Lynda Stoner bursts out laughing as she tries to recall how her iconic character on The Young Doctors, nurse Kim Barrington, exited the hugely popular medical drama.
“I did a Google search, and it seems I was shot, but it’s all a bit of a blur as it’s so long ago,” says Lynda.
The actress became a household name on the hit soap, which ran for a whopping 1397 episodes before it was served a terminal diagnosis in 1983.
Later in life, Lynda found a new calling as an animal rights activist. Looking back on her time at Albert Memorial Hospital, she remembers The Young Doctors set being a “happy place to work and with a beautiful heart”.
“Most of us were so young and thrilled to be working on a successful show,” Lynda, 69, tells us. “This is my bad, but it was hard at times to stop laughing, even during serious scenes – you could sometimes see my shoulders heaving as I tried to suppress laughter.”
This story is from the July 24, 2023 edition of New Idea.
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