Dr. Kildare

Filmed June 1962 I have recently read IN MORTICIA’S SHADOW, the fine biography of Carolyn Jones written by James Pylant. I’ve learned many things I didn’t know. For starters: the events that occurred between the time we made the offer … Continue reading →

Monday, October 16, 2017 So the first episode that you directed called JOHNNY TEMPLE, DR. KILDARE, your first time directing a filmed television show, what was that like for you, stepping out the first day on the set? That question … Continue reading →

Sitting in my comfortable home in Carmel-by-the-Sea I am remembering a bleaker period in my life. It was near the end of 1960, a year of several professional ‘UPS’ and ‘downs’. In 1960 my extra-curricular activities (away from my jobs … Continue reading →

FILMED September 1962 I wrote my post for HASTINGS’ FAREWELL on my blog, RALPH’S TREK, 3 months shy of 7 years ago. The subject of the drama: Aphasia. A year and a half later in March, 2011, I updated the … Continue reading →

Filmed June 1962 My timing in real life was not as good as my timing in reel life. I left my paying job on DR. KILDARE just as television film production for the 1961-62 season was drawing to a close. … Continue reading →

Filmed June 1964 In THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE the James Stewart newspaperman character states if there is a difference between the truth and the legend, print the legend. So having noted this and in case there is such … Continue reading →

Filmed October 1961 That was the opening scene of the first television show I directed, JOHNNY TEMPLE, an episode of DR. KILDARE. As I think back to the last leg of my journey to that moment in 1961, it seems … Continue reading →

Filmed September 1962 After a summer of unemployment I returned to MGM in September for my next DR. KILDARE.  The script, HASTINGS’ FAREWELL, written by Peggy and Lou Shaw, was a powerful story of a man, brain injured in an … Continue reading →

Filmed September 1964 Stephen Bowie in his insightful (and at times even inciteful) CLASSIC TV HISTORY blog wrote: Also this year I’ve watched most of the fourth and penultimate season of NBC’s Dr. Kildare, a once near-great doctor drama that … Continue reading →