In an LSD haze she accidentally shot at her real husband and was charged with murder. Jason as Benny treated Allison so badly she began doing drugs. The character of Allison MacKenzie was back after a vaguely explained away absence, and she was soon embroiled in a dramatic storyline when her husband Benny’s brother Jason took over his identity. Lipton began the show by resolving one of the biggest cliffhangers from ABC’s “Peyton Place” and revealed that Michael Rossi was found not guilty in his murder trial. New writer James Lipton (“Inside The Actors Studio,” “Another World,” “The Edge Of Night,” “Capitol,” “Guiding Light”) studied all incarnations of the “Peyton Place” novels, films and Primetime series before working on the new soap. Unfortunately the daytime soap couldn’t capture the magic of previous success and it was cancelled in less than two years. “Return To Peyton Place” was NBC’s answer, not only for fans looking for resolution, but as a way for them to put their own stamp on the wildly popular culture that included the Primetime show, the original 1956 novel “Peyton Place” by author Grace Metalious, the 1957 film of the same name, the 1959 novel “Return To Peyton Place,” and the 1961 follow-up film to that novel. When ABC cancelled their premiere Primetime soap “Peyton Place” in 1969, fans of the show were left wondering how their characters fared as most of the storylines were never settled. The fans wanted to know how the story ended, so they brought the soap back for part two.
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