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Ray is gone and Lee has dementia so yes, you're right, I could see Amy as a matriarch for those left behind - a Grandma Kate for today.

They probably saw no need once Phil was gone for good, but I do wish they'd brought Rosemary back for an anniversary - the 25th in particular.

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection https://filmisfabulous.org.uk/missing-doctor-who-recovered/ This is incredible news - just what we all need right now. My happiest day as a fan in years. For me this is one of THE Doctor Who stories - it rarely leaves my head. I never thought we'd get more episodes, even with whispers of such, and frankly I didn't know if we would again in my lifetime, or anyone's lifetime. I had no idea that episodes from this story in particular were meant to be so impossible to find (the story was not sold overseas). Everything about Daleks Master Plan is bonkers and grimdark - so much about this story never should have worked yet somehow does. And that continues with five episodes and counting of a story that wasn't meant to survive somehow surviving. Film is Fabulous is doing phenomenal work in these discoveries for so many shows - this is the first Doctor Who they've found but they seem to have a great track record.

Larkin Malloy, IIRC, was on one of their covers too.

They're still alive, although I am not sure if they are still acting.

@I Am A Swede The Emmerdale powers that be recently said "Annie Sugden would be proud of" Robert/Aaron getting Butler's Farm (now renamed Emmerdale Farm) and Cain and Moira getting their own farm (Dingle Farm). I thought it was a great example of how little producers of recent decades get about the family or characters of the early days, well-meaning or not. Annie loved her family farm - she wasn't a fairy godmother of all farms in Beckindale. And that family farm was taken from her even before she left the village. She wouldn't care about a cadre of killers buying farms, other than Robert, and she would probably just feel sad about so many of the choices Robert has made. They should have focused more on what Annie would have wanted before they decided to invent a grandson for her just to make him a serial killer.

This is all still insane to me. AW got some bad breaks but also was lucky to hang on for so many rocky periods. Irna had fired or tried to fire key actors on her other soaps but never so early on or on such a spree. I'm almost surprised she was able to get on other soaps on the air after this.

I figured Tangie/Alan-Michael were over long before her exit, I just thought it would have been an interesting story, as Alan-Michael had never had any kids (and never would). I agree Nick worked best with Tangie and Susan (and his friendship with Fletcher).

Thanks for sharing all this @soapfan770 You're right at what a stretch Angela seems to be based on that speech alone. At least they worked in another reference to Grandfather.

I can see why they may have thought Rick was getting a chance, given Marcy's soap pedigree, but nothing about Tangie connected with viewers. It's hard to believe she was only on the show a little over six months by then. I don't think viewers started to warm to Tangie until her last months in the role (if they did). If Marcy had decided to stay there's definitely a big what if. I imagine she would have ended up into Roger's increasingly desperate schemes, or fought Reva for Alan, but continuing her relationship with Alan-Michael as Lucy/Alan-Michael builds could have been interesting. Maybe she could have been secretly pregnant and kept quiet because she didn't want him to feel obligated to her, only for Brent/Marian to "accidentally" reveal her secret at a party Alan-Michael throws for Lucy.

In theory, I could understand why Alan-Michael became such a schemer and so cold. The problem for me was the execution and the motivation. I never came away from an episode feeling like we were really meant to sympathize with him. I thought he was just an obstacle to a whole slew of characters. I liked the Frank/Eleni relationship (I didn't love them - I think the most interesting period was when Julie was driving a wedge between them)., but the stakes weren't very high to where Alan-Michael needed to keep them apart for so long and then pine for Eleni even longer. Then there was his position at Spaulding, where Alex treated him with disdain and he was a foil for Nick, who was one of the most sanctimonious asses ever on the show. I ended up not rooting for anyone at Spaulding, which is a problem considering Spaulding was a mainstay of the show. Sad to say I probably rooted for Alex more in her drug dealing years than I did her or Nick at this period of time. And then Alan came in, another character I just didn't have an investment in (by the time I'd started watching GL, Alan was gone, so my first experience was this man doing a Mickey Rooney Breakfast at Tiffany's voice). Rick Hearst has always played third or fourth fiddle in his soap roles, but there was no reason for that to be the case with Alan-Michael. He was a Bauer and a Spaulding. He had the keys to the kingdom. Why they ignored this when Philip left, I never will know.

I remember some of this from watching at the time, mainly Harley being drugged with the truth serum. I remember liking the apartment she shared with Mindy. (I also loved Roger's apartment from this timeframe). Even though they weren't together, I liked Alan-Michael and Harley and was disappointed they didn't go anywhere with them around then. This is probably one of several reasons I intensely disliked Mallet. (I had no real opinion on Alan-Michael and Eleni as it seemed obvious from the start we weren't meant to root for them as a couple - this started what I saw as a long long period of A-M just being a third or fourth choice of the show until about 1995).

Thanks. That makes sense. I guess that was from Conboy to Wheeler. I wonder what Conboy would have planned for them. Probably ended up with Beth bedding Alan-Michael...

I think he would have been accepted - he did a good job in his brief, sleazy role on ATWT in the early '00s, so he still had the chops. The biggest issue (and why Rick left, IIRC) is Alan Michael so often had little to do. I can't see him wanting to return for a love triangle with an angel. Beyond Rick leaving, what were the other times he was asked? I hope it wasn't for the stupid 2007 return. Pairing him with Marina would have been even worse.

I haven't. I'm generally wary of buying soap DVDs, with a few exceptions, but others who are more in the know may be able to help.

I think they did avoid writing Ron's Alan that way for his first year or so, but he just couldn't play the subtlety.

She talks about the movie being the only thing a lot of people know her for, but to her it was basically near the end of her career, and she moved away from acting by the end of the decade because she didn't like being on sets and she was tired of just playing guest starring roles of women who had been sexually assaulted. They asked her if she'd been approached to be in Part V. She said she hadn't, as she would have said yes - she would have taken any role to help pay her way as she needed to help pay off her house.

At about 8 minutes she mentions that the casting director who'd cast her for Friday the 13th had also cast her on Capitol. Then one of the interviewers says that his mother mentioned remembering Kimberly from Capitol. She then says she was unhappily married to Barron Hilton Jr. John Conboy cast her in Capitol. John thought she was like a princess due to being married to a Hilton. She then says something like, "When I left, seriously...it was like three weeks later he fired me and hired Catherine Hickland to take my part because she was married to David Hasselhoff. He had some bizarre - there was no reason to fire me." I assume she believes that it was her leaving her husband which caused Conboy to fire her.

Do you think they should have just written Miles and Nicole out rather than killing Nicole off and having Miles with other women so quickly?

Lynn Milgrim was so bug-eyed on ATWT, I wonder how her theater work was. Do you think she was better in her 1982 stint?

Marland also balanced story for many characters when he was at ATWT. ATWT and AMC both eventually collapsed from the weight of that many people, but they did manage for a long time. GH had so many in the early '80s too. Given Frank's budget magic it shouldn't be as difficult for him. The writing and interest just aren't there.

Thanks.

Thanks @JAS0N47 Is Susan Flannery still Laura?