Jagger1966

I watched King's Crossing and have been trying in vain for decades to see the episodes again (as well as its predecessor Secrets Of Midland Heights) but have had no luck. Can't even find the opening credits anywhere. The only thing I've ever found are these few promos online. Edit: I stand corrected. Someone posted the opening credits on youtube!

I don't know what the reasoning was behind their exits. With Jennifer Ashe and Ann Williams I guess once the story with Garth was over the show decided to move away from that particular topic. With Patricia Kalember it always seemed like they didn't know what to do with her. As for Shannon Eubanks who knows. They also recast John Shearin's Roger Forbes with Peter Brown. But there always seemed to be a lot of behind the scenes turmoil and abrupt cast changes during the entire run of the show anyway. BTW, I loved Pamela Blair's portrayal of Rita Mae. I wish she had been on the show longer. She was great.

I remember Soap Opera Digest doing a review of Loving a year or two into its run and in it they said it was unfortunate that the show chose to dismiss talent like Jennifer Ashe, Shannon Eubanks, Patricia Kalember and Ann Williams. I felt the same way (although I did like Callan White in the roll of Ann). All four of them were terrific in their roles.

I do remember watching it. It was just a summer series. I can't remember a single storyline from it but I do remember I didn't care for it at all which is surprising because being a Gloria Monty show you would think it would have been great since she had done her magic on GH. But my limited recollection of it is that it was a snoozefest.

I bought The Yellow Rose on DVD a few years ago. I loved the way it started with the Champions vs. Jeb Hollister. Then two thirds of the way through the season it switches formats to the self contained format and I was bored silly. What a waste of a great cast.

Network execs never learned their lesson about youth oriented shows on Saturday nights. In 1980 CBS put Secrets Of Midland Heights on Saturdays at 10 pm where it quickly died. So a year later when the producers took some of the actors and put them in a new setting as new characters in King's Crossing ABC did the same idiotic thing and put the show on Saturday nights at 8 pm where it died just as quickly as its predecessor.

I don't know. It sure does look like him though!

I remember seeing Last Summer when I was about 14. It was pretty shocking to my teen-age self. I always wondered why Catherine Burns never had a huge acting career. I also didn't know that she had passed away. RIP.

Deborah Shelton did a lot of those radio ads in the 80's. I remember her doing them for at least two radio stations in my area (the Flint-Detroit area) long before Dallas and even before her role on The Yellow Rose.

I remember watching that Dana Delany interview! It was on Later with Bob Costas and she was talking about the acting on soaps and taking shortcuts with the acting or something like that. And later I remember Jeanne Cooper saying in TV Guide that she was so angry she wanted to reach through the TV and grab her by the throat! That Jeanne Cooper, she did not suffer fools gladly!

I remember seeing Marty West on a show called Dog Eat Dog in the early 2000's. Contestants had to do these really tough physical challenges and Marty did all of these challenges and ended up winning the game and $25,000.

I remember watching Behind The Screen when I was a teenager. Debbi Morgan was in it and I believe Michael Sabatino was as well.

That whole Becky Lee return was weird. The sweet Becky Lee we remembered was replaced by a money hungry schemer. I remember it was very unpopular with both viewers and critics and Mary Gordon Murray, who had signed a contract, was let go I believe after her first 13 week cycle. And I don't think anyone was sorry to see that version of the character go.

I believe the man in question is Christopher Durham who played Michael Jonas on OLTL for a brief time.. He had previously been on Capitol and Ryan's Hope.

Ryan's Hope had a LOT of recasts during its 13.5 year run. Mary Ryan Fenelli-Kate Mulgrew was beloved in the role. Her first replacement Mary Carney was a good actress but being a theater actress she tended to shout her lines. Then came Kathleen Tolan who I thought was just awful in the role. The final Mary was the late Nicolette Goulet who I really liked but unfortunately no one could ever really replace Kate Mulgrew so the character was distpatched. Frank Ryan-Michael Hawkins was the first Frank and I thought he was one of the worst actors I'd ever seen. Frank #2 Andrew Robinson was slightly better but I think #3 Daniel Hugh-Kelly really brought that character to life. Two more Franks followed him, Geoffrey Pierson, a very good actor who has had a nice career and finally John Sanderford who I also really liked in the role. Siobhan Ryan -Original Siobhan Sarah Felder was a breath of fresh air. Don't know why she left but Siobhan #2 Ann Gillespie was decent. Everyone remembers that Marg Helgenberger was Siobhan #3. She was there for 4 years and really made the role her own. The final 2 actresses in the role, Carell Myers and Barbara Blackburn were ok actresses but they never felt like Siobhan to me. Patrick Ryan-No one could ever match Malcome Groome's Patrick. Of his 3 successors, John Blazo, Robert Finoccoli and Patrick James Clarke, Blazo is the only one I even remember. I didn't think he was too bad but he did not win over viewers. Faith Coleridge-I liked all the Faiths. Faith Catlin, Nancy Barrett, Catherine Hicks and Karen Morris-Gowdy. Most people seem to prefer Hicks, but Karen Morris-Gowdy was my choice for best Faith. Delia Reid Ryan Ryan Coleridge Crane Coleridge-This was Ilene Kristen's role to be sure. Her first successor Robyn Millan was awful and thankfully short-lived. Delia #3 Randall Edwards did a great job in the role and even got an emmy nomination. She left in 1982 and Kristen returned only to leave again in '83. In 1984 the wonderful Robin Mattson was cast but the general consensus, which I agree with, is that she was mis-cast in the part. Luckily Ilene Kristen returned in 1986 and stayed until the end. There were also numerous re-casts of Joe Novak and Nancy Feldman as well as Little John Ryan and Ryan Fenelli although once the characters were aged to near adulthood Jason Adams and Yasmine Bleeth played the roles until the end of the series.

It was interesting to read about Saundra Santiago's two roles as Elena and Isabella. She actually had three as she was a re-cast as Carlotta toward the end of the show's run. She might have had four roles on the show as I do recall that she was originally cast as police officer Maggie Vega in 1992, but something happened and the role was re-cast with Yvette Lawrence before Santiago had started. (I'm not sure if she had ever filmed an episode as Maggie).

I believe the set is Viki's carriage house. That's where Viki was living until she kicked Dorian out of Llanfair.

That would've been a great story and it would have been long-term. But this was 1992 and network execs were still skittish about a story like that with a core character so whenever a gay character was introduced it was always an outside character who had no ties to the canvas-easy to write off. It's too bad, I think Malone would have written a great story.

I remember watching The Secrets Of Lake Success. I don't remember much about the story, but I remember that I didn't think it was very good. As for Billy's appearances, he was still around after the quilt episodes. He met Rick on Christmas Eve and a few weeks later there was an episode where Billy and Rick had lunch with Billy's parents. Billy's dad was still having trouble with Billy's homosexuality but after a chat with Sloan he kinda sorta came around a little bit. That was about it for the Douglas family and Rick.

I didn't know Harriet Hall had died. I remember her brief time as Brooke. I thought she was pretty and an ok actress but she was no Julia Barr for sure.

What was done to Becky Lee was a travesty. One of the show's good, kindhearted heroines of the 80's was turned into a money hungry hick. I think Mary Gordon Murray was put on contract when she was brought back but I think the show got so much negative feedback that she was written off at the end of her first contract cycle.

I wonder whatever became of Mark Brettschnieder who played Jason. He did an Afterschool Special and had a small role in That Thing You Do. That was his last acting credit.

I do remember Billy meeting Rick and the lunch they had with Billy's parents. Chris' Joey never would have worked with Dorian, he was and looked so young. I really liked seeing Joey, Billy and Alana in story together. I think the three of them worked really well together and I loved their scenes in the episodes with the AIDS quilt.

Once the homophobia storyline ended the show seemed to be done with the kids. Alana was gone, Billy barely got any screen time for the next six months and then left and I can't even remember what the show did with Chris McKenna's Joey until he left.

I vaguely remember Alana still being around for the 1992 Halloween episode but I don't recall seeing her again after that. I think she started around spring of '92 so I guess she was there for around 6 months or so.