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I think SPW said the same in their most memorable moments article from 1997 - they did enjoy the story but felt the killer was too obvious. Thanks. This reminds me - Donna was there for so many events in Natalie's life, but was she around for Natalie's funeral? (then again that wasn't "her" Natalie) Seeing Harold reminds me of his death story, which was under McTavish. It got some criticism at the time, as some said they don't watch soaps to see a dog die, but while it was very emotional, it was also poignant and never felt exploitive. Natalie returning to walk with Harold to Heaven got me, although I did laugh at some of the soap magazine comments which said they were distracted by the big diamond Kate Collins had on her finger. I say if you've got it, flaunt it. Is that woman calling Trevor "one of the good ones" an under five or a character? There are various blondes in this period I can't tell apart. Those garish suit jackets are about as 1992 as you can get. Trevor should have asked Color Me Badd to perform at the wedding. They never should have taken him that far. I assume JPS wanted to leave, but he did return for a short stint later on. They should have had him similar to Sean Cudahy - wicked but still able to come back and cause problems for his family.

That may be when they start showing him more, yes - I remember him being around a fair amount but I may be thinking of the scenes with Ben and Michelle. So they had the sex story first and then the rape story. I guess Marland was trying to speedrun another Laura. Thanks. The writers' strike was from April to July 1981, so may have started showing up onscreen sometime in May or late April. The only story I've heard of it in GL terms is that Marland was on the phone putting through all the dialogue for the episode where Kelly confronts Nola over her pregnancy lies, as the strike had just been resolved.

Geez. I don't think I've ever seen any of this. And then a few months later she has sex with Kelly? I always just through her story was about struggling with the aftermath of having sex with Kelly too early. I wonder if the rape was Marland's plan or entirely strike writing. I guess it must have been from his outlines.

I also remember her filling in as Felicia. Nancy Bell (I had to look that up - I had no idea she was on B&B in the late '00s, I guess just as a doctor) was a very sincere and likeable actress, with a good screen presence. She was also the first woman Vincent had had chemistry with in over 3 years. I do still wonder if the plan was to kill her off, but viewers liked her enough to where she got to live and leave town with Nick. The man Lucy met in her HIV support group was also very likeable - and the only gay male character ever on GL, other than a guy Reva worked with. I do think that's a natural feeling in many cases. Rape stories are often manipulative and sleazy. I did feel sorry for Lucy, and I thought Sonia Satra did a great job with the story. I say that as someone who could not stand the character from her first scene. The problem is there was nothing left for Lucy after that story ended. They tried a love triangle with Zachary the angel, which no one cared about. It was fitting that one of her final scenes was with Harley, the character she had unsuccessfully replaced. The Emily story was awful. It was a naked attempt to make us feel sorry for her, as most rape stories on soaps are. At least the Lucy story wasn't about punishing her, and GL generally didn't tell those types of stories. Rita's may be one of the few. You're right. They never painted him as a big stud, as they did with others. He was more of the hapless guy, often unlucky in love. Chelsea and Fletcher is one of the first things I remember when I started GL. Something else that made Fletcher work for me is we often saw him with Ben, getting ready for school, struggling with the daily life of being a single parent, etc. Stuff you don't get now.

Thanks @Mitch64 . I'm surprised we even got that much. I meant to say Nancy, not Miranda, drugging people, although I guess Miranda would have done her share.

I felt physically sick when I saw her ugly video. Not your post - I had seen the video earlier. We aren't ever coming back from this. I don't know if I have ever felt such shame in this country. Yes, America has done bad things, terrible things, I'm not going to say this is new, but the crassness of these people just brings home how hollowed out we are now. Jaundiced JD can try as many righteous tantrums as he wants, this is all just one long grifting gut punch after another. This is great news. It does make me surer they are going to rig any future elections - Arizona's Secretary of State is saying the same, and he has access we don't. So any wins Democrats have in close races now are going to have to be even stronger. One unexpected bonus of the PA state senate win is that it likely spooked Trump's puppeteers (not him as he seems completely gone) about their House majority, leading them to yank the UN nomination away from hatchetwoman Elise Stefanik. She completely changed her views and appearance to get into the cult, and she still got a foot in the backside. According to Axios she was devastated and pleading with Trump. Maybe he'll do her a favor and let her get a free drink at Maralago. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnge7ql7wo

Did they end the relationship for Miranda? Imagine creating a story about an international drug lord that is so tedious. I wonder if Chris even got a reaction. If Miranda had been a hit with viewers, then we might have gotten to a point in the mid '80s where Miranda was involved in Miami Vice type stories (maybe she could have followed Alice Horton in passing out drugged donuts).

Marcy as Amanda is a great idea.

Oh she would have been a great Stephanie.

@dc11786 I'd never heard of that radio soap. I'll have to look for it. An anthology show, like Promised Land (the Touched by an Angel spinoff with Gerald Macraney and family in an RV) might have worked. Liz finally having everything she wanted in a husband only for her to then lose her husband to that world would have been great writing.

I could definitely see her as Ann - I guess she was on AW when the part was recast with White, but she could have been very good in that triangle with Dane and Gwyn. I could see it - Elizabeth Savage played a softer Gwyn anyway, so Jacqui could have filled the same type of space.

Thanks @EricMontreal22 @vetsoapfan You might enjoy this. A Jacquie Courtney role we'd had no footage of. To think Alexandra Wilson, Luke Perry and Courtney were all on AW in 1989 (although Courtney never interacted with them). It's odd seeing her in such a camp, mwahaha role, like Ursula in Corinth. I'd love to see her facing off with Christine Tudor's Gwyn.

Yes. To be fair to her, other than some rare guest stints on Y&R she's been out of soaps for a long time and mostly busy in horror. She probably just never had the interest to look. That she was offered the role flat out without an audition explains a lot about them not seeing how miscast she was. Another JFP failure.

She's 16 years younger. She was not married. I know he was married up to the mid '70s because of magazine interviews but I am not sure if he still was when he met Leslie. They met when she joined ATWT. Hard to believe a child was born from that incredibly dull storyline. Thanks to you and @MarlandFan for the info about Parker. I'm glad the experience at least didn't leave her bitter about her time in Oakdale. In another world I'd love to see her heading up a new soap - probably some show in the vein of Where the Heart Is.

That's because it was put out on DVD about 12-13 years ago as part a Jennifer trial set.

I'd agree with this. Stephen A Smith is a big name by cameo standards of recent times. I'm surprised he even makes the appearances.

Thanks. A shame they wasted a Doug recast (who never really had a full chance to be established even under Cranston) on this. I wonder if they talked a lot about her being so intimate with his brother.

You're probably right, but then he had some bad blood with GL too so I guess anywhere might have been dicey. I would have appreciated seeing what he did at AW, if he'd had better luck than Malone did when he tried to headwrite. I guess we would just have to put ourselves in a world where executives still let writers have some freedom.

I hadn't seen this before. Not sure who the man with Shana is.

I know in McTavish's book she admitted that story was a mistake, although she blamed the casting in part. I noticed she said nothing about the Kit story, which was to me much worse. I don't have a hard time believing the voodoo story was forced by the network. The same goes for Janet planning to have Brooke's face.

The year of the soap...

I always forget it was the network rather than the other way around. Maybe this is Frank's revenge.