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Walter Koenig on the Lean Years After Star Trek: TOS – ‘The Phone Didn't Ring’ (www.ign.com)

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“Everybody thinks if you're an actor, and certainly if you're an actor and on a television series, you must be doing very well,” Koenig said. “Well, I was barely making more than minimum the first season. The second season I was on the show … I had a contract. I was paid a week's wage whether I worked a day or a week. So I made a little bit more. Whereas I made $10,000 for the whole year in 1967, I made $11,000 in 1968. Well, that'll only go so far.”

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I seem to recall him writing some good episodes of Land Of The Lost during this period.

I do wonder if the current age of television means actors are less likely to be typecast after working on a franchise.