In the beginning…
November 8, 1965: Tom (MacDonald Carey) and Alice (Frances Reid) Horton were highly respected citizens in Salem. Gifted athlete Tom was a physician and professor at Salem University Hospital, Alice his loyal and loving wife keeping the home fires burning and volunteering at the hospital. They had five children: twins Tommy (John Lupton), presumed dead in the Korean War, and Addie (Patricia Barry), the socialite wife of a banker; Mickey (John Clarke), a successful attorney; Bill (Edward Mallory), an intern at SUH; and the youngest, Marie (Maree Cheatham), a bright university student.
However, trouble brewed within the younger ranks of the Horton clan. About to graduate, Marie was engaged to her neighbour Tony Merritt (Richard Colla) – but the night before the wedding, Tony cancelled the engagement,…
