# Spotting a Familiar Actor in a Surprising Place - Part Deux **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931 "2017-06-26T19:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/221 "2017-08-14T01:48:10Z")
Edgar Buchanan, AKA Uncle Joe from _Petticoat Junction_ as a good bad guy in _Have Gun Will Travel_. Also [Morgan Woodward](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940971/) from the Big Valley, but that isn’t surprising, he was all over the damn place. Steve McQueen on _Track Down_, a western featuring Robert Culp later of _I Spy_. McQueen played a bounty hunter named Josh Randall, and the network gave him his own series, _Wanted Dead or Alive_. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/222 "2017-08-14T02:26:46Z")
Collin Wilcox, aka “Mayella Violet Ewell” in _ **To Kill a Mockingbird** _, was a hot teenager in “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” on Friday’s _ **Twilight Zone** _. She was also the hot widow who threw a glass of wine in Robert Conrad’s face in an episode of _ **Columbo** _. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/223 "2017-08-14T04:57:08Z")
I just watched an episode of _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_ with a very young Roger Moore as a police inspector. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/224 "2017-08-14T04:57:08Z")
I just found out that “Carrie,” the daughter of the Unemployment Office official in “The Boyfriend, Part 2” on _ **Seinfeld** _ (i.e., the girl George dates), was the late Carol Ann Susi, aka “Mrs Wollowitz” on _ **The Big Bang Theory** _! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/225 "2017-08-14T12:10:35Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Robert Conrad, of The Wild, Wild, West, playing a Honolulu detective on 77 Sunset Strip. > . Robert Conrad spent an entire series as a Honolulu detective on the series _Hawaiian Eye_. In fact, since _77 Sunset Strip_ and _Hawaiian Eye_ were made by the same people, this was probably a “crossover” , or at least a trial. > **[Hawaiian Eye](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Eye)** > > Hawaiian Eye is an American detective television series that ran from October 1959 to April 1963 on the ABC television network. > Private investigator Tracy Steele (Anthony Eisley) and his half-Hawaiian partner, Tom Lopaka (Robert Conrad), own Hawaiian Eye, a combination detective agency and private security firm, located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their principal client is the Hawaiian Village Hotel, which in exchange for security services, provides the agency with a luxurious private compound on the... > [@](#): > > Hawaiian Eye was one of several ABC/Warner Bros. Television detective series of the era situated in different exotic locales. Others included Hollywood-based 77 Sunset Strip, Bourbon Street Beat, set in New Orleans, and Miami’s Surfside Six. In reality, all were shot on the Warner Brothers lot in Los Angeles, making it easy for characters—and sometimes whole scripts—to cross over. Although the shows aren’t spin-offs in the traditional sense, Sunset was the first in this chain of “exotic location detective series”. In this regard, Hawaiian Eye was the most viable of the Sunset look-alikes, lasting four seasons.[ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/226 "2017-08-14T13:50:20Z")
Cool. Fans of one show are introduced to another. $$$ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/227 "2017-08-14T14:09:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Robert Conrad spent an entire series as a Honolulu detective on the series _Hawaiian Eye_. There was an episode of this on YouTube (at least a partial one) featuring Barbara Bain of _ **Mission: Impossible** _ fame. IIRC, she played a truly desperate housewife who went along with an armored car heist to keep her husband out of jail. I don’t know if the missing segment was ever added, but I’d really like to see more of this show. I vaguely remember it (along with _ **Surfside Six** _) from when I was in Kindergarden or First Grade. _ **77 Sunset Strip** _ I definitely remember from my preschool days. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/228 "2017-08-14T15:21:23Z")
Robert Conrad was my favorite actor in the early '70s (I was late to Wild Wild West, but scarfed it down), and I watched like a stalker for any sign of him in anything (“The DA,” “Assignment: Vienna,” “Five Desperate Women [TVM]”\*). Years later, I suffered through, “Jingle All The Way,” and didn’t realize until the credits that the cop was RC (didn’t he get blowed up real good–cartoon style?). \*“FDW” was the first thing I saw where RC dies at the end–he’s the bad guy. I was sniffling for his death, which was hardly the point of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/229 "2017-08-23T02:50:24Z")
George “Goober” Lindsey, Michael “Principal Kaufman” Constantine, Paul “Dr Piper” Fix, and Ivan “Sgt Kinchloe” Dixon in “I Am the Night–Color Me Black,” a real “message” episode of _ **Twilight Zone** _. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/230 "2017-08-28T02:38:09Z")
George “Mr Sulu” Takei in “Encounter” on _ **Twilight Zone** _. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/231 "2017-08-28T15:51:38Z")
A couple of Doctor Who actors far from a TARDIS Patrick Troughton (Classic Doctor 2) played Phineus in _Jason and the Argonauts_, almost unrecognizable with a heavy beard. Peter Davsion (Classic Doctor 5) showed up on _All Creatures Great and Small_ His goat was sick or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/232 "2017-08-28T16:51:16Z")
Peter Capaldi was in _World War Z_ just before being cast in his best-known role. He played a physician with the World Health Organization billed as (appropriately enough) “WHO Doctor.” ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/233 "2017-08-28T17:16:21Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > Peter Davsion (Classic Doctor 5) showed up on _All Creatures Great and Small_ His goat was sick or something like that. Davison didn’t just “show up” on _All Creatures_. He was a regular cast member, playing young veterinarian Tristan Farnon. Indeed, _All Creatures_ is what brought him to fame, and pre-dated his time on _Doctor Who_ by a couple of years. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/234 "2017-08-28T17:54:15Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > His goat was sick or something like that. I hate it when that happens! ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/235 "2017-08-28T18:20:53Z")
[list of guest stars who appeared on M_A_S\*H](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_M*A*S*H_guest_stars) Brian Denehey Laurence Fishburne John Ritter Andrew Dice Clay! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/236 "2017-08-29T00:45:19Z")
Star Trek’s Mr. Atoz in a _77 Sunset Strip Episode, Dial S for Spencer_. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/237 "2017-08-29T02:44:32Z")
Tim Russ was in Star Trek ng episode ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/238 "2017-08-29T02:49:38Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Tim Russ was in Star Trek ng episode He actually appeared in three different incarnations of ST before being cast as Tuvok on VGR: > **[Devor](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Devor)** > > Devor was a member of a group of mercenaries that boarded the USS Enterprise-D during preparations for a baryon sweep in 2369 at Arkaria Base with the intent of stealing trilithium resin. Their plan was foiled when they were noticed by Captain... > **[T'Kar](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/T%27Kar)** > > T'Kar was a male Klingon alive during the mid to late-24th century. In his adult life, he served as a mercenary and, along with Yeto, was one of two Klingons employed by the Trill Verad to steal the Dax symbiont in the 2370s. In early-2370, T'Kar was... > **[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) personnel](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-B)_personnel)** > > The following is a list of personnel assigned to the USS Enterprise-B. This communications officer/first officer intercepted a distress call from the SS Lakul in 2293. (Star Trek Generations) These Enterprise-B crewmembers were stationed on the... ---
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Yes!! ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931/240 "2017-08-29T13:27:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Star Trek’s Mr. Atoz in a _77 Sunset Strip Episode, Dial S for Spencer_. Mr. Atoz (the character, not me) was Ian Wolfe. He had a _very_ long career, starting in the 1930s and lasting until 1990. He was one of those guys who was in _everything_. Wikipedia claims “around 400” roles in film and television. And that’s not even counting his theater work, which was also extensive. He always looked like a little old man, even in his thirties! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-a-familiar-actor-in-a-surprising-place-part-deux/789931.md?page=13)