Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, James Doohan appears in "Care of General Delivery," episode 33 of the single season of A Man Called Shenandoah (original air date May 9, 1966).
Doohan plays Francis Xavier O'Connell, a military historian the amnesiac Shenandoah believes will be able to reveal his true identity. However, he turns out to be an imposter; the real O'Connell died a year ago and the townspeople have been pretending he's still alive to collect his generous pension.
Other Trek connections: Robert Hamner, who was the associate producer of this and 20 other episodes of A Man Called Shenandoah, co-wrote the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon."








