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It's been a long time but I don't think he chose every episode.

I think that was Soap Opera Weekly (that list is how I first learned about many long gone soap moments). Michael Logan also chose those episodes for the ABC Daytime to Remember spring run which happened in the same year (1997). He said in so many words that he didn't have any use for Lucy or Herring's work by that time but he adored her entrance and when Lucy was a bitch.

Thanks @soapfan770 such a great intro from Jane. I do wonder if she drew a lot of strength from Angela in those years.

Oh I know - it's just that site put up a 1980 episode earlier this year and we weren't sure of the date. I never could even access it.

Thanks @slick jones ! I wonder if this is the episode that Beond TV or whatever the name is ran.

Thanks so much for the images and details @dc11786 @SoapDope78 @rm86732 was the poster who asked about videos of his mother.

He seemed very involved in his scenes with Marco. They were much more involved than many gay couples I've seen on soaps over the years.

That remained the case for a few years after Marland's passing. It didn't work out well onscreen. Holden was very cold (he'd been cold for a number of years anyway but it just got worse) and acted like a huge prick all the time. I believe so, yes. I think there was some talk about how she was resented after she won an Emmy. And various other things. It's very sad.

Thanks. I hadn't seen her soap work (looks like she was on Mary Hartman quite a bit but must not have been memorable to me).

What helped Judi was her sincerity - I think she has always been one of the "purest" actresses on soaps, even when the character is poor (like whatever DAYS has done with her for decades now). Beth was not much of a character in her own right, but it was probably her best daytime role (I don't think she was ever the right choice for Paulina on AW). Any time I see her work from back then I can understand why she became so popular, especially since the only other ingenue who had sort of had that spark in recent years had been Kirsten Vigard, and the show suffocated that with Kelly and then dumped her.

Along the way, Tad (and here and there Jake) became the only Martin the show had an investment in. And in those last years, Tad himself was barely hanging on.

Paul was never allowed any living children on the show, so it was even easier to get rid of him, but they could have at least had him make more return appearances. I could see him being with Opal for a while (Opal and Palmer never should have stayed together as long as they did anyway).

Thanks!

Thanks. I couldn't find his name (or maybe just felt too tired to look).

The Quinns, a 1977 TV-movie (pilot?) about a family and the NYFD, featuring past and future soap performers Virginia Vestoff, Patricia Elliott, Penny Peyser. The Quinns--Barry Bostwick, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patricia Elliott, NYFD Firemen

Ten - Murder She Wrote promo (October 1992)

An Alcoa Theatre episode with Elizabeth Allen. The Fugitive Eye--Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Allen, 1961 TV - YouTube

I wasn't sure if she was meant to be more hysterical because John had died saving her. That aspect worked for me. I think Beverly Penberthy and Irene Dailey did all the lifting in that story.

Thanks so much @slick jones I wonder who Maleki played on B&B. Probably some Bikini (or whatever the bar was named) trash.

Not really, no, although she was my favorite Lily and always will be. (she was also the first Lily I ever saw) Lucinda is a wonder, yes. Liz worked miracles.

On IMDB, the names listed are Nicole Forester, Philippe Hartmann, Mia Matthew, Michael Park, Simmons, Gerrold Vincent, Brendan Wentworth, PaSean Wilson. Malone, presumably, would bring Simmons and Wilson to AW when he briefly joined the show as headwriter.

Thanks for your latest recap @alwaysAMC Sad to say the very silly material with Abby's super-hearing is what her implant story is likely most remembered for (and got some tsk-tsks in the soap press at the time). At least Amy got something to do, I guess. I find Susan irritating even in your synopses. Her behavior is natural, I suppose, but that doesn't make it worth watching. And it's difficult to care about Beth given her antics. (was Beth a tennis ace in high school?) If I had written this story, if it was a mandate to write this story with these three characters, I would have had Beth, going through an extensive mental breakdown which she increasingly struggles to hide, befriend Susan. I would have her, due to what happened with her stepfather abusing her, and how Carl abused both her and Lizzie, become paranoid that Jim had abused his wife (based on some comments she overhears Jim making about his late wife's "troubles") and was abusing Susan. Susan would initially not say much about this because Harley is busy with work and her pregnancy so she just appreciates having a maternal figure, but when she realizes that Beth is planning to kill Jim to protect her, she finally starts being honest with her. Beth is filled with shame and self-loathing, and shouts that she is becoming what she has always feared. Beth then nearly commits suicide via pills before Jim and Susan find her and take her to the hospital. Beth then goes away for several months, with Jim visiting her regularly, drawn to her in spite of her problems (we could learn that his late wife also had serious mental problems). When Beth finally returns to Springfield, she tries to stay away from Jim, but with Susan's encouragement, they begin a relationship.

A Jim Davis Alcoa Theatre episode with the haunting Joanna Moore. Jim is mostly in the last few acts. Jeeney Ray--Joanna Moore, Jim Davis, Ron Hayes, 1963 TV - YouTube

What sizzling plots could cause Hotel to skyrocket to #1 in the ratings? 1984 National Enquirer commercial

Thanks for finding this. I'm glad they were able to get some Santa Barbara talk out over the interruptions. I hadn't heard Nancy's reasons for why the show ended.