Episode 500.
02-24-69
     
WA:       Betty Harrington has just made a last and desperate effort to
          end the separation from her husband, Rodney.  An effort that
          once again ended in Rodney's determination to try to solve
          their marital problems himself, in his own way, without Betty. 
          Now, during a long walk from the Harrington house to the Peyton
          Place wharf, Betty has been making a decision.  A reaction to
          Rodney's attitude.  A decision which will once again place her
          in the world of Steven Cord.
       
Intro:    Betty Anderson Harrington walking in the snow, by the Pharmacy
          and then over to Steven Cord's law office in the Peyton Place
          Bank and Trust Building.  This building was at one time
          referred to as the Chamber of Commerce Building.  Steven's
          office is on the north-west corner on the second floor
          furtherest from the Pharmacy.  Some of the camera shots of the
          Pharmacy and buildings to the west, and also of the square were
          taken from this window or from just outside.
       
Scene 1:  Betty enters Steven's office and promptly asks him where his
          grandfather's brandy is.  Steven replies by asking, "The good
          booze?"  He says all kinds of people drop in for "emergency
          rations."  Judges, attorneys, clients, prospective clients, and
          ex-wives.  She makes an amusing and semi-complimentary
          comparison of Steven to a St. Bernard.  She has decided that
          she wants to join Steven in the fight for Peyton's money.

Scene 2:  Chuck Atwell, the current physical therapist at Doctors
          Hospital, accompanies Rodney to Ada Jacks' Tavern and they sit
          down at a round table across from the bar.  The ex-reverend Tom
          Winter joins them.  Rodney says that he has decided to go to
          college.  Rodney's leg begins to tighten up.  Ada says that the
          first round of drinks are on the house.  Atwell tries to
          explain to Rodney that his suggestion of Rodney's leaving town
          and going back to college was not meant to indicate that he
          should break up with Betty.
       
Scene 3:  Maggie pops in to Rita and Norman's apartment over the Pharmacy
          with a large sack of groceries.  She intends to teach Rita how
          to make recipes from scratch.  Rita asks if Maggie has seen Eli
          Carson lately.  Mrs. Riggs responds that she doesn't expect to
          see Eli again.  Rita gives Maggie tips on man-trapping.  She
          suggests that Mrs. Riggs send Eli a pie or a cake.  [Your
          reviewer does not recall any scene with a grocery store, market,
          or supermarket in the entire series.  Rita does mention
          a supermarket in episode 129.  She suggested to the lady [in
          episode 129] in a wide-brimmed hat that she could get a Clarion
          newspaper at the market.  The Book Gallery was temporarily
          closed [in episode 129] because of the injury to Allison by the
          hit-and-run driver.]
       
Scene 4:  On the second floor of the Colonial Post Inn, Dr. Rossi knocks
          on the door of room 9, Fred Russell's room, and insists on
          talking with him.  Rossi suggests they go down to the bar to
          talk.  [At this point in time, it was not considered at all
          unusual for a medical doctor to smoke and drink.  Smoking was
          considered cool.]  Fred says he knows what Rossi is
          about to say.  And Rossi replies that he knows what Fred is
          going through.
       
Scene 5:  At the Harrington Brothers Motorcycle Shop, Eli is primping,
          combing his hair, and talking with Norman.  Eli has just gotten
          a haircut at Bill's Barber Shop, next door to the bicycle shop. 
          Eli cleans up real well.  He tells Norman that he has placed an
          order for a tailored suit with Charlie Killigrew, and he wants
          Norman to help him to select a swatch of material.  Norman
          wants to know what kind of occasion the suit is for.  Eli says
          that it is a social occasion.
     
Scene 6:  Lewis Miles and Carolyn Russell, and two other students, get
          off the hospital elevator.  [The Colonial Post Inn did not
          appear to have an elevator.]  Carolyn tells him about Jeff
          telling a lie to her father.  They go outside and Lewis leaves. 
          Fred comes over and tells Carolyn to get in the car.  He rolls
          up her electric window and prepares to drive off.  His
          motorized window is still half open.

Episode 502.
03-10-69
       
WA:       Today a house on the road behind the Peyton Place wharf is put
          up for sale.  A simple everyday event that somehow has a
          profound meaning for a number of people in this small New
          England town.  The house was vacated by Rodney and Betty
          Harrington.  A fact which was duly noted by Steven Cord. 

Intro:    A group of moving men are moving Rodney and Betty's furniture
          out of their house.  Eli Carson is walking up and down the
          street in front of their converted barn house carrying a FOR SALE
          sign.  Steven Cord walks up and speaks to Eli and continues to
          the Harrington Brothers Motorcycle shop.

Scene 1:  Steven Cord comes into the motorcycle shop and asks about
          Rodney and Betty and their car trip with Norman and Rita to
          Boston.  Norman tells Steven that Rodney has gotten an
          apartment on the river near the campus.  Rodney is starting
          back to school.  Betty will be staying with Rodney as long as
          he is there.  Norman warns Steven to leave Betty and Rodney
          alone.  Steven admits that he has been jealous of Rodney all
          his life.  Steven tells Norman that maybe he will drop Rodney a
          card.  Steven leaves.

Scene 2.  Betty drops in on Rita and they discuss the apartment in
          Boston.  Rita gives Betty a cup of coffee.  Betty says that the
          apartment has charm.  Rita says that charm must mean that the
          plumbing is bad.  Betty says that it has cold and cold running
          water.  Betty says she is going to speak to Eli about selling
          the house. 

Scene 3.  Betty goes down the stairs and west on the street to the
          General Store.  Steven is making a $4.25 purchase from Eli as
          Betty comes in.  Betty tells Steven that she is not going to
          protest the will.  Steven tells Betty that he anticipated her
          having a change of heart.  Steven says that he knows that he
          has a case.  He tells her that he has a witness waiting in his
          office as they speak.  He invites Betty to come along while he
          interviews Jennifer Ivers, one of Martin Peyton's nurses. 
          Steven says goodbye and leaves.

Scene 4.  Lewis Miles comes in Harry Miles' office at Doctors Hospital to
          talk.  They discuss Carolyn Russell and the science project. 
          Lewis leaves.  The phone rings and Fred Russell asks Dr. Miles
          to meet him at the bar in the Colonial Post Inn.

Scene 5:  Eli Carson is whittling as Maggie Riggs watches.  He says that
          whittling is one of the joys of life.  He explains to her how
          fulfilling that whittling is.  Eli and Maggie pick up the wood
          shavings and put them in the stove. 

Scene 6.  Susan Winter is sitting at the bar as Fred Russell comes in.  A
          new waitress [Nikki Wilk] comes over and asks what he would
          like to drink.  He orders the usual and make it a
          double.  He speaks to Susan Winter.  Fred asks how Tom is. 
          Susan says that he is surviving.  She tells him that she has
          lost a marriage and is about to lose another.  He recalls that
          she used to drink boilermakers, whiskey with a beer chaser. 
          Susan informs Fred that he is getting gray on top.  She leaves. 
          Dr. Harry Miles comes in and they sit at a table to talk. 
          Harry orders coffee.  Fred orders a scotch, with soda on the
          side.  Fred says that this is the first time th

Episode 503.
03-17-69
       
WA:       For more than half his life, Dr. Harry Miles has been a black
          man in a white world.  Holding firm to his identity, holding
          firm to his deep personal pride, and savoring those moments
          alone with his family.  Those moments behind the closed door of
          his own home.  Tonight, Dr. Miles' home has been invaded. 
          Invaded by a subtle and complex and destructive force.  The
          force of rumor.
       
Intro:    Dr. Miles drives home, goes in his house and is greeted by his
          wife.
       
Scene 1:  Dr. Miles tells Alma about his meeting with Fred Russell.
       
Scene 2:  Dr. Miles goes upstairs and talks with his son, Lewis, who is
          listening to a record on his grammaphone.
       
Scene 3:  Norman is adjusting a motorcycle in front of the Harrington
          motorcycle shop as Rita comes out with some empty moving boxes. 
          They are talking as Betty drives up in a blue convertible. 
          Betty says that Rodney had to get up at the crack of dawn to
          get to his first class.  They haven't turned on the heat yet. 
          Norman says that they must be really roughing it.  They load
          the boxes in the car.  Betty and Rita drive off.
       
Scene 4:  Lew talks with Vickie about life.
       
Scene 5:  Dr. Miles talks with miss Choate.  He is annoyed that Mrs.
          Davis cancelled her surgery.  Dr. Miles goes in the therapy
          room and talks with Chuck Atwell.  He accuses Chuck of talking
          with Mrs. Davis the previous night and influencing her decision
          to cancel surgery.  Rossi says that Dr. Browning is trying to
          get her to go to Boston.

Scene 6:  Betty is talking with Rita as Steven and Jennifer Ivers come to
          talk.  Rita leaves.  Jennifer offers them a deal.  She is
          willing to testify that Peyton was not mentally stable.  She
          says that she has to leave to catch a bus back to Boston. 
          Steven says that he will drive her back.  She goes out and
          waits in the car as Steven and Betty talk.  Steven goes out to
          his car and he and Jennifer drive off.  Betty pulls the curtain
          back and peers out the window.

Episode 505.
03-31-69
       
WA:       Incident outside Doctors Hospital.  Dr. Michael Rossi and Fred
          Russell almost came to blows, and only the quick intervention
          of Norman Harrington prevented a fight.  Once again, Dr. Rossi
          has tried to stop Fred from harassing the girl, from using a
          blatant lie about Carolyn and Lew Miles.
       
Intro:    Norman Harrington is leading Dr. Rossi across the square to his
          apartment over the Pharmacy, which had been old Calvin Hanley's
          bachelor pad, Paul Hanley's apartment, Norman and Rodney's
          apartment, and finally Norman and Rita's love nest.
       
Scene 1:  In the apartment, Dr. Rossi calls his message service to give
          them Norman Harrington's phone number, 555-6787.  [This was
          before the introduction of cellular phones, when it wasn't
          necessary to use area codes for local calls.  Ten digit
          dialing.]  Norman suggests that the doctor stay a while, to
          cool down.  Rossi is still angry.  Rita effuses and she and
          Norman try to cheer up the doctor.  Rossi says he feels a lot
          better.  Rita grabs him and kisses him on the cheek.  She seems
          prone to do that.  Before the series is over she will kiss him
          at least one more time.  Her mother, Ada Jacks, the Tavern
          owner, probably taught her to be especially friendly with
          gentlemen.  Dr. Rossi, now much calmer, leaves.

Scene 2:  Susan Winter, comes down the stairs to her natural habitat, the
          bar at the Colonial Post Inn.  She sits at the bar facing a
          large mirror.  The bartender, Fred Draper is wearing an
          annoying jacket, like Century 21 salesmen wear, except it is
          green as opposed to gold.  She spots Fred Russell, wearing dark
          sunglasses, alone in a booth, and proceeds to annoy him.  She
          opens the conversation with, "Hello, Slugger."  As has been
          alluded to earlier, Fred has a special affection for young
          ladies with long blonde hair.  Fred goes over to the bar and
          sits by Susan, like a moth being drawn to a light bulb.  Susan
          asks Fred why he is still hanging around town.  She points out
          that "the lady," Marsha, "has dumped him."  Fred asks the
          bartender to send his drink up to his room.  He relents and
          continues to drink at the bar with Susan Winter.
       
Scene 3:  At the Cider Barrel, Charlie is doing business.  Charlie asks
          police Sgt. William Wilson Walker to wait a moment.  Lewis
          Miles is working for Charlie and is wearing an apron.  Charlie
          calls Lewis over and complains that Lewis has mixed up the
          fives and tens in the till.  Lewis says he has something on his
          mind, that something is bothering him.  Police Sgt. Walker
          starts conversating with Lewis.  Sgt. Walker wants to get to
          the bottom of things.  Lewis is perpetually angry about
          something.  Lewis complains about keyboardist, Jeff Kramer,
          Carolyn's main squeeze.  In a previous episode, it is made
          clear that Charlie is rather hen-pecked.
       
Scene 4:  In Maggie Riggs' kitchen, Eli is reading the paper.  He begins
          to explain to Maggie, the meaning of newspaper fillers,
          or space fillers.  One example is Bees
          sting.  Maggie is fussing over fish.  He asks her if
          she had thought about getting married again.  She asks him if
          that question could be a proposal.  They talk around the
          subject of marriage.  Maggie says that she hasn't been alone as
          long as Eli has.  He distracts her for so long that the fish in
          the oven burn.
       
Scene 5:  At the Russell house, Marsha is operating a steam iron and
          talking with her daughter, Carolyn.  Carolyn suggests that her
          mother elope with Dr. Rossi.  They agree that Carolyn likes Dr.
          Rossi.  Marsha tells her daughter that she is glad that Carolyn
          likes Dr. Rossi.  Marsha suggests that Carolyn start calling
          the doctor, "Mike."  Carolyn continues to say things indicating
          that she is excited at the prospect of her mother's getting
          married again.  Marsha and Carolyn prepare to go see Pat,
          Carolyn's friend.
       
Scene 6:  Nurse Jennifer Ivers comes to Betty's house and knocks.  Betty
          greets her with the phrase, "What are you doing here?" 
          Jennifer says that she has come from Steven's office, but that
          Steven has not sent her there.  She says that she has come to
          talk about Steven and the will.  Betty says she is about to
          lock up.  Jennifer follows Betty up the stairs and continues to
          ramble on.  Jennifer is wearing a bright orange coat.
   
Scene 7:  Outside, Jennifer is called over, by Munsen, the chauffeur, to
          Hannah Cord's limousine.  Jennifer gets in and Hannah Cord
          begins to fuss at her for seeing Betty.  Hannah tells Munsen to
          drive up to the "Peyton house."  He complies.

Episode 507. 
04-14-69
     
WA:       Tonight, three lives are on a collision course.  Marsha Russell
          knows that Dr. Michael Rossi is out looking for her former
          husband, Fred Russell.  And Marsha knows that Dr. Rossi is
          bitterly angry.  She knows, too, that Fred is bitterly angry
          and that he is capable of violence.  A few minutes ago, Marsha
          persuaded the town police to let Sgt. Walker stand by while she
          reasoned with Fred and talked him into a cool and rational
          attitude.  She was not aware that while she talked to the
          police, Dr. Rossi had found Fred Russell.

Intro:    Outside the Colonial Post Inn, Marsha Russell awaits police
          Sgt. William Wilson Walker.  Sgt. Walker walks past the red
          over blue public U.S. Mail box.  Marsha is waiting by the sign
          which has the symbols for four service clubs which meet
          regularly there at the Inn.  [Bears and three others.]
       
Scene 1:  Rossi is trying to revive Fred.  Rossi phones the hospital to
          get an ambulance to the Colonial Post Inn, room 9.  Marsha asks
          the doctor what happened.  Rossi speculates that Fred had
          imbibed too much booze.  Rossi said that Fred had keeled over
          before he got there.
       
Scene 2:  On the wharf, Eli calls over to Charlie.  He wants Charlie to
          play him a game of checkers.  Charlie says that he can't play
          that night because it is his wife's anniversary.  He is taking
          her to a show.
       
Scene 3:  Eli walks into Ada Jacks' Tavern.  Ada asks why he is alone. 
          Eli says he has come in to eat.
       
Scene 4:  Dr. Harry Miles is having supper with his wife and son at home,
          as Rossi calls to ask for assistance with Fred Russell.
     
Scene 5:  Norman is making a "Just Married" sign.  He and Rita go outside
          to put the sign on Rossi's car.  Norman and Rita go to Doctors
          Hospital and check in with miss Choate.  This is apparently the
          last appearance of miss Choate in the series.
       
Scene 6:  Dr. Harry Miles arrives and goes into Fred Russell's room to do
          an examination.

Scene 7:  Marsha is waiting in Dr. Rossi's office.  Rossi comes over and
          explains what is happening.

Scene 8:  Dr. Miles peeks into Fred Russell's room and Dr. Rossi joins
          him in the hall.  The x-rays of Fred's skull are already in the
          viewer.  Two police officers are sitting patiently waiting. 
          The doctors view the x-rays.  Dr. Retton, a lady M. D., points
          out various features to the other doctors.  She was also seen
          viewing Rodney Harrington's injuries.  Out in the hall, Dr.
          Miles says that Dr. Jenkins will assist.
       
Scene 9:  In Rossi's office, Marsha and Rossi talk about the hit-and-run
          accident in New York City that Lew was involved in.  Fred has a
          severe skull injury.  Police Sgt. William Wilson Walker knocks
          and comes in.  He asks Rossi to drop in to the police station
          later on.

Episode 509.
04-28-69
     
WA:       It is not uncommon for Dr. Harry Miles to leave emergency
          surgery and return home in the dark hours of the morning.  But
          today, at 4:00 a.m., he comes home knowing that somehow he must
          deal with a growing family crisis.  A crisis that was
          interrupted by the medical emergency.  Now, as he enters home
          he makes a decision.  A way of handling his own wife and son, a
          way that will force them to come to him and tell him
          everything.
       
Intro:    Dr. Miles drives in the darkness and goes in his front door.
       
Scene 1:  Dr. Miles has coffee and talks to his wife a short while.  He
          talks about the blood alcohol content of Fred Russell.  Dr.
          Miles tosses the detective's report in the fireplace. 
          Destroying evidence was a running theme in the series.
       
Scene 2:  Dr. Michael Rossi goes to the old Carson (Mackenzie)
          house to see Marsha.  They kiss, they talk.  She offers him
          food.  He asks where Carolyn is.  Marsha tells him that Carolyn
          is upstairs sleeping, that she has finally dozed off.  Marsha
          has been cleaning house.
       
Scene 3:  In a quiet area off a corridor at Doctors Hospital, Carolyn is
          wheeling around in a wheel chair talking to Jeff Kramer. 
          Carolyn says she expects Fred to die.  Jeff offers to take
          Carolyn to the wharf to eat seafood.
       
Scene 4:  Betty Harrington, acting much like a Century 21 agent, shows a
          couple the Rodney Harrington and Betty Anderson Harrington Cord
          Harrington house.  The man fusses at the lady for saying
          positive things about the house.  Steven comes in.  He says
          he's going after the will, without Betty, but by himself.
       
Scene 5:  Carolyn is talking with her mother in Rossi's office.  Marsha
          mentions that neither of them has eaten for a long while.  Dr.
          Rossi comes in and Carolyn goes over to his bed and kisses her
          father.  Marsha joins them.  Carolyn has an accumulation of
          mis-information.  They go back out in the corridor.  The nurse
          leaves Fred's room.

Scene 6:  Rossi walks through the corridor into Fred Russell's room.  He
          finds Fred unconscious.  Rossi goes out and tells Marsha and
          Carolyn.  Marsha says, "He's dead, isn't he?"
       
Scene 7:  The phone rings at the Information desk.  Police Sgt. William
          Wilson Walker calls Dr. Rossi to check on Fred Russell's
          conditon.  Dr. Rossi informs the police sergeant that Fred has
          expired.  Rossi mulls over the situation.

Episode 511.
05-12-69
     
WA:       Marsha Russell's former husband, Fred Russell, has died,
          following surgery for a severe skull injury.  And the man
          Marsha had planned to marry, Dr. Michael Rossi, has been
          arrested, booked, and jailed on a charge of suspicion of murder
          in connection with Fred Russell's death.  Now Marsha hurries
          into the courthouse building to see Dr. Rossi, and to try to
          ease the burden of what she is convinced is a false accusation.
       
Intro:    Marsha Russell drives over to the courthouse and goes in. 
          Rossi sits up in his cell, seeing Marsha approach, stands up
          and puts on his suit coat.
       
Scene 1:  In his cell, Rossi is standing and talking to Marsha.  She
          kisses him.  They sit and talk about Rossi's dilemma.  She says
          that Carolyn will be all right. 

          However, Steven Cord joins them and tells them that bail has
          been denied.  Steven leaves.  Rossi understandably is rather
          disappointed. 
       
Scene 2:  Eli climbs the steps to Maggie's house, knocks, and is let in. 
          Eli again asks Maggie Riggs to marry him.  She tries to take
          her old ring off.  It doesn't seem to budge.  She says "Yes,
          I'll be Mrs. Eli Carson."  Joyfully, Eli announces to the
          world, out the front door, that Maggie has agreed to become
          Mrs. Eli Carson.
       
Scene 3:  Susan Winter goes in to Ada Jacks' Tavern to talk to her
          ex-husband Tom.  She says that Rossi needs to dump Steven, and
          get an expensive lawyer.  She says that her father will be glad
          to help.  She says that Steven is too busy trying to get his
          hands on the Peyton money to do justice to Rossi's case.
     
Scene 4:  Dr. Miles and Steven are in the courthouse having seen Dr.
          Rossi.  Alma Miles greets Steven and then leaves.
       
Scene 5:  Mrs. Miles invites her potential daughter-in-law, Vickie to
          stay with them.
     
Scene 6:  In his jail cell, Dr. Rossi is visited by his potential
          step-daughter, Carolyn Russell.  She sits on the cot and talks
          with him.  Carolyn apologizes for the way she acted at the
          hospital.

Episode 513.
05-26-69
     
WA:       Dr. Michael Rossi had planned to marry Marsha Russell on this
          day.  But the death of Marsha's former husband, Fred Russell,
          and the arrest of Michael Rossi, charged with murder, has
          demolished those plans.  The evidence against Michael Rossi is
          highly circumstancial, and to Marsha and most of the residents
          of Peyton Place, it is a combination of events which simply put
          Michael Rossi in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Be that as
          it may, Michael Rossi is today facing a very different kind of
          life sentence than the one he had hoped a judge would pronounce
          for him and Marsha.     
       
Intro:    In his jail cell, Dr. Rossi impatiently runs his hand along the
          chain which supports the cot.  The guard brings him a
          newspaper.  It is probably a Clarion but it appears to be
          larger than a normal Peyton Place Clarion.
       
Scene 1:  In the Peyton Courthouse, Marsha comes to visit Dr. Rossi.  The
          jailer admits her to Rossi's cell.  They kiss and talk.  Marsha
          says she wants to get married right away.  She wants them to go
          to Owen's Ridge.  Rossi explains that this is a hearing, not a
          trial.
       
Scene 2:  Eli comes to visit Maggie Riggs.  He kisses her on the lips. 
          She invites him in for some hot cereal.  She tells him that if
          they are going to be Mr. and Mrs., they must share the good and
          the bad.  She offers to watch the General Store while he is in
          court.  He declines.  He talks about the townfolk in the Cider
          Barrel making wagers on the outcome of the hearing.
       
Scene 3:  Meanwhile, back at the Cider Barrel, Charlie serves coffee to
          Dr. Miles.  His son comes in and talks with him for a while. 
          Lew mentions that he knows that there are only five black
          neuro-surgeons in the entire country.  Lew leaves. 

          Sgt. William Wilson Walker comes in and talks with Dr. Miles. 
          Sgt. Walker says that the New York police talked with a man
          named Larry Burrows.
     
Scene 4:  Inside the church sanctuary, Tom Winter comes in and talks with
          his ex-spouse, Susan.  She says that she has wanted to talk to
          Tom.  She begins to rant and rave.  She says that she hated
          him.  Tom slaps her and she begins crying.  She leaves the
          church.
       
Scene 5:  Back in his cell in the Peyton County jail, Dr. Rossi washes
          his hands in a lavatory just below the barred windows.  Rita
          Harrington is let into his cell to talk with the doctor.  She
          has brought him a small transistor radio.  [They didn't have
          Bose Wave® radios back then.]  She tells Rossi that she
          will not testify against him.  He admonishes her to be honest
          in her testimony.  Not to lie.  She tells Rossi that she has
          been having nausea.  He asks if it is in the morning.  He asks
          her if she is pregnant.  She says that she thinks so.  Rossi
          tells her to go see Dr. Morgan.  He scolds her for not seeking
          medical advice sooner.  Rita kisses Rossi.  Rossi calls to
          George, the jailer.  He lets Rita out. 

          Norman, wearing dark slacks and a sports coat, joins them just
          outside the cell and asks if Rita is sick.  Norman says tha