PEYTON PLACE Episode 150. 12-02-65 Constance is pregnant. Stella has a conscience. WA: Michael Rossi has willingly experienced all the emotional ups and downs his profession has to offer. All that is, but one. The day-to-day tedium and frustration of hospital administration. Intro: A nurse hands Rossi a clipboard. Written by Michael Gleason and Lionel E. Siegel Directed by Jeffrey Hayden Scene 1: Betty knocks and goes in to see Dr. Rossi and is fired for stealing Stella Chernak's personnel record. Rossi asks her to explain why she took Stella's file. She says that she thought it might help Rodney's case. Rossi asks if someone forced her to take the file. Rossi says that can fully understand why she took the file. She did it to help Rodney in his murder trial. Officially she is allowed to resign and Dr. Rossi will not put it on her record. Betty says, "Chalk one up to Stella Chernak." Rossi says that he is sorry. Scene 2: Betty goes out to the information desk and turns in her keys. As she is leaving, Rodney and Norman come in and speak to her. Norman asks her what is the rush. She continues out of the reception area into the hall without answering. Scene 3: Rodney and Norman go in to visit Allison. She is still in a coma. Norman asks Rodney if he wants him to leave. [We were informed that the girl in the bed is a double for Mia Farrow.] Norman suggests to Rodney that Rodney, Allison, Rita, and himself go to New York and get married. Rodney says, "I have to get that house back." The Harrington brothers leave. Scene 4: Elliot talks with Jerry, the composer, about a headline. Elliot and Eli argue about building a sleeping porch as an add-on to the Carson house. Eli mentions that Connie's folks built the house that the Carsons now live in. Eli reminds Elliot that he built a tree house for him when he was young. They come to an agreement and shake hands. Scene 5: Betty arrives home and the phone rings. Betty decides not to answer. Instead, she starts upstairs to her room. Scene 6: Later, In the Anderson livingroom, Steven asks Betty why she didn't call him. He tells her not to be noble. Scene 7: Steven goes in Theodore Dowell's office and is told that he has ordered an expensive leather chair for Steven. Steven offers to buy Dowell a drink. Steven tells him about Stella's file and that Betty has been fired. Dowell tells Steven to find Betty another job. Scene 8: Stella goes over to John Fowler's house. He invites her in the house and offers her a drink. John tells Stella that Marian is in Boston visiting her family. Stella tells Fowler that Rodney confronted her in the hospital parking lot. Fowler asked if he threatened her. Preview: Russ Gehring talks with Dr. Rossi. David Schuster talks with Martin Peyton. John Fowler talks with Elliot Carson. RG: She's trying to say something. MR: Allison. DS: Would you like to take some of your things back to Boston? MP: Oh, but I won't be going home. You see, my plans are to move back into this house. JF: You're looking at me but you're talking to my father. It's 18 years ago and you're on trial. EC: You'd really like to believe that, wouldn't you? PREV HOME NEXT