Oct 23, 2025
Starland, 1899
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Starland, 1899
Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, DeForest Kelley guest stars in "The Clover Throne," episode 15 of the first season of Route 66 (original air date January 27, 1961).
De plays the contractor in charge of a stretch of highway being built by convict labor. The work crew comes into conflict with a date rancher who wants the highway further away from his land. The whole plot is a dollar store Tennessee Williams play, with the bad-tempered, disabled rancher; his nubile young ward Sweet Thing (her actual legal name); effete, eccentric cousins; virile laborers moodily gazing into windows by moonlight; the copious mopping of sweaty brows with white linen hankies; and… a plug for the California Date Growers' Association?
Other Trek connections: Arthur Batanides plays the trusty in charge of the work gang, and later went on to play the doomed ship's geologist Lt. D'Amato in the Star Trek episode "That Which Survives."
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