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Gabrielle working at Wanda's (briefly), and Gabrielle speaks out about the baby switch when Michael runs off with the child.

The price Tina asked for her silence.

Austin was pretty scary. I don't care for some of the brutality against women on the show in the late 80's but at least they were honest about these men. Today Austin would be painted as a noble hero.

Yes, Dennis Parlato, a good soapy actor. It's a shame his last soap role was his run as the Roger Thorpe recast. Next is a bit of a side story in this - Austin knew about the baby switch and hit Gabrielle up for big money.

It was a disgrace. Gabrielle, Tina, and Megan, along with Viki, CARRIED OLTL in the late 80's. They were some of the most addictive and complex women ever on soaps. Considering what was done to Gabrielle and Tina, I guess Jessica Tuck was right to ask them to kill off Megan. I think the show made a mistake in having Michael beat Gabrielle after he found out about the baby (as you will see in the next clips). Gabrielle was never the same without JdP's Max and Michael was stuck in that horrible drugging Brenda story and then killed off. I would have had Gabrielle and Michael hook up again after Max "died," and raise hell across Llanview.

The first part isn't around now but this is the second part right after Michael catches Max and Gabrielle kissing...Gabrielle says Max made her, and Michael brutally beats Max. Listen to the superb background music in many of these scenes. This next clip is the start of the Michael/Gabrielle wedding that wasn't.

He probably made the right choice there considering the way Gautier was treated.

Michael and Gabrielle worked together for months in trying to find the gold of Eterna. They were either lovers or very close to it. His wife, Alicia, knew Gabrielle's game, but Gabrielle was never a serious threat because Michael loved Alicia and their unborn child. Gabrielle and Alicia were in a car crash. I think that Gabrielle's motivation was flimsy and part of it may have been out of wanting Michael's money and power, but she did genuinely care about Michael. I think it may have also been wrapped up in her regret over not being with Al in his first months of life. You can see some of them working together in the Halloween 1988 episodes. They start here: This is a VERY meta scene where Michael and Gabrielle watch Fraternity Row's baby switch story.

This is from the January 1976 Daytime TV. One of the only things I've seen on Rosalinda Guerra, who played Nurse Ramona Gonzales and was a fairly prominent supporting character in the show's early months before slowly fading and finally vanishing entirely (which also happened with their other minority character, Clem). I wonder if they had more plans for her but the actress didn't cut it, or if they just gave up on her character when they had to take up more airtime by keeping Frank around. The only other writeup I've seen on her was around this time in another magazine, a brief mention that she was a S cientologist.

Thanks for sharing this. I am always wondering why they switched the names for Kathleen and Siobhan and why they decided not to have Siobhan as a nun. And if Ramona was supposed to be a bigger character than she turned out to be. The description of Nell is also a little off. There's also no mention of Jill. Or of Nick Szabo.

Yeah, there was just that few month gap. Janine lucked out I guess (and so did viewers...).

Gabrielle switched the babies because she felt that Michael would fall apart if he lost his child, as his wife had just died as well. While the story wasn't as good as the baby switch with Karen, Jenny, and Katrina, it did have some strong performances from the actors involved, and a very dramatic series of aftershocks (which soaps don't do now), such as Gabrielle working at Wanda's and falling apart, Gabrielle being a pariah, and Gabrielle's trial, which had a classic moment where Megan ran out of the court when Max admitted he still loved Gabrielle. I also thought this story was good use of Brenda, who was a tough yet vulnerable heroine, which soaps always need. Unfortunately her story after this, the one where Michael Grande was drugging her, seems atrocious. Badderly was named worst story of the year by SOD - I guess part of that colors my thinking. But I should check it out.

Thanks cheap21. I haven't watched a lot of Badderly yet.