Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek (and Wars?) Stars, Andrew Robinson (credited here as "Andy Robinson") guest stars in "Crossties," episode 18 of the second season of Kung Fu (original air date February 21, 1974). Robinson plays one of a group of farmers turned guerillas, fighting the encroachment of the railroad onto their land. The youngest of the bunch, he is injured in the conflict and Caine gets him to safety and medical aid. Other Trek (and Wars?) connections below the fold.
Veteran character John Anderson plays the leader of the guerillas, and a decade and a half later would play Kevin Uxbridge, the nearly omnipotent survivor of an alien attack on a Federation colony in the third season The Next Generation episode "The Survivors."
Eric Server plays one of the Pinkertons hired by the railroad to get the farmers out of the way. The last movie or television role he ever played was a small part as a Bajoran peace officer on a viewscreen in the Deep Space Nine episode "The Circle."
Joseph A. Unsinn worked in the Special Effects department of Kung Fu and the Video department of Star Trek: Generations (1994).
And finally, in a rare Trek/Wars crossover, a pre-Han Solo Harrison Ford plays a railroad executive just arrived from Chicago. Ah, Chicago... I'm sure someday there will be a great university there, with a fine archaeology department.
Cult TV Essentials: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Cult TV Essentials: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
“The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America’s deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William “Buck” Rogers, are blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life-support systems, and returns Buck Rogers to Earth, 500 years later.”
Captain William Anthony “Buck” Rogers (Gil Gerard) is a NASA/USAF pilot who commands Ranger 3, a spacecraft…
