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I wish we could see all the Pattis. It would make a good Youtube clip. I think at one time, everyone from Nancy Pinkerton to Tina Sloan played her. Mary Stuart once said that the Patti who had just been fired was a short redhead and the next was a tall blonde, and the first line Jo had for the new Patti was, "Is that you dear?" or something like that. Mary thought it was ludicrous and tried to get them to change the line, but no go.

Spoilers for Charlie's exit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1334439/SPOILER-ALERT-Who-EastEnders-Alfie-Moon-chasing-tube-platform.html

Sexy Santas - I was hoping that might be the guys. Remember Garry's Santa calendar? Does the Billy/Julie stuff remind you of Hollyoaks when Jacqui was sent back inside for a few months because she missed her curfew after a night with Tony? It will be good to see more of Dot and Pat together. That caption for Glenda cracks me up. While I don't think the show is as overly sexualized as some are claiming (it's not any worse than last year where Ryan was bedding Janine/Ronnie/Stacey within a week or two of each other and Ronnie was with Ryan and with Owen), it isn't necessarily a bad thing to see characters like Glenda who know how to use sex as a weapon. It's true to life anyway.

You're right - although I do think that bringing Peggy back when Roger and Holly finally got together again would have been more interesting than the Mr. Tashewa crapola. There is so much of GL that I wish we could see... I was going to ask if there are any articles or anything on any particular GL actors or characters you were interested in. If you want me to find anything and post it I'll try.

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One of the Digests I have from around this time has photos of Janice and Tom as they were filming their pilots. When I find it I'll post that. You've probably already seen it but when I watched some of the Time Tunnel episodes, the last disc had the pilot he was in - Time Travellers.

11/26/91 SPW, The Grapevine, by Dorothy Vine I don't remember any of that about Kim meeting her first husband's brother. Did that story go anywhere?

Jon-Michael Reed listed his solid gold memories of the year. He praised Janice Lynde, "Daytime Ophelia", very impressed with the work in her breakdown, saying that her scenes in the mental hospital were as frighteningly chilling as any he'd ever seen. He also praised one particular scene in January with Jeanne Cooper where Katherine sat at her dressing table, shaking while trying to control her drinking, and she had an extended monologue about her happy younger years and the bitter woman she had become. She then crawled to her bedside phone, gasping with hopeful resolve. He also praised Jaime Lyn Bauer for how much she had grown as an actress over the year, calling it one of the most astonishing transformations of the year, and praising the writers for the material they had given her. Lastly he praised the gentle breeze of love from William Gray Espy and Trish Stewart.

That's a good question, I've always wondered that myself. Were Leslie and Brad a big couple the way that some of the later LLLL combinations were, or do you think they didn't get as much attention? It's always hard for me to gauge what fan reaction was to some of the couples then, like Chris/Snapper.

Thanks. It's so hard to tell sometimes as these magazines are very far ahead. It was nice to see that photo of the first set of Brooks sisters. Most of the photos I've seen of them together are from later on.

Meredith was the villain wasn't she? I wonder how Greg and Jo were together, if people liked them.

Thanks for getting through all that. I think the first time around they played it up more as obsession and anger than love, but you're right, it was not that way when MZ and MG returned. They never mentioned Peggy when Roger returned, did they? I loved Maureen's work so much but I do wish we could see Lynn Deerfield. I know very little about her work on the show. My prevailing memory of her is Maureen saying that Lynn used to show up in the studio and watch her tape, which made her very nervous.

Thank you, dc. That makes sense, about the misprint. I was going to ask, this might have already been talked about and I've forgotten, but how long was Jo involved with Greg Hartford? I have an interview with him where the actor talks about being on Our Miss Brooks and then later in life he had basically given up acting to go into real estate, but SFT brought him back and he was happy and wanted to be there for a long time. Apparently that did not happen. I'll try to put the article up later.

Thanks for typing all this out. It sounds like some of these stories were treading water, but I do like the sound of Susan's problems, and Mary/John. I wish I could see Jay -- Dennis Cooney, just in the photos I've seen is kind of an offbeat leading man for ATWT at that time. I'm surprised Annie didn't like country clubs -- I always kind of saw the Stewarts as country club types. This was when they were testing Alex with various women on the show, weren't they? I was reading a Tonya Pinkins Digest interview from 1991 and she was surprisingly frank about her time as Heather. I can't remember her exact words at the moment but she basically said that the female producer at the time she heard hated her, although the producer was nice to her face. Then Robert Calhoun came in and she also felt he didn't like her, and he refused to let her do outside projects, even though she only worked on the show once a month. Finally Heather was sent on a vacation, but they told her she wasn't being let go. After she left, she was then told that she'd been fired. Robert Calhoun denied all of this when he was asked for comment. It's a shame they didn't try to keep Heather around and write for her, as I really liked her.

That's crazy, NBC canceled and then changed their mind. How often does that happen? If the show was that tough imagine how it would have lasted on CBS or even ABC.

Was the decision to get rid of Mona last minute? Meg Mundy didn't want to leave, right? Do you think any of the new characters brought in on the show's last few years were a success? I have the issue right after this one if you want me to transcribe what's in that. If you already have it or it's already on here somewhere then I won't.

I'm glad it's still airing. I wasn't sure, as I know that they seem to be tired of their own soaps.

Thanks for summarizing this. I guess a lot of the actors who were leaving must have known the show was almost done, but it seems like a big hole was left in the canvas, if Greta, Nola, Billy, and Mona were all going. Which characters did they plan to fill the void with? Did they ever actually plan to kill Matt off or was this just a disease of the month type story?

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Yeah I think Lowry was the mistress. You probably already know this, but the woman who played the Bachman wife has been a puppeteer on Sesame Street for many many years. I'm going to scan some of the other bits from the magazine soon, for the other soaps, so I hope it brings back memories for you. If it does then we'll enjoy reading them.

Until I read this I thought the widowhood story started when the show did. How long was it before he died? I wish I could see that story, as Schemering talked about how good it was. I think that some works suffered with how to write a feminist heroine, in how to not make them seem too hard or unsympathetic. Is that what happened with Harmon? I had no idea that Lynn Lowry was in so many horror movies or in Score, which was written up as being an intellectual type of pseudo-porn, bisexual film. Do you remember her character on this show? I hope this brought back some memories for you. I haven't seen a lot of the show in magazines so this one I was interested in.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. As much of a cliche or an albatross the word supercouple became, it's worth remembering that a lot of these early couples really were important to many people. I didn't know DAYS was so popular in Australia. I wonder if it still airs there. I really like the photo of Julie and her bridesmaids. I know that Doug and Julie aren't the same as Bill and Susan, but if you ever want me to post any of those DAYS with the Hayes columns they wrote, let me know.

From the March 1977 Daylight TV.