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- 1. Episode 1.1 Sep 15, 1964
- Dr. Rossi arrives in a small New England town. Rodney catches his father kissing his secretary.
- 2. Episode 1.2 Sep 17, 1964
- Leslie Harrington and Julie Anderson's affair is having an effect on several others.
- 3. Episode 1.3 Sep 22, 1964
- Betty tells Dr. Rossi that she thinks that she might be pregnant.
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Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera that aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964, to June 2, 1969. [1] Loosely based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation.
Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by the American author Grace Metalious. Set in New England in the time periods before and after World War II, the novel tells the story of three women who are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy town.
Peyton Place: Created by Paul Monash, Irna Phillips. With Ed Nelson, Barbara Parkins, Warner Anderson, Dick Tufeld. People married and divorced, loved and lost. Murder, illicit passion, insanity, and secrets were the staples of Peyton Place.
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Plot Summary. Grace Metalious’s novel, Peyton Place, was published in 1956. With shocking subject matter for the time—including abortion, incest, and murder—the novel was quite controversial and launched a franchise of adaptations and sequels that outlived its author. The novel opens with a lush description of Peyton Place, a small New ...
Peyton Place became shorthand for secret scandals, mostly involving sex. Its author, Grace Metalious, was a New Hampshire schoolteacher’s wife whose own scandals were anything but secret. She was a mother of three and, by all accounts, a lousy housewife who drank, swore, wore baggy jeans and cheated on her husband.
Metalious had lived in New Hampshire her entire life, and it is widely assumed that she based her novel on her experiences growing up. Peyton Place is set in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The primary character is Allison MacKenzie, a teenager whose mother, Constance, owns a dress store.
Summary. PDF Cite Share. Allison MacKenzie and her friend Selena Cross are eighth graders in Peyton Place, an isolated New England town that thrives on gossip and scandal. Allison is the...
