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BARBARY COAST (ABC, Monday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) features a less ambitious crime fighter. Instead of disappearing entirely, William Shatner vanishes into several disguises per show in order to sanitize the notorious district of the title. Doug McClure plays a gambling-house owner, amusingly exasperated by his friend's slippery ways. The show is exuberantly staged and every present or former owner of a mail-order fool-your-friends makeup kit ought to enjoy...
...brisk business in Star Trek artifacts from space suit emblems to books (Bantam and Ballantine together have printed more than 6 million Star Trek paperbacks) to a $5 kit containing a dozen scale blueprints of the Enterprise. There were photographs for sale of Skipper Kirk, played by William Shatner, and First Officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a pointy-eared half human, half Vulcanite who has become a cult unto himself. Many of the new Spock generation attending the convention wore plastic ears like their hero and sported buttons boasting I GROCK MR. SPOCK-"grock," Spockies explained, being sci-fi lingo...
Actor Ernest Borgnine has never been in demand for romantic leads, but his get-up for The Devil's Rain, an occult thriller just filmed in Durango, Mexico, gives eyesore new meaning. In the movie, which co-stars Ida Lupino and William Shatner, Borgnine returns from the dead as a disciple of Satan-with help from a three-hour facial by the makeup experts for Planet of the Apes. The citizens of Durango have seen 65 movies shot in their town, but this one has managed to unnerve them. Because of the film's supernatural goings on, people...
...23rd Century, Star Trek revolves around the adventures of the Starship Enterprise and its interplanetal, international, interracial crew. There's the Waspish Captain Kirk, played in a father-like manner by William Shatner; communications expert Uhura portrayed by the black and beautiful Nichele Nichols; Sulu, the oriental helmsman played by Walter Koenig; Dr. McCoy, the pacifist, depicted by DeForest Kelley; and of course the one and only Mr. Spock, half-Vulcan and half-human, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. The crew becomes involved in a variety of intriguing tales, all of which make some comment on today's society. The shows...
Such meticulous attention to detail has endeared Star Trek to college students. Describing some of the mail he receives from them, William Shatner (Capt. Kirk) said, "We get letters which analyze matter and anti-matter. Then they proceed to give us mathematical formulae that I can't understand." Student interest in the show ran so high at Emerson College that last year the school gave a series of seminars on Star Trek...