Daytime TV 9/75 - Ryan's Hope Opens with a Big Splash

RYAN'S HOPE OPENS WITH A BIG SPLASH!

And New York's Hudson River Is the Setting

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On-the scene location shooting are going to be important to Ryan's Hope, and for one of it's opening segments, they decided to use the new York City piers.

With Frank Ryan (Michael Hawkins) running for the City Council, Mary (Kate Mulgrew), his sister, decided to work for his campaign upon her college graduation. Jack Fenelli (Michael Levin) a report for The Village Banner, decided he wanted to investigate Ryan's campaign. A believer in the saying, "Never trust a politician," Fenelli wanted to find out all the back-room dealing and bargains Ryan was making to win.

But Fenelli didn't count on Mary Ryan. She considerately gave her time to Fenelli do dispel his distrusting ideas a out what was really going on. In their time together, they ended up tossing a ball back and forth at one of the docks. The conversation became more and more heated. But, at the end, when Fenelli added insult to injury by implying the well educated, liberated and self-assured Mary just might be a wonderful wife someday, Mary's toss of the ball was to hard and high, causing Fenelli to step back and off the pier. With a big slash, he ended up in the Hudson River!

No harm came to Fenelli, but there is the question concerning the fall Frank Ryan took down the hospital stairs. Was it an accident . . . or . . . ?

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