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8 hours ago, will81 said:

All three had the same names. Ruth, Wanda and Julie. Leslie mistaking the orderly for Brad same as Ashley mistaking the orderly for Victor and both being attacked. Pretty much the whole story was repeated. I knew Bell used similar elements in other stories, but this was by far the most blatant.

Also who else thinks the nurse looks similar to K.T Stevens? The woman could have played Vanessa's younger sister for sure

 I wonder if Bell meant for viewers to think it was the same 3 women after all those years, but the actresses were recast ?  I remember my Mom saying she thought those were the same ones in there with Leslie during Ashley's time in there. 

That one woman telling Leslie she was pretty and kissing her was surprising for 1974 daytime TV.  I would love to see this entire storyline play out. How long was Leslie in there ? Did the creepy orderly get caught with his pants down so to speak ? How long did Leslie go without food before they figured out she was starving ? I know someone posted the Lorie paid Leslie a visit and rubbed it in her face about being mentally sick and no one would believe her about Lorie's role in the mental breakdown. Leslie screamed Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch !!!!!! before the commercial break so the censors wouldn't catch it. 

I remember when Ashley was there she had to get the nurse to stay in there at one point as she wolfed her food down.

53 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Bill Bell also reused Peggy's relationship with her college professor storyline for Traci. Chris Brooks's storylines were reused for B&B's Caroline.

 

1987 Ashley's psychiatric hospital also had an aggressive Black patient.

All the patients with Ashley were direct  copies of the same ones with Leslie. Even the names of Ruth and her stealing food. When Ashley was first shown with them, My Mom said out loud " Those look like the same ones that were in there with Leslie"

I think the actor playing the orderly is Richard Gates. He had as role on Santa Barbara and appeared in classic shows like Partridge Family, My Three Sons Chips etc...He was also in the classic comedy film The Kentucky Fried Movie in the last segment where the news crew watches him and his girlfriend make love through the TV.

Picture from Santa Barbara as Sean Morrisey

Who's playing the orderly in the 1974 scenes ? He looks familiar. 

Rarely did Family reference prior stories. They did mention Willie's short lived wife played by Brooke Adams after her death. David Jacobs (Dallas & Knots) wrote those episodes. Doug's affair from decades earlier was brought up on occasion. The woman he cheated with played by Pat Crowley shows up and Kate fears he may cheat again. Linda Lavin guest stars in another episode as woman who set her sights on Doug and Doug flirts with her a bit. The Lawrence marriage was often tested through out the series. Another plot device is the death of the 4th Lawrence child Timmy who drowned 3 or 4 years prior.

I really liked Priscilla Morrill as Kate's friend and neighbor Elaine Hogan. Later Morrill was under contract to other series and the role was recast with Louise Latham. It wasn't really the same without Morrill in the role. 

The Lawrence children could be self centered at times, especially Nancy. Kate had her number and would call her out. Willie was a slacker and loafer with little ambition. Buddy would brood and act out if she felt her world was being turned upside down in any way no matter how minor.

I noticed most of the Family episodes are being uploaded by several people on youtube. All you have to do is search and type in Family Kristy McNichol. 

This show was pretty ground breaking in the 70's by doing taboo subjects as homosexuality, abortion, child abuse etc...

5 hours ago, KateW said:

 

 

Lindsay Wagner's mother Marilyn Ball and Linda Gray's ex-husband/childrens' father Ed Thrasher were siblings. Linda and Ed divorced in 1983 and Ed passed away in 2006. Lindsay is first cousin to Linda's children. 

Thanks .

47 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:

Thanks to Jason47, his exact dates for DAYS are known to be 8/5/82-7/21/83.

Thanks for the info. I wonder if his SFT role lasted into early 1982 ?

When did Shawn Stevens role end on Search end ? When did he start on Days ? I read somewhere he was going to be cast in a recurring role on Facts Of Life around this 1981/82 time period, but he just did one guest shot. 

Stevens walked away from show business in the mid 80's. According to IMDB he resumed his on camera career in 2015 and has about 30 credits listed 2015-present.

That slam about the child actress playing Nola's daughter is sad and hilarious at the same time. It reminds me of how people to this day still make fun of child actor Eric Farlow who played Christopher Ewing on Dallas. They still get on youtube to shred him and refer to him as "Ugly Baby Christopher".

Growing up I watched CBS soaps. I thought ABC soaps were silly and contrived. I remember a friend making fun of Susan Lucci and saying they refused to watch her. Days also looked stupid to me in the 90's, especially when they were getting all this love and fanfare with Marlena's devil possession etc...The soap media thought Days could do no wrong then. Looking at episodes of the 60's and 70's, I can understand what a great show it was, especially under Bill Bell. 

1980: The Mike Douglas Show. Linda Gray co-hosts and invites her special guest: Niece Lindsay Wagner. 

On 2/20/2021 at 10:28 PM, FrenchBug82 said:

Yes. I have to amend my initial post as I had forgotten about it but Constance Ford  is absolutely someone who was visibly and conspicuously reading cue cards.

Check this scene: 

The acting is good but boy is she obviously constantly looking to the side at cue cards.

Yes, she is constantly looking off set to read cue cards. In that Carol Roux interview, she said Audra Lindley was using the teleprompter during scenes. A lot of actors in later years seemed to start phoning it in. 

David Hasselhoff admitted to using cue cards during his Y&R stint. 

I don't know what is about Joe Gallison, but he looks so different to me during his time on AW than when he appeared on Days. He was aged 29-35 on AW and 39-56 on Days. He seemed to look younger in later life. Almost like a different person. 

2 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Love those audio clips of her flipping out on Susan

Yes. She was screaming her lungs out and shut Missy down when she tried to be the peace maker. There is also some great audio when Bill is tearing into Liz about her mistreatment of Missy.

When I see those 60's articles for AW, it makes me wish someone would unearth some more footage from that era. We have some bits of audio and that 1968 wedding, but that's about it. There has to be something sitting in a warehouse, attic, basement, private collection out there. I would really flip if it's color footage. 

Listening to those audio bits, boy Liz (as played by Audra Lindley) was a psycho. She gave everyone a hard time, especially Bill and Missy.

Rachel (Robin Strasser) as we know was a piece of work and her scheming to keep Steve from Alice apart drove the show to the top of the ratings. 

I'm grateful to hear those audio clips, but I can tell the original recorder was mainly trying to get the music cues, which explains the choppy edits of scenes. 

20 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

That is a rare promo from the mini series. Thanks for finding that.

10 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

Carol Roux has always been a performer whose work I would love to see more of. Onscreen and off, she has always been such an enigma.

There have been stories and rumors over the years on the net that she was difficult behind the scenes, but I don't know if that is true or not. There is very little of her work that survives. I saw the 1968 episodes of the wedding of Walter & Lenore with her and Joe Gallison (Bill). 

I read that when she went on Somerset in 1970 they wanted Joe Gallison to join the cast with her, but he could not get out of contract with OLTL, so they killed Bill off. I wish some of her time on AW and Somerset would surface. 

Thanks for the Carl Roux interview. I heard it back when it was originally uploaded on WOST. Carol seems so shy and reserved and a bit out of it. It was interesting that she mentioned Bill Bell was so nice to her and wanting her to work for him again. It sounds like he wanted to use her on Y&R in the 80's. She said she could not bring herself to act anymore. 

On 2/1/2021 at 5:34 PM, jam6242 said:

I think Carol had a "type" back then.  She was once involved with Rick Coonce, who was the drummer for The Grass Roots (if you know who they are, lol).

LOL @ The Grass Roots. I do know who they are even though they were a bit before my time. Carol came across as a true 60's hippie chick in those old articles. I remember that early 2000's interview she to with WOST and seemed a bit....out of it and a recluse. She said looking back she did not realize how good looking Joe Gallison was and was kicking herself for it.

I don't think she did any more acting after Somerset in 1970. There was that video of on youtube where it is supposedly her playing a nun, but some say it's not her. 

28 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

The infamous phone call luring Nina/Ryan/Victoria/Cole to the Colonnade Room.  I even remember someone from the show being asked about that in soap mags and basically saying that’s not the story, just ignore this mystery element and focus on the quad.

Yes. There was a woman's voice on the phone and tried to figure out who it might be. Then nothing came of it. 

Another Y&R story is when Lorie showed up Victor & Nikki's wedding in 1984 and wanted get together with Ashley on a project or something......it was dropped. 

On Dallas they implied that Wes Parmalee was really Jock Ewing then they dropped it as a hoax. Also after Pam's car crash, Katherine shows up in Pam's room, Pam disappears and Katherine is never seen or referred to again.

Y&R.....Wasn't there some sort of storyline with Jonas and Lucas saving orphans in South America that was dropped ? There was also the unexplained conclusion of Liz Foster's marriage to Stuart Brooks.

Thanks for the recaps. I would love to see the footage from these all these shows. We got see the Y&R episode where Liz Foster pulls the plug on Bill and Snapper finding out.

GL: Justin Marler seemed to be a bit of a shady character circa 1976, but by the 1977 &  1979 episodes we saw uploaded, he was a good guy. I remember Cindy Pickett said her character Jackie Marler was originally written as a " Rich Bit*h", but the Dobson's softened her by the time Phillip and The Spaulding's arrived in 1977.  Unfortunately most of 70's GL has been wiped. 

Lenore Kasdorf (Rita) co-stars with Victoria Principal (Pamela Ewing DALLAS) in a 1973 episode of Love American Style.