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May 1966 TV Picture Life Bethel Leslie, now settled in New York, says it's a better town for divorcees than Hollywood. Likes having an apartment close to her studio, and the informality of New York apartment dinners and parties. Adam Kennedy has oil paintings on exhibit at the Celebrity Art Show at Lincoln Center. Jim Pritchett is taking vocal lessons, hoping that some day he can work in musical comedy. Joan Anderson and Craig Huebing celebrating their fifth anniversary any minute now.

April 1967 TV Picture Life (poor Pamela Toll with that question)

I'm sure there must be something of Ann around - I think there is a promo that has her, maybe. I hope there's actual material. March 1967 TV Picture Life Who's on "Doctors" The actors and the roles they portray on NBC's The Doctors are: Bethel Leslie (Dr. Maggie Fielding); James Pritchett (Dr. Matt Powers), Elizabeth Hubbard (Dr. Althea Davis), Joan Anderson (Nora Hansen); Meg Myles (Harriet Wilson); Harry Packwood (Mike Powers); Pamela Toll (Liz Wilson)

This is the March 1966 TV Picture Life that had the Adam Kennedy interview. BETHEL LESLIE PLAYS DR. MAGGIE FIELDING IN "THE DOCTORS" It's no easy task replacing beloved Ann Williams, but if anyone will do it successfully, the money is on lovely Bethel. Fresh from TV (a former member of the repertory company of The Richard Boone Show), movies (the current A Rage To Live) and Broadway ("Catch Me If You Can"), Bethel has talent as well as looks to her credit. A native of New York City, Bethel never took an acting lesson in her life. After acting in ten plays on Broadway, she went to Hollywood and was in immediate and constant demand. She's a divorcee (her husband was movie director Andrew McCullough) with a nine-year old daughter Leslie.

More misc. TV Picture Life stuff. February 1968. Terry Kiser (Dr. John Rice), 28, insists he's been an actor since he was eight. James Pritchett (Dr. Matt Powers) feels lost now that the baseball season is over. Baseball is his great "escape."

April 1951 Radio TV Mirror

April 1951 Radio TV Mirror

April 1951 Radio TV Mirror

Yep. I think Wall Street Journal wrote a story about how the AW story around this time (wiretapping, ending in Steve Frame's imprisonment) was more interesting than Watergate itself.

I think saynotoursoap said they were preempted much of summer 1974 (?). It seems like some soaps of this era did try to respond to the times, in their own way, like Lee's LSD story on AW (which sounds so depressing and punishing).

I'm not sure. I hope someone knows. I put up a Daytime TV article talking about how Wagner made Warren come alive and made him his own and so forth. What did you think of him? He doesn't do a lot for me. Too smug. JAN was just great.

March 1992 Daytime TV

Many would say 1968 was the year America truly lost itself and never recovered. I imagine the (hellish) conventions also caused preemptions. You do have to give NBC some credit for what they did here and on AW with black characters. The network seemed to try to be a little different to get audiences who weren't interested in ABC or CBS fare.

I will say that KMG looked very chic when she returned.

I think I put one or two Benish articles in the OLTL tribute thread. She was very outspoken about politics, in a way you'd never get away with today.

That's interesting. I was hoping Journey Blue might be a new companion. I also kind of wonder if they were testing out Frank Skinner.

I can't help wondering if what you describe is why the average viewer at the time hated Lisa - because they had met someone like this in their life (sly, "sweet," restless, quietly conniving). I agree with you about what GL should have done. The early soaps had a bare bones budget. They survived on human, relateable drama. Soaps are ashamed of that now. Just look at something like Walking Dead, which is full of that type of thing.

I guess we'll never know, but I wonder if TD was the first show to mention Vietnam. I know Tom returned to ATWT as a mentally scarred vet around 1970 or 1971, but 1968 seems early. It was such a dicey topic in the US in 1968.

I enjoyed the season, for the most part, other than Danny/Clara and Danny in general. It's hard to say how people feel, ignoring the usual bitchers and moaners online. My father's been watching as long as I have and he has, for whatever reason, really disliked the season. But of course that's just him, not a majority view. It's mostly Moffat's defensive tone (Capaldi saved the show, the ratings are fine) that makes me wonder.

A look back at the first Angie Watts, as June Hudson (costume designer) talks about her firing. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-11-21/eastenders-revealed-the-original-angie-and-why-she-was-fired-30-years-ago1

Poor Matt looks mortified on the cover. I didn't know ratings had gone up 30% on BBC America. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/doctor-who-ratings-season-9-748115 Thanks for the Capaldi interview. He seems very cautious about how long the BBC will want him. I guess any actor would be. I hope he doesn't get any of the blame for writing issues.

I know supposedly he wanted to do it months ago. It's telling that the networks refused to cover his press conference, they're so terrified of retribution. And the GOP is already saying this will lead to "ethnic cleansing." This is America today.

If Faith had been deliberately written as a bitch, I think KMG would have been great. Unfortunately, the show seemed to see her as a heroine.