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Discovering the work of so many of these actors (many, sadly, are no longer with us) has been such a joy - especially Gerald Gordon, who before Retro began airing the reruns I'd only seen in a couple of episodics, like L&O and Perfect Strangers. He was at his best playing a man deeply in love as Nick was with Althea - and especially as a man deeply in love who was also deeply tormented. He and Liz Hubbard really were a magical acting duo. Soap couplings up that point, from what I've heard, read and observed from clips that still exist, were romantic but didn't necessarily have the extreme sexual chemistry that was a big part of the Althea/Nick relationship. Even the other main couplings on TD - Matt/Maggie and Steve/Carolee are filled more with sweetness than that extreme chemistry I mentioned. Nick just looks at Althea with those brown eyes filled with love and just melts whenever she smiles at him. THAT'S what got lost from soaps somewhere along the way - SHEER ROMANCE!!!

I have heard part of an episode from the late 60s with Audra Lindley as Aunt Liz. She was terrifying - I think I felt my blood curdle!! Quite a departure from her iconic later role of Mrs. Roper. Wow.

When was Heather Rattray's first airdate? I still remember seeing her play the daughter in one of the Wilderness Family movies.

They all seemed to have very distinctive voices, too, which I'm sure helps when one only has access to the audio.

Great to see David Rasche in yet another project. There's barely been a show on since the late 70s that he HASN'T been on!!

Thanks for sharing the clipping about Marsha Clark pre-GL. I also enjoyed the blurb announcing Susan Trustman's marriage. She and Jerry Leider are still married to this day!!!

The orange dress and matching earrings don't do her any favors, either, sorry to say. But it is great that she is still making the magazines!!

Maybe you could send it to Eddie and he could copy it?

Interesting - somehow I can't picture Justin Deas playing a man of the cloth. LOL

Not only that, but Gerald Gordon and Marsha Clark both called Allen Potter "boss" at different points in time - when he was on TD and she was on GL. Marsha is from my neck of the woods - Cleveland - and I am familiar with Brandywine Road. There is a Brandywine Ski Resort not too far from Parma Heights. I wonder if the two kept in touch throughout the years.

I was randomly looking up some information about the show and found out something new - a connection between Liz Hubbard's shows - TD and ATWT. It turns out that her TD daughter, Jami Fields, attended Columbia University in the mid-70s and was involved with the theatre group and also wrote for the student paper, The Spectator. A fellow student and up-and-coming actor named Tom Wiggin was in the cast with Jami in a production of "Twelfth Night". Of course, he would go on to work very closely with Liz on ATWT as Kirk Anderson over a decade later. I wonder if Liz knows about that connection. Isn't that something? Anyway, here is a write-up on the 1975 production of "Twelfth Night". Both Jami and Tom got nice reviews. There is also a photo of everyone in character, and Jami and Tom are both in it as well: http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19751030-01.2.17&srpos=&dliv=none&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ That same year, Jami herself wrote a review of another play that Tom was in: http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19751009-01.2.12&srpos=&dliv=none&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ Getting back to the show, what did everyone think of the elaborate fantasy sequences the amnesiac Althea had about her and Nick? One was in the style of an Old Hollywood flick along the lines of Astaire/Rogers, Cary Grant and Bogie combined. The second was like a Honeymooners/Streetcar Named Desire hybrid. They were both fun to watch because it was out of the norm of what we've seen on TD up to this point and because Liz Hubbard and Gerald Gordon both looked like they were having the time of their lives.

I was going to but forgot. I'll send her a message sometime this weekend and see what she says.

Thank you, Paul, for listing all of the Toms. I knew that Scott Holmes had by far the longest run of any of them, but didn't know Justin Deas was on for as long as he was. For some reason, I thought he was only on for two years at the most.

Cool - I had never even heard of that show before. Thanks for posting the screen caps.

Me, too! Jacquie's daughter, especially, would love to see the wedding episodes. According to Jennifer, her mother kept many issues of the soap magazines of the day - Afternoon TV, TV By Day, early SOD, etc. I think she said they are all in her attic somewhere now.

Besides Richard Niles, just today I got an email from Mimi Cozzens, one of the silent people nurses. I'm also trying to find out exactly when Jami Fields left TD for good. I hope she'll be back in the reruns at some point (Julia Duffy didn't start playing Penny until 1973.)

Thanks, TimWil, for clarifying when the change in Morgans occurred.

Cool!!

Exactly how many actors - both child and adult - played Tom?

Gotta love Michael Levin in a party hat. LOL

In today's episodes, we meet a certain someone from Nancy's past - and once the identity of this person is revealed, I'm sure Mike will finally shut up. LOL

vetsoapfan, do you still have any AW episodes from your old Betamax?

Thank you. Didn't Kristen Vigard leave GL right after the big wedding?

It's great seeing James Pritchett playing the adulterous, morally challenged shoe salesman, quite a departure from his signature role as upstanding Chief of Staff Dr. Matt Powers on The Doctors.

Not to mention that he was also busy on stage (he was the first black Phantom of the Opera and replaced Michael Crawford) and in voiceover work (i.e. The Lion King).