Word: peyton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie. Ryan O'Neil of Peyton Place fame plays the hockey jock, and Ali McGraw (who played a Cliffie in Goodbye, Columbus) plays his musical Cliffie. They meet first in some place called "the Radcliffe Library." then again at a Dunster House musical. Harvard will not allow Paramount Pictures to shoot scenes inside buildings other than the rink, so Dunster House and other interiors will be simulated at Fordham University, City College of New York, andin New York movie studios...
What distinguishes The Forsyte Saga from Peyton Place and the Secret Storm is its distinguished origins and its careful preparation. The BBC bought rights to the saga from MGM, then Producer Donald Wilson and four writers spent more than a year turning out an adaptation that is remarkably faithful to Galsworthy. Presented on Sunday evenings at 7:25, the series became such a craze in Britain last year that many clergymen rescheduled evensong services in order to avoid losing their congregations. An estimated 17 million viewers tuned in each week. Hostesses had to schedule dinner parties around the series. Sunday...
Saddest of all the new drama series is Bracken's World (NBC), a sort of Peyton Place set in a movie lot that ABC had the sense to reject in 1963 and CBS gave up on in 1965. Bracken, a Howard Hughes-like studio chief, is never seen, and the day-to-day operation of the studio is handled by his executive secretary (Eleanor Parker). All told, the series includes eleven running parts and more cliches per foot than any other film in memory. Among them: a young contract player who comes on as a kind of poor...
...found a real, snug little place for herself in northern New York State, name of Kuyper's Dorp. Halfway between the Adirondacks and the Catskills. Or-if you prefer to chart it on another map-halfway between the delicate perceptions of Our Town and the guff of Peyton Place...
...show "might convey the real emptiness of our life and become an American L'Avventura"-now fears that it is degenerating into high-priced prime-time soap opera. Producer Doniger vehemently disputes the charge, though he just as determinedly denies that his last show was soap. It was Peyton Place...