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Kendall's torture of her mother Erica, leading to the return of Richard Fields, Kendall's rapist father, Erica stabbing Dimtri when she hallucinated that he was Fields, Kendall realizing that Richard truly was the monster Erica made him out to be, Mona leaving Richard to die. Janet Green getting experimental plastic surgery and turning into Jane Cox, who married Trevor but their wedding was interrupted by Harold the Dog. Erica's pill addiction story The Tad/Liza one night stand and how this was the final nail in his marriage to Dixie Michael Delaney's coming out, leading to his sister's murder on live TV Edmund and Maria getting Sam Grey through a surrogacy deal with Kelsey Warner, only for Kelsey to change her mind for a few months, leading Maria to have a big breakdown and have sex with Dimitri, leading to... Erica stealing Maria's baby and passing it off as her child. Jim Thomasen causing the plane crash that "killed" Maria, and being Laura's exploiter, ending in Brooke killing him and being put on trial. Psycho Lee Hawkins and his vendetta against the Chandlers, leading to him blowing up Holidays and killing his daughter Camille in the process. There are some others I will list later if no one else does.

That's interesting. They should have cast Desi Arnaz Jr. He was in the gossip magazines a lot at this time and would have brought some publicity.

And I posted a promo for it. Eric please don't avoid my threads Thanks dc for filling in more blanks.

Wonderful photos. Is the first one the Ada Jacks character? I think she was fired in the show's last months. I wonder why.

Not sure where you found this stuff but what a treat. I'm so fascinated by that story with Patrice and her anarchist boyfriend. Where did that go? Was he her baby's father? It's so strange seeing Elizabeth Lawrence with that style and this character. Did she want to leave or did they fire her?

I remember their marriage mostly for this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4403026.stm

How odd - Roya and Patty don't look alike to me. Roya is one of the most unique soap actresses I've ever seen. Oh well. Perhaps seeing her early on it didn't seem that way.

Thanks for the cast list.

This is the exact quote. With the return of head writer Elizabeth Levin, "The Doctors" will once again be the show it was when, in its glory years, it garnered so many Emmy Awards. By dealing with themes and stories that touch our minds and consciences, one of daytime's finest acting ensembles will be given a chance to explore the full range of their talent by showing us the dignity of choice from among the dizzying array of alternatives that modern life offers. This year, "The Doctors" will return to the heart of the matter - and a much higher share of the viewing audience.

Yes, it's the Jan. 9 '82 SOD that mentions Levin as recently returning. It's part of their 1982 preview (which is very vague on everything).

Thanks again for all this information and speculation.

This is great. Bonnie doesn't suit that style at all. She looks a bit like when Andrea Hall played Hattie on DAYS. I can see why some felt she was miscast as Van.

I'm sure we've seen some...although they're mostly from the show, or party photos. It is nice to see a cast photo though. I only know about half of the actors in that... Kathleen looks older there than in the few stills available of her (usually of her at her sister's wedding). I like how horribly awkward James Pritchett is. I wish I could see more of him. I think he's my type of older leading male on a soap, the type that was, sadly, kicked out the door in the early/mid 80's and never invited back.

A Chris Schemering SPW history tour had this 1978 cast photo. Sorry if this has been around a lot - I'd never seen it. He also mentions that Turner's first, or some of her first, scenes involved her mother's death at Luke's club, for which she blamed Doreen.

Thanks. They really jerked Levin around. I feel sorry for her over that. Why did Lemay go so quickly?

Thanks. So Levin came back twice?

October 1984 SOD - Sela Ward was offered a 5 year contract on Dynasty. She turned it down to make a film with Tom Berenger. Deane Hamilton was initially cast as Rob Corelli, Marco and Gary's brother, on OLTL. Instead they had him play Ken Romak, and Ted Marcoux was cast as Rob Coronal, now their cousin.

Thanks. I wish I could see Lemay's material. I wonder if he was even there long enough for it to show up on-air...

Didn't Cooper go for a while and then return briefly and he had found another woman? Then he came back briefly on The City? I can't remember. I wish I could see those scenes with Stacey and Ava. I was reading an October 1984 Digest and Patty Lotz is in so much of it...she and Perry Stephens are mentioned as one of the hot new couples (onscreen), she's interviewed in a gossip section; in the issue before that they'd used a sexy-type photo of her in their recap. I wonder exactly when or why ABC chose to recast. It seemed sudden.

I agree that the teen alcoholic should have continued as a story. They seemed to drop him right after they decided to write Kim out. It was a waste, as he was something the story probably needed - an outsider (and not the mobbed up kind). You're right about the cruel treatment of Delia by Joe. I was much more upset by the early 1981 material where he initiates the supplier strike - I could barely watch that once and have always skipped on repeat viewings. I think that the chemistry between RB and RE helps make their scenes a little more palatable for me. Roger's relationship with Delia in the months before the mine scam was him taking her out for drives and talking to her about her problems and how she needs to break out of "patterns" and how the Ryan family are her "pattern". I always hate this psycho-analysis stuff between them. Anyway, Roger was becoming closer to her again and then she used him for the stock scam and that's when he realized what a wicked woman she was and he moved on from her.

This always reminds me of Doug Marland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtvYqMSpBg

This same Jan 1982 issue says that Elizabeth Levin had returned as headwriter. So this may have been her material. I guess she was replaced by the grave-robbing writers?

I wonder who the younger leading man was. Please tell me it wasn't Tony or Richard. Not exactly groundbreaking. Did they do the story with Dinah Lee and Buck or was that curtailed by the revamp?

1988 Ryan's Hope ad at about :27.

1988 Loving ad at a few seconds after :27.