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Yes to the best. And Rick and Blake were raised as siblings which made it so wrong. Instead of her cheating with him because she thought Ross cheated with Amanda, she should have gone to him needing her big brother for comfort of a different kind. They also should've banded together to protect younger sister Michelle in regards to the Santos & drawn in Blake's husband and Ed's best friend Ross, and Holly as Blake's mother who became close to Michelle after Maureen died. The problem I had with Rick and Beth is that most of it played off screen. They should've bonded believing Phillip had died with Mel learning about Rick and Beth's past, causing her to worry where their bond could be headed. Blake would've also been involved in this as Mel's mother was introduced as Blake's friend

She said she was no longer with the show when Reva was written off, but she wrote her off and didn't leave for a few months after

Someone posted in these pages years back that she and Jay never married. She became pregnant with their 1st child I believe when she was Texas' headwriter, and supposedly p&g didn't want it known that their headwriter was pregnant out of wedlock so they had her attach his name to her's so everyone would think they were married. And yes that radio interview still floors me. I remember in SOD she previewed the remote I think in the Florida Keys as it would be Reva's exit story. Reva was definitely her favorite character, how could she forget she had Reva drive her car off that bridge?

From what I remember and I could be a bit off, but I think Harley started working for Mindy and she sent Harley to NY to meet with Matt, but she got stuck in a blizzard, so she stayed with Matt as he celebrated Hanukkah. I didn't hear about it being definite but I assumed they planned to pair the 2 as Robert Newman announced he was leaving so Josh and Harley were headed for a breakup

Curlee/Demorest/Reilly served as a headwriting trio until Curlee went on maternity leave in 92, and was replaced by Lorraine Broderick. Curlee returned later that year around the time Reilly left to headwrite DOOL. Broderick left to write for AW sometime in 93, leaving Curlee and Demorest as a duo with Patrick Mulcahey and Nancy Williams Watts writing under them. Curlee and Demorest left in early 94. Although she didn't go there in her youtube interview, she did an interview after the show's cancelation was announced and she said she left because of interference from TPTB and because she was burnt out. Mulcahey and Williams Watt became headwriters and Demorest returned some weeks or months later. Mulcahey left and at some point Millie Taggart, Leah Laiman and possibly Peggy Sloane wrote in some of the HW tandems which is confusing because all this happened in 94 alone. I know at the end of the year SOD said that Demorest and Taggart were let go, and Douglass Anderson and Williams Watt were named interim HW's but then became official until Anderson was fired and replaced with Megan McTavish in 95. I so wish the actors/ actresses and staff writers were interviewed about this period and the constant writing upheavals in the mid to late 80's. Curlee and Demorest were there in the 80's, 1 of them brought it up in their youtube interview and of course Alan interrupted and that was the end of that. And as a viewer of both these periods, yes it showed on screen

I don't think Fletcher/Chelsea went far. Kassie was dropped to recurring, and then Chelsea left in the beginning of 1991. I think Jackson Freemont came back and her exit involved her singing career

RIP Ann. We are losing our legends left and right, but the older we get, the more we'll keep losing them. It causes me to think about the soap world, shows I watched and didn't, those gone before I was born, actors, actresses, behind the scenes writers/ producers/etc, characters and stories. I'm so happy to have been introduced to soaps and throw myself into this world. I'm sad when they pass, but so happy that I got to know them and their work.

Didn't Michelle stand trial for murder at one point? I always thought Mike would be there as her lawyer, and a suitable explanation should have been made of Ed not being there because he never would've abandoned his family. Of course tptb didn't care about the Bauers, and because of age discrimination. Josh and Reva were the few over a certain age guaranteed to get stories

I've seen the Roger 1 a few times on YouTube. It's Michael Zaslow and Maureen Garrett talking about Roger & Holly and clips are shown. I remember when the tape was announced, they asked viewers to send in episodes they might have. Unfortunately, Roger arrived in 1971, & the earliest clip is from 1976, in which Roger tells Peggy he's Christina's father, and the clip abruptly ends in the middle of Peggy's response. No clip of Lynn Deerfield, the original Holly he cheated with and whom gave birth to Christina aka Blake, and made the decision to lie to Ed, as she passed Blake off as Ed's daughter. No clips of him marrying Peggy, then Holly, no mention or clips of when he raped Rita, and no clips of the ground breaking trial when he was prosecuted for raping wife Holly, and then Rita's revealing that he had raped her too. In 1987 when GL turned 50, for 1 week, at the end of each episode, current or former cast members introduced an iconic moment from the show's history. On the last day Ed Bryce (Bill) paid tribute to Charita Bauer (Bert). There was a clip that had to be from 1966 where Bert told off Ed for disrespecting his father. That brief scene was epic! There are great eps on YouTube from 1966 dealing with the fallout of Bill cheating on Bert and falling off the wagon. I can not find the episode with this scene. But someone from the show in 87 had to dig that scene from a tape from somewhere. There was also a clip from 77 when Bert sees Bill for the first time after finding out he's alive. The whole episode hasn't surfaced that I know of, but someone knew the episode existed and where to find it. I truly believe most eps b4 1979 no longer exist, but more survived than we know

I'm watching Wagon Train right now and only recently realized Robert Horton, who was on this show for a few seasons, played Whit McColl. He's like Mr. Cool on this show 😂 I've wondered about this the last few days. They would've had to task people to go to every place they store remaining episodes of every soap opera they produced and have them wipe everything. Toss them all out, maybe but wipe everything I just don't know. And unless someone from P&G confirms or denies, we really wouldn't know. And I don't think they'll ever bother to say anything

So sad if true 😥

She left for maternity leave in 1986. We never got the whole story behind her last departure. SOD said she clashed with tptb over creative control and P&G said her departure was a mutual decision. SOW said she was fired over ratings. To me she didn't lose steam, the show clicked on all cylinders so her departure worried me. Thankfully Curlee's team took the show to another level

@victoria foxton Thank you!!!!

@victoria foxton Thanks!!!!!

Thanks!!!!! @DRW50

Over the years I read that Marland planned to have Carrie murder Jackie in cold blood, but because he was ordered to end the story, he killed her off anyway in the plane crash. If true, even though it would've been 1 of Carrie's other personalities I don't see how they could've kept her long-term afterwards. Also if true, he was able to do it on ATWT with Royce and Neal. It remains so stupid that Jackie was killed off before Philip found out she and Justin were his biological parents Marland killed off Jackie under Allen Potter and Gail Kobe had Pam Long write off Justin. Jackie and Justin should've stayed on the show so there would be no need to explain her absences. In daytime we've always suspended disbelief when it came to parents and kids. Maureen Garrett didn't look old enough to be any of the adult Blake's mother, and Jean Carol didn't look old enough to be Frank and Harley's mother. Had Hope not left and they aged Alan Michael with Carl Evans as they did in 87, we would've focused on character and story, not ages. I'm just saying the tptb wanted these characters gone and it had nothing to do with parent/kid age differences

He was also on Trapper John MD probably for the show's full run

Thanks for sharing this!

RIP Jerry 😥. We're losing our legends left and right

Reading the last few posts made me think of the great early 90's. Characters and relationships were well defined, they drove story, the show was an ensemble, there was no Josh and Reva, there was widespread acclaim and the ratings were up. Why did they change what worked?

I would give anything for even 1 of her TGL episodes to surface. Anyone know what part of Leslie's story she was there for?

NOOOO😥

Guiding Light, when Brent murdered Nadine. I didn't see it coming, was shocked and sad when it did.

In regard to Pam Long, I remember SOD ran an article questioning why plots are recycled from show to show, and writers interviewed said their ideas get shot down when they pitch something different. Long said the cult story would've been about people with problems and the people who prey on them and program them. She said she gave up the fight because telling the story would lead tbtp to make changes, making the story something different. I believe the article was in the late 80's and always wondered when, and who would've been involved in the story.

I'm beyond sad. I had the pleasure of watching her on both Guiding Light and As The World Turns. I also had the pleasure of meeting her in 1997. I worked at a mall in Paramus NJ. She and Julie Poll were signing copies of The Guiding Light 60th Anniversary coffee table book and she was so nice and friendly. I am wrecked right now.