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On 9/19/2017 at 3:39 PM, Soaplovers said:

For peeps who watched the show back in the day, which Betsy was their favorite?  

Loved Liz Kemp as Betsy.  I never warmed up to Margo McKenna at all.

LOL---do you mean the guy lurking or the name of the product?  I remember my sister using Minipoo.

Came across this ad with Jacquie Courtney in a 1963 Photoplay.

Today, in 1976.

I wonder which cast mate Elvera was referring to when she mentioned someone getting bad press?

@slick jones

The name of the character Phil Vandervort played was "Benjy." 

Dan was a villain to me because he was hurting innocent people and he was never humanized at all.  I'm more sympathetic toward Cathy and John and don't really see them as villains.  Nick and Althea weren't exactly innocent in any of the events involving Cathy and John.  I've grown to loathe Nick and Althea because they're self-centered, hypocritical, and don't care who they hurt.  The constant Nick-propping by the other characters is maddening.  How many times an episode must we hear how great he is?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure those were the stories.  I remember Chris felt guilty about what Jake had done while he was gone.  Then he and Eugene built the robot (which was actually Chris' invention).

Promo from 1982 re Josh Taylor's return as Chris Kositchek.  At around 7:18.

I did wonder how accurate that was.  I didn't think Bill Bell started on Days until 1966 so how could he have hired PFS in 1965? 

I can't imagine GC liked the 1973 story either.  Ann is basically a doormat for Nick right now.  I have no recollection of her from this time although I remember the other stories.  She and Nick leave together in late 1974/early 1975 (to find a cure for Ann's soap-opera disease), and when she returns alone she is after Steve.

Gil Gerard has the "hunk" factor but his acting is way below the usual standards of the show (although better than much of the acting on current soaps).  I never was interested in Alan the first time I watched him.  I hope I find him more interesting this time.  I'm not really looking forward to the 1974 stories.  I think things pick up (for me) in 1975 though.

1 hour ago, slick jones said:

No, I didn't. Thank you. I'll re-post you know where this weekend.

Great!  I might have a few more but I'll wait so I can double-check there.

33 minutes ago, slick jones said:

Thanks, Jam  I'll post the info!

You're welcome!  Did you already have the names for the characters that Michael Baseleon and Louise Sorel played in 1963---Al Finelli and Rose Finelli?

@slick jones  Sorry if I overlooked this on your list for "The Doctors," but I came across this blurb in "The Detroit Free Press," for June 19, 1963.

"Chaplain suspects head nurse is prejudiced against young Formosan nurse (Irene Sun)."

Also, from April 16, 1963:

"Rev. Shafer must tell man (Roy Poole) he has failed police examination."

Found this in the March 1, 1974, edition of Valley News (Van Nuys, CA), the daytime ratings for a two-week period ending January 27, 1974.

Jacqueline Courtney in a 1965 commercial for the Tammy doll.

I've long suspected that Gerald Gordon was basically playing himself on TD. 

This is a documentary about Bill Hayes' life and career.  There are some (brief) clips of very early Doug and Julie.  (Sorry it can't be embedded but it plays when "Watch on Vimeo" is clicked on)

35 minutes ago, ~bl~ said:

I just wish that Martha wasn't so doting on Nick. He isn't perfect and she shouldn't always be on his side. I wonder how this happened with casting that he didn't have chemistry with whom they paired him with, did they test them with other actors instead, which is why it didn't work? I understood why they got rid of Rico at that time, even if I liked Richard Niles. There wasn't anyone on canvas for him to interact that was near his age and having him work at the hospital didn't exactly fit. If Penny had been slightly older and on screen, I would have thought they would have put Penny with Rico. 

Martha definitely used to call Nick out on his bad behavior in the early days.  I liked that better.  She does get obnoxious now sometimes with the Nick worship.  I even started disliking her for a while because she was going overboard with it.

Yes, I like him with Maggie and Martha, and as uncle to Rico.  I even like his adversarial relationship with John, as I think GG and PH had good acting chemistry.  But there were zero romantic sparks with Redthea, the three Cathies, or Ann.  I didn't watch GG on GH so I don't know whether he had chemistry with his leading ladies there.

Gerald Gordon didn't have romantic chemistry with any of his leading ladies on TD, except for Elizabeth Hubbard.  And I don't even see that anymore.  It doesn't help that his character is a brute, as far as I'm concerned. 

19 hours ago, DRW50 said:

The woman in the ad at 2 minutes looks so familiar. It's not Fran Myers is it?

She reminds me a bit of Fran Sharon, who played Cookie on Edge of Night, but I'm not positive that it's her.

19 hours ago, DRW50 said: