I Am A Swede

No, Ridge didn't find out until years later, after Taylor's second resurrection. She did write him a letter just after it happened, but Stephanie intercepted that and hid it from Ridge.

"How the West Was Won" was a massive, massive success here, of the kind you don't see now. And it has been re-run on several occasions. It was first a tv-movie with Richard Kiley as James Arness' brother Tim who died and, as you said, Eva Marie Saint as Kiley's wife Kate. Then came a mini-series where for some reason the two sons (played by Bruce Boxleitner and William Kirby Cullen) had changed names from Seth and Jed to Luke and Josh. This was followed by a regular series, without Eva Marie Saint but adding Fionnula Flanagan as her sister Molly Culhane.

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Heather Locklear had an almost 20 year long successful primetime career with "Dynasty", "T.J. Hooker", "Melrose Place" and "Spin City". Her "Melrose Place" co-star Courtney Thorne-Smith also enjoyed a long successful run on primetime with "Ally McBeal", "According to Jim" and "Two and a Half Men" on her resumé.