Nancy Kovack, who plays Nona, Tyree’s witch woman wife, was an inveterate TV series guest star of the 60s & 70s. Kovack is perhaps best known for the role of Medea in
the 1963 Jason & the Argonauts, as well as playing Samantha’s mortal rival, Sheila Summers, in the 1964 pilot for Bewitched in addition to a fourth-season
two-parter.
The Mugatu was called the Gumato in the screenplay, & this rendering carried into the end titles. Purportedly DeForest Kelley was unable to pronounce Gumato. Will
Farrell’s character, Mugatu, in Zoolander is an homage to “A Private Little War,” inserted by co-writer Ben Stiller, an admitted Trekkie.