William Windom, R.I.P.

[Jamie D]

I saw that William Windom passed awy.  He was a versatile actor.

But I will best remember him in the role of Commodore Matt Decker, in the "The Doomsday Machine" episode of the originalStar Trek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doomsday_Machine_%28Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series%29

I have the series set on DVD and re-watched the episode from Season Two.  The graphics look dated today, but the plot and dialogue are as compelling today, as they were in 1967.

[Arch]

That was my first thought, the Star Trek connection. A lot of people are famous for their one appearance on the original show, of course. But when I was a teenager, I used to bore my parents with stuff like "Oh, look, it's Joe Blow! He played the Xillian storekeeper, Rasho Trang, in "Outcast Fate" on Star Trek! Third season, I think..."

You'd think that their only worthwhile role was on that show...

[Arch]

He was also in that show My World and Welcome to It, which was running when I was six or seven. It was over my head, adult fare, and that always frustrated me for some reason. I've always wanted to see that show as an adult. I don't suppose it's on DVD.

[Jamie D]

He was also in that show My World and Welcome to It, which was running when I was six or seven. It was over my head, adult fare, and that always frustrated me for some reason. I've always wanted to see that show as an adult. I don't suppose it's on DVD.

That was the James Thurber adaptation, as I recall.

[AbraCadabra]

What a sexy good looking dude he was --- and goodness, how he'd changed with age!

Axélle
PS: all the good looking guys are gay - or dead, eish!

[Jamie D]

As Commodore Matt Decker

[Jamie D]

He was also in that show My World and Welcome to It, which was running when I was six or seven. It was over my head, adult fare, and that always frustrated me for some reason. I've always wanted to see that show as an adult. I don't suppose it's on DVD.

It has been ...

http://www.amazon.com/My-World-Welcome-William-Windom/dp/B0015QUZ4E

[AbraCadabra]

As Commodore Matt Decker

And what a dish!!! Then...

[Arch]

It has been ...

Not yet, it seems. Still waiting to be released. And I'd have to buy it myself anyway, since I don't think my video store would stock it, and I don't do Netflix.

I think the animation was a primary attraction for me, actually. I didn't know who Thurber was, but I remember the cool way they integrated animation into the show. And the opening credit sequence sticks in my mind even now. I don't remember the specifics, but it was very distinctive. I guess that's Thurber for you.

Windom lived to be 88. Not bad. And of course he lost his looks; few people escape that. We all deteriorate in the end.

[Jamie D]

Not yet, it seems. Still waiting to be released. And I'd have to buy it myself anyway, since I don't think my video store would stock it, and I don't do Netflix.

I think the animation was a primary attraction for me, actually. I didn't know who Thurber was, but I remember the cool way they integrated animation into the show. And the opening credit sequence sticks in my mind even now. I don't remember the specifics, but it was very distinctive. I guess that's Thurber for you.

Windom lived to be 88. Not bad. And of course he lost his looks; few people escape that. We all deteriorate in the end.

Sorry Arch, it looked to me like it was out of print, but I did not read closely.

Windom's scruffy beard stayed about the same.

I won't deteriorate.  I eat lots of food with preservatives. 

[Jamie D]

And what a dish!!! Then...

Axelle, calm down!  You're going to have an...

Oh. Oooh.  Oooooh. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!.

[AbraCadabra]

[clipped]

Oh. Oooh.  Oooooh. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!.

Yeeeeeesss, THIS! 

He he,
Axxx (rated)

[Lyric]

It's funny people here remember Windom mostly for that Star Trek episode, because the guy did a lot of other things. My favorite William Windom work was a short-live series in the '70s called "My World and Welcome To It". It was a sitcom based on the cartoons of great cartoonist James Thurber. Animated versions of Thurber cartoons were often worked into the show.