Sabrina “Miramanee” Scharf as Daniel J Travanti’s fiancée in the ***Gidget ***episode “Now, There’s a Face!”
This one is a real hoot. Gidget (15 1/2) falls in love with Travanti (supposedly 24), a photographer and former GI she meets on the beach. Nowadays, you’d see this scenario in a documentary on serial killers.
Of course, it’s all very innocent. It turns out Travanti is engaged, and he’s so wrapped up in his career (photographing jail bait on the beach; nice work, if you can find it) he can’t imagine that Gidget might be in love with him. Naturally, Gidget’s dad is very understanding and sympathetic. He would never dream of telling the young man to stay away from his underage daughter.
This even tops the scene in yesterday’s episode where Gunnar puts Inge over his knee and spanks her when he finds out she’s been acting like a typical American teenager. It was definitely a different era!
In a different episode, Gidget falls in love with a fellow she meets on the beach over the summer - and in September, she learns that he’s her math teacher at the high school.
Len Cariou, a VGR guest star, was nominated for an Emmy for his role as FDR in the Winston Churchill WWII movie Into the Storm, which I saw last night: Len Cariou | Memory Alpha | Fandom
He voiced the character “Mr. House” in the video game Fallout: New Vegas.
Sort of a creepy character; a technical tycoon from the pre-war past who has been keeping himself alive with the help of teams of securitron robots. His onscreen presence was a still photo of him staring out at you, big brother style, looking like Howard Hughes. And his voice was that familiar one from DS9.
I just saw Ian Wolfe, who played Mr. Atoz in TOS’ “All of Our Yesterdays”, was greedy bank owner John Harrison in the Bonanza episode, “Bank Run”. Bank Run was one of Bonanza’s occasional comic episodes in which Little Joe and Hoss wind up robbing a bank (for strictly heroic reasons, of course).
I was watching the episode The Ship on Star Trek: Deep Space 9 the other night, which had the following exchange between a crewman and Chief O’Brien (Colm Meaney).
Muñiz: I thought maybe you just stopped to catch your breath.
Chief O’Brien: Me, out of breath? I was climbing mountains in Ireland before you were born.
Muñiz: You mean hills, don’t you? They’ve gently sloping hills in Ireland - no mountains. But what do I know? After all, you’re the mountain man - an old mountain man.
Chief O’Brien: You know something, Muñiz? You’re due for a transfer. How does waste extraction sound?
I caught the joke right away. The writers were having fun with Meaney’s role in the movie The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill, But Came Down A Mountain.
In doing a quick search of this thread, I noticed no one has mentioned Rosalind Chao as Klinger’s wife, Soon-Lee on MASH* and as Keiko O’brien on ST:TNG and DS9.
Julie “Eleen” Newmar, the original “Catwoman” on Batman, reprised the role by voicing the character in Warner Bros. animated ***Return of the Caped Crusaders. ***
I had as much fun watching this cartoon as I did when the original series debuted in January 1966! :o
One of three actors who were on both Batman and Star Trek. Frank “The Riddler” Gorshin played Commissioner Bele in Let That Be Your Last Battlefield and Yvonne “Batgirl” Craig played Marta, the Orion woman in *Whom Gods Destroy. *
I just posted this in another thread, but it fits here as well. Armin “Quark” Shimmerman played the owner of a Briard dog who offered Al Bundy $10,000 to breed her with Buck in the Married With Children episode “Buck the Stud”.
Henry Woronicz, multiple roles in ***TNG ***and VOY, as “Father Curtis” on Seinfeld. Among other roles, he was also leader of the KACL focus group on Frasier.