Star Trek: Voyager attracted numerous established stars to play guest roles on the show, including a certain famous wrestler before his acting career took off.
The Twilight Zone invited viewers to send in scripts, but this backfired when one writer filed a plagiarism lawsuit over the season 4 episode 'Miniature.'
This minor character appeared in more than 50 episodes of Star Trek. Here's the William Shatner Lieutenant Leslie connection which gave the character his name.
Eric Kaplan loves Zoidberg and even admitted that writing for Futurama became all the more attractive when he first saw sketches of the nebbishy arthropod.