Good Old Times
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I had a 65 with the 289 V8.
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289 was one of their best engines
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57 years ago today, September 23, 1969, Marcus Welby, M.D. premiered on ABC, running through July 29, 1976. The series starred Robert Young as a kindly, unorthodox family practitioner and James Brolin as his younger colleague Dr. Steven Kiley, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. Its pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
Like most medical dramas of its era, the show built its plots around professional conflict between well-meaning physicians, here reversed by age: Welby's unorthodox methods clashed with the more by-the-book approach of Kiley, who was much younger than his mentor. The opening credits reinforced the generation gap, showing Welby driving a sedan and Kiley riding a motorcycle. Welby had served as a Navy doctor during the war, was a widower, and enjoyed sailing. The two doctors ran a private practice in Santa Monica, California, working closely with the fictional Lang Memorial Hospital, whose exterior shots were filmed at the real St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica.
Their office was anchored by secretary-nurse Consuelo Lopez, played by Elena Verdugo, with Sharon Gless later joining as secretary Kathleen Faverty. Recurring characters included Welby's girlfriend Myra Sherwood (Anne Baxter) and his daughter Sandy, played first by Christine Belford and later by Anne Schedeen, along with her son Phil (Gavin Brendan). Kiley married public relations director Janet Blake, played by Pamela Hensley, in 1975 at the start of the show's final season. In the March 12, 1974 episode Designs, Young reunited with his Father Knows Best co-star Jane Wyatt, who played a fashion designer secretly falling for Welby while married to an embittered paraplegic.
The series also crossed over twice with Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law. In Men Who Care, Marshall defends the father of a Welby patient accused of murdering his daughter's boyfriend, and in I've Promised You a Father, Marshall defends Kiley against a paternity suit filed by a nurse.
Like most medical dramas of its era, the show built its plots around professional conflict between well-meaning physicians, here reversed by age: Welby's unorthodox methods clashed with the more by-the-book approach of Kiley, who was much younger than his mentor. The opening credits reinforced the generation gap, showing Welby driving a sedan and Kiley riding a motorcycle. Welby had served as a Navy doctor during the war, was a widower, and enjoyed sailing. The two doctors ran a private practice in Santa Monica, California, working closely with the fictional Lang Memorial Hospital, whose exterior shots were filmed at the real St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica.
Their office was anchored by secretary-nurse Consuelo Lopez, played by Elena Verdugo, with Sharon Gless later joining as secretary Kathleen Faverty. Recurring characters included Welby's girlfriend Myra Sherwood (Anne Baxter) and his daughter Sandy, played first by Christine Belford and later by Anne Schedeen, along with her son Phil (Gavin Brendan). Kiley married public relations director Janet Blake, played by Pamela Hensley, in 1975 at the start of the show's final season. In the March 12, 1974 episode Designs, Young reunited with his Father Knows Best co-star Jane Wyatt, who played a fashion designer secretly falling for Welby while married to an embittered paraplegic.
The series also crossed over twice with Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law. In Men Who Care, Marshall defends the father of a Welby patient accused of murdering his daughter's boyfriend, and in I've Promised You a Father, Marshall defends Kiley against a paternity suit filed by a nurse.
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I had a girlfriend in high school whose sister and brother-in-law had an MGB GT that he shoehorned a 289 into. They had to pull the engine to change the plugs. Anyway, he (the bro-in-law) got pulled over for speeding on the freeway, and when the cop heard the rump-de-rump he asked what was under the hood. To make a long story short, he took the MG for a spin up to the next exit, back down a couple and back to the bro-in-law, who he'd left standing by the patrol car in the emergency lane. He did NOT write a ticket that day.
Things were so different back then.
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