They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

Chris Ballard on The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. At this time he changed his name to Mark Goddard at the suggestion of his friend and mentor Chuck Connors of ABC's The Rifleman. The episode was entitled "Elegy for a Pig" (so titled and announced by Jack Webb himself).

Zachary Smith (played by Jonathan Harris) in the cult 1960s CBS television series Lost in Space and young Detective Sgt. Chris Ballard on The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. Mark Goddard (born July 24 1936) is an American film actor who has starred in a number of television programs.