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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Jim Logajan on May 27, 2022, 07:29:37 PM
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Good episode of "The Lieutenant" - only watched one other episode on Youtube and thought it was nicely done also, so may watch a few more:
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Good find. I only know her from Star Trek, in which she was awesome.
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I don't remember that series. I do remember seeing Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner on the same episode of The Twilight Zone once. Shatner himself was in two of my favorite episodes though.
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I don't remember that series. I do remember seeing Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner on the same episode of The Twilight Zone once. Shatner himself was in two of my favorite episodes though.
Yes he was, I know the exact episodes of which you speak.
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I don't remember that series. I do remember seeing Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner on the same episode of The Twilight Zone once. Shatner himself was in two of my favorite episodes though.
I had heard of The Lieutenant series but had never seen an episode until two days ago. The series only lasted one season. It was the first TV series produced by Roddenberry. Gary Lockwood starred and likely as a result he appeared in the second Star Trek pilot. Lockwood later appeared in 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Lockwood and Keir Dullea, who played the Discovery One astronauts, are both 85 and still with us.)
Nimoy and Shatner also appeared in the same Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode - but never together in the same scene.
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I had heard of The Lieutenant series but had never seen an episode until two days ago. The series only lasted one season. It was the first TV series produced by Roddenberry. Gary Lockwood starred and likely as a result he appeared in the second Star Trek pilot. Lockwood later appeared in 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Lockwood and Keir Dullea, who played the Discovery One astronauts, are both 85 and still with us.)
Nimoy and Shatner also appeared in the same Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode - but never together in the same scene.
Thanks Jim. I've seen that Man from U.N.C.L.E episode. I loved that show as a kid.
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After watching several episodes, I wonder why The Lieutenant only lasted one season. it was present day (for then) drama with adult themes wherein the military background merely sets the stage. I like it, but a younger me might not have. This episode, for example, was excellent but maybe too slow and somber for the younger crowd and maybe too uncomfortable for the older crowd:
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Thanks Jim. I've seen that Man from U.N.C.L.E episode. I loved that show as a kid.
Ditto. That was a great show.
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After watching several episodes, I wonder why The Lieutenant only lasted one season. it was present day (for then) drama with adult themes wherein the military background merely sets the stage. I like it, but a younger me might not have. This episode, for example, was excellent but maybe too slow and somber for the younger crowd and maybe too uncomfortable for the older crowd:
Thanks Jim. I'll check it out.
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Thanks Jim. I'll check it out.
It's got Sherry Jackson in it. Just not in the outfit she later wore in Star Trek.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c1/ec/2a/c1ec2a0ccf019b913a0abf47b2fa875f.jpg)
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Star Trek TOS did push the envelope a bit with the female costumes.
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It's got Sherry Jackson in it. Just not in the outfit she later wore in Star Trek.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c1/ec/2a/c1ec2a0ccf019b913a0abf47b2fa875f.jpg)
I have a thing for Sherry Jackson. She was in Batman, the TV series also and many other shows. I think she was one of Harry Mudd's robot girls in Star Trek. Looked real to me. ;D
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I have a thing for Sherry Jackson. She was in Batman, the TV series also and many other shows. I think she was one of Harry Mudd's robot girls in Star Trek. Looked real to me. ;D
They had several actors and actresses play multiple roles. This confused the heck out of me back in the day. Like when Spock’s father was the same guy as a Romulan commander in a previous episode.
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They had several actors and actresses play multiple roles. This confused the heck out of me back in the day. Like when Spock’s father was the same guy as a Romulan commander in a previous episode.
I work with a Trekky. We were talking about that exact episode/s yesterday. Lol.
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Star Trek TOS did push the envelope a bit with the female costumes.
They pushed the envelope “a bit?” Hahahaha! My husband and I watched TOS a few years ago and I kept wanting to fast forward past all the nubile, pointy-breasted, scantily clad females. Especially the ones the away team encountered on those utopian-style planets. Aliens my ass!!!! That series was grooming nerdy boys to be men. Change my mind.
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They pushed the envelope “a bit?” Hahahaha! My husband and I watched TOS a few years ago and I kept wanting to fast forward past all the nubile, pointy-breasted, scantily clad females. Especially the ones the away team encountered on those utopian-style planets. Aliens my ass!!!! That series was grooming nerdy boys to be men. Change my mind.
You can blame costume designer William Ware Theiss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ware_Theiss).
"In 1964, he was brought to the attention of Gene Roddenberry by his friend D. C. Fontana. Roddenberry then hired Theiss as costume designer for Star Trek. The "Theiss Titillation Theory"—which claims that "the degree to which a costume is considered sexy is directly proportional to how accident-prone it appears to be"—is named after him.[7] A key example of this idea in practice is the female android costume in the Star Trek episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" in which the revealing top portion consists only of two crossing straps of material that connect in one piece to trousers, and—Theiss's personal favorite—the pink gown featured in the episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?": a backless dress in which the front of the dress was held up by the weight of the train which fell over the shoulder to the floor.[8]"
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They pushed the envelope “a bit?” Hahahaha! My husband and I watched TOS a few years ago and I kept wanting to fast forward past all the nubile, pointy-breasted, scantily clad females. Especially the ones the away team encountered on those utopian-style planets. Aliens my ass!!!! That series was grooming nerdy boys to be men. Change my mind.
Oh, I totally agree. I knew I liked the women and their outfits, I just didn't know why yet. I definitely got it later on though.
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Warning: necropost!
The videos I linked to had been taken down at some point. I see the whole series has been reposted by yet another youtuber:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLieutenantTVShow/videos (https://www.youtube.com/@TheLieutenantTVShow/videos)
I like the series and bought it in DVD. A few of the episodes I like and will shamelessly flog:
Rip Torn does a nice job playing a D.I.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNnCMzSoj8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNnCMzSoj8)
Somber episode that I thought well written and well executed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdPNXSMH2I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdPNXSMH2I)
Characters played by Majel Barrett, Leonard Nimoy, and Robert Vaughn introduced in the first seven minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu0acq3LElE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu0acq3LElE)