OK, now, without cheating, what actor appeared in the most original “Twilight Zone” episodes?
I think I know the answer, but I’d be interested if there are any “Zoners” that already know for a fact.
(PS Rod Serling doesn’t count, and it’s not any other type of trick question, either.)
Do they have to be famous? Can we get away with “Snorky Maverick, Rod Serling’s alcoholic brother-in-law, appeared in crowd scenes in seventeen separate episodes for ten dollars and all the beer he could drink” ?
Burgess Meredith, a certified famous actor, starred in at least two: “Time Enough at Last” and “Mr. Dingle, the Strong.” I’m not sure if anyone else played the lead role in more than one episode.
Dammit, I know what the guy looked like . . . Isn’t his name “Casey” something?
I’ll just say that the one I have in mind was never a top biller, but an actor with a very long career in supporting and bit parts.
Wait! THREE! Meredith had the lead role in at least THREE!
He was in “Printer’s Devil,” too! Played the Devil hisself.
{No, I didn’t cheat. I’ve had a copy of THE TWILIGHT ZONE COMPANION for over fifteen years, and the still from that episode just popped ino my head.}
Burgess Meredith:
“Time Enough at Last”
“Mr Dingle, the Strong”
“The Obsolete Man”
“Printer’s Devil”
Jack Klugman:
(The one where he played the trumpet)
“In Praise of Pip”
“A Game of Pool”
(The one where he’s with some other astronauts in a space ship)
They, I think, are tied for the most lead roles in TZ.
But another actor appeared in SIX.
“But another actor appeared in SIX.”
–It’s that Casey guy, right? I KNOW it’s that Casey guy . . .
I can think of two TZ “Caseys:”
One is the baseball story with the robot player. I think Jack Warden or James Whitmore might be in that one.
Then there’s Casey Adams, more commonly known as Max Showalter, who appeared in “It’s a Good Life,” with the evil Billy Mumy.
OK, here’s the giveaway: This actor was the voice of Col Hathi in “Jungle Book.”
Casey Adams! THAT’S who I was thinking of! But I guess it’s not him, right? Darn.
Just the three of us, AGAIN, eh?
I’ll make dip. Who’s got the pinochle deck?
Yeah, the baseball one was “The Mighty Casey.” And the Jack Klugman trumpet one was “A Passage for Trumpet,” but I don’t remember the spaceship episode.
Hm. The voice of Col Hathi in JUNGLE BOOK. He was the elephant, right? With the thick British Raj officer accent?
Double hm. C. Aubrey Smith was LONG dead by 1959…who else benefited from those plummy tones?
Not just three, but one lurker who could only think of two each Klugmans and Merediths and thought that Shatner was tied with them.
I’ll leave the thread to thems what can answer it.
Any dip left? Pat O’Malley was in 7 episodes. They are:
[ol][li]playing “Wilson” in episode: “Walking Distance” (episode # 1.5) 10/30/1959[/li][li]playing “Homburg” in episode: “Chaser, The” (episode # 1.31) 5/13/1960[/li][li]playing “Attendant” in episode: “Back There” (episode # 2.13) 1/13/1961[/li][li]playing “Mr. Llewellyn” in episode: “Static” (episode # 2.20) 3/10/1961[/li][li]playing “Old Ben” in episode: “Fugitive, The” (episode # 3.25) 3/9/1962[/li][li]playing “Old Man” in episode: “Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross, The” (episode # 5.16) 1/17/1964[/li]playing “Gooberman” in episode: “Mr. Garrity and the Graves” (episode # 5.32) 5/8/1964[/ol]
No dip for you, you cheater. Now list the Snorky Maverick episodes, and stay offa the IMdB!
Was Shatner in any episodes besides the “Gremlin on the Airplane Wing” one?
“Submitted for your approval…”
Shatner also played in the one where the newlyweds are in the little cafe and he becomes obsessed with the fortune telling maching sitting on the cafe’ table.
Wanderer:
Pat O’Malley was in 7 episodes. They are:
[ol][li]playing “Wilson” in episode: “Walking Distance” (episode # 1.5) 10/30/1959[/li][li]playing “Homburg” in episode: “Chaser, The” (episode # 1.31) 5/13/1960[/li][li]playing “Attendant” in episode: “Back There” (episode # 2.13) 1/13/1961[/li][li]playing “Mr. Llewellyn” in episode: “Static” (episode # 2.20) 3/10/1961[/li][li]playing “Old Ben” in episode: “Fugitive, The” (episode # 3.25) 3/9/1962[/li][li]playing “Old Man” in episode: “Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross, The” (episode # 5.16) 1/17/1964[/li][li]playing “Gooberman” in episode: “Mr. Garrity and the Graves” (episode # 5.32) 5/8/1964[/ol][/li]
Not only did you get the same ones as I did, but in the same order. Excel spreadsheet sort? 
“Wilson” in “Walking Distance” was played by Pat O’Malley, not J. Pat O’Malley.
SIX.
The spaceship one was an hour long episode, and the hour long episodes haven’t been shown on TV as often as the half hour ones. I believe it was called “Death Ship” or something like that.
AWB
As Mjollnir pointed out, I “cheated” by using the IMdb and I just cut and pasted them in the order they were listed there. I don’t consider it cheating because finding info in the IMdb isn’t always that easy. I am a fan of both “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits”, but I remember few details, so I consider reference materials fair game.
Mjollnir, if you are sure that Pat O’Malley was in “Walking Distance” instead of J. Pat O’Malley, you should tell the IMdb of their error.
Yep, “Wilson” in “Walking Distance,” IIRC, was the somnolent drug store owner, and was not J Pat O’Malley, just plain ole Pat O’Malley.