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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.

Thanks. I love that era of Eastenders. So much is happening in every scene. Such sharp characterizations, and no one can banter like Den and Angie. And look, they don't end on a cliffhanger! I get tired of the idea that every episode needs a cliffhanger and if it doesn't have one that's a sign of failure. Debs always seemed so out of place on the show...

November 28, 1992 Weekly interview with Terry Lester and Douglas Marland. Q: At the time you were dealing with this offer, you were also dealing with an offer to create a new role (Frank's father) on Guiding Light. What tipped the scales? TL: (laughing) It was a better part. No, I can't tell you that without getting my legs broken. These two people sitting beside me, for starters. I've known Laurie since he was a CBS executive, and I have admired Douglas' work since I began watching soaps 12 years ago. Q: What can you tell us about Royce - and the name? DM: Just from the lunch and from meeting Terry (when he came to New York last June to attend the Daytime Emmys), I immediately envisioned him as an architect. I think we did talk about (Ayn Rand's) The Fountainhead at lunch, and that may have clicked it into place. There are not a lot of architects in daytime, and architects are a very romantic profession. It's a man who works alone, who has a vision, who sees something and then puts it on paper and then supervises it until the end of the construction. It's someone who works alone, like a writer, and that kind of separates them from the people who work with a lot of people and it makes them more romantic. I have a Rolls-Royce, and I want a name to look and rounds like a person's character. Royce has class. I played Chris Keller when I was an actor in All My Sons. I always loved that name because it was short and snappy. So that's how Royce Keller came along. Q: In what areas will we see Royce interact? DM: The Lucinda group, because she wants him to stay on to design the Worldwide towers, and he moves very quickly into all of Oakdale. I think by the time he's been on the show two weeks he's mixed with everyone but the Snyders. And we'll get him to Luthers Corners eventually. Q: Having created roles and taken over a role... TL: Starting from the beginning is much more pleasant. Usually, when a character is recast it's because the actor playing it was popular, s oyou have to deal with that. You have to deal with the possibility of intense rejection, and you have to honor the character and his history and the actor who played the part while making it your own, and it's very tricky. It's a very difficult balance. I'm glad I had that experience; now I know what Peter Bergman went through (when he took over as Y&R's Jack). He was more successful at it than I was, as it turned out. Q: How does Royce compare to Jack and Mason? TL: I would say someone like Jack had virtually no integrity at all, and Mason the same way, but probably to a lesser extent. I think Royce has a great deal of integrity because he has come from a not-so-fortunate background, and everything he has he has earned on his merits, and so his work and his word mean a lot to him. Whereas the two other guys were just liars and didn't care. [but] he's not a saint. Q: Since this role is being created for you, are there elements of your personality we may see for the first time? TL: Yeah, probably. I think this guy isn't a smart ass, for one thing, and I think people are used to seeing that from me. He's not without a sense of the absurdity of things at times, but he's still more serious and thoughtful, which I guess is like the private me, the one thing I don't show often. Q: Did you have any trepidation about joining a cast with so many heavy hitters? TL: Yeah! But I survived that once. When I started on The Young and the Restless I was just another blond, and it took me a year and a half to really figure out what to do about that. Actors are always worried about that, but Mr. Caso assured me months ago. There's one big difference in style between Y&R and As the World Turns, in that there are more ensemble scenes, and that's how this show can manage to have such a big cast, because so many people can work at the same time, whereas on that other show, it was two, maybe three, and the third one comes in and doesn't stay very long. Q: What was your impression of Kelly (Menighan, who plays Emily)? TL: Well, when I saw her on television before I met her, her attributes were obvious, and when we met we developed a real immediate rapport. She's kind of a no-nonsense person, but she has a sense of humor and she's very responsive when we work together. We're not ready for Romeo and Juliet, but I think we have the basis for a really good thing. Q: Are there any plans for a Keller family? DM: No. He will acquire his family as he goes - onscreen people. Q: Most of the time we write about actors leaving New York soaps and moving to L.A. What was the reaction of your compatriots in California about your reverse migration? TL: I had to stare down so many astonished looks. It's just people's habitual thinking. Everyone my age in California had this thing about California, the big migration. And it's no longer the promised land. Linda Susman