits

S01E06 The Man Who Was Never Born (Apr.28.1963)

Control Voice

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Here in the bright, clustered loneliness of a billion, billion stars, loneliness can be an exciting, voluntary thing, unlike the loneliness man suffers on earth. Here, deep in the starry nowhere, a man can be as one with space and time. Preoccupied, yet not indifferent. Anxious, and yet at peace. His name is Joseph Reardon. He is, in this present here, 30 years old. This is the first time he has made this journey alone.

Please enjoy The Outer Limits OST by Dominic Frontiere (Part 1) while viewing the images and reading the transcript.

Directed by
Leonard J. Horn
Writing Credits
Anthony Lawrence
Leslie Stevens

Stars
Martin Landau … Andro
Shirley Knight … Noelle Anderson
John Considine … Lt. Bertram Cabot
Maxine Stuart … Mrs. McCluskey
Karl Held … Capt. Joseph Reardon
Jack Raine … Old Man
Marlowe Jensen … Minister
Vic Perrin … Control Voice

Produced by
Leon Chooluck
Joseph Stefano
Leslie Stevens
Music by
Dominic Frontiere
Cinematography by
Conrad L. Hall
Art Direction by
Jack Poplin
Set Decoration by
Chester Bayhi
Makeup Department
Fred B. Phillips
Production Management
Lindsley Parsons Jr.
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lee H. Katzin
Art Department
Richard M. Rubin
Sound Department
Jay Ashworth
Arthur Cornell
Special Effects by
Thol Simonson
Visual Effects by
Jim Danforth
Paul LeBaron
Ralph Rodine
Camera and Electrical Department
William A. Fraker
Lloyd Garnell
Henry Maak
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Forrest T. Butler
Sabine Manela
Editorial Department
Richard K. Brockway
John Elizalde
Roger A. Farris
Script and Continuity Department
Hope McLachlin
Additional Crew
John Erman
Dominic Frontiere
Elaine Michea
Lou Morheim
Crew believed to be complete​

Astronaut Capt. Joseph Reardon lands his craft on Earth where he finds only baron wasteland.

Capt. Joseph Reardon: This is Starship One. This is Starship One. Request re-entry pattern. This is Starship One, Reardon reporting. Request re-entry pattern. Come in, project control. Come in, project control. Come in project control. Come in project control.

There he meets Andro, a mutated human stricken with a disfiguring disease for which there is no cure. He discovers more than a few startling facts one of which is that he has somehow traveled forward in time from 1963 to the year 2148, and to a world inhabited with but a few survivors of a biological disaster. A disaster brought about by an ambitious scientist named Bertram Cabot Jr., who isolated and developed a viral symbiont from an interstellar microbe.

Capt. Joseph Reardon: Where am I? What planet is this?
Andro: It is called earth.
Capt. Joseph Reardon: Earth? No, I left earth 8 months ago.
Andro 8 months ago? Impossible? No one has left or returned to earth in almost 200 years.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: I did... 8 months ago. February 3, 1963.
Andro: The year is 2148.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Well, it couldn't be. It must be 1963. It must be.
Andro: Time and space are indivisible. Somehow in your travels, you moved from one to the other.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: You know, something happened. A chill, brightness. I seemed to collapse inside, as if I were going into a convulsion.
Andro: A time convulsion... Which brought you into the future.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Future? Well, what could have happened? A hydrogen war?
Andro: No. No, there was no war. We are the remaining survivors of the human race.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: If you're human, you're a mutation. Aw, it couldn't have happened in only 200 years. No, no. Not a normal evolution.
Andro: It was not normal.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: You said there was no war.
Andro: When the concern of man is only in preparation for defense against himself, he is not prepared for the unforeseen. An extraterrestrial microbe was developed and corrupted by a renowned biologist for his own ambitious reasons. I recall his name. Bertram Cabot, Jr. We've memorized every detail of his life. His various addresses... His cares, his joys. His friends, his family. Noelle, they called his mother. Haha, Noelle. A woman who issued destruction for all future Christmases.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: A microbe... Destroyed humanity.
Andro: There were side effects to the symbiont, which Cabot isolated and developed. Side effects he did not foresee. Which brought about... Genetic changes, and inhibited our ability to reproduce. What you see here is essentially the work of one man. Bertram Cabot, Jr. Come. I will show you all that is left of moments, men, and places.

Andro laments that there is no hope for mankind to survive after the last of his generation die off. But Reardon claims there is hope, and decides to see if he can return to his own time, taking Andro with him to show others what the future will be and to prevent the disastrous outcome.

Andro: Here... here lies the protected history of man. The cherished words and pictures of all he has known and loved. The noble Hamlet... Anna Karenina, putting on her gloves on a snowy evening... Gatsby in white flannels... Moby dick...And Mark Twain's whole meandering Mississippi.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Melville. "Hope proves a man deathless."
Andro: There is no hope here.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: There has to be.
Andro: There is no future, only the safe and dear upholstered memories.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: You said your mind, your psyches, were so advanced. Why couldn't you find a cure or some way out?
Andro: It was too late. The only positive cure was in preventive medicine, but man was too busy, too busy going to the moon, too busy clubbing his brothers over the head with his newfound toy, the atom, to anticipate and resist the parasite that was to suck out his right to immortality.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: I can't believe it's going to come to this. I won't. I can find the time warp again, go back through it.
Andro: Back? Back through time?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Well, I came here, didn't I? And nobody's proved it's a one-way street. I'll go back. I’ll tell them what's ahead. What they have to prepare themselves for.
Andro: But even if you made it, they'd... They'd hardly believe you.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Well, I'll make them believe me.
Andro: They'll think you are a fool or a psychotic, but there is a way. You can take me with you.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Well, there's a possibility we couldn't make it back.
Andro: Well, it's better to die than sit and watch the world die. Well, if you're... afraid that I'll frighten them unnecessarily, I have the ability to change my appearance through hypnotic suggestion. I can...
Lt. Bertram Cabot: No. No! That's the one thing we want them to do: See you exactly as you are. That will make them believe us.

Reardon and Andro begin their journey attempting to repair the fabric in time. However, when going through the time rift, Reardon suddenly feels himself slowly dying and mysteriously vanishes.

Lt. Bertram Cabot: I'm almost positive it happened here. I've established a correlative azimuth of 1.25 minus 16 mils. Blue wave length velocity, 300,000 kilometers. I'm gonna put it on automatic pilot, in case I'm right. Now, we hope. What course might history have taken if Alexander, Napoleon, Hitler had never existed? What if Bertram Cabot, Jr. had never been born?
Andro: What is it?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: The warp...
Andro: What's wrong?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: I... I'm not going to make it through.
Andro: You must. You must.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: I... I'm dying.
Andro: No. No! What will happen to the world? What will become of the world? What will I do?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Go on. Go on.
Andro: You must come with me. They won't believe me if you're not there with me!
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Find Cabot. Find him and kill him if you have to. But... kill Cabot. Kill Cabot. Aah!

The deformed Andro can project himself as a normal human using hypnotic suggestion, and uses this ability to begin searching for some way to stop Cabot's work, even if it means his assassination. Now back in the past he is overwhelmed with the sights of a healthy Earth. He spies on a beautiful woman. She sees him, his deformity and she runs.

 

[The 1960's]

Andro follows her, then engages his ability to hide his appearance, now human, Professor Andro. She is Noelle Anderson.

He takes lodging where Noelle also resides. There is an instant attraction. He begins his search for Lt. Bertram Cabot questioning his home owner Mrs. McCluskey.

Andro: Thank you. I was told a young man lives here, a student, by the name of Cabot. Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Mrs. McCluskey: Oh, yes. Bert did live here, but that was a year ago. He's been in the army since November.
Andro: In the Army?
Mrs. McCluskey: Oh, yes. He's at some big base up north. You should have asked Ms. Anderson about him.
Andro: Ms. Anderson?
Mrs. McCluskey: Noelle Anderson. The girl downstairs. She's Bert's girlfriend. Yes. As a matter of fact, they're going to be married when he comes home on leave this weekend. What, are you an old teacher of his?
Andro: No. But I do want to talk with him about... about his future.
Mrs. McCluskey: From what I gather, Uncle Sam has him for another year, and then, I think he's coming back here to do some post graduate work in, um, biology or something.
Andro: I see. But he will be here this weekend?
Mrs. McCluskey: With bells on.
Andro: Good. I'll talk with him then. Thank you for your kindness.

It is here that Professor Andro discovers he’s made a grave miscalculation. To soon. To soon. He has arrived on Earth prematurely: Bertram Cabot Jr. has not been born yet.

Andro: When a woman combs her hair, she imitates the motion of the stars.
Noelle Anderson: It's a nervous habit.
Andro: Are you disturbed?
Noelle Anderson: I had a hallucination in the woods this afternoon. It was horrible.
Andro: Yes, horrible.
Noelle Anderson: My psyche professor would consider it part of the secret nature of my dreams, some great trial I'm about to face... Like getting married.
Andro: I know. Mrs. Mcclusky told me. His name is Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Noelle Anderson: He's all the thingsI ever dreamed of in a man. He doesn't play at life or dream it. He lives it, in all its seriousness and pleasure. Why did you call Bert, junior?
Andro: Well, I understand he'd been given his father's name. Noelle Anderson: Bert's father's name is Arnold.
Andro: No, no. That can't be.
Noelle Anderson: But it is.
Andro: I'm too early. I'm too early.
Noelle Anderson: Is something wrong?
Andro: He isn't born yet.
Noelle Anderson: Who isn't born yet?
Andro: Bertram Cabot, Jr. Of course he isn't born yet.
Noelle Anderson: Bert and I won't be married until this weekend.
Andro: You will be his mother. You will be the mother of Bertram Cabot, Jr

Andro, in the guise of a normal human of the time, attempts without success to convince Cabot that he should not marry Noelle.

Lt. Bertram Cabot: Noelle!
Noelle Anderson: I'll be down in a minute.
Andro: You are Bertram Cabot?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Yes.
Andro: Are you waiting for Noelle?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: She said she'd be down in a minute.
Andro: I've often wondered what that quality of mind is that enables a soldier to encounter death with firmness, valor, and boldness.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: It's like stepping on a rattlesnake. You learn to bite first, so you don't get bitten.
Andro: May I ask you a question?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Of course.
Andro: To save your own child from destruction, would you press a button destroying all the children of another land?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Are you asking me as a future father or as a prospective scientist with a duty towards humanity?
Andro: I wasn't aware there was any distinction. But you do have a very practical and objective mind. Like father, like son.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Did you know my father?
Andro: No, I didn't know your father. You are going to marry a very lovely and wonderful girl.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: I think so.
Andro: Do you love her?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Who are you?
Andro: What does it matter? Will you answer my question?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Do I love Noelle?
Andro: Do you?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Yes, I do.
Andro: Then you must not marry her.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Not marry her?
Andro: You'll destroy her.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Look, maybe it doesn't matter who you are, but my personal life is none of your business.
Andro: To save all the future children of the world... I must somehow prevent one child from being born.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: What are you talking about?
Andro: You must not marry her. Everything depends on it. You must believe that!
Lt. Bertram Cabot: How long have you known Noelle?
Andro: Not long, but... Long enough not to want her harmed.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: You're that professor Andro she mentioned.
Andro: Yes.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Well, stay away from her.
Andro: I want to help her! To help you! To help everyone! You must believe that!
Lt. Bertram Cabot: "Help me?” Come on. Who do you think you're kidding?
Andro: If you try to marry her, I'll have no choice!
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Listen, you just stay away from her, or I won't have any choice! C’mon Noelle.

Noelle Anderson: We've had our first argument. Over an outsider.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Noelle, look, I don't...
Noelle Anderson: Do you have to go?
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Yes. I've got to go to the school. I... I've got to arrange for all my post-grad courses next year, when I get out of the service.
Noelle Anderson: Next year. We'll be married a year.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Do you still feel you don't want to wait?
Noelle Anderson: Mrs. Mcclusky would be devastated. She's had the parlor drapes cleaned and the rugs shampooed. Oh, she's always wanted to have a wedding in her parlor.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: OK. I'll try to hurry back.

Andro follows Noelle into the woods. He feels himself falling in love with her. That’s what this really is, a love story. A sacrificial tragic love story.

Andro: I followed you.
Noelle Anderson: I know. I felt you.
Andro: May I sit close to you?
Noelle Anderson: You know bees sleep?
Andro: Do they?
Noelle Anderson: Like a baby. When there's an eclipse, almost the whole insect population goes to sleep.
Andro: The ones I've seen since I came here seem so sure of themselves.
Noelle Anderson: Tell me who you are.
[Kisses Noelle]
Andro: Noelle, I don't know how to tell you to make you understand. Noelle, you must love me.
Noelle Anderson: Please, don't say anymore. I have to go!
Andro: Noelle, listen to me. I can't let you marry him.
Noelle Anderson: I have to go! Please let me go!
Andro: No, please! Together we can save eternity. Noelle!

Concludes Next Post​

 

[The 1960's]

Lt. Bertram Cabot: Go to the house, Noelle. I'll catch up.
Noelle Anderson: But please...
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Go on! Do as I tell you. We are going to be married.
Andro: Not if I can help it.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: You can't help it or stop it.
Andro: I have to stop it. I will try anything to stop it. I must no longer concern myself with your innocence. I can think of only one thing now... The children of all the world.
Lt. Bertram Cabot: You're out of your mind. You don't even make sense.
Andro: I don't want to kill you! But I will! You and her, I must! I must!
Noelle Anderson: Aah! Aah! Aah! Aah!
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Noelle!

Andro & Noelle 1

Andro is planning to shoot Cabot during the couple's wedding ceremony however he hesitates. Cabot and his wedding party intercede, disrupting his hypnotic spell and revealing his true appearance in the process.

Preacher: Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God and in the presence of this company to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony. Into this holy estate, these people present come now to be joined, and if there be anyone here who maintains that this man and this woman should not be united in holy matrimony, let him speak now or forever hold his... Bertram Cabot, do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to live together in sickness and in health...

Noelle Anderson: Aah! Aah! Aah! Aah!
Lt. Bertram Cabot: Noelle!

Please enjoy The Outer Limits OST by Dominic Frontiere (Part 2) while viewing the images and reading the transcript.

Andro flees, with Noelle following. He explains his mission, and Noelle confesses that she has fallen in love with him. She convinces him to take her with him to the future, thereby avoiding any possibility that she and Cabot will have a child.

Andro & Noelle 2

Noelle Anderson: Andro! Andro! Andro? Andro! Andro.
Andro: Go away. Please, go away.
Noelle Anderson: They've hurt you.
Andro: No. I'm all right. How could you come here?
Noelle Anderson: I wanted to see you.
Andro: You saw me. Weren't you frightened, like the others?
Noelle Anderson: All men have their moments of violence. In some, it passes. I saw yours pass.
Andro: But didn't you see my face? The change? The others did, I know. I... I lost control.
Noelle Anderson: I didn't see anything. Except that you couldn't bear to have me marry him. You tried to stop it.
Andro: You didn't see what I really am?
Noelle Anderson: Tell me... What you really are.
Andro: Ugly.

Noelle Anderson: There's no ugliness in you. I know there isn't.
Andro: Not in me, Noelle. Not in my heart or my soul.
Noelle Anderson: Not in your face, either.
Andro: This face? This face is a suggestion... A mask to cover up a surface as corrupted as the world into which I was born. I am that hallucination you saw in the woods, Noelle, the great trial you are about to face. But it's all over now, so go back to your wedding.

Noelle Anderson: There isn't going to be any wedding! I don't love him. I don't think I ever did.
Andro: But you'll still marry him eventually. I know now that you can't change things that are meant to be. Noelle, I have to leave, I must go back to where I belong.

Noelle Anderson: Andro. Andro! Take me with you.
Andro: It's impossible...
Noelle Anderson: Please. It's you I love. I don't know how it happened or why. And I don't care. I only know that I want you. I need you.
Andro: Noelle, Noelle, I didn't mean for you to fall in love with me. I didn't.
Noelle Anderson: Did you mean to kiss me?
Andro: Yes...
Noelle Anderson: To touch me?
Andro: Yes, but I couldn't help myself.
Noelle Anderson: It must've meant something to you.
Andro: I know it did! Noelle, I... I can't love you. You must not love me.
Noelle Anderson: Why?
Andro: Because there's no hope for us! Because we cannot change destiny! Now, please try to understand.
Noelle Anderson: I can't.
Andro: Look at me. There are travelers in time, Noelle. There are people in tomorrow's cities, living, breathing strangers, whom you never see but who are there just the same. Instead of the glorious future all men envision, there's only a dark and empty road leading to misery and mourning.

Andro: This is the world from which I came, Noelle, the world of tomorrow. A world you will help make. I wanted to change it. I tried. You know what I had to do? I had to prevent you from bearing a child, Cabot's child... Destined to grow up to be the catalyst for the world's end! The truth is in my eyes, Noelle.
Noelle Anderson: You served your purpose. I'll never have that child. The world will be different.
Andro: No. In a year, perhaps more, you'll find Bert or he'll find you. You'll marry and you'll have that child, unless you were to... die now.
Noelle Anderson: Or... or go with you. You can change destiny, Andro. Take me. Keep me. Don't let Bert and I find each other again.
Andro: Is it possible, Noelle? Could we make another future, a better world? I wonder what it's going to be like where we're going.

Noelle Anderson: If it's ugly, I won't care. I'd be with you.
Andro: No, it won't be ugly. We're changing that. It will probably be beautiful.
Noelle Anderson: The future usually is.

Lt. Bertram Cabot: Noelle! Noelle! Noelle!

The flow of time is about to be altered by Andro and Noelle's attempt to alter the past. As Capt. Reardon had earlier, the moment Andro passed through the time convulsion, Bertram Cabot Jr. had never been born, and thus Andro's mutated existence had never come to be either. Now Andro disappears just as the ship arrives in 2148 A.D., leaving Noelle, weeping, to face the future alone. A truly frightening bone chilling final scene reveals Noelle in her spaceship chair next to Andro’s empty chair, like a dimly illuminated stage fading into oblivion. The Man Who Was Never Born!

Noelle Anderson: Andro? What's wrong?

Andro: Noelle, listen. We created a future into which I was never born. If you'd married him, had his child... My world would've come. But we have changed all of that. It would be all different. And I was never born.

Noelle Anderson: Andro!

Noelle Anderson: Andro.

Noelle Anderson: Andro.

Noelle Anderson: Andro.

Noelle Anderson: Andro.

Control Voice - Closing

“It is said that if you move a single pebble on the beach, you set up a different pattern, and everything in the world is changed. It can also be said that love can change the future, if it is deep enough, true enough, and selfless enough. It can prevent a war, prohibit a plague, keep the whole world… whole.”

We now return control of your television set to you, until next week at this same time, when the control voice will take you to...

Spoiler Clip: Final Scene & Closing Credits

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Episode Notes:

1. The original title proposed for this episode was "Cry of the Unborn".

2. The name of Martin Landau's character takes once in 1963 is "Andro", which is Greek for simply "Man".

3. Captain Joseph Reardon's mission was launched on February 3, 1963.

Shirley Knight Related Media

Dutchman (1966)
Stars Shirley Knight Al Freeman Jr. Frank Lieberman Robert Calvert Howard Bennett Sandy McDonald Dennis Alaba Peters Keith James Devon Hall​

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A rarely seen film written by novelist and poet (Amiri Baraka), tells a thought provoking story of sinister, neurotic white girl Lula (Shirley Knight) with the provocation of her recklessly flirtatious half-naked body and of her strange lascivious speech, lures to his doom a good-looking young black man Clay (Al Freeman Jr.) a stranger whom she allures his attention in the subway and whom she mocks for wearing the clothes and employing the voice and manners of the conventional white intellectual. The man, who, at first seeing no reason to resist the girl's advances, perceives too late that he is being used by her, drops his humble "white" disguise, and launches a frustrated and bitter counterattack on her and on the entire prejudice white race.

Shirley Knight "The Rain People" 1969 - Bobbie Wygant Archive



The Lie (1973)
Stars George Segal Shirley Knight Robert Culp Victor Buono William Daniels Dean Jagger Louise Lasser Mary Ann Mobley Elizabeth Wilson Allan Arbus Robert Easton Connie Hines Priscilla Morrill Neva Patterson Ann Prentiss Milton Selzer Ellen Weston Robert Emhardt Maidie Norman John Ritter James A. McHugh John Fujioka Jonathan Segal William Bassett Jason Wingreen Crane Jackson Paul Bryar Bobby Eilbacher Kim Durso​

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An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.

Shirley Knight interviewed by Rian Keating, July 1984



Shirley Knight - Dark Secrets About A Beloved Hollywood Star



Shirley Knight, Actress - I Blame Dennis Hopper on Popcorn Talk (2017)



My Louisiana Sky (2001) (TV-Movie)
Stars Juliette Lewis Kelsey Keel Shirley Knight​

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A 12-year-old girl re-evaluates her relationship with her developmentally disabled parents.

. . . In Memory Shirley Knight . . . In Memory Martin Landau . . .
Your wonderful performances will always be remembered!​

Upcoming Tributes Through July 2024

July 12th Cheryl Ladd 73rd Birthday Tribute
July 18th Marvin Miiller Birthday Memorial
July 21st Don Knotts Birthday Memorial
July 24th Lynda Carter 73rd Birthday Tribute
July 25th Pilar Seurat Birthday Memorial
July 31st France Nuyen 85th Birthday Tribute

 

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Cheryl Ladd (July 12, 1951) 73rd Birthday Tribute

Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor; July 12, 1951) is an American actress, singer, and author best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the ABC television series Charlie's Angels, whose cast she joined in its second season in 1977 to replace Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Ladd remained on the show until its cancellation in 1981. Her film roles include Purple Hearts (1984), Millennium (1989), Poison Ivy (1992), Permanent Midnight (1998), and Unforgettable (2017). Ladd's big acting break came in 1977, when she was cast in the ABC television series Charlie's Angels, replacing star Farrah Fawcett, who left the show after only one season to pursue a movie career. To make the transition easier for audiences, producers cast Ladd as Fawcett's character's younger sister, Kris, instantly making her a part of the "Angels family". In the years to come, this practice of replacing Angels became a common event for the show. However, Ladd remained a part of the main cast for four seasons, until the show's cancelation in June 1981. While starring in the highly rated Charlie's Angels, Ladd took advantage of her newfound popularity to further her musical career, guest starring in musical-comedy variety series and specials, performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XIV in January 1980, and releasing three albums. She had a top-40 Billboard Hot 100 single and a gold record…Continue @ Wikipedia

Today is the 73rd Birthday of Cheryl Ladd. The woman is gorgeous and served as a fantasy for men young and old worldwide (including myself). I celebrate Ms. Ladd’s birthday today not for her acting ability or the roles she played but for the clothes she wore, and the beauty that god graced her with. Let’s face it folks, NO ONE watched Charlie’s Angels for the suspense nor the stories. Here we go!

Charlie's Angels S02E21 Little Angels Of The Night (Feb.22.1978)​

Plot? What plot?

You can stream it here.



Charlie's Angels S03E04 Angels In Springtime (Oct.11.1978)​

Plot? What plot?

You can stream it here.



Charlie's Angels S03E19 Marathon Angels (Mar.07.1979)​

Plot? What plot?

You can stream it here.



Charlie's Angels S04E01/ S04E02 Love Boat Angels (Sep.12.1979) ​

Plot? What plot?

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Happy Birthday Cheryl Ladd!!

Part Two of the Cheryl Ladd Birthday Tribute Continues Later Today!​

 

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You can stream it here.





The Gorgeous Cheryl Ladd!

Cheryl Ladd, Jaclyn Smith Facebook (Jul.11.2024)

Happy Birthday Facebook



Cheryl Ladd Related Media

The Rookies S01E09 The Good Die Young (Nov.13. 1972)
Stars Georg Stanford Brown Sam Melville Michael Ontkean Kate Jackson Cheryl Ladd​

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When three women are killed by someone who writes "please" with their lipstick after killing them, two female cops are sent to live in a singles apartment, and Webster and Gillis are sent to keep an eye on them.

The Rookies S01E20 The Wheel of Death (Feb.19.1973)
Stars Georg Stanford Brown Sam Melville Michael Ontkean Kate Jackson Cheryl Ladd​

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Widower father Frank Essex (Mike Farrell) targets a local criminal organization to pay for his son's hospital stay. On the run from both sides of the law, he doesn't know that he's the only donor who can save the boy's life.

Harry O S01E00 Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On (Mar.11. 1973)
Stars David Janssen Martin Sheen Margot Kidder Cheryl Ladd​

Harry Orwell is a LA cop who is retired due to a bullet in his back. Now a Private Detective, Harry O. is hired by the man who shot him to find the other man who was involved in the shooting. Scheerer is trying to kill Garrison and also keep his heroin business alive. Harry O. wants to bring both to justice.

Ironside S06E25 A Game Of Showdown (Mar.22.1973)
Stars Raymond Burr Don Galloway Don Mitchell Cheryl Ladd​

While staying at a remote lodge during a fishing trip Ironside and Ed become involved in a murder investigation.

Police Woman S03E21 Silky Chamberlain (Mar.08.1977)
Stars Angie Dickinson Earl Holliman Charles Dierkop Cheryl Ladd​

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Con men relieve Crowley's gullible uncle of his life's savings.

Police Story S04E22 Prime Rib (Apr.05.1977)​

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Stars David Groh Robert Symonds Ray Girardin Cheryl Ladd​

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Marty Lacayo and Glenn Talbot are street narcs, meaning they are given the task of busting nickel-and-dime users and hustlers. Shep, one of their users, gives them a tasty lead on a big distributor, but they are forbidden by Lt. Hagedorn from pursuing him.

Cheryl Ladd on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, March 1st 1978



Cheryl Ladd: Scenes From A Special (1982) Cheryl Ladd, Carol Burnett, Rick Springfield



Romance on the Orient Express (1985)
Stars Cheryl Ladd Stuart Wilson John Gielgud​

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An American travelling on the Orient Express runs into her former lover. Their romance ended abruptly, but now he tries to make up for lost time while she digs into his past to learn what haunting secrets led to their abrupt break-up.

Deadly Care (1987) TV-Movie
Stars Cheryl Ladd Jason Miller Jennifer Salt​

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True story about a nurse's descent into the nightmarish world of substance abuse which endangers her life and the lives of her patients.

The Girl Who Came Between Them (1990)
Stars Cheryl Ladd Tony Denison Melissa Chan​

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A home is divided when a 13-year-old Vietnamese girl moves in with a family of an ex-GI who believes that she may be his illegitimate daughter.

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Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back (1993)
Stars Cheryl Ladd Polly Draper Robert Desiderio​

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Biological parents sell their baby then harass the couple that wants to adopt her.

Dancing With Danger (1994)
Stars Cheryl Ladd Ed Marinaro Miguel Sandoval​

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A Portland taxi-dancer, which is a term used for a dance hall employee whose job is to dance with patrons, is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.

Cheryl Ladd | Kiss and Tell (1996)
Stars Cheryl Ladd John Terry Francie Swift​

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Married and happy woman receives visit from a woman who claims to be her husband's mistress. It's the end of paradise.

Cheryl Ladd Interview: Really get to know this lovely actor!



Cheryl Ladd Interview - Home & Family (2021)



KABC-TV Cheryl Ladd A Cowgirl's Song 4-27-22



Cheryl Ladd receives the Childhelp Award on March 24, 2022



Happy 73rd Birthday Cheryl Ladd!!​

 

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Little Birthday memorial for the recently departed Donald Sutherland.

 

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Lynda Jean Córdova Carter (born July 24, 1951), better known as Lynda Carter, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, model, and beauty pageant titleholder.

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she was crowned Miss World USA 1972. She's most famously known for portraying Wonder Woman in the eponymous TV series (1975-1979).

Lynda singing on the MATT HELM TV series.



Lynda singing on the Muppets.

First starring role in a movie.

In 1984 Lynda and Loni Anderson did a TV show called PARTNERS IN CRIME.
Only lasted one season.

Of course Lynda Carter is WONDER WOMAN.

Lets go for a spin.

 

[Jeff Flugel]

Pilar Seurat Birthday Memorial​

Pilar Seurat (July 25, 1938 – June 2, 2001) was a Filipino-American film and television actress in the 1960s. Born Rita Hernandez in Manila, Ms. Seurat began her Hollywood career as a dancer in Ken Murray's "Blackouts", the popular postwar variety show at the El Capitan Theatre. Though she primarily played Asian characters throughout her career, Seurat was adept at playing various nationalities. Her breakthrough role was as Louisa Escalante, the blind murder victim's sister in John Frankenheimer's The Young Savages (1961). She was most active throughout the 1960s, frequently cast on television shows whose production staff sought performers for Asian, Hispanic, or Native American roles, including 77 Sunset Strip (uncredited), Hawaiian Eye, Hong Kong, Checkmate, The Islanders, Michael Shayne, The New Breed, King of Diamonds, Naked City, Adventures in Paradise, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Ben Casey, Temple Houston, The Defenders, Rawhide, Burke's Law, Daniel Boone, I Spy, Slattery's People, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Seaway, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the famous Star Trek: TOS "Jack the Ripper in space" episode "Wolf in the Fold," Custer, The Virginian, Then Came Bronson, Hawaii Five-O, O'Hara United States Treasury and Bonanza. In 1961, she also co-starred in a couple of low-budget WWII dramas, Battle on the Beach and 7 Women from Hell. Ms. Seurat retired from acting in the 1970s, and sadly passed away from lung cancer in 2001 at age 62. (Read more on her Wikipedia page here).

Trivia note: Ms. Seurat's son (with first husband Don Devlin) was Dean Devlin, who would go on to become a successful film and TV writer/producer, whose feature film credits include Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla and The Patriot. Devlin dedicated the horror-comedy Eight-Legged Freaks to his mother's memory.

So to commemorate Ms. Seurat's birthday, here are some reviews from a selection of her various TV appearances, along with some screencaps that hopefully will go some way to capturing the angelic beauty, warmth and sensitivity she routinely brought to her roles.

Mackenzie's Raiders - 1.34 "The Lucinda Cabot Affair"
Ms. Seurat's part in this, her second-ever on screen credit, is very brief and comes in the first few minutes of this episode (she only a gets a few lines of dialogue, but definitely makes an impact). The real female star here is Bethel Leslie (no slouch herself in the looks and performance departments), who plays a conniving, spoiled young widow whose attempt to blackmail Col. Mackenzie (stalwart Richard Carlson) into marriage not only claims an innocent life, but endangers a tenuous alliance between Mackenzie and a secret "underground railway" organization of Mexican revolutionaries. One of the many strong points of these ZIV series is the extensive location filming, prominently on display here.

Maverick – 3.19 “The White Widow”
Bart wins $5,000 in a poker game and puts his winnings in the town hotel's safe. When he awakes, his cash is gone and the clerk is dead. His only chance for a stake is the bank president, a.k.a. widow Wilma White (Julie Adams). Mrs. White has been receiving death threats, and offers Maverick $2,000 in cash if he agrees to act as her bodyguard. Possible suspects include the hotel's owner (Richard Webb), the town mayor (Ross Elliott), the sheriff (Don Kennedy) and Mrs. White's Mexican maid, Pilar (Pilar Seurat). I've grown to like these Jack Kelly "Bart" episodes as much as if not more so than the ones featuring James Garner, and this is another good one. Kelly gets to make out with the lovely Ms. Adams and engages in two rambunctious, knock-down, drag-out fistfights. He also utters one of the show's trademark "Pappyisms," which made me laugh out loud:

Bart (when presented with the winsome widow's offer): Well, as my old pappy used to say, 'Son, so long as you stay away from women and temptation...you're no son of mine.'

The Lieutenant - 1.10 "A Troubled Image"
This peacetime military drama, produced by a pre-Star Trek Gene Roddenberry, stars Gary Lockwood as Lt. William Rice, a young Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, under the command of Capt. Rambridge (Robert Vaughn). In this episode, Rice is tasked with training a group of soldiers from "a friendly SE Asian country" (hint, hint...) His job becomes a lot more difficult when he finds that one of the group is a beautiful young woman (Pilar Seurat), who has her own very personal reasons for wanting to fight. Though it took me a while to warm up to this series, it's undoubtably a high-quality, adult piece of work, sensitively written and acted. Lockwood is very engaging as the lead, Vaughn is effective as the strict but reasonable senior officer, and Ms. Seurat is not only a fine actress but absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. Also with Ed Asner (somewhat overqualified for his small part) and Richard Anderson (sans hairpiece).

Stoney Burke - 1.26 "The Weapons Man"
An unusual and very strong, evocatively shot episode of this unusual, varied and excellent modern day rodeo drama. In what seems almost like a backdoor pilot for a spinoff show of his own, J.D. Cannon guest stars as an ex-OSS agent, retired police inspector and expert on weapons and foreign cultures, who is called in to investigate the apparently accidental killing of a rodeo audience member during an Indian archery demonstration. Jack Lord's Stoney gets involved as the reluctant local man on the scene. Henry Silva plays the killer, and his motive is interestingly presented. Also starring Pilar Seurat and Frank de Kova (still playing an Indian but about as far removed from F-Troop's Chief Wild Eagle as possible).

The Wild Wild West – 1.17 “The Night the Dragon Screamed”
Kind of a silly episode, which finds Secret Service agents James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin, spending most of the hour dressed up in yellowface, alas) in the middle of a battle between two Chinese tongs, with West rescuing a Hunang princess (Seurat) from the dastardly clutches of a British opium smuggler (Ben Wright). Ms. Seurat doesn’t get much to do other than look stunning and repeatedly make out with Robert Conrad (lucky bastard). With some notable exceptions, I find these first season episodes somewhat lacking compared to the later color seasons. S1 is still fun, but IMO the producers didn’t really figure out the proper balance of pace, action, humor, romance and intrigue for the show until S2. Throughout her career, the Manila-born Ms. Seurat was cast in all manner of ethnic roles, from Mexican, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, Native American to, as in this case, Chinese (who knows if she ever got a chance to play a Filipina?) At least the rest of the supporting cast of veteran Hollywood Asian actors in this one - including Phillip Ahn, Richard Loo, Benson Fong (as a cheerfully traitorous hatchet man), Beulah Quo and Nancy Hsueh - were all of authentic Chinese ancestry.

The F.B.I. – 2.8 “Collision Course”
Jack Lord guest stars as Frank Schroeder, a dead-eyed career criminal who hitches a ride with a kindly salesman and then brutally murders him in cold-blood. This crime puts Schroeder on the FBI’s "Ten Most Wanted" list, leading Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) and Special Agent Rhodes (Stephen Brooks) down to San Antonio to nab the creep. Just when the viewer thinks they've got him pegged as a rabid animal, Schroeder displays a shred of compassion and gets involved with a beautiful deaf-mute Mexican girl (Pilar Seurat). Malcolm Atterbury has a couple of effective scenes as Schroeder’s guilt-ridden father, and smooth Richard Anderson is on hand as a local FBI agent assisting Erskine. As usual with his pre-Hawaii Five-O work, Lord is very good here, adding some subtle shades of humanity to his mad dog killer character. Ms. Seurat is also very affecting; she would reunite with Lord in the S2 Five-O episode “Nightmare Road.”

The Fugitive – 4.8 “Wine is a Traitor”
Kimble (David Janssen) hitches a ride with a couple of migrant Mexican workers when someone shoots and kills the driver, a man who was leading a strike against local winery owner Pete Crandall (James Gregory, playing an honorable guy for a change). While the other passenger, Morales (Carlos Romero) is considered the chief suspect by the local sheriff, it turns out the killer was actually Crandall’s ne’er-do-well son, Carl (Roy Thinnes), and Kimball can prove it. Carl sets his dad’s enforcers (Robert J. Wilke and Warren J. Kemmerling) the task of making sure Kimble doesn’t get out of town alive. The fugitive is once more between a rock and a hard place, his only hope to somehow get to the next town and report what he knows. Pilar Seurat plays Morales’ worried daughter. Solid and typically suspenseful fourth season episode. Dabbs Greer is effective in a few brief scenes as an unhelpful jerk of a hotel owner in the Crandall’s pocket. Funnily enough, this is actually the very first time where I clearly noticed some of those famous Twilight Zone music cues being used on the show. (I'm slow, but I get there in the end. )

The High Chaparral – 1.15 “The Terrorist”
Manolito (Henry Darrow, on fine form) carries out a daring plan to help his childhood friend, Santos (Henry Silva), break out of a French prison in Mexico, then help smuggle him and his beautiful sister, Pilar (Ms. Seurat) - with whom Mano has long been enamored - across the border to the High Chaparral, where they are to meet with revolutionary leader Benito Juárez. But Manolito doesn’t realize that years of fighting has left Santos embittered and hungry for power of his own, and now he plans to kill Juárez and set himself up as the next el presidente. With Buck, Blue Boy and the rest of the ranch hands away chasing runaway cattle, Santos and his men take Big John (Leif Erickson) and Mano’s sister, Victoria (Linda Cristal), hostage while they wait for Juárez to show up. It’s up to the hard-partying but wily badass Mano to put a stop to Santos’ plans...permanently. Ms. Seurat has good chemistry with Darrow, and gives a typically empathetic and sincere performance.

Mannix – 2.25 “To Catch a Rabbit”
Not the usual swingin’ private dick mystery romp here, more of a “social justice” morality play, as Mannix tries to prove that Rivera (Tony de Costa) is innocent of murdering Peter Martin, the playboy son of a respected doctor who often ministered to the less fortunate, in his home. Mannix discovers that Peter had defrauded Rivera and others of their life savings, leading Rivera to burgle the Martin home in an ill-advised attempt to get back the money owed him. Martin’s sister (Gail Kobe), more interested in preserving her family’s good name, at first refuses to help Mannix set the record straight, so Joe puts his life on the line to try and bring the escaped Rivera in before he’s gunned down by the police. In another rather thankless role, Ms. Seurat plays Rivera’s wife. This departure from the norm episode is well done, but not really the kind of story I look for from this series.

The Mod Squad – 3.9 “A Far Away Place So Near”
When an old buddy of his, Hank, is killed by a supposed sniper the day before he was due to come home from Vietnam, Linc (Clarence William III) suspects that four of Hank’s returning fellow servicemen know more than they are telling. Good acting here from the guest cast playing the vets, which includes Ben Murphy (the slick leader), Bo Hopkins (cheerful yet troubled good ol’ boy), Tom Nardini (surly and disaffected), and Michael Margotta (strung-out and now hostile to his Vietnamese bride, played by Pilar Seurat). This was likely a very timely episode when it first aired in November 1970, dealing as it does with battle trauma and guilt over the accidental killing of civilians. James Sikking turns up as a helpful JAG officer. In one of her last roles as an actress, Ms. Seurat gives a sensitive, heartfelt performance, despite putting on a somewhat bizarre accent which doesn’t resemble that of any Vietnamese English-speaker I’ve ever encountered.

 

[ScottRE]

ROBERT COLBERT BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE

Robert Louis Colbert (born July 26, 1931) is an American actor best known for his leading role as Dr. Doug Phillips on the ABC television series The Time Tunnel and his two appearances as Brent Maverick, a third Maverick brother in the ABC/Warner Brothers western Maverick. Continue at Wikipedia

Bob Colbert’s rugged good looks, tall stature and affable personality assured him of a long career in Hollywood. While never reaching “household name” status, his performance as Doug Phillips in The Time Tunnel gave him the immortality of a Cult TV favorite.

Colbert was a solid co-lead with James Darren and the two men gelled quickly. Equal leads with different strengths, there was no rivalry or fighting over lines. Both men to this day still speak highly of the other and talk about actually giving their lines to the other. He enjoyed his co-stars, speaking very highly of Whit Bissell and John Zaremba, but in particular Lee Meriwether. The moment they met, he felt an immediate attraction, which he claims the both shared, but did nothing about it since they were both already married at the time. Indeed, in the episode “The Kidnappers,” the chemistry between the two is obvious and they both played up an unspoken romance between the characters.

The action leads in an Irwin Allen program seldom has much to do of substance, leaving the actors to add whatever depth they could. Colbert gave Doug a pragmatic and serious minded, and often negative “doom-sayer” trait. While Darren’s younger Tony Newman was always open to trying anything, Doug was the one to point out the odds and futility. However, both men were skilled at the remarkable amount of fisticuffs required for the role.

They even had a “double punch” where they would hit an adversary two-by-two. It was apparently Darren’s idea, who wanted a signature move. Colbert thought it was cheesy but Darren (and I), loved it.

Colbert’s strength was in the quiet moments and those times when reality was needed during the most incredible stories. When silver aliens arrived in a old Western town or he had to wear a period costume, Colbert took it in stride, never sending up the material and always selling it like it was Dr. Kildare.

After cancellation, Colbert’s interviews would initially be more disparaging towards the series. However, when the Irwin Allen catalog had a resurgence in popularity in the 90’s, Colbert softened his view and was a more upbeat supporter of his one regular lead role. Perhaps it was the distance from the filming, maybe he just realized people loved it, but he became an enthusiastic supporter of his series. He particularly seemed to enjoy working with legends like Victor Jory, Michael Rennie and his friend Tris Coffin. Colbert also spoke with pride over the opportunities to work with future Hollywood stars such as Ellen Burstyn, Carroll O’Connor and Robert Duval.

He would spin some outrageous yarns. I remember one where he claimed another network kidnapped James Darren in an effort to sabotage the series. According to Colbert, he and co-star Whit Bissel rescued Darren and all was well. The interview was presented seriously, but since I never found anything to substantiate it, I an sure Colbert was pulling the interviewer’s leg (a person who apparently had no sense of humor).

His brief, two episode career as Brent Maverick was against Colbert’s own wishes. As a contract player at Warner Brothers, he was assigned the role and given the same costume as James Garner. Per Wikipedia: Thinking of the inevitable comparisons to Garner that were bound to ensue, Colbert said to his bosses, "Put me in a dress and call me Brenda, but don't do this to me!"

Colbert did solid work in the guest star circuit, appearing in Bonanza, 77 Sunset Strip, Death Valley Days, Dallas, Hawaii Five-0, and a few episodes of Mannix. Now retired at an energetic 92, he still makes personal appearances at conventions.

Happy Birthday Mr. Colbert!


Upcoming Tributes

July 2024

July 18th Marvin Miiller Birthday Memorial - Delayed
July 21st Don Knotts Birthday Memorial - Delayed
July 31st France Nuyen 85th Birthday Tribute

August 2024

August 5th Loni Anderson 79th Birthday Tribute
August 15th Pat Priest 88th Birthday Tribute
August 23rd Barbara Eden 93rd Birthday Tribute
August 25th David Canary Birthday Memorial
August 26th Jim Davis Birthday Memorial
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The ladies go on and on ...

 

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France Nuyen (July 31st, 1939) 85th Birthday Tribute​

France Nuyen (born France Nguyễn Vân Nga born on 31 July 1939) is a French-American actress, model, and psychological counselor. She is known to film audiences for playing romantic leads in South Pacific (1958), Satan Never Sleeps (1962), and A Girl Named Tamiko (also 1962), and for playing Ying-Ying St. Clair in The Joy Luck Club (1993). She also originated the title role in the Broadway play The World of Suzie Wong, based on the novel of the same name. She is a Theatre World Award winner and Golden Globe Award nominee.

France Nuyen became a motion picture actress in 1958. In her first role, she appeared as Liat, daughter of Bloody Mary (played by Juanita Hall), in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. In 1978 Nuyen guest-starred with Peter Falk and Louis Jourdan in the Columbo episode "Murder Under Glass". In 1986 she joined the cast of St. Elsewhere as Dr. Paulette Kiem, remaining until the series ended in 1988. Nuyen appeared in several films including The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961) Satan Never Sleeps (1962), A Girl Named Tamiko (1962), Diamond Head (1963), Dimension 5 (1966), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), The Joy Luck Club (1993), and The American Standards (2008).

France Nuyen worked several times with actor William Shatner. At age 19, she was cast in Shatner's 1958 Broadway play The World of Suzie Wong. After a dubious initial opening, the play ran for more than 500 performances and was quite financially successful. Both Nuyen and Shatner later collected notable accolades for their work on the show at the 1959 Theatre World Awards Nuyen worked again with Shatner across three US television projects, starting with "Elaan of Troyius", a 1968 third season episode of the original Star Trek in which Nuyen was the title character. She would later appear with Shatner in the 1973 made-for-TV movie The Horror at 37,000 Feet, and afterward in a 1974 episode of the Kung Fu series entitled "A Small Beheading”… Continue @ Wikipedia

Gunsmoke S12E06 Gunfighter, R.I.P (Oct.22.1966)​

Today, June 31st, 2024 is the 85th Birthday of the lovely Frances Nuyen. If this looks familar then you’ve been paying attention. This episode of Gunsmoke was originally used for the Darren McGavin Birthday Memorial featuring Ms. Nuyen. The images posted below are those which were not used there. All focus on the beautiful Frances Nuyen and will be followed by some glorious Ms. Nuyen production photos. Hope you all enjoy!

Stunning France Nuyen Production Photos

Photographer Milton H. Green

France Nuyen-William Shatner (Oct.14.1958)

Promotional Photos from The World of Suzie Wong Broadhurst Theater Play for Life Magazine (1958)

Ed Sullivan Show (1948-1971)

S12E10 Episode #12.10 (Nov.16.1958) Segment
Stars Ed Sullivan The Cast of 'The World of Suzie Wong' Lou Costello​

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The World of Suzie Wong with William Shatner, France Nuyen, & cast members from the Broadway show. All rights reserved Andrew Solt and SOFA Entertainment.

 

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Magazine Covers

A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)

Photographer Don Ornitz (11) (1958)

France Nuyen Related Media

Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Stars William Holden Clifton Webb France Nuyen​

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During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.

The Winston Affair aka Man in the Middle (1964)
Stars Robert Mitchum France Nuyen Barry Sullivan​

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In WW2, a US lieutenant stationed in India shoots dead a British NCO and admits his crime but his reason for the murder is so bizarre that it puzzles his defense counsel.

I Spy (1965-1968)

S03E13 An American Empress (Dec.25.1967)
Stars Robert Culp Bill Cosby France Nuyen​

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While in a toy shop in Chinatown, San Francisco Kelly and Scott meet an attractive Chinese young woman named Mai Lin. Kelly is immediately attracted to her and strikes up a conversation. While showing her the sights they find it strange that she says she is from San Francisco yet has no knowledge of the most obvious San Franciscan sights...Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge... Read all

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China Cry: A True Story (1990)
Stars Julia Nickson France Nuyen James Shigeta​

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This is the true story of Sung Neng Yee, now known as Nora Lam, who fled from Communist China to Hong Kong for her palpably real Christian faith.

France Nguyen (2021)​

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The Lambs held a Virtual Conversation with France Nguyen, who appeared in South Pacific, The World of Suzie Wong, The Joy Luck Club, Star Trek, and other numerous film, stage and TV roles.

Happy 85th Birthday France Nuyen!!!​

Back in 1958 when both Frances Nuyen and William Shatner appeared together at the Broadhurst Theater in the live production of The World of Suzie Wong, little did they know that a decade later they would make television history in the Original Star Trek. Take it away Scott!!

Please hold all posts until after the following France Nuyen Birthday Tribute coming later today.​