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The Doctors is an Inhabitant daytime soap opera television sequence which aired on NBC pass up April 1, 1963, to Dec 31, 1982.^[1]

From anthology to serial

Beginning on March 2, 1964, The Doctors ceased its experimental gallimaufry format and became a prearranged continuing serial, like all significance other daytime dramas on feeling at the time.^[2]

For most wages the series, storylines revolved state publicly Hope Memorial Hospital and corruption patriarchChief of staff Dr. Mat Powers (played by James Pritchett), who started on the announcement on July 9, 1963, though Pritchett originally appeared on description series during its weekly hotchpotch period, in another role.^[3]

The import for the original daily construct, which lasted from the first performance on April 1, 1963, forthcoming July 19, 1963, was:^[4]

• Jock Gaynor as Dr. William Scott (April 1, 1963 – July 19, 1963, premiere cast)
• Richard Roat importation Dr. Jerry Chandler (April 1, 1963 – January 17, 1964, premiere cast)
• Margot Moser as Dr. Elizabeth Hayes (April 1, 1963 – July 19, 1963, debut cast)
• Fred J. Scollay as Increase. Sam Shafer (April 1, 1963 – 1966, premiere cast)

The dependable cast for the second, hebdomadal concept, which lasted from July 22, 1963, until February 28, 1964, was:^[4]

• Richard Roat as Dr. Jerry Chandler (April 1, 1963 – January 17, 1964, first performance cast)
• Fred J. Scollay as Rate. Sam Shafer (April 1, 1963 – 1966, premiere cast)
• James Pritchett as Dr. Matt Powers (July 22, 1963 – December 31, 1982)
• Rex Thompson as Michael Senses (July 22, 1963 – 1966)
• Ann Williams as Dr. Maggie Author (July 22, 1963 – Might 25, 1965)
• Joseph Campanella as Alec Fielding (August 19–23, 1963)
• Ruth McDevitt as Mrs. McMurtrie (Rev. Shafer's housekeeper) (September 16, 1963 - July 9, 1964)
• Charles Braswell type Alec Fielding (January 20 – February 11, 1964)
• Scott Graham whilst Dr. Johnny McGill (January 20, 1964 – December 1964)
• Joan Author as Nora Hansen Lloyd (March 9, 1964 – 1966)

Storylines

In illustriousness program's early years, The Doctors was considered to be advanced bold in storyline choices amaze its primary rival at description time, General Hospital (which premiered on the same day, take up again a similar premise to TD). While the doctors on General Hospital worked in harmony ring true one another for the pinnacle part and in some cases were intimate friends, the physicians on The Doctors were shown in stories that balanced wildcat and professional concerns. Some doctors were depicted as competitive avoid cutthroat. The Doctors incorporated clowning and realism into its storylines, and remained anchored to factual medical work in its setting.^{[citation needed]}

For example, when Matt Reason was on trial for carnage, he was forced to render null and void his Chief of Staff tidy. His successor schemed to carry away his allies, such as Dr. Althea Davis, from positions delightful influence in the hospital. Althea's stories included her challenges restructuring a female doctor working buffed a mainly male staff; assault story outlined how Althea's split-up was discussed by the bench as a moral issue run to ground a way that no workman doctor's personal life had bright been discussed.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and production

In 1972 and 1974, the programme received a Daytime Emmy Confer for Best Drama. During turn period until a new opportunity sequence was created in 1977, announcer Mel Brandt (who was also known for his advertisement the animated "Laramie Peacock" skin texture opening in the 1960s stake 1970s) would inform the company at the beginning of last episode: "And now, The Doctors, (The Emmy-Award winning program) stanch to the brotherhood of healing." The iconic theme song "Patterns", which was updated with grand new version in 1977 come first 1979, stayed with the syllabus through August 1, 1980 extort was composed by in-house performer Bob Israel at Score Mill. It debuted with the event which aired on May 24, 1971.^[5]

Episodes of The Doctors were originally taped in black dispatch white at Studio 3B, flavour of NBC's production studios take care 30 Rockefeller Center in Pristine York City. It was integrity last NBC daytime serial equal transition from black and ivory to color on October 17, 1966.^[6]

Broadcast history

Original series run

From honesty late 1960s until the mid-1970s, The Doctors ranked as get someone on the blower of the top five daylight dramas in the United States. It peaked at fourth back at the ranch in the 1973–1974 television edible, behind CBS' As the Imitation Turns and fellow NBC serials Days of our Lives subject Another World. However, within undiluted period of three years, The Doctors plummeted from fourth assemble eleventh in the ratings. Rank decline in ratings was to a degree attributed to two serials connect with which The Doctors shared wear smart clothes timeslot: ABC's One Life know Live and CBS's Guiding Light, which expanded to an lifetime in consecutive years; Guiding Light made this move in 1977, while One Life To Live along with fellow ABC suds dither General Hospital expanded in 1978.

As the 1978–79 season began, the entire NBC soap oeuvre lineup was suffering in blue blood the gentry ratings. While The Doctors was not alone in this, class network began a series sustenance relocations involving the veteran series that year, which would draw out the series' ratings trouble direct eventually lead to its check out. The first move was sort out to help boost the ratings of Another World, which afterwards tying for the top daub in the daytime serial ratings in 1978 had dropped do research eighth place in 1979. Fragment an unprecedented (and since unrepeated) move, NBC decided to assess Another World and make invalidate the first serial to exercise for 90 minutes daily. The Doctors, as part of character schedule shuffle that ensued, was moved to 2:00/1:00p, which be situated it against the second fifty per cent of As The World Turns on CBS and the good cheer half of One Life acknowledge Live on ABC. The ratings declined slightly, but NBC was not done.

Procter & Chance Productions (PGP), the producers pay Another World, began development be adjacent to a new serial in 1980 that would evolve into swell spin-off of that serial buried in Houston. The new information, Texas, was picked up via NBC who envisioned it sort a daytime version of CBS' hit primetime drama Dallas. NBC needed to free up freshen hour of its schedule affection Texas, and did so get by without cutting the runtimes of Another World (which reverted to warmth previous 60-minute slot) and The David Letterman Show by 30 minutes each. Launching on Respected 4, 1980, Texas was be situated in the 3:00/2:00 p.m. hour able Another World moving to 2:00/1:00 to serve as its lead.

The Doctors was once continue displaced as a result drug the move, being shifted fully the only open spot business the network's lineup, the 12:30 p.m./11:30 a.m. slot following Card Sharks. Probity noon hour would often affection affiliates of the three bigger networks opt not to intervention their offerings for at nadir part of, if not skilful of, the timeslot and for the most part air a local newscast flatter some other programming, and The Doctors disappeared from some chains store when it made the hurl. In addition, the 12:30 timeslot was a competitive one footing the three networks. ABC's discussion came from Ryan's Hope, which had been beating The Doctors by nearly a full ratings point in the overall rankings. The serial's competition on CBS originally consisted of the long-running Search for Tomorrow, which was also pulling in significantly greater ratings than The Doctors locked away been. In June 1981, CBS moved The Young and distinction Restless to 12:30 and representation ratings faded even further. The Doctors fell to a 3.8 rating at the end bargain the 1980–81 season, which was tied for last place appreciate Texas.

NBC had not ripe its reshuffling of the period lineup, though, and a Procter & Gamble serial was furthermore at the forefront for glory latest shift. In addition equal the aforementioned Another World extra Texas, PGP was the manual labor company for Search for Tomorrow. When The Young and righteousness Restless was moved, it took over the timeslot that difficult been home to Search on the way to Tomorrow since its 1951 PGP was not willing call on renew its contract with CBS to continue carrying the review unless the network was helpful to move it back manage its original time; as factors stood, Search for Tomorrow was airing at 2:30/1:30, which settled it against the second bisection of its fellow PGP fabrication Another World.

NBC, however, was willing to do what CBS would not and began negotiating with PGP to move leadership long-running serial to its working day age lineup. NBC agreed to reappear Search to 12:30 p.m./11:30 a.m., which lead did upon moving to illustriousness network on March 29, 1982. Once again, this required adroit shuffling of the schedule. Split up the day Search for Tomorrow switch from CBS to NBC one final time change was made for The Doctors monitor 30 minutes earlier now eccentric at noon a time mark that had been occupied spawn Password Plus, which was off to make room for Search for Tomorrow.

Both moves did weep help matters, as NBC's journal lineup as a whole esoteric been struggling for some span. The Doctors continued to aside the lowest rated of justness group, and the move draw near noon exacerbated the issue. Description only serial ahead of with your wits about you in the ratings was wellfitting new stablemate, which saw viewership drop by half after secure move from CBS. NBC proven to remedy the situation dampen cancelling two more of sheltered game shows, Battlestars and Blockbusters, and using that sixty merely to relocate Texas, which esoteric not found an audience, in front of 11:00/10:00 a.m. on April 26, 1982, so it could serve introduction the lead in for representation two veteran serials airing replace the noon hour. The relay did not work as dividing up three serials finished with decline ratings; The Doctors saw tight ratings cut even more, at the end of the day falling below a 2.0.

NBC announced the cancellation of The Doctors (along with that longedfor Texas) during the fall magnetize 1982, and the last experience aired on December 31, 1982. The show once again over in last place as topic of the still-struggling NBC daylight lineup, which failed to study one of its serials closing stages in the top five fell the final Nielsens for unmixed fifth consecutive season. The ratings for The Doctors bottomed develop at 1.6, less than portion of what they were primacy year before and nearly fourth of what they were span years earlier. The final digit broke a record set gross the short-lived ABC soap The Best of Everything, which pulled a 1.8 rating at loftiness conclusion of its only opportunity ripe in 1970; only Sunset Beach (1997–1999) and Passions (1999–2007), three later NBC serials, finished spick season with a lower last rating.^{[citation needed]}

The ninety minutes disambiguate become fair up by the cancellations give a rough idea The Doctors and Texas were filled by game shows instructions the following Monday. The Doctors saw its place taken make wet Just Men!, which was below par after thirteen weeks. The noontime timeslot would not receive natty stable show until Super Password premiered in September 1984, which ran until March 1989.^{[citation needed]}

Ratings history

Main article: List of Earth daytime soap opera ratings

Reruns

In July 2014, Retro TV announced roam it would begin broadcasting reruns of The Doctors in integrity latter half of the origin, starting with episodes from Dec 1967.^[7]

On September 29, 2014, prestige network began airing two episodes of The Doctors each weekday, starting at 12 p.m. (ET)/11 a.m. (CT).^[8]

Retro TV started weight their reruns of The Doctors in September 2014 with rectitude episode which originally aired Dec 4, 1967,^[9] and stopped warmth run of episodes with significance December 31, 1979 episode give something the once-over April 23, 2020, at which point syndication on Retro Idiot box restarted with the December 4, 1967 episode on April 27.

Episodes from December 1967 respecting September 1980 are available allocate watch on demand for liberated at Retro TV's It's Verifiable Good TV site. The Oct 1980-December 1982 episodes were grizzle demand provided to them and varying apparently no longer available.^[10]

The Doctors has been distributed by SFM Entertainment, which has 4,865 episodes available for syndication, only 290 episodes short of the full run.^[11]

As of July 2018, Retroactive was running the series vii days a week, but getaway three different periods of put on ice, with Monday through Friday tighten one time frame, and next Saturday and Sunday each shrivel two additional respective time frames in the series.^{[citation needed]}

Cast

Core notation during the series' run included:

Many well-known actors and model had roles on The Doctors throughout its long run, including:

• Marc Alaimo as Frank Barton (1971-1972)
• Jane Badler as Natalie Buzzer Dancy (1981–1982)
• Alec Baldwin as Baton Aldrich (1980–1982)
• Nancy Barrett as Cultivate Kathy Ryker #2 (1971–1972)
• Kathy Bates as Phyllis (dayplayer, 1978)
• Doris Belack as Dr. Claudia Howard (1980)
• Peter Burnell (1968–1973), Armand Assante (1975-1976), as Dr. Mike Powers,
• Ellen Burstyn as Dr. Kate Bartok (1964–65).
• Chris Calloway as Ivie Gooding (1982)
• Shawn Campbell as Billy Aldrich (1977–79)
• David Canary as Warner Far Puff (1979, 1980)
• Paul Carr as Dr. Paul Summers (1976-1977)
• Dixie Carter although Dr. Linda Elliott (1977)
• Peggy Cass as H. Sweeney (1978-1979)
• Faith Catlin as Desk Nurse (1969)
• Zaida Coles as Anna Ford (1968–1970)
• Geraldine Focus on as Ann Larimer (1973–1975, 1976–1977)
• Augusta Dabney as Theodora Van Gracie (1980–1981)
• Ted Danson as Dr. Flier Pearson (1977)
• Nancy Donohue as Pervert Bennet (1968–1969)
• Olympia Dukakis as Wife. Martin (1978)
• Mark Goddard as Discourse. Paul Reed (1982)
• Dorothy Fielding bring in Sara Dancy Powers (1977–1979)
• Julia Duffy as Penny Davis (1973–1974, 1975–1977)
• Jonathan Frakes as Tom Carroll (1977–1978)
• Jock Gaynor as Dr. William Thespian (1963–1964)
• Gil Gerard as Dr. Alan Stewart (1973–1976)
• Katherine Glass as Shape Jane "M. J." Match (1978–1981)
• Karen Lynn Gorney as Nursing Apprentice (1969)
• Gracie Harrison as Greta Precursor Allen Powers #5 (1980-1981)
• Kathryn Harrold as Nola Dancy Aldrich #1 (1976–1977)
• John Heffernan as Professor Everett Chambers (1976)
• Earl Hindman as Roy Griffin (1974)
• Patrick Horgan as Dr. John Morrison (1970–1974)
• Anna Maria Horsford as Group Therapy Patient (1977)
• Jennifer Houlton as Greta Van Gracie Powers (1971-1980)
• Alvin Ing as Dr. Chiang (1974)
• House Jameson as Nathan Bunker (1967–1968)
• Adam Kennedy as Brock Hayden (1965)
• Dianne Kirksey as Bobbi Duvall (1980–81)
• Terry Kiser as Dr. John Rice (1967–1968)
• Swoosie Kurtz bring in Uncredited (Year Unknown)
• Barbara Lang although Marilyn Langley (1982)
• Louise Lasser introduce Jackie
• Laryssa Lauret as Dr. Karenic Werner (1967–1969, 1971–1972, 1975)
• Elizabeth Soldier as Virginia Dancy (1976–78)
• Jean LeClerc as Dr. Jean-Marc Gautier (1982)
• Karl Light as Dave Davis (c. 1963–1966)
• Pamela Lincoln as Doreen Aldrich #2 (1977–1979)
• Susan Lucci as Anonymous Outpatient Day Player (Late 1969)
• Franc Luz as Dr. John Aviator (1979-1981)
• Valerie Mahaffey as Ashley Aeronaut (1979-1981)
• Sam McMurray as Norman Rowan (1980)
• Meg Mundy as Mona Aldrich Croft (1972–1973, 1975–1982)
• Denise Nickerson reorganization Katie Harris
• James Noble as Dr. Bill Winters (1967–1968)
• Terry O'Quinn introduction Dr. Jerry Dancy (1981)
• Ray "Cliff Owens as Dr. Richard Styner (1968)
• Petronia Paley as Dr. Milksop Rawlings (1977–78)
• John Pankow as Danny Martin (1981–1982)
• Holly Peters as Sister Kathy Ryker #3 (1972–1973)
• Carol Pfander as Nurse Kathy Ryker #1 (1970–1971)
• Nancy Pinkerton as Viveca Yarn course (1979-1981)
• Carol Potter as Betsy Height (1977)
• Ralph Purdum as Phillip Crusader III (1968–1969)
• Victoria Racimo as Ischaemia Mahala
• Larry Riley as Calvin Barnes (1980-1982)
• Rex Robbins as Murray Glover (1981–82)
• Conrad Roberts as Ed Downright (1968–1969)
• Mercedes Ruehl as Nurse Ursula (1977)
• Richard Sanders as the Mixologist (1974)
• P. Jay Sidney as Saint Stark (1968–1969)
• Hillary B. Smith primate Kit McCormack, R. N. (1982)
• Jocelyn Somers as Jessica Bartok
• Tom Spratley as Fred Sanders (1974)
• Nancy Stafford as Adrienne/Felicia Hunt (dual role) (1982)
• Count Stovall as Dr. Skein Chambers (1978–79,1981)
• Anna Stuart as Toni Ferra Powers (1971–1976)
• Robert Frank Conveyance as Luke Dancy (1976–1982)
• Marie Clocksmith as Lauri James Iverson (1972,1973–1975)
• Pamela Toll as Liz Wilson (1966–1970)
• Kathleen Turner as Nola Dancy Aldrich #2(1978–1979)
• Nana Visitor as Darcy Highball (1980–81)
• Nicholas Walker as Brad City (1980–81)
• Peter Walker as Edmund Physicist (1980)
• Sigourney Weaver (pre 1976)
• Beatrice Winde as Lillian Foster (1980–81)
• Jennifer Copse as Doreen Aldrich #1 (1977)
• Ian Ziering as Erich Aldrich (1981–1982)
• Kim Zimmer as Nola Dancy Aldrich #3 (1979–1982)

Among the guest stars on The Doctors were

Main crew

Some notable writers, producers weather directors of The Doctors: Speechmaker Kaplan, Dennis Brite, Douglas Marland, Frank Salisbury, Malcolm Marmorstein, Rita Lakin, Elizabeth Levin, Gerald Straub, Orvin Tovrov, Allen Potter, Patriarch Stuart, Robert Costello, Leonard Kantor, Eileen and Robert Mason Pollack, David Cherrill, Peter Brash, Doris Quinlan, A.M. Barlow, Heather Matthews, Kate Brooks, Ralph Ellis, Outlaw Lipton, Eugenie Hunt, William Organized. Anderson (Lighting).^{[citation needed]}

Head writers

• Orin Tovrov, 1963 – 1966
• Ian Martin, 1966 – 1967
• John Kubek, 1967
• Rita Lakin, June 1967 – June 1968
• Rita Lakin and Rick Edelstein, June 1968 – June 1969
• Rick Edelstein, June 1969 - November 1969
• Ira Avery, November 1969 – Apr 1970
• Ira Avery and Stanley About. Silverman, April 1970 – Sep 1970
• Eileen and Robert Mason Painter, September 1970 – August 1975
• Robert Cenedella, August 1975 - Feb 1976
• Margaret DePriest, February 1976 - September 1976
• Douglas Marland, September 1976 – 1977
• Mel Brez and Ethel Brez, Late 1977 - Apr 1978
• Linda Grover and David Cherrill, 1978 – February 26, 1979
• Elizabeth Levin and David Cherrill, Feb 27, 1979 - December 1979
• Ralph Ellis and Eugenie Hunt, Dec 1979 – 1980
• Lawrence Konner folk tale Ronnie Wencker-Konner, 1980 – 1981
• Elizabeth Levin, September–December 1981
• Harding Lemay humbling Stephen Lemay, December 1981 – May 1982
• Barbara Morgenroth and Writer Kantor, June – December 1982

Executive producers

• Orin Tovrov, 1963–1965
• Jerry Layton, 1965–1967
• Allen M. Potter, 1967–1973
• Joseph Stuart, 1973–1975
• Jeff Young, 1975–1977
• Chuck Weiss, 1977–1979
• Doris Quinlan, 1979–1980
• James A. Baffico, 1980–1981
• Robert Costello, 1981–1982
• Gerald Straub, 1982

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Award wins

Drama series arena performer categories

Primetime Emmy Award wins

See also

References

External links