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OK. I am putting up another 1981 now - any other year you're interested in just let me know. This is from the September 1 issue.

From the December 1977 Digest.

For some reason I thought Weiss killed Sara off. I guess now it makes more sense if so many others also went, as it seems like Sara should have been a major character, especially to balance Nola. I think that a lot of these soaps did get into the pattern of changing for the sake of changing, not for good reasons. It probably doesn't help that they had exhausted their core characters - reading the recaps it seems like the only one who wasn't exhausted was Maggie. Did you get to read the ones from 1976 or were those ones you'd already read? I don't have any more from then. I do have some from 1977, 78, 79, and 80, so if you are looking for any specific time let me know and I'll try to find it. In a few minutes I'm going to put up some more from 1981-1982.

Did Vanessa always dislike Leslie or did that not start until later?

I didn't know Katherine/John did any skinny dipping...I hope it wasn't the same place Jack/Jill did.

My apologies - I don't have a lot of 81-82. Through the day I'll print what I have. Here is the recap from the March 31, 1981 Digest.

Vanessa saw Leslie as a nice and sweet young woman who would be Lance's ideal. My guess is that if Leslie/Lance had ever been a serious couple she would have hated Leslie too. I don't know how Leslie left for sure.

Jean le Clerc was part of a story about a woman who stayed young and beautiful through a serum he provided. He fell in love with her daughter and some triangle ensued. At the end of the show, she'd gone to her natural age, and she sat in the church watching him marry her daughter. I think she might have been the one who had the line about, "This town thinks Brecht is a hairspray."

I think that a lot of longtime viewers would have been put off, but then by that time many longtime fans had given up on the show. It sounds interesting to me in the recaps, I wish I could see it. Alec Baldwin didn't seem to be all that thrilled with the show when he was interviewed a few years later - he said that he realized not long after he joined that this was a show where magazines weren't going to be calling him up for interviews, no photographers at the door. I think he said David O'Brien called it something like "off-off-daytime." I'm sure the cast got on (Alec and Kim Zimmer seemed close from what she said), but it must have been grueling, those last few years.

March 1977 Digest recap. I think this would count as being at the end of 1976, but I might be wrong. Let me know.

January 1977 Digest, which means this should still be in late 1976, right? If not let me know.

December 1976 Digest.

October 1976 Digest issue, with recap.

August 1976 Digest recap. August being the Digest publication date not date of recaps.

July 1976 Digest recap (so this would be about 2-3 months behind?). SOD Publishing Inc. Sorry about the bad cropping.

What did you think of Cooper? Why was he replaced? I remember hearing about the meeting, and wasn't there the traech thing. I keep wondering what might have been with characters like Lorie and Jill seriously interacting (of course this was when they were quasi-heroines wasn't it?).

So was Derek played by other actors or just LaDue? I wonder why they didn't have more between Jill and the Brooks sisters when she was married to Stuart.

When I saw it I thought that you'd enjoy it so I'm glad you got to read it. I never knew that about the hands either. She seemed to have a very interesting background - I never knew she was in so many major plays. Thankfully I think the whole organ of a dead parent thing was rare...when GL did it (with Michelle Bauer looking for the person who got her mother's heart and finding a guy named Jesse she went on to date) it always seemed kind of stupid and strange. I wonder if they had any other plans to keep this David around or if he was just filling time. It's hard to believe Katherine and Jill spent, what, 2-3 years fighting over Derek? I didn't know Janice was on Six Feet Under. I didn't like anything with Arthur so I wasn't paying close attention to most of his stories. http://www.janicelynde.org/More-About.html

Thanks. So GL wasn't the first show to have a story about falling for the person who got a transplant from your deceased parent. Does anyone know who played David? I hope you hadn't seen the Janice Lynde interview before, I thought you might enjoy it. Thanks for figuring out the proper date. I am terrible at that. I have one somewhere from December 1977 Digest, which I guess would be September in real time...? I will put it up when I find it again.

Do you think it worked? Bill Bell seemed to make a real effort at stuff like that, with a few exceptions (like the disastrous Shari Shattuck Ashley recast). What a contrast to the way Y&R shoved Eden Reigel in.

Also from this issue, interview with Janice Lynde:

August 1975 Daylight TV (Sterling's Magazines)

Found my September 1977 Digest recap. I guess this would be a few months before what you mentioned, Paul Raven? Ron, successful in getting Nancy out of the hospital and under his care at home, is pumping her with an overdose of medicine to enhance her appearance when the lawyer visits. He cares nothing about Nancy, he's merely using her to get their daughter back from Chris and Snapper. The overdose required to force her prematurely out of her catatonic state is deadly, but no one but Ron knows he's doing it, and he doesn't care. When the lawyer visits, he's impressed with her "improvement" and her requests for her child, and tells Ron they have a good chance of getting Karen back, if he can rent a suitable apartment. Luck is on Ron's side. His mother scraped together $925 for him... Jody confesses to Brock she's pregnant. Greatly concerned, he and Chris persuade her to consult Snapper for pre-natal care, and Brock visits her mother, hoping to track down the boy who caused Jody's pregnancy. When he does, he finds a young man, all set for college in the fall, and unaware of Jody's condition... Cynthia continues to fantasize about a relationship with Snapper. And Jill's unfulfilled, unspoken longing for Derek is becoming increasingly difficult for her to deal with. Her mother suspects, and, finally, so does David. But David, deeply in love with Jill, confronts her gently, telling her he understands and will wait it out. Jill continues to see Derek at work, and who knows what will develop in the off-hours. A DECLARATION OF LOVE Derek, meanwhile, continues his private at-home salon sessions with Kay. She finds herself increasingly attracted to him, and begins calling him to do her hair more frequently...A deep need has to be filled, and that wins out when Derek suggests she invite him to dinner at home one night. A sensuous evening ensues, with gigolo overtones: She speaks of the pleasures he can give her and the rewards she can give him for his services... Joann attends Jack's graduation. He offers her his dissertation, dedicated to her, and also a renewed proposal of marriage. Joann, though touched, turns him down. Van persuaded Lance the business in Chicago would progress much better if he were there. He finally agrees, and asks Lorie to accompany him. Van immediately says she needs Lorie for company, when, in fact, she plans to shoot her. Lorie agrees to stay, but as the night grows, Van becomes more erratic. They quarrel, and Lorie storms out. She seeks Brad for comfort. When she decides to return home, Brad agrees to accompany her, but she leaves first as he has to pick up his tapes. In doing so, he hears the tape of Leslie protesting he merely hit her purse, not her, and it dawns on Brad that he hit Leslie...He now feels that he, in fact, killed their baby... THE WRONG ONE! Vanessa's murderous plan has come to a horrifying conclusion. It's not Lorie who she shoots in the darkened room, but Lance. Luckily, the two bullets she fired in the dark did not do too much damage to her son. Lance is going to be alright. Vanessa's burden is lessened by this knowledge but she still fears what will happen when Lance finds out it was she who shot him. He'll surely never forgive her...and she couldn't go on living without her son's love. Vanessa then goes to Lorie and begs her daughter-in-law to tell Lance she was the one who shot him. He'll forgive her anything. He'll never doubt her story that she thought he was a burglar. Lorie is sickened and shocked by Vanessa's request (after all, the woman was plotting to kill her!) but she gives in after Vanessa adds that in return for this cover-up, she'll leave the house and get a place of her own. Lorie will then have Lance completely to herself. Vanessa's assumption about her son's character is proved correct. He does forgive his wife. Lorie then counts the minutes until Vanessa packs her bags...but the hoped for outcome of her lie is not destined to become a reality. Vanessa tells Lance about her plans to leave their home and her son immediately vetoes the idea and says he can't let her do that. She's not yet ready to stand on her own. Vanessa then shudders. She greatly fears Lorie's reaction to this news. Pumped full of drugs, Nancy appears very sane when Mr. Johnson, Ron's attorney, pays a visit to her and Ron's new apartment. Mr. Johnson surveys the whole scene and then tells Ron alright, they can now go to court. Ron smiles. Pretty soon, he'll have custody of Karen. Brock tells the very pregnancy Jodie that he saw her baby's father. Jodie immediately has high hopes that Tom might be able to help her. She calls him and asks him to come to Genoa City. DASHED HOPES Tom doesn't have the maturity to deal with the situation. He flips out after Jodie tells him she's pregnant. Jodie then realizes she'll have to handle the situation on her own. --- Any of you have any memories of Jodie, Tom, or this David? I didn't know Jill was ever with someone named David (aside from Kimball).