NBC The Doctors promo 1979

A 1979 NBC promo for their daytime drama "The Doctors", featuring Kathleen Turner a couple years prior to her big movie break in "Body Heat"

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Entertainment

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• TV
• 1970s
• daytime
• drama
• soap
• opera
• promo
• Kathleen
• Turner
• doctors
• 1979
• television

[Crommy5]

She looked good back then. Unfortunate that her arthritis and drinking have not treated her well. RoB, did you find this on VHS tape? Nice find!

[robatsea2009]

@Crommy5 No, it was a Beta recording sent by a friend

[slcrawford2003]

Isn't that Kathleen Turner, before her mega movie days?

[saynotoursoap]

@Tubewings The clip is from March 1979, approximately a week or two after AW expanded to 90 minutes.

[DickieAnginson]

My mom would leave the TV on when she was doing housework to listen to The Doctors and Days of Our Lives when I was little in the early '70s. I remember Doctors so well, along with the opening theme music to DOOL. Wow, really brings back memories.

[SoapsGoldenAge]

@Tubewings Well, they're talking about the pregnancy that became baby Jessica, who Kim Zimmer's Nola and Meg Mundy's Mona fought bitterly over.I will venture this is before AW went to 90min, which pushed the Doctors back to 2pm instead of 2:30. Could be wrong though. Clip is dated 1979 and we know Texas lived from Summer 1980-82. So AW's 90 min version (S. Croix, Kit & Joey, Blaine-Hazel and the Company, the end of Pat) was prob just 1979. Sorry, I'm confused now...

[dtw1958]

........and that Frank Telfer was hot too.

[Tubewings]

I know this will probably never be answered, but I have to ask it...

Was this from before or after "The Doctors" moved from 2:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.?

[SoapsGoldenAge]

I can;t believe you found this!!!!! Amazing clip, on so many levels. Daytime used to be so good

[CarlD2]

Thank you for finding this!

[MNorflee]

My goodness, this is quite the find her robatsea2009. I am eternally grateful that you decided to share this with us, there are very few videos on here featuring TD.