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That photo with her husband is the closest I've ever seen her looking to her early 90's appearance. It's very easy to trade one addiction for another, but I hope she finds some peace. I also wish she'd return to Eastenders while Mandy is there. I was reading about News of the World...I didn't realize they were the ones who unwittingly drove poor David Scarboro out of the mental hospital he was staying in, which helped lead to his 1988 suicide. If you can find them, you should try to look for the Eastenders books that were written in the mid-80's. They're full of loving detail for every character, and generally the dialogue and the motivations are spot on. They will help you to care even more about the show's early years, which are some of the best drama ever produced for television. The book which takes place about a year before the show began goes into detail about when Mark first began taking drugs. It really made me care about and understand early Mark in a way I never really did while watching his episodes.

When was that character on Edge? Its last year?

Do we know who was writing The Doctors during the strike?

That's interesting. I didn't think most of the strike characters survive. I guess he was the only one who did...I can't think of any 1981 strike characters on any soaps who lasted. I guess there must have been someone though. A non-ending always sucks but at least it's better than being killed off.

I thought he was in one of the late December recaps, after Mona had already died. But you may be right. I don't know why I said Aldrich. I meant Dancy. Sorry about that...

I wonder why they didn't have him related to the Aldriches. He kind of looks like Luke. It looks like he was there to the end, or close anyway, according to some of the later recaps. I'm not sure what his last story was.

A migraine controversy leads Michelle Bachmann's people to violently shove a reporter. I guess this will just make the base love her even more. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/report-bachman-aides-shove-abcs-brian-ross.php?ref=fpb

Hays would have been a bit goofy but I would have liked seeing him with Susan, possibly. She had had so much heavy drama in the mid/late 90's and it would have been nice seeing her comic side. They tried to do this with Scalia but it just didn't work.

December 22, 1981 Digest. I posted the December 8 recap a while back.

According to some people who read the Mirror, Patsy Palmer is returning by Christmas. Here it is. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/tv/2011/07/19/patsy-palmer-on-eastenders-return-bianca-will-have-a-softer-side-after-her-time-in-prison-115875-23281717/

Eban turned out to be a real headcase, and I think he took Ned hostage, but I don't remember now. Lotty broke free of him to marry Curtis but I guess it didn't end well for Lotty. I know that printing them out must be difficult when I have posted a lot of them out of order. I'm sorry about that. I have some more, I'm just waiting until more people have caught up with what I put earlier.

Sorry about the bad cropping on some of these.

Posting some articles for Maeve Maguire's upcoming birthday. 2/71 TV Dawn to Dusk.

Maeve Maguire tested for a role on Hidden Faces, was runner up, and a few days later got a role on Edge of Night.

I don't remember hearing about any of those. Why would you hire a woman who wasn't all that successful at adopting a British accent to play Jenna...oh well.

Speaking of dropped stories, I was surprised to see, in some of the last of the very very good Dorian and Herb - A Relationship to Remember clips that one of the divine Dorian fans has been posting, a story about some character named Geoffrey. He was Charles Sanders' illegitimate son, and eventually Dorian uncovering this helped her take Charles' job as ambassador to Mendorra. I had heard a little about the story but I had no idea that Geoff even stayed around Llanview, opening a law practice and taking over Dorian's duties helping prisoners. I never saw a bit of this character, to my memory anyway, in 1987 or 1988 clips elsewhere. So how long did he last? Did he have any stories? I liked the actor and I wish they'd found a way to keep him around longer. It seems like the show was desperate to get rid of the Sanders as fast as they could after a few actors left. And was Dorian's cellmate Tiny Wade Coleman's mother? I had no idea.

I'd be surprised if she didn't write the story or early stuff for Eban Japes, given that she created a similar character for Cowles on AMC. Some pages back I posted a photo and quote from "Lotty Bird" and a ton of synopses, if you haven't read them. I also have an interview with Cowles from 1987 somewhere on my computer, if you want to see it.

This was pretty close to the end of the show. I wonder if they were going to have Tracey become overly attached to Lisha. I didn't even know McCormack was on this show, although IMDB did say it, so I guess I never bothered to look. It seemed like the soap magazines only mentioned her being on Best of Everything before her temp ATWT run. I wonder if this was the first soap to deal with a story about a child born with deformities? It sounds like they took the easy way out (although running the story for six months is longer than I would have expected - how long did Anne's baby live on AMC?), in terms of storytelling, but then, every soap has done that, even GL with Meg (she was rarely seen and then moved away to Europe).

setting the scene will be in regular type, like this, and Dr. Wolk's professional analysis will be in italics, like the following: The unwanted child is frequently doomed to an unhappy life. His parents may take out their disappointment and annoyance on each other, straining the marriage to the breaking point. If the marriage eventually collapses, they're likely to blame the child - who is the innocent victim, not the cause of their trouble. This holds true, no matter what their reasons for not wanting the child. The couple who can't afford a child may resent having to deprive themselves for his sake. The emotionally immature couple may resent having to cater to a child's needs and whims. Such a wife, for example, might turn against him because he's getting the attention from her husband she wants for herself. The unplanned child, or so-called "accident", can survive the fate of becoming unwanted if the parents are a truly loving couple. The one kind of "accident" that rarely survives such a fate is the illegitimate child, whose birth causes his mother to be shunned by society. But the child who bears the heaviest burden of all is the one who's born imperfect physically disabled or mentally retarded. Such a youngster becomes a source of embarrassment to immature parents, a drain on their emotions and perhaps on their pocketbook, too. If he is rejected, he becomes doubly handicapped. Such a child tests his parents' love and courage - and can actually bring new strength to their marriage, if they open their hearts to him. If ever a baby was wanted by his mother, that baby was Jonathan, born to Tracey in her middle forties. She wanted this baby for Jerry - to revive his hopes (badly shattered by several professional setbacks)...to rekindle his love (all but buried under personal problems)...and to make up for disappointments their two older children had caused them. As Tracey herself expressed it, "Both our children had made bad marriages. I suppose that's what started me wanting a new one - one that we'd never make mistakes with." But Jonathan came along at an inappropriate time for Jerry. Busy fightning for his professional life, preoccupied with a dozen other difficulties, he all but ignored Jonathan's birth - regarding him as an added complication. Trouble piles on trouble. Tracey and the baby contract meningitis and Jerry discovers that Jonathan was born deaf. The effect on Tracey is electric and she tells friends, "By becoming a mother again, I failed Jerry as a wife." Tracey obviously wanted the baby for purely neurotic reasons: To re-awaken her husband's love and prove she doesn't always make "mistakes." When Jonathan was born deaf, she felt she had failed again - failed Jerry as a wife, failed Jonathan as a mother. Burdened with "guilt," such a woman is likely to feel that she must be punished and may unconsciously behave in such a way that she wrecks her marriage: "That's my punishment for being a failure!" But the one who's truly punished is the baby. Already handicapped, he's almost sure to be either overprotected or bluntly rejected. And, in this case, his father is not helping matters any. One wonders why Jerry agreed to have a child, this late in their married life. Perhaps he agreed simply to please his wife - which is not reason enough for a man to seek fatherhood. Deafness becomes a major handicap only when the parents become obsessed with such imperfection, overdo their attempts to find a miraculous "cure," and thus make the child extremely aware that he is "imperfect." What Jerry did not tell Tracey was that Jonathan also turned out to be hopelessly retarded mentally. He tries everything medically possible to correct or arrest the condition, but to no avail. Meanwhile, he keeps Tracey and the baby separated, hoping against hope that some remedy may yet be found before Tracey discovers the truth. But, while they are apart, Jonathan dies at the age of six months. When Tracey is told, she bitterly accuses Jerry of putting his child away because he was deaf - and letting him die because he resented his son: "That's what I'll never forgive!" Still, Jerry refuses to explain his real reasons to Tracey, although he tells friends Jonathan would have died "a much more lingering and devastating death" had he not succumbed so suddenly. He won't tell Tracey the truth because "this way, I bear all the guilt as far as Tracey is concerned." He feels as far as Tracey is concerned." He feels she'll never believe she wasn't responsible for Jonathan's death and chooses to let her blame him for the tragedy. But Tracey withdraws into herself and the marriage begins to crack. When a man practices this sort of deception on his wife, it usually indicates a lack of confidence in the marital relationship. Jerry's readiness to assume the guilty over loss of the baby leads one to suspect that he really does feel guilty. When he tries so hard to spare his wife, he is protecting her as if she were a child. No wonder the marriage began to crack! Tracey has someone to blame for all that has hapenned - her husband - and she turns her own feelings of guilt into hostility against him. Although a good marriage is built on mutual trust and honesty, this marriage seems to be held together by dishonesty, concelment and distortion. If something isn't done quickly, it will fall apart. The responsibility for Jonathan's untimely death doesn't rest on either Jerry or Tracey - they certainly gave him the best of medical care and attention. When parents blame themselves for what has happened, it's generally because they feel guilty about other things and focus on the death of their child as an excuse. They might, for example, feel guilty because in their hearts they rejected the child. In the event of such a tragedy, when parents cannot control their emotions after a reasonable period of time, they may need to seek professional guidance to regain their peace of mind. Another "unwanted" child has been fighting an uphill battle against herself in "Young Doctor Malone." She is Tracey's teenage niece, Lisha, who was born illegitimately. Her G.I. father had been killed before he could marry her mother, Tracey's sister Faye. And Faye has allowed Lisha to be raised abroad by close friends. Not until she reached thirteen was Lisha told the identity of her real mother, who had since married. Lisha first rejected Faye and the stepfather, then learned to love them - but was constantly torn between her affection for them and her loyalty to the couple who had brought her up. As she grows older, she begins to mature, learn the meaning of forgiveness and understanding, and now thinks twice before hurting either set of "parents." But Lisha still has a long way to go before really adjusting to her situation. The illegitimate child is usually described as the perfect example of as unwanted child. Sometimes, however, it is only society that doesn't want the child, and not the parent. Some illegitimate children, like Lisha, are only cheated of their right to legitimacy by fate. Faye made a mistake in not divulging the circumstances of her child's birth years before she reached the age of thirteen. Lisha would probably have been able to understand by the time she was about ten. At that age, the impact of such information would not have been so profound. She subsequently rejected her mother because she felt rejected herself. She was fortunate to have found a home with devoted foster parents, but her attachment to them accounts for her confusion of loyalty. With help now from her real mother, she should be able to overcome her confusion and perhaps become pleased to have two sets of loving "parents." As Margaret Sanger has remarked, "There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents." Sometimes a child may be better off for having been created out of love, out-of-wedlock, than to have been born without love, unwanted, within marriage. Unfortunately, most illegitimate children are born out of passion, not love. These are the real losers. Whatever the circumstances, children must be made to feel wanted - to be loved and respected, appreciated for their achievements, accepted in spite of their shortcomings and failures. Parents shouldn't have to grow up with their children. They should be grown up by the time they have children. Parents owe it to their children, and themselves, to give their youngsters a solid sense of belonging. If Children get this, they'll feel wanted. Without this sense of belongings, the squabbles that invade even the best of marriages will rub off on the children. When a wife and husband become angry with each other, they may take it out on the kids - who may grow up to feel responsible for their parents' unhappiness, and wish they'd never been born. Both the wanted and the unwanted child are drawn larger than life on TV, their troubles over-dramatized and the solutions over-simplified. Still, such portrayals serve to call attention to the problem and perhaps make viewers more aware of similar problems in their own lives. That has been our aim in this series, to make the characters and stories of your favorite daytime dramas meaningful to you so that you might learn from them for your own good - and the good of your family - THE END "Young Doctor Malone" is seen over NBC-TV, from 3:30 to 4 P.M. EST.

February 1963 TV Radio Mirror.

Try this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2015676/EastEnders-spoilers-Nicola-Stapletons-fighting-return-Mandy-Salter.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

I thought that Obama and the Democrats in Congress had agreed to cuts in Social Security and Medicare. That was deemed not good enough by the GOP. Boehner is now so desperate to pander that he is breaking his own rules about how to push legislation through. Who cares about the country when you can have more fun thumping your own chest 24/7? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59319.html

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