Peyton Place

…a prime-time soap opera (Peyton Place [ABC, 1964–69]), animal shows (Lassie [CBS, 1954–71]; Flipper [NBC, 1964–68]), and a collection of sitcoms and dramas featuring lawyers, cops, doctors, and detectives all made the Nielsen top-30 lists during this decade.

…format to prime time since Peyton Place (ABC, 1964–69). Although not considered a quality drama by most historians, Dallas employed the continuing story line and thus set the stage for the quality dramas to follow.

…TV show, the soap opera Peyton Place. Her later films included The Way Back Home (2006) and American Gangster (2007). Her performance as the mother of a drug kingpin (played by Denzel Washington) in the latter film earned Dee her first Academy Award nomination. She continued to appear in numerous…

…popular prime time television drama Peyton Place, and during this period she also made her first credited movie appearance in Guns at Batasi (1964).

…playing a regular role on Peyton Place (1967). She earned the first of eight Emmy Award nominations for her poignant characterization of a mother facing the dual revelation that her son is a homosexual and that he is dying from AIDS in An Early Frost (1985). Rowlands tallied her first…