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Thanks - I'm glad the show hadn't completely forgotten about Sandy/Bob by then. I was watching the 1978 ATWT episode with someone and they kept saying they recognized the women who played Sandy and Mary, yet they didn't really know any of the credits for Kelly Wood or Barbara Rucker on IMDB. Were either of these ladies in anything else big that isn't credited on IMDB? Watching that again I'm kind of reminded at how Mary seems slightly more glamorous than the role...later on she seemed kind of dowdy. I enjoyed some of Nancy's birthday episode. I tuned back in to see it and was annoyed at how much time was spent on the ultimately pointless and annoying yacht sinking. I loved when Penny said, "Who ARE these people?" I always wonder if that was ad-libbed. This was also the last regime that cared about bringing back Pat Bruder. Goutman took Valente's path of just pretending she never existed. Ellen being there, even for a few appearances a year, would have given so much weight to the plot-driven and annoying rewrites with Allison and Susan. Ellen trying to help her great-granddaughter and being in conflict with Susan, yet also seeing Susan's point of view, and listening to Emily's fears, etc. Instead it was just shrieky Dunphy all the way. Helen Wagner gave an interview around the time of the birthday episode complaining about what had become of ATWT. Still, I think that she was probably grateful, and it's some kind of a miracle that P&G/CBS never tried to write her out again after the first time.

Clem was killed off, wasn't he? I think I remember Soap Opera Digest criticizing this as another example of the stereotypes for black men on soaps.

Thanks for all the lovely photos you've posted here and in the ATWT and GL threads.

I had to laugh at the slo-mo scenes of the people celebrating OJ's acquittal, almost as if they were the monster killing soaps. Did anyone else notice that Barbara Esensten was far more animated when talking about the OJ trial than at any other time?

1999 BBC look at Guiding Light. A few rare clips, and some interviews with Kim Zimmer and Jerry ver Dorn, and some interviews with Rauch, a very bored looking and half-dead B&E, and the always awful MADD.

Too bad they can't give him writing that makes any type of sense. I get that they think abuse = love, but what about beyond that? How bizarre to have someone come to town swearing revenge on Brendan, then, after Brendan comes out and wears a new suit, this apparently makes the man who is in a wheelchair for life feel content and he only cares about yelling at his students.

These days a Christmas tradition on Emmerdale would be an orgy followed by suicide.

Thanks.

Wanted to link to this ATWT article posted in the JTS thread.

Who was this Wally?

Great details again. I think some felt that the end of the Joe/Ruth/David story was a copout - I wonder if they really had an idea of what putting Ruth in that type of story might have been, and if her going back to Joe might seem like an anticlimax. I can't picture Coster and Susan Lucci together for some reason. How were they onscreen?

I wonder how much Liz Keifer might have cringed at her hair in that photo.

So did Joe. I guess Viki always had a thing for older men...

Vinny looks like he's going to devour her. I thought by the time Erika came along Vinnie was happy with Wanda.

Keep Betty Driver in your thoughts. She was rushed to hospital with pneuomnia

That Viki/Vinny photo is great. I'd never seen it before. Erika looks stunning in the all black. The show had such vibrant color schemes at this time.

I still wonder why they fired Jameson Parker.

I always loved Evan, and Greg was a good actor. It was a stupid decision to get rid of him, and typical of the short-sightedness of John Valente. Evan was the last character of this type that ATWT ever had (the rich guy who sometimes had a heart). After that it was always rich guys are psychos or sociopaths. Ugh.

Weird seeing Linda Dano with that hairstyle.

Thanks for all the writeups and the photos (I think I've seen many of these in various places so it's nice having them together). Yes he was David Cherrill. I'd still like to know whether or not Sandy and Bob had any interaction in the mid or late 70's. It's a shame that Judith McConnell came on ATWT at the time she did, when there were already so many strong women that she mostly floated around. I wish they'd married her to Bob. Or at least brought her back after Santa Barbara was canceled.

I'd never seen this opening before. It's nice to see when the show was willing to experiment.

What was this Capitol story about? The "desert" scenes crack me up.