who quickly turned it into a movie and TV series following its publication. They explain that “novels usually sold 2,000 or 3,000 copies at a maximum” in the 1950s, but Peyton Place “sold ...

His latest tome is Peyton Place: The Television Series, which holds the honor of being prime-time’s first soap opera, and ran from 1964-69 on ABC. Here, the author talks shop with Digest ...

This five-disc set contains the series’ first 31 episodes (only 483 to go!). Described at the time by executive producer Paul Monash as “a television novel,” “Peyton Place” paved the way ...

Despite the controversy, Peyton Place launched the careers of many celebrities and even got a TV spinoff. ‘Peyton Place’ put the spotlight on many of the film’s central cast The film ...

Peyton Place, like Twin Peaks, is awash with troubled high-schoolers and licentious grown-ups. In the TV series a character expresses the quintessentially Lynchian desire to “dance in the dark”.

On “Peyton Place,” the night-time TV drama revolving around the romantic relationships in a small New England town, Nelson played Michael Rossi during the series’ entire 1964-1969 run on ABC.

Peyton Place has many characters ... audience so that no one can miss the joke — like the mid-60s Batman television series, which used comic-book dialogue in the mouths of live actors ...

Made for television movie that features some of the characters from the long running television series. In it Allison Mackenzie and Rodney Harrington go back to Peyton Place, and before they make ...

(That gave Nelson the opportunity to appear in a whopping 436 episodes.) Peyton Place was one of the first TV series to deal frankly with sex and as such didn’t air until 9:30 p.m. In a 2010 ...

On “Peyton Place,” the night-time TV drama revolving around the romantic relationships in a small New England town, Nelson played Michael Rossi during the series’ entire 1964-1969 run on ABC.