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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.

Was this after he left GL? Don seemed to be accepted so immediately when he took over as Mike, even though Gary Pillar must have been pretty popular in the role. I guess he had such a warm presence. One of those old soap magazines has him at a party in one of those white jumpsuits Elvis would have worn, super-tight. I miss the days when just about anyone would go out in that type of thing

I have an interview with him somewhere. Apparently Terry the first time left because of money.

This debt ceiling drama seems to amount to Republicans kick the can down the road, Democrats say, "Why are you kicking that can?" and running after it. Republicans then kick the can again. And again. And again. So far it seems like we're just going to get more and more cuts. To Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, and who knows what else. Have a decade of constant cuts done anything to help this country? I am at the point where I don't even know if I'm going to vote in 2012.

She looks younger in some other photos but she definitely doesn't look 17. Of course it's a better fit than a lot of what soaps started doing in the early 90's, where 30 year olds were passed off as teens. One of those old soap magazines was at a goodbye party thrown for A World Apart and they mentioned that Augusta Dabney had told them Susan was going to be a big star, and they said Augusta was never wrong in these predictions. I guess she wasn't!

August 1957 TV Radio Mirrow. I didn't feel like typing up the non-photo pages, but, since the scans aren't exactly great, if there's anything you can't read, I will type that part up.

Bert was a real hell-raiser for years - I think she calmed down by the mid-50's. Here's the December 1950 Radio TV Mirror synopses. Sorry for the poor quality.

If there are any you're particularly interested in, let me know and I can try to find other synopses for them.

In 2007, after Josh and Cassie were married and Josh became a minister, they had a story where Will, the baby Richard and Cassie had at one time planned to adopt, who turned out to be the heir to the throne (his father was Prince Alonzo, the Chippendales type they had take over SC), returned to Cassie's life. He had had problems, and Cassie wanted to help him, blah blah. Edmund worked with him initially to try to cause problems. He was a bad seed, doing things like pushing his father Alonzo into some power grid (this was an episode set entirely in the bowels of the Beacon or somewhere - one of those "new look" previews I guess), hurting Cassie's son RJ, and when he thought Edmund was a threat to Cassie, he pushed Edmund off the balcony at Josh's ordination or whatever the term is. Of course, like a soap story out of 1954, he was shipped off to some camp or clinic where he would be made all better and never be mentioned again. The kid annoyed me. Bad line readings, and every time they wanted to show how "evil" he was, they would just do a close-up of him randomly staring at something. He could have been thinking of Pokemon. I don't know, maybe he wasn't that bad, but it annoyed me at the time.

I think if GL was so willing to "go there" with trashy incest stories, they should have had some story where Edmund hated and resented Richard in part because he was in love with him. Cole and DAM had a lot of inappropriate chemistry. Even GL seemed to regret making Edmund quite so evil, as they gave him one of those convenient brain tumors. I liked Edmund with Lorelei (hated him with regular Beth, as she was so fake and prim and cold and he wasn't able to balance that out like Ben Warren did) and I liked him with Cassie. They just failed because they kept using him as a B-villain or an irritant when he should have been a lead. I will say that I did like his scenes with Beth when he came back around the time of or right after her pregnancy. I loved the way he kept pushing her buttons. I got hooked on the show again briefly at that time. Unfortunately when that annoying child pushed him off the balcony I lost interest again.

Wow. I had no idea. Great work. I wonder if she has any memories of her time on the show.

I think Joshua's version has, or had, more potential than Charlie's, but they spent too much time just having him staring at people or glaring. If this is about Ben, and not just about Phil, then the story has better potential, but I just think this is the wrong character. I really was hoping they would avoid cliche and make Ben straight. Phil would struggle with a straight son who isn't his ideal, because he can't say Ben never had a chance.

Sherilyn does a pretty good job. There's also less of the smugness. That clip reminds me of how that plotline always annoyed me. One of my relatives still laughs years later about therapy by the poolside, in a teeny bikini.

May 26, 1992 Digest, and November 2, 1993 Update. I don't know much about this Staige character. I still wonder why they didn't hold onto Howarth. I wonder if they had any other Loving fan meets before the show was taken off.