Star Trek: Wolf in the Fold (1967)
Season 2, Episode 14
5/10
Redjac is the "Ghost in the Machine! A waste of talent!
12 September 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Robert Bloch (Male Wizard in CatsPaw) as the Prefect and John Fiedler as the Entity "Redjac" (Jack the Ripper). No real surprise who the killer was going to be, as Fieldler always played "oddballs". Badly written with a very long and boring "courtroon scene". Should have had EFX of the entity "beaming" in and out of people at will. Only a blackout every time (it's cheap). John Fielder has been in hundreds of movies, with his small (5Ft. 4in.) physical size and high-pitched voice. He played the Professor in the 1950's "Superman" TV show. He is the conductor who sells "Bing" tickets on-board the train to Vermont ("White Christmas"). The voice of "Piglet" in Disney's "Winnie-the-Pooh". A juror in "Twelve Angry Men". The list is endless... His unique talent is wasted here. At the end, he "invades" the computer to strike terror into all "invisible" 440 crew members of the Enterprise Starship. (Have you ever seen more than 20 at a time?) The lack of strong emotion as the pretty female victims are all stabbed to death? Bloch's "wife" is murdered and he acts like almost nothing happened. Another great script idea, badly executed. Another weak entry in Season 2 of the original series.
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