Conlan Carter's
Emmy Nomination
 Conlan Carter received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performance in a
Supporting Role by an Actor for his work in the episode "The Hostages." He was surprised by the
nomination, because usually actors and studios campaign for nominations. He hadn't done
any campaigning: "I woke up one morning with the telegram and I called my agent and
he said 'What? Read me the telegram.' Cause he thought a friend of mine might be playing a
joke on me ... I didn't win, of course, but it was a nice thing and I still have the
little plaque."
But the nomination caused him problems. "When Vic was nominated the
first year he was in the show," says Conlan, "he held them up for a lot of
money."
At the time, Conlan had been unaware of the previous negotiations, and how
heated they had become. So he was surprised at the producer's reaction to a contract
meeting, them saying that no matter what somebody back east thought of him, the nomination
would not carry any weight with them.
"They just stepped all over me... And this was the highlight of my
career. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. And I was working for low money relative to
the rest of the cast. I just said I wanted to have my salary raised up to where they are
and they said 'No! Not only are you not going to get raised to their level, you come back
at your last year's salary.' ... I walked. I left the show because of it and they
subsequently had like 15 scripts that I had been written into that they had already bought
for the next year. So they came some couple months later and signed me at the money I
wanted, but not with a contract, just on a show-to-show basis. They were real ... I
probably did as many shows as I would have done under contract."
The walkout happened during the summer hiatus, so he missed no filming.
"The upshot of it was, that they made it very clear that it was not going to get out
of hand like it did with Vic. ... It was an unfortunate episode in what otherwise could
have been a very pleasant experience ... I lost the Emmy to Albert Paulsen."
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