The Doctors

[amybrickwallace]

I wrote to Laura Pritchett, Jim's daughter, and who appeared in a few episodes as a candy striper. I got a lovely note from her in today's mail (and she signed my screen caps). It turns out that years ago, the Pritchetts were erroneously informed that the episodes were wiped and gone forever. In her words, "Imagine our delight to find that was SO not so!" ❤

[~bl~]

Oh how cool that you heard from Laura. 

 

I wonder if The Doctors is so loud due to it being in mono sound instead of stereo, and RTV was trying to compensate and went too far in the other direction.

[amybrickwallace]

That's a good theory. If that's true, I wonder if it ever went to stereo before its cancellation.

[SFK]

That's so lovely Amy.  Have you reached out to Anna?  I wonder if she's been watching at all.  I really hope someone sent Susan Lucci a link to her featured extra appearance, I imagine she never expected to see that again. 

 

Do Steve and Annie end up having a fling?  It certainly feels like that's where they're headed. 

 

I can't compare AA to the previous Mikes besides the last one, but was the character always such a hothead?  AA definitely has that intense Methody post-Brando New York actor thing going on.

 

So Mike raped Toni and that's how Michael Paul was conceived? :wow:  During their conversation in today's episode they mentioned he was conceived by force.  Yikes.

[SFK]

Whoops, re: Steve and Annie, Althea just answered my question about their past.

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[amybrickwallace]

 

Anna Stuart? I did write to her a couple of years ago, and she autographed the screen caps I had printed of her as Toni in her lab coat (as well as an NBC publicity photo of her as Donna on AW). So yes, she knows about the reruns. 😎

[SFK]

 

That's awesome!  I wonder what were the circumstances of leaving TD and heading to GH.

[robbwolff]

 

According to an interview with Stuart, she left TD with the intention to not do soaps again. GH kept bugging her to join the cast. She eventually agreed to a one-year contract.

 

I recall seeing an interview after she left TD where she was very vocal about her unhappiness with the show and the direction that the writers take Mike Powers in, in terms of his career.

[DRW50]

I think Anna's time on The Doctors was also when she swore to never do press again because they misquoted her and made it sound like she lived in a house full of snakes or wanted to live in a house full of snakes. 

[amybrickwallace]

Her first marriage was also falling apart at that time, so she was dealing with a lot both onscreen and off.

[SFK]

 

Interesting, thank you.  I'm glad that she'll still be appearing in the reruns for a good while.

 

I remember reading that in Waggett's book of lists, that she was part of a coven.

[Soaplovers]

As June 1975 is coming to an end... we can see the next stories taking shape (whether the next writers maintain this or not.. will be interesting to see).

 

I will be curious to see what Anna Stuart said was the reason she became disenchanted with how the show is writing her character... I think it had to do with how the show resolves the Mike/Toni/Alan story.  At this stage of the story, the writers are making it seem like Alan/Toni are end game with Mike as an obstacle for them to be together.  I know the Pollacks are getting close to leaving.. and I'd always wondered how they would have resolved this story... and will we get a scene of Matt/Maggie eating humble pie because they thought Greta was crazy (good use of history with the rabbit bite and mental issues she had after her sickness)... and I'm curious to see if Penny will interact with Mike again... since her crush kickstarted the whole story that is playing out two years after it started.

[SFK]

Rabbit bite, oof, lol.

 

How long has Julia Duffy been with the show at this point?  I know she wasn't the original Penny.  It seems I saw her name in the credits long before I ever saw her on the show.  I may have just missed her but I get the impression she was written out for a bit while she was with her father in California?

Martha and that bourbon-soaked voice, lol.  Very Tallulah.

[jam6242]

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[Soaplovers]

 

Her Penny came back in January 1973 and left in October/November 1974 after she was proven innocent of murder.. and after she had an emotional charge showdown with Althea.  She caused quite a bit of trouble for Althea, Nick, Ann, Toni, Mike, and her step father John during that time period.

 

She just recently returned in the April/May 1975 episodes announcing she wants to start college and become a doctor.. not because she cares about saving lives but to be better at it then Althea... plus is obsessed with that singer Andy.  I'll be curious to see what other mischief she gets into in this stint.

Edited February 20, 2018 by Soaplovers