Let’s Make a Deal (TV show), 208
Liar’s Club (TV show), 203
L’Idiot (play), 79
Life magazine, 62
lifesaving, 260–61
Lincoln Enterprises, 129, 130
Lithgow, John, 67–68, 94, 242–43, 289–90
Little Caesar (film), 191
Little Shop of Horrors (film), 68
Loblaw (grocery chain), 191
Locklear, Heather, 214–15, 217
Logan, Joshua, 55–56, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65
Lord, Jack, 119
Los Angeles, California, 52
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), 214
Los Angeles Times (newspaper), 74
Lost (TV show), 223
The Love Boat Fall Preview Party (TV show), 252
Lucas, George, 235
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (song), 41, 336, 339
Lumet, Sidney, 46
Lupinacci, Ernest, 196
Lupino, Ida, 166
Lust for Life (film), 114
Lydic, Desi, 297–98
Lynde, Paul, 203
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 23
madness, 160–61
The Magic Planet (documentary film), 186
Mandel, Howie, 207
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV show), 95, 121
Mann, Abby, 75, 76
Mann, Aimee, 338
Mannix (TV show), 160
Marcus Welby (TV show), 160
Margolin, Stuart, 165
Marlowe, Christopher, 28
Marshall, E. G., 49
Martin, Elizabeth Anderson (wife), 118, 240, 276–77, 309–19
Martin, Mike, 309–10
Marvin, Lee, 49
Mason, James, 20
Masquerade Party (TV show), 203
Massey, Raymond, 49
The Matchmaker (play), 61
Matheson, Richard, 94
Matthau, Walter, 80, 84–86
Matt Houston (TV show), 215
Mayan people, 199
McCarthy, Joseph, 32, 96
McClure, Doug, 178
McDowell, Malcolm, 284, 287
McGill University (Montreal, Canada), 12, 17, 19, 33, 34, 113
McMahon, Vince, 251–52
McQueen, Steve, 49, 92
media, 128–29, 274–76
Medical Center (TV show), 160
Melville, Herman, 41
memorization, 46–47, 56, 77
merchandising, 114–16, 123, 129–31, 199–200
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 28
Merrick, David, 55–56, 61, 62, 64
method acting, 19, 24
Meyer, Nicholas, 225–26
M-G-M studios, 36, 52–53, 56
Michaels, Shawn “Heartbreak Kid,” 251
Miller, Dennis, 250
Milwaukee Ballet, 86
Miranda law, 213
Miss Congeniality (film), 292–93
Mission: Impossible (TV show), 147, 158, 160, 175
Mister Roberts (play), 61
Mitchell, Cameron, 162
Mitchell, Edgar, 83
Molière, 46
Monday Night Football (TV show), 293
money, 9–10, 17–18, 20, 34–35, 38, 41, 52, 60–61, 74–75, 91–92, 95, 97–98, 112, 138, 140, 141–42, 152, 153–54, 159, 160, 195–98, 225, 303
Montreal Children Theater, 15
Morning’s at Seven (play), 61
Morrow, Vic, 147
The Most Happy Fella (play), 35–36
motorcycles, 80–82
Mountain Playhouse (summer theater), 19, 21
MTV Movie Awards (TV show), 177–78, 253, 336
Muni, Paul, 36, 46
Murphy, Eddie, 103, 222
My Fair Lady (play), 35
Star Trek:The Next Generation (TV show), 284
Star Trek: Phase II (TV movie), 199–202
Star Trek conventions, 143
Vincent (play), 137, 147
Nimoy, Susan, 126–27, 266, 270
911 emergency response system, 253–60, 273, 276–77
No Deadly Medicine (TV play), 47
Nolte, Nick, 171, 222
North Beach and Rawhide (TV movie), 174
Norton, Ed, 281
Nuremberg trials, 75–78
The Nurses (TV show), 92, 95
Nuyen, France, 60, 61, 62–64, 65–66, 135, 168
O’Brian, Hugh, 205
Odets, Clifford, 16–17
Oedipus the King (TV play), 44
Omnibus (TV show), 44, 46
One Step Beyond (TV show), 43, 82–83
On the Waterfront (film), 47
organ donation, 307
Osborn, Paul, 55–56, 61
Osgood, Charles, 253
The Osgood File (radio show), 253
The Outer Limits (TV show), 88
The Outlaws (TV show), 92
The Outrage (film), 190, 299
Over the Hedge (animated film), 90–91, 170–71
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (TV show), 160
paintball fight, 156–58
Paisley, Brad, 338
paramotoring, 156–58
Paramount Pictures, 199, 200, 221, 225, 227, 231, 284, 287–88
Parks, Michael, 165–66
patriotism, 32
Patterson, Tom, 22
MySpace page, 205–6, 209
Mysteries of the God (documentary film), 185
Naked City (TV show), 92
narrator role, 252–53
NASCAR, 9–10
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), 141, 150, 185–86
National Enquirer (newspaper), 275–76
National Safety Council’s First Aid
Handbook, 280
NBC television network, 114, 118–19, 131–32, 223
Nerine Shatner Foundation, 276, 277
Newland, John, 82, 83
Newman, Edwin, 159
Newman, Paul, 49, 56, 92, 190
New York City, 33, 34, 41, 42
New York Post (newspaper), 40–41
New York Times (newspaper), 25, 50, 213, 223, 236, 326
Nichols, Nichelle, 121, 128, 148, 291
“Nightmare at 20,000
Feet” (The Twilight
Zone episode), 93–94, 290
The Night of the Auk (TV show), 67
Nimoy, Leonard, 8, 18, 105, 116, 167, 254, 265
acting style, 79, 121
alcoholism, 125–27, 266–67, 270–71
childhood of, 14
commercials, 198
director role, 224, 227–28, 230, 237–39
finances, 225
game shows, 204–5
Mission: Impossible (TV show), 147, 158
Roddenberry, Gene, 129–30
Shatner, William and, 123–25, 127, 131, 134–35, 143, 148, 172, 201–2, 227–28, 332
song writing, 337
Star Trek (TV show), 119, 120–21, 122, 128–29, 147, 184, 210, 225
Star Trek:The Next Generation (TV show), 284
Star Trek: Phase II (TV movie), 199–202
Star Trek conventions, 143
Vincent (play), 137, 147
Nimoy, Susan, 126–27, 266, 270
911 emergency response system, 253–60, 273, 276–77
No Deadly Medicine (TV play), 47
Nolte, Nick, 171, 222
North Beach and Rawhide (TV movie), 174
Norton, Ed, 281
Nuremberg trials, 75–78
The Nurses (TV show), 92, 95
Nuyen, France, 60, 61, 62–64, 65–66, 135, 168
O’Brian, Hugh, 205
Odets, Clifford, 16–17
Oedipus the King (TV play), 44
Omnibus (TV show), 44, 46
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film), 325
One Step Beyond (TV show), 43, 82–83
On the Waterfront (film), 47
organ dona
tion, 307
Osborn, Paul, 55–56, 61
Osgood, Charles, 253
The Osgood File (radio show), 253
The Outer Limits (TV show), 88
The Outlaws (TV show), 92
The Outrage (film), 190, 299
Over the Hedge (animated film), 90–91, 170–71
Owen Marshall:Counselor at Law (TV show), 160
paintball fight, 156–58
Paisley, Brad, 338
paramotoring, 156–58
Paramount Pictures, 199, 200, 221, 225, 227, 231, 284, 287–88
Parks, Michael, 165–66
patriotism, 32
Patterson, Tom, 22
Patton (film), 161–62
PBS television network, 67, 161–63
Perilous Voyage (The Revolution of Antonio
DeLeon) (TV movie), 165–66, 265
personal computers, 184–85, 195, 249
Petrie, Daniel, 43
Philbin, Regis, 248, 250
Phillips, Freddy, 123–24
Phillips, Michelle, 38
photographic memory, 28
Pitt, Brad, 232–33
Playboy (magazine), 167, 316, 317
Play of the Week (TV show), 44
play writing, 39
Plummer, Christopher, 24, 25, 44, 67
Poe, Edgar Allan, 14
poker, 182–83
police shows, 211–25
Police Woman (TV show), 109
politics, 32
popular education, science, 184–88
The Poseidon Adventure (film), 168
The Practice (TV show), 320–24
The Premature Burial (film), 74
Presley, Elvis, 338
Priceline.com, 6, 195–98, 200, 252, 293, 294, 299, 320, 335
professional wrestling, 246, 248, 250–52
prostitution, 38–39, 40
The Protectors (TV show project), 213. See also T. J. Hooker (TV show) Psycho (film), 94
psychosis, 160–61
Quayle, Anthony, 20, 28
Quinn, Anthony, 114
quiz shows. See game shows
race car, 70–72
race relations, 68, 72–74, 128, 291
Rains, Claude, 67
Rand, Gloria (née Clara Rosenberg, wife), 39–41, 42, 43, 50–51, 52, 55, 60, 75, 92, 96, 112, 133, 135–36, 140, 173
Rashomon (film), 190
Rath, Don, 296, 300
Rathbone, Basil, 41–42, 43, 47
Razzies (Golden Raspberry Awards), 291
“The Real Slim Shady” (song), 336
Redford, Robert, 49
Reece, Gabrielle, 10
Reed, Robert, 49, 95
Reeve, Christopher, 175
Reilly, Charles Nelson, 291
religion theme, 230–37
Rescue 911 (TV show), 253–60, 276, 280, 307
rescue shows, 253–60
residual payments, 139–40
Revere, Paul, 174
Rhino Records, 337
Rhyme and Reason (TV show), 203
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 83–84
Rickles, Don, 252–53
riding therapy, 110–11, 156
Ritter, John, 291
Riverside, Iowa, 294–301
Robert Herridge Theatre (TV show), 92
Roberts, Pernell, 254
Robinson, Edward G., 190, 191, 335
“Rocket Man” (song), 188–90, 253, 290
Roddenberry, Gene, 118–20, 121, 122, 124, 128, 129–30, 131, 140–41, 169–70, 184, 199, 201, 225, 231
Rodgers and Hammerstein, 61
Rodman, Dennis, 290
Rogers, Will, 164
Rollins, Henry, 338
Roman Candle (play), 19
Rosenberg, Clara. See Rand, Gloria (née
Clara Rosenberg, wife)
Russell, Rosalind, 36
St. Lawrence River to New York City, 31–33
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (newspaper), 257
St. Martin’s Press, 6
Sajak, Pat, 250
Sakata, Harold, 101
Saks, Gene, 80
Sanders, Harlan, 195
Shatner, Lisbeth (daughter), 66, 112, 169, 279–80, 283
Shatner, Marcy (née Marcy Lafferty, wife), 146–47, 163–64, 200, 224, 260–63
Shatner, Melanie (daughter), 112, 164, 169, 272, 294
Shatner, Nerine (née Kidd, wife), 3–4, 154–55, 263–78, 279, 281– 3, 289, 301, 309, 313, 331
Shatner, William, 51–54, 56, 68–70
acting apprenticeship, 7–8, 12, 15–17, 19–20, 24–28, 47
acting career, 36–38, 67–68, 78, 94–95, 190–91
albums
Common People (ballet and album), 86, 339
Golden Throats:The Great Celebrity
Sing Off, 337
Has Been, 194, 278, 338–40
The Transformed Man, 139, 188, 196, 242, 252, 335–37, 339
ancestry of, 6–7
books
Get a Life, 144
Star Trek Memories, 148
TekLab, 245–46
TekWar, 193, 245–48, 251
celebrity, 145–47
childhood, 6–7, 9, 13–19, 97
comedy, 21–22, 154–55, 191–92, 241–43
director role, 223–24, 230–41, 262
divorces
Lafferty, Marcy, 262–63
Rand, Gloria (née Clara Rosenberg, wife), 133, 135–36, 140, 173
education of, 12, 13–14, 17, 18, 19
family life, 92, 96, 112, 135–36, 160
film career, 51–54, 68–70, 94–95, 192
Airplane II:The Sequel, 241–42, 262
Alexander the Great, 57, 100, 173
The Bastard, 174
Big Bad Mama, 108–10, 111
The Brothers Karamazov, 51–55, 56
The Devil’s Rain, 166–67
Free Enterprise, 83–84, 104
San Francisco Film Festival, 91
Sappington, Margo, 340
Saturday Morning Fairy Tales (radio show), 15
Saturday Night Live (TV show), 143–44, 197, 242
Saturn Award, 291
Sayonara (film), 61
Schell, Maximilian, 76, 78
Schlatter, George, 132
Schnakenberg, Robert E., 280–81
The School for Wives (TV play), 46
school integration, 68–69
science, popular education in, 184–88
science fiction, 131–32, 184, 188–89, 193, 199, 200
Science-Fiction Film Awards (TV awards show), 188, 189–90, 196, 253
Sci-Fi Channel, 240–41
Scott, George C., 161–63
The Search for Houdini (TV show), 252
Secrets of a Married Man (TV movie), 38
Secrets of the Deep (TV documentary series), 185
Seligman, Selig J., 98, 99, 100
Serling, Rod, 27, 93, 94
The Seven Year Itch (play), 19
sexuality, Shatner, William, 145, 167
Shakespeare, William, 23, 24–25, 336
Shame (The Intruder (film)), 74
Shandling, Garry, 171
Shapiro, Arnold, 188, 253–54
Shatner, Ann (mother), 12–13, 143
Shatner, Elizabeth (née Elizabeth
Anderson Martin, wife), 118, 240, 276–77, 309–19
Shatner, Gloria (née Clara Rosenberg,
Gloria Rand, wife), 39–41, 42, 43, 50–51, 52, 55, 60, 75, 92, 96, 112, 133, 135–36, 140, 173
Shatner, Joseph (father), 8, 9, 13, 18–19, 22, 23, 52, 112, 133–34, 136, 153–54, 174–75, 259
Shatner, Joy (sister), 143
Shatner, Leslie (daughter), 112, 151, 156, 169
Groom Lake, 117–18, 237–41
Impulse (Want a Ride, Little Girl?), 101–2, 166, 167
Incubus, 66, 88–91, 191
The Intruder, 68–74
Judgment at Nurembe
rg, 75–78
The Kidnapping of the President, 171
The King and I, 54
Kingdom of the Spiders, 107–8, 262
The Magic Planet (documentary), 186
Miss Congeniality, 292–93
Mysteries of the God (documentary), 185
The Outrage, 190, 299
Over the Hedge (animated), 170–71
The Shiva Club, 155, 210
Shoot or Be Shot, 293
Star Trek (animated), 170, 171–72
Star Trek: Generations, 174
Star Trek:The Motion Picture, 225–26, 262
Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan, 226, 291
Star Trek III:The Search for Spock, 126, 225–28
Star Trek IV:The Voyage Home, 229–30
Star Trek V:The Final Frontier, 225, 230–37, 247
Universe (animated documentary), 185–86
White Comanche, 104–5, 173–74, 184
The Wild (animated), 170
finances of, 9–10, 17–18, 20, 34–35, 38, 41, 52, 60–61, 74–75, 91–92, 95, 97–98, 112, 138, 140, 141–42, 152, 153–54, 159, 160, 195–98, 225, 303
health of, 225–28, 285, 308–9
horses, 110–11, 156, 172–77, 259, 263, 285, 301–3
life lessons, 181–83
marriages
Kidd, Nerine, 3–4, 154–55, 263–78, 279, 281–83, 289, 301, 309, 313, 331
Lafferty, Marcy, 163–64, 200, 224, 260–62
Martin, Elizabeth, 118, 240, 276–77, 309–19
Rand, Gloria, 39–41, 42, 43, 50–51, 52, 55, 60, 75, 92, 96, 112
Nimoy, Leonard and, 123–25, 127, 131, 134–35, 143, 148, 172, 201–2, 227–28, 332
personality of, 21–22, 57, 148–49, 154–56, 164, 168–69, 191–92, 241–43, 282–84, 301–2, 314–18, 339–42
reviews, 50, 54–55, 122–23, 139, 179, 188, 213, 236, 301, 338
Roddenberry, Gene, 130
roles of, 1–2, 92, 94–95, 161
science, popular education in, 184–88
sexuality, 145
song writing and singing career, 3, 15, 138–39, 177, 188–90, 253, 278, 335–40
speech pattern, 78–79
stage career, 55–56, 79–80, 190–92
Arsenic and Old Lace, 159–60
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky), 51–55, 56, 69
Dreams, 39
Henry V (Shakespeare), 24–27, 44
The Hyphen, 113–14
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 28
The Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare), 28
A Shot in the Dark, 79–80, 84–86
Tamburlaine the Great (Marlowe), 28, 35–36, 68, 161
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 28
There’s a Girl in My Soup, 159
Waiting for Lefty, 16–17, 47, 80
The World of Suzie Wong, 56, 60–65, 66–68
Star Trek conventions, 139–45, 192–93, 242
television career, 92, 94–95, 192
Alcoa Theatre (TV show), 92
Alexander the Great (TV show), 98–100, 113
television career (continued)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV show), 43, 92
Alien Fire (TV movie), 240–41