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Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

Title:The TV Chatter Notes Conference
Notice:Welcome to TV Chatter :-)
Moderator:PASTA::PIERCE
Created:Wed Dec 16 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:498
Total number of notes:5416

129.0. "Help-St. Elsewhere Trivia" by CRISTA::MAYNARD (Late For The Sky) Tue Jun 15 1993 06:32

    Who was the actor who played the chief surgeon on the
    TV series St. Elsewhere? Was it William Windom?
    
    					Jim
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129.1Williams DanialsSARALN::SHEPROAlan Shepro - DTN 223-4107Tue Jun 15 1993 07:120
129.2RICKS::D_ELLISDavid EllisWed Jun 16 1993 04:4810
William Daniels played the role of Dr. Mark Craig.

He's an excellent and quite well known character actor on stage and screen.
Among his many other roles are the voice of KITT on "Knight Rider", John Adams 
in the play "1776", parts in the films "The Graduate" and "Oh God", and the 
title role in the short lived TV series "Captain Nice".

Back to St. Elsewhere, William Daniels' wife Bonnie Bartlett played the part
of Dr. Craig's wife Ellen.  Their real life marriage is _much_ better than the
stormy one they portrayed on screen.
129.3CRISTA::MAYNARDLate For The SkyThu Jun 17 1993 04:5512
    Was William Windom the actor who played Patty Duke's Father in the
    "Patty Duke Show" ? (circa 1960)
    
    Back to St Elsewhere:
    			If nothing else the show had a lot of undiscovered
    superstars... Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel, Mark Harmon...
    
    
    
    Thanks for the Trivia answer...
    
    				Jim
129.4HELIX::MAIEWSKIThu Jun 17 1993 05:165
  I think that Howie Mandel was already famous as a stand up comic by the time
he did St Elsewhere, but Harmon and Washington seemed to get their start no
that show.

  George
129.5Patty Duke's DadDPDMAI::POGARResident Movie Critic & Costner FanThu Jun 17 1993 05:357
    re: .3
    
    I think that Patty Duke's father was William Schellert or something
    like that.
    
    Catherine
    
129.6MCIS5::WOOLNERYour dinner is in the supermarketFri Jun 18 1993 03:417
    Yes, William Schallert, I think.
    
    Since we're all remembering William Windom in roles he never played,
    :-)  my recollection is that he played James Thurber (or reasonable
    facsimile based on Thurber) in a sitcom whose name escapes me...
    
    Leslie
129.7NEWPRT::NEWELL_JODon't wind your toys too tightFri Jun 18 1993 04:256
    RE: James Thurber TV animation...
    
    Was is called "This is My World, and Welcome to It" ?
    
    
    Jodi-
129.8BEDAZL::MAXFIELDSat Jun 19 1993 01:327
    "My World, and Welcome To It" was terrific.  Lasted only
    a season, and I think Windom won an Emmy as best actor in
    a comedy series.
    
    Richard
    
    
129.9MCIS5::WOOLNERYour dinner is in the supermarketSat Jun 19 1993 04:569
    YES, yes yes that was it.  One would think it'd be impossible to do
    Thurber justice, but I think they did... I remember not too much about
    the animation other than it was a technical marvel at the time!  It
    looked very much like Thurber's line drawings, and I *think* they
    integrated it with the live action.
    
    No good show goes unpunished, huh?
    
    Leslie
129.10a slightly more obscure Elsewhere questionSTAR::PRAETORIUSI have faith in questioningThu Jul 07 1994 01:511
     Who was the actor who played Novena(sp?), the nurse who became an MD?
129.11COMET::RALSTONIndividualists UniteThu Jul 07 1994 03:088
RE: Note 129.10 	STAR::PRAETORIUS 
                    -< a slightly more obscure Elsewhere question >-
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  >   Who was the actor who played Novena(sp?), the nurse who became an MD?
    
    
    	This is a shot in the dark, was it Christina Pickle, My wife
    remembers her being a nurse on the show.
129.12Not Christina PickleAWECIM::MCMAHONLiving in the owe-zoneThu Jul 07 1994 03:403
    No, Christina Pickle was the nurse with the British accent. The nurse
    that became a doctor played Robert Urich's wife in 'Amerika' and of
    course I can't remember her name. Aarrgh.
129.13Was it??COMET::RALSTONIndividualists UniteThu Jul 07 1994 05:461
    Was it Mare Winningham or maybe Christine Lahti???
129.14Cindy PickettALFA2::ACQUAFRESCATake me to the beach, please!!!!Thu Jul 07 1994 07:115
    It was Cindy Pickett.  She played a nurse who had decided to go to
    medical school.  Dr. Westfall was her mentor, and then they got
    involved romantically.  She was a lot younger than him.
    
    Cheryl
129.15MoreALFA2::ACQUAFRESCATake me to the beach, please!!!!Thu Jul 07 1994 07:136
    Just to add, I don't think that the character's name was Novena. 
    Dr. Novena was on the first two seasons as one of the permanent
    doctors.  She had long brown hair, where Cindy Pickett's character (I
    forget her name) had short redish hair.
    
    Cheryl