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Anita Ekberg as dancer Virginia Wilson - Screaming Mimi 1958 Dir. Gerd Oswald

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"Justine" wearing a custom two piece designed by Gerd Oswald for Inside Sports, March 1994 / photo by John Beckett

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Crime of Passion, US lobby card #5. 1956

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Sterling Hayden-Anita Ekberg "Valerie" 1957, de Gerd Oswald.

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Part 2 of a double feature! This episode had so many good shots of the Star Trek star, and so many Trek connections, that trying to put it all in one post would have made it way too image heavy.

James Doohan guest stars in "Expanding Human," episode 4 of the second season of The Outer Limits (original air date October 10, 1964).

Jimmy plays a hardboiled police detective investigating a series of crimes linked to a university science lab where the faculty and students have been experimenting with mind-expanding drugs. One of the professors has been using himself as a guinea pig and ends up in a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation where he gains superpowers but loses his moral compass. The drugs wear off at an inopportune moment during a hostage situation that turns into a fatal shootout with Doohan's police colleagues.

Other Trek connections:

Jason Wingreen, who plays the police coroner here, can be seen as the doomed scientist Dr. Linke in the Star Trek episode “The Empath.” He was also the original voice of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, before his lines were redubbed in 2004.

Peter Duryea, who played navigator José Tyler in the Star Trek pilot The Cage" and its repackaged version “The Menagerie,” appears in “Expanding Human” as one of Dr. Clinton's inner circle of students.

Doohan's assistant, Detective Sgt. Alger, is portrayed by Troy Melton. He did stunt work on several episodes of Star Trek, and also played an unnamed Eminian guard in "A Taste of Armageddon."

The narrator of The Outer Limits, known as "Control Voice," was prolific voice actor Vic Perrin. He provided voices in three episodes of Star Trek, including that of Nomad in "The Changeling," and appeared in a fourth as the leader of the Halkans in "Mirror, Mirror." Non-Trek "spaceship" trivia: he was also the original narrator of Spaceship Earth when it opened in EPCOT Center in 1982.

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1957

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Crime of Passion (1957) - Gerd Oswald

For marriage I read life sentence, for home life I read T.V. nights, beer in the fridge, second mortgage – not for me. For me, life has to be something more than that.

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The #DailyDetective for 16 June 2021. The brilliant Ed Asner in the bizarre It Crawled Out of the Woodwork, an early episode of The Outer Limits.

This early episode of The Outer Limits was directed by A Kiss Before Dying's Gerd Oswald, written by Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano and shot by Conrad Hall, cinematographer of Cool Hand Luke, Road to Perdition and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Ed Asner's character, Sergeant Siroleo, takes a while to show up, gets waylaid by a meandering plot but finally gets a great last line. Overall, this is a baggy story that needed some ironing out. As a fan of the show, Asner himself was disappointed.

What the episode does have going for it is the raging subtext about atomic age fears. The energy monster of this story isn't too hard to interpret. Some of the FX shots are a little goofy but inventive and memorable.

I'm also entirely sure that David Lynch explicitly referenced this episode in Twin Peaks.

Ed Asner's great role was that of Lou Grant, first on The Mary Tyler Moore show and then in his own brilliant, self-titled series. As a newspaper editor, a lot of what Grant does is borderline #DailyDetective material. Perhaps I'll push the envelope a little and include him soon.