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5 unusual facts about Peyton Place


Betty Anderson

During the second reunion movie, Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985), Betty was engaged to a man named Dorian Blake, and had a teenage son, Dana, from her marriage with Rodney Harrington.

Mickie Finn's

The show's Nielsen ratings were better than for its sitcom predecessor, but would have been even better had its timeslot not been the same as ABC's primetime soap-opera hit Peyton Place.

Peyton Place

Return to Peyton Place, a 1959 follow-up novel also by Grace Metalious

Peyton Place: The Next Generation, a 1985 television film based on the original TV series

Russell Thorson

He appeared in guest-starring roles in such television series as Tales of Wells Fargo, Trackdown, Wagon Train, Lassie, Peyton Place, and The Virginian, and is also known for his role as a ship captain in "Cocoon", the pilot episode of CBS's original Hawaii Five-O, starring Jack Lord.


Erin O'Brien-Moore

Her television career included appearances in Lux Video Theater, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dennis the Menace, Perry Mason, The Time Tunnel, Adam-12, and for three seasons on the television version of Peyton Place as Nurse Esther Choate.

Garry Walberg

He performed in numerous TV shows beginning in the early 1950s, including Johnny Staccato, Lassie, Peyton Place and The Fugitive.

Jack Martin Smith

Other big productions to bear his name there include Peyton Place (1957), Return to Peyton Place (1961), Cleopatra (1963, his first Oscar win), Von Ryan's Express (1965), the science fiction epic Fantastic Voyage (1966, which earned him his second Oscar), Planet of the Apes (1968), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and MASH (1970).

Malcolm Marmorstein

Peyton Place, Love Bites, Dead Men Don't Die, ABC Weekend Specials, The Witching of Ben Wagner, Konrad, Rose Petal Place: Real Friends, Poochie, Return from Witch Mountain, Pete's Dragon, Whiffs, Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary, S*P*Y*S, Night Gallery, Dark Shadows and The Doctors.

Ted Post

Post directed episodes of many series including Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, Rawhide, The Twilight Zone, Columbo and 178 episodes of Peyton Place.

The Library Policeman

He converses with her over the bad selections she has put in the children's library, such as scary posters of flinching and screaming children, music such as Ozzy Osbourne and Guns 'n' Roses, and books like Flowers In The Attic and Peyton Place. He checks out two books with the warning that they must be returned or he should beware of the Library Policeman.

Thomas W. Moore

While he was network president, the network added, among other shows, McHale's Navy, Peyton Place, The Addams Family and Batman.


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