Page 14 Victoria Wyndham; Rachel Cory Hutchins, 1972-present
My fondest memories are back in the days when Connie Ford. Huey Marlowe (Jim Matthews), Paul Stevens (Brian Bancroft), Paul Rauch, Douglass Watson(Mackenzie Cory), Dolph Sweet (Gil McGown, Beverlee McKinsey (Iris Cory Bancroft) and I would sit around and play penny-ante poker inbetween the scenes. It was just hilarious; Nicky Coster and John Considine would be doing practical jokes around the place. Those were funny days, and I think those were the halcyon days. THose were certainly the golden days for me because of the way the show was done, and also the camaraderie we shared. We were incarerated here in Brooklyn all together for the whole day, so the actors tended to watch each others scenes from afar and follow the story very carefully since it was shot as though it were live. Writer Pete Lemay and producer Paul Rauch were both from the theater, so it was a pretty insular bunch of New York theater actors who were working and enjoying the process of doing a kind of theatrical work on television. It was a very absorbing and stimulating process. I think getting Chris Goutman as our [current] executive producer was the best thing that happened to this show in years--ever since Paul and Pete--and I'm sorry he didn't get a chance to see his vision through. I'd like people to remember Rachel as a liberated woman. I'd like the show to be remembered as an actor-friendly environment that broke ground for the genre. I'd like to think that the mistakes are forgotten, and just the best parts are remembered.
