William Shatner On The Mike Douglas Show 1969 Part 2 Of 2

William Shatner interviewed and singing live on The Mike Douglas Show 25th February 1969. Shatner performs Hamlet and It Was A Very Good Year from his album The Transformed Man.

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Film & Animation

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• 60s
• Sixties
• 1969
• Chatshow
• Shatner

[LazlosPlane]

You make it sound like a thousand years ago. It wasn't. It may have been a bit superficial because, after all, what can you say in 11 minutes on a daytime show?

I was there. I watched these shows. For pretentiousness nothing beats popular culture of today, besides which it is vapid, empty, devoid of meaning, and a celebration of all that is vulgar and juvenile.

[SunnyDaleSlayr]

Weed,money, and fine women. Plus the world loves the guy. Wouldn't you be smiling like he was here? Big Bad Bill baby. Wooo.

[CatspitProductions]

I have to give him credit here for trying to create performance art on talk TV. This was a lot more cerebral than his audience of that day could handle. And today he gets so much flack for this stuff but he is a really good actor now and then. Come get some Catspit~! ☠

[11111111jws]

the best shatner i've ever seen :)

[joebri]

THIS IS FREAKING AMAZING.

[tiberiousss]

@LazlosPlane Your joking right? everything you see today is either directly or indirectly the result of what took place in the 60's. Our culture evolves like anything else. Failing to recognize that what has happen in today's culture is a result of what took place in the past is a being a bit short sighted. You can blame the hippie movement for the vulgarity you see in today's culture. Period end of story.

[LazlosPlane]

@tiberiousss Yes, there was. I'm not saying there wasn't. It was God awful, for so many reasons. But the crap that had it's "birthing" in the 60's did not become entrenched in the culture, annihilating everything else, until the late 70's. Since then, it's been a childish, vulgar, nightmare.

[PC3900]

Hard to believe, but a few months after this, ST was cancelled and Shatner was soon doing dinner theater to survive and at times living in his pickup. Glad he later got rich for his work.

[tiberiousss]

@LazlosPlane There was plenty of emptiness back in 69. The drug culture, free love, and the destruction of values and morals which was replaced with sleeping around. And a war that did see thousands of Americans die. A pop culture that instead of showing youth there was more to life than drugs, drugs became their life. How many thousands of kids didn't make it through the 60's due to this unpretentious self serving culture. Yeah, Great times in 1969.

[Substantive64]

TORTURE!!!!

[silvereagle2061]

In "Free Enterprise" he wanted to do a musical version of Hamlet.