When it was clear that our show was "in" and a
                 surefire career-reviver, everyone wanted to be
                 on. Between guest villains and the many
                 cameos, we ended up with two hundred and
                 fifty celebrities in all, which was quite an
                 accomplishment. Still, I'm sorry about some of
                 the ones that got away. 

                 There was Jose Ferrer, of course, but also
                 Robert Kennedy, who was then still the
                 Attorney General and wanted to appear in a
                 cameo as Attorney General. But we could
                 never put that one together. Instead, he hung in
                 his Washington, DC., office a picture of me I'd
                 inscribed, "From one crimefigther to another."
                 Though I never got to meet him, we spoke by
                 phone, and I discovered that he had a great
                 sense of humor, which I don't think many
                 people realized.

         UTILITY BELT BLUES

                The utility belt wasn't a problem unless I bent
                 over suddenly, in which case I got a buckle in
                 the gut or a Batarang in the side. And, sorry to
                 disillusion any of you, but unless I had to take
                 something from one of the compartments in a
                 shot, the belt was empty. The strange thing
                 was, I felt a little naked and incomplete then, as
                 when I used to play cowboys as a kid: if the
                 holster was empty, the illusion just wasn't
                 complete.

                  HE WHO WEARS TIGHTS GETS THE
          GIRL

                 Discomfort aside, one of the most memorable
                 days of my career was when I put on the
                 complete suit for the first time and walked onto
                 the set. I admit feeling a little self-conscious
                 when I took my first steps from the wardrobe
                 department to the nearby sound stage. But I've
                 also got to admit that I probably didn't feel
                 quite as weird as some of the vegetable people
                 and aliens I saw coming and going from the
                 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea or lost in
                 Space sets.