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I think it would have made more sense to of had Dana Delany (Hayley) play the kid sister of Rita McLaughlin (Carol). They looks like they could be real sisters.

Two trailers I assume fan made for season 1 & 2 of Dallas. They did a good job of editing and going for the dramatic effect.

Thanks for the promos. I liked Tom Tammi as Tom in the classic episodes I have seen uploaded. I guess the show decided to go in another direction by replacing him with Justin Deas.

I liked Finn Carter as Sierra and was sad when she was gone. I am surprised she never returned to soaps at some point. Her IMDB page lists her last role in 2005. I think someone posted that Scott Bryce (Craig) still stays in touch with her. Yes she was so whiny. Andy was always seemed so morose in any pairing he was in. I am surprised they didn't try Andy with Lilly back in the 80's.

I never could stand Courtney. I also hated how she wore her hair like her brother Sean (when Burke Moses played the part). I was glad when she was gone.

It seems like I remember Greg Watkins having some sort of accident in the late 90's that kept him from working for a while. Am I remembering right or was that someone else ?

I don't know if this was intended to be a commercial or what. It's listed as Crazy Curtain Lady. It appears to be filmed late 80's to the mid 90's. I almost expect Fran Drescher to appear and yell " Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaa". She really loves curtains.

I watched TBS back then as a kid too, but never watched the Catlins. I wish I had. Cable/Satellite was so ground breaking in those days to offer cable produced soaps and sitcoms. Now days it's just a common thing for networks to produce their own series. I feel the 80's was probably the highlight for soaps and game shows. By the 90's talk shows began to dominate daytime and by the 2000's it was all about reality TV.

LOL....On Y&R the Brooks sisters Leslie & Lorie slept with both Prentiss brothers. Thanks for those memories. I wish we could see all that now, but P&G deleted all of that beautiful material except for the scant few episodes rotting away in the UCLA archives. Lisa was the show in the 60's and 70's.

No, I hadn't heard about the dead woman. Ole Burt has a colorful past. That Dinah relationship was odd. What did she see in him ? I wish someone would release all of her 70's talk show so we could see it. I remember reading her Dinah and her daughter had a strained relationship during those years. Yes, I had read about another McNichol child and wondered why you never saw him with his siblings. The Mom seemed like a train wreck of what I saw. On that Judge Mathis show she was bragging that celebrity men wanted to be with her and said even Warren Beatty wanted her to be his kept woman. I remember reading she controlled her children's finances long after they were of age. She made some bad investments.

What do you recall of the Phantom Fetus storyline and around what time was that done ? I am guessing 1970-72. Eileen said in her interview that the writers made it a ovarian cyst as kind of a quick way to end it, but it was intended continue as something else. She said she got so sick of running around for months saying she is pregnant and doesn't know how it happened. I am also curious of your memories of the Dr.Shea/Lisa/Claire story and his blackmailing Lisa.

I'm guessing maybe early 70's. 1970-1972

I watched that interview several times too and it's great. I laughed at the phantom fetus story and she said a woman from planned parenthood sent her a brochure and said " This is how it happened and now let's get on with it" I also loved the grandma clause story about how she was in the control room during filming of a scene with Barbara Berjer (Claire) and the guys were talking to each other and said " Do you realize she's now a great grandmother ?, We can't have that. We've just gotta kill her". The following week they hit her with a truck.....LOL. Eileen called up Irna and insisted on the grandma clause to prevent that happening to her.

I don't think I saw his SNL episode. He has had so many high profile relationships that all seem to end badly. His first wife was Judy Carne (famous as the the Sock It To Me girl on Laugh in). They said he used to beat the crap out of her during their marriage. He then dated Inger Stevens (from the 60's TV show The Farmer's Daughter). She was found dead in 1970 of a suicide that looked suspicious. He was the last person to see her alive. He then dated Dina Shore (who was much older) and Sally Field (who refused to marry him). Then he married Loni Anderson who he abused and cheated on. Kristy was a great actress. Her brother Jimmy never really hit it big like she did. That entire album is on youtube and screams 1978. The song Slow Dance is pretty good. Karen Carpenter loved it so much she did a cover of it. About 5 years ago I caught an episode of that show Judge Mathis (who I never watch) and this woman was on there with the last named McNichol. The first thing that popped in my head was, I wonder if that is their Mom as a joke. The Judge then asked her to tell about herself and sure enough she said she was Caroline McNichol the mother of Kristy and Jimmy. She was being sued by a young guy who claimed he was her boy toy.....LOL

Me too on BR interview. He comes across so sleazy/seedy. The stuff that came about him when he was married to Loni really told the true story. There is a 1978 clip of him on the Mike Douglas show posted where he is infatuated with Kristy McNichol and it is uncomfortable. They had just done the film The End. She sings her latest record He's So Fine.

Nancy Dussault from Too Close For Comfort was original co-host with David Hartman. I noticed anytime a show from the 70's that does interviews is posted, 9 out of 10 times Burt Reynolds shows up as a guest .....LOL

1979 Lisa Hartman Special

Here is a classic episode of Florence Henderson's Country Kitchen from the defunct TNN network. Her guest is Mr. Brady himself Robert Reed. The show ran for about 10 years.

I was told years ago by a person who does archival work that video tapes will not save for very long and degrade rapidly. He needs to make a decision as whether he wants to try and save them or let them be lost forever. He could find a 16mm projector on ebay or someone who wants to get rid of one. There are also companies who transfer stuff like home movies etc...there is someone out there who could help him. I wonder if Irna Phillips estate has old episodes ?

I saw UCLA also has 1971 & 1973 episodes of Another World. I hope they along with other soap episodes are not rotting away as we speak. It does say in the database they are not playable of archive equipment, which might mean they don't have the old playback equipment to view them. They are on those old huge quad reels. There is a guy named Rick Tomas on youtube who has a lot of old quad video's he is transferring and uploading. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt2UipISexd0yg9VoNrxDhQ I wish UCLA would allow him to do those old soap episodes.

Someone needs to contact them and point them in the direction of the UCLA film library and get those 1971 & 1973 shows on DVD.

I agree. I don't really remember Jason Kincaid as Tom. Greg Marx replaced him pretty quick. I think Peter Galman played Tom 1969-1974. Thanks for confirming. I have seen some places as 1974.

Peter Galman does a lot of stage work. Here is a pic of a play he was in. The second is him as Tom in 1970.

I think you are right about the David Cherrill name. It would have been interesting for Peter Galman to have returned to the role at some point. Instead we got Scott Holmes who I never cared for as Tom. In the 80's, the show was trying to de-age Tom. Greg Marx and Scott Homes were born in the 1950's while the previous actors to play the role were born in the 1940's.