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Daniel Goddard is filling out an application to host as we speak!

I’m 99% positive Gus was Selena’s other long-list kid with Miguel Santos, to set up rivals Gus and Danny as half-brothers. The rewrite with scaredy-cat Selena leaving town with her tail tucked between her legs after a few threats from Maria Santos was out of character. And then Selena admitted she’d known the whereabouts of Miguel Jr all along. Gus as a Spaulding did nothing for me. The day player nun for a mother did nothing for me. And isn’t it urban legend that Rita left Springfield pregnant? Wishful thinking? I don’t recall her sleeping with Alan that close to her departure. A pregnancy would’ve been a rewrite also.

If he doesn’t ask about Courtney and Millee’s screen tests for SEARCH...

Hey, at least he moved his “set” to his basement! Now if he could just stop mentioning OZARK...

Soap ingenues in the 60’s seemed to last a year. It would be difficult to research each actress, but I’m theorizing that Pat Harty, Gretchen Walter, Melissa Murphy, etc., left to pursue work elsewhere. I’d like to know why Abigail Kellogg left after three years, but probably for the same reason (and she’d been on TGL prior). I always assume that NYC actors enjoyed their theatre work as well. Perhaps Leigh had no outside interests and was simply willing to go the distance She was even let go and rehired once, so I’m guessing she enjoyed the show, or at least the relative job security.

I’m aware, but 3 weeks suggests that Kellogg was out sick or perhaps performing in theatre out of town. Most sources have her in the role until 1964. Perhaps she was hard to replace?

That video is all the more entertaining for being an ATWT/OLTL/AW mashup!

Maybe she was a temp? Wasn’t Abigail Kellogg in as Patti until 1964?

How dare that materialistic bitch Bert want her own HOUSE? Ross and Blake were raising three kids in a hotel room at The Beacon, for God’s sake. Now that’s called losing your set but MAKING IT WORK.

Papa’s living with Meta and Bruce in 1960. In 1966, when they move to NYC, they talk about taking him with them but Bert says she wants him to stay with her and Bill. I agree with you—the set just changed. But God, that 1972 house is so awful and fake.

I gotta disagree. The set used for Bert’s house in this clip and the Papa funeral episode in no way resemble Bert’s of the late 70’s. Just wondering if she moved onscreen or she just suddenly had a new house. I know. It happens. Company changed interiors all the time. Did Papa have a house? I’ve only seen him living with Meta until 1966, then Bert. I’m sure the Bauer house was the same in LA and Springfield because they just started calling the location Springfield. I don’t believe any of the revisionist history that the entire cast moved to the Midwest. Retcons happen. They “always” lived in Springfield. Kinda like when the Spauldings had “always” lived in Springfield, in the family mansion. Please. I saw Alan and Elizabeth move to town and BUY that house.

Exactly. Eileen had that clause in the 70’s because Tom was aged so rapidly and married off to Carol, then Natalie. Eileen had seen what becoming a grandmother onscreen did to Pat Bruder’s Ellen (and it killed off Barbara Berger’s GREAT-grandmother Claire). He’s somewhat uninformed and disrespectful about anything that happened prior to 1997, it seems. So I won’t hold out hope for the Kathryn Hays/Marie Masters/Patricia Bruder episode that I NEED.

Funny to hear Paul talk about Danny originally being a “Santo” and being Italian...until Saundra Santiago was cast. LOL And later George Alvarez. I guess he forgot Jaime Passer, Tony #1. But Mick Santo, never Santos, was played by Juan Hernandez. So...I guess the ethnicity was ambiguous until Carmen made it official. Any idea when Bert moved to her late 70’s house, the location of many of Xmas episode? The placement of the “front door” here is rather ridiculous.

Funny to hear Paul talk about Danny originally being a “Santo” and being Italian...until Saundra Santiago was cast. LOL And later George Alvarez. I guess he forgot Jaime Passer, Tony #1. But Mick Santo, never Santos, was played by Juan Hernandez. So...I guess the ethnicity was ambiguous until Carmen made it official.

Hillary mentions that Mercedes Ruehl and Dana Delaney auditioned for Margo against her. Dana had only been off the show (as Hayley) for a few years. Interesting. Alan really didn’t know the child Lyla gave birth to? KATIE. Or that Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houston sang Tom and Margo’s song? **sigh** Do some research, guy. You don’t know the shows as well as WE do and you worked there.

Craig was Gary and Laine’s 10 year old son. He was visiting his aunt Sunny.

The panties of most of the female characters were stolen and later found under Stu’s mattress. But surprise! He’d been replaced by his evil twin brother, Dru Bergman! Dru eventually kidnapped Jo, held her at gunpoint for a week, and was then overpowered by Hogan’n’Patty, who saved Jo. Mary Stuart temporarily left the show to play a recast Tina on OLTL. Erika Slezak caught her attempting a Jacqueline Courtney-type power play and got Mary’s butt kicked outta there.

Anytime you wonder why SFT was cancelled, just remember this. Riveting.

Rob is the reason Beth went off the rails, honey. She left her husband and he said he’d leave his wife. He didn’t. But then he did for Mandy. Sign me up for the Beth/Rob reunion, also featuring Vincent and Kimberly.

Wow. Abigail Kellogg is fabulous here. And how much fun it is to see a daughter-in-law be less than reverent with Bert. Would we see that again until Rita? I don’t recall Bert’s relationship with early Holly, but she loved Holly post-prison. I wonder why there was so much turnover in the 60’s in these young female roles on all the soaps. You’d think Kellogg would’ve stuck around; she’s killing it here. But she leaves to go to SFT at Patti, another role, like Robin, with lots of recasts. Why? Pay raise? “Better” show? Wanted to play a more sympathetic character? Did every young actress give it a year or so and then attempt Hollywood, or just jump ship to another NYC-based show? (Still want to someone to ask Jada Rowland why she was briefly Susan on ATWT—needed a job and SECRET STORM wouldn’t bring Amy back at the time?)

I have to say, GL bringing back Meta was a great idea...(believe it or not it was McTavish who started it) and while she disappeared from the screen often (some due to Stuarts illness some not) when she was on she was a spot on tough but loving town matriarch. She had a short scene with Abuela Santos once where she firmly blew her off and put her in her place...(we needed more of evil matriarch vs. good matriarch...) Mary Stuart was quite good as the feistier Meta. Both her onscreen confrontations/rivalries with Maria Santos and Claire Ramsey were well-rooted in family loyalty. Meta could’ve mopped the floor with Jo. I line to imagine that Vanessa would be that kind of matriarch today. Back to ATWT though...I felt that we were fortunate to have several ladies in that age range as the show ended, even if Emma and Lisa were underused. And they were all distinct and different types of matriarchs. Often wondered if Nancy’s fondness for Katie and Alison had anything to do with Susan. Perhaps Susan herself had been a handful too?

I found a 2019 picture of Victoria Wyndham on Facebook. Apparently, she is good friends with a Waffle House waitress and to hell with Felicia!

From BOTH OF ME: ”In April, the Bergmans’ daughter, Janet, returned from her long sojourn in Chicago, but she had changed. She was no longer tall and blonde, she was tall and brunette, and the part was being played by Millee Taggart Janet was still married to Dr. Walton, but he had changed too. He looked remarkably like a young sailor appearing on Broadway in ON THE TOWN, named Ron Husmann. Along the way, their little boy, Chuck, had been forgotten or lost all together, but then the Bergmans never did have much luck with small boys. Janet did have two children who manage to survive all the moves. Their names were Liza and Gary, and they arrived safely in Henderson, played by Kathy Beller and Tommy Norden.” Dan Walton was dying of leukemia. Millee was pregnant in real life, and that pregnancy became Danny Walton. Chuck was Janet’s son with Bud Gardner, and he was indeed forgotten, just as Stu and Marge’s son Jimmy had been forgotten for years until he became their nephew.

I’m so sorry to hear this but I suspected she was not well. Liza was almost Marie Green.

Remember when she was almost cast as Marie Green, a short-term role, on GL? Tonja Walker did it instead. Oh, what could’ve been!