Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)

The Final Tribute (1955)

Laraine Day: Joyce Carter

Quotes 

• Joyce Carter : [narrating]  In spite of everyone's goodwill and eagerness to make him one of them, he was still so impersonal, so aloof. What a pity. What a real pity.

• [first lines] 

  Joyce Carter : [narrating]  The sign said Joseph H. Walton, M.D., but everybody in Watertown called him Uncle Joe; he was that kind of man, and Watertown was that kind of town - quiet, and friendly. Uncle Joe was as much taken for granted as the post office. He had brought most of the Watertown babies into the world, and guided them through childhood ailments. I was one of them. The first anyone knew that a new doctor was coming to town was when an ad appeared in the local paper - it was for a nurse.

• Joyce Carter : [narrating]  It was the same thing with each patient. He always let it be understood, in unmistakable terms, that he wasn't to be summoned unless it was a genuine emergency - especially late at night. Some of the old-timers would've resented Dr. Kent - if Uncle Joe would have permitted it.