Farewell David McCallum

A week or so after his 90th birthday, David McCallum died.

He was the other Man from U.N.C.L.E.  Beginning in 1964, his outsider-as-cool persona set the fan pattern exploited by Star Trek’s Mr Spock a couple of years later.

And from 2003-2023 he played Dr Donald “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS. In between he played on stage and big screen.

The child of two professional musicians, McCallum released a few albums in the 1960s as conductor. You can find them in a 2019 post on Spock’s Record Round-Up, here. We’ll miss his eye twinkle, his set lips when following a clue, and the humor shown in his understated delivery of a zinger—whether to Napoleon Solo or to Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

  

See you on Monday, October 2, for the commencement of this year's BLOG-O-WEEN!

  

Please Join Me in Warship

This article from the November 28, 1996 Tulsa World discusses the hullabaloo about the U.S.S. Eldridge and how it was supposedly erased from radar (that was the intent, at least).  But did it beam somewhere else?  Or zap some of its crewmen, as alleged by Carlos Allende?

Thanks to the wonderful Internet Archive, the Varo Edition of Jessup's The Case for the UFO is available in PDF form here.  And if you don't support the Archive with some bucks once in a while, shame on you!

See you on Thursday!