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Santa was Broderick. I think this was probably a Disney mandate to try to make the show more fun. I enjoyed the story, at least when it moved away from dour overall Laura doubting Santa and became more about Myrtle. I loved her cameo as Mrs. Claus.

Flash back to ten years ago on Inside Soap: http://www.insidesoap.co.uk/inside-story/the-inside-soap-vault/ Meanwhile, Patsy Palmer is saying she has tried out for an American drama and will leave Eastenders if she gets it. While I can't blame her, I do kind of wonder if she is looking for a reason not to return.

Was there some AMC/Santa Barbara crossover I missed?

This is great. I didn't know Sadie was close to the Lords. I've read a little about Wendy, and seen a photo, but didn't know her story.

Thanks for posting these. I guess Edna was the first of her kind on AMC, and a prototype Opal. I wish I could see David/Ruth. It seemed like they had something of a following.

July 24, 1979 Digest.

It was for After Dark. Side/ass. I first saw that years ago and misremembered as being more, but still very good.

I have a SOD interview on this too, somewhere, when I can find it.

For a second I thought you were posting the other photo! (obviously you can't) Everything with that kind of makes me wish they'd make Mark the character a model/actor, hungry for a break, maybe bisexual. Imagine the feuds with Erica. A story with Tom and Erica having a child could have been very interesting, especially when he also had a child with Brooke. Erica would try to be a good mother just to spite Brooke. They would turn the talent show into a warzone, with Enid tut-tutting the whole time.

Zainab's debut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGAW9uiPmFA&feature=related

And then the OLTL DTR segments ended up being the strongest, especially compared to GH, which was panned by Michael Logan. Erika Slezak runs the gamut of her range in this wonderful clip - a little overwrought, yet heart-tugging all the same. They somehow manage to make Delilah look a bit rough. I think this was when Shelley Burch was having all the eating disorder problems.

For her many faults I do think MMT was very invested in Erica and her past - unfortunately it was sometimes not in the best ways (to say the least). I still prefer that to a lot of the material Erica has had directly before or after most of MMT's recent runs. I know this may be down to vanity or whatever but I am so glad AMC never had Erica deliver a late in life child. While I would say this works more often than not (Kim, Reva) or is neutral (Rachel Cory), it would have been a disaster for Erica.

He has such great cheekbones, just beautiful - and like a lot of the most gorgeous people he can sometimes look haggard in one shot and unbelievable in the next. I wonder if they'll even remember him. I guess there's no point in hoping for any mention of Nick Davis.

Thanks for taking all the time to share these with us. That Faith story was truncated because they fired Faith Catlin. The Irish passage stuff was so silly.

At least her creation will probably live on all the way to the very last episode. I hope she'd be proud of that, although given the way OLTL treated her I couldn't blame her if she didn't care "atall." I wonder if this timeline was the last time Dorian would practice medicine until Dorian's brief stab at this again in 2004.

I hope it sounded differently onscreen because otherwise Victor would have keeled over from the leaden dialogue. Nancy Pinkerton

They look like drum majorettes.

I didn't realize Peter was on the show for that long. I wonder how fans felt when they recast him with Danny Albee. Whatever happened to Tony's Place? Did Wanda take it?

Well we need some reason for Edmund's raging insecurities. I always thought Maria was one too... Paul Raven, thanks so much for the recap and cast list. It's so wonderful to get some 70s AMC in the thread with the detailed synopsis. This is not available to watch but thanks to you we can watch anyway.

For some reason I always figured Dimitri was well-endowed and Edmund wasn't...why I don't know.

Soap Opera Weekly did that as a fun photo shoot - they did quite a few of those in the early 90s. That was reprinted in their 10th anniversary issue. I meant to scan all those but never did. The others are Winsor Harmon, Cat Hickland, Erin Torpey.

Was this the adult parody of that storyline?

Ugh those are rough women. I think it's the one on the far left.