NBC airs the second 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). Kathryn Hays (Star Trek: The Empath) and Norman Fell (Three’s Company) guest star. 
As he waits for a bus near a nightclub that he visited with friends, Rice hears a woman scream. He runs to help, and her attacker flees, but when police arrive, the woman, a grade school teacher named Carol Wayden, claims that Rice attacked her. She presses no charges, but the incident still makes the newspaper police report, and both Rice and his “victim” face tough questions the next day. Rice visits Carol at her school, pleading with her to set the record straight; after that visit, one of Carol’s co-workers encourages her to file charges. With a formal complaint and impending legal proceedings pending, Rice’s career as a military man is in danger, and he finds it frustrating that no one believes his claim that another man was present. Revisiting the nightclub, Rice even believes he can positively identify the man as the club’s house comedian. But as Carol continues to insist that Rice is the attacker, he finds that he stands to lose more by pressing forward with his quest for the truth.
written by Sheldon Stark
directed by Robert Gist
music by Arthur MortonCast: Gary Lockwood (Lt. William Rice), Robert Vaughn (Capt. Raymond Rambridge), Jack Albertson (George OÊLeery), Larry Barton (Man), Henry Beckman (Major Adam Butler), Barry Brooks (Bartender), Paul Dubov (Club Owner), Norman Fell (Jerry Belman), John Hart (Desk Sergeant), Kathryn Hays (Carol Wayden), Hap Holmwood (1st Sergeant), Paul Mantee (Officer Mackey), Woodrow Merritt (Milton Lefferts), Don Penny (Lt. Stanley Harris), Doug Rowe (Reporter), Michael Strong (Peter Clay), Marie Warsham (Phyllis Stacey)
Notes: Kathryn Hays, like many other guest stars in The Lieutenant, later appeared in Star Trek, as the mute Gem in 1969’s The Empath during the show’s final season. She has appeared in As The World Turns, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (again alongside Robert Vaughn), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Marcus Welby, M.D., Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, Law & Order, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Paul Mantee is another mainstay of ’60s and ’70s TV, with appearances in Batman, The Time Tunnel, The Invaders, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Ironside, The Fantastic Journey, the short-lived TV version of Logan’s Run, Barnaby Jones, and Cagney & Lacey. During the casting phase for the Star Trek pilot, The Cage, Mantee was considered for the role of Captain Robert April (later renamed Christopher Pike), but lost the role to Jeffrey Hunter. Norman Fell needs little introduction; American TV audiences know him best as Mr. Roper, the landlord from the first two seasons of Three’s Company before his character was moved to the short-lived spinoff, The Ropers.
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