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Julie is going to be replaced by Parappa the Rapper.

I have a vague memory of an SOD photo, one of those wacky/cute/outtake photos they did, and Chris McKenna is maybe at a locker and holding a Valentine of Dorian. This was probably Valentine's 1994. Realistically there was no way they could have done that story with Chris' Joey and Dorian, but I wonder if they were thinking of it. I wish they'd brought him back as Joey for the end of the show and had him end up with Dorian, rather than the odd choice to keep Joey the same age for 10 years and cast immature looking actors in the part which somehow led us to a world where Dorian had had a passionate affair with a Nickelodeon host.

Dark Shadows comic strip stories

I read through the 71-72 comic strip book. I'm very grateful to Katherine Leigh Scott for putting this together at a time when Pomegranate Press had the power to do so (this was about 1995, 1996 and there were various Dark Shadows books, VHS tapes, the show was running on the Sci-Fi Channel). There is a foreword from Kenneth Bruce Bald, including some photos of him modeling as Barnabas for the strip, and photos of his wife as an original character. Bald mentions that when the strip was canceled, he was told they'd never gotten so many complaints. My only real disappointment is that we don't get the Sunday strips in color, but I can't complain as I know including them would have been much more expensive. Aside from Barnabas, and one cameo, the only show characters are Elizabeth and Carolyn. This is an odd choice, but I suppose it makes sense in that Barnabas can just immediately take over the household dynamics (this is not the early show Elizabeth). It also adds an unintended air of despair to Collinwood when you only see the three of them and guest characters - not even a mention of a servant. Maybe we can say this is similar to the film universe (the Dan Curtis films) with the more downcast Collinwood and Collinsport. Bald doesn't make any effort to draw Carolyn and Elizabeth resembling Nancy Barrett and Joan Bennett, although Elizabeth does at times (at times she looks like Courtney Simon). Bald not sticking to the show very much means Barnabas is more of a straightforward hero, without the pity parties he so often inflicted on viewers. I'm not going to go into great detail about each story arc as I want you to enjoy those for yourself if you buy the book, but I will give a summary and moments I enjoyed. I will be sharing the most details about the last story as I thought it was the best. I just need to remember how to use spoilers on here now...

I think it's also an example of the show's poor treatment of their black cast.

Waiting for a Boys in the Band revival...

@dc11786 @vetsoapfan @Vee @soapfan770 @slick jones @Franko @Paul Raven @Khan @Soaplovers @I Am A Swede @SoapDope78 @All My Shadows @te. @kalbir @janea4old @Chris B @jam6242 @Soapsuds Another Beacon Hill promo at the end of this episode of Musical Chairs. CBS variety gameshow Musical Chairs, episode 80 (~Oct. 6, 1975) - YouTube

Leah Laiman wrote several books (and I think was interviewed in SOD back in the '90s about this). Leah Laiman (Author of Lingua Terra)

I Don't Want to be Born, mentioned in here, is indeed a crazy-ass film.

JOAN COLLINS: QUEEN OF THE HORROR FILMS (2026) TRAILER I Don't Want to be Born, mentioned in here, is indeed a crazy-ass film.

Joe Barbara (AW, AMC) has a role in Dan Levy's new Netflix Show, Big Mistakes.

Rachel and Libby are back, but otherwise, yes. I would be very happy if Esther goes as I find the character to be a huge drain and treated as a saint - even worse, they keep giving her dead babies to add even more misery to the canvas. Sadly, I doubt she is going. If you want to see Drew's last scene, it may be available somewhere. He goes off to New Zealand with Boyd for a holiday. I don't know if there was even any mention of them both having a number of kids. I guess Drew is just dumping his kids off on offcamera relatives, I don't know. I will miss Drew more than some other longtime characters who were written out, like Nicole, as I thought he still had something to offer, a spark with comedy and drama. So many of the current characters are just dour. I'm sorry that the point where I started regularly watching the show was after you were done so I never really got to properly engage with your posts.

Thanks so much @slick jones

Thanks @slick jones I know it must have taken a great deal of time, especially for Lloyd Bridges. I'd never seen the photo with Patricia Kalember.

I got a laugh out of this. Now that you mention it, Claire was one of the women I thought Ron had a little more pep with, although I don't know if I believe Alan would have been interested in her. Maybe if Ed had been around and Alan had wanted to needle him.

@soapfan770 This is all fascinating. Thanks. Sometimes I find Falcon Crest much more interesting to read about than watch...

I don't think Dee/John was ever meant to be a couple who worked. John was meant to be the heavy. The problem is the man she was meant to work with (Brad) was even worse. Anything with Ron's Alan was a snore, especially with romance. I could have seen her possibly working as Hope around 1986, although she probably would have just been paired with Rusty Shayne...

She left before Kobe came along. I think L Virginia Browne was the interim headwriter. I wonder if FPS just clashed as she did at other shows, or was blamed for ratings slipping.

I think they both had big enough careers in that period to not need to do the shows. I am more surprised Cheryl at least never popped up later, on '90s Spelling, but maybe she had enough money to not need the work.

Instagram Cranston residents talk about Rhode Island. The first guy got a lot of love on what is left of Twitter (he misses old Bravo!).

Part will depend on how much of a cut he's getting from those charges. Or how much Putin tells him to sit down and shut up.

Reading what I wrote again I forgot that Jaclyn has a wig line, although the image of her just sending Cheryl the wigs she wore is funnier to me.

I totally get what you mean. When I saw her earliest work as Dee, I was a bit surprised as I thought she had more personality. Once the material with Brad and Ian and John starts going and going, she just seems like she's on heavy tranquilizers. I thought that initial work could have fit a recast Hope.

I saw an article today where Cheryl Ladd revealed that she'd had aggressive breast cancer (in a sign of how ridiculous things are getting, the article put b------ instead of breast) and Jaclyn and Kate, who also both had breast cancer (Kate twice) had both supported her. (Jaclyn even sent Cheryl her old wigs)

Thanks as always @slick jones