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The
Doctors
 USA
/ NBC/ 5000+x30m-e / 1963-82
First
Episode: Monday 1 April / 2.30pm
Last Episode: Friday 31 December 1982 / 12 Noon
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 This
long running soapie actually started as an
anthology series, beginning with rotating
stories of three Dr's William Scott (surgeon),
Jerry Chandler (intern) and Elizabeth Hayes (paediatrician),
also seen was chaplain Reverend Samuel Shafer,
soon Dr Matt Powers was added to line up and by
2 March 1964 the show had become a fully fledged
soapie, around this time Chandler and Shafer
were edged out of the show.
New characters in the mid sixties included Dr
Kate Bartok, hospital custodian Pete Banas, Dr
Steve Lloyd, Dr Althea Hamilton Hamilton Davis
and brain surgeon Dr Nick Bellini.
Craig Huebing and Joan Anderson married on the
show and in real life before leaving the series.
The late sixties was dominated by the
romantic entanglements of Dr Steve Aldrich, the
1970's carried on with much the same mixture as
before but towards the end of the shows run (it
ended in 1982) the Dancy family began to take
centre stage.
When the shows ratings began to fall in the late
1970's various, often ridiculous, plotlines were
tried including a plague (resulting from grave
robbery) which killed Mona Aldrich and a bizarre
magic potion which transformed a sixty year old
into a twenty something.
The show didn't quite make it to 20 years on the
box but it did win an Emmy in 1972 for
Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Drama.
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Cast
JACK GAYNOR as Dr William Scott (1963-64) /
RICHARD ROAT as Dr Jerry Chandler (1963-64) /
MARGOT MOSER as Dr Elizabeth Hayes (1963-64) /
FRED J. SCOLLAY as Reverend Samuel Shafer
(1963-64) / JAMES PRITCHETT as Dr Matt Powers /
ANN WILLIAMS as Dr Maggie Powers (1964-65) /
BETHEL LESLIE as Dr Maggie Powers (1965-68) /
LYDIA BRUCE as as Dr Maggie Powers (1968-82) /
ELIZABETH HUBBARD as Dr Althea Davis (Virginia
Vestoff also played Dr Davis for a short while
between 69 and 70) / CRAIG HUEBING as Dr Steve
Lloyd (1964-65) / DAVID O"BRIEN as Dr Steve
Aldrich (1967-82) / PATRICK HORGAN as Dr John
Morrison 91970-74) / ANNA STUART as Toni Ferra
Powers (1971-77) / ALEC BALDWIN as Billy Allison
Aldrich (1980-82) / GIL GERARD as Dr Alan
Stewart (1974-76) / LOIS SMITH as Eleanor Conrad
(1975-77) / KATHRYN HARROLD as Nola Dancy
Aldrich (1976-78) / KATHLEEN TURNER Nola Dancy
Aldrich (1978-79) / KIM ZIMMER Nola Dancy
Aldrich (1979-82) / JONATHAN HOGAN as Dr Jerry
Dancy (1976-77) / TERRY O'QUINN as Dr Jerry
Dancy (1981) / JONATHAN FRAKES as Tom Carroll
(1977-78)
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