All language subtitles for The.Captains.Close.Up.S01E05_English

[ Both Laughing ]

Welcome, Bill.

Scott, geez.

I-I have admired you
for so long.

You are my hero.

Are you kidding me?
No, no. No, no.
I'm not kidding, because--

Vice versa.
Well, I appreciate that,
but the truth of the matter is,

you're such a hell
of an actor,
but you're a singer.

I am a singer.
That is true.
Yeah.

Do you think of yourself
as a singer first?

Uh, yeah.
Yeah, that's where I started.

I know.
Musical theater.
That's right.

Did you study?
Of course.
I still study.

Voice?
Every week.

You take voice lessons
every week?
Yes. Every week.

Give me a-- Give me a thing.
What do you--
What thing?

A voice exercise.
A voice-- An exercise?

♪♪ [ Sings Scale ]

Geez. That's wild.

[ Both Laughing ]

I can't sing,
but I can ride a horse.

Let's hear a little.
Let's do a little singing.

I sang yesterday.
I can teach you today.

How long do we have?
Really?
We've got till 1:30--

[ Laughing ]
and then you have to go.

[ Shatner Narrating ]
Scott realized early on...

that performing
made his heart beat
a little faster.

What he didn't realize
was that those performances...

he gave in high school
and at his church
in Kirkwood, Missouri...

would ultimately lead him
to the bright lights
of Broadway,

and eventually to fans
all over the world.

I'm William Shatner, and this
is The Captains Close-Up...

with Scott Bakula.

Scott is one
of the nicest people...

I've ever met in my life.

He's almost too good to be true.

There's just something about him
that-that you're put at ease.

[ Man ]
Right from day one,
even from the read-through...

that we had at Paramount,

you could tell that this
was gonna be a great ride,

and the guy
at the top of the food chain
was an actor's actor.

[ Shatner ]
So here's what I suggest we do.

Let's get on these horses--

Are these your horses?
These are my horses.

You know these horses?
Intimately.

[ Laughs ]
For example, the horse
I'm gonna put you on...

is 20 years old--
Yeah?

and she has her own will.

See, horses will--
Horses are characters.

Yes, they are.
I know that.

But after 20 years of training,
she's absolutely bomb-proof.

She's foolproof.
Uh-huh.

But--
"But." But?

No, but if you have--
I don't want the "but."

Well, the butt is--
That's part of the horse.
Understood. Yes.

Uh, the "but" is this.

If you were able to,
which you can't because
you haven't been trained,

she could win a class.

They're so well trained--
And I'll teach you
as we go--

I need to know
the right signals.
Yeah. Yeah, the cues.

Thanks, Danny.
Here
or back in Kentucky, or--

No. There's two sets
of horses.

One are
these Western horses--
Yes?

and the other
are saddlebreds--
Yes.

that we breed in Kentucky.

I know this.
You know why I know this?
Why do you know this?

Because my father-in-law
purchased a horse from you
years ago.

What?
Wil Botfield.

I know Wil Botfield.
Yes, you do.

Yes, and I married
his daughter Chelsea.

Did you go
to the River Bottom to--

Of course.
Did you get married
at the River Bottom?

We didn't get married
at the River Bottom,
but we got--

That is such a wild--
Yeah. So Lady In Red
is a horse that you sold...

to Wil many, many years ago.
Oh, for goodness' sakes.

What a wonderful
gentleman he was.
He was a wonderful guy.

What a character.
Yeah. He was.

Come on.
Let's you and I
go into the ring,

and I'll show you
a couple of things.

You can hold two hands.
You can hold one hand.
What do you suggest?

Well, for the beginning,
why don't you hold
two hands,

so you have direct contact.
Okay.

Just grab one rein
in each hand.

One rein in each hand.
Yeah, that's it.

And now,
all you need to do...

is just
the slightest pressure
of your legs forward.

Just the lightest caress,
uh, forward.
Okay, moving them forward.

Okay.
Okay?

And we'll go this way--
Oops.
[ Chuckling ]

Over here
'cause they're a little
afraid of the camera.

Obviously you're not
pressing the right way.
Follow me. Follow me.

Follow him.
Pressure of legs--

Pressure--
Into the side of the horse?
Yes.

Yes, I'm pressing.
Press your legs a little bit.

Ah, there we go.
There we go.

See, it's very simple.
Come on over here.

Over the grass.
Over the grass.
All right.

And then towards
that passageway there.
All right.

And if I'm not back
in a week--
[ Laughs ]

Cancel all your engagements.
[ Laughs ]

Aaah. No grass today.
Calvin, let's go.
All right.

See how easy it is?
Yes.

- It's subtle. It's--
- Do you have to keep
pressing the whole time?

Once you've got her moving,
she'll be all right.
All right.

All right. Follow Bill.

I'm saying "Bill."
Is that all right
to call you that?

If I can call you Scott,
you can call me Bill.
All right.

You're handling
the horse perfectly.
[ Chuckles ]

[ Laughing ]
Okay.
No, look what you just did.

Anything you do
about your legs--

Don't pull on the rein.
Anything you do
with your legs--

Keep your legs
sort of forward and out.
Okay.

Now, if you can
turn her around--

That's it.
That's perfect.

Okay.
That was a huge thing.

Now stop her from turning
with your other leg.

That's it.
Perfect.
Okay.

Okay. Now--

You're an athlete.
Yes.

You're, uh--
You ran the marathon.
I've run a couple. Yeah.

[ Shatner ]
Why are you running
a marathon with--

[ Bakula Laughs ]
Well, I like to run.

And I do it
to stay in shape.

And it was
a great opportunity...

and it was
a great challenge for me,

and it's a great thing
to be a part of.

The environment
is fantastic.

Thousands of people
are running.
25,000 people run.

'Cause I'm not trying to run
to, you know, win the race.

I'm running to finish
and to have the experience,

and to share that experience
with all the other runners.

It works
on so many levels--

Just the camaraderie
that I had with my buddy
that I was running with,

and just--
just finishing something...

with all those people
who are doing it
in all their own ways.

Everybody's-- People
running because they're
running for charity,

they're running to support
people that they've lost.

It's a huge deal.

And when you cross
the finish line,
it's just-- it's a rush.

Hey, I was at my doctor
the beginning of the year,
and he said--

How were the numbers?
The numbers are all good.

He said, "We're getting ready
to start the second half
of your life."

And I said,
"Doc, I love that."

[ Shatner Narrating ]
Well, if the second half
is anything like the first,

Scott is in good shape.

But then, Scott was born
into a heritage
and ancestry...

where appreciation of the arts
as well as sports...

goes back a long way.

[ Shatner ]
"Bakula"--
Yes.

Which I understand
means "flower."

Is that right?
You know more than I.

Really?
You know more
than I do.

- What is that?
- It's Czech.
It's Bohemian, really.

Because when my ancestors
came over,

it was when--
from the country of Bohemia,
from around Prague.

Why is a Bohemian--
And why is
"Bohemian Rhapsody"--

[ Laughing ]
What--
Why is--

- From the country of Bohemia,
which no longer exists, right?
- That's correct.

Did we get
the adjective "Bohemian"--

Well, the gypsies
led a Bohemian lifestyle,

and those all kind of
became part and parcel
of that description.

A Bohemian is an artist,
is, uh,

you know, someone
who has, uh, flair...

and, uh, artistic--

And, you know, the gypsies
were circus people
and entertainers.

- Oh, I see.
- They kind of came out
of the original jesters...

and people like that.

I never got that.
They traveled around.

Was your family--
Did they have any
of those characteristics?

- No.
- But you have.

I have somehow.
How did that happen?

- No idea.
- No, come on.

My mother's very musical.

My dad was a concert pianist
as well as a lawyer.

Wait a minute.
He was a concert pianist
and a lawyer?

Yes. He studied classical piano,
and still plays very well.

Anyway, I had pianos
in my house my whole life,

so there was always
music around.

And my parents--
'Cause my dad went to Princeton.

He used to go to New York
when he was at school...

with his buddies from Princeton,
and he couldn't--

They brought him to New York.

My dad was raised
very blue collar.

He worked his butt off
at Princeton,

and he was a waiter
in the eating club,

so he wasn't part
of the scene at all.

But he became friends
with these people.

And he was a great athlete.

And they would take him
into New York--

"Hey, Stew, you wanna
come to New York
and see a show?"

So he developed this love
of New York shows.

So when I was growing up
in the '60s,

my parents would disappear
for a few days,

go to New York,
see a Broadway show...

and come back home
with Cabaret--
an album from Cabaret--

or How to Succeed in Business
Without Really--
Any of those kind of shows.

So I was getting this kind of
distant love affair.

You'd put the album on
and you'd be listening to Mame
or Angela Lansbury or somebody.

So I grew up
having it around me.

- Did they encourage you
to sing?
- They did. Yeah.

I started singing
from a very, very young age.
How young?

Well, I was singing--
I had a band
in the fourth grade.

I sang with a symphony
in the fifth grade.

[ Shatner ]
Ten, 11 years old?
Yeah. Nine, 10, 11.

I always sang.

The musical theater
kind of came out of that.
Uh-huh.

Did your mom make sure
you had lessons?

No. No. It was just kind of--
They weren't pushing it.

You gotta remember,
it's St. Louis.

It wasn't like, let's grow up
in be in show business.

What did your father say?

You know, at the time,
he didn't understand.

Because,
as I was saying earlier,
in St. Louis,

it wasn't like here,
where we live, that every--

There's a gaffer that lives
at the end of the block,

and your kid goes to school
with somebody else
who's a makeup artist and--

It wasn't part
of our-our environment.

So when it was all
said and done,

he was disappointed
because he didn't--
he couldn't help me.

What did he
want you to do?
He wanted me to be a lawyer.

But more than that,
he wanted to be able
to assist me. You know?

In life,
to give you a leg up.

If you're gonna be a doctor
and your dad's a doctor,

then he says
why don't we get you
to this school,

and you can work for my--
you know, intern here
and blah, blah, blah.

But he didn't have anything--

So it was, in effect,
basically saying...

his time as parenting me
in that way was over.
Right.

I don't think
he was ready to do that.
I never thought of it that way.

'Cause my dad wanted me
to go into his business.
But that's true, isn't it?

You lose contact about 18.

You're saying,
Dad, I want to sing.

Yeah.
What does your mother say?

My mother secretly, I think,
loved it.

She was always-- Yeah.

I mean, she really--
She's always been there.

And my dad's been great.

It was just, I think he--
You know, he's a parent.

And like my kids--
You know, you worry
about your kids.

You don't stop being a parent
just become they become of age,

because they've got issues
and challenges and things.

You want to be there
to give advice, at least.

I couldn't even call him up
and say, "What do you think
I should do about"--

Should I take this part
in The Rocky Horror
Picture Show national tour?

Is that a good idea
or a bad idea?

Right. Right.
He'd be like, "What's that?"

I sang a song yesterday--

It was a patter song,
so I didn't have to
carry a tune...

or sustain a note,
and I had the most fun.
Yeah.

That-- That I can do,
and I have such fun with it.

But I've heard you--

You know,
that Broadway musical voice.

Richard Kiley.
Did you ever meet him?

[ Bakula ]
I never met him.
Do you know who he is?

Absolutely.
I don't know whether
he's alive or dead now.

He's not with us,
I don't believe.

He was an amazing actor.
He was a won--
He was very much like you.

He was a musical actor...

who could take the broadness
of musical comedy and do it,

as he did Kismet
and several other
name musicals.

- La Mancha was his biggie.
- Have you done it?

I've done it, yes.
And it's extraordinary,
isn't it?

It's unforgettable
if you get to do it.

What's it like to do?

When you have a good text--
You know this better
than anybody.

When you have
good words to say,
it starts there.

And then the emotion
of that piece
is overwhelming,

because it's about
friendship...

and it's about
unrequited love
and it's about freedom,

and it's about
all these things--
the Spanish Inquisition--

It's all rolled into one.

And you have probably
one of the best scores
ever written.

- I know.
- So to get to sing it...

and be this character
who's crazy
and he's not crazy,

- and you don't know
where he's coming from--
- And you hear the music go out.

You hear your voice go out
to 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 people,

and it comes back,
and they're listening.
Yeah.

Is there exultation
over the power of your voice...

to weave a spell over them?

Well, there's just magic
in the theater.

That's where I started,
and that's where--
If I'm lucky I'll end there.

There's just magic in sharing
that space with people--
That experience.

I'm starting a film,
and I've gotta sing--
[ Laughs ]

I've gotta sing
"If I Were a Rich Man."
Yes.

Fiddler on the Roof.

And I know you've done
Fiddler on the Roof.
[ Laughs ]

As a high school student--
Yes.

and then as a professional.
Not as a professional, no.

No one would ever
hire me as--
Believe me.

So I've gotta sing
Fiddler on the Roof,

but it's me,
it's Shatner--
Yes.

playing in the musical
Fiddler on the Moon--

[ Laughs ]
directed by Mel Brooks.

And the lyric will now be,
"If I were a human."

♪ If I were a human ♪
Okay?

Let's--
You gotta teach me...

how to sing
"If I Were a Rich Man."

If I were
a human, huh?

- You remember
any of the lyrics?
- Yeah. The original is--

♪ If I were a rich man
Yubby, dibby, dibby-- ♪

Does it matter how many
"yubby, dibby, dibby
dabba, dooba, do"?

As long as y end
before you gotta
come back in again.

- Right--
- ♪ Badda, bidda, badda, bum ♪

You know, bum.
♪ All day long
I'd biddy, biddy, bum ♪

♪ Biddy, biddy, biddy
biddy bum ♪
Yeah.

♪ I ♪
♪ Wouldn't have
to work hard ♪

[ Together ]
♪ Yubby dibby, dibby, dibby,
dibby, dibby da ♪♪

- [ Both Laughing ]
- I love it.
You got it.

[ Shatner Narrating ]
In 1976, at the age of 22,

Scott moved to New York City.

He quickly made
his Broadway debut...

as baseball legend
Joe DiMaggio...

in Marilyn, An American Fable,

and appeared off-Broadway...

in the well received
3 Guys Naked
from the Waist Down.

Aha.

The success of his next show,
the musical
Nite Club Confidential,

propelled Scott to Los Angele,
where he began
the Hollywood ascent,

appearing in commercials,
television series,

made-for-TV movies.

And during a writers' strike
in 1988,

Scott returned to Broadway,
starring in the musical
Romance/Romance.

The performance earned Scott
a prestigious Tony nomination.

But in 1989,
Scott would land
a television role...

that would alter the course
of his life.

As time traveler Sam Beckett
in the popular television series
Quantum Leap,

Scott finally found
a leading role...

that would showcase
his wide range of talents
as an actor.

I thought it was just awesome
because as actors,

we get to play
so many different things.

This is one guy, one show.
You get to play everything.

[ Shatner ]
The show would run
for a successful five seasons...

and bring Scott legions of fans,

as well as a Golden Globe Awad
in 1992...

for best actor
in a dramatic series.

When I did Quantum Leap
years ago, it was--

That was a marathon.
I liken that to a marathon--
Yeah.

to try to get
to the end of the season.
Right.

I had five days off
in four and a half years
when I wasn't on the set,

from first shot to last shot.

- Did it affect
your relationships?
- Absolutely. Absolutely.

- Did it affect your marriage?
- Absolutely. Absolutely.

- How badly?
- Well, that marriage ended.

Right. So did mine.

That was really a--
[ Stammers ]

It wasn't a direct product
of it,

but it certainly fed into it.

What was it like
when you left Quantum...

uh, and you're the lead
in a series--

you're Scott Bakula.

Won a Golden Globe,
nominated for all kinds
of awards--

Quantum Leap.
You were wonderful.

You were bloody wonderful.

Thank you. Thank you.
Okay.

Quantum Leap's over.

What's--
Is anybody knocking
on your door?

Um, not really.

[ Both Laugh ]
Not really.

Not really.
Not really.

So what did you do?

Well, I did--

I did a few things.

You know, you try
and figure this business out,
and it drives you crazy,

but I thought,
I'm gonna try and stay away
from television for a while,

'cause I'd like
to make more movies.

I'd like to get back
to the theater.

I'd like to do, you know,
things like that.

You can say all that
as much as you want to yourself,

but making it happen
is another thing.

So I had a few
little things come along...

and a couple little
movie opportunities,

but the world
didn't open up for me,

in terms of movies
and things like that.

And I don't know why that is.

I think part
of the problem was, for me--

was that people
had this perception
that I could--

I was a guy
that could do anything,

and... that's not
a specific perception,

and in this town I think
a lot of times they wanna say,

"No, you're the guy
that does that."

Oh, that's interesting.
Here's the cubbyhole.
Boom.

And I was like--
[ Stammers ]
He sings. He dances.

He plays the piano.
Can do anything.

- And he could be a lawyer.
- Yeah. He can do anything.

But wh-what do we need
for this particular thing?

So, I don't know if that--
I could be imagining that.

But I got--
I got back into television.

I did a guest--
a guest spot...

on Murphy Brown
with Candice.

And--
[ Shatner ]
Do we love Candice?

We love Candice.

- We love Candice.
- That's, you know--

She's the greatest.
Yes, she is.

I saw the acting
you were doing with her.
But, uh--

So I did that off and on
for a couple years.
That was just kind of fun.

I wanted to see if--
Because people were saying
let's do half hour again.

I'd done a bunch of half hour
before I did Quantum Leap.

Uh, so I just kind of
knocked around, you know?

Were you-- Did you have
a feeling of desperation?
Was there any--

No. You know what?
I had a couple
beautiful development deals,

when they were still
doing those things,
where I had a couple of--

You produced
a couple of movies
during that.

[ Bakula ]
I was producing and starring,

and I was trying
to find my way
into having more control.

I guess that's probably
what I was looking for--

how to figure out
how to be more in charge
of my career.

You're now in this period.
You're looking around.

Things are happening,
but not the big thing.

- Yeah.
- I mean, you're a leading man.

Star Trek comes along--
another series.
I got lucky.

When I did Quantum Leap,
I had a great relationship...

with Kerry McCluggage,
Gary Hart...

at Universal Studios.

When they moved to Paramount,

I eventually landed
at Paramount with them.

I had a "deal"--
a production deal--

and we'd stayed friends,

so I was working for them,
basically,

developing shows.

Did a couple
movies of the week...

and a couple things
through them, with them.

I, ironically, had gone in
with a friend of mine...

to pitch a new sci-fi show
to them.

What--
Anything I might know?

No. It didn't happen.

No, but I mean, what was
the source material?

Original.
He had written it.

It was a concept.

And he wrote
this great script,

and I went in and said,
you know--

I'd li-- I'm--
I'm willing to go back
into the sci-fi arena,

because I think the script
is so great.

They were sitting and listening
and being very kind
and wonderful,

and they said,
"Here's the thing.
[ Chuckles ]

We're getting ready to do"--

Already--
"Here's the thing."

As soon as you hear that,
you know--

- That's not gonna work.
Right?
- Right.

And, you know,
the way our business works,

ideally, they always want
to know what you're coming in
to tell them.

And I hate that.
It's like, how--

As soon as you tell somebody
"I'm gonna come
and sell you something,"

but you just give 'em
a little bit,

then they start thinking
too much.

You don't want 'em to--
You want to hit 'em fresh.

So they let me do that,
and unfort--

This was an unfortunate case,
because when I told them this,
they said, Here's the deal.

We're getting ready
to do another franchise
of Star Trek,

and we want you
to be the captain.

Okay, stop there.
We're not gonna produce-- Okay.

But we're not gonna produce
what you got--

We're not gonna do
another sci-fi space show...

because we're doing that,
and we're not doing two.

And we want you to be--
All right. I'm gonna say it.
Okay.

And we want you
to be the captain.
Yes.

Boom. What goes on?

My first thought?
Not interested.

Why? Why?
I-I'm McCluggage.

Why, Scott?
It's a great franchise.

Well, then-- He doesn't say--
I don't say that.

You asked me
what my first thought was.
Yeah.

I'm in the room.
I said, Wow. Wow--

[ Stammers ]

And I'm-- So I'm acting.

I'm acting in the room.
You know.

You're acting in the room.
You're saying "Wow."

But what are you thinking?
I'm feeling terrible
for my friend, the writer,

who's in the room--
Oh.
[ Laughs ]

who's watched his idea
that he's written--

[ Imitates Explosion ]
go up in just like,
you know, smoke.

That's bad.
And he's a really good
friend of mine.

We worked together for years--
Dave Fuller, a great writer.

And I'm thinking,
okay, this is just--

He's crushed.
And he's done the pitch.

And I'm thinking, well, okay,
you've done a bunch of those,

and this idea is really great,

and it's open up
a whole nother possibility.

You're saying--
Oh, you're thinking.

No, I'm still being politic.

Um, and--
So that's what's going on
in my head.

I say, well,
what are we talking about?

And I may have even said...

I'm not interested in,
you know, the next captaincy.

And they said, you're gonna be
the first captain.

And then I was done.

[ Laughing ]
Then I was done.

You're gonna be
a hundred years before Kirk.

I said, I'm in.
I didn't say that, but I was--

In my head I was like,
Then I can be the original.

Were you apprehensive
about Shatner at all?

No. Because I'm a hundred years
ahead of you.
Right.

So I didn't have to--
It took the curse off
of following you.

All of a sudden
I didn't have to
research Deep Space...

and, you know, Voyager,
and I could just--

Oh. I can separate this out.
I can be the first.
That was the hook for me.

I know that he was
the only one they wanted.

There were a couple other
name actors who were kind of
lobbying for the part that--

that they didn't want,
and it was kind of like
Scott or nobody.

I loved Quantum Leap.

I think it's one of the great
science fiction concepts
of all time.

But there's just--
I just was--

You know, I had, in my mind,
that we'd get Tom Skerritt...

or some movie star type thing,

and I couldn't have
been more wrong.

I knew the second
he walked in the room
and I met him...

that he was the character
we envisioned,

which was
a inherently likable,
very down-to-earth,

curious guy...

who you could very much
imagine...

was doing this starship thing
for the very first time.

He was the character.

[ Captain Archer ]
When I took command
10 years ago,

I saw myself as an explorer.

I thought all the risks
would be worth it...

because just beyond
the next planet,
just beyond the next star,

there would be
something magnificent,
something noble.

I think Scott made people
do their jobs better,

from the acting to the crew,

and I think also having
an environment where...

you're not worried
about somebody
being a prima donna...

or pulling some stuff that,
you know, is a little shifty.

You know, look.
There's mikes here
and there's lights,

and if there was something
that had to be moved
at any given point in a scene,

Scott would be the first guy
over there doing it,

to the point where
they'd be like,
Scott, can I do my job?

You know? And he'd be like,
you know, just helping out.

And I mean, that's just
sort of the way the guy is.

[ Shatner ]
So you don't think
in terms of life and death?

No, I don't.
I think about it in terms--
You know, for other people.

But I think I'm so--
[ Stammers ]

The longer I'm here
and the more I see,

the less I think about that,

because so many people
don't get as long as I've had.

So many people don't have
as much as I have.

And so, I think,
as you get older--

You know, people always
talk about perspective.

I think you get more grateful
about every day.

You know, you have grandkids.
How great that you get to see
your grandkids.

We were talking about
Chelsea's dad Wil,

and he passed about six weeks
after our son was born.

Really.
You know?
And we had named him after him.

Did he get to see him?
He did.

I feel very strongly that--
that this isn't it,

and this
is just a little, tiny--
tiny, tiny moment.

Do you feel
there's consciousness?
That, uh--

Using Wil as an example,
that Wil is conscious,

that he is, in essence,
around you?

- That he sees you?
- Oh, yes. Yeah. Yes.

So that--

that when you die,

that the consciousness
of sensation is still there?

- Yes.
- ke, I love Scott,
says Wil,

and I will do my best
to guide him.

But what happens
if you screw up?

Do you have to answer to him
as well as, uh, whoever
you screwed up against?

I don't-- I don't think that
they're necessarily screw-ups.

I think that we've got--
you know, we've got things
to do this time around.

No, but I mean,
bad actions--

What Bernie Madoff--

[ Both Laugh ]

What is--
Who is Bernie Madoff
answering to?

To Bernie Madoff.

- Do you think he feels badly?
- I'm not saying
he feels badly right now,

but his journey isn't done.

Are you talking
about reincarnation?

The possibility of that,

and the next journey
and the next layer
and the next rung.

Or, uh, which way you go.

But that's not
very Presbyterian.

No. No. Not hardly.

[ Laughs ]
Not hardly.
So how did you evolve this?

Um, well, I don't know--

I'm a work in progress,

certainly spiritually,

but I've come a long way,

and my wife and partner,
she's been a great influence...

and given me a great opportunity
to expand my somewhat
limited experiences,

growing up where I did,

and I've been exposed
to a lot of different
methodologies...

and metaphysics
and things like that.

Everybody
has their own belief,

and, first of all,
I'm a believer that everybody
has to find their own thing,

wherever you are
on this planet,

but I just feel
that it's limiting
to think that we're--

There's so much
that we don't understand,

and yet there's so many ways
that we experience things
that we don't understand.

We just touch on them,
little touchstones
here and there,

and the dream state
and all those kinds of things--
déjà vu--

all that stuff.

Um, I just think
it's limiting to think
that this is it.

[ Shatner Narrating ]
Scott's perspective
and approach to life...

seem to have led
to a healthy balance
of family and career--

a balance not so common
in Hollywood.

Scott remains a fixture
in television, theater and film,

with a rich
and diverse career
spanning over 30 years.

Who says nice guys
finish last?

As a person,
he's the most stand-up guy
I've ever met.

I learned everything I know
about how to behave on a set...

and how to treat everybody
with respect.

People would take
a bullet for him.

He was just such a joy
to work with.

Um, he made those four years
truly rememberable and--

and pleasant and fun.

And that cannot always be said
about every TV show
shot in Hollywood.

[ Montgomery ]
When I went out to L.A.,
I knew about the stories...

about the people
and about how everybody...

lets Hollywood affect them
in different ways.

And of course
I met those people,

and then I met somebody
like Scott.

He is one of the most
down-to-earth, genuine,
humble, sincere people...

that I've truly ever met.

I can't believe
you got on the phone
and called me.

That's the best part of this.
I wanted to talk to you.

Let's make sure that
not too much time passes by
before we see each other again.

I agree. I agree.
Thank you.
Thank you.

Be well.
You too.

He had done this
Canada Dry Ginger Ale
commercial...

back in the late '70s
or something.

And it was a real sort of
John Travolta-esque,
you know, stuff--

headband and leggings
and the whole nine yards.

Somebody gets ahold of a copy
of this commercial.

They sent the P.A.
over to his trailer
to come get him...

to shoot the first day
on the bridge.

And we all learned
this little dance move.

And in comes the captain,
being all captain-like,
and someone went, "Hit it!"

And on our bridge
there must have been
35 plasma screens.

On every screen on the bridge,
up comes the Canada Dry guy.

We're doing our best
to sing the song...

and do this Canada Dry
Ginger Ale little ditty.

You've never seen a grown man
go from naught to 60 puce red
in two seconds.

Closed-Captioned By
Captions, Inc., Burbank, CA