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The 70's (until the very end in 1979) were very lean years for Shatner's acting career so he did quite a few commercials.
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Originally Posted by Chucky
I guess it was pre-Trek days.
Correct. That episode originally aired in 1963 so three years before ST: TOS.
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Originally Posted by wormfood
And he was the highlight in Airplane 2
You've got that right. Without him Airplane 2 would have been a totally forgettable sequel.
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I've never seen Airplane 2. Looking at the comments, that 7 minutes with Shatner was the best of the movie. That opening gag with the door was just lol.
I've never seen Airplane 2. Looking at the comments, that 7 minutes with Shatner was the best of the movie. That opening gag with the door was just lol.
Actually, IMHO, it a rare example of a sequel to a movie being pretty good. I highly suggest checking out.
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Originally Posted by Force10
.I remember him as an astronaut in an Outer Limits episode from 1964,
Heh, who knows? It might have been this performance which caught the attention of Gene Roddenberry.
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Not much of a Shatner fan myself, but I'm a massive Columbo fan. And Shatner's character in one of his appearances (Butterfly in Shades of Grey) had in mind to shoot Columbo. No one shoots Columbo! Thankfully his plan was foiled, as Columbo considers all.
Shatner appeared in at least two episodes that I can recall offhand. One in the late 70's and this one in the mid-90s.
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Originally Posted by DBond
Shatner appeared in at least two episodes that I can recall offhand. One in the late 70's and this one in the mid-90s.
Columbo ran into the mid 90's??
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Yeah it was a reboot of sorts. It ran (again) from 1989 to 2003 with prominent actors of the period like Andrew Stevens, Dabney Coleman and Norm from Cheers. These run every Saturday night on Cozi TV. Leads in to the Six Million Dollar Man
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Originally Posted by DBond
Not much of a Shatner fan myself, but I'm a massive Columbo fan. And Shatner's character in one of his appearances (Butterfly in Shades of Grey) had in mind to shoot Columbo. No one shoots Columbo! Thankfully his plan was foiled, as Columbo considers all.
Shatner appeared in at least two episodes that I can recall offhand. One in the late 70's and this one in the mid-90s.
+1!
Big Columbo fan here as well...been watching them forever. I liked Shatner's character in the 70's version episode as a TV sleuth matching wits with Columbo...good stuff!
Leonard Nimoy also had a good character in an early Columbo episode as a surgeon.
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