BetterForgotten

It was McTavish, who was actually also responsible for bringing Cady back as well...

How lovely to see the clip of Bill Bell and Agnes Nixon presenting those special achievement awards to Charita Bauer (posthumously), Larry Haines, and Mary Stuart.

Very frank comment from Susan Lee - they were almost canceled again in 1993. I guess it was a miracle NBC kept it on until 1999.

I always hated that end credits music - even for the 80’s, it was dated and corny as hell.

I believe Ms. Marshall left during Michael Laibson's short but troubled time as EP. Gilly was used pretty consistently under JFP, but that may be more Curlee/Demorest than her.

GL never got any credit for how well integrated and well written the Grants/Speaks were in the early 90’s. Sure, it was a relatively brief moment in time, but no one ever gave them the same credit that was always bestowed upon ABC and Y&R when it came to integration of black characters.

Those interviewers were terrible, but Amelia is a class act.

Bridget and her mother had a complicated relationship, and she was happy to leave GH when Doris died. She considered her time writing for GH as a "jail sentence" - at least per this interview with a Santa Barbara fansite. This is the portion she talks about GL. http://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-exclusive-interview-with-bridget.html

It was a beautiful and fitting finale. My only gripe is I wished they had aired the full end credits on its final episode instead of the abbreviated end credits. I feel that way about all finales, just list everyone who worked on the show one last time...

Bell was definitely ailing by the time that story hit the screen. In fact, Bell died less than 10 months after Devon debuted on the show. Jack Smith was firmly in control as both HW and EP at this point.

I don't think I've seen this posted before.

In the beginning of 1994, he was listed as Co-HW with Nancy Curlee and Stephen Demorest during their final months with the show (he had been in their staff since 1992). After they left in March of that year, he was listed as the sole HW for a few episodes, and then as part of another HW-ing team with a few others. He left GL by the end of that year. He described his HW-ing experience there as miserable, especially after Curlee/Demorest left.

He did at GL, but it didn’t work out too well (mostly due to corporate interference).

That last year was horrendous when they hired actors that were popular on other soaps to somehow reinvent the show. Talk about a desperate disaster waiting to happen. To be fair, she didn’t have a very good stint on OLTL either...

No.

The 'feud' was very weak during that second stint and extremely petulant. Also, I hated Vanessa/Matt and hated that they had Vanessa acting like a love-sick 16 year old schoolgirl during this time. Ugh.

Did Nola ever forgive Ed for Maureen's demise? I remember some scenes where she had to go to the emergency room, but threw a fit when she realized Ed was going to be her doctor, but I can't remember her ever getting over it.

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Didn’t Agnes originally create her AMC bible for P&G? Who knows how many hands were in the pot back then, or it could be lazy error.. Bell had worked with Ted Corday at ATWT, and his wife Betty was familiar with him. I am guessing Betty made him an offer at DAYS and he took it. Bell spoke a little about leaving Irna in this clip and how he thought she never really forgave him for it. Bell was very much her right hand man in many aspects during the first decade or so of ATWT.

She said she was offered two roles on the LA-based soaps, but turned them down because they weren't anything substantial. I wonder what shows they were - probably GH, but what's the other one?

Well, if Rihanna hadn't taken a sabbatical from music, she would have likely surpassed Elvis and Mariah Carey by now (or gotten extremely close). The streaming era has kind of made the Hot 100 and some of these chart records irrelevant though.

Nancy Curlee even said she wanted her own/young Nola, and thus created Bridget. She also said she would have loved to write for Nola, but obviously Brown was playing Iva on ATWT at the time. I think that's the only reason why Bridget wasn't Stacey, P&G probably didn't want fans asking for Nola to return when Brown was committed to their other soap. Having not been fully acquainted with Nola (and Quint) at the time, I remember thinking, "what the hell is Iva doing in Springfield and why is she acting so wacky?" when Brown first came back.

Speaking of Mamie, where’s the clip of Mamie calling Jill a bitch? lol The simmering bitchery between Mamie and Jill was always fun.

Doesn't Disney now technically own the rights to the show? I believe 21st Century Fox purchased New World in the late 90's, and obviously Disney recently purchased most of the 21st Century Fox properties.

Obviously, the writing for Nola was baddddd during this second stint (thanks McTavish!), and Bridget's best years were beyond her at this point too. However, Lisa Brown and Melissa Hayden look SO MUCH like one another, Melissa could have easily been Nola's daughter Stacey. The two also had instant faminal chemistry.