Martel was billed as "Arline Sax" during the early years of her television career. Two of her earliest appearances were in
The Twilight Zone TV series. The first was the episode "
What You Need" as a woman in the bar. The second was the episode "
Twenty Two", as a nurse who repeatedly utters the sinister phrase "Room for one more, honey..." at the entrance to a hospital morgue and at the door of a doomed airplane. Martel appeared in a 1960 episode of
The Rebel, "The Hunted", in which she had a scene with
Leonard Nimoy. She was also featured in two 1961 episodes of
Route 66: "Legacy for Lucia", in which she had the title role of a
Sicilian girl who inherits an American soldier's estate, and "The Newborn", in which she played a mother who dies in childbirth. She appeared in an episode of the TV series
Hong Kong in 1961, opposite
Rod Taylor. In 1962, she made the first of two appearances on
Perry Mason, as Fiona Cregan in "The Case of the Absent Artist". In 1966 she guest-starred as Sandra Dunkel in "The Case of the Dead Ringer", in which, aside from his role as Mason,
Raymond Burr played the murderer, Grimes. Other roles include the Princess Serafina on the
Have Gun – Will Travel Season 4, Episode 19 "
The Princess and the Gunfighter"(1960); a female cosmonaut on episode 13 of
I Dream of Jeannie, "
Russian Roulette" (1965); a Hungarian immigrant on
The Fugitive episode "The Blessings of Liberty" (1966); the
French Resistance contact Tiger in five episodes of ''
Hogan's Heroes (1965–71); and the evil witch Malvina on the Bewitched'' episode "
How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII (Part 1)" (1971). Martel's science fiction roles include
The Outer Limits episode "
Demon with a Glass Hand" (1964) and the
Star Trek episode "
Amok Time" (1967) as the scheming and duplicitous, but extremely logical, T'Pring, who is betrothed to Mr. Spock (thus, cast again with Leonard Nimoy) and expected to become his consort. In 1973 Arlene played a movie actress turned princess on the 3rd episode of
Banacek entitled "The Three Million Dollar Piracy". On
Columbo, Martel played Gloria West, the “pretend girlfriend” of the murder victim Tony Goodland (
Bradford Dillman), in season 2, episode 2, "The Greenhouse Jungle" (1972), and the salesgirl in the episode "A Friend in Deed" (1974). In 1977, she was billed as "Tasha Martelle" for the role of secretary Marty Bach in
The Rockford Files episode "Trouble in Chapter 17." She appeared as the title character in the
Gunsmoke episode "The Squaw" (1975). Other shows on which Martel appeared included
The Restless Gun (episode "A Bell for Santo Domingo"),
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,
The Untouchables,
Mission: Impossible,
Here Come the Brides,
The Wild Wild West,
The Flying Nun,
Battlestar Galactica,
The Monkees,
Mannix,
The Rookies, and
The Six Million Dollar Man. In the fourth season of "Mission: Impossible" she was reunited with Leonard Nimoy in the episode "Terror," where she played an imprisoned terrorist's ruthless wife. Martel also appeared in feature films, including
The Glass Cage (1964), in the starring role. In
Angels from Hell (1968), she played the owner of a go-go bar frequented by members of a biker gang. She received top billing as the commandant in charge of a Russian road crew in
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1978), although it was only a bit part, lasting less than five minutes. Late-life roles included a Vulcan priestess in the
Star Trek fan film "
Of Gods and Men" in a scene with her "Amok Time" suitor
Lawrence Montaigne reprising his role as
Stonn, and as one of the narrators of the 2015 documentary film
Unity, which was released a year after her death. ==Personal life and death==