AS SEEN ON TV: JEFF SPENDER

JEFF SPENDER

CREATED BY:

Ray Bradbury

PORTRAYED BY:

Bernie Casey

AS SEEN IN:

'The Martian Chronicles'

TV DIMENSION:

Alternate Toobworld

TV STATUS:

Recastaway

From Wikipedia:

A third mission, "Zeus III", lands on Mars in June 2001. The men, except for the archaeologist Spender and Colonel Wilder, become more boisterous. Spender loses his temper when Briggs starts dropping empty wine bottles into a clear blue canal. He knocks him into the canal. He leaves the rest of the landing party to explore Martian ruins. Spender (who always has had deep misgivings about the mission) then goes on a killing spree to avenge the destroyed Martian civilization and manages to shoot all astronauts except Parkhill and Wilder, who shoots Spender in the chest before he has the opportunity to kill them as well.

From the IMDb:

Major Spender ( Bernie Casey ) finds the Martians dead, wiped out by chicken pox brought by the previous expeditions. He becomes obsessed by Martian culture to the point where it drives him insane. He kills three of Wilder's men, and Wilder kills him in return. As he holds the dying Spender in his arms, Wilder wonders what sort of future Man will have on Mars....

MAJ. JEFF SPENDER
I just believe in things that were done. And there were so many things done here. Streets and houses and books and big canals and clocks and places with names - things that were used and touched for centuries. And I don't see how we could ever use them without feeling uncomfortable. Oh, we could change the names, but the old names will still be there. So no matter how we touch Mars, we won't be able to really touch it. See, that'll make us angry. We'll get mad at that and just rip it up. We'll change it to suit ourselves. And ruin it. Just like we've ruined Earth.

COL. JOHN WILDER
We won't ruin it.

MAJ. JEFF SPENDER
No? Us Earthmen have a talent for ruining things. If there are any Martians alive in those hills, they're going to grow to hate us.

And here's how Jeff Spender looked in a different TV dimension:

So far, the only time Jeffrey Spender has shown up in the main Toobworld, he was an FBI agent and half-brother to Fox Mulder (as seen in 'The X-Files'.)

BCnU......