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In the article Carl posted on the Lovers and Friends board, it mentions that Johnny Ryan was almost killed off early in RH's run. Is that true? I've never heard this before. I've always heard it was Frank Ryan that was slated to be killed off.

Wait to you see yesterday's scenes between Karen and Steve where they talk about World War II, Hitler, and the bombing of Berlin. And we learn a very interesting fact about Steve's family.

Yep. Rikki and Brette were there till the end.

I don't recall seeing Campbell on anything after Texas. I recollect her being rather tall with brown hair. Gretchen Randolph wasn't around very long at all…maybe from January through April of 1982 and then she was killed off.

Carl, Thanks for those awesome Texas articles! I caught the snippet about the cancellation rumors being false. I remember Entertainment Tonight announcing around March 1982 that NBC was canceling Texas but then retracting the statement the next day.

For some reason, I keep thinking that Peter Simon and Jennifer Cooke both started on the same day. I vaguely recall two voiceovers in that episode announcing the new actors. I think one of the voiceovers is during a scene at Cedars featuring Keith Charles as Kelly Nelson's father.

There's no date mentioned in the article but it was some time in 1971 since the article talks about the recent cancellation of A World Apart. I lived in the New York metropolis, though not in the city proper. It was in the early 90s when the hospitals in the region started employing security guards. I recall taking my mom to see her sister in the hospital and both of us being surprised when a guard stopped us as we went into the hospital. I think guards become more common following the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Last night, I told my husband all about yesterday's episodes and how incredible they were. From the Lila Anderson story to the goings-on at Karen's apartment, and what a sleaze Steve was back in '68. He was amazed. We dished for a while about how powerful these stories compared to what the soaps are spewing today.

A few things: I was in and out of hospitals around April 1968 as I was having multiple surgeries on my leg and foot. I don't recall there being security guards in the hospitals I had gone to. In fact, my particular hospitals didn't employ security guards until the late 1980s. And I tend to doubt that World of Women was the working title for How to Survive a Marriage. How to... didn't premiere for another three years after that article. The working title for How to... was From this Moment.

Alina Adams continued GL on Twitter for a few years after the show was cancelled. Did anyone read it? It was sanctioned by P&G for about a year. I recollect Rick and Mindy married and then adopted Allie Fowler's son (from the AW continuation). Mindy found out she wasn't a Lewis after all. Toward the end, Roger Thorpe returned very much alive.

There were four -- Jill Lorie Hurst, David Kriezman, Christopher Whitesell, and Lucky Gold. But consensus was that Hurst was in charge.

Our of curiosity, how does the story about Michael Hawkins end? The very end of it mentions his young son getting into acting. Of course, it's referring to actor Christian Slater.

It was probably during the BBQ. Rick and Mindy never actually married before the show went dark. The weddings during the final week were Buzz and Lillian and Vanessa and Billy. Plus Remy and what's her name got hitched again on the final episode.

The cancellation was announced around December 2009, so Goutman and Passanante had 9 months to wrap up ATWT. The cancellation was announced around December 2009, so Goutman and Passanante had 9 months to wrap up ATWT.

I agree. How interesting to see this Steve because he is so radically different from the Steve Aldrich I remember from the late 70s/early 80s. Both episodes were incredibly riveting and thought-provoking, especially the first episode with the scenes between Steve and Karen.

She definitely knew who Bert was. After all, Bert (with Kim Zimmer playing Charita Bauer) was a focus of GL's 70th anniversary episode and Wheeler was executive producer at that point. Plus, I thought Zimmer said in her book that Wheeler wanted to reboot GL back to its early days and call it The New Guiding Light. Zimmer was vague on the details for Wheeler's vision.

I'm still pissed that Bert Bauer didn't even get a mention in the last episode. What a travesty.

Detergent ad? No. And that title card predates Long. It was instituted when Doug Marland was writing and Allen Potter producing GL.

By 1983, she had only been nominated four times so it really wasn't a huge deal that she hadn't won. (Susan Seaforth Hayes had been nominated four times in the 70s and never won.) I don't recall the media paying much attention till the late 80s or early 90s.

No clue. I'm just pointing out when the show actually ended.

According to stuff online, Mama's Family ended in February 1990.

Retro started with episodes that originally aired back in December 1967. Fabiani appeared in episodes around February 1968. He plays the neighbor of hospital worker Liz Wilson who is in a dive hotel. He is very creepy, very menacing, yet strangely attractive in some way. To me, anyway! His character breaks into Liz's hotel room and then proceeds to scare the crap out of her. We were in Provincetown, MA in October when those episodes aired on Retro. It was riveting to watch with poor Liz having to go out on a ledge to try to escape Fabiani's character. I've caught a few episodes on Retro but mostly watch them online.

I think Rita Lakin started working on The Mod Squad in 1968 so it's possible Edelstein was hired as co-head because of her involvement with the other show.

Fabiani was pretty great as Liz Wilson's stalker on "The Doctors." He was menacing and creepy as hell.

I found a couple articles, including one that had other performers listed (Jayne Meadows, Peter Noone). But I just don't recall them appearing on the show.

Yep. In the last few months, KVIK had a game show titled "Texas Tall Tales" starring Stella Stanton.