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IRISH HEROES OF STAR TREK

LIEUTENANT KEVIN THOMAS RILEY (Bruce Hyde)

STTOS: The Naked Time and Conscience of the King

CADET SEAN FINNEGAN (Bruce Mars)

STTOS: Shore Leave

CHIEF MILES FOOKIN' O'BRIEN (Colm Meaney)

STTNG and STDS9

BRENNA ODELL (Rosalyn Landor)

(because I felt like including her, that's why!)

STTNG: Up the Long Ladder

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I looked up Bruce Mars who played Finnegan in Shore Leave and damn...I was not expecting this.

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Bruce Mars as Finnegan

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Happy birthday to Star Trek actor Bruce Mars. You remember him as a recreation of Captain Kirk's Starfleet Academy nemesis and practical jokester Finnegan from the TOS episode "Shore Leave" as well as a 20th century police officer who gets momentarily beamed aboard the USS Enterprise in "Assignment: Earth".

Interestingly, the New York City-born actor now explores not outer space but inner space as a monk of the Self-Realization Fellowship, having taken the name Brother Paramananda.

He was born on this day in 1935.

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Bruce Mars (Athletic Model Guild)

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LUCY, THE CONCLUSION JUMPER

S1;E5 ~ October 21, 1968

Directed by Jack Donohue ~ Written by George Balzer and Phil Leslie

Synopsis

When Kim and her classmate Don are talking about a household budget and visiting a city hall judge for a school project, Lucy jumps to the conclusion they are going to get married.  

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carter), Gale Gordon (Harrison Otis Carter), Lucie Arnaz (Kim Carter), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Craig Carter)

Guest Cast

Don Crichton (Don) makes the second of his three appearances on “Here’s Lucy.”  He was an Emmy nominated choreographer who worked on “The Carol Burnett Show” and “The Love Boat,” among others.

Sid Gould (Marriage License Office Clerk) made more than 45 appearances on “The Lucy Show,” all as background characters. This is the second of his 40 episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” Gould (born Sydney Greenfader) was Lucille Ball’s cousin by marriage to Gary Morton.

Ben Stone (Clerk #2) was primarily a voice actor who worked on “Underdog” (1960-1964). He acted in the musical The Zula and The Zayda at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey.  This is his final screen appearance.  

Booker Bradshaw (First Groom in Line) was a voice actor and writer making his only appearance opposite Lucille Ball. He played Dr. M'Benga on the original “Star Trek,” a Desilu series.  

Bruce Mars (Fourth Groom in Line) makes his only appearance on the series but had previously played boxer Sonny Shaw in “Lucy the Fight Manager” (TLS S5;E20) on “The Lucy Show.”  

Laurie Mock (Fourth Bride) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball.  As of 2006, she and her husband were running an urban real estate development company in Culver City, California.

Jack Donohue (Nasty Groom in Line, above left) was the director of this episode and 34 others. He also directed 107 episodes of “The Lucy Show” where he was seen on screen as Man in the Bank in “Lucy and the Bank Scandal” (TLS S2;E7) and “Lucy Conducts the Symphony” (TLS S2;E13).  He will be seen on camera in two future episodes, both of which he also directed.

Jack Bannon (Last Groom in Line, above center) was the son of Bea Benadaret, who had played Iris Atterbury on Lucy's radio show “My Favorite Husband” and elderly neighbor Miss Lewis on “I Love Lucy.”  Bannon was also a dialogue coach on his mother's series “Petticoat Junction” in which he also appeared, as well as on “The Beverly Hillbillies.”  This is his only appearance opposite Lucille Ball.  

Kevin Edwards (Draftee who cuts the Line) was an uncredited ballet dancer in Streisand's Funny Girl (1968) and will return for a 1970 episode of “Here's Lucy.” These are his only screen credits.

Joan Carey (Woman in Line, above left, uncredited) was a background performer on “I Love Lucy,” “The Lucy Show” (where she also was stand-in for Lucy), and “Here’s Lucy.”  

Other prospective brides and grooms are played by uncredited extras.  

Kim wants to budget $25 to $30 a month for a one bedroom apartment, which gets a laugh from the 1968 studio audience. In the mid-1950's Lucy and Ricky Ricardo were paying $200 a month for their apartment.

Lucy tells her daughter the real household budget includes $30 a month for the telephone bill and $29.40 for 3 bags of groceries. In 1968 these were comically supposed to be high prices, but today seem ridiculously cheap.

For the second week in a row, Lucy uses a catch-phrase from “Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In”: "Here comes the judge! Here comes the judge!"  The lines were first spoken on “Laugh-In” by Pigmeat Markham and later by Sammy Davis Jr. The show's second half hour aired opposite “Here's Lucy” on NBC.

Don gets a job as a supermarket box boy.  This is a job that does not exist in today's world. A box boy stood at the end of the supermarket check-out line and put the groceries in bags (or boxes, originally).  Today this position has been relegated to the cashier or (in self check-out) the shoppers themselves.

Kim has a friend named Susie Meyers who just married the Clayton boy.  

The magazine rack behind Craig's drum set holds the November 3, 1967 issue of Time, which was almost a year old by the time this episode aired.  A cartoon drawing of conservative journalist William Buckley is on the cover.  There is also a copy of The New Yorker next to Time.

When a phone call tells Harry that he deals in antique carriages, Harry says “You mean surreys with the fringe on top”? This is a reference to a song from the 1943 musical (and 1955 film) Oklahoma! “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top.” The caller is looking for a dozen authentic buggy whips. Why an employment agency would deal in antiques – let alone carriages and buggy whips – is unclear.

Harry gets some distressing personal news during a phone call from someone named Bill. His distraction gives Lucy time to do comic business of getting the cup of coffee (made with carpet sweeping compound kept in a coffee can) away from him without him noticing.

The Nasty Man (Jack Donohue) calls Lucy a “kooky redhead” and Harry “fatso”. After some name calling, Harry and the Nasty Man have a show down in the style Laurel and Hardy, alternately ripping each other's clothes to shreds, all underscored with the Laurel and Hardy Theme “Dance of the Cuckoos” by Marvin Hatley. Not to be upstaged, Lucy also gets in on the action. The showdown soon erupts into a full-scale brawl at the marriage bureau.  

On a 1964 episode of “The Lucy Show” Lucy also mistakenly thought her teenage daughter was going to get married - to Mr. Mooney’s son!  Both go out of their way to assure they don’t elope!

Wet suits are inherently funny!  Jack Benny wore one in the second episode of “Here's Lucy.”  Before that Lucy wore one on a trip to the beach with her daughter Chris on “The Lucy Show” and on “I Love Lucy” when meeting Orson Welles in Macy's.  

Product Displacement! The brand name on Craig's drums is taped over to avoid open promotion of the maker's product without financial compensation.

Say What? A phone caller tells Harry that he deals in antique carriages and he is looking for a dozen authentic buggy whips. Why an employment agency would deal in antiques – let alone carriages and buggy whips in 1968 – is unclear.

“Lucy, the Conclusion Jumper” rates 4 Paper Hearts out of 5 

The episode is sometimes as awkward as its title, although the scene at the license bureau is very funny physical comedy.  

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Bruce Mars as Finnegan