ANOTHER WORLD {MATCH DARE TELETHON} (TV)
Summary
One in this daytime serial set in the fictional town of Bay City, Illinois. In this episode, local television station KBAY holds a special "Match Dare Telethon" on the Fourth of July, and many Bay City residents perform on the program, which will benefit a new pediatric wing at the hospital. Telethon host Felicia Gallant and station owners Matt Cory and Donna Hudson explain the concept to their local audience: viewers are to call in and dare a friend or relative to exhibit a special talent on television. The person offering the dare pledges money, the dare is announced on air, and if the person being dared accepts and performs, KBAY-TV will match the pledge. The following events unfold during the telethon: Frankie Winthrop learns she is pregnant; Lorna Devon watches the telethon from home, miserable and sick; Vicky Hudson calls and dares Amanda Cory to sing a duet with ex-husband Grant Harrison; Sharlene Hudson dares daughter Josie Watts to perform a tap dance; Dr. Morgan Winthrop and Felicia challenge Cass Winthrop to sing as his alter ego, the bombshell "Crystal Lake"; Gary Sinclair's weakening resolve to stay sober leads him to a bar, but he is so delighted to see his police academy cadet, Josie, performing on television that he skips the booze; Amanda refuses Vicky's dare, but offers $15,000 if Grant will sing a solo -- and the former senator accepts, in an effort to polish his tarnished public image; an anonymous person pledges $2,000 to have Morgan read love poetry on the air -- and he assumes it was Lorna; Crystal Lake's lip-sync performance of "Natural Woman" is interrupted when Frankie informs Cass from the wings that she's pregnant; Morgan reads one of Shakespeare's love sonnets; Amanda tells Carl Hutchins she is leaving for a news job on the west coast, and Carl confesses that he is lost without Rachel; Marshall Lincoln Kramer III sings Elton John's "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"; on a dare from her ex-husband Michael Hudson, Donna sings Hoagy Carmichael's "I Get Along Without You Very Well," as Matt watches tensely and Michael sheds a tear; and a crestfallen Morgan learns that Lorna did not request the poem. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Procter & Gamble Productions, 1995.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: July 5, 1995 12:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:41:19
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:39481
- GENRE: Drama, daytime serial
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, daytime serial
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1964-1999
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jill Farren Phelps … Executive Producer
- Carole Shure … Coordinating Producer
- Mary O'Leary … Coordinating Producer
- Meg Beliveau … Supervising Producer
- R. Scott Collishaw … Producer
- Vivian Gundaker … Producer
- Schwarz, Robert (Bob) … Director
- Kenneth L. Fitts … Production (Misc.), Executive in Charge of Production
- Irna Phillips … Created by
- William J. Bell … Created by
- Carolyn Culliton … Writer
- Janet Iacobuzio … Writer
- Lorraine Broderick … Writer
- Victor Miller … Writer
- Samuel D. Ratcliffe … Writer
- Mimi Leahey … Writer
- Kathleen Kennedy … Writer
- Sharon Epstein … Writer
- Elizabeth Page … Writer
- Sofia Landon Geier … Writer
- Kathy Ebel … Writer
- Joe Barbara … Cast, Joe Carlino
- Alice Barrett … Cast, Frankie
- Randy Brooks … Cast, Marshall Lincoln Kramer III
- Kale Browne … Cast, Michael Hudson
- Jensen Buchanan … Cast, Vicky
- Amy Carlson … Cast, Josie Watts
- Robin Christopher … Cast, Lorna Devon
- Matt Crane … Cast, Matt Cory
- Linda Dano … Cast, Felicia Gallant
- David Forsyth … Cast, Dr. John Hudson
- Timothy Gibbs … Cast, Gary Sinclair
- Anna Holbrook … Cast, Sharlene Hudson
- Charles Keating … Cast, Carl Hutchins
- Kevin McClatchy … Cast, Nick Hudson
- Grayson McCouch … Cast, Morgan Winthrop
- Jodi O'Keefe … Cast, Maggie Cory
- Mark Pinter … Cast, Grant Harrison
- Stephen Schnetzer … Cast, Cass Winthrop
- Anna Stuart … Cast, Donna Hudson
- Christine Tucci … Cast, Amanda Cory
- LuAnn Claps … Cast
- Jordys Miller … Cast
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Elton John