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.