That and Mike's first wife...There's nothing bout that anywhere around...

That would be nice!

Even some of the anthology stuff...I'll say it I'm greedy for anything they've got to offer. So many future soapers and primetimers in the mix. I want the chnce to view all of it...

I am criminally behind -- watching January 1968 episodes -- and I can't believe it... Retro's already on 1969 episodes? That's great!

Steve and Carolee are breaking my heart. Steve is such a cad. Openly and shamelessly flirting with Liz right after bringing Carolee home from their first date. I have to say, Steve was very sexy the way he wouldn't take his eyes off Liz and leaned in towards her.

I don't have a ton of patience for the Polly story (I do think it's wonderfully acted and has some scenes, here and there, that I love) but when Polly was having John write the letter to her nieces and she said she is getting ready to die... Oh my God, John's reaction was heartbreaking. I just don't understand why there had to be six minutes of material in that scene before we got to that point.

This show just tends to break my heart a lot.

I am criminally behind -- watching January 1968 episodes -- and I can't believe it... Retro's already on 1969 episodes? That's great!

Steve and Carolee are breaking my heart. Steve is such a cad. Openly and shamelessly flirting with Liz right after bringing Carolee home from their first date. I have to say, Steve was very sexy the way he wouldn't take his eyes off Liz and leaned in towards her.

I don't have a ton of patience for the Polly story (I do think it's wonderfully acted and has some scenes, here and there, that I love) but when Polly was having John write the letter to her nieces and she said she is getting ready to die... Oh my God, John's reaction was heartbreaking. I just don't understand why there had to be six minutes of material in that scene before we got to that point.

This show just tends to break my heart a lot.

I have to wonder if Martha's was created to be a Polly 2.0 because I can see Polly doing the things Martha is doing. Maybe Polly was popular so they created Martha to fill the void?

I think Martha was already on before Polly's departure, but I could be wrong.

Patrick Hogan:

A Real Actor and a Fake Psychiatrist

Afternoon TV Magazine, July 1971

by Sidney London

If Patrick Hogan hadn't gone to St. Mary's Hospital in London, then he might have grown up to be just like mom and dad and sister and brother. They're all real doctors. Which is to say, Pat isn't. He's a real actor and a fake psychiatrist.

Since last November, Pat has been seen in living color as a shrink named John Morrison, a medical head hunter who's now trying to help Greta Powers over her difficulties in The Doctors. An ironic twist of fate, that being on The Doctors. Because if things had gone according to script (as written by his father several years ago), he would now be a proper British physician somewhere in Nottingham, England.

"My parents made the disastrous mistake of sending me to St. Mary's," said Pat. "For one thing, I was miles away from parental influence. And then, of course, London can be a very distracting town. Actually, what I really wanted to do was take advantage of a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. But that was a decision I wasn't allowed to make."

"So I went to St. Mary's and studied medicine for five years. Long enough, in fact, to be just months away from my final exams and a medical degree. But that's when I decided to break out. It was quite sudden; I just realized that doctoring wasn't for me."

"How did my father take it? He was taken aback, of course. But he was pretty good about it when the crunch came."

Nor was that a completely surprising reaction. The father was, according to the son, a man who could appreciate and understand rebellion. After all, he was Irish.

"As a child, I didn't know what I was", said Pat. "Being born in Nottingham, I was a British subject. But my parents were Irish. Of the two, I prefer the Irish. There's a certain excitement about being rebellious toward the establishment."

In 1958, after spending several seasons at the Old Vic and touring Australia in The Reluctant Debutante, Pat came to America, which is a great place for revolution these days. He views the recent national upheavals with Irish wit and British conservation.

"The question of who's right or wrong is only answered after the revolutions," he said. "During the American Revolution the rebels were scorned and vilified. But after it was over, they were proclaimed as heroes.

"Now we have a revolution that's quite different. But it's very difficult to pick and choose between the factions unless you know who's going to win. I will say, however, that I can't quite understand how people can, with one hand, commit the most diabolical evils, and with the other, try and explain it away. It's a bewildering duality, as if you can correct anything by simply saying, 'no, that's not what I meant.'"

A naturalized American ("I'm sure I could come up with things once an hour that I like about this country"), Pat till retains the manner, precise speech and identifiable accent of the proper Englishman. And even the accouterments that go with it. Dressed in suit and vest, he sucked on the end of a pipe that billowed clouds of smoke to the blue ceiling of his east side New York apartment.

Tall, handsome and impeccably groomed, Pat is the perfect image of the courtly gentleman. A versatile athlete, he skis, sails, rides and fences, once almost demonstrating his epee skill when The Beverly Hillbillies thought about, then shelved, a program situation calling for a sword-wielding European prince.

In the 12 years he has been in the United States, Pat has compiled a long list of credits, cutting across all areas of show business. His resume includes Broadway ~ Redhead, The Devil's Advocate, The Importantce of Being Earnest, Baker Street; movies ~ Portrait in Smoke, The Dark Avenger, The Thomas Crown Affair; primetime television ~ Mission Impossible, High Chaparral, Star Trek, Green Acres, The Young Rebels and The Interns.

Despite that background, Pat is not one of those actors whose names ensures full houses on Broadway and in motion picture theatres. Nor does it disturb him that he has not yet achieved the Hollywood definition of stardom.

"When you start out as an actor," he said, "the jackpot feeling is very common. But as you go along in the profession, you come to realize that all you want to be is a good actor. I don't think that's a cop out for stardom. It's a matter of being contented. And contentment comes from working constantly and knowing what you're doing is good."

Besides his work on The Doctors, Pat also gets satisfaction out of recording books for The American Foundation for the Blind. The records are sent to the Library of Congress which in turn releases them to libraries throughout the country.

"I've recorded Pepys' Diary, Paradise Lost, The French Lieutenant's Woman and a book on the Italian Renaissance that ran 36 sides. I also did all the parts in Oedipus Rex. But it was rather difficult dramatizing the Greek chorus. You have to make yourself sound like a lot of people."

Up until last year, Pat was rarely cast in medical roles. Then suddenly, there was a rash of them. He played Dr. Astrov in Uncle Vanya, appeared as a surgeon in The Interns and then moved into his regular running TV character of physchiatrist John Morrison.

Although Pat minimizes the importance that his medical training has had on his acting career, there have been moments when it has come in handy. Just recently, in fact, when he became head of The Doctors' TV hospital after his predecessor was felled by a dread, unpronounceable disease.

"In that instance," said Pat, "all those years at St. Mary's proved worthwhile. Because it meant that I could say Syringomyelia without worrying about it.

Nana Tucker (Darcy)

Nana Tucker (Darcy Collins)
My Parents Have a Good Marriage,
So I Expect Mine Will Be Too!
Daytimers Magazine
November, 1980

Nana Tucker admits she is a romantic. Actually, the tall, slim actress with a trained ballerinas beautiful posture doesn't have to admit that. It shows in her large dark eyes when she talks about actor-singer Richard Muenz, the romance in her life.

Richard is a very sensitive man, Nana revealed, and unusual - he allows himself to be romantic, as I am and he lives somewhat in a fantasy world as I do.

Richard recently left the role of Joe Novak on Ryan's Hope to appear in the revival of the Lerner-Loewe musical classic, Camelot, as Lancelot, the role that catapulted Robert Goulet to fame.

Richard and I met, Nana said, while I was dancing in the chorus and he was singing in Broadways The Prince of Grand Street starring Robert Preston. I remember I came home and told my mother after the first day, its a real nice company except for one real idiot. God, I cant stand him! On the other hand, he thought I was a crazy and a weirdo because I used to dress very strangely and he couldn't stand me. But underneath all of that, it was an instant love at first sight, Nana laughed, it was like meeting the man I had always been looking for. I was engaged at the time and Richard was involved with another lady, but we got out of our commitments and after we knew each other for a month, we started going out together.

They've been together for over two years and share an apartment together. I had my own apartment until now, which was my first, since I had been living with my parents. I wanted my own apartment because I thought its probably the only time I'll live in an apartment myself, and I wanted to know how to manage. That was enough, and now were happily living together.

Her parents werent shocked at the arrangement even though shes so young. My parents are very broadminded, Nana admits, and don't think anything of it. Theyre very much in step with the times and with their childrens lives. They don't think of me as their little baby, they think of me as 22 and a woman. That's the way it should be. Actually, theyre happy because they worried about me living alone in New York.

The fact that her family is completely showbiz-oriented also helps their understanding. Her father is Robert Tucker, a former dancer and now a choreographer for whom Nana has worked occasionally. Her mother Nanette Charisse is a ballet dancer and teacher, with whom Nana takes daily classes. (when I m in her class, Im just another student, Nana insists). Her older brother Ian Tucker was a famous, and busy, child actor who later left the business, her older sister, Zan Charisse, is a model-actress now pursuing her career in California. The only one not in showbiz is eldest brother, Paris, who married a dancer-choregrapher and so also understands the business.

I'm very close to my parents, Nana affirmed. I have incredible respect for them as human beings. They're just wonderful people!

Her parents have also influenced her ideas of marriage. I absolutely believe in marriage. Ive seen many happy marriages, my parents included, and I think its wonderful - so does Richard. I think its kind of an inevitability for us, but we feel now is not the time, especially since Richard will be away for about a year on tour. Neither of us feels pressed for marriage now and its just emotionally easier for us this way; theres no strain and we know were making it work.

The years separation, she admitted, isnt going to be easy, but its something weve thought about. When Richard got the part, he said to me, if you don't want to do do it, I wont; Ill drop it right now. We talked about it, but I realized its too big a thing for his career to pass up. And Ill be in a position where Ill be able to fly to Toronto or Los Angels to see him. Its easy to let a relationship go through separation, but its too important to both of us, so were going to work at it and keep it going.

Nana will have plenty to keep her busy while Richards on tour. She'll go on with her daily ballet classes, attend theater and ballet performances as often as time allows and, of course, theres her work on The Doctors, where Darcy will be an important part of the storyline.

Darcy is very different from Nancy Feldman (Ryan's Hope) who was a nice Jewish girl and although they gave me some really nice scenes, I felt the overall story was unbelievable and went nowhere.

Besides the difference in roles, Nana finds a great difference in conditions and the company of the two soaps. The layout is immediately apparent. At Ryan's Hope, we were in a building by ourselves and the dressing rooms were all in one little area. We would sit in the main part of the studio, talk and have coffee. It was all intimate and everyone knew each other very well. At The Doctors, were in a big building (Rockefeller Center) and were all spread out, with the production office in another building completely. People are friendly but to me, its not a community feeling.

Also, when she was on Ryan's Hope, Richard Munez was a part of the company. Richard and I would keep to ourselves a lot. Although we were on the same show, we had only one scene together. It was fun to be together although sometimes it was difficult. When he does a love scene in one part of the studio and you do one in another part, no matter how professional you are, thats hard. So in that sense, its easier for me on The Doctors.

Nana is very serious about her career, which started professionally when she was 17 and still attending the Nighingale-Bamford School for Girls in Manhattan. She appeared in Louisiana Purchase at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut; Musical Jubilee on Broadway; a two-season tour with Angela Lansbury in Gypsy; the short-lived The Prince of Grand Street; then appeared in a film; and a television sitcom, Ivan the Terrible, starring Lou Jacobi.

I don't think of myself as a dancer; singer; or actress. Nana says, I think of myself as a performer. I love everything about performing. Some people like the performance only; some strangely enough, like to audition, but I love everything - even sitting with the coffee on the floor. sweaty, with your legs stretched out after rehearsal, and waiting for the next number to come up. I love waiting backstage, getting made up - just everything about theater.

From all indications, the way her career is proceeding, Nana Tucker will have a lot of opportunity to do what she loves - to entertain and delight audiences with the many aspects of her performing talents - and still find the time to keep her long-distance romance with Richard Muenz alive until Camelot comes to Broadway and hes again at home with her.

Edited May 11, 201510 yr by safe

You're correct. Martha was on before Polly died.

I always got the impression there was more to Polly's story. In one scene with John Rice, Polly had a very odd reaction to the mention of Phillip Townsend's name. It really stood out to me but there was never any follow-up to that scene.

I think Martha was already on before Polly's departure, but I could be wrong.

I thought Polly's questions about Townsend were odd and when she was dying she also sounded like she was talking about someone taking a baby away from her. Maybe that was dropped because there was no one still around her knew about that after John Rice left?

Edited May 11, 201510 yr by jam6242

I thought the same thing…that there was a baby involved. I thought that John and the niece (was it Bonnie?) were going to find something when they went to Polly's apartment. Perhaps the story was aborted when Terry Kiser departed (his departure seemed a bit abrupt).

I thought Polly's questions about Townsend were odd and when she was dying she also sounded like she was talking about someone taking a baby away from her. Maybe that was dropped because there was no one still around her knew about that after John Rice left?

That seems most likely. There didn't seem to be much point playing out that story without Terry Kiser, so I guess they just cut their losses and concentrated on other stories.

I also think they believed for a while Terry might return once his play was over (as we got postcards from John for a few months).

I guess Jody Lee must have been created when they knew he wasn't coming back.

Steve likely also benefited quite a bit from his departure, as he has steadily built and built from a caddish supporting character.

Definitely. After Terry Kiser left, I think TPTB saw in David O'Brien (playing John's cousin Steve) another very viable potential young leading man and started writing towards that. Plus, the chemistry with Carolee was there right from the start.

I wonder when they realized he and Carolee were endgame. If it was fan response or what. For most of 1968 it seemed like she was mostly just one of the women he used and discarded.