Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
Ref(s) |
1954 |
The Canadian Howdy Doody Show |
Ranger Bob |
|
|
1955 |
Encounter |
Lucky / Billy Budd |
2 episodes |
|
1957 |
Studio One |
Dr. David Coleman / Kenneth Preston / Dr. Franck |
5 episodes |
|
1957–60 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
John Crane / Jim Whitely |
2 episodes |
|
1960 |
One Step Beyond |
Carl Bremer |
Episode: "The Promise" |
|
1960–63 |
The Twilight Zone |
Bob Wilson / Don Carter |
2 episodes |
|
1961 |
Thriller |
Paul Graves / Gil Thrasher |
2 episodes |
|
1961–65 |
The Defenders |
Various |
5 episodes |
|
1962 |
Naked City |
Maung Tun / Roger Barme |
2 episodes |
|
1963 |
Route 66 |
Menemsha Faxon |
Episode: "Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea" |
|
1964 |
The Outer Limits |
Brig. Gen. Jeff Barton |
Episode: "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" |
|
1964 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
Michael Donfield |
Episode: "The Project Strigas Affair" |
|
1965 |
The Fugitive |
Tony Burrell |
Episode "Stranger in the Mirror" |
|
1965 |
For the People |
David Koster |
13 episodes |
|
1965 |
Twelve O'Clock High |
Major Kurt Brown |
Episode: "I Am the Enemy" |
|
1965, 1969 |
The Virginian |
Henry Swann / Luke Milford |
2 episodes |
|
1966 |
The Big Valley |
Brett Skyler |
Episode: "A Time to Kill" |
|
1966 |
Gunsmoke |
Fred Bateman |
Episode: "Quaker Girl" |
|
1966 |
Dr. Kildare |
Dr. Carl Noyes / Toby Cunningham, M.D. |
6 episodes |
|
1966–69 |
Star Trek: The Original Series |
James T. Kirk |
79 episodes |
|
1970 |
Sole Survivor |
Lt. Col. Josef Gronke |
Television film |
|
1970 |
The Andersonville Trial |
Colonel Chipman |
Television film |
|
1970-74 |
Ironside |
Bill Parkins / Don Brand / Marty Jessup |
4 episodes |
|
1971, 1972 |
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law |
Gary / District Attorney Dave Blankenship |
2 episodes |
|
1971, 1972 |
Mission: Impossible |
Joseph Conrad / Thomas Kroller |
2 episodes |
|
1972 |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
George Stapleton |
Television film |
|
1972 |
The People |
Dr. Curtis |
Television film |
|
1972 |
Hawaii Five-O |
Sam Tolliver |
Episode: "You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich, but It Helps" |
|
1972 |
The Sixth Sense (TV series) |
Edwin Danbury |
Episode: "Can a Dead Man Strike from the Grave?" |
|
1973–74 |
Star Trek: The Animated Series |
James T. Kirk (voice) |
22 episodes |
|
1973 |
The Horror at 37,000 Feet |
Paul Kovalik |
Television film |
|
1973 |
Barnaby Jones |
Phil Carlyle / Fred Williams |
Episode: "To Catch a Dead Man" |
|
1973 |
Mannix |
Langer |
Episode: "Search For a Whisper" |
|
1973 |
Go Ask Alice |
Sam |
Television film |
|
1974 |
The Six Million Dollar Man |
Josh Lang |
Episode: "Burning Bright" |
|
1974 |
Flick Flack |
Himself |
22 episodes |
|
1974 |
Kung Fu |
Captain Brandywine Gage |
Episode: "A Small Beheading" |
|
1974 |
Pray for the Wildcats |
Warren Summerfield |
Television film |
|
1974 |
Indict and Convict |
Sam Belden |
Television film |
|
1975–76 |
Barbary Coast |
Jeff Cable |
14 episodes |
|
1974 |
The Tenth Level |
Professor Stephen Turner |
Television film |
|
1976, 1993 |
Columbo |
Fielding Chase / Detective Lucerne / Ward Fowler |
2 episodes |
|
1977 |
The Oregon Trail |
Master Sgt. Buford Cole |
Episode: "The Scarlet Ribbon" |
|
1977 |
Testimony of Two Men |
Adrian Ferrier |
Television film |
|
1977 |
Mysteries of the Gods |
Narrator |
Documentary |
|
1978 |
How the West Was Won |
Captain Harrison |
Miniseries |
|
1978 |
Little Women |
Professor Friedrich Bhaer |
Episode: "Pilot" |
|
1978 |
The Bastard |
Paul Revere |
Television film |
|
1978 |
Crash |
Carl Tobias |
Television film |
|
1979 |
Riel |
The Barker |
Television film |
|
1979 |
Disaster on the Coastliner |
Stuart Peters |
Television film |
|
1980 |
The Babysitter |
Dr. Jeff Benedict |
Television film |
|
1982–86 |
T. J. Hooker |
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson "T. J." Hooker |
90 episodes |
|
1982 |
Police Squad! |
Poisoned Man |
Episode: "Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)" |
|
1982 |
The Vegetarian World |
Himself: host & narrator |
Documentary |
|
1984 |
Secrets of a Married Man |
Chris Jordan |
Television film |
|
1988 |
Broken Angel |
Chuck Coburn |
Television film |
|
1989–96 |
Rescue 911 |
Himself |
186 episodes + 2 specials |
|
1992 |
The Larry Sanders Show |
Himself |
Episode: "The Promise" |
|
1993 |
Family of Strangers |
Earl |
Television film |
|
1993 |
SeaQuest DSV |
Deposed Serbo-Croatian Alliance President Milos Teslo |
Episode: "Hide and Seek" |
|
1994 |
Columbo |
Fielding Chase |
Episode: "Butterfly Shades of Grey" |
|
1994–96 |
TekWar |
Walter H. Bascom |
18 episodes |
|
1996 |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
Captain James T. Kirk |
Archive footage used in one episode |
|
1996 |
Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. |
Michael Gatewick |
Television film |
|
1996 |
Dead Man's Island |
Chase Prescott |
Television film |
|
1996 |
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
Himself |
Episode: "Eye, Tooth" |
|
1998 |
A Twist in the Tale |
The Storyteller / Narrator |
15 episodes |
|
1998 |
Hercules |
Jason of the Argonauts (voice) |
Episode: "Hercules and the Argonauts" |
|
1999–2000 |
3rd Rock from the Sun |
The Big Giant Head |
5 episodes |
|
2002 |
Futurama |
Himself (voice) |
Episode: "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" |
|
2003 |
A Carol Christmas |
Dr. Bob / Ghost of Christmas Present |
2 episodes |
|
2003 |
Space Ghost Coast to Coast |
Himself |
Episode: "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" |
|
2004 |
The Practice |
Denny Crane |
5 episodes |
|
2004–08 |
Boston Legal |
Denny Crane |
101 episodes |
|
2005 |
Atomic Betty |
Jim Barrett |
2 episodes |
|
2005 |
Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner |
Roastee |
Television special |
|
2006 |
Show Me the Money |
Host |
7 episodes |
|
2007 |
Everest '82 |
Norman Kelly |
Miniseries |
|
2007 |
Fire Serpent |
Creator and co-executive producer |
Television film |
|
2010–11 |
$h*! My Dad Says |
Dr. Edison "Ed" Milford Goodson |
18 episodes |
|
2010–12 |
Weird or What? |
Host |
30 episodes |
|
2011–12 |
Psych |
Frank O'Hara |
2 episodes |
|
2011 |
Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen |
Roaster |
Television special |
|
2012 |
Rookie Blue |
Henry McLeod |
Episode: "The First Day of the Rest of Your Life" |
|
2012 |
Have I Got News for You |
Host |
1 episode |
|
2013 |
Hot in Cleveland |
Sally |
Episode: "It's Alive" |
|
2013 |
85th Academy Awards |
James T. Kirk |
Television special |
|
2013 |
Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale |
NBC Television Executive |
Television special |
|
2014 |
The Shatner Project |
Himself |
6 episodes |
[4] |
2014 |
Chaos on the Bridge |
Interviewer |
Documentary Also writer and director |
[5] |
2015 |
Breaking Ground |
Narrator |
10 episodes |
|
2015 |
Murdoch Mysteries |
Mark Twain |
Episode: "Marked Twain" |
|
2015 |
Haven |
Croatoan |
4 episodes |
|
2015–present |
Clangers |
Narrator (U.S. dub) |
|
|
2016 |
Cutthroat Kitchen |
Himself (Guest Judge) |
Episode: "The One With William Shatner" |
|
2016–2018 |
Better Late Than Never |
Himself |
|
|
2017 |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic |
Grand Pear (voice) |
Episode: "The Perfect Pear" |
|
2017 |
Private Eyes |
Norm Glinski |
Episode: "The P.I. Code" |
|
2017 |
The Indian Detective |
David Marlowe |
4 episodes |
|