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I don't know when stomach stapling was around in the early 1970s, but can you imagine if TD had Richard Simmons on their show instead of GH? That would have been...interesting!!!

What did you guys think of John Aniston on SFT? Did he work well as Jo's love interest?

There might have been a fan mutiny if they had tried that.

I would!

She was great in the SVU episode "Downloaded Child". I wish her all the best on this new show.

Or they know it and don't care. Either explanation is plausible.

Though some of the bizarre stories Michael Landon came up with could put LHOP in question here...

Yes...that's what made DS so popular, and it remains popular to this day!!

I'm looking forward to seeing him. I know that in more recent years, Gil Gerard has battled weight problems - so serious that he developed Type 2 diabetes and had to undergo surgery. Imagine if gastric bypass had been around back in the early 1970s? It would have been very interesting had TD dealt with that topic.

Not to mention the reactions of his kids!!!

I'd buy TD on DVD, too!!!

That might have made it all worthwhile.

At least those stories featured beloved veteran characters, and helped establish new characters.

Really? Angie had to be younger than his daughters. I think the fairly conservative viewers of that time would have been against such a May/December romance like that. OTOH, a May/December romance between Rachel and Mac turned out well - so who knows?

I'm so glad that her kids recorded her scenes on SFT, EDGE and LOV and were able to upload them to YouTube years later. I just wish we could see her as the original Maggie on TD.

Do you mean Angie's mother, Rose? She was played by Kathleen Widdoes, pre-ATWT.

That's a terrific site. He would have appeared not long after the show debuted. I'm guessing this was still Dane Witherspoon playing Joe.

@Soaplovers, Pam Long might have been an interesting choice for Opal when AMC brought back the role in 1989. Then again, I don't think she would have been convincing playing Michael E. Knight's mother.

When was he on SB? I don't remember him from there.

^ I would have to say that's one of the most memorable deaths in all of soapdom!!

Well, in that case, the actor (Hugh Marlowe) had passed away in real life. He had played the role for most of the show's run at that point, and I read in an old article that AW decided not to recast out of respect to his memory.

Future GH cast member A Martinez (Roy) would wear some of the tightest jeans ever when he played Cruz on SB.

She still looks very pretty. On SB, her resemblance to Marcy Walker was uncanny.

According to the book written by Ann Williams' children, their mother was devastated that she was let go from SFT. She had been with the show for a decade, and her character was the sister of the show's main legacy character - Jo. I don't know if P&G just wanted to dump her salary, or if they just wanted to go in a different direction storyline-wise.

I'm surprised they never actually did this storyline.