Barrett joked that Roddenberry kept Leonard Nimoy as Spock and her as the girlfriend, as it was preferable to the other way around. In the end, after the pilot flopped, he conceded and recast the show. Roddenberry wanted his girlfriend (one of them, anyway) on the show.

Test audiences also reportedly complained about Barrett. Spock was aboard the Enterprise, but Barrett was in the 'Spock role.' NBC grumbled about Barrett in the role, asking for a man to play the first officer. Although it was still very popular, Leave it to Beaver, was canceled in 1963, due to the desire of the cast to move on in there acting careers. He also had a cameo as Frank in the 1997 movie Leave It to Beaver. Leave it to Beaver became so popular that it ran for 6 seasons and had a total of 234 episodes. The New Leave It to Beaver: The New Leave It to Beaver (also known as Still the Beaver) is an American sitcom sequel to the original 19571963 sitcom Leave It to Beaver. Bank reprised the role of Lumpy on the 1980s series The New Leave It to Beaver and in the 1983 TV movie Still Beaver. Barrett portrayed 'Number One,' the second in command to Captain Pike (Jeffrey Hunter). Leave It to Beaver: Leave It to Beaver is an American television sitcom broadcast between 19 about an inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver. It was complicated.Īround that time, in 1964, Roddenberry cast Barrett as a lead in his newest endeavor, a pilot episode for a science-fiction series called Star Trek.

In a bold move, according to the biography The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, he brought Barrett and Nichols together and confessed he was in love with both women. And, a couple of years later, as he was working on his own original series The Lieutenant, Roddenberry began a love affair with Nichelle Nichols. There was just one catch - Roddenberry was married to someone else.

The two would fall in love and begin a lifelong relationship. Frank Bank, who played the clumsy bully Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford on the popular 1957-1963 series Leave It to Beaver, died Saturday, one day after his 71st birthday, say published reports. She was an actor coming off small roles on the Harry Morgan sitcom Pete and Gladys and a Fabian flick called Love in a Goldfish Bowl. Leave It to Beaver's Lumpy, Frank Bank, Dies.

He was a screenwriter for Have Gun - Will Travel. Majel Barrett met Gene Roddenberry in 1961.

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