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Thanks again @safe We Love Soaps TV is reuploading a bunch of old interviews. Here's one with Christopher Durham from 2010. @Maxim You might enjoy this too as I think you liked his bit on OLTL.

https://archive.org/details/passions-21-08-02-99-woc

RIP Jerry Adler, who was a stage manager on the show for a number of years. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jerry-adler-dead-sopranos-good-wife-rescue-me-1236351995/

I guess she really wasn't getting any work post SBTB to audition for GH. To think if she'd had the part she wouldn't have done Showgirls...

Thanks as always @slick jones . Never knew Sadler was both on Another Life and the spokesman for Christian Children's Fund. Lucilla looks a bit like Kimberlin Brown.

Ava/Ric seemed to get a positive fan response too. I guess this way it's easier to write Ric out again once Liz finds out about his schemes to get money from Alexis. They don't seem to have any clear plan for Ava, but they never do.

@YTG Thanks for letting us know. Carolyn had a strong screen presence, helping her stand out in what I'm sure must have felt like a thankless role at times. Liz and Jeff Cummings were a key part of those early days of the show, and I always wonder what might have been with them.

Abigail/Chris was such a bad idea, as he just came across as too old compared to her and their relationship was not believable unless he was a perv. He had much more chemistry with Molly and with Emily.

@Maxim Thanks as always. They must have had fun making those drawings. Tonja Walker certainly had fun getting to play psycho Alex again, eyes a-poppin'. The most frightening part of that clip was her outfit.

As that meme says - just as I thought, trash.

@I Am A Swede I thought you might be interested in this. It's from the Did You See? Twitter account. August 11, 1985.

I know this period of GL has been up on Youtube before, but I don't think this episode (May 29th, 1992) is up at present. Starts about an hour and ten minutes in.

Thanks @Ninejamb for posting those episodes. Glad more soaps are making their content available.

She has a few lines. Not much. The rest is standing around for a few group scenes. The scene with Chris (where she has her only lines) looks like it was filmed separately. About 31 minutes in.

@YTG Thanks so much for these extra details. @slick jones Not sure if you'd this for your soap cast threads.

Absolutely ridiculous. I'd say Vigard was the main one who made that pairing compelling. She also had potential for interesting relationships with Amanda and Jennifer if either of those characters had had more of a pulse. I do think Kathleen Cullen showed more layers when the Dobsons were writing for her - I could believe her being torn between her sexual and emotional desires for Ben and the cage Lucille wanted her to be in. Marland's pen just didn't give her anywhere to exist. I wish we could see more of her last year on the show as supposedly she was much better.

Cain and Charity on Emmerdale were around 30 when their daughter Debbie had a baby. Cain may have been even younger as they had claimed he was a younger age than really fit the actor until they later retconned him to be in line with the actor's birth year. Leela on Hollyoaks was also about 30 when she became a grandmother.

I think Josh said he asked to be taken off-contract because of his work outside of the show.

Thanks!

I'd love that - the crumbling Alden mansion, maybe Emma and Gio or someone else staying at Kate's boarding house while getting away from Port Charles. But Loving will always be my very tattered comfort blanket of the ABC soaps and I doubt anyone there would see it the same way...

All these pairings had so much potential. Not sure if they are just not going to do much with Ric as Hearst is recurring, they don't care about Liz, Ava is always just sort of hanging on, and Josh Kelly is recurring now too, but it's a waste. Pivoting back to the Obrecht gang isn't worth cutting out potential in the current canvas.

If we get material from other soaps, I'd prefer story and character that can work with the canvas (I think @Vee has talked about a trip to Corinth that the show could take, although I may be wrong). I don't really need name drops, although I guess this wasn't really a homage to OLTL, they just wanted to do a Western fantasy and threw the names in. The Delilah mention is amusing because Clint is the one Buchanan man of her era she was not with (aside from Cord). Rather than any OLTL mention bothering me I tend to just agree with those who think they could do better with Molly. I feel like they're trying to take her back about a decade when she has gone through too much to go back.

I always thought the early Spinelli/Maxie material had toxic vibes, as any story about the woman who needs to be humbled and see that the "real" guy who is obsessed with her is her soulmate tends to have, so if they want to rewrite history a little, I'm not too bothered in this case.

They probably just switched partners because they were trying yet again to revamp her. I'm still surprised they didn't try to have a triangle with Gio and Emma, as early on Emma came in blasting her.