1979 DAILY EPISODE SYNOPSES
Episode #5986: [Friday, 13 April 1979]
Draper pretends to be a deliveryman and gives April flowers with a kiss instead of a delivery signature. On the first day of the murder trial, Geraldine cautions Raven against appearing too joyous over Winter's predicament. Cliff and Draper present their opening remarks to the court. Steve is called to the stand as the first witness, and Cliff shows the court the porno poster for Lacy Lady that Steve and Deborah found in Wade's hotel suite. Against Draper's objections, a portion of the film is played in open court. Next, Cliff calls Amy Berry to the stand. Amy testifies to having heard a gunshot at 9:05, and witnessing a dark haired woman wearing a blue coat with a little white fur collar flee Wade's suite. When Cliff asks that she identify the woman she saw in Wade's suite the day of the murder, Amy points to Raven instead of Winter.
Episode #5987: [Monday, 16 April 1979]
The courtroom erupts in chaos as Cliff insists that Amy mistakenly identified Raven. Amy admits that it was Winter who fled the hotel following the gunshot; however, she recognizes Raven as having visited Wade earlier. A rattled Cliff quickly calls Amy's sister Lila to the stand, and she corroborates having seen Winter leaving after the murder. Logan forces Cliff to request a recess when Raven suddenly runs from the courtroom. Draper assures Mike that defense won the first round. Back at the hotel, Raven grouses to Geraldine about being humiliated in court. Logan follows Raven and chastises her for fleeing the courtroom. Geraldine is mortified to learn her loan to Raven was used to pay off Wade's blackmail. Logan realizes Winter returned to Wade's suite a second time on March 2nd, and he speculates Draper will pounce on the connection. Mike reveals that he had prior knowledge of Raven's involvement with Wade but was forced to keep quiet due to lawyer privilege. Court reconvenes, and Judge Oliveri grants Logan's motion to address the court. Everyone is stunned when Logan plays the videotape showing him accepting a bribe from Wade in exchange for Winter's porn tape.
Episode #5988: [Tuesday, 17 April 1979]
Logan testifies that Raven went to Wade's suite to buy back the blackmail tape. Under Draper's cross examination, Logan is forced to recount the dirty details of Wade's blackmail. Draper scores a minor victory when he gets Logan to admit that the initial blackmail occurred because Logan wanted to help Winter escape her lurid past and start a fresh, clean life. During the lunch recess, Geraldine and Raven speculate that Logan's political career is finished in light of his admission of bribery, and Raven's innocence is still questionable in the opinion of the jurors. Logan demands that Raven take the stand and clear herself of any reasonable doubt that might result in Winter's acquittal. Eliot insists The Unicorn is his alone and asserts his authority over Antoine. On the witness stand Raven flashes back to her final meeting with Wade, in which he offered to give her Logan's bribery tape in exchange for having sex with him. She then recalls stopping outside Wade's suite to eavesdrop on his side of a telephone conversation with another blackmail victim, unaware that the other person was Margo, not Winter.
Episode #5990: [Thursday, 19 April 1979]
When Eliot insists that Margo give him the money to start a restaurant venture, she becomes angry and walks out on him. Later, Eliot decides that he needs to get rid of Margo but control her fortune, and he conspires with Sarah to formulate a plan.
Episode #5991: [Friday, 20 April 1979]
Convinced that Margo murdered Wade, Eliot and Sarah plot to stage a robbery in the penthouse, steal Margo's gun, and send it anonymously to the defense. Logan reveals to Draper that Margo was the caller Raven overheard Wade threatening on the phone, as he was blackmailing her over a manuscript in which he implicated her as the financial backer for his pornography empire.
Episode #5992: [Monday, 23 April 1979]
Margo avoids going home from WMON, while at the penthouse, Sarah is bound and gagged. Eliot and Margo makeup following their quarrel. April bristles when Draper tells her that Wade was blackmailing Margo, and he intends to use it in court to establish reasonable doubt. Realizing he wants to put Margo on the witness stand, April retorts that he's using this against Margo because he hates her. Geraldine brings Hugh Jensen, Monticello's mayor, to have an informal meeting with Logan and Raven, and he reveals that he won't fire Logan but will let the voters decide in the fall election. Eliot and Margo arrive back at the penthouse and discover Sarah, who tells them two big men tied her up and went upstairs in search of jewels. A smirking Eliot phones the police. Draper checks on April after she goes to bed angry at him about Margo. Just then, a court clerk delivers an anonymous package left for Draper, and it turns out to be the gun stolen from Margo.
Episode #5993: [Tuesday, 24 April 1979]
Steve, Deborah, and Calvin investigate the "robbery" at Margo's penthouse. Draper phones Bill and requests that he run the registration number on the gun to find out who owns it before he hands it over to the police. April dreams of the picnic she and Draper took before they were married, and when she wakes up, she and Draper kiss and make up. Nicole and Miles discuss Margo's strange relationship with Eliot and wonder if she married him because Miles rejected her. After Draper drifts off waiting for the police to call, April slips out to recreate his delivery with a kiss. Bill reports to Draper that the gun is registered to Margo and wants it immediately for ballistics testing to determine if it was used to murder Wade. April angrily accuses him of setting it up to win Winter's freedom and railroad Margo into prison.
Episode #5994: [Wednesday, 25 April 1979]
Draper insists that ballistic tests must be made on Margo's gun, resulting in another terrible quarrel with April. Eliot watches with delight as a frantic Margo searches for her gun following the robbery and kicks himself for missing a valuable diamond ring. April phones Margo and learns about the robbery and Margo's missing gun. At police headquarters, Draper and the police theorize about the connection between the penthouse burglary and the gun turning up mysteriously. Raven pressures Logan to cross examine Winter, and when he expresses doubt about her guilt, she threatens to take herself and Jamey away from forever if he lets Winter get acquitted. Draper calls the penthouse and demands that April come home to fight with him, but she refuses.
Episode #5995: [Thursday, 26 April 1979]
The morning after their argument, April can't believe that she spent the night away from Draper. Margo remarks on the coincidence of the gun turning up with Draper right after the burglary and suggests that the police sometimes stage robberies to get evidence. Steve speculates that even if Margo's gun turns out to be the murder weapon, Winter could have stolen it from Margo before committing the crime. Margo hangs up on Steve when he calls to inform her that her gun was retrieved. While Miles and Nicole are at her apartment to pick her up for court, Winter receives an anonymous call from a man who wants to know if she is alone. Later, in the apartment corridor, Tank watches her leave. April returns home, but Draper bristles when she implies that she loves Margo as she does him. Steve phones Draper with the news that Margo's gun is not the murder weapon.
Note: With this episode, Stephanie Braxton assumes the role of Winter Austen from Lori Cardille.
Hal Simms: "The role of Winter Austen is now being played by Stephanie Braxton."
Episode #5996: [Friday, 27 April 1979]
Winter arrives at court and learns about the latest developments in the case. Margo collects her gun from the police and annoys Deborah and Steve by insinuating that Draper's police friends might have been responsible for the robbery. Deborah begins to believe that the burglary was an inside job and is curious about Sarah. Cliff calls traveling salesman Mr. Larrabee to the stand, who testifies to hearing the gunshot at 9:02 p.m. Draper objects to the noise being classified as gunfire when it could have been another sound. Next, Amy Berry returns to the stand to recount her previous testimony, and Draper's objection is over-ruled. But, on cross-examination, Draper manages to introduce Amy and sister Lila's past testimonies in other criminal cases. As Cliff objects, a riled Amy accuses Winter of being a sinner and professes that she will do God's work to ensure that Winter is punished.
Episode #5997: [Monday, 30 April 1979]
Logan and receives an anonymous package containing one of Wade's videotapes. Nicole relates to Winter the story of Wade drugging her in Chicago and making a tape that nearly broke up her relationship with Miles. Draper confides to Mike and Nancy that he really wants to get Margo on the witness stand. Logan stops by Draper and privately attempts to inform him of the just delivered tape and its contents, but Cliff catches him and argues that the case is his now, not Logan's. Back in court, Cliff rests the prosecution's case. Draper begins the defense by calling Winter to the stand and establishes how she met Wade ten years earlier in Chicago. Winter gives a believable, impassioned recount of being lured into the degradation of pornography and later trying desperately to escape her past. Logan becomes uncomfortable as Draper directs his questioning to Winter's relationship with Logan and Wade's exploitation of their association.Under cross-examination, Cliff leads Winter into asserting that she never went into Wade's bedroom the night he was killed. Then he stuns everyone by presenting the videotape which he proclaims was recorded in Wade's bedroom during the murder.
[Tuesday, 1 May 1979]
Pre-empted for President Carter's news conference.
Episode #5998: [Wednesday, 2 May 1979]
Judge Oliveri allows Cliff to introduce the murder tape. Winter becomes hysterical as Cliff plays the tape to the court and launches into a barrage of questions about how she came to be in Wade's bedroom only seconds after he was murdered. Draper requests and is granted a recess until the day after tomorrow. Eliot and Sarah are annoyed that Margo's gun wasn't used to kill Wade. April arrives at the penthouse unexpectedly and almost catches Eliot and Sarah fooling around, but she does note that Sarah's hair is down instead of put up as it usually is when she is working. Nicole tells Margo about the latest twist in the case, and they wonder how Winter can continue to deny ever setting foot in Wade's bedroom when she is clearly next to his body on the tape. Mike and Draper grill Winter about her obvious presence on the tape, but she maintains that she never entered Wade's bedroom the night he was shot. After Winter leaves, Draper confides to Mike that he doesn't know how he can continue to represent Winter when he now believes that she's actually guilty.
Episode #5999: [Thursday, 3 May 1979]
Mike and Draper urge Winter to accept the agreement but she adamantly refuses, arguing that she is innocent of the crime. With Winter steadfast in her claim that she couldn't be the woman on the tape, Mike requests that the prosecution share it with them for another look, and over Cliff's objections, Logan lets them have it.
Episode #6000: [Friday, 2 May 1979]
Reviewing the tape, Mike recognizes a discrepancy between Amy Berry's vivid testimony of seeing Winter wearing a blue coat with a white fur collar, while the woman on the tape is wearing a coat without a collar. Realizing that the tape could be a forgery, Draper has it sent to an expert in videography to examine it for evidence of potential tampering.
Episode # 6001: [Monday, 7 May 1979]
The defense receives proof that the murder tape was electronically altered through the process of chroma key.
Episode # 6002: [Tuesday, 8 May 1979]
Logan and Cliff note Draper's confidence as he and Mike prepare for court. Winter arrives, and Draper assures her that this is going to be her day in court. As the trial commences, Draper redirects by calling Winter back to the stand. He elicits Winter's assertion that she knew about the hidden cameras in Wade's bedroom and was not the woman shown standing by his body on the tape. Under cross-examination, Cliff postulates that in her haste to shoot Wade, Winter forgot about the cameras and never worried about the tape's existence because she had instructed Tank to steal the tape along with the rest of the incriminating evidence. Winter denies involvement with Tank but concedes that the tape in question obviously exists. Logan addresses the jury with a very sympathetic summation, reminding them that justice and sympathy are not incompatible, but begs them to reach the only logical conclusion of Winter's guilt as demonstrated by all of the evidence. Logan is followed by Draper who gives an impassioned summation detailing the tragedy of Winter's life. He segues into the incriminating tape and explains the process of video chroma key in which two images can be combined. Despite Cliff's vociferous objection, Judge Oliveri allows Draper to explain the relevance of chroma key to the case. Draper plays the video of Wade's shooting to the court, while having the courtroom stenographer read back Amy Berry's statement about the events surrounding the gunshot. Everyone is stunned when he points out the discrepancy between Amy's testimony of seeing Winter wearing a blue coat with a fur collar, and the woman on the tape whose coat doesn't have a fur collar. Draper closes with the theory that the real killer chroma keyed Winter's image onto the murder tape in an attempt to frame her for a crime she didn't commit.
Episode #6003: [Wednesday, 9 May 1979]
Winter's jury reaches a verdict.
Episode #6004: [Thursday, 10 May 1979]
April attempts to allay Draper's fears by suggesting that Winter will be freed, and he will become a rich, successful attorney. When she admits she wants a home and is angry that they can't have children to fill it, Draper agrees to consider buying a small cottage and gives April his blessing to begin house hunting following the trial. Winter apologizes to Mike for giving him and Draper a hard time, but in view of recent developments, Mike reassures her that she made the right decision in refusing the DA's plea agreement. Court resumes, and everyone is on tenterhooks as the foreman stands to read the verdict. The courtroom then erupts in jubilation as Winter is found not guilty of Wade's murder. Defeated, Cliff blames Logan for losing their case since he allowed Mike a second look at the tape, but Logan reminds him that the tape was in fact faked, so the correct verdict was rendered. Cliff vows that his career has been killed just as surely as Winter killed Wade. Logan speaks privately with Winter, admitting his happiness over her acquittal, and she tells him that she would have done anything for him, including murder. Later, Logan defends himself against Geraldine's hard facts about the reality of his political career, and he recalls that Raven once threatened to take herself and Jamey away from him if he allowed Winter to be acquitted. Winter considers her future as a free woman, but Miles and Nicole caution her that she is still in danger since Tank obviously murdered Wade and attempted to frame her for the crime. Tank hears a news bulletin announcing the verdict in Winter's trial and phones her, but he hangs up without speaking. Instead, he brandishes a gun and decides it's time to pay Winter a visit.
Episode #6005: [Friday, 11 May 1979]
April has a disastrous meeting with Mr. Brooks, a real estate agent who is acquainted with Margo. Later, April laments to Margo about the meeting with Mr. Brooks and the fact that she and Draper can't afford a new house.Tank turns up at Winter's apartment and begs her to leave Monticello with him. When she refuses, he holds her at gunpoint.
Episode #6006: [Monday, 14 May 1979]
The Unicorn has its grand opening, but instead of attending, Margo meets with Mr. Brooks and persuades him to sell the Scotts a "discount" house, with Margo secretly making up the difference in price. Raven and Logan dine at the Unicorn where Raven and Eliot meet and flirt with one another. Steve and Deborah decide to stop by Winter's apartment to check on her, but she nervously sends them away as a hidden Tank has threatened to kill her if she calls for help.
Episode #6007: [Tuesday, 15 May 1979]
Tank forces Winter to pack for their trip out of Monticello. April and Draper discuss his next career move, and she avoids his questions about her meeting with the real estate agent. April tells Draper about Paige Madison, a wealthy heiress who needs legal representation after being accused of arms smuggling. Margo phones April to tell her about the perfect house, and April learns that Margo is a former acquaintance of Paige Madison's father Owen, a movie director. Winter begs Tank to change his mind about running away. Steve and Deborah return to Winter's apartment, and after playing along with Tank's charade, she suddenly throws the door open and runs. Tank flees through the window, while Steve races after him to the roof, and Deborah goes to cover the street exits. On the roof, Steve and Tank engage in a shootout. Exchanging gunfire, Steve is knocked down, and Tank topples over the roof while attempting to reach the fire escape. Before Steve can recover, Winter pries Tank's fingers away from the ledge where he dangles precariously, and he falls to his death with a blood curdling scream.
Episode # 6008: [Wednesday, 16 May 1979]
Steve comforts Winter, who lies that she did everything she could to save Tank. Later, Winter claims that before he was killed, Tank confessed to Wade's murder and the frame up. Draper rejects April's suggestion that they use Margo's friendship with Owen Madison to meet his daughter Paige, but he reluctantly agrees to see the house Margo found in Oakdale. Eliot returns from opening night at the Unicorn and avoids Margo's sexual advances. Calvin suggests to Winter that with Tank dead, the Wade Meecham case will officially be closed. After the police leave, Winter flashes back to her last meeting with with Wade which proceeds just as she described in court, except that she did enter his bedroom with a gun and fired the fatal shot after he taunted her that she would never be free of him.
Episode #6009: [Thursday, 17 May 1979]
Reading a newspaper account of her acquittal, Winter tearfully remembers shooting Wade. Miles attempts to assuage Steve's guilt about Tank's death by pointing out that Tank was killed from a fall from the roof, not Steve's bullet, which only grazed Tank's leg. Steve rejects Miles' suggestion that he discuss his guilt with the police psychologist Dr. Harding. Bill informs Logan that as far as the Monticello P.D. is concerned, Tank's death has officially truncated any further investigation into Wade's murder. They go over the Paige Madison case, which they fear will generate even more media attention than the Meecham murder. Raven presses Logan about their wedding and makes him promise to never mention Winter's name again. Bill surprises the Three Muskateers with news of Deborah's promotion to a rank of detective. Raven convinces Winter to meet for a drink and a little talk about Logan. Winter flashes back to having a drink in the hotel bar after shooting Wade and informing Tank of Wade's death. After seeing the gun in her purse and recognizing it as the one he gave to her, Tank searched Wade's hotel suite, where he retrieved the suitcase of Raven's blackmail money, and the videotape that recorded the shooting. Tank and Winter met again in the bar, and he told her that Wade's hidden bedroom video camera had been activated. Winter declared with certainty her fear that she would be arrested for the crime since Wade's neighbors saw her running to the elevator and could identify her.
Episode #6010: [Friday, 18 May 1979]
Winter continues flashing back to events the night she shot Wade. After learning that the crime was recorded on tape, Tank wanted to destroy it, but Winter insisted she wanted to go to WMON and watch it. Miles theorizes that the murder weapon will be identified as Tank's gun. Nicole admits that she always liked him.and suddenly remembers that she saw him about 1 a.m the night of the murder. Winter recalls watching the tape at WMON, where Tank showed her the copy of Margo's manuscript that he stole and suggested that many people had a reason to want Wade dead. Winter realized that if somehow the tape was altered, people would believe that she was being framed, and people who are framed are innocent. Tank worried that he would be implicated in the crime, but Winter convinced him that his alibi of being in a poker game would hold up. Together, they plan to make a minor but significant alteration to the tape, such as changing Winter's coat, to fool everyone into believing that she was framed. As they later watch the tape Tank altered with chroma key, Winter promises Tank that she will leave Monticello with him once she is cleared of the crime.
Episode #6012: [Tuesday, 22 May 1979]
Logan and Raven are married. Nicole discovers a videotape at WMON that contains the shots of Winter that Tank used to make the altered murder tape, but she is dismayed to see that it is dated March 2nd, when Winter claims the shots had been taped weeks before.
Episode #6013: [Wednesday, 23 May 1979]
Nicole learns that the tape with shots of Winter taken by Wade had to have been made on March 2nd. April confesses to Miles that Margo secretly underwrote their new house, and they're keeping the truth from Draper. Draper, Mike, and Nancy talk about the Paige Madison case, and the wonder if she became involved for kicks or because she was in love with gang leader Tobias. April is overjoyed when Draper admits he went to see the Oakdale house and loves it. Raven and Logan welcome Geraldine into their new family with Jamey. Geraldine wishes she could protect Jamey from all of the disappointments he will one day face in life. Nicole shows Winter the tape of Tank's wild shots used for the chroma key, and Winter insists it must be incorrectly dated.
Episode #6018: [Thursday, 31 May 1979]
Thinking the house is too good to be true, a suspicious Draper questions Mr. Brooks, who puts his foot in his mouth by suggesting the second bedroom would make a nice nursery. April tells Draper about Raven's insensitive comments regarding motherhood, and he broaches the subject of adoption. Miles shares with Nicole April's secret about Margo covertly paying one third of the cost of the Oakdale house behind Draper's back. Miles and Nicole worry about Draper's reaction should he ever find out the truth. Winter reads the station's fan mail to Margo, and after hearing about overzealous viewers who threaten violence, Winter has an idea of how to deal with Nicole's continued snooping. Later, Winter writes an anonymous letter pretending to be a deranged fan who threatens to put a knife in Nicole's back.
Episode #6019: [Friday, 1 June 1979]
April and Draper celebrate finalizing the deal on the Oakdale house. Nicole opens Winter's anonymous letter but dismisses it as the ramblings of a crackpot, but Miles fears it might be more dangerous than she realizes.
Episode #6020: [Monday, 4 June 1979]
April and Draper warn Nicole, working the 11 o'clock news, to be careful after receiving the prank letter that threatened her. Nicole rejects Miles' insistence that he escort her to the TV studio. When April wants to watch Nicole's feature story, Draper can't escape from hearing about Paige Madison. April believes that Draper and Paige are destined to meet. Margo visits Owen on the pretext of getting reacquainted.Owen confides to her that his wife Nola, a veteran movie star, is drying out in a Los Angeles clinic after he beloved son Brian ran off with the Navy three years ago. Margo attempts to "solve" one of Owen's problems by promoting Draper as Paige's potential legal counsel. Winter flashes back to killing Tank and composes another anonymous, threatening note to Nicole. After Margo's visit, Paige grouses to Owen that she is tired of stodgy old attorneys and wants to meet the youthful, ambitious Draper Scott. At WMON, Winter gives Nicole her mail and points out a hand-delivered envelope. Nicole opens the letter which contains a note promising her that she won't live to see the Paige Madison story broadcast.
Episode #6023: [Thursday, 7 June 1979]
Nicole receives another threatening note, warning that tonight could be her farewell television appearance, and the missive is signed in real blood. Meanwhile, a menacing Winter sucks blood from her finger tip and watches Nicole from the studio shadows.
Winter's note: "Dear TV Queen, it's just about time for you to go to that big newsroom in the sky. Tonight could be your farewell appearance on WMON. One thing is for sure. I'm gonna help you sign off real soon...in blood...the way I signed this."
Episode #6024: [Friday, 8 June 1979]
Armed with his new gun, Joey attempts to mug a stranger on the street, but is outwitted.
Episode #6025: [Monday, 11 June 1979]
Draper agrees to represent Paige Madison. Winter lies that she saw Nicole's deranged fan lurking around WMON. Later that night, as she and Nicole work alone in the studio, Winter grabs a pair of large scissors and stab Nicole in the back, making it appear that she was the victim of the fan.
Episode #6026: [Tuesday, 12 June 1979]
While Nicole practices her weather report on the empty WMON set, Winter approaches her from behind with the scissors, and prepares to stab her in the back. As Winter raises her arm to strike, Nicole glimpses a wide shot of the set on a TV monitor and leaps to her feet. Nicole confronts Winter about concocting the deranged fan scheme, and realizing that she is in terrible danger, pretends that she doesn't realize that Winter cooperated with Tank to alter the videotape and fool the jury. Winter attempts to stab Nicole, who escapes into the studio sound stage with Winter in pursuit. Winter manages to trap Nicole on the studio floor. Steve and Bill are unable to find any clues in Nicole's last letter. Bill surmises that the blood signature means they can't dismiss the letters as crank instead of a serious threat. Bill accuses Steve of being gun shy since the shootout with Tank and encourages him to take some time off, but Steve refuses. Calvin and Deborah tease Cliff over a press release that Logan has assigned him to prosecute Paige Madison, who's being defended by Cliff's rival Draper. At WMON, Nicole screams for help, but with the soundproof walls, no one can hear her. Miles phones to tell Nicole that he has been delayed at the hospital. Winter offers to escort Nicole home for him. Winter activates the microphones on the studio floor and informs a terrified Nicole that Miles won't be coming for her.
Episode #6027 [Wednesday, 13 June 1979]
Bill is visited by Davey Brown, a former Monticello P.D. inspector who relates his near mugging the day he arrived in Monticello. Steve has an idea who the perp was when Davey describes him as a dark-haired teenager wearing a t-shirt with a unicorn insignia on it. At the Unicorn, Mickey confides in Eliot a hatred of authority figures. Margo phones Eliot, imploring him to come home and then dismisses Sarah for the night. In the lobby of the apartment building, Sarah has Oscar arrange a cab for her to the Unicorn. Steve stops by the restaurant to run his theory by Mickey about Joey holding up Davey, but Mickey argues that the only gun Joey owns is a cap pistol. Eliot mistakenly refers to Sarah as "Raven" when he learns he has a brunette visitor. Steve phones WMON and offers to stop by, but Winter convinces him to change his plans by claiming Miles is on his way to escort them home safely. Nicole reminds Winter that she has nothing because under double jeopardy, Winter can't be tried again for Wade's murder even if it is proven publicly that she was actually the killer. Winter recounts Wade's blackmail and laments being forced to silence Tank. Nicole is horrified to realize that Winter has confessed to murdering Tank, and now Winter will be forced to kill her, too.
Episode #6028 [Thursday, 14 June 1979]
Winter goes to the studio floor to stab Nicole, but Nicole runs and hides. A panicked Winter searches the studio while begging Nicole to come out from her hiding place with promises of leaving Monticello . Nicole manages to reach the circuit breaker and plunges the studio into darkness. Bill stops by Deborah's office to talk about Steve, and Deborah assures him that they aren't having personal problems that would affect Steve's work performance. Steve phones Deborah and persuades her to have coffee with him after her shift ends. Eliot offers Steve a drink, and Steve questions him about Joey. Mickey grills Joey about his recent activities and discovers that Joey has procured a revolver. Steve admits to Deborah that he is a little gun shy since shooting Tank. Nicole cowers in the shadows of the studio while Winter uses a portable spotlight and locates her. As Winter approaches with the scissors, Nicole pleads for her life and manages to knock her off balance. Nicole climbs a ladder to the catwalk high above the studio floor, with Winter in hot pursuit. Winter catches up with Nicole, and the as the two struggle on the edge of the catwalk, one falls over the edge to the studio floor.
Episode #6029 [Friday, 15 June 1979]
Nicole looks on in horror through the catwalk grating at Winter, who has plunged to the studio floor. Nicole manages to phone the police for help. Before Steve and Deborah can leave for their coffee break, Bill learns that something terrible has happened at the studio and phones a hysterical Nicole at WMON. Margo sharply reminds Eliot he's a married man when he comes home very late from the Unicorn and talks about inviting Raven and Logan for dinner and seems to have more of an interest in the D.A.'s wife. Margo receives a call about the trouble at WMON. Raven grouses about being tied down as a mother and wife, and during their discussion, Cliff phones with news of Winter's fall at the TV studio. Nicole stuns Miles and the police with the story of Winter's murderous activities, but she says that Winter destroyed Tank's tape and is guilty, but she can't prove it.
Episode #6030 [Monday, June 18, 1979]
Bill, Steve, and Deborah discover that Winter's attack on Nicole was recorded by studio cameras. Draper and Logan can't believe that Winter fooled them, and they receive word from Cliff of Winter's imminent death and her request to see Logan. Calvin passes on a tip to Deborah and Steve that a local store is going to be robbed, and he and Deborah move in for a stakeout. Logan visits Winter, who begs him to tell him that he still loves her, but he hesitates, and she dies without hearing the words. Joey and his buddy rob the store. Steve and Deborah chase the pair through the streets of Monticello, but are separated when Deborah chases Joey's buddy into the park, and Steve pursues Joey. Sitting on his fire escape, Mickey witnesses the action and runs to help his brother. Cornered, Joey aims a gun at Steve, who shoots him in the chest. After Deborah is overpowered in the park and screams for help, Steve leaves Joey. Deborah and Steve gain control over the perp and return to Joey. Mickey, who has arrived in the interim, informs them that it's too late to help because Joey died. Mickey accuses Steve of shooting an unarmed 14 year-old kid, and Steve is mortified to pick up Joey's gun and realizes that it's only a cap pistol.
Note: Final appearance of Stephanie Braxton as Winter Austen.
Episode #6049 [Friday, 13 July 1979]
Paige slips away from the house to meet with one of her former gang members at The Electric Balloon Disco. As Paige parties on the crowded dance floor, a knife is drawn. Calvin, who tailed Paige to the disco, rushes to the rescue just as a woman's scream pierces the club
Episode #6050: [Monday, 16 July 1979]
At the Electric Balloon, Calvin chases the gang member through the club and into a utility room, while Paige is unharmed. As Calvin draws his gun, Paige’s assassin approaches him from behind and attempts to stab Calvin in the back, but is electrocuted to death when his knife accidentally makes contact with an electrical transformer.
Episode #6051: [Tuesday, 17 July 1979]
Paige meets with Draper and Logan following the assassination attempt at the disco and agrees to cooperate fully with the police to avoid prosecution. Steve accepts Owen's offer to be a paid bodyguard for Paige. After phoning to assure Paige he's not out to harm her, Jed produces a gun.
Episode #6052: [Wednesday, 18 July 1979]
Mike turns down an attractive job offer from New York attorney Philip Seward, and later, Seward arranges a meeting with Draper.
Episode #6053: [Thursday, 19 July 1979]
Seward offers Draper a junior partnership in his law firm Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside. Raven and Eliot plan an assignation at couples resort Palace Park.
Episode #6054: [Friday, 20 July 1979]
April reacts badly to Draper’s “good news” that he’s being considered for a junior partnership in the New York law firm. After Paige agrees to meet secretly with Jed, Jed is instructed by Tobias to kill her.
Episode #6055: [Monday, 23 July 1979]
Steve invites Paige to dinner, and she passes the location on to Jed so that they can rendezvous. Later, Paige is enraged to learn that Steve has tricked her into going to another restaurant, while Calvin and Deborah await Jed’s arrival at the other restaurant, where gunshots are fired. Deborah phones Steve with the news that Jed escaped, and Calvin was shot.
Episode #6056: [Tuesday, 24 July 1979]
Brian blames Steve for Jed's attempt on Paige's life. Steve and Deborah anxiously await news of Calvin's medical condition. Miles & Nicole and Logan & Raven arrive at Palace Park. Raven and Eliot conspire to meet in Eliot’s room while Logan is on the golf course.
Episode #6057: [Wednesday, 25 July 1979]
Vacationing at Palace Park with Nicole, Miles accidentally discovers that Raven and Eliot are having an affair right under Logan's nose.
Episode #6058: [Thursday, 26 July 1979]
Owen is enchanted by Deborah, and Nola issues her a stern warning. At the Scott dinner party, Mike and Nancy must referee April and Draper's argument about his New York job offer.
Episode #6059: [Friday, 27 July 1979]
While Owen and Nola run old home movies of their life in California, Steve notices that Paige leaves the room after she and Brian are shown kissing one another in a clip of Paige’s birthday party. Alone in her room, Louise opens a drawer, revealing a large knife, and vows to get Paige.
Episode #6060: [Monday, 30 July 1979]
Deborah rebuffs Cliff's advances. April agrees to accompany Draper to New York. A knife-wielding Louise prepares to stab Paige.
Episode #6061: [Tuesday, 31 July 1979]
Raven explains her behavior at Palace Park to Logan. Louise's attempt to kill Paige is thwarted.
Episode #6062: [Wednesday, 1 August 1979]
Margo is frantic after April reveals that she and Draper might move to New York. Seward informs Mike that Draper is assured of getting the job.
Episode #6063: [Thursday, 2 August 1979]
Nola pays a visit to Owen's old flame Margo. Steve receives a call from the hospital informing him that Calvin's condition has taken a turn for the worse.
Episode #6064: [Friday, 3 August 1979]
Seward tells Draper that his final approval rests with David Henson, a hospitalized partner in the law firm. After Steve realizes he was tricked, he calls to warn Paige, just as Louise breaks into her room.
Episode #6065: [Monday, 6 August 1979]
As Paige and a knife-wielding Louise struggle, gunshots ring out. Steve finds a blood trail in the Madison home.
Episode #6066: [Tuesday, 7 August 1979]
Margo blackmails old friend David Henson into refusing Draper's employment offer.
Episode #6067: [Wednesday, 8 August 1979]
Draper learns that he didn't get the junior partnership in Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside.
Episode #6068: [Thursday, 9 August 1979]
Jed lurks outside Calvin's hospital room while Steve and Paige visit. Draper is inconsolable over losing the partnership.
Episode #6069: [Friday, 10 August 1979]
After their visit with Calvin, Paige and Steve are followed to the hospital parking garage by Jed, who attempts to shoot Paige. Steve draws his gun and has Jed in his sight, but he is unable to pull the trigger, giving Jed the opportunity to escape. At the Unicorn, Mickey remembers switching Joey’s real gun for a toy cap pistol, after Joey was shot by Steve.
Episode #6070: [Monday, 13 August 1979]
Raven phones Eliot with news that Logan is working very late and tries to arrange a rendezvous. Eliot tricks Margo into postponing their romantic dinner for two by claiming that former Children of the Earth disciple “Betsey Johnson” is threatening suicide and will only speak with him. Raven leaves Jamey unattended to meet Eliot at a motel for their assignation. While Nicole, Draper, and April wait for Miles at The Unicorn, he is kidnapped from his office by a masked gunman.
Episode #6071: [Tuesday, 14 August 1979]
In a deserted warehouse, the masked gunman forces a reluctant Miles to treat a gunshot victim who turns out to be Louise. Margo tries to assuage Nicole’s fear that a missing Miles is in danger. Eliot is appalled at Raven’s confession that instead of getting a baby sitter, she left Jamey at home alone.
Episode #6072: [Wednesday, 15 August 1979]
Louise lets it slip to Miles that his kidnapper is Paige's former gang leader Tobias. A worried Nicole phones Deborah when Miles fails to arrive, but Deborah has no report of Miles being involved in an accident. Raven returns home to find that a furious Logan has arrived before her and found Jamey unattended. Eliot stops by the Cavanaugh home to pick up Margo and has a hard time keeping his “suicide story” straight. Tobias informs Miles that even if Louise survives, he might not let Miles leave alive.
Episode #6073: [Thursday, 16 August 1979]
After discovering that Louise has died, Miles runs for his life while Tobias fires shots at him.
Episode #6074: [Friday, 17 August 1979]
Alone in the house, Paige spots Tobias outside her room. Miles tells the police about his kidnapping.
Episode #6075: [Monday, 20 August 1979]
Bill and Deborah question Miles about the kidnapping. Paige lies to Steve in order to secretly meet with Tobias. Draper apologizes to April for his childish behavior. Paige is tormented by dreams of Brian and Nola.
Episode #6076: [Tuesday, 21 August 1979]
Just as Tobias is about to murder Paige, Steve shoots and kills Tobias. When Tobias’ ski mask is removed, Paige realizes the killer was actually a disguised Jed.
Episode #6077: [Wednesday, 22 August 1979]
Mrs. Fenner, a real estate agent, drops by the Scott home while Draper is alone and inadvertently reveals that the house cost more than he paid for it. Nola's old flame Eddie Vaughn arrives in Monticello with a script for the B-horror movie Mansion of the Damned.
Episode #6078: [Thursday, 23 August 1979]
April admits to an enraged Draper that Margo made the down payment on their house. Nola overhears Owen's refusal to produce Mansion of the Damned and comments about Nola being past her prime. Owen expresses concern to Eddie when he realizes that Nola overheard their conversation and left. At the Unicorn, Mickey befriends a boozing Nola. Raven and Eliot’s impromptu dinner is interrupted by Sarah, who catches them in an embrace.
Episode #6079: [Friday, 24 August 1979]
A drunken Nola meets Eliot. Facing off over Eliot, Raven volleys Sarah’s insults with a slap to the face. At the Unicorn to retrieve Nola, Paige makes eye contact with Mickey, and after following him outside, she greets him as Tobias.
Episode #6080: [Monday, 27 August 1979]
Brian collects a drunken Nola from The Unicorn. Mickey assures Paige that the assassins are acting alone, and he does not intend her any harm, but he warns her that Zack still wants to kill her.
Episode #6081: [Tuesday, 28 August 1979]
After begging Steve to stay on as her bodyguard, Paige is forced to admit that Tobias warned her about Zack’s murderous intentions. Owen promises Nola that he’ll reconsider producing Mansion of the Damned. Mickey meets with Zack and urges him to kill Paige.
Episode #6082: [Wednesday, 29 August 1979]
Logan asks Draper to expedite adoption proceedings for Jamey. Mickey orders Zack to kill Paige and plots to “accidentally” shoot Steve in melee as revenge for Joey’s death. Calvin is able to stand and walk to Star.
Episode #6083: [Thursday, 30 August 1979]
Owen agrees to produce Mansion of the Damned. At The Unicorn, Zack takes aim at Paige and Steve.
Episode #6084: [Friday, 31 August 1979]
Mickey saves Paige and Steve from Zack's assassination attempt. Owen has a stunning revelation about Brian's paternity.
Episode #6085: [Monday, 3 September 1979]
Nola convinces Paige that Brian will only do Mansion of the Damned if Paige agrees to play Patience Revere. Bill warns an indignant Mickey that the police will have to investigate the shooting at the The Unicorn, even though Mickey acted in self-defense Steve is intrigued by the gun Mickey used to kill Zack. After Margo suggests Eliot shut The Unicorn down for a week to let bad publicity die down, Eliot realizes it’s the perfect opportunity for him to rendezvous with Raven.
Episode #6086: [Tuesday, 4 September 1979]
On the eve of Logan’s campaign tour, Raven feigns a case of the flu so that she can stay in Monticello and meet with Eliot. While packing up to leave the Madison home, Steve remembers Joey’s death and the shooting at The Unicorn, then he realizes that Mickey’s gun was the same weapon Joey at aimed at him just before being shot.
Episode #6087: [Wednesday, 5 September 1979]
Steve confronts Mickey about Joey's gun, but Mickey denies that they’re the same weapon. Before leaving for the campaign tour, Logan gives Geraldine the keys to his apartment and asks her to check up on Raven. Cliff makes a nuisance of himself trying to impress Geraldine. Geraldine arrives at Logan’s while Raven and Eliot are frolicking in bed.
Episode #6088: [Thursday, 6 September 1979]
After Geraldine finds Eliot in Raven's bed, Raven threatens to never let her see Jamey again if she exposes the affair to Logan. Mike receives a letter from Philip Seward requesting a meeting regarding Draper. Logan decides to return home early.
Episode #6089: [Friday, 7 September 1979]
Steve gets proof that Joey owned Mickey’s gun. Bill makes Calvin deputy chief of police. Nola’s joke about Satan incurs nature’s wrath. Logan arrives unexpectedly and catches Raven and Eliot together.
Episode #6090: [Monday, 10 September 1979]
Logan’s argument with Raven turns physical. Mickey tells Eliot he has plans to leave Monticello. While visiting with Mike and Nancy, Seward speculates that Margo intentionally destroyed Draper’s chances of receiving the junior partnership at Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside. Raven warns Logan that he’ll never get custody of Jamey.
Episode #6091: [Tuesday, 11 September 1979]
Eddie and Owen find an old movie studio in which to produce Mansion of the Damned. Deborah greets Steve’s return to the police force with a kiss, but later, she accepts a date with Owen. Brian stuns Paige with the news that he’s her biological brother.
Episode #6092: [Wednesday, 12 September 1979]
Logan meets with Draper to discuss his legal rights toward Jamey. Raven assures Geraldine that she has plans for Logan. A betrayed Paige runs to Mickey and agrees to leave Monticello with him.
Episode #6093: [Thursday, 13 September 1979]
April admits to Margo that having Jamey around makes her long for motherhood. Nola witnesses a satanic vision in the fireplace. Margo’s curiosity is aroused when Eliot arrives home early from his “recreation”. Raven is unable to dissuade Logan from packing his bags to move out. Paige realizes she’s in danger after finding Mickey’s briefcase containing a million dollars.
Episode #6094: [Friday, 14 September 1979]
Raven stuns Logan with the news that she’s going to live with Nadine in London. Bill gives Steve permission to strong-arm Mickey. Before leaving for England, Raven delivers a shocking parting gift to April and Draper. Mickey leaves Paige for dead, and Steve's confrontation with Mickey has fatal consequences.
Notes: This is the final appearance of Mandel Kramer as Chief of Police Bill Marceau. Kramer was the longest-serving member of the cast at the time of his departure, having played Bill over 20 years. Sharon Gabet also departs the cast as Raven Swift, though she returns in the future.
Episode #6095: [Monday, 17 September 1979]
April delays meeting with Logan to decide who will raise Jamey. Steve explains to Deborah what caused Mickey’s fatal plunge through the window. Deborah and Steve discover Paige, who is rushed to the hospital. Nola arrives at Monticello General to witness an intimate moment between Owen and Deborah.
Episode #6096: [Tuesday, 18 September 1979]
April angrily refuses to hand Jamey over to Logan. Owen attempts to explain to Paige why he kept Brian’s paternity a secret. Logan announces that the DA’s office has dropped all charges against Paige. April pays a professional visit to Mike to learn what her rights are concerning Jamey’s guardianship.
Episode #6097: [Wednesday, 19 September 1979]
Nola’s impromptu reading of the Mansion of the Damned script has an explosive ending when a spotlight explodes. April receives Margo’s blessing to pursue motherhood with Jamey. Draper learns from Mike that April intends to petition the court for legal guardianship of Jamey. After being spurned by Eliot, Sarah informs Margo that Eliot is having an affair with Raven.
Episode #6098: [Thursday, 20 September 1979]
Trent Archer, Nola’s self-centered leading man, arrives in Monticello. Cliff confides to Steve that he spotted Deborah having a romantic dinner with Owen. While Nola invokes one of Hester’s love incantations, Owen and Deborah grow very close.
Episode #6099: [Friday, 21 September 1979]
April begs Draper not to give up on adopting Jamey. Geraldine makes Logan a touching offer to combine their households. April visits Miles and Nicole to argue her case about Jamey’s adoption, but when she returns home, she discovers that Jamey is gone. After Draper admits that he gave Jamey back to Logan, April slaps him and runs out of the house.
Episode #6100: [Monday, 24 September 1979]
(Episode missing or unavailable from Televest). Draper is unable to stop April from leaving. Margo is thrilled when April arrives at the penthouse and reveals that she has left her husband.
Episode #6101: [Tuesday, 25 September 1979]
Margo offers to host a party at her penthouse to launch Mansion of the Damned. Deborah receives a token of appreciation from Owen. April informs Draper that she needs time apart from him. Sarah phones Eliot and offers to sell him the jewels they stole from Margo in the faked robbery last spring.
Episode #6102: [Wednesday, 26 September 1979]
While planning the Mansion of the Damned launch party, Eddie meets April and is intrigued by her affinity for the occult. Nola gives Deborah a special invitation to the party. Draper asks Miles and Nicole to intercede in his fight with April. April discovers that Draper is representing Logan and vows to divorce him if he continues.
Episode #6103: [Thursday, 27 September 1979]
At the Mansion of the Damned launch party, Sarah and Eliot make secret plans to meet while Margo is out. Eliot is intrigued after he learns from arriving director Jason Reinhart that Nola is a very wealthy woman. April resents Miles and Nicole’s interference, when they refuse to side with her against Logan and Draper. While Margo and Trent perform a scene from the script, Nicole sees a terrifying apparition on Margo’s terrace.
Episode #6104: [Friday, 28 September 1979]
Margo offers Logan $150, 000 paid out over five years if Logan allows April and Draper to legally adopt Jamey. Nicole insists to Miles that she saw an apparition on Margo’s terrace, but he believes it was an optical illusion. April accidently discovers Eliot and Sarah getting cozy in the penthouse, and after Eliot insinuates he could throw April off the terrace and make it look like suicide, April takes an accidental fall.
Episode #6105: [Monday, 1 October 1979]
Eliot leaves an injured April without calling for help. Margo and Geraldine draw battle lines over Margo’s refusal to convince April that Jamey belongs with Logan. Deborah confides in Nancy about her relationship with Owen. The Madisons receive a letter stating that Hester’s spells are real. Logan tells a furious Draper about Margo’s outrageous offer. Margo returns to the penthouse and discovers April’s body on the floor.
Episode #6106: [Tuesday, 2 October 1979]
Reports of strange lights emanating from the Mansion of the Damned studio arouse the curiosity of Deborah, Steve, and Calvin. Margo blames herself for April’s accident, and faces questions from Draper and Logan about her attempt to buy Jamey. Draper learns that April’s fall didn’t result in a serious injury, but Dr. Wallace stuns him with the news that April is pregnant.
Episode #6107: [Wednesday, 3 October 1979]
Draper breaks the news to April that they're having a baby of their own, and the couple reconciles. Margo insists on discussing the incident with Eliot and although April is reluctant to give all the details, Margo is forced to realize the uncomfortable truth about her husband.
Episode #6108: [Thursday, 4 October 1979]
Nola spies on Owen and Deborah, who are kissing in a restaurant. Later, Owen admits to Nola that he is seeing Deborah. April declines Steve’s offer to press assault charges against Eliot. Margo orders Eliot out of her home and out her life. Paige and Brian investigate the movie studio for strange lights and find a box containing the Satanic Bible and Hester Atherton’s life story. During a heated argument with Owen, a spurned Nola screams one of Hester’s spells, meanwhile, at the Mansion of the Damned studio, a wall flat topples and nearly crushes her.
Episode #6109: [Friday, 5 October 1979]
Logan visits a hospitalized April, and the two reconcile their differences about Jamey. Brian admits to Owen that he knows about Owen and Deborah’s relationship. While rehearsing a scene, Trent complains about it being hot as hell on the Mansion set and suddenly collapses.
Episode #6110: [Monday, 8 October 1979]
Paige meets with Deborah and confronts her about her relationship with Owen, unaware that they’ve been followed to the restaurant by Nola. Owen suggests that Trent have a physical from Miles. April tells Miles and Nicole about Eddie’s interest in her psychic abilities. A ghost is spotted on the Mansion of the Damned set.
[Tuesday, 9 October 1979]
Pre-empted for ABC News coverage of President Carter’s press conference.
Episode #6111: [Wednesday, 10 October 1979]
Calvin and Star announce their engagement to Steve and Deborah. While lurking outside Deborah’s apartment building, Nola meets news vendor Rachel Barnes and decides to take a photograph of her face. Margo admits to April that she was right about Eliot being untrustworthy. After Miles dismisses Trent’s ailment as superstition, Trent gets the shock of his life while reading Hester Atherton’s manuscript.
Episode #6112: [Thursday, 11 October, 1979]:
(Episode missing or unavailable from Televest). Trent is stunned to see Nola in her Hester Atherton makeup.
Episode #6113: [Friday, 12 October 1979]
An unhinged Margo admits to Nicole that she hates Eliot. After Owen remembers that Nola takes on the life of her parts, Nola speculates that she might actually inherit the powers of a witch. While rehearsing with Nola and Chris Rafferty, Trent becomes terrified and warns Owen that they’ll all die if production on the film continues.
Episode #6114: [Monday, 15 October 1979]
Owen reveals that Trent has fled back to Hollywood. Nola meets a drunken Eliot at the Unicorn and decides he would be the perfect replacement for Trent Archer. April tells Draper that she agreed to Eddie’s request for her to perform a psychic experiment on the Mansion of the Damned set, but she’s only doing it for the money. Later, on the darkened set, April sees the apparition of a woman on the balcony and screams in terror.
Episode #6115: [Tuesday 16 October 1979]
Reporters doubt April and Eddie’s account of seeing a vision on the movie set. Owen agrees to give Eliot a screen test for the Nicholas Harriman role. Mike decides to meet David Henson in New York and get to the bottom of Henson’s rejection of Draper. Draper and Miles doubt that April saw a ghost, but April’s description of the image reminds Nicole of the eerie vision she saw on Margo’s terrace the night of the Mansion of the Damned launch party.
Episode #6116: [Wednesday 17 October 1979]
Paige meets Deborah for lunch and warns her that she’s afraid that Nola will hurt both of them. While performing a scene with Chris Rafferty and Willard Masefield, Nola tries to strangle Paige. Steve laments to Calvin about Deborah’s budding relationship with Owen. When Deborah returns from her lunch Paige and finds her front door ajar, building superintendent Mr. Bailey informs her that he did some work in her apartment. However, when Deborah enters, she finds that someone has completely ransacked the flat.
Episode #6117: [Thursday, 18 October 1979]:
(Episode missing or unavailable from Televest). Mike plans a quick business trip to Manhattan and decides to meet with David Henson to ascertain the exact reason Draper was denied the junior partnership in the Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside firm.
Episode #6118: [Friday 19 October 1979]
In New York, Mike meets with David Henson, who confesses he was blackmailed by Margo into blackballing Draper from their law firm. While dining with Nancy to discuss Owen’s decision to divorce Nola, Deborah busts drug dealer Benny Hayes. Margo offers to take April on a month-long trip to Europe. Deborah receives harassing calls from an unseen caller, who hangs up after playing Gregorian chants.
Episode #6119: [Monday, 22 October 1979]
Nicole visits the Mansion of the Damned set, where Eddie assures her that a film-curse doesn’t exist. Cliff presents Deborah with a rose he intercepted from Owen. Deborah tells Steve and Calvin about the phone calls and Gregorian chants, meanwhile, the same chant is being used as a music cue in Owen’s film. While the cameras are rolling for a Mansion of the Damned scene, a falling arc light narrowly misses Paige and Nola, but in the confusion following the accident, Jason Reinhart’s lifeless body is discovered.
Episode #6120: [Tuesday, 23 October 1979]
After hearing Nicole’s TV broadcast about Jason’s death on the Mansion of the Damned set, April is convinced the curse is real. Miles reports to Calvin and Steve that Jason Reinhart’s death was from natural causes. Mike informs Draper that David Henson wants to meet him and reconsider the New York job offer. The police commissioner confides to Calvin that Bill Marceau has retired and will be replaced by Derek Mallory. Margo accidentally tells April about her part in keeping Draper from getting the job with Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside.
Episode #6121: [Wednesday, 24 October 1979]
April warns Margo that Draper will be angry enough to kill if he learns what she has done. Brian reluctantly agrees to Owen and Nola’s request to direct Mansion of the Damned, and is jealous during a love scene between Paige and Chris Rafferty. Nola stuns everyone with her convincing makeup, then she terrorizes Paige with a rat. April agrees to keep Margo’s secret after Margo phones David Henson and asks him to give Draper a second chance. After April leaves, Margo phones David again and blackmails him into refusing Draper a second time.
Episode #6122: [Thursday, 25 October 1979]
After she receives another crank phone call, Steve assures Deborah that he’ll always be there for her. Logan reveals to Geraldine that he has received official separation papers from Raven. Paige agrees to continue working on Mansion of the Damned and is kissed by Brian. David Henson informs Draper that their meeting could be delayed up to a month due because he has to go in hospital. While snooping around the darkened Mansion of the Damned set, Deborah gets the scare of her life.
Episode #6123: [Friday, 26 October 1979]
Owen confides to Eddie that he plans to divorce Nola as soon as the movie is completed. Officer Birdwell summons Steve to the movie set after seeing Deborah wandering around the darkness. Nola dreams that she is a real witch who can stop Deborah from taking what’s hers. Eddie and Nola laugh about how well they’ve set up the “cursed” picture. While walking around the Mansion of the Damned set, Steve is the victim of Eddie’s next rigged accident when he’s decked by a falling chandelier.
Episode #6124: [Monday, 29 October 1979]
Brian sees something disturbing in Nola’s eyes. Steve recalls the accident for Calvin. Nola promises Eddie she’ll plan one final publicity stunt to top the others. After learning about Steve’s accident, Deborah realizes she needs to have a serious talk with Owen. Paige catches Nola playing a Gregorian chant over the phone. Miles tells Steve that Nola’s a makeup expert. After Chris Rafferty entertains the company with the curse of Macbeth and an actor killing another onstage, Nola plays a similar scene with Paige, who screams in terror as Nola suddenly stabs her with a dagger.
Episode #6125: [Tuesday, 30 October 1979]
Nola terrifies the wits out of Paige with a trick dagger during the knifing scene. While April and Draper visit Margo, April questions David Henson’s sudden illness. The police commissioner introduces Calvin, Deborah, and Steve to Derek Mallory, Monticello’s icy new chief of police. Deborah informs Owen that she suspects Eddie staged all of the “accidents” on the Mansion of the Damned set as publicity stunts.
Note: First appearance of Dennis Parker as Derek Mallory.
Episode #6126: [Wednesday, 31 October 1979]
Deborah tells Owen that she’s certain Nola cooperated with Eddie in setting up accidents on the movie set. Eliot flirts shamelessly with Nola, who agrees to have dinner with him. David Henson tells Margo he’s leaving the country and informs her that Mike Karr knows what she did to Draper. After he moves out, Margo realizes that Eliot staged the robbery last spring in an attempt to frame her for the murder of Wade Meecham by sending her stolen gun to Draper. After Nola and Eddie promise Owen they won’t stage more stunts, Nola declares to Eddie there needs to be a fire on the set.
Episode #6127: [Thursday, 01 November 1979]
Eddie tries to persuade Nola against setting fire to the Mansion of the Damned set. A brusque Derek assures Calvin that he intends to turn the police department inside out to get the results he wants. Brian stuns Eddie with news of his love for Paige and announcement that he’s leaving town when the picture is completed. At Deborah’s apartment, Cliff answers the phone and collapses after Nola’s death chant.
Episode #6128: [Friday, 02 November 1979]
Deborah isn’t amused by Cliff’s prank. Logan and April can’t improve Draper’s mood after he learns that David Henson and his wife are off to Europe for six weeks. Owen says “I love you” to Deborah, then is chastised by Eddie for keeping Brian and Paige’s relationship from him. Mike and Nancy assure Margo they have no intention of telling Draper that she’s the reason David Henson withdrew Draper’s job offer. Paige confides to Deborah that Nola has become mentally unstable. Deborah realizes that Nola is responsible for her harassing phone calls.
Episode #6129: [Monday, 05 November 1979]
Paige attempts to tell Brian what she has learned about Nola’s involvement in Deborah’s stalking, but is interrupted by Nola’s wedding scene. Steve introduces Derek to Nicole. With Miles’ encouragement, April phones the New York law firm and learns that David Henson is on a trip to Europe and not ill. Eddie confronts Nola about keeping Paige and Brian apart with the lie that Owen is Brian’s father.
Episode #6130: [Tuesday, 06 November 1979]
Nola begs Eddie not to reveal that he is actually Brian’s father, not Owen. Brian notices Chris flirting with Paige, and Paige informs Brian of Nola’s shenanigans with Deborah. Nancy urges Deborah to confront Nola. Draper nixes Mike’s offer to track down David Henson. Nola discovers cans of flammable liquid outside her dressing room.
Episode #6131: [Wednesday, 07 November 1979]
Margo learns that April and Draper are aware that David Henson is avoiding Draper. Nicole interviews newly elected DA Logan Swift. Miles informs Derek that he thinks Benny Hayes shot his father in a domestic dispute. Derek catches Cliff flirting with Deborah. Deborah has an attack after eating a box of candy laced with bug spray, supposedly sent as a gift from Owen.
Episode #6132: [Thursday, 08 November 1979]
Deborah refuses to reveal her suspicions about Nola’s guilt to Owen, Steve, Miles, and Derek. Draper suggests that a lonely Logan join the dating scene again. Steve suspects Benny Hayes might have been behind Deborah’s poisoning. After promising Eddie that she won’t carry out her plan to start a fire on the Mansion of the Damned set, Nola sees a vision of Deborah engulfed in flames.
Episode #6133: [Friday, 09 November 1979]
Nancy speculates to Mike, Miles, and Nicole that Nola might have poisoned Deborah, and later, Deborah admits it to Miles and Nicole. Nola begs Eddie one last time to help her burn down the studio after Owen reveals they’ll have to write off the expense as a loss. Paige suggests that she and Brian runaway to Europe together. Eddie arranges a meeting with Brian to tell him the truth about his paternity.
Episode #6134: [Monday, 12 November 1979]
(Episode missing from Televest). Nola and Eliot film the last scene of Mansion of the Damned, in which Hester tricks Nicholas and returns in the form of Patience Revere. Nola phones Deborah and arranges for them to meet at the movie studio.
Episode #6135: [Tuesday, 13 November 1979]
At the Mansion of the Damned wrap party, Paige has too much to drink. After learning that Nola has remained behind at the movie-studio, Eddie suddenly leaves the party. Nola douses the Mansion of the Damned set with gasoline, and armed with a book of matches, waits for Deborah’s arrival.
[Wednesday, 14 November 1979]
Pre-empted for an expanded ABC Afterschool Special.
Episode #6136: [Thursday, 15 November 1979]
Eddie arrives at the studio, and Nola convinces him that she doesn’t plan to go through with the final publicity stunt, but after Eddie leaves, Nola hears a noise, and thinking Deborah has arrived, strikes a match. Owen receives a phone call from Deputy Birdwell, who reports the studio is in flames. Deborah arrives at the studio and finds a choking Nola emerging from the building. As Nola tries to explain what happened, she realizes that Eddie is still inside. Firemen pull Eddie from the burning studio, as Owen, Paige, and Brian arrive on the scene. Eddie regains consciousness and insists he has something to tell Brian.
Episode #6137: [Friday, 16 November 1979]
Before he can reveal that he is Brian’s biological father, Eddie goes into cardiac arrest and dies. Nola is relieved that her secret is safe, but Owen and Brian wonder what Eddie was trying to tell them. Mike and Nancy theorize that Margo is responsible for David Henson avoiding Draper's second interview.
Episode #6138: [Monday, 19 November 1979]
Owen, Paige, and Brian speculate about the fire’s origin. Steve comforts Deborah, who admits that she has feelings for two men. After Derek compliments Miles’ choice of a wife; Miles invites him to dinner with Nicole. April and Nicole discuss Nicole’s proposed interview with psychiatrist Dr. Lennox, who wrote The Madness Among Us. Nola secretly rearranges Owen’s dinner plans with Deborah.
[Tuesday, 20 November 1979]
Pre-empted for an ABC News Special Report.
Episode #6139: [Wednesday, 21 November 1979]
Steve and Calvin inform the Madisons that the studio fire was the result of arson, which they presume Eddie started as another publicity stunt. After questioning Dr. Lennox about the inheritable nature of schizophrenia, Nicole learns that the disease runs in Miles’ family. Owen informs Deborah that Eddie was responsible for the fire. Lila Ackerman, Eddie’s attorney, arrives in Monticello and schedules a meeting with the Madisons regarding Eddie’s estate. Owen and Deborah arrive at Armando’s for a romantic dinner, only to find that Nola has invited herself to join them.
Episode #6140: [Thursday, 22 November 1979]
After Nola surprises them with her presence at the restaurant, Owen very reluctantly agrees to give their marriage one last chance. Calvin tells Derek that his feelings wouldn’t be hurt if Derek names someone else Deputy Police Chief. A distracted Deborah foolishly leaves her purse on the table while interviewing Earl Stokes, who grabs her service revolver and takes her hostage. Paige fears Brian will forget her in Los Angeles. Derek saves Deborah from Earl Stokes. Eddie’s attorney Lila Ackerman stuns Nola and Owen with the news that Eddie left his estate to a son.
[Friday, 23 November 1979]
Pre-empted for ABC Sports coverage of college football.
Episode #6141: [Monday, 26 November 1979]
Owen realizes the extent of Nola’s treachery, when Lila Ackerman reads a will that confirms Eddie was Brian’s biological father. Nancy reassures April that neither she nor Mike will reveal what they know about Margo’s involvement in Draper losing the job with Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside. Miles thinks Nicole is troubled by thoughts that he might inherit his mother’s schizophrenia. Owen stops Brian from leaving Monticello with news that could change his life.
Episode #6142: [Tuesday, 27 November 1979]
Owen tells Brian the truth about his parentage and how Nola lied to trap Owen into marrying her. Logan informs Derek that the DA’s office can’t pursue attempted murder charges against Benny Hayes without his father’s cooperation. After Derek suspends her as a danger to herself and other officers, Deborah finds Benny selling drugs in her apartment building, but Benny escapes. Brian reveals to Paige that they aren’t brother and sister. Owen asks Deborah to go to Hollywood with him.
Episode #6143: [Wednesday, 28 November 1979]
Deborah consults Nancy for advice about leaving with Owen. Draper vows to Mike that he intends to discover why David Henson withdrew his job offer. Margo and April are unsettled by Eliot’s surprise visit to the penthouse. Owen informs Paige that he intends to divorce Nola. Brian confronts Nola about the lie she’s perpetuated on the family and tells her that he and Paige are getting married immediately. Paige invites Deborah to her wedding. Owen discovers that a missing Nola has left a note stating she’s gone away to a Caribbean island.
Episode #6144: [Thursday, 29 November 1979]
Owen presses Deborah for a decision about accompanying him to California. During dinner with Miles and Nicole, Derek reveals that he was once married to a beautiful woman, whom he had to physically hit. Deborah and Steve are witnesses as Paige and Brian are married by a justice of the peace. At a screening of Mansion of the Damned, the film clip of Hester’s wedding burns ominously in the projector. Deborah admits to Steve that Owen has asked her to leave Monticello with him, and then she begs Steve to tell her to not go.
Episode #6145: [Friday, 30 November 1979]
When Deborah remains indecisive, Steve informs a dejected Owen that Deborah doesn’t want to leave with him. Later, Owen insists to newlyweds Paige and Brian that they will always be a family. Discussing their ex-wives, Derek confesses to Logan that his ex-wife Ivy is the spoiled daughter of a prominent politician. After Deborah admits to Owen that she won’t go to Hollywood with him, she meets Mrs. Corey, an elderly next-door neighbor, who is actually a disguised Nola Madison.
Episode #6146: [Monday, 3 December 1979]
Deborah has dinner with Mrs. Corey and admires her cameo, unaware that Owen had given it to Nola. Derek is on the warpath with Calvin and Steve following dinner with the Cavanaughs. Miles insists to Nicole that he isn’t sensitive about the subject of schizophrenic, when she receives a book about it from Dr. Lennox. A persistent Star urges Calvin to commit to a date for their wedding.
Episode #6147: [Tuesday, 4 December 1979]
As Mrs. Corey, Nola tells Deborah a story about losing her husband to another woman, a woman who ultimately met a very terrible fate. While interviewing Derek about her investigative report on drug dealers, Nancy meets Benny Hayes. Logan rejects Cliff’s attempts to set them up on a blind date, preferring to lunch with Geraldine instead. Geraldine remarks to Logan that she heard rumors about Derek battering his wife Ivy, the daughter of Geraldine’s friend Senator Townsend. Benny tries unsuccessfully to persuade Deborah not to testify against him. In the hall outside Deborah’s apartment, Mrs. Corey meets Benny and shows interest in his drug deliveries.
Episode #6148: [Wednesday, 5 December 1979]
Eliot bribes Lillian to find out where Nola is staying. As Mrs. Corey, Nola tells Deborah that she’ll be gone a few days. Later, at dinner with Steve and the Scotts, Deborah finds herself considering marriage and family after April’s glowing recommendation for a settled, family life. Nancy confides to Mike that her attitude toward the new police chief is not favorable. Nola arrives back at the Madison house and catches Lillian rifling through her belongings. Having discovered that Brian and Paige were married, Nola laments losing her husband and son then she agrees to a date with Eliot.
Episode #6149: [Thursday, 6 December 1979]
Owen’s image taunts Nola about getting old and undesirable, but Nola fantasizes about being Mrs. Corey, and vows Owen will soon find Deborah undesirable, too. Nola and Eliot commiserate about being lonely. Draper tells Margo he can pay her back $12,000 for the house loan. April is delighted with Draper’s improved attitude toward Margo, but later she has an ominous dream about her daughter’s birth and a strange man’s sudden appearance after the sound of a train whistle. Nancy reveals her intention to do an investigative report on drug dealers and asks that Mike not object. Dressed as Mrs. Corey, Nola meets Benny and insinuates she could use his prescription drug service.
Episode #6150: [Friday, 7 December 1979]:
(Episode missing or unavailable from Televest). As Mrs. Corey, Nola purchases barbiturates from Benny and later uses them to lace a pot of homemade soup, which she gives to Deborah. Steve arrives at Deborah’s apartment, while inside, Deborah has passed out after eating Mrs. Corey’s soup.
Episode #6151: [Monday, 10 December 1979]
Forcing his way into Deborah’s apartment, Steve finds an unconscious Deborah and phones Miles for help. Draper awakens April before she can reach the end of her mysterious, recurring dream. Eliot reads romantic poetry to Nola over the phone, but isn’t alone in his bed. Miles doesn’t get a response when he knocks on Mrs. Corey’s door. Nola, as Mrs. Corey, is annoyed to learn that Deborah isn’t seriously ill, and after Steve and Miles leave, urges Deborah to eat more of the soup she prepared for her.
Episode #6152: [Tuesday, 11 December 1979]
April tells Margo about the mysterious recurring dream, which she feels is somehow an ominous portent of things to come. Draper confides to Miles and Nicole that he too fears that April’s dream might be prophetic. Calvin and Star invite Deborah to their wedding, which is set for the next week. Eliot’s unsubtle passes and exaggerated charm make Nola uncomfortable. Deborah decides to eat a bowl of Mrs. Corey’s soup.
Episode #6153: [Wednesday, 12 December 1979]
Phoning from California, Owen grows concerned about a drugged Deborah’s incoherence and later alerts Steve. After Earl Stokes is charged with 1st degree murder, Nicole urges Derek to lift Deborah’s suspension. Mike confides to Miles his fears about Nancy’s involvement in the newspaper’s pill-pusher story. Derek grants Calvin’s leave of absence for his honeymoon. At Deborah’s apartment, Mr. Bailey, Deborah’s super, informs Steve that Deborah passed out and was rushed to the hospital.
Episode #6154: [Thursday, 13 December 1979]
Steve disbelieves Deborah’s protests of being completely well. Geraldine visits Mike to make a beneficiary change in her will. Derek confides to Logan that he received a letter from Ivy, his ex-wife. Eliot steps up his seduction of Nola, and Nola, as Mrs. Corey, orders more drugs from Benny, with whom she admits she shares a hatred of young temptresses like Deborah.
Episode #6155: [Friday, 14 December 1979]
Steve is unnerved when Derek reveals that Deborah volunteered as a decoy to catch a serial rapist -whose latest victim just died. Margo’s offer to use Draper’s $12,000 loan payment as a trust fund for the baby genuinely moves him. While Draper and Margo share a warm moment together, April has the recurring dream again, finally revealing her mystery gift as a silver bracelet. At the park, the attacker (Phil) renders Calvin unconscious and goes after Deborah.
Episode #6156: [Monday, 17 December 1979]
The park attacker drives a bound and gagged Deborah to a remote location. Nicole breaks the news of Deborah’s disappearance to Margo. April and Draper attempt to interpret the symbolism in April’s mysterious dream. After Miles asserts that the park attacker is a psychopath capable of the most extreme physical violence, Calvin, Steve, and Derek fear that if Deborah is found, she’ll be dead.
Episode #6157 [Tuesday, 18 December 1979]
Phil, Deborah’s kidnaper, drives her to a secluded area in the woods. Nicole and Derek realize that there are two separate men responsible for the park attacks. With eyewitness accounts of Phil’s car, Calvin and Steve search the area for Deborah. Mike is dismayed to learn that Nancy has secretly arranged a meeting with a pill pusher. Nola, as Mrs. Corey, reminds Benny that she wants Deborah raped and traumatized by Phil -the man they hired to scare her.
Episode #6158 [Wednesday, 19 December 1979]
Mike seeks Logan's advice about whether or not Derek should be apprised of Nancy's appointment with a drug dealer. Nancy meets with Benny and offers to buy his story instead of drugs. Logan forbids Cliff to join the police search for Deborah. Steve and Calvin discover Phil's abandoned car. While trying to escape from the woods, Deborah encounters two hunters who mistakenly fire a shot at her.
Episode #6159: [Thursday, 20 December 1979]
After seeing Nicole’s news report about Deborah’s kidnapping, Nola, as Ms. Corey, phones Benny and insists she doesn’t want to be an accomplice to murder. Later, Benny arranges a meeting with Nancy, who is advised by Mike to inform the police with details about the location. Eliot professes his love to Nola. Margo informs Miles that Eliot has found himself “another Margo Huntington” with wealthy Nola.
Episode #6160: [Friday, 21 December 1979]
A hospitalized Deborah recovers from her ordeal in the woods and describes her night of terror to Steve. Miles drops by Deborah's apartment to pick up some things she needs and meets Mrs. Corey, who expresses an unusual interest in Deborah's condition. Miles realizes that he has seen Mrs. Corey's face somewhere else, but he can't remember where.
Episode #6161: [Monday, 24 December 1979]
Miles tells Nicole about Mrs. Corey's familiarity. Derek visits Deborah and admits that he was wrong about close friendships within the Monticello P.D. Nicole persuades Derek to attend April and Draper's Christmas open house. Nola phones Owen and lies to him that Deborah was abducted and violated by a sex maniac. Later, she phones Deborah's hospital room under the guise of Mrs. Corey. Miles realizes that Mrs. Corey may be Nola Madison in disguise.
Episode #6162: [Tuesday, 25 December 1979]
Draper’s truce with Margo evaporates when she gives April a car as a Christmas gift. Geraldine confides to April that Logan needs a wife exactly like April. Derek gets too close for comfort while expressing his chauvinism to Nicole. Star and Calvin tell Steve and Deborah that they have decided to temporarily delay their wedding due to Deborah’s illness. Deborah finds an edible Christmas “gift” left by Mrs. Corey.
Episode #6163: [Wednesday, 26 December 1979]
Mrs. Corey visits Deborah and encourages her to try the fruitcake that Nola laced with drugs. At the library, Miles learns that there was a woman named Martha Corey accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Deborah becomes ill after eating the cake. Making a connection with Mansion of the Damned, Miles realizes that Mrs. Corey is actually Nola.
Episode #6164: [Thursday, 27 December 1979]
Nola’s next edible “treat” for Deborah includes amphetamines. Miles pays a house call to Deborah’s apartment after receiving a call from a concerned Cliff. Mrs. Corey suggests that Cliff heat some of her soup for Deborah. Miles phones Nola and requests a meeting with her.
Episode #6165: [Friday, 28 December 1979]
April and Draper invite Miles and Nicole to Margo’s penthouse for New Year’s Eve. Deborah confesses to Steve that she’s glad Owen left Monticello. Nancy tries to control her anger over Mike’s interference in her Benny Hayes interview. At Miles’ office, Nola denies Miles’ accusations that she has been masquerading as Mrs. Corey and feeding Deborah drug-laced food. After he threatens to expose her, Nola secretly dumps a bag of amphetamines into Miles’ office water cooler.
Episode #6166: [Monday, 31 December 1979]
Monticello couples pair up to say goodbye to the 1970's, while Miles, stoned on the drugs dumped into his water cooler by Nola, places Nicole in mortal danger on Margo’s penthouse terrace.
Episode #5986: [Friday, 13 April 1979]
Draper pretends to be a deliveryman and gives April flowers with a kiss instead of a delivery signature. On the first day of the murder trial, Geraldine cautions Raven against appearing too joyous over Winter's predicament. Cliff and Draper present their opening remarks to the court. Steve is called to the stand as the first witness, and Cliff shows the court the porno poster for Lacy Lady that Steve and Deborah found in Wade's hotel suite. Against Draper's objections, a portion of the film is played in open court. Next, Cliff calls Amy Berry to the stand. Amy testifies to having heard a gunshot at 9:05, and witnessing a dark haired woman wearing a blue coat with a little white fur collar flee Wade's suite. When Cliff asks that she identify the woman she saw in Wade's suite the day of the murder, Amy points to Raven instead of Winter.
Episode #5987: [Monday, 16 April 1979]
The courtroom erupts in chaos as Cliff insists that Amy mistakenly identified Raven. Amy admits that it was Winter who fled the hotel following the gunshot; however, she recognizes Raven as having visited Wade earlier. A rattled Cliff quickly calls Amy's sister Lila to the stand, and she corroborates having seen Winter leaving after the murder. Logan forces Cliff to request a recess when Raven suddenly runs from the courtroom. Draper assures Mike that defense won the first round. Back at the hotel, Raven grouses to Geraldine about being humiliated in court. Logan follows Raven and chastises her for fleeing the courtroom. Geraldine is mortified to learn her loan to Raven was used to pay off Wade's blackmail. Logan realizes Winter returned to Wade's suite a second time on March 2nd, and he speculates Draper will pounce on the connection. Mike reveals that he had prior knowledge of Raven's involvement with Wade but was forced to keep quiet due to lawyer privilege. Court reconvenes, and Judge Oliveri grants Logan's motion to address the court. Everyone is stunned when Logan plays the videotape showing him accepting a bribe from Wade in exchange for Winter's porn tape.
Episode #5988: [Tuesday, 17 April 1979]
Logan testifies that Raven went to Wade's suite to buy back the blackmail tape. Under Draper's cross examination, Logan is forced to recount the dirty details of Wade's blackmail. Draper scores a minor victory when he gets Logan to admit that the initial blackmail occurred because Logan wanted to help Winter escape her lurid past and start a fresh, clean life. During the lunch recess, Geraldine and Raven speculate that Logan's political career is finished in light of his admission of bribery, and Raven's innocence is still questionable in the opinion of the jurors. Logan demands that Raven take the stand and clear herself of any reasonable doubt that might result in Winter's acquittal. Eliot insists The Unicorn is his alone and asserts his authority over Antoine. On the witness stand Raven flashes back to her final meeting with Wade, in which he offered to give her Logan's bribery tape in exchange for having sex with him. She then recalls stopping outside Wade's suite to eavesdrop on his side of a telephone conversation with another blackmail victim, unaware that the other person was Margo, not Winter.
Episode #5990: [Thursday, 19 April 1979]
When Eliot insists that Margo give him the money to start a restaurant venture, she becomes angry and walks out on him. Later, Eliot decides that he needs to get rid of Margo but control her fortune, and he conspires with Sarah to formulate a plan.
Episode #5991: [Friday, 20 April 1979]
Convinced that Margo murdered Wade, Eliot and Sarah plot to stage a robbery in the penthouse, steal Margo's gun, and send it anonymously to the defense. Logan reveals to Draper that Margo was the caller Raven overheard Wade threatening on the phone, as he was blackmailing her over a manuscript in which he implicated her as the financial backer for his pornography empire.
Episode #5992: [Monday, 23 April 1979]
Margo avoids going home from WMON, while at the penthouse, Sarah is bound and gagged. Eliot and Margo makeup following their quarrel. April bristles when Draper tells her that Wade was blackmailing Margo, and he intends to use it in court to establish reasonable doubt. Realizing he wants to put Margo on the witness stand, April retorts that he's using this against Margo because he hates her. Geraldine brings Hugh Jensen, Monticello's mayor, to have an informal meeting with Logan and Raven, and he reveals that he won't fire Logan but will let the voters decide in the fall election. Eliot and Margo arrive back at the penthouse and discover Sarah, who tells them two big men tied her up and went upstairs in search of jewels. A smirking Eliot phones the police. Draper checks on April after she goes to bed angry at him about Margo. Just then, a court clerk delivers an anonymous package left for Draper, and it turns out to be the gun stolen from Margo.
Episode #5993: [Tuesday, 24 April 1979]
Steve, Deborah, and Calvin investigate the "robbery" at Margo's penthouse. Draper phones Bill and requests that he run the registration number on the gun to find out who owns it before he hands it over to the police. April dreams of the picnic she and Draper took before they were married, and when she wakes up, she and Draper kiss and make up. Nicole and Miles discuss Margo's strange relationship with Eliot and wonder if she married him because Miles rejected her. After Draper drifts off waiting for the police to call, April slips out to recreate his delivery with a kiss. Bill reports to Draper that the gun is registered to Margo and wants it immediately for ballistics testing to determine if it was used to murder Wade. April angrily accuses him of setting it up to win Winter's freedom and railroad Margo into prison.
Episode #5994: [Wednesday, 25 April 1979]
Draper insists that ballistic tests must be made on Margo's gun, resulting in another terrible quarrel with April. Eliot watches with delight as a frantic Margo searches for her gun following the robbery and kicks himself for missing a valuable diamond ring. April phones Margo and learns about the robbery and Margo's missing gun. At police headquarters, Draper and the police theorize about the connection between the penthouse burglary and the gun turning up mysteriously. Raven pressures Logan to cross examine Winter, and when he expresses doubt about her guilt, she threatens to take herself and Jamey away from forever if he lets Winter get acquitted. Draper calls the penthouse and demands that April come home to fight with him, but she refuses.
Episode #5995: [Thursday, 26 April 1979]
The morning after their argument, April can't believe that she spent the night away from Draper. Margo remarks on the coincidence of the gun turning up with Draper right after the burglary and suggests that the police sometimes stage robberies to get evidence. Steve speculates that even if Margo's gun turns out to be the murder weapon, Winter could have stolen it from Margo before committing the crime. Margo hangs up on Steve when he calls to inform her that her gun was retrieved. While Miles and Nicole are at her apartment to pick her up for court, Winter receives an anonymous call from a man who wants to know if she is alone. Later, in the apartment corridor, Tank watches her leave. April returns home, but Draper bristles when she implies that she loves Margo as she does him. Steve phones Draper with the news that Margo's gun is not the murder weapon.
Note: With this episode, Stephanie Braxton assumes the role of Winter Austen from Lori Cardille.
Hal Simms: "The role of Winter Austen is now being played by Stephanie Braxton."
Episode #5996: [Friday, 27 April 1979]
Winter arrives at court and learns about the latest developments in the case. Margo collects her gun from the police and annoys Deborah and Steve by insinuating that Draper's police friends might have been responsible for the robbery. Deborah begins to believe that the burglary was an inside job and is curious about Sarah. Cliff calls traveling salesman Mr. Larrabee to the stand, who testifies to hearing the gunshot at 9:02 p.m. Draper objects to the noise being classified as gunfire when it could have been another sound. Next, Amy Berry returns to the stand to recount her previous testimony, and Draper's objection is over-ruled. But, on cross-examination, Draper manages to introduce Amy and sister Lila's past testimonies in other criminal cases. As Cliff objects, a riled Amy accuses Winter of being a sinner and professes that she will do God's work to ensure that Winter is punished.
Episode #5997: [Monday, 30 April 1979]
Logan and receives an anonymous package containing one of Wade's videotapes. Nicole relates to Winter the story of Wade drugging her in Chicago and making a tape that nearly broke up her relationship with Miles. Draper confides to Mike and Nancy that he really wants to get Margo on the witness stand. Logan stops by Draper and privately attempts to inform him of the just delivered tape and its contents, but Cliff catches him and argues that the case is his now, not Logan's. Back in court, Cliff rests the prosecution's case. Draper begins the defense by calling Winter to the stand and establishes how she met Wade ten years earlier in Chicago. Winter gives a believable, impassioned recount of being lured into the degradation of pornography and later trying desperately to escape her past. Logan becomes uncomfortable as Draper directs his questioning to Winter's relationship with Logan and Wade's exploitation of their association.Under cross-examination, Cliff leads Winter into asserting that she never went into Wade's bedroom the night he was killed. Then he stuns everyone by presenting the videotape which he proclaims was recorded in Wade's bedroom during the murder.
[Tuesday, 1 May 1979]
Pre-empted for President Carter's news conference.
Episode #5998: [Wednesday, 2 May 1979]
Judge Oliveri allows Cliff to introduce the murder tape. Winter becomes hysterical as Cliff plays the tape to the court and launches into a barrage of questions about how she came to be in Wade's bedroom only seconds after he was murdered. Draper requests and is granted a recess until the day after tomorrow. Eliot and Sarah are annoyed that Margo's gun wasn't used to kill Wade. April arrives at the penthouse unexpectedly and almost catches Eliot and Sarah fooling around, but she does note that Sarah's hair is down instead of put up as it usually is when she is working. Nicole tells Margo about the latest twist in the case, and they wonder how Winter can continue to deny ever setting foot in Wade's bedroom when she is clearly next to his body on the tape. Mike and Draper grill Winter about her obvious presence on the tape, but she maintains that she never entered Wade's bedroom the night he was shot. After Winter leaves, Draper confides to Mike that he doesn't know how he can continue to represent Winter when he now believes that she's actually guilty.
Episode #5999: [Thursday, 3 May 1979]
Mike and Draper urge Winter to accept the agreement but she adamantly refuses, arguing that she is innocent of the crime. With Winter steadfast in her claim that she couldn't be the woman on the tape, Mike requests that the prosecution share it with them for another look, and over Cliff's objections, Logan lets them have it.
Episode #6000: [Friday, 2 May 1979]
Reviewing the tape, Mike recognizes a discrepancy between Amy Berry's vivid testimony of seeing Winter wearing a blue coat with a white fur collar, while the woman on the tape is wearing a coat without a collar. Realizing that the tape could be a forgery, Draper has it sent to an expert in videography to examine it for evidence of potential tampering.
Episode # 6001: [Monday, 7 May 1979]
The defense receives proof that the murder tape was electronically altered through the process of chroma key.
Episode # 6002: [Tuesday, 8 May 1979]
Logan and Cliff note Draper's confidence as he and Mike prepare for court. Winter arrives, and Draper assures her that this is going to be her day in court. As the trial commences, Draper redirects by calling Winter back to the stand. He elicits Winter's assertion that she knew about the hidden cameras in Wade's bedroom and was not the woman shown standing by his body on the tape. Under cross-examination, Cliff postulates that in her haste to shoot Wade, Winter forgot about the cameras and never worried about the tape's existence because she had instructed Tank to steal the tape along with the rest of the incriminating evidence. Winter denies involvement with Tank but concedes that the tape in question obviously exists. Logan addresses the jury with a very sympathetic summation, reminding them that justice and sympathy are not incompatible, but begs them to reach the only logical conclusion of Winter's guilt as demonstrated by all of the evidence. Logan is followed by Draper who gives an impassioned summation detailing the tragedy of Winter's life. He segues into the incriminating tape and explains the process of video chroma key in which two images can be combined. Despite Cliff's vociferous objection, Judge Oliveri allows Draper to explain the relevance of chroma key to the case. Draper plays the video of Wade's shooting to the court, while having the courtroom stenographer read back Amy Berry's statement about the events surrounding the gunshot. Everyone is stunned when he points out the discrepancy between Amy's testimony of seeing Winter wearing a blue coat with a fur collar, and the woman on the tape whose coat doesn't have a fur collar. Draper closes with the theory that the real killer chroma keyed Winter's image onto the murder tape in an attempt to frame her for a crime she didn't commit.
Episode #6003: [Wednesday, 9 May 1979]
Winter's jury reaches a verdict.
Episode #6004: [Thursday, 10 May 1979]
April attempts to allay Draper's fears by suggesting that Winter will be freed, and he will become a rich, successful attorney. When she admits she wants a home and is angry that they can't have children to fill it, Draper agrees to consider buying a small cottage and gives April his blessing to begin house hunting following the trial. Winter apologizes to Mike for giving him and Draper a hard time, but in view of recent developments, Mike reassures her that she made the right decision in refusing the DA's plea agreement. Court resumes, and everyone is on tenterhooks as the foreman stands to read the verdict. The courtroom then erupts in jubilation as Winter is found not guilty of Wade's murder. Defeated, Cliff blames Logan for losing their case since he allowed Mike a second look at the tape, but Logan reminds him that the tape was in fact faked, so the correct verdict was rendered. Cliff vows that his career has been killed just as surely as Winter killed Wade. Logan speaks privately with Winter, admitting his happiness over her acquittal, and she tells him that she would have done anything for him, including murder. Later, Logan defends himself against Geraldine's hard facts about the reality of his political career, and he recalls that Raven once threatened to take herself and Jamey away from him if he allowed Winter to be acquitted. Winter considers her future as a free woman, but Miles and Nicole caution her that she is still in danger since Tank obviously murdered Wade and attempted to frame her for the crime. Tank hears a news bulletin announcing the verdict in Winter's trial and phones her, but he hangs up without speaking. Instead, he brandishes a gun and decides it's time to pay Winter a visit.
Episode #6005: [Friday, 11 May 1979]
April has a disastrous meeting with Mr. Brooks, a real estate agent who is acquainted with Margo. Later, April laments to Margo about the meeting with Mr. Brooks and the fact that she and Draper can't afford a new house.Tank turns up at Winter's apartment and begs her to leave Monticello with him. When she refuses, he holds her at gunpoint.
Episode #6006: [Monday, 14 May 1979]
The Unicorn has its grand opening, but instead of attending, Margo meets with Mr. Brooks and persuades him to sell the Scotts a "discount" house, with Margo secretly making up the difference in price. Raven and Logan dine at the Unicorn where Raven and Eliot meet and flirt with one another. Steve and Deborah decide to stop by Winter's apartment to check on her, but she nervously sends them away as a hidden Tank has threatened to kill her if she calls for help.
Episode #6007: [Tuesday, 15 May 1979]
Tank forces Winter to pack for their trip out of Monticello. April and Draper discuss his next career move, and she avoids his questions about her meeting with the real estate agent. April tells Draper about Paige Madison, a wealthy heiress who needs legal representation after being accused of arms smuggling. Margo phones April to tell her about the perfect house, and April learns that Margo is a former acquaintance of Paige Madison's father Owen, a movie director. Winter begs Tank to change his mind about running away. Steve and Deborah return to Winter's apartment, and after playing along with Tank's charade, she suddenly throws the door open and runs. Tank flees through the window, while Steve races after him to the roof, and Deborah goes to cover the street exits. On the roof, Steve and Tank engage in a shootout. Exchanging gunfire, Steve is knocked down, and Tank topples over the roof while attempting to reach the fire escape. Before Steve can recover, Winter pries Tank's fingers away from the ledge where he dangles precariously, and he falls to his death with a blood curdling scream.
Episode # 6008: [Wednesday, 16 May 1979]
Steve comforts Winter, who lies that she did everything she could to save Tank. Later, Winter claims that before he was killed, Tank confessed to Wade's murder and the frame up. Draper rejects April's suggestion that they use Margo's friendship with Owen Madison to meet his daughter Paige, but he reluctantly agrees to see the house Margo found in Oakdale. Eliot returns from opening night at the Unicorn and avoids Margo's sexual advances. Calvin suggests to Winter that with Tank dead, the Wade Meecham case will officially be closed. After the police leave, Winter flashes back to her last meeting with with Wade which proceeds just as she described in court, except that she did enter his bedroom with a gun and fired the fatal shot after he taunted her that she would never be free of him.
Episode #6009: [Thursday, 17 May 1979]
Reading a newspaper account of her acquittal, Winter tearfully remembers shooting Wade. Miles attempts to assuage Steve's guilt about Tank's death by pointing out that Tank was killed from a fall from the roof, not Steve's bullet, which only grazed Tank's leg. Steve rejects Miles' suggestion that he discuss his guilt with the police psychologist Dr. Harding. Bill informs Logan that as far as the Monticello P.D. is concerned, Tank's death has officially truncated any further investigation into Wade's murder. They go over the Paige Madison case, which they fear will generate even more media attention than the Meecham murder. Raven presses Logan about their wedding and makes him promise to never mention Winter's name again. Bill surprises the Three Muskateers with news of Deborah's promotion to a rank of detective. Raven convinces Winter to meet for a drink and a little talk about Logan. Winter flashes back to having a drink in the hotel bar after shooting Wade and informing Tank of Wade's death. After seeing the gun in her purse and recognizing it as the one he gave to her, Tank searched Wade's hotel suite, where he retrieved the suitcase of Raven's blackmail money, and the videotape that recorded the shooting. Tank and Winter met again in the bar, and he told her that Wade's hidden bedroom video camera had been activated. Winter declared with certainty her fear that she would be arrested for the crime since Wade's neighbors saw her running to the elevator and could identify her.
Episode #6010: [Friday, 18 May 1979]
Winter continues flashing back to events the night she shot Wade. After learning that the crime was recorded on tape, Tank wanted to destroy it, but Winter insisted she wanted to go to WMON and watch it. Miles theorizes that the murder weapon will be identified as Tank's gun. Nicole admits that she always liked him.and suddenly remembers that she saw him about 1 a.m the night of the murder. Winter recalls watching the tape at WMON, where Tank showed her the copy of Margo's manuscript that he stole and suggested that many people had a reason to want Wade dead. Winter realized that if somehow the tape was altered, people would believe that she was being framed, and people who are framed are innocent. Tank worried that he would be implicated in the crime, but Winter convinced him that his alibi of being in a poker game would hold up. Together, they plan to make a minor but significant alteration to the tape, such as changing Winter's coat, to fool everyone into believing that she was framed. As they later watch the tape Tank altered with chroma key, Winter promises Tank that she will leave Monticello with him once she is cleared of the crime.
Episode #6012: [Tuesday, 22 May 1979]
Logan and Raven are married. Nicole discovers a videotape at WMON that contains the shots of Winter that Tank used to make the altered murder tape, but she is dismayed to see that it is dated March 2nd, when Winter claims the shots had been taped weeks before.
Episode #6013: [Wednesday, 23 May 1979]
Nicole learns that the tape with shots of Winter taken by Wade had to have been made on March 2nd. April confesses to Miles that Margo secretly underwrote their new house, and they're keeping the truth from Draper. Draper, Mike, and Nancy talk about the Paige Madison case, and the wonder if she became involved for kicks or because she was in love with gang leader Tobias. April is overjoyed when Draper admits he went to see the Oakdale house and loves it. Raven and Logan welcome Geraldine into their new family with Jamey. Geraldine wishes she could protect Jamey from all of the disappointments he will one day face in life. Nicole shows Winter the tape of Tank's wild shots used for the chroma key, and Winter insists it must be incorrectly dated.
Episode #6018: [Thursday, 31 May 1979]
Thinking the house is too good to be true, a suspicious Draper questions Mr. Brooks, who puts his foot in his mouth by suggesting the second bedroom would make a nice nursery. April tells Draper about Raven's insensitive comments regarding motherhood, and he broaches the subject of adoption. Miles shares with Nicole April's secret about Margo covertly paying one third of the cost of the Oakdale house behind Draper's back. Miles and Nicole worry about Draper's reaction should he ever find out the truth. Winter reads the station's fan mail to Margo, and after hearing about overzealous viewers who threaten violence, Winter has an idea of how to deal with Nicole's continued snooping. Later, Winter writes an anonymous letter pretending to be a deranged fan who threatens to put a knife in Nicole's back.
Episode #6019: [Friday, 1 June 1979]
April and Draper celebrate finalizing the deal on the Oakdale house. Nicole opens Winter's anonymous letter but dismisses it as the ramblings of a crackpot, but Miles fears it might be more dangerous than she realizes.
Episode #6020: [Monday, 4 June 1979]
April and Draper warn Nicole, working the 11 o'clock news, to be careful after receiving the prank letter that threatened her. Nicole rejects Miles' insistence that he escort her to the TV studio. When April wants to watch Nicole's feature story, Draper can't escape from hearing about Paige Madison. April believes that Draper and Paige are destined to meet. Margo visits Owen on the pretext of getting reacquainted.Owen confides to her that his wife Nola, a veteran movie star, is drying out in a Los Angeles clinic after he beloved son Brian ran off with the Navy three years ago. Margo attempts to "solve" one of Owen's problems by promoting Draper as Paige's potential legal counsel. Winter flashes back to killing Tank and composes another anonymous, threatening note to Nicole. After Margo's visit, Paige grouses to Owen that she is tired of stodgy old attorneys and wants to meet the youthful, ambitious Draper Scott. At WMON, Winter gives Nicole her mail and points out a hand-delivered envelope. Nicole opens the letter which contains a note promising her that she won't live to see the Paige Madison story broadcast.
Episode #6023: [Thursday, 7 June 1979]
Nicole receives another threatening note, warning that tonight could be her farewell television appearance, and the missive is signed in real blood. Meanwhile, a menacing Winter sucks blood from her finger tip and watches Nicole from the studio shadows.
Winter's note: "Dear TV Queen, it's just about time for you to go to that big newsroom in the sky. Tonight could be your farewell appearance on WMON. One thing is for sure. I'm gonna help you sign off real soon...in blood...the way I signed this."
Episode #6024: [Friday, 8 June 1979]
Armed with his new gun, Joey attempts to mug a stranger on the street, but is outwitted.
Episode #6025: [Monday, 11 June 1979]
Draper agrees to represent Paige Madison. Winter lies that she saw Nicole's deranged fan lurking around WMON. Later that night, as she and Nicole work alone in the studio, Winter grabs a pair of large scissors and stab Nicole in the back, making it appear that she was the victim of the fan.
Episode #6026: [Tuesday, 12 June 1979]
While Nicole practices her weather report on the empty WMON set, Winter approaches her from behind with the scissors, and prepares to stab her in the back. As Winter raises her arm to strike, Nicole glimpses a wide shot of the set on a TV monitor and leaps to her feet. Nicole confronts Winter about concocting the deranged fan scheme, and realizing that she is in terrible danger, pretends that she doesn't realize that Winter cooperated with Tank to alter the videotape and fool the jury. Winter attempts to stab Nicole, who escapes into the studio sound stage with Winter in pursuit. Winter manages to trap Nicole on the studio floor. Steve and Bill are unable to find any clues in Nicole's last letter. Bill surmises that the blood signature means they can't dismiss the letters as crank instead of a serious threat. Bill accuses Steve of being gun shy since the shootout with Tank and encourages him to take some time off, but Steve refuses. Calvin and Deborah tease Cliff over a press release that Logan has assigned him to prosecute Paige Madison, who's being defended by Cliff's rival Draper. At WMON, Nicole screams for help, but with the soundproof walls, no one can hear her. Miles phones to tell Nicole that he has been delayed at the hospital. Winter offers to escort Nicole home for him. Winter activates the microphones on the studio floor and informs a terrified Nicole that Miles won't be coming for her.
Episode #6027 [Wednesday, 13 June 1979]
Bill is visited by Davey Brown, a former Monticello P.D. inspector who relates his near mugging the day he arrived in Monticello. Steve has an idea who the perp was when Davey describes him as a dark-haired teenager wearing a t-shirt with a unicorn insignia on it. At the Unicorn, Mickey confides in Eliot a hatred of authority figures. Margo phones Eliot, imploring him to come home and then dismisses Sarah for the night. In the lobby of the apartment building, Sarah has Oscar arrange a cab for her to the Unicorn. Steve stops by the restaurant to run his theory by Mickey about Joey holding up Davey, but Mickey argues that the only gun Joey owns is a cap pistol. Eliot mistakenly refers to Sarah as "Raven" when he learns he has a brunette visitor. Steve phones WMON and offers to stop by, but Winter convinces him to change his plans by claiming Miles is on his way to escort them home safely. Nicole reminds Winter that she has nothing because under double jeopardy, Winter can't be tried again for Wade's murder even if it is proven publicly that she was actually the killer. Winter recounts Wade's blackmail and laments being forced to silence Tank. Nicole is horrified to realize that Winter has confessed to murdering Tank, and now Winter will be forced to kill her, too.
Episode #6028 [Thursday, 14 June 1979]
Winter goes to the studio floor to stab Nicole, but Nicole runs and hides. A panicked Winter searches the studio while begging Nicole to come out from her hiding place with promises of leaving Monticello . Nicole manages to reach the circuit breaker and plunges the studio into darkness. Bill stops by Deborah's office to talk about Steve, and Deborah assures him that they aren't having personal problems that would affect Steve's work performance. Steve phones Deborah and persuades her to have coffee with him after her shift ends. Eliot offers Steve a drink, and Steve questions him about Joey. Mickey grills Joey about his recent activities and discovers that Joey has procured a revolver. Steve admits to Deborah that he is a little gun shy since shooting Tank. Nicole cowers in the shadows of the studio while Winter uses a portable spotlight and locates her. As Winter approaches with the scissors, Nicole pleads for her life and manages to knock her off balance. Nicole climbs a ladder to the catwalk high above the studio floor, with Winter in hot pursuit. Winter catches up with Nicole, and the as the two struggle on the edge of the catwalk, one falls over the edge to the studio floor.
Episode #6029 [Friday, 15 June 1979]
Nicole looks on in horror through the catwalk grating at Winter, who has plunged to the studio floor. Nicole manages to phone the police for help. Before Steve and Deborah can leave for their coffee break, Bill learns that something terrible has happened at the studio and phones a hysterical Nicole at WMON. Margo sharply reminds Eliot he's a married man when he comes home very late from the Unicorn and talks about inviting Raven and Logan for dinner and seems to have more of an interest in the D.A.'s wife. Margo receives a call about the trouble at WMON. Raven grouses about being tied down as a mother and wife, and during their discussion, Cliff phones with news of Winter's fall at the TV studio. Nicole stuns Miles and the police with the story of Winter's murderous activities, but she says that Winter destroyed Tank's tape and is guilty, but she can't prove it.
Episode #6030 [Monday, June 18, 1979]
Bill, Steve, and Deborah discover that Winter's attack on Nicole was recorded by studio cameras. Draper and Logan can't believe that Winter fooled them, and they receive word from Cliff of Winter's imminent death and her request to see Logan. Calvin passes on a tip to Deborah and Steve that a local store is going to be robbed, and he and Deborah move in for a stakeout. Logan visits Winter, who begs him to tell him that he still loves her, but he hesitates, and she dies without hearing the words. Joey and his buddy rob the store. Steve and Deborah chase the pair through the streets of Monticello, but are separated when Deborah chases Joey's buddy into the park, and Steve pursues Joey. Sitting on his fire escape, Mickey witnesses the action and runs to help his brother. Cornered, Joey aims a gun at Steve, who shoots him in the chest. After Deborah is overpowered in the park and screams for help, Steve leaves Joey. Deborah and Steve gain control over the perp and return to Joey. Mickey, who has arrived in the interim, informs them that it's too late to help because Joey died. Mickey accuses Steve of shooting an unarmed 14 year-old kid, and Steve is mortified to pick up Joey's gun and realizes that it's only a cap pistol.
Note: Final appearance of Stephanie Braxton as Winter Austen.
Episode #6049 [Friday, 13 July 1979]
Paige slips away from the house to meet with one of her former gang members at The Electric Balloon Disco. As Paige parties on the crowded dance floor, a knife is drawn. Calvin, who tailed Paige to the disco, rushes to the rescue just as a woman's scream pierces the club
Episode #6050: [Monday, 16 July 1979]
At the Electric Balloon, Calvin chases the gang member through the club and into a utility room, while Paige is unharmed. As Calvin draws his gun, Paige’s assassin approaches him from behind and attempts to stab Calvin in the back, but is electrocuted to death when his knife accidentally makes contact with an electrical transformer.
Episode #6051: [Tuesday, 17 July 1979]
Paige meets with Draper and Logan following the assassination attempt at the disco and agrees to cooperate fully with the police to avoid prosecution. Steve accepts Owen's offer to be a paid bodyguard for Paige. After phoning to assure Paige he's not out to harm her, Jed produces a gun.
Episode #6052: [Wednesday, 18 July 1979]
Mike turns down an attractive job offer from New York attorney Philip Seward, and later, Seward arranges a meeting with Draper.
Episode #6053: [Thursday, 19 July 1979]
Seward offers Draper a junior partnership in his law firm Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside. Raven and Eliot plan an assignation at couples resort Palace Park.
Episode #6054: [Friday, 20 July 1979]
April reacts badly to Draper’s “good news” that he’s being considered for a junior partnership in the New York law firm. After Paige agrees to meet secretly with Jed, Jed is instructed by Tobias to kill her.
Episode #6055: [Monday, 23 July 1979]
Steve invites Paige to dinner, and she passes the location on to Jed so that they can rendezvous. Later, Paige is enraged to learn that Steve has tricked her into going to another restaurant, while Calvin and Deborah await Jed’s arrival at the other restaurant, where gunshots are fired. Deborah phones Steve with the news that Jed escaped, and Calvin was shot.
Episode #6056: [Tuesday, 24 July 1979]
Brian blames Steve for Jed's attempt on Paige's life. Steve and Deborah anxiously await news of Calvin's medical condition. Miles & Nicole and Logan & Raven arrive at Palace Park. Raven and Eliot conspire to meet in Eliot’s room while Logan is on the golf course.
Episode #6057: [Wednesday, 25 July 1979]
Vacationing at Palace Park with Nicole, Miles accidentally discovers that Raven and Eliot are having an affair right under Logan's nose.
Episode #6058: [Thursday, 26 July 1979]
Owen is enchanted by Deborah, and Nola issues her a stern warning. At the Scott dinner party, Mike and Nancy must referee April and Draper's argument about his New York job offer.
Episode #6059: [Friday, 27 July 1979]
While Owen and Nola run old home movies of their life in California, Steve notices that Paige leaves the room after she and Brian are shown kissing one another in a clip of Paige’s birthday party. Alone in her room, Louise opens a drawer, revealing a large knife, and vows to get Paige.
Episode #6060: [Monday, 30 July 1979]
Deborah rebuffs Cliff's advances. April agrees to accompany Draper to New York. A knife-wielding Louise prepares to stab Paige.
Episode #6061: [Tuesday, 31 July 1979]
Raven explains her behavior at Palace Park to Logan. Louise's attempt to kill Paige is thwarted.
Episode #6062: [Wednesday, 1 August 1979]
Margo is frantic after April reveals that she and Draper might move to New York. Seward informs Mike that Draper is assured of getting the job.
Episode #6063: [Thursday, 2 August 1979]
Nola pays a visit to Owen's old flame Margo. Steve receives a call from the hospital informing him that Calvin's condition has taken a turn for the worse.
Episode #6064: [Friday, 3 August 1979]
Seward tells Draper that his final approval rests with David Henson, a hospitalized partner in the law firm. After Steve realizes he was tricked, he calls to warn Paige, just as Louise breaks into her room.
Episode #6065: [Monday, 6 August 1979]
As Paige and a knife-wielding Louise struggle, gunshots ring out. Steve finds a blood trail in the Madison home.
Episode #6066: [Tuesday, 7 August 1979]
Margo blackmails old friend David Henson into refusing Draper's employment offer.
Episode #6067: [Wednesday, 8 August 1979]
Draper learns that he didn't get the junior partnership in Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside.
Episode #6068: [Thursday, 9 August 1979]
Jed lurks outside Calvin's hospital room while Steve and Paige visit. Draper is inconsolable over losing the partnership.
Episode #6069: [Friday, 10 August 1979]
After their visit with Calvin, Paige and Steve are followed to the hospital parking garage by Jed, who attempts to shoot Paige. Steve draws his gun and has Jed in his sight, but he is unable to pull the trigger, giving Jed the opportunity to escape. At the Unicorn, Mickey remembers switching Joey’s real gun for a toy cap pistol, after Joey was shot by Steve.
Episode #6070: [Monday, 13 August 1979]
Raven phones Eliot with news that Logan is working very late and tries to arrange a rendezvous. Eliot tricks Margo into postponing their romantic dinner for two by claiming that former Children of the Earth disciple “Betsey Johnson” is threatening suicide and will only speak with him. Raven leaves Jamey unattended to meet Eliot at a motel for their assignation. While Nicole, Draper, and April wait for Miles at The Unicorn, he is kidnapped from his office by a masked gunman.
Episode #6071: [Tuesday, 14 August 1979]
In a deserted warehouse, the masked gunman forces a reluctant Miles to treat a gunshot victim who turns out to be Louise. Margo tries to assuage Nicole’s fear that a missing Miles is in danger. Eliot is appalled at Raven’s confession that instead of getting a baby sitter, she left Jamey at home alone.
Episode #6072: [Wednesday, 15 August 1979]
Louise lets it slip to Miles that his kidnapper is Paige's former gang leader Tobias. A worried Nicole phones Deborah when Miles fails to arrive, but Deborah has no report of Miles being involved in an accident. Raven returns home to find that a furious Logan has arrived before her and found Jamey unattended. Eliot stops by the Cavanaugh home to pick up Margo and has a hard time keeping his “suicide story” straight. Tobias informs Miles that even if Louise survives, he might not let Miles leave alive.
Episode #6073: [Thursday, 16 August 1979]
After discovering that Louise has died, Miles runs for his life while Tobias fires shots at him.
Episode #6074: [Friday, 17 August 1979]
Alone in the house, Paige spots Tobias outside her room. Miles tells the police about his kidnapping.
Episode #6075: [Monday, 20 August 1979]
Bill and Deborah question Miles about the kidnapping. Paige lies to Steve in order to secretly meet with Tobias. Draper apologizes to April for his childish behavior. Paige is tormented by dreams of Brian and Nola.
Episode #6076: [Tuesday, 21 August 1979]
Just as Tobias is about to murder Paige, Steve shoots and kills Tobias. When Tobias’ ski mask is removed, Paige realizes the killer was actually a disguised Jed.
Episode #6077: [Wednesday, 22 August 1979]
Mrs. Fenner, a real estate agent, drops by the Scott home while Draper is alone and inadvertently reveals that the house cost more than he paid for it. Nola's old flame Eddie Vaughn arrives in Monticello with a script for the B-horror movie Mansion of the Damned.
Episode #6078: [Thursday, 23 August 1979]
April admits to an enraged Draper that Margo made the down payment on their house. Nola overhears Owen's refusal to produce Mansion of the Damned and comments about Nola being past her prime. Owen expresses concern to Eddie when he realizes that Nola overheard their conversation and left. At the Unicorn, Mickey befriends a boozing Nola. Raven and Eliot’s impromptu dinner is interrupted by Sarah, who catches them in an embrace.
Episode #6079: [Friday, 24 August 1979]
A drunken Nola meets Eliot. Facing off over Eliot, Raven volleys Sarah’s insults with a slap to the face. At the Unicorn to retrieve Nola, Paige makes eye contact with Mickey, and after following him outside, she greets him as Tobias.
Episode #6080: [Monday, 27 August 1979]
Brian collects a drunken Nola from The Unicorn. Mickey assures Paige that the assassins are acting alone, and he does not intend her any harm, but he warns her that Zack still wants to kill her.
Episode #6081: [Tuesday, 28 August 1979]
After begging Steve to stay on as her bodyguard, Paige is forced to admit that Tobias warned her about Zack’s murderous intentions. Owen promises Nola that he’ll reconsider producing Mansion of the Damned. Mickey meets with Zack and urges him to kill Paige.
Episode #6082: [Wednesday, 29 August 1979]
Logan asks Draper to expedite adoption proceedings for Jamey. Mickey orders Zack to kill Paige and plots to “accidentally” shoot Steve in melee as revenge for Joey’s death. Calvin is able to stand and walk to Star.
Episode #6083: [Thursday, 30 August 1979]
Owen agrees to produce Mansion of the Damned. At The Unicorn, Zack takes aim at Paige and Steve.
Episode #6084: [Friday, 31 August 1979]
Mickey saves Paige and Steve from Zack's assassination attempt. Owen has a stunning revelation about Brian's paternity.
Episode #6085: [Monday, 3 September 1979]
Nola convinces Paige that Brian will only do Mansion of the Damned if Paige agrees to play Patience Revere. Bill warns an indignant Mickey that the police will have to investigate the shooting at the The Unicorn, even though Mickey acted in self-defense Steve is intrigued by the gun Mickey used to kill Zack. After Margo suggests Eliot shut The Unicorn down for a week to let bad publicity die down, Eliot realizes it’s the perfect opportunity for him to rendezvous with Raven.
Episode #6086: [Tuesday, 4 September 1979]
On the eve of Logan’s campaign tour, Raven feigns a case of the flu so that she can stay in Monticello and meet with Eliot. While packing up to leave the Madison home, Steve remembers Joey’s death and the shooting at The Unicorn, then he realizes that Mickey’s gun was the same weapon Joey at aimed at him just before being shot.
Episode #6087: [Wednesday, 5 September 1979]
Steve confronts Mickey about Joey's gun, but Mickey denies that they’re the same weapon. Before leaving for the campaign tour, Logan gives Geraldine the keys to his apartment and asks her to check up on Raven. Cliff makes a nuisance of himself trying to impress Geraldine. Geraldine arrives at Logan’s while Raven and Eliot are frolicking in bed.
Episode #6088: [Thursday, 6 September 1979]
After Geraldine finds Eliot in Raven's bed, Raven threatens to never let her see Jamey again if she exposes the affair to Logan. Mike receives a letter from Philip Seward requesting a meeting regarding Draper. Logan decides to return home early.
Episode #6089: [Friday, 7 September 1979]
Steve gets proof that Joey owned Mickey’s gun. Bill makes Calvin deputy chief of police. Nola’s joke about Satan incurs nature’s wrath. Logan arrives unexpectedly and catches Raven and Eliot together.
Episode #6090: [Monday, 10 September 1979]
Logan’s argument with Raven turns physical. Mickey tells Eliot he has plans to leave Monticello. While visiting with Mike and Nancy, Seward speculates that Margo intentionally destroyed Draper’s chances of receiving the junior partnership at Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside. Raven warns Logan that he’ll never get custody of Jamey.
Episode #6091: [Tuesday, 11 September 1979]
Eddie and Owen find an old movie studio in which to produce Mansion of the Damned. Deborah greets Steve’s return to the police force with a kiss, but later, she accepts a date with Owen. Brian stuns Paige with the news that he’s her biological brother.
Episode #6092: [Wednesday, 12 September 1979]
Logan meets with Draper to discuss his legal rights toward Jamey. Raven assures Geraldine that she has plans for Logan. A betrayed Paige runs to Mickey and agrees to leave Monticello with him.
Episode #6093: [Thursday, 13 September 1979]
April admits to Margo that having Jamey around makes her long for motherhood. Nola witnesses a satanic vision in the fireplace. Margo’s curiosity is aroused when Eliot arrives home early from his “recreation”. Raven is unable to dissuade Logan from packing his bags to move out. Paige realizes she’s in danger after finding Mickey’s briefcase containing a million dollars.
Episode #6094: [Friday, 14 September 1979]
Raven stuns Logan with the news that she’s going to live with Nadine in London. Bill gives Steve permission to strong-arm Mickey. Before leaving for England, Raven delivers a shocking parting gift to April and Draper. Mickey leaves Paige for dead, and Steve's confrontation with Mickey has fatal consequences.
Notes: This is the final appearance of Mandel Kramer as Chief of Police Bill Marceau. Kramer was the longest-serving member of the cast at the time of his departure, having played Bill over 20 years. Sharon Gabet also departs the cast as Raven Swift, though she returns in the future.
Episode #6095: [Monday, 17 September 1979]
April delays meeting with Logan to decide who will raise Jamey. Steve explains to Deborah what caused Mickey’s fatal plunge through the window. Deborah and Steve discover Paige, who is rushed to the hospital. Nola arrives at Monticello General to witness an intimate moment between Owen and Deborah.
Episode #6096: [Tuesday, 18 September 1979]
April angrily refuses to hand Jamey over to Logan. Owen attempts to explain to Paige why he kept Brian’s paternity a secret. Logan announces that the DA’s office has dropped all charges against Paige. April pays a professional visit to Mike to learn what her rights are concerning Jamey’s guardianship.
Episode #6097: [Wednesday, 19 September 1979]
Nola’s impromptu reading of the Mansion of the Damned script has an explosive ending when a spotlight explodes. April receives Margo’s blessing to pursue motherhood with Jamey. Draper learns from Mike that April intends to petition the court for legal guardianship of Jamey. After being spurned by Eliot, Sarah informs Margo that Eliot is having an affair with Raven.
Episode #6098: [Thursday, 20 September 1979]
Trent Archer, Nola’s self-centered leading man, arrives in Monticello. Cliff confides to Steve that he spotted Deborah having a romantic dinner with Owen. While Nola invokes one of Hester’s love incantations, Owen and Deborah grow very close.
Episode #6099: [Friday, 21 September 1979]
April begs Draper not to give up on adopting Jamey. Geraldine makes Logan a touching offer to combine their households. April visits Miles and Nicole to argue her case about Jamey’s adoption, but when she returns home, she discovers that Jamey is gone. After Draper admits that he gave Jamey back to Logan, April slaps him and runs out of the house.
Episode #6100: [Monday, 24 September 1979]
(Episode missing or unavailable from Televest). Draper is unable to stop April from leaving. Margo is thrilled when April arrives at the penthouse and reveals that she has left her husband.
Episode #6101: [Tuesday, 25 September 1979]
Margo offers to host a party at her penthouse to launch Mansion of the Damned. Deborah receives a token of appreciation from Owen. April informs Draper that she needs time apart from him. Sarah phones Eliot and offers to sell him the jewels they stole from Margo in the faked robbery last spring.
Episode #6102: [Wednesday, 26 September 1979]
While planning the Mansion of the Damned launch party, Eddie meets April and is intrigued by her affinity for the occult. Nola gives Deborah a special invitation to the party. Draper asks Miles and Nicole to intercede in his fight with April. April discovers that Draper is representing Logan and vows to divorce him if he continues.
Episode #6103: [Thursday, 27 September 1979]
At the Mansion of the Damned launch party, Sarah and Eliot make secret plans to meet while Margo is out. Eliot is intrigued after he learns from arriving director Jason Reinhart that Nola is a very wealthy woman. April resents Miles and Nicole’s interference, when they refuse to side with her against Logan and Draper. While Margo and Trent perform a scene from the script, Nicole sees a terrifying apparition on Margo’s terrace.
Episode #6104: [Friday, 28 September 1979]
Margo offers Logan $150, 000 paid out over five years if Logan allows April and Draper to legally adopt Jamey. Nicole insists to Miles that she saw an apparition on Margo’s terrace, but he believes it was an optical illusion. April accidently discovers Eliot and Sarah getting cozy in the penthouse, and after Eliot insinuates he could throw April off the terrace and make it look like suicide, April takes an accidental fall.
Episode #6105: [Monday, 1 October 1979]
Eliot leaves an injured April without calling for help. Margo and Geraldine draw battle lines over Margo’s refusal to convince April that Jamey belongs with Logan. Deborah confides in Nancy about her relationship with Owen. The Madisons receive a letter stating that Hester’s spells are real. Logan tells a furious Draper about Margo’s outrageous offer. Margo returns to the penthouse and discovers April’s body on the floor.
Episode #6106: [Tuesday, 2 October 1979]
Reports of strange lights emanating from the Mansion of the Damned studio arouse the curiosity of Deborah, Steve, and Calvin. Margo blames herself for April’s accident, and faces questions from Draper and Logan about her attempt to buy Jamey. Draper learns that April’s fall didn’t result in a serious injury, but Dr. Wallace stuns him with the news that April is pregnant.
Episode #6107: [Wednesday, 3 October 1979]
Draper breaks the news to April that they're having a baby of their own, and the couple reconciles. Margo insists on discussing the incident with Eliot and although April is reluctant to give all the details, Margo is forced to realize the uncomfortable truth about her husband.
Episode #6108: [Thursday, 4 October 1979]
Nola spies on Owen and Deborah, who are kissing in a restaurant. Later, Owen admits to Nola that he is seeing Deborah. April declines Steve’s offer to press assault charges against Eliot. Margo orders Eliot out of her home and out her life. Paige and Brian investigate the movie studio for strange lights and find a box containing the Satanic Bible and Hester Atherton’s life story. During a heated argument with Owen, a spurned Nola screams one of Hester’s spells, meanwhile, at the Mansion of the Damned studio, a wall flat topples and nearly crushes her.
Episode #6109: [Friday, 5 October 1979]
Logan visits a hospitalized April, and the two reconcile their differences about Jamey. Brian admits to Owen that he knows about Owen and Deborah’s relationship. While rehearsing a scene, Trent complains about it being hot as hell on the Mansion set and suddenly collapses.
Episode #6110: [Monday, 8 October 1979]
Paige meets with Deborah and confronts her about her relationship with Owen, unaware that they’ve been followed to the restaurant by Nola. Owen suggests that Trent have a physical from Miles. April tells Miles and Nicole about Eddie’s interest in her psychic abilities. A ghost is spotted on the Mansion of the Damned set.
[Tuesday, 9 October 1979]
Pre-empted for ABC News coverage of President Carter’s press conference.
Episode #6111: [Wednesday, 10 October 1979]
Calvin and Star announce their engagement to Steve and Deborah. While lurking outside Deborah’s apartment building, Nola meets news vendor Rachel Barnes and decides to take a photograph of her face. Margo admits to April that she was right about Eliot being untrustworthy. After Miles dismisses Trent’s ailment as superstition, Trent gets the shock of his life while reading Hester Atherton’s manuscript.
Episode #6112: [Thursday, 11 October, 1979]:
(Episode missing or unavailable from Televest). Trent is stunned to see Nola in her Hester Atherton makeup.
Episode #6113: [Friday, 12 October 1979]
An unhinged Margo admits to Nicole that she hates Eliot. After Owen remembers that Nola takes on the life of her parts, Nola speculates that she might actually inherit the powers of a witch. While rehearsing with Nola and Chris Rafferty, Trent becomes terrified and warns Owen that they’ll all die if production on the film continues.
Episode #6114: [Monday, 15 October 1979]
Owen reveals that Trent has fled back to Hollywood. Nola meets a drunken Eliot at the Unicorn and decides he would be the perfect replacement for Trent Archer. April tells Draper that she agreed to Eddie’s request for her to perform a psychic experiment on the Mansion of the Damned set, but she’s only doing it for the money. Later, on the darkened set, April sees the apparition of a woman on the balcony and screams in terror.
Episode #6115: [Tuesday 16 October 1979]
Reporters doubt April and Eddie’s account of seeing a vision on the movie set. Owen agrees to give Eliot a screen test for the Nicholas Harriman role. Mike decides to meet David Henson in New York and get to the bottom of Henson’s rejection of Draper. Draper and Miles doubt that April saw a ghost, but April’s description of the image reminds Nicole of the eerie vision she saw on Margo’s terrace the night of the Mansion of the Damned launch party.
Episode #6116: [Wednesday 17 October 1979]
Paige meets Deborah for lunch and warns her that she’s afraid that Nola will hurt both of them. While performing a scene with Chris Rafferty and Willard Masefield, Nola tries to strangle Paige. Steve laments to Calvin about Deborah’s budding relationship with Owen. When Deborah returns from her lunch Paige and finds her front door ajar, building superintendent Mr. Bailey informs her that he did some work in her apartment. However, when Deborah enters, she finds that someone has completely ransacked the flat.
Episode #6117: [Thursday, 18 October 1979]:
(Episode missing or unavailable from Televest). Mike plans a quick business trip to Manhattan and decides to meet with David Henson to ascertain the exact reason Draper was denied the junior partnership in the Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside firm.
Episode #6118: [Friday 19 October 1979]
In New York, Mike meets with David Henson, who confesses he was blackmailed by Margo into blackballing Draper from their law firm. While dining with Nancy to discuss Owen’s decision to divorce Nola, Deborah busts drug dealer Benny Hayes. Margo offers to take April on a month-long trip to Europe. Deborah receives harassing calls from an unseen caller, who hangs up after playing Gregorian chants.
Episode #6119: [Monday, 22 October 1979]
Nicole visits the Mansion of the Damned set, where Eddie assures her that a film-curse doesn’t exist. Cliff presents Deborah with a rose he intercepted from Owen. Deborah tells Steve and Calvin about the phone calls and Gregorian chants, meanwhile, the same chant is being used as a music cue in Owen’s film. While the cameras are rolling for a Mansion of the Damned scene, a falling arc light narrowly misses Paige and Nola, but in the confusion following the accident, Jason Reinhart’s lifeless body is discovered.
Episode #6120: [Tuesday, 23 October 1979]
After hearing Nicole’s TV broadcast about Jason’s death on the Mansion of the Damned set, April is convinced the curse is real. Miles reports to Calvin and Steve that Jason Reinhart’s death was from natural causes. Mike informs Draper that David Henson wants to meet him and reconsider the New York job offer. The police commissioner confides to Calvin that Bill Marceau has retired and will be replaced by Derek Mallory. Margo accidentally tells April about her part in keeping Draper from getting the job with Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside.
Episode #6121: [Wednesday, 24 October 1979]
April warns Margo that Draper will be angry enough to kill if he learns what she has done. Brian reluctantly agrees to Owen and Nola’s request to direct Mansion of the Damned, and is jealous during a love scene between Paige and Chris Rafferty. Nola stuns everyone with her convincing makeup, then she terrorizes Paige with a rat. April agrees to keep Margo’s secret after Margo phones David Henson and asks him to give Draper a second chance. After April leaves, Margo phones David again and blackmails him into refusing Draper a second time.
Episode #6122: [Thursday, 25 October 1979]
After she receives another crank phone call, Steve assures Deborah that he’ll always be there for her. Logan reveals to Geraldine that he has received official separation papers from Raven. Paige agrees to continue working on Mansion of the Damned and is kissed by Brian. David Henson informs Draper that their meeting could be delayed up to a month due because he has to go in hospital. While snooping around the darkened Mansion of the Damned set, Deborah gets the scare of her life.
Episode #6123: [Friday, 26 October 1979]
Owen confides to Eddie that he plans to divorce Nola as soon as the movie is completed. Officer Birdwell summons Steve to the movie set after seeing Deborah wandering around the darkness. Nola dreams that she is a real witch who can stop Deborah from taking what’s hers. Eddie and Nola laugh about how well they’ve set up the “cursed” picture. While walking around the Mansion of the Damned set, Steve is the victim of Eddie’s next rigged accident when he’s decked by a falling chandelier.
Episode #6124: [Monday, 29 October 1979]
Brian sees something disturbing in Nola’s eyes. Steve recalls the accident for Calvin. Nola promises Eddie she’ll plan one final publicity stunt to top the others. After learning about Steve’s accident, Deborah realizes she needs to have a serious talk with Owen. Paige catches Nola playing a Gregorian chant over the phone. Miles tells Steve that Nola’s a makeup expert. After Chris Rafferty entertains the company with the curse of Macbeth and an actor killing another onstage, Nola plays a similar scene with Paige, who screams in terror as Nola suddenly stabs her with a dagger.
Episode #6125: [Tuesday, 30 October 1979]
Nola terrifies the wits out of Paige with a trick dagger during the knifing scene. While April and Draper visit Margo, April questions David Henson’s sudden illness. The police commissioner introduces Calvin, Deborah, and Steve to Derek Mallory, Monticello’s icy new chief of police. Deborah informs Owen that she suspects Eddie staged all of the “accidents” on the Mansion of the Damned set as publicity stunts.
Note: First appearance of Dennis Parker as Derek Mallory.
Episode #6126: [Wednesday, 31 October 1979]
Deborah tells Owen that she’s certain Nola cooperated with Eddie in setting up accidents on the movie set. Eliot flirts shamelessly with Nola, who agrees to have dinner with him. David Henson tells Margo he’s leaving the country and informs her that Mike Karr knows what she did to Draper. After he moves out, Margo realizes that Eliot staged the robbery last spring in an attempt to frame her for the murder of Wade Meecham by sending her stolen gun to Draper. After Nola and Eddie promise Owen they won’t stage more stunts, Nola declares to Eddie there needs to be a fire on the set.
Episode #6127: [Thursday, 01 November 1979]
Eddie tries to persuade Nola against setting fire to the Mansion of the Damned set. A brusque Derek assures Calvin that he intends to turn the police department inside out to get the results he wants. Brian stuns Eddie with news of his love for Paige and announcement that he’s leaving town when the picture is completed. At Deborah’s apartment, Cliff answers the phone and collapses after Nola’s death chant.
Episode #6128: [Friday, 02 November 1979]
Deborah isn’t amused by Cliff’s prank. Logan and April can’t improve Draper’s mood after he learns that David Henson and his wife are off to Europe for six weeks. Owen says “I love you” to Deborah, then is chastised by Eddie for keeping Brian and Paige’s relationship from him. Mike and Nancy assure Margo they have no intention of telling Draper that she’s the reason David Henson withdrew Draper’s job offer. Paige confides to Deborah that Nola has become mentally unstable. Deborah realizes that Nola is responsible for her harassing phone calls.
Episode #6129: [Monday, 05 November 1979]
Paige attempts to tell Brian what she has learned about Nola’s involvement in Deborah’s stalking, but is interrupted by Nola’s wedding scene. Steve introduces Derek to Nicole. With Miles’ encouragement, April phones the New York law firm and learns that David Henson is on a trip to Europe and not ill. Eddie confronts Nola about keeping Paige and Brian apart with the lie that Owen is Brian’s father.
Episode #6130: [Tuesday, 06 November 1979]
Nola begs Eddie not to reveal that he is actually Brian’s father, not Owen. Brian notices Chris flirting with Paige, and Paige informs Brian of Nola’s shenanigans with Deborah. Nancy urges Deborah to confront Nola. Draper nixes Mike’s offer to track down David Henson. Nola discovers cans of flammable liquid outside her dressing room.
Episode #6131: [Wednesday, 07 November 1979]
Margo learns that April and Draper are aware that David Henson is avoiding Draper. Nicole interviews newly elected DA Logan Swift. Miles informs Derek that he thinks Benny Hayes shot his father in a domestic dispute. Derek catches Cliff flirting with Deborah. Deborah has an attack after eating a box of candy laced with bug spray, supposedly sent as a gift from Owen.
Episode #6132: [Thursday, 08 November 1979]
Deborah refuses to reveal her suspicions about Nola’s guilt to Owen, Steve, Miles, and Derek. Draper suggests that a lonely Logan join the dating scene again. Steve suspects Benny Hayes might have been behind Deborah’s poisoning. After promising Eddie that she won’t carry out her plan to start a fire on the Mansion of the Damned set, Nola sees a vision of Deborah engulfed in flames.
Episode #6133: [Friday, 09 November 1979]
Nancy speculates to Mike, Miles, and Nicole that Nola might have poisoned Deborah, and later, Deborah admits it to Miles and Nicole. Nola begs Eddie one last time to help her burn down the studio after Owen reveals they’ll have to write off the expense as a loss. Paige suggests that she and Brian runaway to Europe together. Eddie arranges a meeting with Brian to tell him the truth about his paternity.
Episode #6134: [Monday, 12 November 1979]
(Episode missing from Televest). Nola and Eliot film the last scene of Mansion of the Damned, in which Hester tricks Nicholas and returns in the form of Patience Revere. Nola phones Deborah and arranges for them to meet at the movie studio.
Episode #6135: [Tuesday, 13 November 1979]
At the Mansion of the Damned wrap party, Paige has too much to drink. After learning that Nola has remained behind at the movie-studio, Eddie suddenly leaves the party. Nola douses the Mansion of the Damned set with gasoline, and armed with a book of matches, waits for Deborah’s arrival.
[Wednesday, 14 November 1979]
Pre-empted for an expanded ABC Afterschool Special.
Episode #6136: [Thursday, 15 November 1979]
Eddie arrives at the studio, and Nola convinces him that she doesn’t plan to go through with the final publicity stunt, but after Eddie leaves, Nola hears a noise, and thinking Deborah has arrived, strikes a match. Owen receives a phone call from Deputy Birdwell, who reports the studio is in flames. Deborah arrives at the studio and finds a choking Nola emerging from the building. As Nola tries to explain what happened, she realizes that Eddie is still inside. Firemen pull Eddie from the burning studio, as Owen, Paige, and Brian arrive on the scene. Eddie regains consciousness and insists he has something to tell Brian.
Episode #6137: [Friday, 16 November 1979]
Before he can reveal that he is Brian’s biological father, Eddie goes into cardiac arrest and dies. Nola is relieved that her secret is safe, but Owen and Brian wonder what Eddie was trying to tell them. Mike and Nancy theorize that Margo is responsible for David Henson avoiding Draper's second interview.
Episode #6138: [Monday, 19 November 1979]
Owen, Paige, and Brian speculate about the fire’s origin. Steve comforts Deborah, who admits that she has feelings for two men. After Derek compliments Miles’ choice of a wife; Miles invites him to dinner with Nicole. April and Nicole discuss Nicole’s proposed interview with psychiatrist Dr. Lennox, who wrote The Madness Among Us. Nola secretly rearranges Owen’s dinner plans with Deborah.
[Tuesday, 20 November 1979]
Pre-empted for an ABC News Special Report.
Episode #6139: [Wednesday, 21 November 1979]
Steve and Calvin inform the Madisons that the studio fire was the result of arson, which they presume Eddie started as another publicity stunt. After questioning Dr. Lennox about the inheritable nature of schizophrenia, Nicole learns that the disease runs in Miles’ family. Owen informs Deborah that Eddie was responsible for the fire. Lila Ackerman, Eddie’s attorney, arrives in Monticello and schedules a meeting with the Madisons regarding Eddie’s estate. Owen and Deborah arrive at Armando’s for a romantic dinner, only to find that Nola has invited herself to join them.
Episode #6140: [Thursday, 22 November 1979]
After Nola surprises them with her presence at the restaurant, Owen very reluctantly agrees to give their marriage one last chance. Calvin tells Derek that his feelings wouldn’t be hurt if Derek names someone else Deputy Police Chief. A distracted Deborah foolishly leaves her purse on the table while interviewing Earl Stokes, who grabs her service revolver and takes her hostage. Paige fears Brian will forget her in Los Angeles. Derek saves Deborah from Earl Stokes. Eddie’s attorney Lila Ackerman stuns Nola and Owen with the news that Eddie left his estate to a son.
[Friday, 23 November 1979]
Pre-empted for ABC Sports coverage of college football.
Episode #6141: [Monday, 26 November 1979]
Owen realizes the extent of Nola’s treachery, when Lila Ackerman reads a will that confirms Eddie was Brian’s biological father. Nancy reassures April that neither she nor Mike will reveal what they know about Margo’s involvement in Draper losing the job with Seward, Paxton, and Whiteside. Miles thinks Nicole is troubled by thoughts that he might inherit his mother’s schizophrenia. Owen stops Brian from leaving Monticello with news that could change his life.
Episode #6142: [Tuesday, 27 November 1979]
Owen tells Brian the truth about his parentage and how Nola lied to trap Owen into marrying her. Logan informs Derek that the DA’s office can’t pursue attempted murder charges against Benny Hayes without his father’s cooperation. After Derek suspends her as a danger to herself and other officers, Deborah finds Benny selling drugs in her apartment building, but Benny escapes. Brian reveals to Paige that they aren’t brother and sister. Owen asks Deborah to go to Hollywood with him.
Episode #6143: [Wednesday, 28 November 1979]
Deborah consults Nancy for advice about leaving with Owen. Draper vows to Mike that he intends to discover why David Henson withdrew his job offer. Margo and April are unsettled by Eliot’s surprise visit to the penthouse. Owen informs Paige that he intends to divorce Nola. Brian confronts Nola about the lie she’s perpetuated on the family and tells her that he and Paige are getting married immediately. Paige invites Deborah to her wedding. Owen discovers that a missing Nola has left a note stating she’s gone away to a Caribbean island.
Episode #6144: [Thursday, 29 November 1979]
Owen presses Deborah for a decision about accompanying him to California. During dinner with Miles and Nicole, Derek reveals that he was once married to a beautiful woman, whom he had to physically hit. Deborah and Steve are witnesses as Paige and Brian are married by a justice of the peace. At a screening of Mansion of the Damned, the film clip of Hester’s wedding burns ominously in the projector. Deborah admits to Steve that Owen has asked her to leave Monticello with him, and then she begs Steve to tell her to not go.
Episode #6145: [Friday, 30 November 1979]
When Deborah remains indecisive, Steve informs a dejected Owen that Deborah doesn’t want to leave with him. Later, Owen insists to newlyweds Paige and Brian that they will always be a family. Discussing their ex-wives, Derek confesses to Logan that his ex-wife Ivy is the spoiled daughter of a prominent politician. After Deborah admits to Owen that she won’t go to Hollywood with him, she meets Mrs. Corey, an elderly next-door neighbor, who is actually a disguised Nola Madison.
Episode #6146: [Monday, 3 December 1979]
Deborah has dinner with Mrs. Corey and admires her cameo, unaware that Owen had given it to Nola. Derek is on the warpath with Calvin and Steve following dinner with the Cavanaughs. Miles insists to Nicole that he isn’t sensitive about the subject of schizophrenic, when she receives a book about it from Dr. Lennox. A persistent Star urges Calvin to commit to a date for their wedding.
Episode #6147: [Tuesday, 4 December 1979]
As Mrs. Corey, Nola tells Deborah a story about losing her husband to another woman, a woman who ultimately met a very terrible fate. While interviewing Derek about her investigative report on drug dealers, Nancy meets Benny Hayes. Logan rejects Cliff’s attempts to set them up on a blind date, preferring to lunch with Geraldine instead. Geraldine remarks to Logan that she heard rumors about Derek battering his wife Ivy, the daughter of Geraldine’s friend Senator Townsend. Benny tries unsuccessfully to persuade Deborah not to testify against him. In the hall outside Deborah’s apartment, Mrs. Corey meets Benny and shows interest in his drug deliveries.
Episode #6148: [Wednesday, 5 December 1979]
Eliot bribes Lillian to find out where Nola is staying. As Mrs. Corey, Nola tells Deborah that she’ll be gone a few days. Later, at dinner with Steve and the Scotts, Deborah finds herself considering marriage and family after April’s glowing recommendation for a settled, family life. Nancy confides to Mike that her attitude toward the new police chief is not favorable. Nola arrives back at the Madison house and catches Lillian rifling through her belongings. Having discovered that Brian and Paige were married, Nola laments losing her husband and son then she agrees to a date with Eliot.
Episode #6149: [Thursday, 6 December 1979]
Owen’s image taunts Nola about getting old and undesirable, but Nola fantasizes about being Mrs. Corey, and vows Owen will soon find Deborah undesirable, too. Nola and Eliot commiserate about being lonely. Draper tells Margo he can pay her back $12,000 for the house loan. April is delighted with Draper’s improved attitude toward Margo, but later she has an ominous dream about her daughter’s birth and a strange man’s sudden appearance after the sound of a train whistle. Nancy reveals her intention to do an investigative report on drug dealers and asks that Mike not object. Dressed as Mrs. Corey, Nola meets Benny and insinuates she could use his prescription drug service.
Episode #6150: [Friday, 7 December 1979]:
(Episode missing or unavailable from Televest). As Mrs. Corey, Nola purchases barbiturates from Benny and later uses them to lace a pot of homemade soup, which she gives to Deborah. Steve arrives at Deborah’s apartment, while inside, Deborah has passed out after eating Mrs. Corey’s soup.
Episode #6151: [Monday, 10 December 1979]
Forcing his way into Deborah’s apartment, Steve finds an unconscious Deborah and phones Miles for help. Draper awakens April before she can reach the end of her mysterious, recurring dream. Eliot reads romantic poetry to Nola over the phone, but isn’t alone in his bed. Miles doesn’t get a response when he knocks on Mrs. Corey’s door. Nola, as Mrs. Corey, is annoyed to learn that Deborah isn’t seriously ill, and after Steve and Miles leave, urges Deborah to eat more of the soup she prepared for her.
Episode #6152: [Tuesday, 11 December 1979]
April tells Margo about the mysterious recurring dream, which she feels is somehow an ominous portent of things to come. Draper confides to Miles and Nicole that he too fears that April’s dream might be prophetic. Calvin and Star invite Deborah to their wedding, which is set for the next week. Eliot’s unsubtle passes and exaggerated charm make Nola uncomfortable. Deborah decides to eat a bowl of Mrs. Corey’s soup.
Episode #6153: [Wednesday, 12 December 1979]
Phoning from California, Owen grows concerned about a drugged Deborah’s incoherence and later alerts Steve. After Earl Stokes is charged with 1st degree murder, Nicole urges Derek to lift Deborah’s suspension. Mike confides to Miles his fears about Nancy’s involvement in the newspaper’s pill-pusher story. Derek grants Calvin’s leave of absence for his honeymoon. At Deborah’s apartment, Mr. Bailey, Deborah’s super, informs Steve that Deborah passed out and was rushed to the hospital.
Episode #6154: [Thursday, 13 December 1979]
Steve disbelieves Deborah’s protests of being completely well. Geraldine visits Mike to make a beneficiary change in her will. Derek confides to Logan that he received a letter from Ivy, his ex-wife. Eliot steps up his seduction of Nola, and Nola, as Mrs. Corey, orders more drugs from Benny, with whom she admits she shares a hatred of young temptresses like Deborah.
Episode #6155: [Friday, 14 December 1979]
Steve is unnerved when Derek reveals that Deborah volunteered as a decoy to catch a serial rapist -whose latest victim just died. Margo’s offer to use Draper’s $12,000 loan payment as a trust fund for the baby genuinely moves him. While Draper and Margo share a warm moment together, April has the recurring dream again, finally revealing her mystery gift as a silver bracelet. At the park, the attacker (Phil) renders Calvin unconscious and goes after Deborah.
Episode #6156: [Monday, 17 December 1979]
The park attacker drives a bound and gagged Deborah to a remote location. Nicole breaks the news of Deborah’s disappearance to Margo. April and Draper attempt to interpret the symbolism in April’s mysterious dream. After Miles asserts that the park attacker is a psychopath capable of the most extreme physical violence, Calvin, Steve, and Derek fear that if Deborah is found, she’ll be dead.
Episode #6157 [Tuesday, 18 December 1979]
Phil, Deborah’s kidnaper, drives her to a secluded area in the woods. Nicole and Derek realize that there are two separate men responsible for the park attacks. With eyewitness accounts of Phil’s car, Calvin and Steve search the area for Deborah. Mike is dismayed to learn that Nancy has secretly arranged a meeting with a pill pusher. Nola, as Mrs. Corey, reminds Benny that she wants Deborah raped and traumatized by Phil -the man they hired to scare her.
Episode #6158 [Wednesday, 19 December 1979]
Mike seeks Logan's advice about whether or not Derek should be apprised of Nancy's appointment with a drug dealer. Nancy meets with Benny and offers to buy his story instead of drugs. Logan forbids Cliff to join the police search for Deborah. Steve and Calvin discover Phil's abandoned car. While trying to escape from the woods, Deborah encounters two hunters who mistakenly fire a shot at her.
Episode #6159: [Thursday, 20 December 1979]
After seeing Nicole’s news report about Deborah’s kidnapping, Nola, as Ms. Corey, phones Benny and insists she doesn’t want to be an accomplice to murder. Later, Benny arranges a meeting with Nancy, who is advised by Mike to inform the police with details about the location. Eliot professes his love to Nola. Margo informs Miles that Eliot has found himself “another Margo Huntington” with wealthy Nola.
Episode #6160: [Friday, 21 December 1979]
A hospitalized Deborah recovers from her ordeal in the woods and describes her night of terror to Steve. Miles drops by Deborah's apartment to pick up some things she needs and meets Mrs. Corey, who expresses an unusual interest in Deborah's condition. Miles realizes that he has seen Mrs. Corey's face somewhere else, but he can't remember where.
Episode #6161: [Monday, 24 December 1979]
Miles tells Nicole about Mrs. Corey's familiarity. Derek visits Deborah and admits that he was wrong about close friendships within the Monticello P.D. Nicole persuades Derek to attend April and Draper's Christmas open house. Nola phones Owen and lies to him that Deborah was abducted and violated by a sex maniac. Later, she phones Deborah's hospital room under the guise of Mrs. Corey. Miles realizes that Mrs. Corey may be Nola Madison in disguise.
Episode #6162: [Tuesday, 25 December 1979]
Draper’s truce with Margo evaporates when she gives April a car as a Christmas gift. Geraldine confides to April that Logan needs a wife exactly like April. Derek gets too close for comfort while expressing his chauvinism to Nicole. Star and Calvin tell Steve and Deborah that they have decided to temporarily delay their wedding due to Deborah’s illness. Deborah finds an edible Christmas “gift” left by Mrs. Corey.
Episode #6163: [Wednesday, 26 December 1979]
Mrs. Corey visits Deborah and encourages her to try the fruitcake that Nola laced with drugs. At the library, Miles learns that there was a woman named Martha Corey accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Deborah becomes ill after eating the cake. Making a connection with Mansion of the Damned, Miles realizes that Mrs. Corey is actually Nola.
Episode #6164: [Thursday, 27 December 1979]
Nola’s next edible “treat” for Deborah includes amphetamines. Miles pays a house call to Deborah’s apartment after receiving a call from a concerned Cliff. Mrs. Corey suggests that Cliff heat some of her soup for Deborah. Miles phones Nola and requests a meeting with her.
Episode #6165: [Friday, 28 December 1979]
April and Draper invite Miles and Nicole to Margo’s penthouse for New Year’s Eve. Deborah confesses to Steve that she’s glad Owen left Monticello. Nancy tries to control her anger over Mike’s interference in her Benny Hayes interview. At Miles’ office, Nola denies Miles’ accusations that she has been masquerading as Mrs. Corey and feeding Deborah drug-laced food. After he threatens to expose her, Nola secretly dumps a bag of amphetamines into Miles’ office water cooler.
Episode #6166: [Monday, 31 December 1979]
Monticello couples pair up to say goodbye to the 1970's, while Miles, stoned on the drugs dumped into his water cooler by Nola, places Nicole in mortal danger on Margo’s penthouse terrace.