NBC airs the seventh 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). Barbara Bain (Space: 1999, Mission: Impossible) and Ina Balin guest star.
Lt. Rice is assigned to be the base liaison on a planning committee for an upcoming dance. A bit daunted that he’ll be stuck in the company of the wives of some of the other men on the base, Rice quickly accepts the help of Jan Everest, an old friend and the wife of 2nd Lt. Barry Everest. But Rice isn’t the only one seeking refuge from an old friend; Jan turns out to be starving for attention at home, and Rice finds that his occasional visits to the Everest household are becoming the stuff of base gossip, first among the other wives, and finally among the men on the base as well.
written by Sy Salkowitz
directed by Don Medford
music by Harry SukmanCast: Gary Lockwood (Lt. William Rice), Robert Vaughn (Capt. Raymond Rambridge), Barbara Bain (Cissie Van Osten), Ina Balin (Jan Everest), Sarah Collingwood (Maggie Langdon), Maurine Dawson (Paula Watson), John Dennis (Major), Hal Gould (Lt. Col. Raleigh Wade), Rita Kenaston (Ellie Holtman), John Newton (Platoon Sergeant), Carmen Phillips (Lily), Susanne Ried (Mrs. Bonofski), Ralph Shannon (Sergeant), Yale Summers (Lt. Barry Everest), June Vincent (Martha Amory), David White (Maj. Grant Amory)
Notes: Guest star Barbara Bain was destined for her own place in the science fiction TV pantheon, but not in the Star Trek universe; she played secret agent Cinnamon Carter during the first three seasons of Trek’s Desilu Studios stablemate, Mission: Impossible, a series which also starred her husband, Martin Landau. Bain and Landau moved on to the 1970s science fiction series Space: 1999, in which Bain played Moonbase Alpha’s chief medical officer, Dr. Helena Russell. Future Star Trek associate producer Edward Milkis is credited as this episode’s film editor. Robert Vaughn does not appear in this episode (and is omitted from the opening credits as well); another character, Major Amory, gives Rice a pep talk that would normally have come from Captain Rambridge.
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