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    Doctors, The

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    This long-running NBC soap actually started as an anthology series with rotating stories of three Doctors: – William Scott (surgeon), Jerry Chandler (intern) and Elizabeth Hayes (paediatrician).

    Also seen was chaplain Reverend Samuel Shafer and Dr Matt Powers. By March 1964 the show had become a fully-fledged soapie, and 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 1970s 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 show’s 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.

    Dr William Scott 
    Jack Gaynor
    Dr Jerry Chandler 

    Richard Roat
    Dr Elizabeth Hayes 

    Margot Moser
    Rev. Samuel Shafer 

    Fred J Scollay
    Dr Matt Powers 

    James Pritchett
    Dr Maggie Powers 

    Ann Williams (1)
    Bethel Leslie (2)
    Lydia Bruce (3)
    Dr Althea Davis/Gibson 

    Elizabeth Hubbard
    Dr Steve Lloyd 

    Craig Huebing
    Dr Steve Aldrich 

    David O’Brien
    Dr John Morrison 

    Patrick Horgan
    Toni Ferra Powers 

    Anna Stuart
    Billy Allison Aldrich 

    Alec Baldwin
    Dr Alan Stewart 

    Gil Gerard
    Eleanor Conrad 

    Lois Smith
    Nola Dancy Aldrich 

    Kathryn Harrold (1)
    Kathleen Turner (2)
    Kim Zimmer (3)
    Dr Jerry Dancy 

    Jonathan Hogan (1)
    Terry O’Quinn (2)
    Luke Dancy
    Frank Telfer
    Tom Carroll 

    Jonathan Frakes

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