NBC premieres the first episode of the military drama The Lieutenant, created and produced by future Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and starring Gary Lockwood (2001: a space odyssey) and Robert Vaughn (The Man From UNCLE). Bill Bixby (The Magician, The Incredible Hulk) guest stars. 
Lt. William Tiberius Rice, leader of a U.S. Marine Corps platoon, gets a blast from the past: his childhood friend, Stuart Sallaway, has joined the USMC and is hoping to be assigned to Rice’s platoon; Salloway’s father, who has recently suffered a stroke and now needs a cane to walk, presses the issue, asking Rice to take Stuart on as a personal favor. But as soon as Sallaway is on Rice’s platoon, he makes no secret of their friendship, bragging to his fellow corpsmen about how that friendship affords him special priveleges. Sallaway’s boasts don’t impress his fellow Marines; in fact, he quickly becomes known as a goldbricker and earns the ire of the drill instructor, Sgt. Clintock.
written by Ed Waters
directed by Don Medford
music by Jeff AlexanderCast: Gary Lockwood (Lt. William Rice), Robert Vaughn (Capt. Raymond Rambridge), Bill Bixby (Pvt. Stuart Sallaway), Morris Chapnick (Corpsman), Frank Gardner (Pvt. Lemuel Matthews), Jack McCall (First Lieutenant), John Milford (Sgt. Clintock), Carmen Phillips (Lily), Mario Roccuzzo (Pvt. Brian Barducci), Russell Thorsen (Mr. Sallaway)
Notes: Bill Bixby (1934-1993), seen here early in his career, would later gain genre fame as David Banner, the human face of TVÊs The Incredible Hulk, before moving on to a busy directing career. This would appear to be the sole acting credit for Morris Chapnick, who later got out of acting. He obviously impressed Gene Roddenberry, who hired Chapnick as a production assistant in late 1964 during pre-production of the first Star Trek pilot, The Cage. Chapnick remained aboard as an assistant to both Roddenberry and Herb Solow. Chapnick moved on to a career as a producer in his own right, and as a second-unit director, filming pickup shots for such films as Blade Runner. Though not name-checked anywhere in the credits, executive producer Del Reisman hired a young writer named Dorothy Fontana to serve as a secretarial production assistant for himself and Roddenberry.
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