When Batman met Captain Kirk: Alexander the Great

For more clips like this, and a most enjoyable guide to pop culture, visit the blog for the NYC cult cable-access show Media Funhouse, located here:
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Also check out the blog to see Bill and Adam encounter the show's "special guest stars" Joseph Cotten and John Cassavetes! (The latter was slumming to finish Faces, no doubt). Background: the program is a failed pilot called "Alexander the Great" (we could have seen this every week!), and as if you couldn't already guess was shot before these two gents became Kirk and Bruce Wayne, in 1965. It was helmed by noir director Phil Karlson (also known for the Matt Helm films and Walking Tall and also features the aforementioned JCs, Simon Oakland ("Vincenzo" from Kolchak), the lovely Ziva Rodann, and character actor Cliff Osmond. It's an epic shot on a small budget, and plays at times like the Trek episodes where they beam down to planets that have civilizations that resemble ancient Rome and Greece ("Plato's Stepchildren," anyone?).
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[CountryBat]

Amazing how they could fit both their egos, and waistlines plus a horse into one scene.

[AnakinsGroupie]

Damn! How sad this never got made. Would've been great to see those two hamming it up together.

[nextel99]

The two greatest over-actors of our time. Long live Batman and Admiral Kirk

[dscarbrough]

this is awesome. shatner was actually a great shakespearian trained actor. he just never got the great gigs, and chose star trek as a "temp job." sort of didn't turn out the way he expected, i suspect...

[garbofan2928]

That clip- I love it. With Shatner and West sharing the screen, do they draw straws on who gets to stroke whose ego in which scene or is it evens and odds.

[nrkgalt]

So who makes a better Alexander the Great, Wiliam Shatner or Colin Farrell?

[elmoflash]

After James T. Kirk's acting debut didn't pan out he decided to become a starship captain...

[wookie72]

"I thought you'd never come."

That's what she said.

[wookie72]

The script was only fifteen minutes long, but with Shatner and West's pauses it was stretched to half hour.

[garytvfan]

This was from an unsold pilot for "Alexander the Great". I find it interesting that "Star Trek" and "Batman"...both stars (Shatner and West) started shows in 1966.

[000266617]

da da da da da---Bat Kirk!!!