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I agree with DRW50 the show mostly ignored Tom's past before Margo. I also agree that Meg Bennett is an excellent actress. As with Tom on ATWT, Y&R tends to forget Victor's wife/life before Nikki. I mentioned to a woman about Victor's first wife Julia and she was stunned. She had never known she had even existed. The same when you mention to people that Nikki's first husband was Greg Foster and not Victor.

Judith Chapman said that fans would refer to her character as Nasty Natalie. I would love to see some of her run.

They could have let Dennis Cooney play Ellen's brother Jay Lowell instead of "Stallings"

I agree that there should have been a Bob/Kim/Dan triangle. I also wish they had done a storyline where Lisa went after David and had catfights with Ellen.

I was watching as a kid at this time and recall how popular Meg Ryan was becoming as Betsy. I remember when she left the show they did the car accident with the hitchhiker and then her face in bandages for months till they were removed and Lindsay Frost appeared. Betsy then had to find her way back to Steve. I also remember liking Marisa Tomei as Marcy a lot. I also liked Terri VandenBosch ( had to look up her name) as Frannie even though she was short lived.

1960's Ad for LUX soap with Kathryn Hays

I remember seeing TLW in an episode of the fake Divorce Court back in the 80's as a wife with a split personality. I miss the way commercials were back then. They advertised a variety of useful products with clever original jingles, now it's just car insurance, prescription drugs or .com web site ads with some annoying top 40 song blaring. There are at least 4 or 5 commercials recently that have used that annoying "Happy" song.

Another great upload. It brings back memories. Ellen Dolan was a jarring recast for HBS. I never warmed up to her version of Margo. The old commercials are another extra treat. Back when they advertised various products instead of car Insurance and prescription drugs 24/7.

Someone posted on IMDB stating that this soap was reran on one of their local channels as late as 2002-2003 ?

Is Scott DeFreitas (Andy) still acting ? Instead of casting his wife Maura on Y&R, they should have cast him in a role instead. I could see him playing a legacy character like Chucky Roulland (Foster) or Brooks Prentiss.

Robert Horton who played Whit was a big TV star in the 50's/60's on the long running western Wagon Train. He did not age well by the time he was on ATWT.

Late 60's Charmin commercial with Joan Van Ark and Aldo Ray.

I have been watching Knots over the past few days on DVD recordings and 2 things that I noted.

Lillimae gets on my freaking nerves after a while especially when she rides Val about Joshua and defending his bad behavior/ later death.

The Meg adoption/paternity stuff with Mac/Karen. I think they milked that storyline for all it's worth. They were upset about people finding out, Greg might want her back, Val's Book possibly mentioning it, Maree Cheatham showing up as Meg's grandmother/ Laura's real mother exposing it, then in the 1997 Cul De Sac reunion film it's brought up yet again with this time Meg wanting to know who her real father is and Mac/Karen fighting and separating over it.

I just saw Susan Marie Snyder (ex Julie) on a rerun of Press Your Luck today. She said she was a stand up comic in her intro. A lot of before they were stars appeared on that show and Match Game. Scott Reeves was on not long ago. He used his actual first name of Greg at the time and said he was a secretary. He had a large gap in his teeth.

I wish they would pick up some of the old shows that haven't been in reruns in years like Please Don't Eat The Daisies, The Farmers Daughter, etc...

I'm sick of all the westerns in blocks. I can't believe they are getting rid of Perry Mason in the daytime for Matlock. WGN and INSP run that show in the freaking ground.

I also notice anytime there is a network that runs old shows, they always pick up Bonanza. I'm getting tired of it over and over on multiple networks. There are about 5 running it currently.

If the show was owned till 1969 by American Home Products, did those episodes get stashed somewhere or did they get wiped by the network when they took control ? I would love to see episodes of Marla as the nasty Belle. I can picture how great she was on the show.

Nicolas Coster has been on just about every soap there ever was.

I wonder how Christina Crawford felt about playing a character with the same name as her much despised mother ?

I have the same 1964-1979 DVD too and NO that special 1974 episode is not on it. You have a rare episode.

I would also like to see the rare 70's Y&R material you have.

Wow thanks for all the research you put into that. Warner Brother star of the 50's/60's Troy Donahue also appeared on the Patty Duke show and later appeared on Secret Storm.

Renee Jarrett had a short lived early 70's series called "Nancy" where she played the presidents daughter. Eddie Applegate who played Patty's boyfriend on her sitcom was a co-star of that. They said pressure from the Nixon administration put a end to the series.

I would like to see that. I wonder if he just stood there reading from the page or tried to act it out ?

I remember Mary Stuart of SFT said they were live when an actress had a mental breakdown and stopped speaking. She read the other woman's lines and hers.

On Y&R Jeanne Cooper said when they did the scene where Jill was telling Kay about her being pregnant by Phillip, Brenda forgot her lines and Jeanne tried to subtly feed it to her and she still didn't get it, Jeanne then said " Let me guess, your pregnant with my husbands child" I don't know if that was something they re-shot or if it was left in. One viewer said they remember Jamie Lyn Bauer(Lorie Brooks) kissing a man on the show and a big string of spit came out when they parted and it remained there for several minutes before she wiped it away. Supposedly William Gray Espy (Snapper) blurted out live on the air while climbing the Brooks staircase " God, what ugly wallpaper"

On AW Joe Gallison (Bill) fell asleep in his dressing room and they tried to page him on the intercom. He then woke up and rushed to the set groggy while live.

On ATWT Helen Wagner (Nancy) said a stove went haywire and the timer kept buzzing and someone had to sneak and unplug it.

I remember an interview with Kate Jackson about her time on Dark Shadows and she talked about live to tape. She said if they had to reshoot which was rare if ever, they had to wait so many hours to get the live tape feed again.

Jeanne Cooper talked about live to tape on Y&R and she said it had to a Major screw up for them to reshoot and they rarely did. In the 1974 episode where Jill phones the Chancellor home, she flubs and say's Mrs. Foster before recovering and then say's Chancellor. Also when Kay goes upstairs with the maid, you can hear the music fade out and a faint click and another background track starts playing as she's looking at the living room.

In a 1973 clip of Another World of Steve and Alice, you can hear faint clicking of someone off stage adjusting a light or something.

I wonder if anyone ever got sick with diarrhea or vomited live on the air on a soap ?

It's interesting that Paul O"Keefe was on the show twice as two different characters. O"Keefe is best know as playing Patty Duke's brother Ross on her 60's sitcom. Rita McLaughlin Walter (Carol) played the back of Patty & Cathy's head when they did double takes.

Patty Duke said they shot her sitcom in New York because child labor laws were not as strict as California and they could over work her long hours. Her managers who abused her moved her back to L.A. in the sitcoms final season when she fell in love with a director (who was her first husband) to try to keep them apart.

How long did Richard Thomas play Tom ? In 1969 he did that weird movie "Last Summer" with Barbara Hershey and Catherine Burns. I saw Catherine in a 1969 episode of One Life To Live as Cathy Craig. How long did she play Cathy ? She was nominated and lost the Oscar to Goldie Hawn for Cactus Flower. I read people expected big things of her, but it appears she stayed mostly in TV, before turning to writing. She wrote some episodes of Guiding Light in the 80's.