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:
www.mediafunhouse.blogspot.com
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?).
For more info on the Funhouse, visit: www.mediafunhouse.com

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[AnakinsGroupie]

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

[TheAmazingMeatMan]

"Holy. Stop-start. Dialogue. Batman. What. DoyouthinkRobinand. Spock. Aredoingnow?"

[smokescrean23]

I think the universe just exploded!

[stanssoapbox]

And the oscar goes to............the horse.

[stanssoapbox]

If things had been different Shattner might have been chosen for Batman and West might have been chosen to play Captain Kirk. I'm glad that didn't happen.

[stanssoapbox]

HOLY SIMILAR ACTING STYLES!

[Dave Scarbrough]

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?