How many episodes did Payton Place have?
Peyton Place (TV series)
Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in black-and-white from 1964 to 1966 and in color from 1966 to 1969. The first color episode is episode #268. At the show's peak, ABC ran three new episodes a week. The program was produced by 20th Century Fox Television. A number of guest stars appeared in the series for extended periods, among them Dan Duryea, Susan Oliver, Leslie Nielsen, Gena Rowlands, and Lee Grant, who won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama for her role of tough-as-nails Stella Chernak. The series served as the springboard for such performers as Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, Barbara Parkins, Christopher Connelly, David Canary, Mariette Hartley, and Lana Wood.
Ed Nelson
After "Peyton Place", Nelson worked in many more productions of all varieties often as a guest star on such series as "Gibbsville", "McMillan and Wife" and "Murder, She Wrote." He teamed with former "Peyton Place" co-star Percy Rodriguez in a second television series, "The Silent Force", which ran for 15 episodes in 1970-1971. He guest starred with David Janssen in the very first episode of "The Fugitive" in the early 1960s. He appeared in many television movies such as "Along Came a Spider" (1970), "The Screaming Woman" (1972), "Runaway!" (1973), "Houston, We've Got a Problem" (1974), "The Missing Are Deadly" (1975), "Superdome" (1978), "Doctors' Private Lives" (1978) and "Crash" (1978), and served as host on a morning talk show,"The Ed Nelson Show", that he hosted for three years. During the 1980s, Nelson took on the role of patriarchal Senator Mark Denning in the daytime serial "Capitol". In late 1986, Nelson was upset to discover that the show's writers had turned his character into a traitor, and quit the show in disgust, last airing in early January 1987, two months prior to the show's cancellation.