Canadians call William Shatner "Bill" Shatner. A McGill University graduate, he s Jewish like Leonard Nimoy, who also took time to comfort actress Grace Lee Whitney during filming because of the sexual harassment she was subjected to. She would not return to this pioneering NBC series after Season I.
The Batman TV series also turned 60 years old in 2026.
Actors and actresses wanted to appear on the campy Batman ABC series because they were allowed to emote and thus given free rein by the director. Victor Buono had a ball playing King Tut on Batman. I'm not sure if Star Trek had the same appeal to actors and actresses, quite possibly it did. Actor Peter Fonda was to guest star on a Star Trek episode, but a sudden personal emergency forced a late minute substitution for him and that episode ended up ranking at the bottom.
Some youngsters (not all), kept track of guest stars that appeared on Star Trek and Batman.
ABC purposely did not disclose this guest actor's name, leaving it as "?" in the closing credits of the Batman episodes he appeared in. He was a guest star on both Star Trek and Batman.
Finding out who this actor was in the pre-internet days was a task for Columbo.
