P.M. magazine.
Was that really Bobby Ewing we saw in Pam's shower?
Tonight Patrick Duffy tells Marilyn Beck how secret planning and a phony soap commercial caught the cast of Dallas by complete surprise.
And places like Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, and the Magical Mystery Bus Tour are not only in Beatles songs, they actually exist.
We'll travel to the Fab Four's hometown of Liverpool to see where it all began.
And step through the doors of time with Preston Bruce, the White House doorman, for 27 years.
That's all coming up tonight on the Monday edition of P.M. magazine.
Which is coming to you from Hill Orchard in Johnston, 30 acres of trees just waiting to be picked.
Hi everybody, I'm Sheila Martinez. It is Apple Time in the state of Rhode Island, and we'll be telling you more about how you can pick your own a little bit later on in the show.
First though, we're going to talk to Patrick Duffy, who for seven seasons played Bobby Ewing on Dallas. And for seven seasons, Dallas was at the top of the ratings.
A few years back though, Patrick decided he wanted to leave the show.
And he was so identified with the character of Bobby Ewing that he asked producers not recast his part.
They agreed. When Patrick left, so did a lot of the fans.
So this year, producers have decided to bring Bobby Ewing back.
You might remember, he appeared in a mysterious shower scene the very last Cliffhanger episode of last season.
And tonight he tells Marilyn Beck that episode was a surprise to even other members of the cast.
Well, Patrick, you certainly are the best example of why somebody should never say never.
I've learned never to say never. That's the one thing I've learned to say emphatically, that I will never say anything emphatically again.
What would you, could you have ever dreamed that you were returning to Dallas?
No. The time that I left the show at the end of the eighty-five season, I absolutely knew that I wasn't coming back.
It must have been, it must be, tremendously ego inflating to know that you were so important to a show that they had to come wooing you back.
Well, it does feel good. It's nice to be wanted, you know.
And I felt, you know, that even when I left, I felt, well, they don't quite know, you know, not what they're losing or what they're missing,
but they, my feeling was they don't really know what makes the show successful.
And it's not like they go, we must have Patrick back. It's like we must have the unit, that family unit.
And I think they realized that, albeit lately, you know, but they, once they came to the conclusion that it was a vital key element to the show
that they had to get back, it was too late. Then they had to basically play in my ballpark.
And a very expensive ballpark at the beginning.
We ain't got a dome stadium, it's air conditioned, it's not Sandlot Ball anymore, no.
Patrick's return to Dallas is definitely for Major League dollars.
It's said he'll be making seventy-five thousand dollars for each of thirty-two episodes, plus a cool million dollars as a bonus.
Almost three and a half million dollars for the season.
Patrick returned in the cliffhanger episode when the season ended last May.
The final scene was set up so that Bobby's wife, Pam Ewing, would discover him taking a shower at the end of the show.
But the scene was originally filmed with another character in the shower,
so that not even the cast or crew knew that Patrick would appear in the episode.
Executive producer Leonard Katzman had a secret plan.
When Victoria did that scene, she went to the shower, opened the door, and John Beck was in the shower.
And he said, good morning, and she said, good morning, and they had a little kiss, lovey-dovey, and went downstairs to breakfast.
And it was after the season was over, Lenny and I went to a commercial studio in downtown Hollywood
with a different crew, everything, constructed a shower, and we did a soap commercial.
A legitimate soap commercial. I'm not going to say the name of the soap because they're not paying me anything.
That was just a cover, though? Yeah, it was a cover. The soap commercial was a cover.
So in this commercial, I was showering, the door opens, I turn around, I say, good morning.
Good morning. And we did a whole soap commercial.
At least it is for me. And it can be for you, too, if you start your day like all the Duffies.
And a day before the final episode went on the air, they took the shower scene, put it to the end of the episode,
and they sandwiched in my turnaround in Good Morning and Freeze, Frank.
Good morning.
Last season, Dallas fell off its perch as ratings came.
It airs this season against the mighty Miami Vice.
We play that game, and we play it as good as we can, and we put up as much smoke,
and we shoot as much lights through it in order that we can sneak around and do what we're really going to do.
Well, one of the reasons Patrick Duffy wanted to leave Dallas is because he thought Bobby Ewing was boring.
Rich, but boring. So producers have decided to kind of spruce up his image a little bit this season.
He may come back as Bobby's long-lost twin brother, if you can follow that,
or an evil imposter hired to do bad things about his name. Got it?
If you don't, you'll have to tune in for the opening episode.
Right now, we do want to tell you more about picking apples here at Hill Orchard.
The picking season goes from Labor Day through the end of October,
and on weekends from 10 to 5, you can come out and pick your own.
All the info will be on the viewer line again at the end of the show.
We'll tell you more about it, but you should bring your own container,
although they will supply them if you forget yours.
Stay with us when we come back. We're going to take you on the magical mystery tour,
and we'll meet Washington's most prestigious doorman.
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Welcome back to Monday's PM magazine. You see it's much easier if you pick apples
this way. You don't have to get up on the ladder. We're here at Hill Orchard in
Johnston. In our second segment tonight we're going to take you back where it
all began for the Beatles. It was at a club in Liverpool on Seal Street and on
that very block a tribute to the Fab Four has now been erected. Tonight Bob
Lacey takes us to Beatles City which houses one of the most complete
collections of memorabilia about the Beatles days and he also takes us on a
magical mystery tour through their hometown.
This is Beatles City of Liverpool England a museum dedicated to the most
popular group of all time. Beatles City is a combination of visual effects, music
and a priceless collection of items owned by the band. Priceless? Well consider
this, George Harrison bought his first guitar for $5. This summer a fan bought
that guitar for $6,000. Imagine what John Lennon's piano would fetch or a set
of drums once owned by the multi-talented McCartney. Many of their
instruments are here but Beatles City has wisely included items you wouldn't
expect. Ringo's first car, John's motorcycle. There is the front door of
their Apple Records office covered with graffiti from the street kids who would
hang around outside. John's first stereo, scripts from a hard day's night, travel
items from their US tours and the uniforms worn on stage during those
tours. The dingy Liverpool nightclub called the cavern where they first
garnered a following was demolished but at Beatles City you can see a rare film
of their performances there in the days just before success hit. There are of
course pictures.
Included is the first-ever photograph of the group then known as the Silver
Beatles. The last room you see is the John Lennon room filled with personal
and professional pieces of his life. The room is a somber tribute to the man
killed by a fan in New York who so often was the group's hard edge.
With Beatles City your fab for trek has just begun. You can follow in the
footsteps of the Beatles to see where they lived and what they wrote about and
that we are going to do in style on the original magical mystery tour bus. Several
Beatle guides are available for hire. Sheila Johnson was ours. Sheila as a
teenager in Liverpool was Paul McCartney's first fan club secretary.
Sheila the Beatles wrote about places they lived and places they'd seen.
They did. It's amazing how much Liverpool and places around their own homes are
evident in their music. Penny Lane is an example. Oh yes, Penny Lane was only five
minutes away from both the Lennon and McCartney households.
There is a bar showing photographs. On the corner is a banker with a motor car. Behind the show is a shelter in the middle of the roundabout.
Well we're now here in Walton Village and behind me is the Church of St. Peter.
It's John Lennon's parish church and it was here on the 6th of July 1957
that Lennon and McCartney met for the very first time. Sheila showed us a statue
inspired by McCartney's classically influenced Eleanor Rigby. Here is where
Paul lived as a boy. This is where Ringo grew up with his mother and this is where
John lived with his Aunt Mimi, his parents having given him up as a child.
And not far from it is an orphanage for boys. Strawberry Fields is only a few
yards now around the corner from John's house and I think John felt a sort of
closeness to those children in the sense that his mother and father were both
still alive and well but they didn't have him as a part of their lives and he
felt probably there but for the grace of God go I.
Strawberry Fields forever. The Beatles have helped their hometown. It's estimated that one third of all visitors come because of the
Beatle legend. To paraphrase another Englishman, Sir Winston Churchill, seldom
have so few meant so much to so many.
Well next month Beatle fans from all over the world are going to be flocking
to Liverpool for a tribute to John Lennon. Sheila Johnson though says that
her heart still belongs to Paul. She was Bob's guide on that tour, the magical
mystery tour they went on. She says she lives in his old house and her most
cherished possession is Paul's old teddy bear. Stay with us when we come back
we'll meet Washington's most prestigious doorman. Have a good time, bye.
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Welcome back to Monday's PM Magazine. In our third segment tonight we're going to meet a man who's probably opened more doors in Washington than anybody else.
He's worked for five presidents and spent 27 years at the White House. His home is filled with mementos of it.
But he was never elected to office, nor did he hold any diplomatic post. His name is Preston Sturgess.
And folks in Washington say if he can't get you in the door, no one can.
Preston Bruce is one of the richest men in Washington, D.C. He's 78, he's retired, and he works part-time as a barber.
But his wealth is not one of money, it's of memories.
Ten years ago, Preston Bruce retired from his job as White House doorman, a position he held for 27 years.
The men he worked for, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, were part of Preston's daily life.
I was always in many of these instances right there when he'd come out of his quarters and I'm here.
And we would talk, and we'd talk all the way downstairs.
As the presidential escort and chief welcomer to White House guests, Preston grew to know each man as a person rather than a president.
People out there watch him on television have a different outlook at them from that of mine, because I look at them, because I work for them.
And if they're kind to the staff and people around them, then I think they're good people.
The years that Mr. Bruce spent in the White House were turbulent ones.
From the onset of the Civil Rights Movement through Vietnam and Watergate, he was there seven days a week.
He experienced the laughter and the tears of each of the first families.
Preston's position at the White House gave him a different perspective on the events that were moving our nation.
He remembers well the Civil Rights March on Washington August 28, 1963, where he stood with President Kennedy on the third floor of the White House.
You could hear the loudspeakers all over and was saying something.
He just stood there with his hand in his pocket.
He wanted to go out and talk to the crowd. He wanted to get out there, but he couldn't.
And he said, I wish I was right out there in the midst of this.
Through those 27 years, Preston Bruce gained more than impressions.
The home that he shares with his wife, Virginia, is virtually a museum of mementos from the presidents.
So he looked up and saw me and said, Bruce, what size shoe are you wearing?
I said, elevens or eleven and a half.
He just picked them both up and threw them like that.
He said, wear these. And of course, here they are.
Can you see LBJ in them?
A cigar from Winston Churchill, Eisenhower's golf balls, Robert Kennedy's gloves, all rest in a case that's filled with priceless artifacts.
Preston owns the pen that signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banning discrimination at public accommodations.
And one of his most treasured possessions is a tie worn by President Kennedy the day he left for Dallas.
She said, Bruce, here's Jack's tie that he wore when he left here. I know he wants you to have it.
For Preston Bruce, the years spent in the White House were important not only for himself but for others.
He's written a book, From the Door of the White House, a book that chronicles his years there, a book that's different from other White House exposés.
Some of the things that people write about, they feel that they have to, I guess.
I didn't feel that I had to.
All these people that wrote these little spicy books who expect to make a lot of money, I don't care anything about.
I want to sell my book, but I want it to be sold for other reasons.
Preston Bruce is a modest, respectful man, a man with a desire to share, a man with a wealth of information who believes in spending it wisely.
It was a great privilege to work in the White House.
There was nothing in the White House or about the White House that any American would have to be ashamed of any president that I have worked for.
Well, Preston says that his favorite memories in the White House are the weddings he attended for Lucy Baines Johnson, Linda Johnson, and also Tricia Nixon.
But he says the presidents were so nervous on those days that he had to remind them what to do.
Stay with us when we come back. We'll find out how one farmer in Maine is determined to make a difference in Soviet-American relations.
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