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GUEST
STARS
You
may not recognize the face, but you've undoubtedly heard the voice:
Clive Revill portrayed the voice of the original version of Emperor
Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back, during the scene where
Darth Vader communicates with the ruler of the galaxy on board the star
destroyer Executor. He also voiced Alfred in a couple episodes of Batman:
The Animated Series, although Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was the main voice
of the character. Clive also starred in the short-lived humorous take
on Dungeons and Dragons Wizards and Warriors, where he portrayed
the evil Wizard Vector alongside the likes of Jeff Conaway, Duncan Regehr,
and Julia Duffy. His role on T.J. Hooker was that of yet another
villain, playing a man who ran a crooked modeling agency in the 1984
episode "Model for Murder".
One of the earliest T.J. Hooker guest stars, Vic Tayback (you
know him as Mel from the smash-hit TV series Alice) portrayed
Pete Benedict in the first season episode "Hooker's War".
His
clean-cut yet rugged good looks landing him all the nice-guy roles (see
Riptide and Jake and the Fatman for the proof), perhaps
Joe Penny was hoping to break out of typecasting when he took on the
role of Miles Dickson, a man involved in the creation of porno movies
which cast LA high school girls as their stars in the 1983 episode "The
Cheerleader Murder". More recently, you may have seen Joe as a
recurring character on The Sopranos.
Was it the chance to work with Shatner, the fact that Too Close For
Comfort was in its last season, or the money that led Lydia Cornell
to accept the role of Christine Shankman in one of the last episodes
of T.J. Hooker, "Death Trip"? Whatever the case, you
can bet that she must have been thankful to be working on a set that
was utterly devoid of any trace of Jm J. Bullock.
Two
years before her breakthrough casting as feisty southerner Suzanne Sugarbaker
on the hit comedy Designing Women, Delta Burke landed the role
of a lifetime: she portrayed Diana Polnoi in the 1984 T.J. Hooker
episode "Grand Theft Auto".
Are the rumors true? Did Tori's career begin only because her father,
Aaron Spelling, was able to cast her in role after role on nearly every
TV show he produced since her birth? We'll never know for sure (at least
not until an Aaron Spelling biographical TV movie comes out). At any
rate, a full eight years before her debut as whiny perennial virgin
Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210 (and seven years before
her stint as Violet Bickerstaff on the original Saved by the Bell),
Tori Spelling guest starred opposite Delta Burke in the 1984 T.J. Hooker
episode "Grand Theft Auto".
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"You
like his music too? Well well well, we finally have something in common."
--Hooker
to Romano on Jerry Lee Lewis
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