The Initiation of Sarah

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Morgan Fairchild said when she signed to do the part, it was agreed that she would do the shower scene wearing a body stocking. "On the day of the shot, it was suggested that I do it nude. It was going to be filmed through a foggy shower door and nobody would see anything. I wasn't too thrilled with idea, but you don't feel much like arguing at 9 p.m. after a whole day of shooting. You don't want to hold up the show when everyone wants to get home." Fairchild said she partially acquiesced and performed bare to the waist. But the scene touched off bad feelings among the cast and crew. "There were visitors on the set," fumed a veteran costumer who worked on the show, "gawkers and friends of so-and-so. It was a circus at best. They didn't even have the decency to close the set." "People were pulling up chairs," said Morgan Brittany, who estimated the number of individuals who gathered to watch at "around 25." The costumer said that at one point during filming of the scene, a cameraman issued the instructions, "Now press your bodies up against the glass for the boys at ABC." Upon hearing the remark, the costumer walked off the set. "There was no reason at all to do that scene nude. We all know what can and can't be shown on TV." What was finally shown was Fairchild's bare back and a quick flash of her bare front pressed against the foggy shower door. Producer Jay Benson said that Fairchild performed topless voluntarily. "She didn't have to do it," he said. "If she had said no, we would have shot with the body stocking."