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July 1973 Daytime TV Rosetta LeNoire left as Gloria Metcalf. Jane Alice Brandon replaced Carol Williard as Harriet Sullivan. Carol left because she had stage commitments.

July 1973 Daytime TV Gregory Chase replaced Jack Stauffer in April as Chuck Tyler. Jack left to go to Hollywood.

Laurinda Barrett (Rita Church) and Camille Yarborough (Miss Butterfield) began the end of September.

March 1973 Daytime TV Val Dufour started as John Wyatt, Andrea Whiting's lawyer, the middle of October.

March 1973 Daytime TV Trip Randall began as Johnny Fletcher in September.

March 1973 Daytime TV Georgia Schmidt (Amy Douglas) and George Chandler (Walter Douglas) began their roles the beginning of November.

March 1973 Daytime TV Fran Sharon (Cookie Christopher) and Burt Douglas (Ron Christopher) were released from their contracts the end of November, but will still be seen occasionally in their roles.

March 1973 Daytime TV Paul Henry Itkin (Dr. Vito McCray) left the end of December. Curt Williams' role of Jimmy Graham ended the middle of December.

March 1973 Daytime TV Chris Hastings (Peter Burton), Eugenia Rawls (Grace Burton) and Michael Lombard (Joe Sernando) all began the end of October. Jill Harmon (Maria Marino) and Dean Santoro (Paul Stewart) were killed off the week of December 4.

March 1973 Daytime TV Micki Grant (Peggy Nolan) left at the end of September to concentrate on her play Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. The show hopes she will return soon. Stephen McHattie (Dr. Paul Graham) began the middle of November.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPWJFhqHGDY

Fox News comes out. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/obama-video-on-fox-news-criticized-as-attack-ad/?smid=tw-nytimestv&seid=auto

New Chip Albers clips of Curtis are up! I'll just post two. There are two others on the channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj4YCFsy1kw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axmLAo4if50&feature=channel&list=UL That crimped hair on Ann is awful. I thought Ann was gone by this time. When did she leave?

Another member of Congress ousted (and not in a primary with another member of Congress). Longtime Texas Congressman Silvestre Reyes lost his seat, in spite of endorsements from Obama and Bill Clinton, in a primary fight which involved hysteria of marijuana legalization and his running an ad blasting his opponent for having a criminal record and falling down on a floor. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/drug-legalization-democrat-beats-rep-silvestre-reyes-texas/story?id=16459144#.T8ZWebBYunc http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_20687030/new-reyes-ad-attacks-orourkes-character?source=most_viewed Here's O'Rourke. Kind of cute, although the veneers spoil it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF0A-1B70nw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOpspC8ys_o&feature=channel&list=UL

I don't have most of the articles tom is trying to upload, but I had this one. It's the December 1970 TV by Day.

Thanks!

Donald Trump continues to push birther garbage and Romney continues to shrug this off. And what a surprise, the "liberal" media makes sure to devote several pages to talking about why it makes sense for Romney to support Trump, and to even have other Romney surrogates push their own birther theories. Romney is so gutless that he hides behind such stale and offensive conspiracy theories, and the media heaps praise on him for it. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76820.html

Kat pictures. Her face still doesn't look quite right but at least her hair is better. http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/s2/eastenders/scoop/a384113/eastenders-kat-moon-return-first-pictures.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQnu34QygU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piCI63Og3Zc I have to laugh at Chris Fountain being there when he is a bit player on that show. Collinson has destroyed Corrie.

Someone wrote into SOD in the late 80's asking about an early Leanna scene where she implied something bad had happened to her brother (or that she had killed her brother). SOD said this story was dropped when Leanna became popular. Do you know anything about this story?

I guess they were more upset if it was a younger man and an older woman in a relationship which wasn't a vamp and a naive young thing. Some of what you describe with the humor reminds me of ATWT and GL in the late 80's and early 90's - people sitting around making fun.

Who were the comical characters on Somerset?

I'm amazed that foot-kissing scene ever got on the air in the first place! On Ryan's Hope, Jill was obsessed with toe rings around this time, but I don't think Seneca ever kissed her foot. It seems like the 70's were the era when soaps were most allowed to take chances, but as we can tell here, that had its limits. I've always gotten the sense that Veleka was not popular in a lot of her roles, so I wish I could see her as Vicki. I'd love to see Tina Sloan as a neurotic bitch as well.