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Kay always had a glass in her hand in those days! You could be right and Jeanne may have forgotten the sequence of events.

From everything written,it seems that Jill came across Katherine at the beauty shop and befriended her. Then Phillip was introduced. Maybe what happened is that Considine only lasted a few days and Jeanne recalled that event ,having hardly acted with him at all and then told he was gone.

I wonder why TPTB rejected Considine. Maybe he was non contract and decided to leave himself.

I went back and read that part in the book and she just say's Phillip was played by John Considine who was promptly replaced. She said she didn't think to ask why.

In an interview about the book, she said the thing about them running lines and she was told no need to do that he was no longer playing Phillip. I would really like to know why they replaced him. Since it has been 40 years, we will probably never know unless John Considine tells the story himself.

John Considine as Phillip - one of those early Y&R mysteries.How long was he on? So Phillip was seen before Katherine? How did that play?

I remember in French Fan's synopses that Lorie Brooks and Phillip had a connection that I had forgotten about or never saw.But I don't think Jen would have been involved.

It may have been one of those Bill Bell things where he would trial something,see how it played onscreen and take it from there. Like the Maestro and Liz Foster.

The funny thing about her saying he was fired her first day is I know for a fact I saw a scene with her and Considine in the Chancellor living room. She had long hair at the time. Maybe since it had been so long she forgot. It didn't look like a screen test, but an actual scene from an episode. They were talking and I seem to recall she had a glass in her hand.

Interesting, all this juicy stuff makes me really want to read Jeanne's book!

Does she also talk about the first day she met Braeden. MTS, Jess, Bergman etc.....

Yes she does. There is a chapter called co-stars toward the end and she gives her thougths on them. They are mainly the ones in the current cast like Braeden, MTS, Jess, Doug Davidson etc.........She talks about when they came on the show and her relationship with them. It's a great book.

Not sure. There certainly isn't any reason for them to have shared a scene, as the stories had no connection at all to each other. Kay seemed isolated to Jill and her family and the men they fought over until about 1980 and Jennifer Brooks died in 1977. Jennifer's story was mostly about Bruce Henderson and their affair and Lori's paternity, then her illnesses.

If they did share a scene it may have been incidental, possibly at the country club or something during the Jill/Phillip/Kay storyline. Or if Jennifer had any scenes with Liz and Kay happened to be there too.

I assume that Kay and Jenn knew each other since they were from GC society. I remember reading a synopsis from 1976 that talked about Bill and Liz remarrying and that Stu and Jenn gave them a gift of a honeymoon trip to Hawaii. Kay was mentioned as being upset because she had fallen for Bill Foster herself. It would be interesting to find some stuff of them interacting. I do remember one cast photo on the stairs and Jeanne is standing next to Dorothy Green.

I read Jeanne Cooper's new book and she talked about her first day on the Y&R set. She said the cast came out to greet her and welcome her to the show. She said she was touched by how nice everyone was and was afraid she wouldn't be able to remember all their names. She said she then heard a familiar voice and looked up and across the room William Gray Espy (Snapper # 1) greeted her with a big hug. She said they had met and become friends on a movie they did the year before with Raquel Welch. She had gotten him a massage because since he wasn't the main star of the film, the higher ups ignored him.He was doing some physical stuff playing a hockey player.

She said William turned to everyone and said "this woman can get things done that you wouldn't believe". She then said one cast member that instantly caught her attention was a little spitfire named Brenda Dickson. She later talked about how Brenda and her first didn't get along and then later became friends. Brenda was showing up late and acting like a Diva. Her stories were hilarious. She said she asked Brenda in one rehearsal to pick up a coat and Brenda took an attitude and acted as if she had asked her to wash and kiss her ass......LOL

Jeanne also mentioned that when she showed up on the first day, she met John Considine (Phillip # 1) and they started running lines, when John Conboy(I think it was) walked up and said there is no need to do that, he will no longer be playing Phillip. She said she felt so horrible for him that they had fired him on the spot like that. She also discussed being close friends with Julianna McCarthy (Liz). As far as the other 70's cast members, she talked about how sweet they all were and how Y&R became a safe haven for her when her marriage was falling apart. Later in the book she talks about being close with a number of cast member particularly Terry Lester.

One thing about the early days of Y&R, did Katherine ever interact with Jennifer Brooks ? I have seen group cast photos of them together, but never the two by themselves or any storyline synopsis of Kay & Jenn. I was always curious if Dorothy Green and Jeanne Cooper had a good off screen relationship since they were both old school actresses that did a ton of movie and tv work before Y&R.

You know that's kind of how i thought they would update, the opening. You should send that idea to JFP! LOL

I don't hate the updated opening but i'm kind of hoping already they do another update by the end of the year, knowing JFP i wouldn't be surprise if that happens.

One can hope they get a new opening. They need something classic old school.

The old background music was awesome. I wish Y&R did pretty much wipe it from the show. It really set the tone for the show. I also loved the old line drawing sketch openings.

With Y&R's 40th anniversary coming up, they should have had the white background brought back with the Y&R logo being drawn and as the sketches start coming across the screen, they would turn into a real live shots of the actors and then at the end the live shots would freeze and turn back into a group photo line drawings with the title and logo at the end.

I think they should have kept Rex too, although they clearly had no idea what to do with him (as they didn't with John Abbott) by that time. I think they remarried he and Katherine too quickly, as he had good chemistry with Jill and Leanna.

I wish we could see some material from the time of these promos. It's hard to believe sometimes Nikki went from trauma to trauma to trauma to being Victor's great love.

The Rex & Leanna relationship was a hoot. Leanna was a great campy character. I still remember when she tried to kill Ashley for marrying Dr. Lassiter (Played by Rod Arrants). I never understood why they killed him off the doctor either. Eileen Davidson said she loved working with Rod and wish they hadn't killed him off. After his death Eileen left the show and Brenda Epperson replaced her.

I agree about the early Nikki footage. It seems like 1973-1982 material from the show is hard to find. There are tons of stuff from other soaps like GH, OLTL on you tube from that time period, but not Y&R. I saw the 3 1975 episodes and some short scenes and clips, but no other full length episodes at all. I wish some complete Nikki & Greg episodes and Victor & Julia episodes would surface.

WOW !!!. thanks for those promos CarlD2, especialy that one from 1979 of Nikki. Nick Reed tried to rape her after he became enraged of her relationship with Greg Foster. She and Greg married shortly after this in the Brooks house.

I bet it was a little odd for Melody later when Quinn Redeker came back to play Rex Sterling after having played Nikki's father a few years before. One of the few mistakes Bill Bell made was killing off Rex. He was the best husband Katherine had. Jeanne Cooper even said this in interviews. On the show they always have her raving about her love of Phillip, who in reality didn't want her.

Bill Bell said another regret was not keeping Tom Selleck on the show.