
Unknowingly, his sister Marie fell in love with him. Tom Horton, Jr., presumed dead in Korea, came home with a disfigured face and a new identity. Their daughter Addie ( Patricia Huston, then Patricia Barry), married to Ben Olson, had much trouble raising their rebellious daughter Julie as well as their son Steven. In the beginning, when the story did not revolve around either Tom or Alice, the love lives of their five children were put on display. By the final season, they each got $1,000,000 per episode.Popular characters Doug and Julie Williams (played by real-life marrieds Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes) came to represent the idea of the soap opera and modern love in the 1970s, and were featured on the cover of TIME magazine. In 1997, they negotiated a salary increase to $100,000 per episode. In the first season, each of the main six cast members received $22,000 per episode. David Schwimmer described the last huddle as very emotional.Ģ0) The opening credits were shot at Warner Bros studio, not Gramercy Park or Central Park.Ģ1) Gunther didn’t have a name until the middle of the second season.Ģ2) He didn’t even have a line until the show’s 33rd episode, when he said “yeah”.Ģ3) June Gable, who played Joey’s agent Estelle Leonard, also played a nurse in the episode where Carol gives birth to Ben.Ģ4) They were the first TV cast to negotiate as a group. Thankfully she did.ġ8) When the show was first written, Joey and Monica were intended to be love interests.ġ9) The cast had a huddle before going in front of the TV audience every episode.

In a 2004 interview she admitted she had had hesitations about returning for the final season.

At the time she was one of the most famous members of the cast and married to Brad Pitt. 17) Jennifer Aniston almost didn’t return for the last season.
