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    Drama TV Shows - 1960s TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

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    1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 2 (USA)
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    This NBC TV daytime soap opera revolved around the lives of the students and faculty at the fictional Bancroft College, in the town of Bancroft, somewhere in the American Midwest.

    Dana Andrews (pictured above) was the original featured male lead playing College President Thomas Boswell. A supporting cast of permanent actors and guest performers had roles as instructors, town citizens, doctors and nurses etc, who formed a web of relationships, gossip, affairs, intrigue and scandal – with attractive young college students thrown in for good measure.

    In 1970, Andrews learned he had been fired via an article in the Los Angeles Times. His character was written out of the show and replaced with musical stage and film actress Anne Jeffreys as wealthy town leader Sylvia Bancroft (pictured below).

    Martha Pierce Ferguson
    Susan Brown
    Professor Bill Ferguson
    Paul Lukather
    Sandra Jones Pierce
    Susannah Darrow (1)
    Pamela Murphy (2)
    Thomas Boswell
    Dana Andrews
    Dean Ann Boyd Jones
    Coleen Gray (1)
    Gail Kobe (2)
    Jim Boswell
    Eric James
    Red Wilson
    Richard Eastham
    Marian Connally
    Marion Brash
    Howard Jones
    Mark Miller
    George Townley
    Nigel McKeand
    Jennifer Collins Matthews
    Nancy Stephens
    Stuart Pierce
    Peter Ratray
    Dave Martin
    David Pritchard
    Dean Henry Pierce
    Tod Andrews (1)
    David Lewis (2)
    Chet Matthews
    Gary Pillar
    Asst. DA Stephens
    Robert Hogan
    Mike Porter
    Darryl Young
    Albert Porter
    Peter Hobbs
    Isabel Jones
    Lesley Woods
    Professor Mitchell
    Ivor Francis
    Alice Porter
    Sydna Scott
    Elizabeth Walker
    Betsy Jones-Moreland
    Clara Ryan
    Ruth McDevitt
    Dr Brian Walsh
    John Considine
    Dr Crosley
    Gary Clarke
    Vince Adams
    Forrest Compton
    Barbara Jenkins
    Pat Woodell
    Jody Harper
    Sherry Alberoni
    Dr Tracy Graham
    Dabney Coleman
    David Lockhart
    Anthony Geary
    Dr Amanda Winninger
    June Vincent
    Charles Diedrich
    Anthony Eisley
    Sylvia Bancroft
    Anne Jeffreys (1)
    Regina Gleason (2)
    Elaine Bancroft
    Jennifer Leak
    Nurse Radford
    Brigid Bazlen
    Mr Gibson
    Walter Brooke
    Bob Corcoran
    Philip Carey
    Samantha Pudding
    Cheryl Miller
    Gypsy 
    Annette O’Toole
    Pecos 
    Robert Viharo

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