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During the 1970s, into April 1, 1980, the character of Roger Thorpe became more and more of a villain, but a complicated, multi-faceted one. FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version of this caption stated that Panettiere appeared on the show from 1998 to 2000. And Ed, getting closer to divorcing Holly, was definitely willing to pursue Rita. He tried to win sole custody of Phillip for Alan by paying off a man named Ramon de Vilar to falsely testify that Elizabeth had had an affair with him. Viola Stapleton (Sudie Bond, February 1976 to October 1976 (recurring); Elizabeth Spaulding Marler (Lezlie Dalton, November 7, 1977 until end of decade), Alan's first wife, Justin's second wife, thought to be the biological mother of Phillip, but back in 1969 Alan bought Phillip in a deal with Dr. Paul LaCrosse to replace Elizabeth's stillborn child, Elizabeth had an affair with Mike Bauer both before and during her marriage to Justin that Jackie found out about when she found the two of them together in a hotel room in Aspen, Colorado in December 1979, Elaine "Lainie" Marler (Kathleen Kellaigh, May 1979 until end of decade), Justin and Ross' younger sister, Jacqueline "Jackie" Scott Marler Spaulding (. Unfortunately while Flip Malone was holding her hostage, Charlotte had a miscarriage and lost the child (Flip ended up dead in a shoot out with Mike.) From 1952 to '62, Lipton played Dr. Dick Grant on the soap opera "The Guiding Light." (Dan Steinberg/Associated Press), Williams had a four-year stint on “Guiding Light” as Brandy Shelloe. When Sara walked into the attic she saw a shadowy figure by the bay window and took a shot at it. Lipton passed away Monday (March 2nd) at his home. With no funds to send Eve to school, Lucille hired Ben and Eve to do various odd jobs around the main house at the Wexler Estate, and Ben was hired as a graphic artist at Spaulding Enterprises. Later it would be learned that Dean would have kept the de Vilar affidavits, that de Vilar had lied in court, and Dean would start being threatened. Hillary though found Floyd not to be to her liking and still felt gun shy to get involved in relationship post her break-up with Roger. Actress Nina Foch was his first wife; married in 1954, they were divorced in 1959. After the birth of Emily, Ellen started to go to AA, Janet developed back problems due to the difficult delivery of Emily, and Ken started to seem more mentally stable after Janet forced Ken to see a psychiatrist. (Carole Segal/Sci Fi), A veteran stage and screen actor, Garber played Det. Joe made plans with Kit to leave Springfield. Marion Conway (Lois Holmes, January to April 1971; Rita Putnam (Anne Shaler, January 1972 to March 1972), nosy television news reporter who broke the story during Leslie Norris' trial for murder of her husband, Stanley, that Leslie had an affair with her defense attorney, Mike Bauer, while married to his brother, written out, Sir Clayton Olds (Miles Easton, 1973–1974), a British psychiatrist treating Victoria Ballenger's lover, in Europe, for depression, which made Victoria hit Steve Jackson up for more money, under false pretenses, written out, Pamela "Pam" Chandler (Maureen Silliman, May 1974 to July 1976), an orphan who was pregnant by a college man who originally didn't want to marry for kids, found by Mike Bauer sleeping in a bus station, lived with Bert Bauer, worked for Ken Norris and Mike and then Dr. Sara McIntyre, was in love with Tim Ryan but nothing ever happened about it, eventually found her happiness as the college man reunited with her and they left town, written out, Timothy John "T. Frank Minnelli on “Guiding Light” in 1986. On the rebound from Ed, Rita briefly dated Dr. Peter Chapman, but things did not progress when she realized that he was much more attracted to her nemesis Holly Norris Bauer. Charlotte then claimed she was pregnant, again, but was really not and the court, in winter of 1973, granted Mike a divorce from Charlotte. Bert, though, had to pay back the expenses on the life insurance payout that had happened back in 1969 when Bill had been thought of as dying in the plane crash. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guiding_Light_characters Upon learning of Rita's rape, Ed angrily stormed off to confront Roger in his office at Spaulding. During 1979, and early 1980, Hillary, Floyd, Katie and Mark provided much of the comic relief on the show. Dean met the widowed Dr. Sara McIntyre, whom he romanced and married in Hawaii. Kasdorf was also pregnant in real life at the time and later said that she found the emotional scenes were tough to play; the actress would take several months of maternity leave shortly after filming the miscarriage scenes. Dr. Sedwick and the actress who played her from the beginning, Margaret Gwenver (Sedwick was Gwenver's married name) would help many women characters through pregnancies and miscarriages through the years (as well as being a major part of Lillian Raines' diagnosis and recovery from breast cancer) and would last be seen in 2009 a few months before the show ended. When Grove discovered that Ed had been unfaithful to Leslie with his daughter, Grove confronted Ed at Cedars hospital and collapsed and died from a heart attack. As a scared Renee was backing out away from him she ended up falling backwards to her death, dying in Mike's arms. Zaslow was unhappy with his earlier rape scenes with Rita, which he felt came across as a seduction. On the rebound from neurotic Holly Norris, and depressed over his inability to perform surgery due to his hand injury, Ed had begun drinking heavily again, but he became infatuated with Rita, and was able to become sober with her help. The actress was most recently seen on the ABC shows “Boston Legal” and the short-lived “Big Shots.” (Matt Carr/Getty Images), Another Oscar-winner, Sorvino guest-starred on “The Guiding Light” in 199. Unfortunately, Janet was to learn that Ed was still in love with Leslie. In 1988, his failing health forced him to retire from the role of Alan, which was subsequently played by Daniel Pilon and Ron Raines. Although he did not remain in Springfield, he was able to make peace with the Bauers. But then Ben wanted Hope to pose in the nude, and Mike and Hope were both disturbed by this. She is best known for her role on “ER,” which she reprised from 2001 to 2005 after leaving the hospital drama in 1996. Janet asked Ed to help get her mother into Alcoholics Anonymous, and Ken seeing the two of them together started to become pathologically and violently jealous. For a long time Peggy had no idea what to do, to go ahead and have the marriage annulled or declare Johnny legally dead? In the 1970s, Bert Bauer's two sons fought over the lovely Leslie. By this time, she had patched things up with Ed and they were engaged. Roger was secretly taken out of the country with the help of his boss Alan Spaulding and declared dead and Holly would become the first major female soap opera character to spend an appreciative amount of time (6 months) in a woman's prison for supposedly murdering her husband (until Mike Bauer had the body exhumed and it turned out not to be Roger's. That is what led up to Ed and Holly's divorce. It was a shock when Ken, who was Mike Bauer's law partner, ended up marrying Janet, because Ken was known to be somewhat mentally unstable. After Marion's eleventh-hour confession, she would suffer a heart attack and die in the courtroom. Ken and Janet were taken to Cedars emergency room, and although bruised Janet seemed fine, Ken appeared to be blind. Eve was still blind when she and Ben were married on May 26, 1978. His early acting roles included Dr. Dick Grant in "The Guiding Light" in 1953 and Michelangelo in "You Are There" that same year. Ken was taken to a mental hospital and would not be seen again until 1998. Ann Jeffers (Maureen Mooney, September 1975 until end of decade), originally seen as a patient of Dr. Joe Werner's, a client of Mike Bauer's, later became his, Spencer "Spence" Jeffers AKA Clint Pearson (, Jimmy Jeffers, character talked about, but not seen, Jimmy was the son of Spence and Ann that Spence had taken away after a nasty divorce and hid from Ann. Panettiere appeared on the show at the tender age of 9 to play Elizabeth “Lizzie” Spaulding from 1996 to 2000. Meanwhile, James grew increasingly interested in the theory and technique that drove great actors. During Rita Stapleton's trial and just before Roger made his last minute confession of their one-night stand in Waco, Roger found out that Jerry McFarren, who he had briefly hired at The Metro, had taken out his own loan against The Metro and needed to pay off loan sharks. Rita was exonerated, but at the cost of her budding relationship with Ed, who already hated Roger for his affair with Holly during their brief marriage. Dr. Mark Hamilton (Burton Cooper, July 1978 until end of decade). Shortly before Soderberg and Somer's exit as head writers, long time cast member (on 24 years at the time, both on radio and television), Theo Goetz who played Papa Bauer, the patriarch of the Bauers, as well as most of the rest of the citizens of both Selby Flats and later Springfield, died on December 29, 1972 at the age of 78 years. Sara started having suspicions about her third husband, and Dean tried to do away with her on their honeymoon in January 1979, but Mike showed up and Dean ended falling to his death from a cliff. (Peggy was surprised when she was confronted on that issue by a trio of Sara, her old nemesis Charlotte Waring Bauer and Dr. Steve Jackson.) Not wanting to be a burden to Ben and against his strenuous objections, Eve insisted on canceling their November 24, 1977 wedding. This rape scene was a counterattack against rival network NBC's soap opera Another World, whose much ballyhooed expansion to 90-minute telecasts (complete with the death of a major character) happened that same day. Hillary was also not bereft of suitors after her nasty break up with Roger Thorpe. The serial was still called The Guiding Light by CBS (and the show's staff announcers, most notably Alan Berns who began his tenure with the program in 1969 and would last as show announcer until the spring of 1997) until fall 1981, when "The" was completely dropped from references and a more upbeat musical theme was adopted. The Guiding Light (TGL) (known since 1975 as Guiding Light) was a long-running American television soap opera.[1]. Rita also apparently had a secret romantic past with Ed's nemesis, Roger Thorpe. Holly would get mad at Roger for having a gun in the house, and Roger took it and put it in his desk drawer at Spaulding Enterprises. He was 93. He is a writer, lyricist, actor, choreographer, academic and producer, possibly best known for creating and hosting the television series “Inside the Actors … Roger would also be responsible for the death of Dr. Renee DuBois, who had arrived in town to testify at some future point that Arthur Green was indeed Roger. When it was revealed to all that Kit had killed Charlotte, Joe was exonerated of Charlotte's death and was reinstated at Cedars. In reality, her baby had been stillborn, and Alan had obtained Phillip from an unknown woman. Roger also bought a revolver, for protection, and stayed briefly in Katie and Hillary's apartment to investigate the hit-and-run (Roger assumed it was Rita wanting revenge for the rape, until he stumbled upon evidence pointing to Dean), until he wooed Holly into marrying him. James Lipton, the Emmy-winning drama dean who hosted revealing conversations about the acting craft on “Inside the Actors Studio," has died at age 93. When things seemed to have finally resolved and she was happy with Mike, Leslie was tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident in June 1976, leaving behind her and Ed's young son Freddie (known in later years as "Rick"). James Lipton: Dr. Dick Grant: 1953: March 2, 2020 Rita Lloyd: Lucille Wexler: 1978–81: September 6, 2009 Joseph Maher: Whitney Foxton: 1978: July 17, 1998 Larkin Malloy: Kyle Sampson: 1985–87: September 28, 2016 Khin-Kyaw Maung: John Young: 1984: September 28, 2010 Paul McGrath: Henry Benedict #4: 1967: April 13, 1978 Barney McFadden: Andrew "Andy" Norris #1 Peggy took Billy to live in Boise, Idaho. Lainie briefly worked for Mike and another attorney, Derek Colby introduced in 1980, after Ann Jeffers left for another job offer. Carter Bowden (Alan Austin, July 1979 until end of decade), Alex Bowden and Doris Crandall's son, gallery owner who exhibited Ben's work. She broke into the mainstream with her leading role on the dramedy “Ally McBeal” and she now stars on the family drama “Brothers & Sisters.” (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times), Stringfield was featured on “Guiding Light” from 1989 to 1992 as Christina Blake Thorpe #2. A little later in 1976, Hope became infatuated with artist Ben McFarren who originally dated Pam Chandler, before she left town (Pam had also worked at The Metro when Sara had to let her go due to the rough economy. And the rape was considered one of the most realistic looking rapes in daytime (a few months earlier, in October 1978, Roger had raped Rita Stapleton, with actor Michael Zaslow and actress Lenore Kasdorf both complaining that that rape was made to look like to the audience as though it was very romantic, instead of an act of violence.) Sara spent a brief amount of time "resting" in the mental ward at Cedars where her former boyfriend, Dr. Paul Fletcher was still sympathetic, but thought Sara was blowing things out of proportion that were going on at the farmhouse. Well-known for asking the big stars the big questions as host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” Lipton got one of his first acting gigs on “Guiding Light” from 1951 to 1962. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images), “One Tree Hill’s” Bethany Joy Galeotti got one of her first roles on “Guiding Light” as Michelle Bauer Santos. But Joe found out he needed to do a little more investigating in England at the Rawlings estate there and when he went in July 1970 to do so, he wasn't disappointed to discover more evidence that Lee was up to no good as both Miss Mildred Foss' boyfriend Tyler Meade and another English private detective Dusty McGuire (James Donnelly) both informed Joe that there had long been suspicions about Lee and that he murdered Alice, just because of him moving the English estate house over to the farm outside of Springfield. On November 5, 1975, the name was changed in the show's opening and closing visuals from The Guiding Light to Guiding Light in an attempt to modernize the show's image, and, at the same time, the show adopted the harp-and-string-laced "Ritournelle," by Charles Paul, as its theme song, accompanied by a somewhat abstracted visual of sunlight filtering through leaves on a tree. Williams appeared on the show from 1976 to 1977 before landing roles in “Poltergeist” and “The Big Chill.” FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version of this caption stated that Williams occupied the role of Brandy from 1977 to 1981. They also created several memorable characters, two in particular one that would last until the show ended in September 2009 and another that would be one of the most talked about characters on all of daytime. The stalker turned out to be Cyrus' mentally deranged daughter-in-law, Georgene Belmont Granger, who, regardless of the verdict, still blamed Rita for the deaths of her father-in-law, and her husband. Also the longest running recurring character began under The Dobsons, Cedars Hospital's OB-GYN Dr. Margaret Sedwick. Later, Eve would find out from Gordon that the reason for Amanda's lack of intimacy stemmed from watching Lucille being raped by a man, when Amanda was a young girl. Roger took up briefly with Hillary Kincaid Bauer, who was still vulnerable from having learned of her father's double life. Sept. 18, 2009 -- After 72 years on the air, the soap opera "Guiding Light" is finally saying farewell. Roger was very much alive and moved to Paris, France trying to get a woman doctor named Renee DuBois to give him, going by the name of Arthur Green, a face lift. Ed asked Rita to marry him, but on the same day he proposed she was arrested and charged with murder. In 1970, Soderberg and Sommer concluded the story line of Dr. Sara McIntyre being gaslighted by her first husband Lee Gantry and his housekeeper Miss Mildred Foss, with Foss meeting a gruesome end in January 1970 and Gantry one in August 1970. However, the lives of Ed, and Barbara and Stanley's children, Ken and Holly, took some rather interesting twists and turns. ), The Dobsons though were criticized for two major story line moves.

The late James Lipton was known as a co-creator and host for the television series Inside the Actors Studio. In the fall of 1978, the show would have some of the cast shoot outside the studios in New York City and also shoot in upstate New York at the same time. Snow appeared on the show between 1998 and 2001 before securing roles on “American Dreams” and the possible upcoming “Gossip Girl” spin-off. While Holly was in prison, Ed and Rita raised Christina. When in haste to escape Mike and Ed who were closing in, he knocked over a kerosene lantern, setting the cabin on fire. Holly bravely took Roger to court, but Justin's sleazy lawyer brother Ross, hired by Alan, got Roger acquitted. In Uncategorized by April 2, 2021 0 Comments Uncategorized by April 2, 2021 0 Comments ), In early 1974, the theme of the show and its background music was changed from acoustic organ-based to orchestra-based. (Wanting no further connection to the Grangers, Rita donated the inheritance left to her by Cyrus to Cedars for construction of their proposed new pediatric wing.). Then in December 1972, Johnny just up and left town for parts unknown. Soderberg and Sommer also wrote most of the set-up to how both the characters of Katherine "Kit" Vestid and Charlotte Waring Bauer would become one of the most interesting pair of villainess seen on television up to that point, that would be concluded by the next writing regime. Elsie Miller Franklin (Ethel Remey (radio and television, 1956; television only, 1957). Soon after breaking things off with Tim, Rita caught the eye of the recently separated Dr. Ed Bauer. This story line was considered one of the most controversial and most thought provoking story lines in daytime history (on ABC's General Hospital, the character of Luke had already raped the character of Laura, but those two characters were not yet married at that time, so Guiding Light's Roger raping Holly still holds as the first ever marital rape on a soap opera), with a very interesting follow-up of a major trial (where the then new character of attorney Ross Marler defended Roger), and then in June 1979 Holly would shoot Roger (with his gun), three times in the chest, when it looked like he was going to be acquitted, he threatened to take their daughter Chrissy out of the country and fought with Holly's former husband (and Rita's current husband, Dr. Ed Bauer) and Ed was losing the fight. During Leslie's trial, Charlotte also could tell that Mike was still very much in love with Leslie and Mike made no attempt to hide his true feelings for Leslie and that he wanted to divorce Charlotte and marry Leslie. Unfortunately another party soon came into the picture, in the summer of 1972, Flip Malone escaped prison and then kidnapped Charlotte who had just told Bert that she was pregnant. Although Jackie was still in love with Justin Marler, she married Alan after he and Elizabeth divorced in 1978 to make sure she was close to her son. On November 7, 1977, the show expanded to a full hour. Bacon was most recently seen in “Frost/Nixon” and HBO’s “Taking Chance.” (Michael Buckner/Getty Images), A veteran TV and film actor, Fisher made an appearance on “Guiding Light” as Suzette Saxon. In December 1969, Ed had returned to Springfield after having learned of his father's presumed death in a plane crash, and Janet soon followed. Ed would be pursued by several women, but Janet cooled things off, still upset about her father's death. (Joe Kohen/Getty Images), Mader (second from right) guest-starred on “Guiding Light.” She appeared on the show in 2003 as Tony’s mystery woman before finding success with “Lost.” (Mario Perez/ABC), 24 Dr. Sedwick first made her appearance in September 1979 during Jackie Scott Marler Spaulding's difficult pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage. Emily and Ellen remained living in San Diego with Ellen dying in 1995 prior to Barbara Norris returning to Springfield. Hope refused to do so, but then found one of Ben's painting was a nude of her, that Ben had painted from memory. Fat Captions 1960: When Theo Goetz was 65, the show suggested the viewers might want to congratulate him personally. Adam and Barbara's marriage though suffered through all of this, and they ended up getting a divorce when Barbara's "migraines" became too much and she blurted how angry she was at Roger and as to why (Chrissy's true parentage that Adam didn't know about up to that point.) (Hope and Jerry did make a brief visit to Springfield for Ed and Rita's wedding in November 1978.) When Ben started to become suspicious of Lucille's involvement in Brandon's "death", Lucille continued to find even more bizarre ways to kill her nemesis, Ben McFarren. Rita, as it turned out, had a sordid past with bad boy Roger Thorpe which, unfortunately for her, came out during her ensuing murder trial. After Leslie was acquitted of Norris' murder, Linell left Springfield to make a fresh start. She has since appeared in Tyler Perry‘s “Why Did I Get Married?” and the movie musical “Dreamgirls.” (Suzanne Tenner/Screen Gems), After making a name for himself on Broadway in “Rent,” Diggs stepped into the role of Adrian “Sugar” Hill on “Guiding Light” in 1997. J." This story line was criticized by Charita Bauer, whose role moved in time from Bauer matriarch to the beacon of support for the entire town. Roger eventually even made Peggy see that it was time to have Johnny Fletcher declared legally dead. With CBS announcing the show will come to an end this September, we look back at the many familiar faces that have graced the set of this famous soap. A livid Amanda told Eve, which caused Eve to leave Ben, and move out on her own. But for a while, Steve still thought that Charlotte might be pregnant and kept up that he was not going to let Mike and Leslie marry. (Eve had just divorced her husband, artist Ben McFarren.) Dean tried to run down Roger with his car, in the Spaulding garage, but Dean didn't succeed. (Charles Eiler also told the police that while he was walking his dog out in the rain, he saw Leslie running through the park in the pouring rain, earlier that evening, crying and shouting, "I could kill that man!") Rita, who had grown close to Hillary and felt protective of her, saw that Roger was merely seeing Hillary to get to Ed and Mike (since she had been revealed to be their half-sister). When Janet desperately started clinging more closely to Ed, Ken became even more jealous. Beautiful, but a bit of a social climber, Rita came from a modest upbringing in West Virginia, but was motivated to make a better life for herself. (Renee gave him only surface face changes, realizing that Arthur Green was a suspicious character.) Hillary, though, would turn down both Floyd. Although they deeply loved each other, Sara and Joe's marriage became strained and Joe began having an affair with Sara's nemesis Charlotte Waring. Joe also enlisted Mike Bauer to help investigate the strange going on's at the farm and was able to poke some holes into some of lies that Lee was telling regarding Sara enough where Joe informed a disbelieving Sara that, "Lee Gantry married you for your money." When Jerry skipped town to let his older brother Ben take the blame in a robbery at a Deli, Roger was left to deal with loan sharks and came home to Peggy and Billy beaten up. But that didn't mean things with Sara at the farmhouse were copacetic, because Lee Gantry was still after her money and continued alone the gaslighting actions set in motion by him and Miss Mildred Foss a year earlier on his own. Then in September 1971, Stanley Norris was found in his office shot to death. For a while, Peggy just had to become the best both father and mother to Billy and work at Cedars as a nurse the best she could. Then Janet's father, Grove Mason also showed up in Springfield. Janet left town with Emily and Ellen, and relocated to San Francisco, although from time to time throughout the remainder of the 1970s, Barbara was said to be visiting them. Dean then ended up shooting and killing de Vilar. But Joe had a developed a heart condition, due to his being shot by Kit, and eventually had a heart attack in December 1976, while in India, and Sara was once again a widow. Then in the November 1979, Lucille was summoned by Alan Spaulding's father, Brandon Spaulding to his "death" bed, and the audience would learn the startling secret that Lucille was hiding: that Amanda was actually the product of an affair between Alan and a woman that Alan had known when he was younger, Jane Marie Stafford. Bert and Alma-Jean Millers mother. Kind natured, though somewhat insecure and weight-conscious, Katie became roommates with Hillary Bauer and, for a time, struck up a romance with Dr. Mark Hamilton who kept putting off marrying Katie. Dr. Greg Fairbanks (David Greenan, August 1979 until end of decade), introduced as Rita Bauer's high school boyfriend from West Virginia, who'd relocated to Springfield, had affairs with Rita and Diane Ballard, started dating Eve Stapleton despite finding out that Rita was pregnant and perhaps with his child, This page was last edited on 18 February 2021, at 19:04. It would later come out that Kit had caused Charlotte's death by poisoning her tea, and, in an attempt to get her out of the way so she could be with Joe, she later poisoned Sara, poisoning her coffee. became one of the most popular and riveting romances on television period. The events taking place in Waco happened off-camera in 1974 and early 1975, prior to Rita's arrival in Springfield, and during a three-month-long period where Zaslow was absent from the show, so the story was told largely in flashbacks. (This shooting would be one of the two events on the videotape presented to the Daytime Emmy Award voting panel in 1980 for the Guiding Light to win its first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Drama in May 1980.) The Dobsons also created two families that were to become prominent in story lines all the way to the show's end in September 2009, the Spauldings and the Marlers. She stayed with the show for two years, 1998 to 2000, before taking on the role of Haley James Scott on “Hill.” (Fred Norris/The WB), Snow started on “Guiding Light” when she was only 13 years old, as the second girl to step into the role of Susan “Daisy” Lemay . There were many suspects to the murder in Springfield, as many people were identified as having threatened him. Diane, a sometime vindictive but shrewd businesswoman, harbored fantasies of being the next Mrs. Spaulding, but would continually be let down when Alan married two other women. Sara had attempted to romance Justin, but Justin was in over his head dealing with trashy journalist Brandy Shelloe, who had broken up his and Jackie's marriage eight years earlier. Eventually Mike went to San Francisco to confront McDaniels, and he showed up in Springfield to dump a confused and angry at her father when she found out why, Hope. Although Leslie loved Ed, her marriage to him didn't work, due to his alcoholism, and she became involved with his brother Mike. But Lucille was apparently harboring more secrets than that, because when Ben tried to show his art work at the Binnoker art gallery to raise funds to send Eve to college to fulfill her dream of becoming a teacher (as her mother had been), Lucille secretly burned down the gallery. Under The Dobsons this character became one of the sexiest and most complicated "vixens" (The Dobsons are credited with making her a complicated "vixen") in the show's history when nurse Rita Stapleton arrived in Springfield and later was joined, in the summer of 1976, by her sweet sister Eve and mother Viola. Actor, television writer, and pop-culture figure James Lipton died from bladder cancer on March 1 at the age of 93. After they returned to Springfield from a second honeymoon, Ben and Eve moved into the Wexler Estate's small guest cottage. Georgene had killed Cyrus for fear that he would change his will to leave the bulk of his fortune to Rita, unaware that he had, in fact, already done so; her husband Malcolm, admitted to Cedars following a heart attack in late 1976, died as result of a second, fatal heart attack, suffered in the midst of an argument with Georgene (who'd secretly followed him to Springfield), in which she incorrectly accused him of having had an affair with Rita. In a drunken stupor, and tortured over his double life, he did not contact Bert to tell her he was alive; eventually he made his way to Simone, who got him sober, and he had remained with her ever since. Pam Chandler left Springfield, in the summer of 1976, after her former boyfriend and the father of her daughter returned to her. Sara would ultimately end things with Justin in 1977, when she learned that he'd had a one-night stand with an ex-girlfriend, Brandy Shelloe, a writer visiting Springfield to gather information for an article she was working on. But out of a sense of guilt, not wanting to hurt Peggy or Billy, he told her anyway and then she told Ed! In 1979, there would be further remote location shooting for the show done in Saint Lucia, Puerto Rico, Florida and other parts of the Caribbean.

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