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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 ?

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.

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

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.

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

It would have been nice for Victoria Principal, Susan Howard, and Mary Crosby to of been there. I really love the photo of Fern and Linda together. Is Josh Harris is wearing a rug ? Eric Farlow who played baby Christopher was absent.

I have read Michael Cole was a notorious alcoholic for decades. There was some sort of scandal in the early 70's where he was invited to an awards show in Australia (or was it England) and he was plastered live on the air making a fool out of himself. Yes, Maree Cheatham need to be back on Days and Marie Horton should be a legacy character on the canvas. I don't know if Tommy Horton is supposed to be dead, but John Lupton died in the early 90's and the character of Tommy has been off canvas since 1980. They should bring the character back with a good actor.

I was surprised to see Michael Cole. He didn't have much of a career after his early success of The Mod Squad (1968-1973).

For many years Susan Richardson has had a hard time in her life. Several weeks ago I ran across this recent video. Supposedly this is Susan now.

It's great to see both of them together again. I wonder if they are on good terms with Meredith Baxter or speak to her ?

Here is the ad Courtney did for Hidden Valley Ranch. Didn't she also do ads for frozen entrees like Stauffer's or Lean Cuisine ?

That's interesting. Melody also said they wanted her to play Ben's wife on the Waltons, but signed with Y&R. Melody had also appeared in an episode of Eight Is Enough. All three were Lorimar shows. Terry Lester also appeared in several of the Lorimar shows at this time (Dallas, Eight, etc... David Jacobs said he wanted Stepfanie Kramer as Lucy, but the higher ups decided she should be a nifty blonde. He cast Kramer on his short lived series Marriage The First Year instead. Leigh J. McCloskey (Mitch) and Constance McCashin (Laura) also appeared on that series. At one time there was a huge photo online of the casts of The Waltons, Dallas, Eight Is Enough, and Marriage The First year circa 1979 all gathered together, but it has since vanished.

That Dynasty 69 mash up was well done. I wish they had found or used a clip where Blake could have seen 1960's Krystal for the first time. Linda Evans was stunning back then.