PEYTON PLACE Episode 3. 09-22-64 Betty Anderson confides in Dr. Rossi that she may be pregnant. WA: On a sunny morning almost 300 years ago, a young woman was drummed across this square to do public penance in the Pillory. Afterward they shaved her head and sent her out of town, forever. Like every girl in today's Peyton Place, Betty Anderson has heard this story many times. Knowing it didn't stop her from giving her love. Intro: The Peyton Place Pharmacy, the 4-story building behind it, and the east end of the square. Betty Anderson walks across the street from the direction of the Colonial Post Inn and stops in front of the Pillory. She reads the plaque: PEYTON PLACE HISTORICAL MARKER PILLORY PLACE OF PUBLIC PUNISHMENT 1650-1700. Allison walks up to Betty. [Good camera view from the east of the square in front of the Peyton Place Banking & Trust Co. building. The Peyton Place Fire Station, however, is obscured by the bandstand.] Written by Franklin Barton Directed by Ted Post Scene 1: Allison and Betty talk about the sinful women who were locked in the Pillory. [However, no witches were ever burned in Peyton Place.] Betty asks Allison why they keep the Pillory there. Allison allows that it is for the visitors. [The wrist clamps on the Pillory are so large they wouldn't hold anyone who was smaller than André-the-Giant. They probably had been enlarged to comply with OSHA standards.] Allison is a 17-year-old high school senior and Betty is three years older and has already quit school. Betty and Allison say their goodbyes and trudge off in opposite directions. Allison toward the Inn, and Betty toward the Peyton Professional Building. Rodney drives up in his convertible and toots his horn at the lovely Allison. He asks if he can drive her to school. After some banter and discussion, she and her plethora of books get in. Rodney talks about the date they are scheduled to have Friday night. Rodney assures her that his thing with Betty is over. Rodney and Allison drive off toward Peyton High School. [Allison usually takes the municipal bus, which makes a loop around the square occasionally. Peyton Place also has at least one school bus. It was used in the trial of Rodney Harrington to transport the jury to the wharf to see where Joe Chernak assumed ambient temperature. See episode 186.] Scene 2: In his office in the Peyton Professional Building over the Clarion, Dr. Rossi is examining Betty. He asks her if she was ever treated by Dr. Donald Brooks. She tells him that Dr. Brooks took care of her childhood diseases. He says he will try to find her records. Betty tells the doctor about the Pillory and informs him that she believes that she may be pregnant. Rossi tries to comfort her by telling her that this sort of thing has happened before. [This is not of great comfort to Betty.] Laura Brooks drives past the courthouse and the fire station and parks across the street from the Book Gallery and goes in the Peyton Professional Building. The double doors of this building provide the extrance to the Clarion newspaper office and the stairs up to Dr. Rossi's office [and presumably other professional offices]. Laura comes in Rossi's office and is asked to locate Betty Anderson's medical records. She asks if she will be needed and Rossi says not yet. Betty is disturbed that Laura is there because she doesn't want the whole town to know about her pregnancy. Betty makes a quick exit. Rossi looks at a chart. Laura comes back in the inner office and begins going through some papers. Rossi asks her if she has made up her mind about staying on as his secretary. She says she will stay as long as he needs her. She informs the doctor that he has two house calls, and that she will drive him until he knows his way around. [She leaves by train in episode 36 and goes to Europe including Paris and to several cities in Switzerland.] Dr. Rossi and Laura Brooks walk out to her convertible and get in. The entrance to the Peyton Professional Building is only a block from the side entrance to Doctors hospital. Scene 3: Matthew Swain comes out of the Clarion office and walks down the street to the Book Gallery to visit with Constance. He returns a book and allows that he wouldn't recommend it for children. He opines about his feelings about censorship. He observes that Constance looks tired. Matthew asks if Dr. Rossi has been back to visit with her. Matthew tells Constance that she should see Dr. Rossi. A lady named Frances takes a book out on rental and leaves. Matthew observes that Allison is almost 18. Matthew tells Constance that she should tell Allison the circumstances of her birth. Constance says that she can't. Scene 4: A man is polishing the Peyton Mills bronze plaque as Catherine Peyton Harrington drives up. She drops in to see her husband, Leslie, before heading off to Boston to see an art exhibit and to visit her ageing father, Martin Peyton. Julie is typing on a mechanical [non-electrical] typewriter. Catherine gives Leslie's secretary, Julie Anderson, a dirty look and walks right in. Leslie asks her to sign some papers, and gives her some other papers to take to Boston for Martin Peyton to sign. Laura says she will be back in time for dinner. [Boston is only 90 miles south of Peyton Place.] She leaves the inner office, speaks to Julie, and departs. Scene 5: As soon as Catherine leaves, Julie goes into Leslie's office and insists on knowing why Rodney has ditched her daughter, Betty. Leslie explains to her that their indiscretion, the night that Dr. Rossi arrived in town, is to blame. However, he doesn't seem at all broken up that Rodney has dumped Betty. Betty uses the term "break off" and Allison uses the term "break up." [In the area of the country where your reviewer is from, the term in common use is "break up."] Scene 6: At Peyton College, Rodney comes out of the Humanities Building and is called to by Betty Anderson. He asks Betty what she is doing there. She insists that they really have to talk. Betty assures Rodney that she loves him. Rodney tells her that it won't work. Rodney tries to get away but Betty continues to pursue him. He says that he needs time to think about things. He offers to drive her home or take her to town. Scene 7: Laura Brooks drives Dr. Rossi past the fire station and parks on the square. Constance sees them just outside her store window. Laura had offered to drive the new doctor on his rounds until he learns the town. Later that day, Betty confronts Rodney at Peyton College. She tells him that she is hurt and confused and can not understand why he is treating her the way he is. Rodney refuses to explain the reasons and the cause for their split. Betty asks Rodney point blank why he has ditched her, but Rodney won't illuminate her. Scene 8: Dr. Rossi goes in the Book Gallery and asks for post cards. He selects one with a picture of a covered bridge. Constance tells him that the bridge is not far outside of town. He asks her if she likes playing games. He recounts his recollection of Allison's birth in a ward in Belleview Hospital in New York City. He mentions that he suggested that Allison be named after his own mother, Alicia. He remembers her from the New York hospital where he had been an intern 18 years ago. Rossi opines that Constance must wish that he had never come to town. Scene 9: Allison arrives home and cuts some flowers from the front yard. She goes in and talks with Mrs. Salazar, who is in the kitchen finishing up her work and preparing to leave. Allison says she wishes that Mrs. Salazar could come there every day. [This establishes that Constance can afford a part-time maid and cook.] Allison sets the kitchen table starting with the flowers. She adds two candles. Allison is putting the silverware on the table as Constance comes in. Constance apologizes for being late. Allison mentions that the Harringtons always dine by candlelight. The telephone rings and Allison goes to the livingroom to answer it. Rodney has called to ask what kind of flowers she likes. They talk for a short while. [The Mackenzies apparently have only one black telephone. Later after Elliot Carson returns to town and moves in, a telephone is seen upstairs.] Scene 10: In the Harrington mansion, Rodney and Norman are talking. Rodney informs Norman that he has a date with Allison. Norman asks Rodney about Betty. Rodney tells Norman that it is over with Betty. Scene 11: Back in the Mackenzie kitchen, Allison lights a candle and says grace: Heavenly Father we give thee thanks, For our daily bread, And for each other. We thank thee for the ties, That bind us together. Amen. Preview: Betty Anderson talks with her mother. George Anderson talks with Julie. BA: I ran out of Dr. Rossi's office. JA: Did you see Dr. Rossi? BA: I didn't stay, I couldn't. GA: Okay, sweetheart, lay it right on the line for George. You tell George. You tell me. JA: George, please. GA: You tell me just exactly what's going on around here. JA: George, stop it. Mrs. Salazar is played by Naomi Stevens PREV HOME NEXT