I'm watching an Ironside episode called The Challenge in which Ironside's friend is murdered some time after they played chess.
Interestingly, the first victim was Cec Linder, who played James Bond's Felix Leiter in Goldfinger. One suspect (and later victim) was Nicholas Colasanto, who played Coach on Cheers.
Another of the suspects was Coleen Gray, who was one of the stars of Red River, along with John Wayne, Montgomery Clift and Joanna Dru; Gray also joined Raymond Burr in at least one Perry Mason episode. The final suspect was Sue Ane Langdon, an offbeat character actress from the 1960s.
It was an eclectic group.
I tried to watch a show on Roku called The Coroner, but I couldn't finish the episode. That happens sometimes.
They put the 1970s show Emergency! on Roku, and I'll watch some episodes. I just foundColeen Gray onEmergency!
I just watched the TV movie for The Six Million Dollar Man, and I recognized two faces, Martin Balsam, Steve Austin's doctor, and Barbara Anderson, his nurse. Anderson played Eve Whitfield on Ironside. I don't know if Anderson ever spoke in the movie.
I obviously recognized Lee Majors.
On Ironside, I just recognized William Boyett, who played Sgt. Mac Donald on Adam-12. Ed Brown was interviewing him and someone else. I also recognized Vera Miles (the amnesia patient in the episode) and Phillip Carey (the Texas Rangers captain from the TV show Laredo).
I WATCH A LOT of the old Emergency! TV show, and I've noted when we're riding with the squad truck. Four times in a row, I noticed them turn left and have to avoid a white car that's slightly straddling the road. Just now, they pulled out and there was no white car. At least they had TWO stock shots to use.
In season four, fireman John Gage reveals his birthday as Aug. 28. Randolph Mantooth's birthday is Sept. 19. BTW, his real name is Randy DeRoy Mantooth.
In the season-four episode Quicker Than the Eye, champion swimmer Mark Spitz appeared as a husband, with Suzy Spitz (Mark's real wife) playing his pregnant wife.
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ON THE FIRST episode of the seventh season of Emergency!, I recognized Linda Gray, who later became famous as Sue Ellen on Dallas. I think she was J.R.'s wife.
One of the doctors was John de Lancie, Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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I'VE SEEN A LOT of animals lately on Emergency!, including a king cobra, a bear, a lion and, now, my second tiger. Plus a cat and her bunch of kittens. The episode about the cats and second tiger is about animal control. One of the AC guys is a young Mark Harmon. Another is Gary Crosby. The vet checking the tiger is David Huddleston. Virginia Gregg is in this show. And the director was Jack Webb. Apparently, this was a failed pilot for an animal-control show.
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IN SEASON THREE, John Gage is going to give the bad news to a young widow. She looked up, and I knew it was Linda Kelsey, who later played a newspaperwoman on the Lou Grant show.
I REMEMBER seeing the episode featuring Miami Dolphins great Larry Csonka. It was called The Screenwriter. Csonka was my favorite football player.
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I JUST RECOGNIZED a voice on Emergency! in an episode called Kids.It was John Travolta. I also recognized the face, but it wasn't onscreen for long.
In the episode Virus, I didn't recognize an actress until she smiled late in the episode. Those were Cathy Lee Crosby's dimples.
In Peace Pipe, I recognized William Campbell (Star Trek's Trelane) as a drunk driver/patient. I also recognized Brooke Bundy, although I didn't know her name.
In Saddled, I saw Larry Storch (F-Troop) and later spied a nun who resembled Fran Belding on Ironside. It turned out to be Elizabeth Baur, who played Belding.
In the same episode, I recognized a nurse but could only think Deidre. It was Deidre Hall, later a famous soap-opera actress from Days of Our Lives.
In The Hard Hours, Dick Butkus and Nick Nolte showed up. Butkus (a patient) was famous then; Nolte (a doctor) became famous later.
James Shigeta (Diehard) appeared on the episode Foreign Trade as the new hospital administrator. Not surprisingly, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar got stuck in a car.
I'M WATCHING an episode of Emergency! called Mascot. A man appears to be having a heart attack, and I thought the man looked like Jock Mahoney. I looked up the cast, and it was Mahoney.
His character was an actor who liked to play tricks on his friends, and the partygoers thought he was making it up. He wasn't. They had to cardiovert him.
Fuzz Lady was a gold mine of faces, including Sharon Gless (Cagney and Lacey), Paul Fix (The Rifleman) and J. Pat O'Malley. Meg Wyllie (Star Trek's The Cage) was near the bottom of the cast listings.
I'm watching a season two episode called Syndrome, and I recognized Robert Alda (Alan's dad), Jack Carter and Dub Taylor.
In the season two episode Boot, I immediately recognized Vic Tayback (Alice) and Jamie Farr (M*A*S*H). I thought I recognized Paula Prentiss; it was her sister, Ann. I also recognized Jock Mahoney again.
In the episode Zero, I saw Dick Enberg, Mariette Hartley and Anthony Eisley.
