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Brett Butler............................................................Fran Myers

I love that promo even though the horn is annoying. I wonder why they just listed those 3 soaps as a triple feature and excluded Y&R and Search For Tomorrow ? The only 70's Y&R promos I have seen are: The 1973 debut with the voice over during the opening credits talking about an exciting new soap by William J. Bell the head writer for Days Of Our Lives and the 1979 promo of Nikki killing her father and Casey comforting her. Is it just me, or does GL Peggy Fletcher look like Brett Butler of Grace Under Fire fame ?

Dixie Carter is also appearing on the latest episodes.

Thanks for the info. I thought it sounded like Jada Rowland , but was wrong. I have been watching her on the Doctors reruns on youtube. I always remember David Akyroyd as Gary Ewing # 1 on Dallas in 1978 before Ted Shackelford took over in 1979.

Thanks for the 1973 episode. I know who is playing Amy and Val, but who are the other actors playing the other characters in this episode ? Too bad Belle did not appear in the episode. I love Marla Adams. I saw the 1968 CBS soaps promo clip with her, but would love to see some footage of the Amy/Belle feud.

I think the song "If" by the group Bread was used on Y&R as Brad and Leslie's love song. Bless The Beast and Children by The Carpenters was also used over the years.

I remember seeing that clip of Katherine stabbing Suzanne and at the end there was a quick bit of Casey and Snapper coming in to exam her. LOL at John Conboy. He also used Donna Mills as a "date" for decades.

Adam-12 (season 7)( 1974-1975) Family Ties (season 2) (1983-1984) Sale Of The Century (1983 episodes uploaded by a former contestant winner on youtube)

I think the opening is a bit of a copycat of 70's Y&R.

I remember some posters commenting on a long gone message board that the Dallas books differed a bit from what took place on the series. Someone said it was implied that J.R was Lucy's father since he attacked Valene at one point. I'm not sure since I have never read the books. A lot of those old book series from years ago had multiple writers using pseudonyms. That woman who created that Sweet Valley High series that girls went nuts over back in the 80's was written by various ghost writers and she got all the credit.

Lynn and Janice have a similar look. A lot of people have commented that Janice was wasted on AW and OLTL, so maybe she might have been a better fit on Search. I think Patti and Tom Hughes on ATWT had be the most recast roles of children of legacy characters.

She is also familiar for playing in the series of Grape Nuts ads in the late 80's. I was looking at the clips of Lynn Loring as a young Patti. I wonder if Janice Lynde would have been a good recast for the role in the 80's

Yes, she appeared on the soap Another Life. Her name is Peggy Smithhart

Secret Storm, Edge Of Night and Where The Heart Is credits in this reel.

Thanks for finding that. It seems the show had random writers that submitted storylines and collected a paycheck. I read that Mike Nichols production company produced the series and was given onscreen credit, but he had no personal involvement in it. David Jacobs was considered the new hot shot writer because of Family and was courted to join Lorimar Productions where he submitted Dallas. Bill Blinn who had created Starsky and Hutch left Spelling/Goldberg productions for Lorimar too and directed Eight Is Enough. Writers for Eight also wrote scripts for The Waltons. I remember seeing an interview with Blinn and he said he never would have cast Dick Van Patten as the father, but Fred Silverman at ABC wanted him because he thought he was funny. The actor Blinn wanted for Tom Bradford was a stage actor and when he came to test, he was a mess on camera. Blinn also went on to say he felt bad years later after the kids turned out to be messes, especially Adam Rich who played little Nicholas and said he would never suggest a child be and actor. Interestingly, when Jacobs wrote the script for Dallas in 1977, it was originally titled "The Linda Evans Project". In 1981 Spelling would rip off Dallas with Dynasty and cast Evans in the lead.

It seems like I recall reading that. Aaron Spelling has said he and Leonard Goldberg came up with the idea in his kitchen. I think there was also a lawsuit brought by Robert Wagner who said he and his then wife Natalie Wood were the ones who pitched the idea for Charlie's Angels.

I just happened to run across those. I wish they would release the entire series on DVD. Another writer on Family was David Jacobs who created Dallas in 1978 and Knots Landing in 1979.

I found this page with several season 3 episodes of Family uploaded from the Decades channel. The quality is good. One episode features Dinah Manoff as a crazy friend of Kristy MicNichol. 10 years later they would be playing sisters on Empty Nest. Another episode features Linda Lavin (who also did a film with Kristy around this time in 1978 called Like Mom, Like Me). Linda plays a client in this episode who tried to seduce Doug Lawrence.

Sorry. Y&R will probably be dead in 10 years since CBS is bound and determined to kill the last 2 remaining soaps it has.

I know Dorian Lopinto joins the show at some point and becomes involved with Luke and marries him.

In 1975 they used the blood test match the prove paternity. Today that would not hold water with the advent of DNA. Lorie and Mark may not really be brother and sister. Imagine if they were to bring Lorie back and played it out. She and Mark being separated for over 40 years. In 1982 they also did the blood test match on little Victoria. What if she was really Kevin Bancroft's daughter ?

I ran across Frank Telfer (Luke) page. He has been acting and modeling since 1964. He is now 74 years old.