USA
/ NBC / x30m-e / 30 December
1968 - 27 June 1969
Broadcast: Mon.-Fri. 1:30-2 p.m.
When Let's Make a Deal left NBC daytime for ABC in
the same time slot, this show was chosen as its replacement
and ultimately unsuccessful competition. Its lead was Arthur
Adams, a pipe-smoking, ex-military, "rugged 35-year-old
lawyer" (Variety^ words) whose background gave him
international contacts for worldwide troubleshooting. He
found that he needed this asset as he served as legal counsel
to former surgeon Dr. Katherine Logan, charged with the
accidental death of a patient. You get only one guess as to
whether these two fell in love.
Rounding out the cast during
its half-year run were devious white collar criminal Earl
Harriman; Mark Utiey and Nick Turner, two suspicious types
with whom Arthur consulted; and the Jaffes—the senator, his
wife Mimi, and their daughter
Allyn. A failure throughout
its run, Hidden Faces was the first of a number of NBC shows
that flopped against Let's Make a Deal and As the World Turns.
(NBC didn't mount a successful competitor until Days of
Our Lives expanded to an hour in 1975.)
Cast:
Arthur Adams.... Conard Fowkes
Dr. Katherine Logon.... Gretchen Walther
Martha Logon.... Louise Shaffer
Mark Utiey.... Stephen Joyce
Nick Capello Turner.... Tony LoBianco
Earl Horriman..... Not Polen
Sen. Robert Jaffe.... Joseph Daly
Mimi Jaffe.... Rita Gam
Allyn Jaffe.... Linda Blair
Wilbur Ensley.... John Towley
Grace Ensley..... Ludi Claire
