14.  1/13/87  THE AUTHOR

         A spinster's racy novel has characters who seem all too
         familiar to the real-life citizens in her small town,
         including a doctor charged with murdering a minister in
         a failed attempt on the author herself.

         w. Gerald Sanoff               d. Michael O'Herlihy
            music by Morton Stevens

         Trivia:  site: Hastings, GA
                  book: Secret Confessions

         Mary Ann Newton................Audra Lindley
         Dr. Phillip Eagen.(Dr.Lazlo)...Parker Stevenson
         Mark Douglas...................Stanley Kamel
         Rev. Kevin Deluca..............John O'Leary
         Chief Johnson..................Guy Stockwell
         Glock..........................Brion James
         Carl Burke.....................John Schuck
         Barbara Gleason................Elizabeth Savage
         Jessie Peters..................Louise Claire Clark
         Margery Sawyer.................Kay Freeman
         David Sears (witness with dog).Eddie Quillan
         Jury Foreperson................Charles C. Stevenson, Jr.
         Judge Richard Cooksey..........Richard Newton
         DA Lloyd Burgess...............Michael Durrell