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Was this during the strike? I wonder if this was another plan to write Jo out, and make viewers not care if she went.

That looks like a Daytime TV to me. So what caused Betty Corday to not be involved? Most of those names also never materialized.

Thanks for that. It's definitely her! Has she ever been interviewed? I'd love to know why they never brought her back after her 1980 appearance. She added such realism to the family.

You're right - these are from the issue with the cover Paul Raven posted a while back. I have some more interviews somewhere.

Jane is filling in for Robert Osborne, who has had to have surgery, I think. There were several Mikes before Don. The most prominent was Gary Pillar, who even crossed over to AW for about a year. I'll have to look for that movie. Thanks for telling us.

I'd like to see him too. Hopefully some of that is still around. I have a few articles with him I will try to post sometime.

That same couch I think had a photo with the two of them goofing off with Candice Earley. To be truly "relevant" to the late 70's they should have had a story about a threesome and the fallout...

She was Hope on GL as well as AW, off and on for about 5+ years. I think she was also on How to Survive a Marriage around the same time. She looks a fair amount younger than Julia Barr. I wonder how viewers at the time felt about the recast. I still never remember whether it's "Ann" or "Anne."

I think the problem is a lot of the cuts that are made are cuts which increase spending elsewhere. There's very little effort made to cut sensibly in ways that will make money in the future. People can blame Obama for the economy, or blame Clinton, but it was the tax cuts of 2001-2003 which were supposed to help us so much. But where have those led us? The idea is that if you give big employers more and more freedom, they will create jobs, but instead it seems like they just cut more jobs, and put more burden on those who are left, at the same salary, or a lower salary. WSJ even coined a cute name for them - McWorkers. I read somewhere that part of the "compromise" between cutting stuff like Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security is that there will be less of a tax break on corporate jets. Wow. What a sacrifice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL2SNUP9PoU

Steve was awful as Jason Q and only OK as Jason Morgan early on when he got to rage and pout. I don't know how he would have dealt with Heather Tom. I guess you never know.

I like her work in every clip I've seen, especially once they softened her up a bit. It made no sense to kill her off the first time - the second time was also stupid, mostly because the reason for her being killed was nonsensical and the story was one of the worst in OLTL history. I wish they'd at least just had Mari Lyn come back for a day and let Lee have a happy ending. Or they could have kept her and paired her with Clint. That would have been great drama.

I have that book somewhere but I lost it...

I never liked Ryan so I don't know if I would have felt differently with Steve Burton, but I think he would have been out of his depth. Yes, Zach was Taylor's brother.

I can't tell if that's the character or the actress...

Was he after the Tom they have in a few episodes available from the late 60's (mostly Bob and Grandpa trying to deal with Tom)?

I think they had something with concepts like older Ellen with a younger man and daughter Jill with an older man. And maybe the crime stuff. But you have to wonder if viewers felt they could get that better, elsewhere, with EON. I haven't checked the SOD synopses I have but looking through Bryna Laub's book for 1976, it looks like Picon/Sarah was one of those who was burglarized and attacked in a string of murders across Somerset. She helped clear Dale of the crime - the culprit was apparently a deranged man named Chris Kirby. There's a man named Dan Brisken, a retired millionaire, who buys the Register - he may have been related to Sarah. This was the first Digest I ever read. I read it at a neighbor's house years and years ago - they had it with their old books or something. It kind of painted a skewed picture of the show for me, as there is no mention (aside from the cast list) of Joel Crothers. So I was surprised when I learned he was a big star on the show.

May 1976 Digest.

June 1976 Digest.

April 1976 Digest.

Some 1971 Afternoon TV interviews.

This is so gorgeous.

It's whatever helps the rich. That's all that anyone in power cares about. The poor deserve to be poor, because they're just lazy and worthless. And what's left of the middle class also deserves to be poor. The only ones who deserve what they have are millionaires - they're the true victims, and are unfairly taxed.

Lousy acting from both, even in a still photo. Quite a feat. He looks like Nixon. I love Janet Zarish's work in this clip. I have no idea why OLTL let her go.