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BASKET CASE 2 (1990)

Season 1 Episode 2

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors - What's the Price of a Pair of Eyes - NBC - October 5, 1969

Medical Drama

Running Time: 60 minutes

Written by Sandy Stern

Produced by Joel Rogosin

Directed by Jeffrey Hayden

Stars:

E. G. Marshall as Dr. David Craig

David Hartman as Dr. Paul Hunter

John Saxon as Dr. Theodore "Ted" Stuart

Jason Evers as Dr. Ralph Simpson

Tisha Sterling as Casey Woods

Berkeley Harris as Dr. Coulter

Chris Hansen as Ken Simpson

David Sachs as Dr. Sid Feld

Walter Barnes as Zach Garvis

Norman Kaplan as Norm Kaplan

Anne Bellamy as Nurse Sawchuck

Dennis McCarthy as Arnie

We encounter the infamous schlock film THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1962) directed by Joseph Green and starring Virginia Leith and Jason Evers! But what we uncover is a seesaw of excitedly pushing boundaries and falling flat on its disembodied face. That being said, we appreciated watching a movie that had an actual theme: bodily autonomy and consent.

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Grace Lee Whitney guest stars in "Reprisal," episode 23 of the seventh season of Gunsmoke (original air date March 10, 1962).

Whitney plays a saloon girl who has an older man and a younger man fighting over her. When the older man pulls a gun on the younger man, Marshal Dillon shoots and kills him. (De-escalation, anybody?) His widow vows revenge on Dillon, and enlists a young drifter who also has beef with the Marshal to help her. Dillon also shoots and kills the drifter. (Sensing a pattern here.)

Other Trek connections:

The young drifter is played by Jason Evers, who also played one of the sped-up aliens who invade the Enterprise in the Star Trek episode "Wink of an Eye."