I Got Sucked Into the "Marcus Welby" Marathon . . .

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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. . . Anyone else? I actually watched that show in its first-run, at least the first few seasons. Some things I noted this weekend:

• Remember when doctors actually made HOUSE CALLS? I’m old enough to, just.

• Dr. Kiley was very hot, in a chimp-like way, but dating him was as fatal as dating Little Joe on “Bonanza.” As soon as Barbra Streisand married James Brolin, I expected Consuelo to show up with the X-rays . . .

• Dr. Welby yelled at Consuelo a lot! I’d have quit after the first couple of times, if I were her.

• What great guest stars: Dolores del Rio, Betty Bronson, Anne Baxter; all of Ropbert Young’s old Hollywood pals.

• Anyone remember the one where Marcus Welby tells a gay patient to get the hell back in the closet? A gay friend remembers this episode with a great deal of ill feeling, but I must have missed it. Dr. Joe Gannon never would’ve said something like that!

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I did watch a bunch of those. It’s amazing to watch them and not see anyone whine about their personal lives. :slight_smile:

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Then there were the GPs who watched it to see what their elderly patients would complain of the next day.

“No, Mrs Johnson, I don’t think that it is prostate cancer.”

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What really surprised me the most was how lame the show is. The best part is what you mentioned about the guest stars. But not Sonny Bono. He played an Italian immigrant and his fake Italian accent was hilarious! Not only that, but he’d slip in and out of it in the same scene.

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God it was a long time ago but we watched him all the time.
I wish he was my doctor.

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That must be why Robert (the dad on the Brady Bunch) Reed went to Joe for his sex change operation.

Speaking of homophobic Marcus Welby episodes, Did they show the one where the mom discovered that her son had been raped at summer camp when she pulled back the quilt to make his bed and, instead of showing the bloodstained sheets, they zoomed in on the look on her face?

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yet.

But I did tape (almost) the whole marathon.

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I notice they tackled “with-it” subjects like teen pregnancy, racism, drugs—but WHAT a homophobic show! Wonder if Babs was joshing Dr. Kiley about it this past weekend?

I missed the one I really wanted to see, with silent movie star Betty Bronson as an old-age home resident, dammit. I remember it from its first-run, in '71!

You’d think after Dr. Kiley left a trail of dead fiancées and girlfriends, he’d have had a hard time getting a date?

Guest star: “I love you, Steve!”
Dr. Kiley: “I love you, too, guest star!”
Consuelo: "The X-rays just came back . . . "
[ominous music, cut to commercial]