Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Part 1 of a double feature! William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy guest star in "The Project Strigas Affair," episode 9 of the first season of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (original air date November 24, 1964). There were too many good shots and too many connections to fit comfortably in one post.
Shatner plays a chemical engineer being used by U.N.C.L.E. to thwart the political ambitions of a hawkish ambassador from an unnamed Eastern bloc nation, by selling him disinformation about a powerful new chemical weapon Shatner's supposed to have developed. Nimoy plays the ambassador's equally ambitious, and far less gullible, aide.
The boys were only in a couple of shots together, and they were all blurry and/or long.
Other Trek connections: This episode was directed by Joseph Sargent, who directed the Star Trek episode "The Corbomite Maneuver."
Conductor Otto Klemperer (May 14, 1885 - July 6, 1973) was born in Poland and moved to Germany, but when the Nazis rose to power in 1933, he fled with his family, including his son Werner Klemperer who went on to play Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes, to the United States.
Here we go with our newest sketch series entitled “TV shows Tom watched after school as a kid”. This week we visit Stalag 13 and everybody’s favorite lovable looney Nazis! This might be the most unlikely sitcom in the history of TV, and that includes all those starring an unattractive male comedian who somehow had a super hot wife. “Hogan’s Heroes” a COMEDY set in a World War II nazi prisoner of…
Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Part 2 of a double feature. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy guest star in "The Project Strigas Affair," episode 9 of the first season of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (original air date November 24, 1964). There were too many good shots and too many connections to fit comfortably in one post.
Shatner plays a chemical engineer being used by U.N.C.L.E. to thwart the political ambitions of a hawkish ambassador from an unnamed Eastern bloc nation, by selling him disinformation about a powerful new chemical weapon Shatner's supposed to have developed. Nimoy plays the ambassador's equally ambitious, and far less gullible, aide.
Other Trek connections:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. creator Sam Rolfe, who produced this and many other episodes, wrote the Next Generation episode "The Vengeance Factor."
Jerry Goldsmith, who wrote the Man from U.N.C.L.E. theme song, also wrote the theme to The Next Generation and contributed music to several Star Trek movies.