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  1. Thanks. I have a number of these and never post them because I'm never sure if anyone is interested in radio soaps beyond the core one or two (like Right to Happiness). I decided to go ahead and post a few, in case an asteroid hits tomorrow, or whatever. I'm glad you enjoyed them.

    I love radio soaps. I have seen 1 or 2 articles on Irna you posted in the past and I love hearing about her.

  2. I don't know who the Cartwrights are but from everything i read, the Buchanan's were suposed to be Daytime's version of the Ewings of Dallas. Remember this was 1980, right around the whole Who Shot JR. They brought in the Buchanan's from Texas and brought a little country-western into the show because Dallas was so popular. instead of Jock and his two boys, it was Asa and his two boys. Bo always reminded me of Bobby Ewing. He was always trying to do what was right. LIke in 1984 when he went to work for Lord Manning and was able to get Viki and the workers to work together. and of course all his years as the police commish.

    Of course Clint didn't even come close to being a JR until decades later in the last few years of the show when he turned a little mean.

    I am not too familiar with OLTL. What is the difference of characterization between Clint Richie's Clint and JvD's Clint?

  3. Aside from Guiding Light, Right to Happiness is my fave of the radio soaps I've listened to more than 20 episodes of. Though a spin off, I believe Irna passed ver the headwriting reigns to Happiness pretty early on. Of course it was one of the last four remaining radio soaps--I wonder whyt hey never tried it on tv.

    There's much debate, really about the true first. It depends on what you call a soap, and other semantics but they were all around the same time.

    Is "Right to Happiness" one of the radio soaps that are almost intact completely?

  4. Aside from Guiding Light, Right to Happiness is my fave of the radio soaps I've listened to more than 20 episodes of. Though a spin off, I believe Irna passed ver the headwriting reigns to Happiness pretty early on. Of course it was one of the last four remaining radio soaps--I wonder whyt hey never tried it on tv.

    There's much debate, really about the true first. It depends on what you call a soap, and other semantics but they were all around the same time.

    What was the difference between Painted Dreams and the one they claim as the first??

  5. That gap of time is one where they could have come back and said that Erica did something/something happened to her/she met someone, etc. since she was off the show for about 3-4 months.

    Hell, if they wanted to make Josh Erica's son, they could have said that she found out she was pregnant by Tom after she was in CA, and she gave birth and either didn't want the baby or maybe it had health problems and a nefarious doctor (ie Greg Madden) told her the baby wouldn't live and then stole it or something. That would have made a hell of a lot more sense than what we saw.

    I hope they can retcon Josh by stating Erica and Jeff had an affair after her break up with Tom. Maybe they could state she got drunk before she went to the fat farm and went to visit Jeff (Did he leave already) and she got pregnant that way.

    Basically, I hope someday they will retcon the story so the abortion would still take place along with the birth of Josh. The Gregg Madden stuff during Josh's introduction wouldn't be erased (though I wish it would be).

  6. I love the idea of Lyman playing Opal's long-lost sister! Maybe they could say she and her sister stopped talking because her sister couldn't stand Ray and tried to talk Opal out of marrying him. Then Opal was too stubborn to try to contact her after Ray's death and admit she was right all along.

    I have been wanting that for years!

  7. There's been some talk about the possibility of OLTL coming back on TWOP, and Kassie and Jim DePaiva have both come up in the conversation. I shared KDP's quote on her husband's firing in SOW in 2003, and wanted to share it here:

    Considering how she's not usually known for speaking out on stuff like this, I'm surprised I didn't get this out and share it earlier.

    It also makes me sad, because he's never been on another show. I think he's a theater actor first and he's been in several plays since leaving OLTL, but I'd love to see him on TV again.

    What is TWOP?

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