The Merchandise Guide
Annual 1975

	Barbara Bain - Doctor HELENA RUSSELL
Bain: You're kind of glamorous for a doctor! Russell: Why, thank you. It must be true if they've chosen you to play me! Bain: So we like each other! Seriously, how about filling me in on the Helena Russell story! Russell: I'm Moonbase Alpha's Chief of Medical Section. I'm the daughter of an American West- Coast physician, and I guess I just followed in my Dad's footsteps! Bain: I didn't! I set out in life to be a dancer . . . even though I'd gained a B.S. degree in Sociology. Russell: Ah! So we're eggheads together, eh? It was the challenge of space medicine that got me. I found it just fascinating, and I must have had a natural aptitiude for it, or I'd never have got my job on Moonbase. I really slaved at medical school, you know . . . but I still had time to meet my husband there!	Bain: That's a coincidence! I'd been dancing, and doing fashion- modelling on the side, when I decided to branch out into drama, and joined the Curt Conway acting school. And there I met Martin Landau. You know we're married, of course. Russell: You're lucky. I'm a widow . . . I think. If that sounds strange, you'll understand when I tell you that my husband, who was also into space medicine, went missing on a mission. Bain: That's terrible! How could you cope? Emotionally, I mean? Russell: By retiring into my job. I hope I haven't lost my feminin- ity, though . . . I don't think I have, because I have--well, between us, I have a real thing about John Koenig. Bain: I wish you luck! You know, Martin and I were actually mar- ried twice. Once at New York's City Hall, then ten days later at a religious ceremony. Martin was	just off on tour with the play "Middle of the Night", and I got an understudy to the lead job and a small part in the same show. So the tour was our honeymoon! Russell: Did you always work together professionally? Bain: No. When we arrived at Hollywood, we went our separate ways. I concentrated on television. I appeared in a detective series with David Janssen, and did guest spots on shows like "Get Smart" "Dick Van Dyke", "Bonanza" and several others. I also did stage work. Russell: You had plenty to keep you occupied! Weren't you scared of drifting apart from Martin, socially? Bain: Uh-huh. But then came "Mission Impossible". We worked on the series together, you know. It was a wonderful thing for me, and I won the Television Academy Award--"The Emmy" --as best actress in a dramatic

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