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This was on YouTube once... and it either got taken down or buried... but I loved the sequence where Mason broke into CC's bedroom while he was with Gina and brandished a sword. It was obviously during the Charles Bateman era, but the scene was so damn good!!

Sounds like he saved his AW money pretty well. Got into business after leaving acting and apparently did pretty well for himself! RIP.

"Milk, butter, ground beef..." One of the funniest lines in the show's history...

Yay for Mel! Although you're probably right... it'll end up on Fox Tuesday night and fail miserably...

That show is about the sex therapists Masters and Johnson and is set in the 1960s. It's supposed to resemble what someone her age would wear back then, I guess. I have tweeted with Lexi before and she's very sweet to her fans... I do agree the latest pics look a little too adult, but it depends on the role...

Hi everyone... I have decided to place my version of Somerset in a blog so people can see it. I used to have it at SON TV... come check it out! You do not need to understand the original show at all... it's like you're revisiting Somerset 35 years later. (There are some connections to the original show.) Thisissomerset.blogspot.com Thanks, Steve

Oh God, Flame was a delight. When Roscoe Born left they didn't quite know what to do with her so she ended up with Frank Runyeon's Michael character, and they had sparks too. Then she was gone, and he didn't last too much longer. Some of the 1989-90 characters were so exciting to watch.

If you watch the tape the acting is still quite strong on the 1982 episode. The problem was just that damn noon timeslot. I don't know what the hell NBC was thinking.

For as much as I hated them killing off Maureen... it made for great, solid drama for a couple weeks but ultimately cost the show much more in the long run... Rachel's acting was flawless. She absolutely played the role like someone who had lost her own mother. How she was overlooked for an Emmy nomination that year was criminal.

Holy [!@#$%^&*]! Carl, thanks... I thought Page was pretty good, especially when he became a little unhinged about Kelly (and not surprised that Robin Wright was particularly snotty toward him)... like most stories in that period, it suffered because I don't think they really knew what to do with Nick/Kelly/Dylan. I will say, Dylan's death was the catalyst for the stolen videotape which Gina used to blackmail CC into marriage, so the story turned out to be pretty damn good in the end.

I do believe Chuck Pratt and Josh Griffith were co-headwriters throughout most of 1989 and into 1990.

Glad I haven't eaten today, Cheap! Thanks... In all seriousness, I still to this day wonder what Reilly was thinking.

I remember both those articles... The Mason/Julia first wedding was a hoot. I'll never forget Lane Davies' speech with Todd McKee in the first act and then Mason pulling out what he thinks are his vows and saying "milk, butter, ground beef..." By March 1992 I was already wondering if the show was on its last legs. Had there not been so much turnover in the previous years...

I think it's been documented in interviews, but in one of the first rehearsals involving Vicky and Constance Ford there was something in the scene that Vicky did and Constance jumped right out and said "Rachel wouldn't do that." Without batting an eyelash, Vicky turned to Constance and said "THIS Rachel would." I think that broke the ice between the two. If Constance sensed that you were a stand-up actress and didn't cave in, she thought you were a stronger person, or so it seems. I could be wrong.

Beautiful news! Glad to have Edge's homepage back up and running!!

I can offer some insight on the decision to run Somerset at 4... I do believe it was P&G's decree that its soaps could not run opposite each other. Since Edge was still running at 3:30 back in 1970, that would have violated the sponsor's rule. This P&G rule stayed until the mid-1970s, when ABC bought Edge and placed it at 4 with the sponsor's blessing. Of course, I believe NBC added the second 1:00 feed at the time; that was mainly meant for Central and Mountain stations that didn't have a noon newscast. I recall hearing Somerset did very well in the markets where it was on at 1:00. Can someone clarify?

Wow. I have a ton of stuff here. Not to mention Somerset's one of those shows whose history has to be filled in piecemeal. Tom: To fill you in on what I am doing, in my updated version Susannah is the central character and she comes back to Somerset, ostensibly to open her own law practice. I won't bore the rest of the board with long, boring details (lol), but this version is meant to hook today's audience, about 90-95 percent of whom probably didn't see the original show. I have referred quite sparingly to past events in Bay City and Somerset; when Susannah was ill and the doctors were filling Sam and Lahoma in on her condition, one doctor asked if Sam and Lahoma took part in the "recreational drug" habits of the 1960s and Lahoma went bonkers, saying she hadn't touched anything more than cold medicine since her friend Lee Randolph's death in an LSD-influenced car crash. Keep all this stuff coming, everybody!! It's good that we see more history filled in.

Tom!! Depending on how much of the show's history I utilize in my version of Somerset on the ONtv network, I would like to pick your brain about a few things if it comes down to it. Should that happen, I'd be very happy to give you "consultant" status in my credits.

I am a wee bit biased because Stacy happens to be one of my favorite actresses and still is to this day, but Santa Barbara had an annoying habit of cleaning house every six months and getting rid of about three or four characters at a time. It really hurt the show's continuity after a while. I always thought Stacy and Todd McKee got along great off screen; Stacy said in an interview with SOD that after a while she got tired of "going to work and bickering with Ted". The writing team at the time didn't know how to write a solid story for Ted/Hayley; that was bad because Gina was Hayley's aunt and that alone would have made for plenty of drama with the Capwells. Hayley's chemistry with Jake wasn't the same, although Rick Edwards gave it the old college try. As for Stacy, getting fired turned out to be a blessing in disguise because she went on to a solid career in prime time and movies. Not only that, she shed the ingenue image after a while. If you ever saw her on Law and Order SVU as a child predator, that proved she could be sweet and innocent in one role and really creepy in the next.

Danfling: Teri's maiden name was Martin. And Lahoma actually had the baby, and they named it Susannah. I believe Ann Wedgeworth wanted to leave the show to try her luck again on Broadway or in movies, so they sent Lahoma out of town with Susannah and eventually had Lahoma say she wanted a divorce; that was when they sent Sam back to Bay City (and to Another World for about a year). In the version of Somerset I write for OnTV, Susannah is the central character and Sam and Lahoma make infrequent appearances.

Carl, thanks so much. Saynotoursoap must have ONE HELL of an Edge collection. RIP, Linda. Always loved you on Loving and all of your work on Edge was a joy to see, too.

I recognize that as a Michigan TV Guide! Those 13 and 41 affiliates were Grand Rapids, which never aired the show at 4:00.

Hmmm. And Chris Rich left the show the following year. Wonder how that all came about...

I was under the illusion the whole Laura Malone situation had nothing to do with Chris Rich... Allen Potter was an excellent producer, but legend has it he was quite the son of a bitch behind the scenes.

I will still defend the first DePriest regime from 1986-88, for the most part. A lot of people have brought up legitimate points on here, but AW was boring as hell under Sam Hall's pen from 1985-86. (Amphora dust? Please.) The show needed a shakeup badly and it got one. The one thing I will say is it seems like a lot of the plots were either cut short or re-thought (Donna having triplets instead of twins, for example). The Mitch/Rachel dynamic was good to watch again, but then they steered Mitch toward Felicia and, while they made a decent couple, it almost seemed like a dead end. Aw, I loved Joanna Going. She's one of those actresses that I was glad to see move on and do other things in prime time and movies. I thought she and Larry Lau had decent chemistry but then they started to write Lisa/Jamie a little off kilter. In defense of AW, I'm sure Joanna told them she was leaving the show when her contract was up so they had no choice but to go in that direction.