My Boy, That Was A Tv Show.

A Sense Of The Unknown Has Always Lured Mankind And The Greatest Of The Unknowns Of Today Is Outer Space. The Terrors, The Joys And The Sense Of Accomplishment Are Epitomized In The Space Program.

You Cannot Begin To Imagine The Shock I Had When I Came Down On The Floor For The First Time. First Of All, There's This Whole Thing About Playing Sitcom Comedy. I Didn't Want To Do The Sitcom Thing, But I Didn't Know What Else To Do. I Went Slowly. We Went Through The Week Of Rehearsal, Then We Got On The Floor With The Cameras, Which I'm Used To Because Of My Experience In The Old Days. Then Came Camera Day, With An Audience, And It Was Stunning, Enthralling, Exciting And Chaotic. I Had Never Experienced Anything Like That Before, As An Actor. I Was Part Minstrel, Part Actor.

No, I Don't Regret Anything At This Point. That May Change On The Next Phone Call, But At The Moment I Don't Regret Anything.

My Mother Was Born In The City, My Dad Was An Immigrant. Probably From Germany. Could Have Been Austria, Could Have Been Poland. The Borders Were Changing. My Dad Brought Over A Large Family Of Shatners When He Was Very Young. Scraped Together The Money, Got 11 Brothers And Sisters A Passage On The Boat. There's A Lot Of Shatners In Montreal.

Although I'm A Business Major Out Of Mcgill University, I Know Nothing... But Then I Found Out Much Later In Life, Nobody Knows Anything.