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John Pleshette and Joan Van Ark together in the Midas ad at 1:44

Did anyone else feel GL ripped off the Kim/Bob/Susan affair story (which was awesome) with the Maureen/Ed/Lillian ? Killing off Maureen was a BIG mistake. Re: Finn Carter......she had the worst hairstyles. At times she would cut most of her hair off and then what was left put it up in a rubber band.

I agree. It was like " We're done with this, now let's move on". They should have taken a lesson from Bill Bell how to milk storylines from something like that for years(or even decades).

Send Me No Flowers (1964): One of my favorite Doris Day films. It's not one of the strongest of the Day/Hudson pairings, but still a delight. I love the house/set design in the film.

Greg Beecroft (Tony) I take it was not pleasant to work with for some. I remember Melanie Smith mentioning that he was one of the few actors she worked with that she did not get along with. He has that cocky persona that bleeds over into his work. He knows that most people find him attractive and he has an ego about it. I agree that Jarod Ross should have been brought back to wrap things up. It was already a let down that Cindy Pickett vacated the role of Jackie before Elizabeth finds out about Phillip. With the re-cast it fell flat for me. It seems that within a few years all of the players in the late 70's drama surrounding Phillip would be gone (Jackie, Justin, Elizabeth, Mike, and eventually Alan till his return in 1986.

Rare episodes surfaces of the short lived 80's revival of Dream House.

I don't know what it is, but I always found Jane Elliott to be a bit intense in everything I have seen her in. Like and underlying rage beneath the surface. What I have read she is pretty much that way in real life. I remember reading a hilarious article with Leigh Taylor Young where she said back in the 60's she was encouraged by a friend to get an agent to start working in TV. She said the friend asked Jane Elliott to come over to help put her in touch with one. Jane came in and she and the friend discussed Leigh and Jane never once spoke to her. She just looked her up and down and said " She won't be any competition, sure I'll give you my agents number and walked out. Leigh said she just sat there in a daze kind of laughing to herself at what happened. A few weeks later she was screen tested for Peyton Place.

I can't remember if they did. Was Barbara still a teen when she and John hooked up in the early 70's ? Of course John was sleazy and it probably didn't matter to him.

Speaking of Barbara...how many actresses played that role before Colleen Zenk started playing her in 1978 ? The character had been around off an on since 1971 or 72. What kind of early storylines did she have ? I think she was involved with Tom even back then.

🤣......I read when Kendall was introduced they tried to play like Erica was still in her early 30's.

They casted Robert Horton as Whit to play off his earlier success as the star of the 50's/60's series Wagon Train. It was a huge bust. He had aged poorly by that time and was not a good fit for a daytime soap. Eileen Fulton had also left the show which also altered things. I read somewhere that Horton and his wife missed California and wanted to move back there to a house they had bought built by George Montgomery (Dinah Shore's ex husband). I wonder if that played into them killing Whit off ? Montgomery (who also acted) was a known master wood craftsman in his private life building antiques reproduction furniture and did a series of Pledge commercials during the 1970's. The Carol Burnett Show did parodies of them with Lyle Waggoner playing him. Speaking of Lyle, maybe he could have played Whit since the character was cheesy anyway.

What about Teri Ann Linn from B&B as Mindy ? Krista Tesreau should have tested for Patty on Y&R.

I never really watched AMC that much, but have in recent years started going back at looking at it. MEK is one of those actors that was always being buzzed about in the soap press back in the day and I thought he may have worked as a stronger Rick. I don't really see Susan in any part.....LOL. Bless her though. She became a household name playing Erica. I remember a woman telling me years ago that she refused to watch one minute of her and said she finally got a " Pity Emmy"

I guess being smarmy would have given Rick something of a personality....LOL I remember someone saying Susan Lucci should be a recast Julia Newman on Y&R....😱

Interesting choice. I wonder what Michael E. Knight would have been like as Rick (especially if he had been cast in the role in 1982) ? l ways liked Nelson when she took over as Phyllis on Y&R, but a lot of the audience wanted Stafford back. I liked Stafford during her first run, then she started hamming it up on her return.

Ouch ! Telling him to dance with himself. What actors do you think could have been a more suitable Rick ?

For Rick to have been a leading man, another actor should have been cast. It also bugged me that O'Leary looked like none of the actors who were cast as Ed who were blonde. Even the child actors that played Rick reflected Ed's looks. I'm speaking soap blasphemy here, but I often wonder if Aleksander should have been Rick instead of Phillip. I never really liked Peter Simon as Ed. After Mart Hulswit was dismissed, they should have tried getting Robert Gentry (who was on AW at that time) back.

I would say that is Darby Hinton. Back then he looked like the Brawny paper towel man. The classic one, not the current bastardized version.

Reckell was born in 1955, so he would be about 25 here. Davidson was born in 1963, so she would be about 17.

Rare full episode of Bowling For Dollars (1974).

I forgot all about her as Hannah Lafferty. ATWT kept her employed off and on for years. LOL @ tired of hearing Lila. I know that got old quickly. I'm surprised they never had Kim singing there on a regular basis. I guess she was too busy with her TV show, worrying about her kids messy lives and making Bob deal with his feelings for Susan.