The Deadly Dolls
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onwardsandupwards — 10 years ago(November 21, 2015 06:21 AM)
By this point, Richard Basehart's sense of loathing for the show is all too clear. His final line in the episode "burn them" as he mutters his annoyance, throws up a hand and walks away is enough proof that the actor was fed up with the show and wanted to get the hell off the series.
Lord only knows what he must have thought after reading one absurd script after another realizing that he was on a show where any sense of proper storytelling or character development had well and truly vanished.. -
ddc300 — 10 years ago(December 01, 2015 08:48 AM)
Along with that is a story I was told about a Japanese tour group visiting the set in the 1966-67 season. Apparently, Basehart was giving the guests a tour of the set, describing various sets and props to the interpreter for the Japanese. At some point during the tour Basehart passed the dressing room area. When he got near the men's room Basheart blurts out to the crowd, 'and this is where the scripts come from'. At this point the interpreter is taken for a loop and doesn't know what to say. His group stands around dumbfounded as they don't understand what Basehart had just said.
I suspect to this day there is an old Japanese guy who is still unsure of what Basehart said to his group that day. LOL