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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.

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.

The other women in the category are great in their own way, but Kathleen's clip was a force of nature. She was amazing.

And Trent Jones was also in the mix as Co-HW with Smith and Alden for some of that time!

Isn't HBS the only Margo that worked with all the Toms? It would be fun to do one with HBS and all the different Toms.

Zimemer and Alan are obviously very close, so I wonder if she played a big part in coordinating this.

Gosh, Nathalia Livingston’s terrible acting still doesn’t get any better upon rewatching her work years later...

I can’t see her face, but I am guessing she was an actress on the show. I think they had actresses on the soaps be the “trophy girls” that year. For example, I believe Nia Long was the trophy girl who handed Rick Hearst his Emmy that year

The ABC soaps never caught on well worldwide, so Loving’s success in Italy is a bit of an anomaly. I guess that was largely due to Nixon owning it and Freemantle distributing it in select countries.

The 1990 Daytime Emmy's are up! Pam Long accepting for Best Writing is 1:17:37 or so in:

I believe this was Loving's only Emmy win in a major category - Bernard Barrow wins Supporting Actor in 1991. 21:25 in. I know he died a little over two years after this. How much of this was because of him being known from Ryan's Hope, or was it well-deserved at the time?

1991 Daytime Emmy's are up where ATWT won Best Show! 1:55:15 in:

Joe Stuart is still alive, right? Someone should do an interview with him about his time on The Doctors, OLTL, and Loving.

The Archers broadcasts new episodes from Sunday-Friday. Unshackled broadcasts a new episode every Saturday.

There’s a video in this article from 2015 that talks about and gives insight about how an episode is Unshackled is produced. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-unshackled-radio-65th-anniversary-met-3-20150405-story.html

Unshackled was broadcast a few months before The Archers, but its volume of episodes is much less. The Archers has produced over 19,000 episodes so far while Unshackled has produced just over 3,600. But runtime on Unshackled is 30 mins, while The Archers is 12 (formerly 15) mins.

Yes, Unshackled still produces new content (though I believe they’ve cancelled some recent shows due to the pandemic). In many ways, if you try to ignore the religion overtones/propaganda (unless that’s what appeals to you of course), it can be a pretty damn compelling show and it’s produced the same way as the old radio soaps were to this day - with a live organist and all!

Thanks! In this era where TV/Film productions have shut down due to the pandemic, it would be so easy and safe to do a radio/audio production remotely. Too bad this type of storytelling has all but died in North America. Though I know the Christian radio drama Unshackled is still in production and going strong...

During the period TV and Radio broadcasts overlapped for GL in the 50’s, did the storylines overlap between the two mediums? Or did each each exist in a separate universe but with mostly the same characters?

Bell would also go on to tell a variation of that same story on Y&R with Victor in the 90’s.

Were the episodes surrounding Josh and Reva's wedding at Cross Creek the first set of episodes where Robert Calhoun was listed as EP, or was he listed after? I will say the change in the show is very noticeable in 1989 when you compare the first half to the second half. Calhoun definitely energized the production, and tightened much of Long's work (which was further helped by Curlee and Trent Jones being her Co-HWs)

Ah, here it is, 34:28 in and then at the end of the clip as well: I think Calhoun left on his own accord - probably tired of increasing corporate involvement. He never worked in daytime again. Also, P&G had previously let him go at ATWT in favour of Laurence Caso (probably at CBS's instance as Caso was a former CBS executive). They obviously remembered him when GL was in trouble and needed a strong EP to whip it back to shape in '89 though. So seems he had been burnt before as well.

I remember at the end of 1990, there was a scene with Mindy and Mallet with Madonna's 'Justify My Love' (which was the #1 pop hit at that time) playing in the background. These soaps can't afford real pop music anymore, but the chemistry was hot in that scene.

Erika Slezak has always been open about her dislike for Joe Stuart, but never gave much detail. He seems similar to Paul Rauch - talented, but deeply troubled and bullish.