16 hours ago, Khan said:

Would someone remind me (and others) the circumstances surrounding Tony's death?  Also, who was writing the show at that point?

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.

Ann Marcus was the headwriter in June, 1975, when Tony's death scene aired.  Peggy O'Shea did not start until 1976.

 

 

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.)

2 hours ago, hendersonite said:

Ann Marcus was the headwriter in June, 1975, when Tony's death scene aired.  Peggy O'Shea did not start until 1976.

 

 

Thanks for the correction.I was going by French Fan's summaries which listed O'Shea.

I've often thought of starting a timeline for SFT -a year by year summary of plots, comings and goings, headwiter changes etc but it seems to daunting atask to commit to.

 

On 4/25/2020 at 5:33 PM, Neil Johnson said:

 

Well, the action in New Orleans was always intended to be temporary.  It was just setting up the family history of the Sentell and Tourners.  

 

Do you remember when Martin Tourner returned to New Orleans on a business trip or something, and hooked=up with an old girlfriend who was a prostitute, and she was Jo's doppelgänger?  Played by Mary Stuart.  It was wild, watching Mary play that character.   It may have been Mary Stuart's first scene in bed with a man.  Not sure about that.  

 

I remember that scene, just about fell off the couch.  As for bed scenes, Jo had some with Tony that were somewhat frisky.

 

Just uploaded to YouTube, June 23, 1980. Rather poor quality, but always great to see more SFT online.

 

 

On 2/8/2022 at 8:42 PM, beebs said:

Just uploaded to YouTube, June 23, 1980. Rather poor quality, but always great to see more SFT online.

 

 

It's nice too see it back. The episode was on munecojim.

So my question is does anyone know about any episodes or even scenes of Marion Brash as Eunice??? Ann Williams' scenes are thankfully avaliable on youtube thanks to her son i believe, but nothing of miss brash that i know of

On 2/7/2022 at 12:53 PM, hendersonite said:

Ann Marcus was the headwriter in June, 1975, when Tony's death scene aired.  Peggy O'Shea did not start until 1976.

 

 

Just as a heads up Peggy O'Shea started Nov 1975. Probably around Nov 24. Though that is pretty much 1976. Ann was there from June 1974 - Nov 1975.

4 hours ago, will81 said:

Just as a heads up Peggy O'Shea started Nov 1975. Probably around Nov 24. Though that is pretty much 1976. Ann was there from June 1974 - Nov 1975.

Thanks will81.  I thought that Peggy O'Shea started in January, 1976.

Mary Stuart passed away 20 years ago today. 

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 ?

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.

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

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.

Thanks Paul ! I couldn’t find it in the thread.

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.