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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.

Didn't C. David Colson's use another name when he wrote for soaps ? The first adult version of Tom was played by Peter Galman. He has a youtube page of some of his work and is still active. Someone asked him about ATWT and he said he was looking for footage of his time as Tom. He still looks pretty young to be 73 years old. He also does modeling. http://802models.com/portfolio-Peter_Galman.html

That pic is great. Speaking of Wonder Woman 1984, remember that 1974 TV movie of the week where Cathy Lee Crosby was a blonde wonder woman ? She really didn't have any powers and her outfits looked like a female Evel Kneivel. I remember that weird scene with the rainbow colored glop running down the walls with the donkey. There was also the scene where the snake coils around her leg and she calls room service to bring a saucer of milk to lure the snake away.....LOL Anitra Ford (Price Is Right 70's model) was also in it. A fan of WW on youtube did a hilarious mashup of the TV movie with the opening credits from the series. Here is the original opening to the 1974 movie.

Judith Chapman was in California by the time Natalie was brought back. JC had a recurring role on The Fall Guy 1981-1983 and guest starred on many popular prime time series of through the 80's. She also joined GH in 1984

I often thought that Craig would have made more sense to be the son of John Dixon than Margo his daughter. Scott Bryce had the same hair color/features as Larry Bryggman. In the 79 episodes they also hinted that Kim and Grant might be interested in each other, but that went nowhere. I would had bought that relationship more than that crap with Nick. Speaking of Leslie Denniston I always remember her not only for her soap roles, but she did tons of commercials during the 80's. She was the Lanacane lady complaining about the itch and how it's turned off like a switch with the product.

Yes, even back then Meg Ryan was hamming it up. She seemed to be crying every day. I like Carol what I have seen of her. ATWT was at a low point 1980-1983. A lot of new faces showed and vets started departing like Chris, Nancy, Grant, Carol, Jay, etc...Even Eileen Fulton left the role of Lisa in 83. Douglas Marland really helped revive the show when he came on board and ATWT was at the top of it's game. Speaking of Steve, I never understood why they put his brother Nick with Kim and Bob with Miranda. Those pairings were Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. The 66/67 must have been the one about her intentionally causing the miscarriage. I bet that made viewers heads spin. The late 60's/early 70's time period seemed to be a blast. Irna was writing the show again during that time. I wish we could see some of the Lisa/ Dr.Michael Shea/Claire storyline. Lisa had Dr. Shea's child Chucky out of wedlock. He later blackmailed Lisa (who hated him by this time) into marrying him because he caught Tom breaking into his office to steal drugs. He planned to make Lisa look like an unfit mother. He was later murdered and Tom was accused. Tom was protecting Lisa because he thought she done it.

It's weird seeing Steve with Carol instead of Betsy. I was watching as a little kid back then and the Steve/Betsy/Craig thing came pretty quickly and ate up the show. I wish the show had brought Carol back at some point under Marland. After Tom married Margo, his previous life prior to her was swept under the rug, except his past with Barbara. I remember back in the late 90's in SOD, they did a feature on CZP. She made a comment about Margaret Colin was her Margo (which she is correct) and Justin Deas was her Tom (which was odd). When Barbara was with Tom the first time, Tom Tammi was playing the role. Years later it was Greg Marx. I don't really recall CZP interacting all the much with Deas. Maybe I missed something when I was in school and could only catch the show during summer ,holidays, and vacation.

I don't know why I was thinking about this, but what ever happened to Lucinda's adopted daughter Bianca ? She was a friend to Courtney, then she disappeared by the mid 90's. I stopped watching ATWT by 1999. The death of writer Douglas Marland in 1993 made the show fall into the crapper.