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Tony, who already had a heart condition had a patient named Robin who was a prostitute and involved with shady characters

 Tony saw Joey drag Robin down the stairs and tried to rescue her. He wrestled with Joey and when Joey pulled a knife, threatening to kill him if he and Robin couldn’t leave, Tony clutched his heart and fell down the stairs, where he laid dying while Jo was wondering where he was.

Peggy O'Shea was headwriter.

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Thanks much, @Paul Raven and @hendersonite!

It seems kind of...pointless (sorry) to have this "Joey" character pull a knife on Tony if you're going to have Tony succumb to a heart attack anyway.  I mean, why not just have Joey fatally wound Tony?   It's sort of like what Chekhov said about the gun: if you're going to introduce in the first act, it better go off in the third.  (Or...something like that.)

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In an April 1973 synonpsis, there is a mention of a character named James who is a patient of Tony Vincente's. He saved his hospital roomate after a heart failure revealing he had a medical trainee. I had never heard of this character. From my research, I think this must be Dr. James Foster, played by Joe Morton. Does anyone have any information on his character and storyline ?

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From way back in the thread courtesy of saynotyoursoap

the Benjamin family featured prominently during the WGA strike of 1973.

 

The article has it slightly incorrect. James was Terry's brother, not Jay's. James's last name was Foster. He had returned from Vietnam, and was at Henderson hospital. Another patient had a heart attack, and James flashed back to his experience in Vietnam, where he had been a medic, and he saved the man's life. Impressed with James' skill and decisiveness, Bob Rogers took James under his wing, encouraging him to enter the newly created physician's assistant program. When Carl Devlin murdered Frank Ross, James came under suspicion for the crime. Jay, a police lieutenant, worked with Scott to prove his brother-in-law's innocence.

 

Elsewhere, Jay and Terry were buying a house, but their loan application was denied. They sought Kathy's legal assistance, because they felt that discrimination played a role in their denial, as their combined incomes should have ensured approval. Kathy and Doug Martin came to blows over the case, as Doug insisted that the bank president was not racist.

 

These plots played out along with the Linda Bove deaf story. Shortly after the writer's strike ended, within three months I would estimate, the Benjamins vanished from the canvas. Presumably, they continued to live offscreen in Henderson. Linda, of course, married in the storyline, and she and her new husband were shipped out, too.

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Even though the housing discrimination story w/ the Benjamins appears to have been truncated, it was still bold of SFT even to try tackling a topic that remains controversial.  If only today's soaps would attempt such risks.

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