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Could you redo the link?

January 15, 1985 Digest. This issue also says Bob Hamilton, of Bare Essence, has been brought in as a story consultant, and that the focus would shift back to the college.

I will have to watch more and see if they say her name. It doesn't sound like the same character...

December 1976 TV Mirror

Cain would never want to abort one of his children. It shows once again how lazy the show has become and so ignorant of its own history. Stuart Blackburn was talking a while back about how essentially they would choose a character to become a drug addict at random.

Darlene Conley

No. I feel the same way. I guess it helps that these are written in such a romantic type of way. Even if you know the endings weren't happy it's fun to read them.

Thanks for telling us about this.

It looks like Peter Fernandez had a very lengthy career, and was even the voice for Speed Racer. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0273033/

I only post a few paragraphs - you and Ben post War and Peace

Not very often, no. I mean to, as I like Emily Symons. I am wary mostly because they seem to kill so many people off. Did you have any thoughts on my comments?

I'm not really tuned into the more recent stuff - the last I saw was probably 2-3 years ago. I think reading about the story with Susan and the surrogacy and losing the baby and the war with Dan, etc. kind of turned me off. I keep meaning to watch more. It's tough for me to get into the soaps now because of what Corrie and Emmerdale and Eastenders and Hollyoaks have become over the last year or two.

At the time, in Dolan's first run, I thought there was a very good balance of drama and everyday life. There were a lot of moments where they'd sit around eating takeout, talking about the kids, laughing because another friend or relative is at the door when they want to have some romantic time. It felt very real to me. I do think it started to get worse after Margo's rape, and never really recovered, but I thought there was still a semblance up to around the time of the plane crash and then finally the Diego murder mystery. That story was week after week of Margo having "episodes," and screaming, while Tom screamed at her and about her. After that it was never the same for me, and this became the default mode of the characters. I never understood the idea behind the Alec Wallace character. Oakdale already had one repressed control freak with dark secrets (David/Reid), so let's bring in another one for concurrent stories? Michael Woods could have been an asset to the show under different circumstances. He might have been an OK Craig. He couldn't have been worse than most of the recasts.

What names did they mention? I think she had a brother on the show, although that may have been Tony's brother..

Tom and Margo had a lot of humor, fun moments, and family time when Holmes and Dolan were in the roles. In the first few years anyway. It really started to go downhill with Valente/Black & Stern but it was FMB who put them in one story after another that involved Margo yelling, Tom yelling, Margo being disoriented and dumb and Tom being self-righteous and dour. The worst story was that godawful mess where teenage Eddie "man" Silva moved in with them and was lusting after Margo. Really?? Then you had Emily becoming this pathetically unhinged loser who went out of her way to destroy Margo's marriage in spite of Margo's kindness toward her over the years. The most disgusting was when Margo had a miscarriage and Emily convinced Tom that Margo was on her way to an abortion clinic. The story destroyed the last shreds of anything I ever knew in Tom and Margo, and after FMB was canned, no one ever cared about picking up the pieces. Frankly, I think you could have written them out and it wouldn't have made a big difference to the show's last ten years. Other than yelling at Casey or Margo having to deal with her sleazy pig of a brother and her brain dead sociopath of a sister...when the show remembered they were related

She did write a book. The real question is why the always sycophantic news media has to cover this. Anyone can "write" a book.

I'd forgotten that she came back. Then again you could not pay me to watch ATWT by that time. I guess they recast.

Thanks for recapping that. This was just about it for SC Mike. I can't remember if he left town with boring Pilar or not. This was when Margo and Tom had to keep saying "fugue state." No thanks. FMB was a big part of killing my affection for these two characters, and it never came back. ART's last episode was, I believe, at the Kasnoff house, talking on the phone. In the next episode Susan Batten was there, in the same outfit.

Wow this is going to get ugly. Apparently his family are accusing Bravo of "killing" him? Radar is also claiming a lot of stuff that was going to come out about him, from some book.

What did you think of the surrogacy story? What happened to the surrogate (Kayla?) and her son?

saynotoursoap put the video together. In one of the 1976 SOD issues there is a photo of Lisa posing with a shovel. Did she ever dig anything on the show or was that just a press shot?