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Ist I heard it referenced was 1977 in the Rockford Files

Not that you should care in the least, but I tried years ago to correct this "Klaatu Barada Nikto" wiki. BTW, I read that it took Deborah Kerr, the female lead, 13 takes to get the Gort/Klaatu Barada Nikto scene right because she couldn't stop laughing.

But the question is exactly when the phrase entered the popular lexicon. One of my Aspergerish UCLA cohorts used it in 1968 at a political protest planning meeting in response to the edicts of the female organizer. So, I tried to aid the wikipedia entry by noting that James Garner used it sarcastically to keep a 7 foot goon from throttling him in a 1977 episode of the detective series, "The Rockford Files".

However, I was forced to cite IMDB as my info source, which wikipedia deemed unreliable. But I didn't want to reveal that, besides my own recall, my real source was a bootleg copy of the complete Rockford series I bought off EBay but eventually tossed because they were obviously taped from a way too grainy 1960's TV. So, this will again be rejected as hearsay but some old Rockford fans know it to be true, which the monitor could verify via a similar purchase.

Btw, the 7' goon may be the same guy who played "Jaws" in a James Bond film, or "Lurch" in "The Addams Family", but I can't swear to that. 73.11.136.202 (talk) 04:00, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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