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Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

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At around 2 hours and 22 minutes you get a minute or two of the show. I think this is a fragment from an episode that may have already been on Youtube years ago but I may be completely wrong.

 

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An excerpt from a Nov 1971 article about soaps that details some LIAMST stories from that time.

...Next comes "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing. As it opens we see Sam, a paraplegic Vietnam veteran on his back in a hospital bed, His face is green (at least on my set) and he talks as if a rhino standingon his chest, He's telling Dr. Sandy Hiller how much he loves Betsy; a brunette medical student with a big nose but gypsy eyes, Trouble is, so does Dr. Hiller.

The doctor used to be able to cheat on his wife with no sweat because she was an invalid, but some other dopey doctor at the hospital had to go and spoil all that with a miraculous operation. Betsy tells Dr. Hiller she feels his wife now needs him more than ever since she's recovering. The doctor wants to talk about it. "If you don't meet me in an hour," he warns Betsy, "I'm going to run through this hospital from room to room shouting at top of my lungs. Now, you know I'd do that." Ah his is getting interesting. I take notes.

"Oh, don't write about this one," says my wife. I don't watch it as closely as the others. This is when I sit in the sun or keep chasing the dog out of the garbage. Besides , Betsy is flat-chested. Hmmnnn. Dr. Hiller apparently didn't think so. In between the shampoo ads and harpsichord music, he keeps promising he'll get a divorce in two weeks. (That means next winter in soap opera talk.) Meanwhile another scene shows Jean Garrison, a rich widow who has bas just stolen Dr. Peter Chernak, who is Betsy's brother, away from his pregnant. wife, Angel. Mrs Garrison is a fund-riser for Dr. Peter's very own research center, She also raises his blood pressure. "I couldn't concentrate on my lab work," he says. "So I thought I'd just concentrate on you." But he's brooding about his wife. "I'm a bona fide rat," he confides .My wife agrees. "He's such a mealymouth,"she says.

Mrs. Garrison, just to give you some some background, was married to a newspaper owner who died of a heart attack. Their step-son, Spencer, is a prominent lawyer who lives in San Francisco (a real city) and is married to Iris, who for awhile was pregnant and had an incurable disease at the time. Zowie. What a race. Insiders say what really was happening was the girl who played Iris was having a pay dispute and the producers threatened to kill her off anytime with her disease. Finaily they settled and in one day she got a miraculous cure. Four months later she left the show anyway. The girl who took over for her used to be on the Edge of Night. "She's not half as pretty as the real Iris", grouches my wife....

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