PEYTON PLACE Episode 27. 12-17-64 Dr. Joe Bradley takes Laura Brooks to lunch at the Inn. WA: The small world of Peyton Place has become a big and frightening world for George Anderson. A man in deadly fear of losing the two things he loves most, his wife Julie and his daughter, Betty. Intro: Leaves blowing. A tree and a picket fence. Scene 1: George Anderson tries to make an insurance sale in the square by the bandstand. His potential client, Sam Hosmer, tells him maybe next year. George suggests next year at 10:00 o'clock. Sam walks off. Dr. Rossi drives up, takes his medical bag out of the back seat, and talks with George. He asks George how he is. George mentions the tranquilizers that Rossi gave him. George walks off. Dr. Rossi then walks over and talks to Constance in front of the Book Gallery. She is putting up a SALE sign. Constance asks Dr. Rossi if he ever had any New England fish chowder. She invites him to dinner. He leaves. She goes inside her store and he heads for his office. Scene 2: Constance talks to Eli Carson. Eli says that Elliot may be home for Christmans. He feels faint and asks to sit down. Allison comes in and talks to her mother. She talks to Eli and asks what his son, Elliot, is like. Allison says that she feels that Elliot is coming home. Scene 3: Dr. Joe Bradley takes Laura Brooks to lunch at the Colonial Post Inn restaurant. He tells her that Bob Morton and her husband Donald Brooks, assisted him in his last operation which was on Matthew Swain. He goes on to say Catherine died of shock on the operating table. He wants her to tell Dr. Rossi that suspensions don't last forever. Scene 4: In Rossi's office, the phone rings and Rossi talks briefly to a Mrs. Putnam. He explains that he is still seeing patients and that he is referring his surgical patients to Dr. Burris. He tells her that he can see her tomorrow at 10:00. Laura relays to Rossi that Joe Bradley told her that suspensions don't last forever. She tells him that Dr. Bradley's last surgery was on Matthew Swain. Dr. Bradley asked her to lunch to pump her for information. She says that five years ago when she asked her Husband about that operation, he changed the subject. Scene 5: Outside, the Interstate Bus pulls in. Matthew Swain gets off and he goes over to talk with Allison. She gives him her story for the Observer column. The story concerns Elliot's return. He tells Allison to tell her mother he will be in to see her later. Allison goes in to see her mother. Scene 6: Dr. Rossi talks to Matthew Swain. Swain tells him that Dr. Morton took care of him after Dr. Bradley's surgery five years ago. Swain tells Rossi that Dr. Bradley probably had a prolonged illness, and was away for a year or so. Tuberculosis or something like that. Swain tells him that stirring things up is not the way to get his hospital privileges back. Scene 7: George Anderson takes a bottle out of the cabinet, which appears to be the cabinet the small TV is sometimes on. He is drinking as his wife, Julie appears on the stairs. She has presumable walked down the stairs. She comes on down and they talk at length and she starts to go back upstairs. He accuses her of preparing to go see Leslie. He says he's going to teach her a lesson. Scene 8: Julie goes to the Peyton Mills to talk to Leslie, and as she's entering Leslie's outer office, the phone rings and she starts to pick it up and answer it. Leslie comes in and she hands him the phone. Leslie deals with a difficult customer. She talks with Leslie about Betty, Rodney, and George. Leslie asks Julie to come back as his secretary. She asks Leslie to give George his sales job. Leslie reminds Julie that George quit but tells her he would do anything for her. They talk about the will and the codicil. He again asks her to come back to the mill as his secretary. Scene 9: George Anderson walks around on the street and goes home. He begins drinking again. Julie comes down the stairs and talks with him for a while. She tells him that she went to see Leslie. This starts an argument. George says that he is going to teach her a lesson. He attacks her. She picks up the telephone and clobbers him with the base of the telephone. He collapses [Almost like the wicked witch of the west]. She calls the hospital and tells the operator that she needs to talk with Dr. Rossi. Preview: Julie talks to Betty. Dr. Bradley tells Rossi to leave the laboratory. Rossi grabs him by the lapels and speaks roughly to him. Allison asks her mother, "Are you in love with Dr. Rossi. Constance says, "Why do you ask." BA: How did it happen? JA: He was drunk. BA: He's been drunk before. JA: Not like this. I was afraid he was going to kill me. JB: I'd like you to leave the laboratory. I've got work to do. MR: Now you listen to me. I'm fighting for my professional life. Do you understand that? Do you think I'm going to take this lying down?. AM: Mother, are you in love with Dr. Rossi? CM: Why do you ask? AM: It's a natural question. Sam Hosmer, potential insurance client-uncredited. Mrs. Putnam, on phone with Dr. Rossi. Dr. Joe Bradley, pathologist-Charles Irving. PREV HOME NEXT