Actress Kate McNeil: TV movie

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More on Kate McNeil in Vital Signs

We've already taken two brief looks (here and here) at Kate McNeil in the 1986 TV movie Vital Signs. Well, it's time to have a glance at the project again!

Vital Signs was a made-for-television movie that originally aired on CBS in early 1986. Besides the lovely Kate McNeil, the rest of the principal cast was comprised of Gary Cole, Ed Asner and Barbara Barrie. The plot revolved around the problems faced by a pair of father-son doctors and their wives. Unfortunately, Vital Signs is one of those TV movies that never received much attention in the first place and was subsequently lost in the vast glut of 1980s television.

Here are some images of Kate McNeil in Vital Signs:

Kate McNeil in Vital Signs (1986 TV movie)

In 1986, Kate McNeil co-starred alongside Gary Cole, Ed Asner and Barbara Barrie in a TV movie called Vital Signs. I haven't seen the movie and I just hope that it is out there somewhere, maybe in the hands of some collector who will someday let the rest of the world have a chance to see it. All we have now are short advertisements for Vital Signs and that is what the images on this page are taken from.

Kate McNeil in A Walton Easter

In 1997, Kate McNeil co-starred in A Walton Easter, the final of three 1990s Waltons reunion movies, preceded by A Walton Wedding in 1995 and A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion in 1993. The first TV movie saw Kate McNeil's character Janet Gilchrist getting engaged to John-Boy Walton (played by Richard Thomas) and the second movie was all about their wedding. In A Walton Easter, Janet and John-Boy are about to have their first child and experience some marital difficulties when John-Boy decides he wants to move back to rural Virginia from New York City.

Here's a positive review of A Walton Easter from The Tuscaloosa News:

Here are some pics of Kate McNeil appearing in A Walton Wedding:

Richard Thomas, Kate McNeil and Mary Beth McDonough

Kate McNeil and Richard Thomas

Kate McNeil in A Walton Wedding

In 1995, Kate McNeil co-starred in the second of a trilogy of 1990s Waltons reunion TV movies. She also appeared in the previous A Walton Thanksgiving movie and would also star in the third a final Waltons TV movie, A Walton Easter. Kate McNeil plays Janet Gilchrist and in A Walton Thanksgiving, she and John-Boy Walton (played by Richard Thomas) had decided to get married. Set in 1964, A Walton Wedding is about their wedding and the trials and tribulations of actually getting to the altar.

Janet, a fashion magazine editor and daughter and only child of a US ambassador to small African country, has an aunt named Flo (played by Holland Taylor). Aunt Flo, who has no children of her own, decides to plan the Walton wedding when Janet's parents announce that they will not be able to attend the wedding. When Aunt Flo goes overboard with the planning, John-Boy and Janet decide to move the wedding from New York City to Waltons' mountain in rural Virginia. While on Waltons' mountain, both Janet and John-Boy have some second thoughts about getting married, but they eventually put aside their doubts and have a lovely wedding ceremony.