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I think there's a way you could have a soap-within-a-soap, like that Behind the Screen show (if we could ever see any of it). It's a shame Body & Soul may have killed that idea for many.

I'd say that the reason she became less used is because she was complicated. The women on the show got more and more one-dimensional, to the point where, somehow, Paige was the only complex woman in the last 4-5 years of the show. I would have cut Mack over Laura. I am sure some would say you can't make Karen a widow again, but I still would have as other than the Jason story everything they did with him in those last 5 seasons was awful anyway.

She had become secondary, but they could have written for her as Greg's wife. It was just easier for the show to write for less complicated women. Thanks. It's one of my favorite old Hollywood shoots - just hot as hell. I never would have found it if not for watching Sun Valley Serenade, a rare movie for the Hays era in that Sonja Henie is unapologetic in wanting Payne even though he has a girlfriend, chases him the whole movie, and gets him with no punishment or suffering. I guess the censors decided they couldn't blame her.

They should have tweaked the homeless story and put him in instead of Stuart Pankin.

The only one I thought had some potential was Mary Kay Adams, but that story didn't go anywhere.

Probably more the latter, although there might be more in the AW thread.

That type of moment is the best use of the character, over custody wrangling or money woes.

Supposedly, Paulina on Another World.

They had written Laura into such a corner by the time she was killed off, which is not a statement against her as it is about how one-note the writing for women had become by then. In the show's most complex years, the years that made Knots beloved, Laura was front and center.

Thanks @Forever8 I love this. The group Knots should have focused on.

I'm sure someone knows better than me but I think just a month or two.

Thanks. It gets confusing as the end has a Newhart promo for an episode that aired on January 23.

Thanks. Jordan and Kim always worked so well together. I do agree with you that it was more interesting when he wasn't just in love with Reva.

I also did not know why they didn't bring Anna Holbrook back, as she'd already returned earlier in the year.

Thanks for the clip and review @Maxim . I am glad to see all the appreciation of Nancy Addison - it is disappointing this role didn't last longer as it would be a half a decade before she'd get more soap work, and she was born for soaps. I don't know if you've ever seen her on Loving or Ryan's Hope but I think you'd enjoy her (even if Jill could be insufferable). What impresses me most with the gaslighting story is how simple it is. All Adam does is move an item. I'm sure it progresses from there, but I appreciate the lack of light shows and endless stunts.

Thanks for watching them. The stories by this half of 1984 aren't that interesting but some of the characters still are. I don't think he was that bad either. He has the intensity down (which Raines never did). What he lacks is Bernau's charisma. Replacing Bernau was going to be impossible.

I reuploaded three videos which were on Youtube last year. I am not sure of the exact dates on two of them so just had to guess.

I think they still could have worked in story for them, as they lived near Terry and Liz was friends with her, but for tighter story and budget reasons I guess I get it. I do wonder if the claims of them possibly getting a spinoff were true.

Thanks. Always appreciate more insight.

Cliff and Nina had been split multiple times and this last time had been over a year and a half, so I think viewers might have been willing to see him move on...beyond the racism, I do wonder if they thought it was too soon for Angie. Jesse had only been dead about six months, hadn't he? And then the story where Debbi decided to leave (I'm not sure if she left because of the story - probably not) was a love triangle involving her mother, which no one was asking for. I guess Debbi may have left anyway if they had not given her proper story, but it's a shame they couldn't find a way to have her in major story without focus on her love life. She was a widowed mother, a doctor...plenty of possibilities.

I could agree with that, yes. I can see Lemay having his own biases on the Steve/Rachel front. Thanks for the explanation. I would be so glad if some episodes from early Wyndham showed up (beyond the two bits we have now) to see the change. I've always wondered if Lemay took time but I guess he really didn't, other than what he mentioned about using Ada's pregnancy to soften Rachel. Do you think Wyndham was playing Rachel similar to Charlotte on GL, or was that a more sympathetic character?

AW is one of those shows like GL where they outlived a natural cancelation endpoint so many times that I don't even entirely know what I'd blame, but I see what you mean.

I didn't really care about the gorilla. I just wish they'd had a few more returns which would have been fitting for the end (like Carmen Duncan as Iris...and I still have no idea why Sam Groom did not return as Russ when RUSS' DAUGHTER WAS ON THE CANVAS).

You can also see Wendy in a slew of mid '90s commercials.

That's crazy. Makes me feel so old. It's a nice cast photo, even if Scott Clifton looks scared and I'm not sure why KKL and McCook aren't centered more.