When did you find out they were looking for somebody like Davey Jones out of the Monkeys?

I think I read that in the paper. Or no - I think I heard it behind the camera; what they were formenting or what they were propagandising was that this was in response to the Soviet inquiry about having a Russian on the show. After all, the cosmonauts were the first people in space and hadn�t we been appraised of that. That wasn�t the case at all because we were dealing at the time with the Iron Curtain and Star Trek was not being seen in the Soviet Union. It certainly made for a good story to think that the Soviets had (coughs) the Russians inquired as to why there wasn�t a Russian.

The fact of the matter was yes it was, they�re looking for somebody too appeal to the bubble gum set. The 8 to 14 year olds, and indeed that�s where most of my mail came from.