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I thought the April story was good. The soap magazines at the time criticized the show for so quickly writing April and Heather out again. I loved that Traci/Lauren catfight. It felt so unexpected, since I didn't see a lot of the Traci/Lauren history.

Thanks so much for reading. I hope it had some stuff you didn't know about.

Thanks for reading. Yes, he does tell us so many things we wouldn't know otherwise. I never knew Dody was on Search. I'm sorry I've never seen any of the comedy stories with Stu and Marge. The episodes that are available seem to have her in misery, which doesn't suit her at all.

Looks like him to me.

portrayal of Iris Garrison soap-watchers might remember Bibi from her appearances on Guiding Light, The Doctors and Secret Storm. She was also on The Edge Of Night for almost one year in the role of Susan Forbes. Veleka Gray is the new Laura Elliott. She just moved into a large West Side apartment and is in the process of redecorating. When we spoke with her all she could do was talk about her acting teacher Warren Robertson. "He's changed my whole life-style," she said. Love is Veleka's first soap stint. Her other credits include two films (which she doesn't care to think about), a part as a stewardess in the Elliot Gould film I Love My Wife, a tour with the play Dylan and an appearance on Mod Squad. Someone else who's just moved into a new home is Albert Stratton (Tom Donnelly). "It's a brownstone in Brooklyn," he told us, "and it's beautiful. I don't have to do much in the way of repairs. The house is 97 years old, and it's all for myself, my wife and my little girl Ashley." Albert has been quite busy besides appearing on Love. He recently appeared in Timon of Athens in Central Park and was connected with the productions of The Philanthropist and Colette. Very new to the cast is Don Gantry, and he too lives in a brownstone in New York. Don portrays Al Preston, a politician opposing Spence Garrison (Ed Power) in a campaign. From the sounds of it the storyline will go very strongly into politics, perhaps, in time to keep up with the '72 Presidential election. Chatting with Don we found out that he is what you might call an actor's actor. For the past several years Don has appeared in almost every regional theatre around the country, from St. Louis to Cincinnati, playing all the great parts...Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, Hotspur in Henry IV. He just recently replaced Stacy Keach in the New York production of Long Day's Journey Into Night. Don is married and has a daughter, Alexis, who is 11 years old. He says he's absolutely crazy about his new role on Love, and looks forward to settling here in Fun City. "I had to travel," he said, "I had to do all those great parts and get them out of my system. I had to expand myself." Another new character to be added to the show is Gene Lindsey who plays Doug Preston. Gene comes straight from Texas country where he studied, taught and directed. People down Dallas way should be familiar with his name because of his connection with the Dallas Theatre Center. Gene's been around the New York scene for sometime now and some of his professional credits include a national tour of Cactus Flower and My Daughter, Your Son with Vivian Vance. He was also in the short-lived musical Hot September. Gene has a beautiful legitimate stage voice but he rarely gets a chance to use it anymore. Many of you may remember his face from a commercial or from brief appearances on As the World Turns and Dark Shadows. He's particularly pleased about being on the show and so are his parents who always wanted hi m to be a doctor, which is the role he plays on the show. Though by this time most of the viewers are used to James Burge who plays Sam Watson on the show, he too has been added to the cast within the past year. James is a very handsome guy who a while back "exposed" himself on Broadway in a short-lived comedy called Grin and Bare It. His credits include summer stock work all around the country and two seasons of work in the Hulberry Classic Theatre in Detroit. A bachelor, James comes from Oklahoma where he also received his degree from the University of Oklahoma. He loves cooking, films and theatre, jumping and horseback riding. He's very pleased about the fact that he has a fan club. There are many marvelous women who make this daytime show really click. You've met them all through other stories so we decided to find out what was new and wonderful and exciting in their lives. Andrea Marcovicci (Betsy Chernak) began talking about a new play she is presently appearing in called The Wedding of Iphigenia. She's part of a twelve-woman chorus. Those of you who had your TV sets tuned in on Christmas Day might have seen Andrea play Joan of Arc on the You Are There series. Andrea is quite an actress for her young years, but she feels she's more interested in music and singing. She hopes to make an album of some of her songs. Gloria Hoye (Helen Donnelly) told us her husband Leonard Patrick is going full swing as a theatrical producer, in partnership with Alfred Drake. Suzie Kaye Stone (Angel Chernak) says her husband is out on the West Coast directing a seven package deal. "You might say," she explained, "that he's an up-and-coming director." Suzie is happy to be working on the show but confesses a desire to star in a film, and it would be nice if he were directed by Lawrence Stone.Suzie, like Andrea, is a singer and has appeared in many supper clubs across the country. "I'm also a dancer," she told us. "Usually I'm in musicals. That's why I like doing the soap because it's just acting." If there is anyone one Suzie wants to praise, it's the technical staff of Love, who make working on the show such a happy experience for her. Sasha Von Scherler (Sarah Hanley) told us about her three little girls and of her experiences appearing in the off-Broadway productions of Firebugs and Trelawny Of The Wells. She is soon to appear at the Chelsea Center in a play called The Screens. But like the other gals, she too loves Love. The only other thing she could think to tell us is that she lives near Jackie Kennedy's candystore. (Jackie doesn't own it, only buys from it.) Diana Douglas (Lily Donnelly) said there was not much new except that she came back from a week's vacationing in Bermuda and that she intends to do a lot of skiing this winter. She lives in Connecticut, so she doesn't have too far to go. Constance Towers (Marian Hiller) making her soap debut with Love, told us her little girl Maureen starred with her this summer in Guy Lombardo's production of The Sound of Music in New York's Jones Beach. Jane Manning (Jean Garrison) is still happily married to lyricist Cy Young and she has a little boy six years old. The Youngs live in Manhattan and try to keep their lives as private as possible because of some unpleasant mail Jane has received in the past. On the male side of the picture Ed Power as Spencer Garrison and Vincent Baggetta as Dr. Pete Chernak are still carrying the most popular votes. Both remain single, though Ed was married and has children. Vincent lives alone in a small West Side apartment in Manhattan. Judson Laire (Will Donnelly) lives in a brownstone in lower Manhattan. Most everybody remembers him as Papa in I Remember Mama with Peggy Wood. Judson said that all was well with him and that he spent a lovely Thanksgiving at his home in Dutchess County with the All My Children producer Doris Quinlan. Christmas was spent at his sister's home in Florida. Although Judson lives in a duplex apartment he much prefers being in Dutchess County tending his garden. When he's in New York, he tries going to the opera as much as possible. Stephen Joyce (Dr. Hiller) told us about a new film he just completed called A Change in the Wind which had eight weeks of shooting out on Fire Island. It's about the Irish rebellion and also stars Anne Meara, Bill Devane and Richard Mulligan. Apparently, Stephen is very pleased with the film. Shawn Campbell completes the Love cast, and though still quite young, he's been acting for quite some time. Shawn, who plays Rick Donnelly, previously appeared on Look Up And Live and The Doctors. In case you're wondering whatever happened to David Birney, Leslie Charleson, and Donna Mills, they are all out in the Hollywood sunshine. Donna has been appearing on the nighttime show The Good Life and on the silver screen opposite Clint Eastwood in Play Misty For Me. Donna, as most of you remember, was Laura Elliot on Love. Leslie, popular as Iris Garrison, recently appeared on a Movie Of The Weekend called Revenge opposite Shelley Winters. She's also appeared on Marcus Welby and Adam 12. Leslie will probably not return to soap opera. David, one of the first Mark Elliots, came back from the West Coast in January. Since leaving the show he has appeared in productions at Lincoln Center and was up for a major role in a film which was later cancelled. David's most current project is a pilot for a new television series made for Screen Gems. The pilot co-stars Where The Heart Is' Bibi Osterwald and focuses on the plight of a young Jewish boy in love with an Irish girl. Bibi plays his mother. Others missing from the Love scene include Karl Light, Berkeley Harris, and Beverlee McKinsey. Other production credits include: Associate Producer - Linda F. Wendell; Settings designed by victor Paganuzzi; Costume Consultant - Julia Sze; Associate Director - Portman Paget (He directs one show every two weeks); Production Supervisor - Thomas de Villiers; Lighting Director - Dean Nelson; Technical Director - James Angerame; Audio - Frank Boila; Set Decorator - John Wendell; Graphic Artist - Leo Guiliano and Music by Eddie Layton. ED.'S NOTE: Just as TV Dawn to Dusk was going to press, Abigail Kellogg joined the cast of Love in the role of Celia. Born in Buffalo, Abigail moved to Arizona when she was five and grew up in New York City. She is a graduate of the Nightingale-Bamford School and Sarah Lawrence College. Her previous serial roles include the portrayal of Patti on Search For Tomorrow and Robin in The Guiding Light. In the days when much of television was live drama, Abigail was featured in leading roles such as in Studio One productions. She also played the role of Anne Frank on Broadway for three months and then held the part for a year in the national company opposite Joseph Schildkraut.

On Sept. 3, 1951, CBS premiered a 15-minute television serial called Search for Tomorrow. Created by Roy Winsor for Procter & Gamble Productions, the series featured a little-known starlet named Mary Stuart in the role of Joanne Gardner Barron, a young housewife in the fictional Midwest city of Henderson. As the show made its debut, no one could have known that SFT would attain legendary status as the first soap to achieve long-term success in the new medium of television. The show's first head writer was a young hopeful named Agnes Eckhardt - who would later become the creative giant known as Agnes Nixon, of All My Children fame. During her brief stint, SFT presented simple, human storylines with which the audience could identify. Joanne ("Jo") had to endure the death of her weak-willed husband, Keith Barrow (John Sylvester), who was dominated by his wealthy parents, Victor and Irene (Cliff Hall and Bess Johnson). Although Victor was supportive of Jo, Irene fought her bitterly for custody of her impressionable young daughter, Patti (Lynn Loring). Fortunately, Jo had the loving support of her closest friends, Stu and Marge Bergman (Larry Haines and Melba Rae), who would provided much-needed comic relief to the surrounding melodrama for more than 20 years. There was an abundance of melodrama - on-screen and off. After 13 weeks, Eckhardt was replaced by Irving Vendig, a master of fast-paced, suspenseful stories. During Vendig's five-year reign, Irene plotted with white-collar criminal Jim Wilcox (Les Damonto discredit Jo, who had purchased a motel called the Motor Haven. In time, Jo became romantically involved with her silent partner, Arthur Tate (Terry O'Sullivan, Karl Weber), and married him. Together Jo and Arthur fought the machinations of his first wife's sister, Sue (Mary Patton), who died in a fire after impersonating her dead sister; small-time mob boss Mortimer Higbee (Ian Martin), who wanted the Motor Haven as a drug drop; and Rose Peterson (Lee Grant originally, then Constance Ford, now Ada on Another World), an ambivalent syndicate employee who had a learning-impaired brother, Wilbur, played masterfully by Don Knotts. By the mid-'50s, the "bad guys" had been flushed out of Henderson with the help of Arthur's best pal, cracker-jack criminal lawyer Nathan Walsh (originated by David Orrick, later played by George Petrie). Head writer Vendig left to create his brilliant crime soap, The Edge of Night, and was briefly replaced by Charles Gussman. In 1957, Frank and Doris Hursley took over the writing and SFT went in a new direction. Arthur suffered a fatal heart attack after having an affair with Jo's neurotic younger sister, Eunice Gardner (Marion Brash, Ann Williams). Eunice then romanced Rex Twining (Laurence Hugo, later Mike Karr on EON), who was unhappy in his marriage to a wealthy older woman - Cornelia Simmons (Doris Dalton). Arthur's domineering aunt. After Cornelia was murdered by her housekeeper, Harriet Baxter (Vicki Vola), Jo and Arthur took responsibility for her teen-age daughter, Allison (Anne Pearson), and Eunice and Rex were married. Jo's family continued to grow and intertwine with other Henderson characters. Her father, Frank Gardner (Eric Dressler, Harry Holcombe), married Stu Bergman's mother, Jessie (Joanna Roos), and her cousin, immature race car driver Bud Gardner (George Maharis), married Stu's teen-age daughter, Janet (Fran Sharon, who was later Cookie Pollack on EON). However, Jo also lost Duncan Eric, her son by Arthur; the boy was also hit by a car and died. SFT continued its new multi-generational focus into the 1960s. After Bud Gardner was killed in a scuffle with Stu, Janet married the more responsible Dr. Dan Walton (Phillip Abbott). Stu and Marge also lost custody of their young nephew, Jimmy Bergman (Peter Lazer), to his stepmother, Monica (Barbara Baxley). Jo and Arthur had to cope with Patti's bout with paralysis, as well as her string of unstable suitors - including the older, married Dr. Everett Moore (Martin Brooks). And Allison had a tumultuous marriage to Fred Metcalf (first Tom Carlin, then Donald Madden, finally David O'Brien), a recovering alcoholic reporter who was dominated by his mother, Agnes (Katherine Meskill). Veteran actor Stephen Elliott appeared as Fred's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor, attorney John Austin. In 1964, the Hursleys left SFT to assume the helm at General Hospital, the soap they had created the previous year. They were replaced by seasoned radio writers Julian Funt and David Lesan, who gave the show a refreshing dose of humor to balance its dark stories of ill-fated romance. In a charming, almost uproarious sequence, Marge Bergman became pregnant with a surprise baby after she thought she'd gone through menopause. The big event was given months of buildup - complete with Stu bringing home toys every night in anticipation - until Stuart Thomas Bergman Jr. ("Tom") was born. Later, the Bergmans considered selling their house to a wacky Southerner named Althea Franklin (Dody Goodman); instead, they would up having their home renovated by a certifiable pain named George Riley (John Scanlan). (This is only the first part. I don't have the second)

March 1972 TV Dawn to Dusk.

This is from a June 1992 Weekly. John Kelly Genovese looks back on Search's early days. I am going to type it out as I have an awful time scanning Weeklys. This is the photo.

Toni Bill Bua auditioned to play Tara Martin after Karen Gorney left in 1974. Michael Lynche auditioned to play Hart Jessup when they planned to bring Hart back in 1993, but they told him he was too old.

Still watching 1980 episodes, which can be a bit tough, as a number of the characters I'm enjoying are going to go on to die very violent deaths. I can't imagine how fans at the time felt since AW had shifted away from having heavy death, and then by the end of Lemay's run, the body count began to pile up again. I still can't fathom why they had three men on the show in love with Kit, two of them characters viewers barely know or have reason to care about. Why are all these men fighting over Kit while Sally has no one but friendly date Jamie? I don't know if this Sally left or if she was fired, but I like her a lot. Blaine's breakup with Jerry Grove and underworld ties is all so melodramatic, but I do get sucked into her plight, seeing poor Jerry having no idea why Blaine is pushing him away. There were some very soapy, moving scenes where he went to gather his things, and she tenderly said goodbye to him. He asked where one of his favorite sweater was, one she'd bought him, and she said she didn't know. When he left, she put the sweater to her face, as her last memory of him. I was going to ask about Ted Bancroft's exit story in 1979. I've read some synopses and apparently he was hit over the head, and was presumed dead for a while. How did they go from the few clips I've seen of him (smarming/dueling with Iris, flirting with Rachel) to this? What was it about?

I was watching a few early Quint/Nola clips; did Nola and Hillary become friends before Hillary died?

This love scene with Randy Brooks and Debbi Morgan seems more adult than usual for soaps. It's well done, aside from making poor Randy Brooks sing that "Lady" song (not a fan) and then playing it again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIBi10-Rmlk&feature=related

I think Holden didn't return until later that summer. Some 1992 promos. Sleek. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA_RpoYWuac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI_1EbK6OOk&feature=related

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

James Karen. That's right. I knew he looked familar. I think I remember him from Golden Girls. He does seem miscast as Linc. I didn't realize White came in that many years later.

Who was the first Linc? Kevin McCarthy? He looks kind of like Nick.

Eileen was on from the start to about 1976. Patricia Roe, whom we saw, played her until 1972. IMDB says Alice Hirson was the third, but other sources list her as the second, and last, Eileen from 72-76. I am mortified because I thought Alice was dead, and had told people this over the last few years, only to see she's still alive and acting. It's fascinating in these episodes how Ruth has to try to keep people from flying off the handle. She's just no-nonsense, even in the face of this huge lie. It's a shame that the fallout was never fully explored, since Amy and Ted were gone quickly. I wish they'd cast someone like Dolph Sweet as Ted Brent. This Ted struggles badly with his lines. I loved that Ruth/Amy phone call that was a split-screen! I didn't know they could do that on soaps in 1970. That dream was a trip. I wish we could see it in color. It's very effective, especially the "trial." ABC soaps seemed to enjoy doing this - Dark Shadows got crazier and crazier with this over time. I guess Marion was Linell Conway's mother. Christina Pickles played Linell. So pickled Marion was mother to Pickles.

show. She was involved with Paul, then bore an illegitimate child, then married Kip Rysdale (played by Ed Griffith), then divorced him and married Paul (played by Jed Allen). Jada left the series, took a vacation, then went on As the World Turns for eight months as Susan Stewart, dropping out only to return to Secret Storm. Away from the show, Nicolas and Jada are different people. Nicolas is extremely articulate, outgoing, friendly, even-tempered. Jada is more emotional, impulsive, moody. Both endured personal problems during their early runs on Secret Storm. Jada got a Mexican divorce in July of 1966 from Nicholas Hyams, an actor turned producer and writer. As for Nicolas, his little daughter Candace Nicole, now almost five, was ill for a couple of years. The child had suffered infections about once a month and had been hospitalized for all kinds of tests. Finally the trouble was pinpointed and an operation made her well again. And today, both Nicola' and Jada's personal lives seem to be in good shape. Nicolas was born in London on Dec. 3, 1934, to a New Zealander father, Ian Coster, and an American mother, Martha. His father was a film critic and columnist, and his mother had worked as a newspaper reporter in New York. But Nicolas didn't follow his parents into the newspaper field. He wanted to go on to the stage. His high school principal scolded him once for being mischievous: "You'll never become an actor because you don't have the vocal equipment.!" "Actually," recalls Nicolas, "I had the equipment - a six-not range. But it lacked tone and resonance. I licked that problem with the help of speech specialists and singing teachers. It cost $10,000, and worth it!" His mother brought him, his brother Ian Jr., and sister Georgina to California in 1940, to get away from the German blitz on England. They grew up in Hollywood, where his mother worked as a screenwriter. At 16, Nicolas returned to London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, then acted on British TV, and, two years later, returned to Hollywood to appear in many movies. He joined the U.S. Army 3d Infantry, and was stationed for two years in Washington, D.C. And then in 1958 he became an American citizen. It was while attending a Lee Strasberg acting class in 1960 that he met a fellow student, Candace Hilligoss. Within three weeks they were engaged, and, after three months spent touring in summer stock together, they married. Of course, like all young actors and actresses, they didn't have much money. "But we did manage to have a beautiful wedding," says Nicolas. We had a bottle of champagne given to us by Elizabeth Wilson, who loaned us her apartment in New York. What a honeymoon! We had $37 and the use of an apartment for two weeks! I remember how, after the wedding, we went over to the 86th St. Automat and had Salisbury Steak (a fancy name for hamburger) and cream spinach. And then we went back to our apartment to sip our champagne!" Nicolas was 26 then, and his friends were surprised when he married. "They thought of me as a perennial bachelor." But he knew The Right Girl when he saw her. He rhapsodizes: "Candace is from Huron, D.C. She is very pretty, but not a conventional type of beauty. She's the Jeanne Moreau type. I think she has more talent than I do, and if she gets the right role she'll be a bigger star than I'll ever be! "She's so feminine! I feel strongly about feminine women. They can be actresses, artists, etc. and still be feminine. So many women think you must be either a drudge or a career woman. They equate women with drudgery. "My wife is wonderful. There are certain times when an artist needs solicitousness. It's all right, except when both man and wife want it at the same time. Then there's trouble. The saving grace is a sense of humor." Candace has turned down a lot of roles because she doesn't want to go out of town. As the mother of two small girls, she believes she ought to stay close to home. They had a rough time at the beginning. Nicolas worked 12 hours a day six days a week to make $125 a week, and Candace taught dancing to children. "It was the low point of our lives. And then I got my first Broadway play, as stand-in for Laurence Olivier in "Becket." From then on, he managed. He did other plays, played summer stock, returned to Broadway as standby for John Mills in "Ross." He doubled in the daytime by appearing as Dr. Steele on Young Dr. Malone for a year. But more important than his career was his marriage. "Getting married," he says now, "gave me a sort of personal discipline, by affecting my work for the better. I stopped chasing girls. When you're single, you spend a life just hunting girls. It's great when an actor has a wife who helps domestically and artistically. For me, Candace is great. When I com e home and ask, 'What do you think?', she tells me what's wrong. It's a professional question and a professional answer. She has flawless taste. Criticizing my work does not cause disagreement in our house." Nicolas feels he's been "inching my way up and becoming a better actor." He feels he's "never had a big break," and adds, "I've been looking back and evaluating my work - and I think I'm getting there." He remembers how his high school principal downgraded his voice quality and points out that in 1957, playing at the Barter Theatre in Abington, Va., Coster is a first-rate male lead. His voice inflection is superb and he commands a vast range of acting talents." He is sure of himself now, and he recalls how when he was 16 he was asked why he thought he could become an actor. He replied, "Because I've got patience." His parents divorced when he was a boy, and he recalls returning to London at 16, eager to see his father, who had remarried. "My father talked only about what he knew well: he wrote more than he spoke. In London, I went to his club to see him. He looked at me and said, 'After 10 years, blood ties don't mean a hell of a lot. It's just a matter of whether you like a person or not. And I think I will like you!" He has fond memories of his mother, too. "Mother was a great conversationalist. She demanded that, if you talk, you have something original to say. But we were never repressed. A lot of people who are shy were repressed by their parents. Mother would say to us, 'Keep talking, but clarify.' She sacrificed so much to raise us three kids." He and his brother, now a veterinarian in California, often ran away from home. "We'd hike into the hills for a few days, and mother would take it very emotionally. She was trying to be both mother and father, and it just can't be done." Nicolas is an enthusiastic talker, and Candace kids him because he has an opinion on practically everything. "I enjoy talking," he says. "And, once in a while, I pause to examine the words." But he's not just an indoor talker; he's also quite an athlete. He's a lean five-foot-eleven and 170 pounds (with dark brown hair and green eyes), and for years owned a motorcycle. "Motorcycling is absolutely therapeutic! The element of danger is as exciting as is the mastery of such a powerful machine." But now that he has two young daughters, he has gotten rid of the motorcycle and switched to boating. That's more of a family sport. He boasts that he has three beautiful, blue-eyed blondes at home: Candace and the two little girls. He has been raising the girls on Dr. Spock. "I'm really hung up on Dr. Spock!" He and Candace have a lot of show business friends, including the Sam Grooms. When he and Sam played the brothers John and Tom Eldredge on Our Private World, they used to play tennis a lot and ride their motorcycles together, and they've stayed friends. Although Nicolas married at 26, he thinks "a man should be at least 30 and the girl 25 before marrying, although it's a highly individual thing and some mature faster than others." Some day, when he's rich and famous, he hopes to own a town house in New York and a beach house in Malibu, and to travel a lot. Jada Rowland, like Nicolas, loves to travel. She's been to Paris four times, and likes to go to Hollywood. At the moment, she lives in a midtown New York apartment, and she is often visited by her kid sister, Gigi, and her brothers, Jeff and Gregor. They're all in acting, and right now they're busy with commercials. Their mother, who was widowed in December of 1966, still lives in the family home in Staten Island, right in the New York harbor. Jada is feeling fine after being ill with mononucleosis last year, and she is still decorating her penthouse apartment. She moved into it in February of 1966, after having separated from her husband, and she's done a lot of redecorating. The bathroom had been navy blue and the living room pink: she painted them white. And she got rid of a lot of curtains and shades that had been cutting out the light. She can go out onto the terrace and gaze at the midtown rooftops and the skyscrapers nearby. She says she doesn't have any new romance in her life; she's been cautious in her love life since the divorce. But there is something new in her life. It started with a dream. "I dreamed about a lovely dog, and then I dreamed about him again. So I went over to the library, studied books about dogs, and recognized the dog in my dreams as a Pomeranian. So I went out and bought one. It's my first dog, and I love him!" Well, her dog will have to do until a pretty, sensitive Jada again finds a man to love. Meanwhile, her Secret Storm love life is flourishing, now that she and Nicolas have brought Amy and Paul back to the screen! BY HELEN MARTIN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJUILSyw8rg

September 1968 TV Picture Life

Who was Marion Conway? I am not the biggest Joe Martin fan (although Ray's a good actor, just not quite my style), but I was hoping he'd tell Eileen Siegel to back up. I have no idea why she was all in his face about the ideal choice for a new wife. This Eileen was a little odd - I guess this was before Alice Hirson. I can see why Richard Hatch was so popular. Karen Gorney seems old even here, but Hatch has that beautiful, dreamlike quality. I wonder why they ever recast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE9TzgmppL4

After struggling to get the site to work and just being lazy, I am finally watching the AMC episodes on Agnes' site. I can't get past that first Kate. I wonder how long she lasted. She bears little resemblance to what I would have expected the role to be. Kate ends up seeming like a not-so-secret alcoholic. Rosemary Prinz has such a warm presence as Amy. I'm sorry she didn't stay longer.

I think his voice is the only difference I've noticed.

Thanks. I never thought Cathy and Laura had the same chemistry as Ciji and Laura, although a lot of that was down to Cathy being a non-character. Things happened to Cathy, and she sang; that was about it.