Members amybrickwallace Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 Althea's maiden name was Gibson. I read that in an old soap book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Matt Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 I want to say it was Hamilton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 Virginia Vestoff stepped in as Althea when Liz Hubbard got married and had a baby, right? Did Ms. Vestoff have good chemistry with Gerald Gordon? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 I thought it was Hamilton also,although I can't find any record of it.There was a character called Edna Hamilton played by Joanna Roos,Florence Williams and Margaret Baker who I assumed to be Althea's mother. This was around the time her son Buddy died so it would have been natural that her mother was there. Mysteries like this might be solved if we keep getting access to the Retro TV eps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 What year did Buddy Davis die? I think I read that she and Nick were out of town when it happened. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 If you look closely at the episode where Althea talks in her therapy session about her father, you'll see a boom mike in the shot. Another sign of the times, I guess. It was cut and print because you didn't have it in the budget to do it over again or edit it out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Matt Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 We came close to getting the sponsor credit after the opening today. They left only the tiniest bit of the announcer in after the epigram. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 I guess it was a copyright issue for the theme song: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27dz6t_hope-memorial-monday-dec-18-tuesday-dec-19-1967_shortfilms 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 6, 2014 Members Share Posted October 6, 2014 I should have guessed all this was over a music licensing issue. Though while the theme music is certainly beautiful and lush, it doesn't really stand out as something that would be causing trouble for episodes made 47 years ago!! If it was contemporary pop music of the day, I could see that. In any case, let's hope this puts the issue to bed at last and we can enjoy the episodes!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JWDrama1980 Posted October 7, 2014 Members Share Posted October 7, 2014 Doctors #1309 (12-08-1967) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted October 7, 2014 Members Share Posted October 7, 2014 That LIz Hubbard was one hell of an actress on Monday's episode!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 7, 2014 Members Share Posted October 7, 2014 Haven't seen it yet - but I will soon. These episodes are real treats!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Matt Posted October 7, 2014 Members Share Posted October 7, 2014 They should be thanking them because as a result of that, I just went and bought that full theme song for "The Doctors" off of amazon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 7, 2014 Members Share Posted October 7, 2014 I found the story of Althea's pregnancy and the morals clause fascinating. I wanted to know more about it and didn't have to go further than the living room to find out from someone who would know firsthand. My mother is a retired RN. She graduated from nursing school (a Lutheran nursing school) in 1964, worked for a couple of years and by 1967 (when these episodes were airing) went back to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland for post-graduate studies. I asked her about the morality clause. She said that yes - the nurses and the nurses-in-training had to be above reproach, couldn't be pregnant when unmarried and were not allowed to date doctors - interns or residents. She said that the medical community at large was very strict about the morals clause. Mom also said that she's not sure when the morals clause fell by the boards because she spent the majority of her nursing career in home health care. She didn't work in a hospital or doctor's office once she was done with her training - though she worked one year as a school nurse at an elementary school, and often went to clinics to give flu shots and such. Anyway, just thought I'd give you the firsthand word of someone in the medical field who was in nursing at the time of this show and who knew about the morals clause. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted October 7, 2014 Members Share Posted October 7, 2014 Soaps used to have morals clauses in the contracts for the actors. Watching this I wonder if it wasn't also a "commentary" on that situation... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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