Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, DeForest Kelley guest stars in "A Taste of Peace," episode 24 of the single season of The Gallant Men (original air date March 16, 1963). In this WWII action/drama, Kelley plays an Army Colonel who offers the main character a desk job behind the lines after he's wounded in action,
Bonus for the Dark Shadows fans: Baby Roger Davis.
Dongfang Qingcang never wanted to kill his father. He loved him so much that when his emotional root slowly came back he felt all the pain and he felt it was unfair that with all the love that he had for his father, he felt like his father only saw him as a tool to get back at the Fairy realm. He showed his vulnerability in this conversation with his father and it's so heart wrenching to watch.
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."