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Did any version of Taylor Walker ever last or work on DAYS? I remember Natalia Livingston's version getting the most brickbats.

I know they brought the ratings up - I'm not sure if the show stuck to their long-term plans for the pair, but it did seem like Tony's issues hurt more than anything else.

I think if they brought Skye back with another retcon people wouldn't even care (although I doubt we will see her again). I do love Linda Dano, but it never made a great deal of sense to have her doing a year-long tour of four different soaps. She was not important to most ABC soap fans. Her time on ABC soaps had amounted to a few years in a part no one remembered. It would have been like having Victoria Wyndham terrifying the CBS lineup for a year because of her turn as Charlotte Bauer (admittedly I would have enjoyed that).

I feel bad for Linda (although at least she got about 5 years of work out of it) as that character was widely disliked by fans. She got an especially negative response from AMC and GH viewers...and wasn't really that liked by OLTL viewers, beyond some who liked the pairing with John Bolger. The AMC run and the whole "trying to find my child, of unknown gender and somewhere between 25-50" storyline did get panned in the soap press.

It is exhausting even to read. I still see some fans asking for her return. IIRC, it was a month or two after he left, although the idea was his. Going back to AMC, I can't believe I forgot about Gabriel/Dogboy. I'm surprised GH has never brought him in.

Thanks. I have mixed feelings about Lorraine's AMC stint, but I do blame ABC for some of that type of nonsense (this was also when we nearly got Julia Barr as Janet...). Horan was too low-energy for a central role. She reminds me more of some of Sonny's later failed love interests. I do remember that Gina. She barely seemed to appear. I am not even sure why Gina would have returned with Jagger and Stone long gone.

It is definitely strange. I think that was one of McTavish's last stories before her firing so only she would know. I can't even remember if she interacted with Phoebe beyond her early return.

Was that Ingo?

I definitely remember a buzz when she first started. At that time in the soap press GH was seen as just about flawless and that character tanking was the first sign for them that the show was going off track again.

I've heard of that but never seen it. That's interesting. All I've ever seen Garrett in outside of Sisters is commercials. The last I heard of Yakov was his complaining about COVID restrictions in Branson.

I was going to add all of the failed attempts at recreating Jenny/Nina/Tara/Dixie (Becca, Joni, Katie Kennicott, Lainie Cortlandt), but the OP said a year or less and I think that only fits Joni. Yes. And his brother Braden was the rapist. A wretched story. While I'm here, do any of you remember if Vicki Platt's character Corinne from that Jamaica remote was ever meant to be more, or brought to Pine Valley? For some reason I thought that was planned but didn't happen. I even have a memory of some claim she might be paired with Jack. I'm not sure if I just made all that up in my head.

The writing for Jeremy was insane...trying to drown Stephanie in the hot tub, being a pilot who was in human trafficking (?), but wait, he was neglected by Mike so don't judge him. That was all Hogan Sheffer to a tee. That would make sense about Tanner as surely, they didn't intend that as a story. 1997 was such a dark year for the show as it was and there we have Hayley, one of the young lead heroines, in her wedding dress, trembling and in tears as Adam tries to console her. Of all of Sarah's post-Carly roles, Madison did seem to be the one with the most hype with the least to show for it. I can't remember if she and Ian were killed in that big disaster or just one...or neither, I don't know.

1995 was the first I saw of Cecily and I remember her being drab and the story being a bust.

Thanks. That's where I get confused as until recently I thought they'd basically said he was dead. I agree they should have had John and Stefano die together. It would have been fitting.

Do you think there was any real story need to make people think Stefano might be alive and then declare Stefano dead when Joe Mascolo has been gone for a while now and Stefano was shot to death in Mascolo's final appearances? Did they say in the narrative at the time that Stefano wasn't actually dead?

AMC: Camille. Schulyer Grant had a pedigree (some would call it "nepo baby" these days), but little screen presence and little chemistry with MEK. The convoluted and unpleasant storyline did not help. At least Camille had a memorable death. Kit. I can't remember if she lasted a year or not. Maybe? The baby sister whose death caused so much trauma for Jack and Travis should have been real drama, although given that Jack was not a central character by that point and Travis only made guest appearances limited the scope. The "cry rape" story with Tad was a terrible story choice the character never recovered from, along with the limited range of Paige Rowland. At least Paige got a marriage and family out of the role. Tanner. I have always wondered what the initial plans were for this character. This was the peak of ABC Daytime importing Australian hunks. Vince Poletto was apparently a fan favorite on Heartbreak High or whatever Australian teen soap he'd come from. A triangle with Hayley and Mateo loomed. Poletto had a very dark energy in the role. Within several months, Tanner had pushed alcohol on a woozy Hayley and raped her. This was an extremely ugly story. Was that really what they had hired him for?

I hadn't heard about that. Awful. I really enjoyed that storyline. I'm sure it was just another attempt at forced quirkiness but the actor who played John made those stories work for me.

I didn't realize Donna Mills did another of these videos. It's still good for what it is intended to be, although all I can think is how ugly a lot of hair and fashion from the time was.

This is about why I stopped watching, along with the incredibly bleak Trevor storyline. Everything became bleak.

This is Michael Fairman's channel.

Bridget Dobson.

Pine Valley is in the Sims world, which helps explain many of the parenting choices.

I wouldn't say that about the ladies. Bradley Cole...well, Jeffrey sure as hell didn't help.

I wouldn't be surprised if Lane Davies as Ridge Forrester is in there - someone at B&B really hated that recast. Thanks @Spoon I remember rereading that issue until the cover fell off. One of the only GL covers in SOD's last decades.

That sounds like a great dream. Always fun, and so random, having a soap dream. Train Journeys with Victoria Lord would be one hell of a show.