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Also in [[1967]] Dr. Sara McEntire ([[Millette Alexander]]) arrived in Springfield, the former girlfriend of Dr. Paul Fletcher ([[Bernard Grant]]) who was already married to Robin. A gifted psychologist who was able to help Bert cope with her husband's presumed death in a plane crash, in [[1969]], Sara seemed to have less luck in her personal life. Though attracted to Dr. Joe Warner ([[Anthony Call]]), she instead married the charming Lee Gantry ([[Ray Fulmer]]), but Lee and his housekeeper, Miss Mildred Foss ([[Jan Sterling Douglas]]) soon began orchestrating a series of events to make Sara believe she was going insane (in an attempt to embezzle her money). In late [[1970]], the gaslighting of Sara led to a tragedy, when Sara accidentally shot and killed Foss. Eventually in late [[1971]], Gantry was accidentally killed in a struggle with Joe Warner, and Sara and Joe were married.
Also in [[1969]] the rich businessman, Stanley Norris ([[William Smathers]]) was introduced. Stanley was divorced from his first wife, and cookbook writer, Barbara ([[Barbara Berjer]]) and Barbara was left to raise their three children, Kenneth "Ken" ([[Roger Newman]]), Andrew "Andy" (not seen and fighting in the Vietnam War at the time) and Holly ([[Lynn Deerfield]]) on her own. Stanley himself would soon divorce his second wife, Kit Vestid ([[Nancy Addison]]), when Kit found out that Stanley was carrying on affairs with several other women. Stanley would soon end up murdered, shot to death in his office. Put on trial for the murder was his third wife, nurse Leslie Jackson Bauer Norris ([[Lynne Adams]]) (the daughter of Dr. Stephen Jackson), who was discovered by an employee of Stanley's over his dead body. Mike Bauer (now played by [[Don Stewart]]) would defend Leslie (as he had Peggy almost two years earlier). In the end, Marion Conway ([[Kate Harrington]]) would confess to shooting Stanley because she was deeply troubled that her daughter, Linell ([[Christina Pickles]]) had fantasies about her boss, Stanley, divorcing Leslie and marrying her and Stanley treated Linell like garbage. After Marion's eleventh hour confession she would suffer a heart attack and die in the courtroom.
Though they deeply loved each other, Sara and Joe's marriage became strained and Joe began having an affair with Sara's nemisis Charlotte Waring ([[Victoria Wyndham]]), who for a time was married to Mike Bauer. Joe soon confessed the affair to Sara, but in the meantime, Charlotte was rushed to Cedars after suffering an apparent heart attack. Joe tried to save her life, but she did not pull through, and he was blamed for her death, catapulting him into a self-destructive affair with the unstable Kit Vested (who'd had an obsession with Joe for some time). Kit, it turned out, had caused Charlotte's death by poisoning her, and had also just poisoned Sara. Fortunately, Mike got word of Kit's plans and was able to make it to Sara and get her to the hospital in time. Meanwhile, when Joe discovered the truth about Kit, she tried to shoot him, but in the struggle for the gun, she was shot instead [[1974]]. After Kit's death, Sara and Joe tried to resume their relationship, adtopting a son, T.J. (who would eventaully be played by a teenaged [[Kevin Bacon]]), Joe had a heart attack in [[1976]] and Sara was once again a widow.
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