During that first ceremony, The Doctors took home best show and leading lady Elizabeth Hubbard (Dr. Althea Davis) won Best Actress.
On screen, the medical soap was embroiled in a tantalizing murder mystery that saw Althea’s scheming lecherous husband shot and killed and her teenage daughter, Penny, being arrested for the crime.
NBC’s Days of Our Lives took home the gold in two categories: Best Individual Director, while Macdonald Carey snagged Best Actor.
As Tom Horton, Carey had spent the better part of the year grappling with his boys over their mutual love for Laura Spencer and, during one emotional moment, Tom watched as son Mickey flatlined in the hospital following a stroke.
The final award, Best Writing, went to mystery thriller The Edge of Night. Throughout 1973, the soap had weaved together tales of a murderous doctor and his unrequited love for Nicole Drake turning obsessive, the devious Elly Jo and Simon Jessup planning to poison millionaire Orin Hillyer for his cash, and the arrival of Walter LePage and his violent crime syndicate.
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