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For some reason I think I remember this being asked in SOD, but I may just be hallucinating. I hope someone who was watching at the time may know more.

Thanks!

https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/three-phases-of-fern-bill-blaney-s6fnwk7k This has a paywall. I can't remember the get-around @Vee has mentioned. Not to hype this up too much - apparently it's a 1986 short film that was thought lost by its makers and then rediscovered and given a final edit. Just adding it as anything of another era that has been found again is interesting to me.

For some reason I think I remember this question being asked over the years and the response was they weren't the same place, just a similar looking set. But I don't know.

This very loopy David Selby interview with Leta Powell Drake is fun.

@Vee Those stories make Frank look pathetic, even more than I'd realized. Imagine shoving Tuc Watkins, who'd been with the show off and on for over 15 years, into a dressing room with people who had just started. And with zero warning. At least this helps explain the show's treatment of Natalie.

@Vee That was more candid than I'd expected. It helps explain just why it felt like Natalie could go at any time at various points in the show's last years.

Oh wow they finally got Helen.

My main memory of Wendee's Andy, beyond her literally clinging to Antonio's legs and begging him to stay with her, was what @j swift mentioned above when talking about the changing voice of soap magazines - SOD and especially SPW stayed on the neck of her storyline pretty much the whole time she was on the show, especially the Angel Square story in 1995, and went on and on about how she was an idiot and the worst cop ever. I credit SPW with a lot of this change, as the closest SOD had ever gotten to criticizing shows was the Best/Worst of the Year issues and the bitchy and at times tone deaf "Diva von Dish." SPW often had genuine criticism, along with praise. SOD then followed suit, with the review of each soap that they did for a while in the early '90s, then Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down. The sad part is by this time it was pretty much too late for the soaps anyway, and even then the criticism was fairly muted (especially compared to what was being said online), but it tells you a lot about the downward spiral of the genre that even the limited comments were finally too much for Corday and co to bear.

I remember Jeff Kober as working best on China Beach when silent. He had more presence that way.

I'm sorry to hear this. Bronwen had a very interesting look and I did find her more compelling than Wendee Pratt, even if neither actress ever had any material of worth. A partial 1984 OLTL was uploaded on Archive. One Life To Live- July 20, 1984 (partial) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

I'm trying to remember if Haley had that baby voice. I haven't watched anything with her in a long time. The new Molly just seems very...vapid. I guess she fits in with what Sam has become, but it's weird that they look so similar in age.

That makes sense.

Do they recast so quickly very often these days? I saw that the other recast got a negative response here but I figured no one at the show cared much about Molly anyway.

The first segment of this show has an interview with Jeanne Cooper and Corbin Bernsen.

Sorry to hear of his passing. I guess his Y&R role is what he's more likely to be remembered for, given how impactful the story was in the long term. I have never seen his AMC work, but I remember various comments suggesting he wasn't the right fit for the role. Soap magazines at the time seemed much more interested in his up-and-down love life.

This episode was already uploaded, but this upload includes commercials.

You could really feel the emotions there in a way you sometimes don't in these goodbye videos, I guess due to the suddenness.

Not to take away from the tragedy of Finch's loss, but Died Suddenly is one of those far right accounts, I believe.

Thanks. I appreciate your fleshing out of details. Everything I've seen of Ryder makes me wonder why they wrote him out.

Thanks. Didn't know that. Thank goodness they gave MKA a new part. That sounds like a lousy character.

There's a Youtube account that puts up various clips of Michael Vale. I thought this clip may have already been up on Youtube (IMDB lists the episode as January 15, 1985, although an episode someone gives this date for on Dashell Millhouse's channel doesn't have this scene, or any of these characters). Anyway, I couldn't find the clip, so I'm posting in case it is something new or something from an episode that isn't up anymore.

The Infinity story was such hokum and so unsuited to GL, just a blatant knockoff of the types of stories GH kept running with, but the conclusion here has a very powerful performance from Jordan Clarke. GL had some actors who still managed to find some layers or humanity wherever they could.