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It looks like Mary McDonnell, later known for Dances With Wolves, BSG, etc. played a Claudia Colfax in 1980. Tom Everett played a Ray Colfax. No matter how many times I read about the Ian stuff it seems a little tacky to me, something that was effectively parodied on Dynasty with Cecil Colby. I guess I'd have to actually watch it to get a better judge.

Here's one from April 22, 1980.

9/75 TV Radio Mirror Names being considered for Ryan's Hope were Ed Kemmer (ex-Ben Grant, Somerset) as the chief resident. Con Roche (ex-Rick Ryan, ATWT) was also rumored for a role. Another rumor was that William Gray Espy would join the show after leaving Y&R.

9/75 TV Radio Mirror Names being considered for Ryan's Hope were Ed Kemmer (ex-Ben Grant, Somerset) as the chief resident. Con Roche (ex-Rick Ryan, ATWT) was also rumored for a role. Another rumor was that William Gray Espy would join the show after leaving Y&R. 1/76 TV Radio Mirror Leonie Norton (ex-Cindy Clark, AW) was one of the actresses who tried out to temporarily replace Kathyrn Hays during her medical break.

Poor Mark - look, there was even a space for him beside Marissa.

Well I got the gender right. It would be nice if PP thought about hiring Michael Storm.

Thank you very much. I guess they planned the story with scheming doctor and nurse out from the beginning. Didn't Larry also go on trial for Karen's murder? Talk about no luck.

What was this Ted Hale's story on the show? The photo is a few years old - it's used in a 1965 article on A Time For Us.

It's always shocking to me how they got away with Raven's bad parenting, from leaving her baby alone for hours to go see a movie, to leaving the baby with a drunk sitter. I'm not sure if she was ever really "punished" for it either. In some of the 1979 episodes she's a little too dumb but by 1980 she's reaching her best - it's especially refreshing that she has these relationships with so many men at once. I'm surprised they had Logan and April fall into a romance so quickly. I guess this is when Jody was still supposed to be a bad girl.

I wonder why they wrote Laurie out for so long, although I guess the show didn't really suffer her absence. Watching the mid-1979 episodes, I'm impressed by what a nice presence Mandel Kramer is. He's more than a competent actor, he doesn't seem in any way doddery or weak, as some of the older P&G vets did when they were phased out, he works very well with Steve and Calvin and Deborah, and he's a handsome enough man for his age. I know he probably had a fairly high salary compared to a lot of the others but I wish they'd kept him on in some capacity, perhaps as mayor or something.

Thanks so much for the interview. It's great. What an incredible writer he is. Watching the episodes on Youtube I'm so impressed, over and over, by just how good they are on every level. I wonder why they didn't just recast Timmy and keep him around in the background. I think they were wrong about Lois Kibbee. I think she was on Edge first as Geraldine, then the story ended, Slesar put her on Somerset, and then after her Somerset story ended they brought Geraldine back.

I never knew the exact circumstances of her death. That's a horrible way to die, especially since her death provided story mostly for a very weak character (Brad). I wish they hadn't killed her off. The show didn't exactly have a ton of dynamic younger ladies at this point, and she had ties to such core characters.

Fun little commercial announcing the new Jack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wQAjasS5Cg

I didn't have much of an opinion on Michael until that storyline where he was a secret spy (please), broke Donna's heart, and then was outraged to learn of her affair with Jake. It was an ugly story, having Stacey take their child away and then having Michael hook up with her. It made Michael look horrible and Stacey even worse.

September 1973 TV Radio Talk

October 1968 TV Radio Talk

Thanks. She reminds me a little of Valerie Pettiford. It's embarrassing just how blatant they are in getting rid of black actors if they can replace them with a white actor. It's like they are making some sort of bold statement against tokenism without actually making any effort to write for black characters. It's pretty sad when 1966 GL is more progressive than you are.

It's strange to me that they never did more with Tom Jr and Sandy, since they were both blank slates. They went to the trouble of inventing children for Melissa and for Jessica, but they didn't have anything with Sandy, other than her quick appearances.

Generally in those days recurring seemed to mean character oblivion. I don't know if that changed until budgets began shrinking. For some reason I forget he had anything to do after he broke up with Marlena. I guess there was the Maggie relationship, and then Liz (Liz had so many love interests in a few years it's hard to keep track). I guess you can't say it hurt DAYS in the ratings but in the long run I think it was a mistake to let so many like the Hayes and Launa Sanders, and later Joe Gallison, leave.

That surprises me too. I wonder if it was because they were starting to phase Don out of the show and didn't care about having ties for him. This was also when they broke up Don/Marlena wasn't it? It seems odd they'd get rid of her. I guess they were so focused on the idea that new characters had to be the salvation.

Who needs a cop when you can have a dead-eyed manwhore who is cool because he's "snarky" and hates women.

Thanks. I knew that Temple from somewhere...

Rula Lenska - thanks to Corrie she isn't quite as "who?" as she used to be. Here she is today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wstsEM2D4zc I wish I could see Savage. It seems to me like she and James Horan made Clay and Gwyn very sexual, which none of the other actors in the roles ever did. I didn't know Selena was on that long. I totally forgot about her. I wonder what had happened to Fay Hauser at this point.

A temp recast for Y&R's Selena Wylie in the 8/17/90 episode. I guess she must have been the cop or a prosecutor. Who usually played her? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjiuiynRgdQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL