MichaelGL

If I'm correct Carl, some of the early 1982/late 1981 stuff of The Doctors might be from Harding Lemay's lesser known tenure on the show. So these help alot in shedding some light on what he wrote on the show.

Thanks again Carl for these scans, they help to shed some light on TD's lesser known years. To my knowledge the following months have been posted in this thread (I've copied and pasted much of it and saved it to my computer.): July, Oct. Sept., and Dec. 1982 have all been posted in this thread. So if you have any of the other months, I would greatly appreciate it if you scanned a few of them, and posted them when you're able to. So far, I've read half of the ones you posted yesterday, so I'll let you know when I've been able to read all the ones you've posted.

You're right, Weiss did kill off Sara. Which is puzzling bc Sara had been one of the show's most engrossing characters from the Mike/Sara/Colin triangle. Yes, for GL fans, Sara was in a way the Maureen Reardon to Nola's well...Nola Reardon. Hell, she could have even ended up as a tent pole character like Maureen was if they hadn't killed her off. I have read most of 76 actually, much of the tail end of DePriest's tenure/start of Marland's tenure is saved on my computer. But I appreciate the scans though, the pictures that come along with the synopsis are equally interesting to see, as the recaps I have on my computer were all typed up.

Some points I'd like to make from that very interesting scan Carl. Thanks again. -If I'm correct, much of this stuff is from Doris Quinlan's time on the show as EP(former OLTL EP), with Ralph Ellis and Eugenie Hunt as head scribes, former Head Writers of ATWT when it was #1. With such big hirings, it seems like it was a honest and conscious effort to save the show by NBC. (I can't really figure out when NBC gave up on the show, my guess would be sometime after they briefly hired Harding Lemay to revive the show.) -Having read many recaps from Doris's predecessor, Chuck Weiss, time as EP on the show, I didn't really like the way Quinlan seemingly got rid of various characters and brought on new ones. It was quite abrupt and jarring seemingly. Jason went missing in South America. Kim and Sweeny left town. Luke's romantic interest, Missy died. Colin died. I'm sure a few more characters left as well, and equally, at the same time a variety of new characters came onto the show such as Darcy, Alan, Brad, Jack, etc. However I do have to admit, while the transition was far from pretty, Quinlan did seemingly make the show better than it was before, IMO (Though I'm a avid fan of the kind of show The Doctors was under Weiss; racy, not afraid to tackle social issues.) Seems as if she brought more focus on the inner workings at the hospital, with the introduction of interns like Darcy, Brad, and Jack. I enjoyed reading much of that that SOD recap from 1981. It doesn't surprise me though that even with the good storytelling, the show continued to flounder. Like I had stated earlier, the transition sucked horribly, and this was the last thing a show like The Doctors needed at the time. Viewers had already been through enough jarring transformations with their show. Killing off/writing off certain characters while you introduced your own new batch of characters was not the best idea for an EP to make at the time, as it was something viewers had seen many, many times before.

I actually thought out of all the possible Republican Presidential candidates, he was the most reasonable, I must have thought wrong. Very disappointed by this. You should watch his interview with Jon Stewart on Wednesday. Like most political figures that appear on the show, he was put on the spot and even rendered speechless a couple of times. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-12-2011/exclusive---tim-pawlenty-extended-interview

Talk about hitting the nail on the head. Is it too much to ask that we hear Brtitney's true voice in one of her songs? And I'm referring to her last few albums.

I think some are up in arms over the fact that they see the show portraying all those who have lost a child to "cot death" as people who would actually go to the lengths of stealing a newborn. What they don't understand however, IMO, is that this not what the show was getting at. This was a act done completely in character for Ronnie Mitchell.

You know, they could still potentially continue the baby switch plot with Womack out of the picture. Ronnie could lose her marbles, get sectioned, thus leaving Jack all alone to raise James. Perhaps have another woman enter the picture, and eventually have a bitter Ronnie return and spill the beans that James is really Tommy.

She produced East of Eden? Isn't that the racy cable soap Douglas Marland penned?

This is true from what I've seen on YouTube. However if the show wasn't so keen on treating Ronnie/Rack fans with kid gloves, they'd write Ronnie true to what she should be, and that is a mentally unstable conniving little beyotch who is more her father's daughter than anything else. Instead they seemingly insist on portraying her as some heroine of the show. That is what I mostly hope that this baby switch succeeds at doing, finally showing viewers and those of Walford, Ronnie's true colors, but I'm not sure it will.

I wonder if she's protecting Bianca or something... Could be, interesting if it was to turn out that Bianca didn't do it, and Carol had done it all in vain. Like oh...say the real culprit is Ben. (Shocker...not.)

Thanks for the info.

Wow. looking at some of the past stuff on the show, did not know Janine had once slept with Ian. That kind of makes me sick to my stomach. Who's Laura, and why don't we hear much about her these days? Laura seems to be similar to Jane these days.

It still pisses me off how the Hart/Dinah/Roger story played out, how Roger was turned into a blithering fool at the expense of the oh so amazing Hart and Dinah. Actually when I think of McTavish's entire tenure, I get this bad taste in my mouth because the show centered itself around some disgusting qualities of its female cast. Holly, Dinah, Reva, hell even Gilly and Vanessa "schtumping" around town, their lives going to hell all of a sudden their lives seemingly revolved around the males in their lives.

Caught both Monday and Tuesday's episodes, and while I actually loved the x-mas episode, I've found these past two episodes more entertaining; mostly due to the simple drawn out character moments like the ones with Jean, Ronnie, and Kat. The cast is pretty strong right now, they seemingly have a flawless female cast. Gillian Wright has been excellent ever since the x-mas episodes. I'm so anticipating the start of Dot's new story, I rather liked her scenes with the choir director. I see loads of potential there. I'm simply happy to see Dot truly interacting with someone again, and enjoying herself. I'm going on a limb here and say that I saw plenty of foreshadowing between Ronnie and Jean today, perhaps on more than just one level. Somehow I think that when Jean does come back she will somehow factor heavily into the upcoming storyline with Ronnie and Kat.

He and DeMint really make me ashamed to be from South Carolina.

Thanks for the clarification Carl. I missed out on that storyline. I am in awe of Brooks and St. Clements, even though the ladder is in a supporting role in the story, she's still hitting all the right beats.

Watching Monday's episode...who owned the flat next to Denise and Patrick, that Kim labeled a "house of horrors."?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNDmKorWJn0 ABC News Article So does Stewart have a point on the media's coverage of the 9/11 Responders healthcare bill?

I've always found the 40s and 50s of GL the most interesting, being that it had Meta as the main heroine, with her marriage to Ted White, her shooting of him, and her eventual marriage to Joe Roberts with the interference of Joe's daughter.

It could be Paul, I only assumed it might be Sara since she was also heavily involved in the Nola pregnancy storyline. Didn't know Katherine Glass was a brunette. Yeah I don't care for the music too, it's too erratic and doesn't fit the mood of the promo IMO. It's from my understanding Carl, that the character of Nola Dancy didn't mellow out or for better words, become sympathetic, until Zimmer entered the role. When Zimmer played Nola she became more rootable when Mona tried to portray Nola as a unfit parent and take away baby Jessica. Turner's Nola schemed to get her unborn baby the Aldrich birthright and tried to trick Mona into believing the baby was Jason's(which eventually it did turnout to be, despite Nola's one night stand with Colin).

A promo from 1979 promoting the Nola pregnancy debacle! It features Jada Rowland and Kathleen Turner in it, I'm not sure who the third actress is at the start of the promo, I'm guessing it's the actress who played Sara Dancy?

From the synopsis’s I’ve read and still have from his time at TD from 78-79, The Doctors seemingly tackled more social issues, or at least more sexual oriented stories, under Weiss than under anybody else in the show’s history. It was under him that the show had teenagers Billy and Greta deal with their sexual desires, and experience the repercussions of it, such as her becoming pregnant. Elsewhere you had good girl Sara Dancy torn between town baddie Dr. Colin Wakefield and the noble Mike Powers. The story would conclude after a rage filled Mike took to Sara to bed, and funneled his frustrations into their love making. Sara, having never seen such a side of Mike before, would express to her sister Nola that Mike’s anger had improved their love making and she now valued her marriage to him more than before. There were more stories like this, such as the plot where Billy and Greta attended a swinging party and felt out of place, Carolee dealing with her rape and the emotional and physical affects it had on her marriage with Steve, hints that a character named Kim had a “Sex addiction”, and finally the Luke/Missy romance where Missy was hesitant to have sex with reformed womanizer Luke Dancy, after a traumatic experience. Perhaps unique isn’t quite the word for it, for a better word the stories were more racy, being that they pushed the envelope for its time period and gave an entirely new layer to the canvas of characters.

IMO Weiss seemingly was ahead of the game as EP of his shows, striving to tell stories that were different from the rest of the pack and putting in the extra effort when it came to production quality.

Chuck Weiss is a producer that I'm eagerly wanting to learn more about. Not only did he produce WTHI and SS, but if I'm correct he also was EP of How to Survive a Marriage for some time, another soap that pushed the envelope in the 70s. Not only did he produce that soap, he would later be transplanted over at The Doctors, where the soap engaged in some unique storytelling around that time as well. Seems as if it was a signature of Weiss's to display storylines, that were often seen as taboo in the 70s, on the front burner. Unfortunately for him, such storylines didn't really garner much ratings at the time, nor did it help him retain his the position of EP for very long.