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Found this new 2 part interview with Steve Kanaly. He is honest about is time on Dallas and the crappy way he was let go from the show. I noticed anytime a cast member is asked about Victoria they kind of dance around the subject with an evasive answer and they quickly move on......was she difficult or just aloof in her own bubble ?

4 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Well she did have sex with Ray, so her taste in men is questionable...

Steve Kanaly looked like he could be a brother to Tony Dow. Surprisingly I found photos of them together in Google images at events and hanging out in the 80's.

21 hours ago, te. said:

I'll never stop laughing at Lucy talking about how hot Cliff was.

 

He always looked like a rat (which was perfectly in character).

I never stop laughing at Lucy wearing 6 or 7 inch heels trying to appear taller. 

1 hour ago, Chris 2 said:

It’s always so shocking to see what Cliff was like before he became a buffoon. Or Jenna when she was played by someone who could act.

Pam does look at her best here. And that scene with Ellie and Pam is a winner.

That is a great scene Later when Miss Ellie is concerned about Jock's friendship with Julie Gray, Pam repeats her words back to her about fighting for Jock. 

LOL at someone who can act. Presley was awful and dull in the role of Jenna. I wish Fairchild had been brought back to battle with Principal in meaty scenes.

Cliff really did come apart as the show went on. Ken aged very quickly and came across as more eccentric as time went on.

3 hours ago, Chris 2 said:

I don’t think Victoria had any noticeable work done until the middle of the dream season. This was the season where she missed an episode or two because of “back issues” and then came back looking different.

Her different look after the initial bunch of episodes was due to heavier makeup and fussier hairstyles. She was such a beauty - she didn’t need those. I agree that she looked her best in the first season, with the longer dark hair and lighter makeup.

She really was beautiful till she started with the surgery and bad hairstyles. I loved the way she looked circa 1978-79 with the long flowing hair. The episode where she comes riding up to Bobby on horseback when he pulls into the driveway when they argue about Jenna (Morgan Fairchild) she was stunning.  Poor Ken Kercheval (Cliff) really aged quickly too during his run.

1 hour ago, kalbir said:

Victoria Principal denies having anything done, but we all know her second husband was a plastic surgeon so she had access to the best surgery and skincare.

Her face started to change around 1982 along with various awful hairstyles/dye jobs. Her hair looked best in season 1 and 2 before the shag. I guess that was supposed to be courtesy of Jhirmack. I just bet she really used those products  

Victoria looked entirely different by the end of her run. She was stunning in 1978, but looked horrible by the time of J.R. & Sue Ellen's second wedding in 1982. 

In one of the later seasons they did that episode where Bobby and J.R. get trapped in an elevator and start drinking and talking about the past. There is a flashback to 1978 when Bobby started at Ewing oil after marrying Pam....in only about 10 years you can really tell Patrick and Larry had rapidly aged quite a bit. Patrick was already going gray (some episodes looks like was trying to cover it up before giving in) by that point and was only about 40 when that episode aired. J.R. looked like he should be several years into retirement. 

4 hours ago, Khan said:

Looking at his house, you suddenly understand why KNOTS went pastels crazy in the late '80's, lol.

6 hours ago, te. said:

Yup. Unfortunately, you get the feeling she spends hours each day studying her face for new lines and misses the full picture. As you said, she has filler all over her face but for some reason won't go for the lips - I assume it's the lines in the face that annoys her. Add that she's unhealthily thin for her age...

Exactly - either you'd need to largely keep it the way it is or you'd just need to do such an overhaul that it's not worth keeping the structure up.

I noticed in some of the youtube podcast interviews that Joan usually wears a lot of stuff that covers the back of her hands and neck. It's been a while since Ted has appeared in public.....is he OK ?

David Jacobs house is not of my personal taste. It's very 80's modern/art deco. I prefer traditional style homes. On KL Gary and Val's house was a type of a California take on a colonial. I guess you could call it a California Colonial. I liked their house and Richard & Laura's house and Gary's ranch. I liked Southfork and Pam's homes on Dallas. The Lawrence home on Family and the Bradford home on Eight Is Enough were nice too. 

I think David Wayne was replaced because he had signed on to do the short lived series " House Calls" At the time he was appearing as Digger on Dallas, he also appeared on Eight Is Enough (another Lorimar series) as the absentee father of Tom Bradford( Dick Van Patten). The 2 part episode was filmed on location in Hawaii. 

When they did the EIE Hawaii episodes in 1979, Lorimar should have had episodes where the Ewings visit Hawaii. Maybe the Honeymoon that Bobby and Pam never had etc... 

Rare found full episode of " The Wizard Of Odds" from 1974. It was the first American game show to be hosted by Alex Trebek. He moved from Canada to the states to host and became a U.S. citizen. The theme song was written and sung by Alan Thicke.

There has to be some late 60's and 70's Secret Storm episodes out there from Marla's run as Belle. Rick at Obsolete Video services on youtube has a ton of tapes he has received from collectors that he has not transferred yet. He has posted snippets of closing credits of early 70's Secret Storm. I say he is sitting on some soap gold. 

I'm curious to see scenes of the character Tony Geary played after having read about it. I imagine him camping it up like everything else he has played. He appeared on All In The Family and The Partridge Family around the time he was on Bright Promise.

John Considine mentioned in an interview that he smoked some pot and unexpectedly was called in to do a scene at the last minute. He said he got a sexual phrase stuck in his brain while trying to do his lines and he wanted blurt it out. I would l love to see how that train wreck scene turned out....LOL

Here is a news segment on Y&R & GH in 1980. Meg Bennett is interviewed along with Nick Benedict. Benedict passed away last year. 

So sad to hear this. I remember her as Julia on Y&R. I wonder if the show will pay tribute or write her death into the show ? Maybe Victor would hear of Julia's death and comes to pay his respects (with flashbacks). Julia's daughter Jamie and Victor would connect. Meg hinted in an interview what if Jamie was actually Victor's daughter ?

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Very cool @SoapDope! Has CZ seen this recently? I am not on Twitter but would love to find out what her reaction is to this ad.

It appears the youtuber uploaded it only about a month ago. Someone on Twitter should tell her about it. I saw the thumbnail and said " Hey that's Colleen Zenk aka Barbara".....LOL

Colleen Zenk for Johnson & Johnson circa 1977.

Caryn Richman reunites with her Texas co-star Dana Kimmell on the 80's series The New Gidget. 

14 hours ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

It was temporary.  But Peg Murray was the perfect replacement for Connie Ford.   Murray had earlier played a very similar working-class woman on Love of Live.  

I remember Peg Murray from a short lived 80's sitcom " Me. & Mrs. C."

2 hours ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

I also found Aunt Liz a likable character (actually lovable at times).  And Irene Dailey was an amazing AMAZING actress.  Dailey was perfectly cast as Liz.  But it was the writing that disappointed me at times.  Most of Lemay's writing for Liz was extremely good.  He helped the audience to understand the reasons for Liz's meddling behaviors -- loneliness, abandonment, lack of love. She had been in a loveless marriage, and both her children left town to get away from her (among other reasons).  And her favorite child, Bill, had been killed.  However, I did not like Lemay's choice to make Liz a switchboard operator -- I thought that was the stereotype.   But most of the post-Lemay writers didn't understand Liz at all, and wrote dreary semi-comedic stuff for her.  Donna Swajeski even had Liz telling the audience how loving her relationship to husband Will was (Valentine To Singles, 1989)!!!  And long-term viewers just rolled our eyes, because we all knew that was a rewrite of history.  I did love the character, and I loved Irene Dailey.   

When Alice left Bay City in 1979, it is assumed she sold the house, because she didn't move back into it when she cam back to town in 1981.  I believe the house was mentioned only one time after 1979 -- when around 1982, David Canary's Steve Frame told someone (probably Quinn) he was trying to buy it back for Alice, but the new owners were not interested in selling.   He even held up a photo or illustration of the exterior of the house in this same scene.  

Thanks for the info. It would have been nice if the house had been kept around for the duration of the series with some updates. 

I remember in that Carol Roux audio interview from the 2000's she mentions how big the AW sets were in the 60's. 

What happened to the house that Steve built for Alice after the 70's ?

Linda Gray with Jodie Foster circa 1980.

5 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I'll even endure Alan Locher to see this!!!

 I wonder what juicy stories they will divulge about Sada and Meredith ? Maybe they will also tell why Elayne Heilveil was canned.