Question:I have been watching a show called "The Doctors." There are three male and one female doctors who answer questions about health problems, surgeries, etc. What are their names? The tall nice-looking blond man who wears blue scrubs — was he on "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette" show? And what kind of doctor is he?
Answers: "The Doctors" stars Travis Stork, Jim Sears, Lisa Masterson and Drew Ordon. (You can find out more about the series at www.thedoctorstv.com.) Stork, an emergency-room physician, starred on "The Bachelor: Paris," where he chose Sarah Stone for an ongoing relationship. It didn't last.
Question:I love to watch reruns of "The Beverly Hillbillies." What can you tell me about Raymond "Milburn Drysdale" Bailey, Nancy "Jane Hathaway" Kulp and the woman who played Mrs. Drysdale? I can't remember her name.
Answers: Bailey, Kulp and Harriet E. MacGibbon — who played Mrs. Drysdale — had long careers as character actors before appearing on "The Beverly Hillbillies" during its 1962-71 run. (MacGibbon, who was also a well-regarded stage actress, appeared far less frequently than the other two, and left the show in 1969.)
Bailey performed in a couple of movies after the show ended, and died from a heart attack in 1980. MacGibbon worked occasionally in TV through the '70s and died of heart failure in 1987.
Nancy Kulp also continued to act after Hillbillies ended and was active in politics. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in her native Pennsylvania in 1984. She died of cancer in 1991.
Question:One "Twilight Zone" episode sticks in my mind. A young girl is in misery at a party, then the scene shifts to a young man cringing as an elderly couple tries to carry on a conversation with him. At the end it says something like "everyone will experience their own special hell." With all of the repeats, I have never seen that one again. Have you? I'd love to see it again.
Answers: While the details vary, the story you describe fits an installment of "Night Gallery," the drama anthology Rod Serling hosted after "Twilight Zone." In a segment called "Hell's Bells," John Astin plays a long-hair whose particular hell involves being trapped in a room with dull music, a boring old man and a couple showing slides from a trip. The Devil explains that, while this is Astin's hell, the same room is in heaven — since it is someone else's idea of paradise.
If your program service has the Chiller channel, it carries reruns of "Night Gallery." "Hell's Bells" can also be found online on YouTube and you can find a recap in "Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-Hours Tour," a book by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson.
Question:I am 74 years old and love three things: lighthouses (I've never seen one in person but collect figurines), limousines (I've ridden in one twice) and Richard Crenna. Court TV (now truTV) used to show movies where he played Lt. Frank Janek every other weekend, and I wanted to tape "Silent Betrayal" but Court TV stopped showing the movies. Could you tell me where I could find it on tape or DVD?
Answers: Emmy winner Crenna, a versatile actor who died in 2003, was well known for his roles in "Our Miss Brooks," "The Real McCoys," "Judging Amy" and Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo" movies, and he was terrific in "The Flamingo Kid."
In the '80s and '90s he played tough-guy Janek in seven TV productions. The last was 1994's "The Silent Betrayal," also known as "Janek: The Silent Betrayal." Alas, I could not find it on home video.