Rule 5 Sunday: RIP Batgirl, Viva Jeannie!

Posted on | August 23, 2015 | 15 Comments

This week marked the demise of Yvonne Craig, known not only for her portrayal of Batgirl on the 1960s Batman series but (perhaps more widely) as the Orion Slave Girl in the original Star Trek pilot The Menagerie.

A cosplayer dressed as a pregnant Orion Slave Girl, modeled on Yvonne Craig

It’s also Barbara Eden’s birthday! Born in 1931, Ms. Eden was a busy actress, but she’s best remembered for her starring role as a genie found by an astronaut in I Dream of Jeannie.

Barbara Eden as Jeannie the genie

As usual, many of the following links are to pictures normally considered not safe for work. Readers are advised to use discretion when clicking; the management is not responsible for any pollution of your precious bodily fluids if you fail to do so.

And speaking of the late Yvonne Craig, here she is with Salma Hayek in Goodstuff’s weekly megablog! Ninety Miles from Tyranny is up next with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls with Guns, followed by Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes the girls of Alpha Phi, Yvonne Craig, South Pacific, Carly Fiorina, clean food blogging, Ellen Page, and Barbara Eden.

A View from the Beach has Vanessa Hudgens, “Some Other Time”, Bye Bye Batgirl!, The Coffee Cure For Colon Cancer?, Are You Ready to Rumble?, Shocking News From Virginia, Beer Review: Candi, and UGA SJWs Fight Last Battle of Civil War – Ban Hoop Skirts.

At Soylent Siberia, they’ve got a coffee grinder, Monday Motivationer Leather Lather, Tuesday Titillation Come Hither, Humpday Hawtness Tiffany, Fursday Fantastic Lisa, Corset Friday Latent Lingerie, T-GIF Friday Wriggling Out of the Net, Weekender Cosplay Edition, and Bath Night Rustic.

Postaldog returns with Salma Hayek, Chloe Bennet, Forbes’ List of the highest paid women in Hollywood, Laura Prepon, and Molly Shattuck.

American Power returns after a long absence with April Rose, SI Swimsuit Issue Sneak Peek, Liz Hurley, Kate Hudson, Drunken Stepfathers, Lissy Cunningham, and The Rise of Sexual Fluidity.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Bella Hadid, his Vintage Babe is May Wynn, Sex in Advertising is covered by Myla lingerie, and there’s also Women of PETA XLV, also the obligatory pre-season 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Carole Bouquet and Yukiko Okada.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next weekend’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, August 28. if you have links to Rule 5 Sunday, e-mail them to my [email protected] mailbox by noon on the 28th.

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15 Responses to “Rule 5 Sunday: RIP Batgirl, Viva Jeannie!”

Matthew T. Mason
August 23rd, 2015 @ 11:32 pm

Wombat, Wombat!

1) The original series pilot for Star Trek was called, “The Cage,” scenes from which were placed in the two-part season one episode, “The Menagerie.” The woman in question, who appeared in the guise of an Orion slave girl for a brief time, was Vina, played by Susan Oliver.

2) Yvonne played Marta, an Orion woman, in the third season episode, “Whom Gods Destroy.”
Good Stuff
August 24th, 2015 @ 4:59 am

Thanks for the linky love!

For Science and Health! Salma Hayek and Yvonne Craig

A while back… I posted a Barbara Eden rule 5 post

http://i.imgur.com/ODsTYDO.gif
CrustyB
August 24th, 2015 @ 9:11 am

THIS PROMOTES RAPE! THIS IS PATRIARCHY!

Tasty, tasty patriarchy!
RKae
August 24th, 2015 @ 9:22 am

Yvonne Craig also held bragging rights for having been in an Elvis Presley flick: “It Happened At The World’s Fair.”

I don’t know about you folks, but I’m impressed.
Soylent Green
August 24th, 2015 @ 9:35 am

What he said…but with less nerddom. Oh, and thanks for the Linky Love, as always.
Mike
August 24th, 2015 @ 3:30 pm

The NBC censors had no trouble (tribble?) at all with Ms. Eden’s cleavage, however they were aghast at the idea of showing her belly button, which was conspicuously concealed.
McGehee
August 24th, 2015 @ 3:39 pm

These days, of course, a djinn with a belly button would offend someone because djinni aren’t born and therefore never have an umbilical cord.
Mike
August 24th, 2015 @ 3:57 pm

Not needing to procreate, I suppose they would need all that plumbing , etc. Or pants!
Good Stuff
August 24th, 2015 @ 7:08 pm

Barbara Eden was prohibited from baring her navel until the show was into its fourth and fifth seasons, and even then the audience only got fleeting glimpses. According to Barbara Eden, network executives and censors were unconcerned about her navel being seen until someone casually mentioned during the third season that it was occasionally visible when the waistband of her costume shifted. After that her navel was required to be covered.
more: http://goodstuffsworld.blogspot.com/2014/04/goodstuffs-blogging-magazine-135th-issue.html
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Matthew W
August 25th, 2015 @ 7:29 am

Barbara Eden !!!
The very first “concert” I attended was Bob Hope and Barbara Eden !!!!!
Wombat_socho
August 25th, 2015 @ 4:41 pm

This kind of nitpicking was why I didn’t go to Star Trek conventions – well, the autograph fees and charges for everything interesting didn’t help.
Wombat_socho
August 25th, 2015 @ 4:42 pm

Truly the Sixties were a time of confusion and madness.
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