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![]() The short answer is that 20-plus hours of "Christy" material are moving into the world of cable and video. So there's that question again: "What now?" ![]() ![]() Anybody who has worked in this town knows that the way you kill a show is to keep moving it." "They gave us five different time slots and never left us in one place more than a few weeks. I don't think they wanted to understand," said Wales, who invested nearly 20 years of his time and money in the project. "Obviously, the CBS people never quite understood what `Christy' was about. During a year of CBS ratings disasters, "Christy" maintained solid second-place numbers in various time slots, while generating record numbers of fan letters and calls. Viewers may never know, because the network canceled the series. In real life, the real Christy married the minister."īut there's the rub. "Truth is, we hadn't really made up our minds," said Wales. Did she choose the preacher or the doctor? ![]() In the last episode of the CBS series "Christy," Wales and crew left her facing a romantic cliffhanger. Letters keep arriving asking what happened to Christy Huddleston, the heroine of Catherine Marshall's famous novel about a missionary teacher in the Great Smoky Mountains. LOS ANGELES - Wherever he goes, veteran movie producer Ken Wales hears the same question: "What now?" ![]()
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