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Cast members of the series consisted of James Pritchett, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Williams and David O'Brien. Several well-known actors & actresses such as Alec Baldwin, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Frakes, Julia Duffy, Kathryn Harrold and Terry O'Quinn appeared on the show. The series' 5000th episode aired in November of 1981. On December 31, 1982, "The Doctors" was cancelled after 5,280 episodes.

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  • The Doctors
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  • Cast members of the series consisted of James Pritchett, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Williams and David O'Brien. Several well-known actors & actresses such as Alec Baldwin, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Frakes, Julia Duffy, Kathryn Harrold and Terry O'Quinn appeared on the show. The series' 5000th episode aired in November of 1981. On December 31, 1982, "The Doctors" was cancelled after 5,280 episodes.
  • Oscar the Grouch, Zoe, and Prairie Dawn appeared on the show on November 17, 2009. Oscar has his temperature taken. Dr. Jim Sears, Prairie, and a child named Marcus show that going the doctor doesn't have to be scary; a doctor examines her ear, has her tongue depressed, has her reflexes tested, and heart listened to with a stethoscope.
  • "The Doctors" was an American soap opera on the NBC network. Created by Orin Tovrov, it premiered on April 1, 1963 the same day as rival network ABC's General Hospital premiered. It was cancelled on December 31, 1982. The series is unique as it wasn't originally a soap opera. It rather began as an anthology show, with self-contained episodes dealing with three doctors, Dr. William Scott; Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Dr. Jerry Chandler and Rev. Sam Shafer, the hospital chaplain of Hope Memorial Hospital.
  • The Doctors or Everyday Health & Wellness or Women's Health You may also see this as a redirection to "SavetheChildren.org" but that is a clever trick to make you think they are legitimate. This scam has been exposed at many different locations on the Internet. It has appeared as a Caralluma weight-loss scam, a Forskolin Fuel weight-loss scam, as a Safflower Oil weight-loss scam, and Garcinia fraud, varying by date and even by geography. The same claims were made, using identical before-and-after pictures for different scams. Safflower Oil exposed as a scam
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Country
  • USA
show name
  • The Doctors
Num episodes
  • 5280(xsd:integer)
First Aired
  • 1963-04-01(xsd:date)
Last Aired
  • 1982-12-31(xsd:date)
Network
  • NBC
Creator
  • Orin Tovrov
Run Time
  • 1800.0
senior cast members
  • David O'Brien
  • Ann Williams,
  • Elizabeth Hubbard,
  • James Pritchett,
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  • "The Doctors" was an American soap opera on the NBC network. Created by Orin Tovrov, it premiered on April 1, 1963 the same day as rival network ABC's General Hospital premiered. It was cancelled on December 31, 1982. The series is unique as it wasn't originally a soap opera. It rather began as an anthology show, with self-contained episodes dealing with three doctors, Dr. William Scott; Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Dr. Jerry Chandler and Rev. Sam Shafer, the hospital chaplain of Hope Memorial Hospital. Some months later, it became a daily serial with stories extending over several episodes and a core cast of characters, including Hope Memorial's chief of staff, Dr. Matt Powers; his colleague and later wife, Dr. Maggie Fielding; Dr. Steve Aldrich and his wife, Carolee Simpson Aldrich, a nurse; and Dr. Althea Davis. What made The Doctors different from General Hospital was that, while on the latter show, the staff at General Hospital were quite intimate and were on a friendly basis (even to where they were romantically involved with one another), the doctors at Hope Memorial were a bit more cutthroat towards one another, and would not have minded undermining each other in efforts to get ahead. In the 1980s, just before the series was cancelled, the up-to-that-time unnamed community in which Hope Memorial Hospital was located was revealed to be called Madison, which was located somewhere in New England. The show was produced by Channelex, which was a division of the show's long-time primary sponsor, The Colgate-Palmolive Company (the makers of Colgate toothpaste; Palmolive Dishwashing liquid and bar soap, Handi-Wipes cleaning towels, the Ajax family of cleaners, cleansers and detergents; Fab Laundry Detergent; Cold Power Laundry detergent; Dynamo liquid detergent, et al). The show's famous theme song was created by Score Productions, Incorporated, a well known name for theme music for soaps and game shows. Many alumni have played roles on this series. Most notable of those include Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century); Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore); Julia Duffy (Newhart; Designing Women); Meg Mundy; Jada Rowland (Secret Storm); Jane Badler (V); Alec Baldwin (30 Rock; Match Game); Peggy Cass (To Tell the Truth; Women in Prison); Elizabeth Hubbard (As the World Turns); Gerald Gordon (General Hospital); Kathleen Turner (Body Heat); Hillary B. Smith (One Life to Live); Kim Zimmer (One Life to Live; Guiding Light); Ian Ziering (Beverly Hills, 90210); Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek, the Next Generation); Michael Woods (Guiding Light); Nancy Stafford (Matlock); and Anna Stuart (Another World; All My Children). James Pritchett was introduced on the show when it was still an anthology show playing a corporate president who had a bad back in June of 1963; almost two weeks later on July 9th of the same year, Pritchett was reintroduced to the show as Dr. Matt Powers, the role he would play for the better part of two decades. Also introduced was Dr. Maggie Fielding (played by Ann Williams; Bethel Leslie and Lydia Bruce) who was Matt's recurring love interest as well as his colleague, whom he eventually married after she endured bad marriages to two very bad men, Alec Fielding and Dr. Kurt Van Alen. Also joining in the late 60s was David O'Brien as the womanizing Dr. Steve Aldrich, who had calmed down after marrying nurse Carolee Simpson (originally played by Carolee Campbell, for whom the character was named; and then played by Jada Rowland of The Secret Storm fame to the end); also seen frequently was Dr. Althea Davis, a classy, New England trained doctor and divorcee (she had two children, one of whom, Penny, was famously played by Julia Duffy), who was once engaged to Matt and later married the brash Dr. Nick Bellini (Gerald Gordon), a rough around the edges surgeon from Chicago. Steve's often interfering and always haughty mother, Mona Aldrich Croft, Madison's wealthiest citizen was played by actress Meg Mundy. The powerful matriarch was always interfering in her family's life, especially Steve and his brother, Jason (Glenn Corbett)'s lives. While she was haughty and cold towards Carolee (but had some respect for her, as she tamed her more wild son), she treated Jason's troublemaking and somewhat devious wife, Nola (played at various times by Kathryn Harrold; Kathleen Turner and Kim Zimmer) much worse. The marriage of polar opposites Nick and Althea was unique in that he was a rough-edged Chicago doctor, and she had been more refined, having been trained in the finest New England schools. Two husband and wife writing teams who worked on The Doctors, Richard and Esther Shapiro and Eileen and Robert Mason Pollock, would later become even more famous as writers (and in the case of the Shapiros, the creators) of the 1980's prime time soap opera, Dynasty. Althea was played by Elizabeth Hubbard, who later would go on to another long-running role on As the World Turns as the interfering but well-meaning Lucinda Walsh. Matt; Maggie; Steve, Carolee and Althea would become the long time mainstays of the show. In September of 2014, some 42 years after the series ended its run on NBC, the series began to be rerun on the Retro Television Network at 12 pm/11 AM, showing two episodes every weekday; also beginning in December of the same year, the same two episodes that were shown during the day were also shown in primetime at 9PM/8PM, every weeknight. The episodes were beginning from 1967, some four years after the show began.
  • The Doctors or Everyday Health & Wellness or Women's Health You may also see this as a redirection to "SavetheChildren.org" but that is a clever trick to make you think they are legitimate. This scam has been exposed at many different locations on the Internet. It has appeared as a Caralluma weight-loss scam, a Forskolin Fuel weight-loss scam, as a Safflower Oil weight-loss scam, and Garcinia fraud, varying by date and even by geography. The same claims were made, using identical before-and-after pictures for different scams. Safflower Oil exposed as a scam * Refutes Safflower claims Senior editor, FoodNavigator-USA, NutraIngredients-USA, FeedNavigator: Stephen Daniells (Chicago) * Report advises against it Article written by Russell H. Greenfield, MD. Clinical Assistant Professor of MedicineUNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine. * Inboxrevenge description of Caralluma and Safflower oil scams * Here Are 7 'Miracle' Products Dr. Oz Had Peddled Huffington Post, The Huffington Post | By Catherine Taibi. Posted: 04/23/2015 3:35 pm EDT Updated: 04/27/2015 10:59 am EDT
  • Cast members of the series consisted of James Pritchett, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Williams and David O'Brien. Several well-known actors & actresses such as Alec Baldwin, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Frakes, Julia Duffy, Kathryn Harrold and Terry O'Quinn appeared on the show. The series' 5000th episode aired in November of 1981. On December 31, 1982, "The Doctors" was cancelled after 5,280 episodes.
  • Oscar the Grouch, Zoe, and Prairie Dawn appeared on the show on November 17, 2009. Oscar has his temperature taken. Dr. Jim Sears, Prairie, and a child named Marcus show that going the doctor doesn't have to be scary; a doctor examines her ear, has her tongue depressed, has her reflexes tested, and heart listened to with a stethoscope.
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