Thanks. My library has Zim's book, I'll have to check it out soon.

I really do hate to self-promo, but I have several Tumblr pages dedicated to posting weekly newspaper recaps for various soaps in order (mostly the "Tune in Tomorrow" recaps that began in 1976 along with others if I can't find find those for that week). On one of them, I'm currently in the process of posting the weekly recaps for "The Doctors" and I'm up to early 1980. Nola just lost custody of Jessica thanks to Mona setting her up to be photographed (drugged) in an orgy & arrested with (planted) drugs on her. And Missy was just in a car accident after witnessing Vivica & Luke on a romantic date (a situation staged by Vivica). The above mentioned Brad, Darcy, Jeff, & Alan are involved in story at this point, as well. http://vintage70ssoaprecaps.tumblr.com/

Cool, thanks!!

Thanks for the recaps and I have just seen the promo for the Doctors on facebook....and it is amazing!!!!! I would love to see this soap!!!!

Times Free Press July 18, 2014

The Chattanooga-based TV conglomerate that syndicates and broadcasts shows across the U.S. moved one step closer to the auction block on Thursday, as attorneys for Luken Communications argued successfully in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Chattanooga that they be allowed to sell the company built by businessman Henry Luken.

Luken Communications, which operates a handful of broadcast TV networks as well as a chain of low-power TV stations across the country, is locked in legal combat with Randy Rice, a bankruptcy trustee from Arkansas who won an unprecedented $65.9 million verdict against the company for what a jury found was a "constructively fraudulent transfer."

Rice said that when Luken bought the company from Equity Media, he didn't pay a fair price for the business.

Luken paid $18.5 million for the struggling business, which had never made money. But Rice convinced a jury that it was worth much more than that -- as much as $115.8 million according to one estimate -- and that Luken had used his influence as a former Equity Media board member to negotiate a lower price.

Tom Ray, an attorney representing Luken Communications during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, called the company's current predicament the result of a "runaway jury," and that the verdict had taken everyone by surprise.

"This is not the fault of the debtor," Ray said. "They haven't run up these huge debts."

The passage of time has not supported the rosy estimates put forth in Equity Media's Arkansas bankruptcy, according to court filings made public in Chattanooga. Though Luken has since expanded the size and scope of the TV business, it still loses money every month, and has assets of $20 million versus liabilities of $22 million, not including Rice's judgment against it.

Henry Luken and partner Forrest Preston, who are partners on the venture, agreed to put up $2 million as a stalking horse bid to get the auction moving, if creditors approve a plan to sell the company and distribute those proceeds for pennies on the dollar.

"If there is no sale, then we're looking at a Chapter 7 [liquidation]," Ray said. "Obviously, Luken communications does not have the ability to pay, nor will it pay a $65 million judgment."

Rice, the biggest creditor in Luken Communications' bankruptcy and the reason the company sought bankruptcy protection, has expressed interest in buying the company with the goal of running it profitably.

"We feel like we may get it to be able to get it running well enough to where we can sell it for a substantial amount of money as a going concern," Rice has said. "As it is right now, the debtor has not been successful."

The next hearing is scheduled at 9 a.m. Sept. 8 to determine whether creditors will accept the plan to sell the company.

Still up for debate is how the various creditors, including Rice, will be classified, and whether they will be paid in whole or in part when the sale concludes. In the meantime, Luken and Preston have put up an additional $400,000 in debtor-in-possession financing to carry the company through the sale.

The Luken networks include RetroTV, The Nashville Network, MyCarTV, Frost Great Outdoors (FGO), TUFF TV, PBJ and My Family TV.

Uh-oh...?

That figures.

This must be some kind of joke?

Edited August 21, 201411 yr by YRBB

Why can't hulu or Netflix acquire these?

Thank you, Saynotoursoap for this classic clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb-KUBBGGMQ

Wow! Larry Weber and KT have loads of father/daughter chemistry. Great scene thanks for posting!

I thought Zimmer left and then returned a few months later to wrap up Nola's story. Zimmer's daughter was born in June 1982 (according to stuff I've seen online) and Nola departed around September. Didn't Nola literally sail off into the sunset with Tor?

In fact, Zimmer last aired in late June / early July. After telling Billy he was not her baby's father, she left Madison with Tor, the real father.

Nola then came back for a visit around September 20th with Tor and the baby girl.

OK, thanks. Also, the scene with Kathleen Turner was awesome - not hard to see why she became a movie star!!

According to WLS, The Doctors will debut on September 29th. They'll start from 1967, the year the show transitioned to color.

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2014/08/the-doctors-debuts-on-retro-tv_30.html

And here I am in OKC, where they don't carry Retro TV.