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Was Sam just a guest at that point?

Thanks. I didn't know that. I should read the summaries. (apologies for not tagging you either)

The funniest part is I think ABC actually did try to buy Felicia from P&G but they declined. If they had been able to then Robin and Linda likely would have been playing Lorna and Felicia. At least that spared us a world with a later story where Skye kidnapped Lorna and impersonated her.

Alicia Coppola was definitely much more popular. I don't think Robin Christopher was unpopular, but no one really cared a great deal about her time on the show. Her biggest story use was when JFP paired her with John Bolger (and then three all three actors together again on OLTL). The handling of Dano and Christopher at ABC was like working backwards - let's find these old characters, who would never have any ties, and throw them together because ABC viewers were surely glued to AW from 1994-1996.

That would have been such fun. And for news preemptions, a good use of history with Nancy given that she was in the JFK shooting episode (Don Hastings too IIRC).

He's not wrong... We needed Susan Flannery to tap in for that slap.

Loving was still on when the Jamal custody story ended. Those are great ideas, especially bringing Sean back. Maybe he could have been revealed as Steffi's secret father.

@Soapsuds Glenn Scarpelli is briefly in this (and Christian Slater in his first credited role on IMDB) at about 7 minutes. I can see what you all mentioned above about the show seeming very aimless with the writer changeover. This whole thing with Liza looking out for the cereal commercial lookalike kid seems like strike material.

Ava should give some tips to Cody and Sasha. Thanks. I looked just now on a GH wiki and apparently it was mentioned in 2023 - Ava said she still works at Ryan's Bar. This was during the strike period. I'm glad it at least lives on post Cartini wankery.

They seemed to think she was the one who had Audrey's scenes.

Sorry for not tagging you - there were so many I know I forgot a few people.

That's a good point. Until I saw it in a comment on an RH promo a few months ago I had forgotten that Delia is supposed to be Ava's mother. When was that last even mentioned?

I love Linda Dano, but I never understood why Shapiro thought she had such a following that ABC Daytime viewers would want so much of her, in a part that had been on so long ago I can't remember if they were able to find any flashbacks. Then reuniting her with Robin Christopher just for a few years on AW together which I don't think were that iconic for fans. Christopher did have some good moments as Skye on AMC, but that involved her relationships with Stuart and Adam - the former was especially important for me. There was plenty of story for her on AMC, with Hayley, with Edmund, Erica, etc. Sorry, I know this has nothing to do with GH today.

That was one of my complaints about the story we were presumably meant to be most caught up in (Rick's heart troubles and Richard dying, the trial, etc.) - I saw better versions of this on GH and St. Elsewhere. And I hated the Philip/Harley custody stuff. When those stories were resolved I did think the show improved, but it wasn't meant to be. If only they'd had guts to make other decisions like recasting Michelle.

I still don't understand why they recast Kathy with Nicolette Goulet. Goulet had such a very mannered style of speaking, which is a world away from the more natural Courtney Simon. If they wanted to bring in a brand-new character they should have done so.

Thanks. I wonder what might have been with Millee Taggart, as I felt strong work from her was just starting to come in after a somewhat rocky period through summer/early fall 2002.

I did wonder at first if Jessie and Polly were meant to be living together. I wonder whatever happens to that house. Geez. That part with Diana sounds awful. Frankly, it sounds like a porn setup. The moment with Jessie and Peter sounds like something I wish I could see. I wish they could have let Jessie have some happiness. I know in the early '80s she sort of dated that guy who worked at the hospital but that's all. At least she wasn't murdered, like Jessie 2.0 (Diana).

That's true. A lot of her time on GL also felt feverish, which isn't a word I would use for Capitol. I do think the first weeks or months of her run felt closer to what she could have been. And I enjoyed her banter with Buzz for that reason. Do you think Conboy did any better with her Alex when he was producer? (I know that period had Alex as a stalker and drug dealer but I'm not sure if that was his work)

Thanks for all the recaps @dc11786

I grew to accept Keifer, but I don't think she ever had the haunted quality Blake should have had, considering her parents. She did try very hard, even when later writers seemed to think Blake should be daffy, which was a stupid idea. I think the decay of Alex was already there even under Beverlee - there was less and less respect for her in the writing. Dusay just couldn't go up against that. I notice when on Capitol, her Myrna always had Sam Clegg to chide her as she spun out of control. Marj often played Alex as if she was still waiting for that partner to chide her. That wasn't what Alex should have been.

Thanks so much for the article. I thought it must have still been them, as I know GH was steady with viewers until starting to falter in the early '70s - just wonder how people would have felt about quite that much repetition. I get more of the older woman/younger man vibe here with Jessie and Phil than I did with Roy Thinnes. Looking up the ages I see that Martin West is actually a bit older than Roy Thinnes (maybe a year or so). He does look older than Thinnes, but he has more of a vibrant spirit here that makes you understand why poor Jessie was naive enough to yet again let him into her life. I can see why he lasted so long in the role.

@Vee @FrenchFan @GymnastGuy @depboy @dc11786 @Paul Raven @Soapsuds @Contessa Donatella @Maxim @titan1978 @AdelaideCate007 @carolineg @Planet Soap @Khan @Bright Eyes @Liberty City @Forever8 @AMCOLTLLover @cassadine1991 @soapfan770 @VelekaCarruthers @victorlord75 @vetsoapfan @slick jones @Franko @dc11786 @janea4old @BetterForgotten Amazing to think we've got at least 3 episodes now from around this period. Finding '60s GH is spotty but much better represented than most other soaps. This episode has a flashback to when Steve tells Audrey they lost their baby. I don't think that was in the other episodes we've seen (if it was, my apologies). Reading up on Polly's history I see that a year after this she dies in a car crash, pregnant, while Phil is driving. Odd seeing this in an episode focusing on the aftermath of the same happening with Steve and Audrey (very different circumstances, I know). Was that the same headwriters? I wonder if viewers ever found these stories repetitive (and this one also had another round of Jessie/Phil) or if they just loved the characters enough to not mind.

Thanks. I didn't know that.

Neither did I. Nice to hear his interpretation.

Never knew Peter Allen was on OLTL. This is 1982 apparently.