From the August 29, 1995 Weekly (K-III Magazines).

From the November 11, 1980 Digest (SOD Publishing Inc).

From the November 27, 1979 Digest (SOD Publishing Inc).

From the July/August 1991 Episodes.

That Al Freeman, Jr. article is great, you can tell that's a man who really loves his wife. I wonder if they're still together. Oh how I long to be a '70s/'80s soap star with a nice place in the city and a weekend getaway upstate...

Then reading about Phil Carey's 109 pages, maybe not so much

IMDB says they're still together, although you don't know how often it's updated.

109 pages. I forget sometimes that Phil would have that much dialogue, I think of Asa as just saying the same few catchphrases. That was later on though.

Do you know who that Blaine character was in the wedding photos? Poor Nicholas Walker looks a bit like an alien.

Blaine, I was gonna ask you! Yeah, I can hardly imagine Asa had that much to say. Probably back in his Delilah-honey days or something, fight with the boys...

From the June 1974 Daytime TV (Sterling House Inc).

ment, which, of course, was a total loss. At that point I just tore the license up into confetti and handed it to my father. He was very wonderful about it, lovely about the whole thing - didn't reprimand me, didn't say a word. He just accepted the confetti and it was understood that I would never drive again. And I never drove from that day to this."

But, as Nancy says, "I sometimes do things backwards." She recently rented a house in the country to get away from the pressures of city living. And since it is a two hour drive from New York, and since she wants to take her friends, P.C. and Columbine (the cats) and Blossom (her dog) with her, taking a bus was impractical. So - Nancy bought a jeep from a friend. "So I cornered myself into learning to drive."

And, sometimes, Nancy has the knack of doing things the hard way. "I could have gone to driving school like everybody else, but oh no! So now I have put myself into the untenable position of having to drive! And that's the only way I could have gotten myself into doing it again. Also, I didn't want to turn into one of those whining old ladies that have to go on a bus or beg rides from a friend and are land locked by not going anywhere. I've wanted a jeep all my life and fortunately I need one in the country. Now I've been driving and I'm not the least bit afraid of it. I'm just thrilled and I love my jeep a lot!"

Nancy feels the only way to overcome fear is to "walk right up to it and look it in the eye. Avoiding it, postponing it, ignoring it, doesn't work. It is the idea of the thing that frightens you. The doing of it takes the fear away for me."

Her parents were by her side when she was 14 and had polio. It wasn't a bad case, since she has had no after effects "except I don't think I grew after that." And about two years before she actually contracted the disease, Nancy was terrified she might get it. And unfortunately her fear came true.

"A lot of people have a fear of loneliness, and I used to, too...when I first came to New York. This is a mighty big city, and I didn't know anyone when I came here. The only way to do it was to put my shoes on and go around to agents and talk to people and force myself to meet people which I normally wouldn't have to do. In towns that are small it is harder to break out of fears because everybody knows everybody else's business. In New York you have a little more freedom, and that helps."

Another fear is height. "I was always afraid of height until I had to climb down three flights of rickety steps on a ladder in sandals for a film. And I suddenly thought, if you don't go down this, they're going to think you're a chicken and a dumb girl. You had better get down that ladder and deal with your fear of height later. So I climbed down three nights carrying a magazine of film (a magazine is a large heavy case that holds the extra film) and I have not been afraid since!"

Nancy is not a feminist but considers herself possibly an "independent." She has a box full of tools to do about anything you want done and, for many of her lean acting years (especially those in which nudity became a rage and she refused to perform nude), she stripped and refinished furniture for a living. But she doesn't feel men should be threatened by a woman's independence and self-sufficiency.

"You don't have to put on your overalls and suddenly build a panelled den in front of your fella. I don't thin you have to be aggressive about it ,but if he goes away for a weekend and you want to put some pannelling up, and you can do it, well do it! If he asks how it got there, tell him you did it, 'but look at all the mistakes I made.' I don't think you have to hide it but I don't think you have to hit him over the head with it either.

"I think men are super and I think they are getting such a bum deal. The world is getting too fast for us to just sit on bon-bons and be helpless. I have learned that, when something has to be done, it's just got to be done!"

And Nancy Pinkerton has enough energy to do whatever she has to.

Here's a look back at when the Buchanan men rode into town. I wonder if we had the internet back then, if people would be complaining about how Asa, Bo and Clint ate up the show! The article is from Afternoon TV (1981)

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Edited January 19, 201114 yr by Dale

In the spirit of history, would anyone mind if I posted a couple recent pictures of Ellen Holly (Carla) from this past October? I just found these; they're from a New York awards ceremony, and she really doesn't look all that different from how she did in 1983, save a white mane of hair.

Please do! Always hoping I'll bump into her in Westchester.

I have no sense of etiquette and I don't have any kind of Photobucket account or anything and I'm usually no good at this so I'm going to try and do the cheap thing and just link directly to Contactmusic. Let's see what happens.

I guess they should be resized.

I'm glad to see her out and about and looking pretty damn good for her age. It stokes my mad dreams of them having her back on the show before she passes away in order to do right by the character and her family.

Edited January 20, 201114 yr by Vee

She looks great! Happy and healthy! Thanks Vee!

Carl, this wealth of Nancy Pinkerton articles is really something, thanks for sharing all of them. Such rare treats.