Fun with Touposhop!

"Touposhop" is a proprietary program developed in the mid-1980s by the William Shatner School of Toupological Studies (specifically the "Department of Non-Toupular Cranial Approximology") to assist us in the creation of photographic approximations of Bill Shatner without his toupee. The technology was later licensed to the Adobe company and turned into Photoshop.

A while back, we brought you two such approximations (from the late 1960s) and now it's time for yet more Touposhop fun with the above image from the mid-1970s.

The William Shatner baldness estimation challenge.

We've never really undertaken a serious attempt to create a realistic approximation of what 1960s Bill Shatner might have looked like sans toupee. So we had a go, using the evidence we have accumulated here at this blog as a guide. Above is a bald Captain Kirk. He doesn't look too bad, does he?


And finally we have Shats in a nonexistent and invented rare un-toupeed appearance in some 1960s TV show. He might have made a fine character actor as we think he looks very good here - certainly far, far better than this...


UPDATE: A reader writes: "Shatner was wise to stick (obsessively) with the toupee. Without it, he wouldn't have stood a chance in Hollywood back then."

That is certainly true for an aspiring leading man during the 50s and 60s, but one wonders if the often silly-looking toups didn't hurt Shats' career during the lean years in the early 1970s. Perhaps that is a question for our next poll...

UPDATE 2: Yes indeed it is Harry Mudd's head as many of you have suggested.