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Oh, to have had a view through the back window of that station wagon…

Did Larry Bryggmann pop in? Or the always delightful Don Hastings?

Could you please? II’S every other damn comment. One of my favorite posters has practically left this board because it has because one woman talking to herself.

It wasn’t Zimmer’s job to save the show. Her job was to provide for her family. Trying to save a show ultimately makes one intensely bitter. Vicky Wyndham, are you listening? Too bad Noelle wasn’t on AW, Donna. You would’ve LOVED her as Nicole #4.

They all took pay cuts. Everyone on daytime. Slezak took a pay cut. Lucci took a pay cut. But being asked to take one mid-contract is not ethical.

You are correct.

You know what I take away from that? Zimmer was a STRONG WOMAN AND SHE WON. If I was the lead actress on a soap, I’d fight tooth and nail for every second of screen time. Read BOTH OF ME by Mary Stuart, who battled P&G for 35 effin years to stay on the show SHE STARTED AND STARRED IN. It’s exhausting. More power to the Zimmers in the soap world, the male-dominated soap world. Zimmer wouldn’t have taken any of that DAYS crap, either. We’d have heard about Albert YEARS ago. #teamzimmer

Martha was replaceable though. She knew it. She’d been successfully replaced before. For all the crap that Heather Rattray sometimes gets now, 30 years later, we LOVED HER at the time and so did the soap press. Noelle Beck was a great recast also. Martha took the pay cut because she felt threatened. And she should’ve complied the next go-round because look what happened. I wasn’t tuning in for Lilden Part 27 anyway. Zimmer, as Reva, was irreplaceable. Yes, she left once and the show was still fantastic, but she, as Reva, cannot be replaced. (And in hindsight, so was Laura Wright as Cassie.)

Well, you could say the same of the GL sets I mentioned. They were reused for other characters pretty randomly. At least the Stewart set stayed in the family, since Susan’s daughters were biological Stewarts.

Too bad that Zaslow wasn’t the Tony recast. He’d have been on OLTL FOR YEARS!

ATWT had the Stewart living room with the mantle, which existed from the 60’s until almost the show’s end. It was inexplicably Susan’s house after former MIL Ellen moved away.

Charles Bateman was very good. Jed Allan really had that chemistry with Judith McConnell though! I still think Lloyd Bochner would’ve rocked it tho.

I’m friends with Eden Atwood (Staige Prince) and sometimes we chat about her time on LOVING. I can’t repeat ALOT of our conversations, but she did she that she QUIT (was not let go) after 8 months, and that she was later asked to return (which she never knew about because her agents did not inform at the time, as they felt it wasn’t best for her). It seems the show wanted to revisit the character. As she went on to be an acclaimed yet overlooked (compared to say, Diana Krall later) jazz singer, I asked her if she ever sang on the show, as I couldn’t remember. She said she vaguely remembers singing a standard (AS TIME GOES BY, maybe) at a Halloween or Masquerade Ball wearing a BIG hat! Can anyone confirm that? Sounds like a hoot

This is totally new info for me. The Dobsons were very vocal at the time that Linda was merely a placeholder for Robin as Gina until Robin was available. I have always thought/felt that Linda was fired. Now maybe she put a spin on it years later…idk. Thanks for the info. It’s all in the way you remember it. I was probably upset that MM was let go too.

I remember MM one day, GG the next. But I don’t recall GG being off for a month after her first appearance. I recall her appearing a lot to cement the recast. I was a HUGE MM fan and I really wanted her to work on SB and later on DALLAS, where she should’ve permanently replaced Victoria Principal as Pam. GG’s weaker, more desperate, later addict Santana was not my favorite. Hated Wanda DeJesus also. However, firing the incredible Linda Gibbonney as Gina for “name” Robin Mattson (even though Robin was superb) was my least favorite recast.