I Am A Swede

Considering the competition that's not really saying much though, is it? 😏

Are the rats starting to leave the ship?

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Ugh, that was so bad! Smarmy George Hamilton and Linda Evans x2. What made anyone think that was a good idea?

Mr Edwards and Miss Beadle is bad enough, but the thought of Etta Plum(!) and Mr Edwards doing the nasty is.... nasty! 😱

Etta Plum? 🤔 Don't you mean Miss Beadle?

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.