Trivia: A football star at Eastern Kentucky State College, Lee Majors came to Los Angeles armed with a physical education degree and possessed with a vague desire to break into films. He worked as a park recreation director for the City of Los Angeles before entering show business in 1963. Majors was promoted as "the New James Dean," though he personally aspired to become a new Steve McQueen or Paul Newman (he also retained his permit to work as a recreation director, just in case the world wasn't holding its breath for a new Dean, McQueen or Newman). Majors achieved stardom on his own merits in a variety of television series, the most recent of which was 1992's Raven. His best-known TV roles included Heath Barkley on The Big Valley (1965-69), bionic Steve Austin on The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-78) and stunt man Colt Seavers on The Fall Guy (1981-86). In addition, he has headlined a number of made-for-TV movies, essaying the old Gary Cooper part in the 1991 sequel to High Noon and portraying U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in a 1976 biopic. Majors would continue to act in the decades to come, memorably appearing in Big Fat Liar and on The Game. For several years, Lee Majors was married to actress Farrah Fawcett.

Trivia: Lead actress, onscreen from Zapped! (1982).

Trivia: After her eye-catching debut as Nurse Dish in the 1970 film version of MASH, American leading lady Jo Ann Pflug remained on call for sexy, come-hither roles. Pflug spent the bulk of her career on television, playing regular roles on Operation Petticoat (1978-79, as Lieutenant Katherine O'Hara) and The Fall Guy (1981-82 as "Big Jack"). She also played Nora Charles in an abortive mid-1970s attempt to revive The Thin Man as a weekly series. While starring as Taylor von Platen on the syndicated soap opera Rituals (1984), Jo Ann Pflug became a born-again Christian; rebelling against the prurient content of Rituals, Pflug quit the program, thereafter devoting herself to religious radio and television projects.

Trivia: The memorable but fleeting appearance of American actor Tracey Walter as "Bob the Goon" in Batman was typical of Walter's career. In the grand tradition of such Hollywood character actors as Percy Helton, Dick Wessel and Louis Jean Heydt, Walter is in the "who is that?" category--familiar yet anonymous--and has developed a cult following amongst cinema buffs. The stage-trained Walters can be seen in such films as Repo Man (1984) City Slickers (1991), Pacific Heights (1992), and Philadelphia (1993). As far back as the 1984 critic's-darling sitcom Best of the West, Walter played Frog, the knuckle-dragging henchman of villain Leonard Frey.

Trivia: Del Monroe has been a busy character actor and sometime secondary leading man in television and films from the early '60s through the beginning of the 21st century -- but he is best known for his four-year stint as crewman Kowalski on Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Born in Santa Barbara, CA, in 1936, Monroe was bitten by the acting bug while serving in the peacetime army of the late '50s, and on returning to civilian life headed for the Pasadena Playhouse, working in repertory with them. He made his screen debut in 1959 in a pair of low-budget quickies, the Edward D. Wood-authored Western Revenge of the Virgins and the crime drama The Girl in Lover's Lane, playing a teenaged mugger in the opening minutes of the latter film. During the early '60s, he moved into television with roles in Westerns such as The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and The Dakotas, and the World War II action series The Gallant Men. In between those small-screen efforts, he also got what proved to be a small but very lucrative role in Irwin Allen's feature film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), which put the neophyte actor (billed as Delbert Monroe) into the midst of a cast that included such luminaries as Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, and Peter Lorre. In the movie, he played a brash (and later potentially mutinous) young seaman named Kowalski, and got to do one good scene with Pidgeon. Monroe went on to other work while the movie went on to become a hit at the box office, and a couple of years later, he was called back and cast in the series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, being produced by Allen. The series, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison, ran for four seasons (1964-1968), longer than any non-anthology science-fiction network program until the 1990s. Monroe became a familiar figure to fans as the red-suited crewman Kowalski, his straightforward, unaffected acting style contrasting well with that of the more experienced performers around him. He also squeezed in a few appearances in series such as Gunsmoke and The Time Tunnel (the latter also produced by Allen) during this four years on Voyage. In the late '60s and '70s, he went back to Westerns (Lancer, The Virginian) and, when they disappeared, came to do a lot of supporting roles in crime shows (S.W.A.T., The Rockford Files, Hunter). Monroe also appeared in a few feature films, most notably Phil Karlson's Walking Tall (1973), in which he played a sadistic thug. He left acting for a time in the 1980s, but resumed working occasionally in films and on television, as well as in theater, in the late '90s.