There were two soap operas in the 1960s that took place in sleepy New England towns, one filled with dark secrets of paternity and adults failings and the other secrets of a doomed past hunting the present. Roger consults with Sam Evans (played by Mark Allen in a dozen episodes) who is revealed to have a serious drinking problem, but gets no indication of why Burke Devlin is back.
The audience gets to learn more about the brooding Roger, and for fans of Langley Wallingford of "All My Children", it's the chance to see Louis Edmonds in a different type of part. When he discovers that Victoria is having lunch with Burke Devlin, he has one of two choices, either to storm into the dining area or storm out, and it's obvious that he's holding in a great deal of temper.
Victoria has been set up as the major heroin, although that role would later be handed to Maggie Evans, seen here as basically just the nice local waitress. It's not an episode of a lot of action, but there's still enough drama revealed to make it an interesting continuation of the series in its second week.
The audience gets to learn more about the brooding Roger, and for fans of Langley Wallingford of "All My Children", it's the chance to see Louis Edmonds in a different type of part. When he discovers that Victoria is having lunch with Burke Devlin, he has one of two choices, either to storm into the dining area or storm out, and it's obvious that he's holding in a great deal of temper.
Victoria has been set up as the major heroin, although that role would later be handed to Maggie Evans, seen here as basically just the nice local waitress. It's not an episode of a lot of action, but there's still enough drama revealed to make it an interesting continuation of the series in its second week.
