victoria foxton

Sadly there never was a worthy successor to the late Mr. Marland. I do agree he was burned out by the tail end of his run.

I've been watching post Marland ATWT from 1993-96. ATWT still had plenty of life. But there's a dullness and predictability.The best stuff from this period was Damian breathing some life to Holden's and Lilly's played out love story. the whole John vs Lisa saga.The plane crash with Damian, Margo and Sam. The introduction of Carly. John publicly humiliating Lisa during there lavish engagement party. The worst the boring Kasnoff family, The introductions of Zoe. Sarah,Diego, The whole convoluted Kingsley-Malta saga which ran for yrs. Emily's rape by Diego. All the soft core porn love scenes with Mark and Connor at the treehouse of sex. The Martin Chedwyn saga with Lisa. The teens were badly used and written out. Nikki Munson was the only one of the teens that managed to last 3 yrs. Paul and Dusty weren't just badly recast their personalities were completely changed too. Poor Andy was written out and never brought back. In hindsight maybe it was a good thing that Andy was never brought back. I did enjoy Mr. Sheffer's first year on ATWT. But it was clear he had disdain for ATWT's rich and vast history. Where the late Mr. Marland reveled in ATWT's rich and vast history. The last 17 yrs of ATWT the quality started going downhill year after year.

Carly has become a played out character. But she had so much potential in the early years. During Bob Guza last run Carly alongside Sonny and Jason ate up the show. Now Carly has been reduced to a Stepford Wife and Sonny apologist. At the time i actually liked the introduction of Carly. I also liked how Bobbie's backstory as a teen hooker was being used. I can't believe it's been 20 years, since Caroline Benson Bobbie's hellspawn first set foot in PC.

I always found Loving so favorless. Devoid of any personality.Other soaps had much stronger personalities that helped them out during bad runs. I only enjoyed Loving during The Loving Murders.

A flaming gay bearish Henry i never bought him with Katie, Vienna, or Babs. But i am glad Barbara did end up with someone at the end.

The Dobson's were hit or miss on ATWT during their two runs. I find it strange since their run on GL was flawless from everything i've read. From what i've seen of Gunther i was not impressed. Were Barbara and Gunther popular? Which was worse The Mr. Big story or Barbara's past life? What other outlandish stories took place during this time?

Thanks a lot teplin. From reading her bio she's seems like an interesting character. She was yet another character Days got rid of during their reboot in 1980. I was wondering was Days any good during their big reboot in 1980?

Who is the dark haired lady with Chris Kositchek?

The late Mr. Lester was on for a year as Mason #2 from 1989-90. Terry Lester played Royce Keller from 1992-94.

Santa Barbara is a hard soap for me to get into. But i have been enjoying the episodes from late 1989. I like the rivalry between Gina and Laura. I find Ethan hot but dull but he did have chemistry with Gina and Laura. Walker,Martinez,Born and Carrington are mesmerizing to watch. The canvas is very small for an hour soap. The Capwell's lacked warmth as a family unite. It's strange watching a soap with only one core family. In 1990 Mack. Ric, Sasha, Laura, Bunny and Phyllis are gone. The revolving door of characters really hurt SB. Another World also had this problem. But they were still smart enough to hold on to characters like Cass, Felicia and Donna to just name a few.

2 more years of Abby the oldest goth chick on the planet rollerblading around the morgue. 2 more years of McGee getting fat then skinny again. 2 more years of the hottest petty officers getting murdered. My boy friend is a huge fan and forces me to watch.

ATWT was never as great without Douglas Marland.

Those years of ATWT were almost like. "Oh see how SERIOUS we are!" I missed the days of Kim's Stalker, and James back from the dead...(the first time) after that, it is as if Marland got caught up in his own reputation. A show should always be fun to watch, and fun does not have to be "dumb." GL at that time was like "Hey, look, we're a soap and we're proud of it and we care going to trot out every soap convention in the book and write the hell out of it..enjoy!" ATWT was the dour sibling while GL was the fun one....(though the days my friend were numbered.) Your assessment of ATWT and GL is dead on. Still the tail end of DM's ATWT is still vastly superior to present day soaps. ATWT and GL were on fire back in the early 1990's. In a couple of years there slow and steady decline would begin.

Becca was very dull and bland. I hated how homophobic she was towards Bianca. Greens was a bad Erica clone never understood her appeal.

The original was a drip but she did become stronger towards the end of her run. Was it Megan Mctavish that made Amanda a madam?

Maybe it was a good thing look what they did to Amanda and Nola.

Maggie DePriest killed off Sally.Zane,Quinn and Masie. She also wrote off Chris, Larry, Clarice, Dee, Carter, Thomasina and Lilly. Ellen Wheeler was awesome as the twins. How i miss the days when soap operas had a real budget and went on location all the time. Taylor Miller wasn't a bad Sally she just didn't have chemistry Thomas Ian Griffith. Sally and Catlin really deserved a happy ending. I love Cass and Cecile even through there story was silly Maggie D wasn't my favorite AW HW but this episode was well written. So many wonderful characters how i miss AW.

OLTL was going to do a school shooting but it was changed at the last minute due to the Virginia Tech shooting.

From what i seen of Hillary on YT i loved her down to earth and blunt manner. Hillary also had great chemistry with Jim and Fletcher. The Bauer family was never a huge family killing Hillary really hurt GL in the long term.

Paul how long was Imogene Coca on as Alice ?

A cool Pre Christmas treat early 80's ATWT. What little i saw of Cricket and Ernie i liked. The story with Richard and Barbara looks awful. It's so strange not seeing the Hughes as the nexus of Oakdale. I liked this Frannie, i also liked Alice and her story. I liked the sense of community and family shown in this episode. Sadly soaps used to go all out for Christmas. I did like the prominent role the Stewart family had during this time. Does anyone know how the Richard/Barbara story ends? I loved the interaction between everyone at the Stewart's Christmas party. I love the friendships between Frannie, Marcy and Kirk. John and Karen had a lot chemistry i wish there was more of them on you tube. A decent and likable Christmas episode the only thing i didn't like was the Richard story.

I love the scene between Rachel and Shelia. i can related to Shelia being called names the same thing happened to me when i was 10 going home after summer school. I'm of Puerto Rican and Spaniard ancestry i look completely european. I wanted to tell the black hispanic kids i was Spanish just like them but was to scared too. I loved that the show mentioned Carla Grey even if she wasn't named a great use of OLTL amazing past.

Meg was completely destroyed. Dusty being raised by John was overlooked. I rather remember Meg,Dusty, Paul and Craig when they were written by Doug Marland. So glad Jeanine P didn't get to destroy Andy, Lien, Duke or Frannie. Didn't Lien return in 2001? For a really short story so not any damage was done. Lien had a brief romance with Ben and it was discovered she had agent orange poisoning once Lien was cured she broke up with Ben and left Oakdale.

Meg was completely destroyed. Dusty being raised by John was overlooked. I rather remember Meg,Dusty, Paul and Craig when they were written by Doug Marland. So glad Jeanine P didn't get to destroy Andy, Lien, Duke or Frannie.

HWK seemed like he was a great guy i first started watching GH during HWK and AM run way back in 1987. GM did a lot of amazing and wonderful things with GH but she sounds like she was a terror.