Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, William Shatner guest stars in "The Promise," episode 10 of the third season of One Step Beyond (original air date November 29, 1960). One Step Beyond was a Twilight Zone-style anthology series, but tending more toward the paranormal than sci-fi. Shatner plays a former Nazi bombardier who switches allegiances during his time in an English POW camp and begins working in bomb disposal. He remains in England after the war to continue his work, hoping that disposing of the bombs will help him atone for having dropped them. He marries an Englishwoman he once rescued from a bomb site, and although he dies in the line of duty his ghost appears in the hospital when his posthumous child is born.
The German accent Shatner uses isn't the greatest, and at first I questioned why he chose to do so at all, since the American actors playing English people sound 100% American. However, he does have to speak a few German words at one point, and I suppose it might have sounded a bit abrupt coming from a character who'd been speaking with an American accent the whole time.
Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, William Shatner guest stars in "Mother, May I Go Out to Swim?" episode 26 of the fifth season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (original air date April 10, 1960). He channels his inner Norman Bates as a mama's boy with an "artistic temperament" who falls in love on vacation, but ends up killing his girlfriend when his domineering mother disapproves. Like the last episode of AHP I screencapped, this story is told in flashback, framed by scenes from the coroner's inquest, with Shatner narrating the flashback sequences.
Within the episode, the girlfriend's death is ruled an accident, but in what I assume was an attempt to placate the network censors, Hitchcock's outro says that the decision was later overturned. (TV Standards & Practices at the time hewed closely to the Motion Picture Code, which frowned on criminals going unpunished.)
Other Trek connections: The Associate Producer of this episode is the multitalented actor/producer/director Norman Lloyd, who played Captain Picard's old mentor Professor Galen in the Next Generation episode "The Chase."
william shatner is kind of like a sith lord because he was born with the divine and incredible power of being incredibly cunty yet he only uses it for evil (being annoying on twitter and going to space for no reason) like we know he has astronomical levels of pure cunt coursing through his veins (we’ve all seen kirk)imagine if it was used for good.
In another, better world i know the Shatster is fulfilling his true destiny of being a guest judge on drag race