Star Trek II is a fun Trek installment when discussing things like what you can and can’t get away with in movies. It was made a couple of years before the PG-13 MPAA rating was rolled out, and at the time, PG was everything right up to the threshold of an R rating, which for Trek meant human carcasses hanging from the ceiling, people screaming and engulfed in flames, one guy screaming as he is not-quite-quickly vaporized, parasites climbing into peoples’ ears, and Moby Dick references.
Pretty sure you still couldn’t show a woman topless though, not that you’d expect that in a Star Trek production anyways.
In the wake of one of the movies being released, Letterman read a list of the Top Ten lines heard around the set. One of these was, IIRC, “Damn it Jim, I’m a doctor, not a very good actor!”
Mission Impossible re-run, circa 1970:
Phelps and crew at a sidewalk cafe somewhere.
Suddenly, a drive-by shooting. Bang Bang! Somebody laying on ground in pool of blood.
Paris (played by Leonard Nimoy) kneels over victim, checks his pulse.
Meanwhile, Phelps stands by, arms folded, scowling.
Paris looks up at Phelps.
“He’s dead, Jim.”
Clash of the Titans had a topless Danae breastfeeding baby Perseus. No, I wouldn’t watch like a hawk every time it came on HBO to catch a peep of boobies when I was twelve. Why do you ask?
I remember that because it was such a surprise. Just a few months before on Mission Impossible the script worked around using the word by having the villain of the week pause, as he’s being led away, before Cinnamon Carter (who’d posed as a love interest in the Intricate Plan) and mutter, “What is it that hath no fury like a woman scorned?”
