PEYTON PLACE Episode 502. 03-10-69 WA: Today a house on the road behind the Peyton Place wharf is put up for sale. A simple everyday event that somehow has a profound meaning for a number of people in this small New England town. The house was vacated by Rodney and Betty Harrington. A fact which was duly noted by Steven Cord. Intro: A group of moving men are moving Rodney and Betty's furniture out of their house. Eli Carson is walking up and down the street in front of their converted barn house carrying a FOR SALE sign. Steven Cord walks up and speaks to Eli and continues to the Harrington Brothers Motorcycle shop. Scene 1: Steven Cord comes into the motorcycle shop and asks about Rodney and Betty and their car trip with Norman and Rita to Boston. Norman tells Steven that Rodney has gotten an apartment on the river near the campus. Rodney is starting back to school. Betty will be staying with Rodney as long as he is there. Norman warns Steven to leave Betty and Rodney alone. Steven admits that he has been jealous of Rodney all his life. Steven tells Norman that maybe he will drop Rodney a card. Steven leaves. Scene 2. Betty drops in on Rita and they discuss the apartment in Boston. Rita gives Betty a cup of coffee. Betty says that the apartment has charm. Rita says that charm must mean that the plumbing is bad. Betty says that it has cold and cold running water. Betty says she is going to speak to Eli about selling the house. Scene 3. Betty goes down the stairs and west on the street to the General Store. Steven is making a $4.25 purchase from Eli as Betty comes in. Betty tells Steven that she is not going to protest the will. Steven tells Betty that he anticipated her having a change of heart. Steven says that he knows that he has a case. He tells her that he has a witness waiting in his office as they speak. He invites Betty to come along while he interviews Jennifer Ivers, one of Martin Peyton's nurses. Steven says goodbye and leaves. Scene 4. Lewis Miles comes in Harry Miles' office at Doctors Hospital to talk. They discuss Carolyn Russell and the science project. Lewis leaves. The phone rings and Fred Russell asks Dr. Miles to meet him at the bar in the Colonial Post Inn. Scene 5: Eli Carson is whittling as Maggie Riggs watches. He says that whittling is one of the joys of life. He explains to her how fulfilling that whittling is. Eli and Maggie pick up the wood shavings and put them in the stove. Scene 6. Susan Winter is sitting at the bar as Fred Russell comes in. A new waitress [Nikki Wilk] comes over and asks what he would like to drink. He orders the usual and make it a double. He speaks to Susan Winter. Fred asks how Tom is. Susan says that he is surviving. She tells him that she has lost a marriage and is about to lose another. He recalls that she used to drink boilermakers, whiskey with a beer chaser. Susan informs Fred that he is getting gray on top. She leaves. Dr. Harry Miles comes in and they sit at a table to talk. Harry orders coffee. Fred orders a scotch, with soda on the side. Fred says that this is the first time they have talked. They argue. Fred gets up and leaves. Preview: Jennifer Ivers talks to Betty and Steven. Dr. Miles talks to Alma. JI: It was very difficult for a man like Mr. Peyton to realize. He couldn't make up his mind about who or what to leave it to. All that money. HM: Why didn't I have Russell meet me here, huh? Oh no, no, no. I had to fall right into it. Now tomorrow morning it will be all over Peyton Place. Oh, Fred Russell told off that Harry Miles and about you know what. Waitress-Nikki Wilk, two roles in this series, waitress and mother. The waitress was on her first day at the Colonial Post Inn and waited on Fred Russell and Dr. Harry Miles. Russell left without paying his tab. Evidently Betty checked with the real estate office to get an idea of the price she should ask for the house and then had her friend Eli show the house to save the customary six per cent commission. PREV HOME NEXT