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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).

I love seeing TV reunions. Thank you for sharing that info. I found another former cast member of The Doctors - but he is not yet in the reruns we are seeing, but comes on in 1970 so we should be seeing him sooner rather than later. The character of Rico Bellini followed in his uncle Nick's footsteps and became a doctor, and the first actor to play him, Richard Niles, also goes by "Doctor" now. Actually, he is a Ph.D. - a theatre professor at Marymount Manhattan College, where he has been since 1990. I wanted to know if the professor and the actor were one in the same, so I emailed him and asked. Within minutes I had a reply: "Yes, I am that actor! I have been dying to get tapes or DVDs of the episodes I was in. Can you give me the contact info of the station running The Doctors?" I was able to send him the contact email addresses for both SFM (who owns the rights to TD) and Luken (who owns Retro TV). If they are serious about getting the show on DVD, I'm sure they would love to hear from someone who was actually in the cast. Here's what he looks like today: http://www.mmm.edu/live/profiles/45-richard-niles

I see - I'm guessing it was first-run syndication?

Well, Little House was also a hit under his watch - but it began before he went to NBC so that may not count. Yes, you're right about Supertrain - and that epic smash hit, Pink Lady and Jeff, debuted when he was the big cheese of NBC (did he leave before Manimal came on?). Even from the second 90-minute episode - the fiery demise of John Randolph - there was plenty of filler and scenes being dragged out. The actors didn't seem very comfortable. I can see why some people said that the 90-minute expansion was really the beginning of the end of AW - though it would remain on the air for another 20 years.

I found another former cast member - but he is not yet in the reruns we are seeing, but comes on in 1970 so we should be seeing him sooner rather than later. The character of Rico Bellini followed in his uncle Nick's footsteps and became a doctor, and the first actor to play him, Richard Niles, also goes by "Doctor" now. Actually, he is a Ph.D. - a theatre professor at Marymount Manhattan College, where he has been since 1990. I wanted to know if the professor and the actor were one in the same, so I emailed him and asked. Within minutes I had a reply: "Yes, I am that actor! I have been dying to get tapes or DVDs of the episodes I was in. Can you give me the contact info of the station running The Doctors?" I was able to send him the contact email addresses for both SFM and Luken (who owns Retro TV). If they are serious about getting the show on DVD, I'm sure they would love to hear from someone who was actually in the cast. Here's what he looks like today: http://www.mmm.edu/live/profiles/45-richard-niles

Those were mistakes as was going to a 90-minute per day format. How they did it as long as they did (nearly a year and a half, I believe), I have no idea.

Is there a NYC-based soap actor that WASN'T in a Brim commercial around that time? LOL

Marsha Warfield had her own show???

Cool story. Thanks all of you for the heads up on Josh's early days. Kristen Vigard had left GL by then, right, and Morgan had been recast? (Though I do believe Geraldine Court was the only actress to play Morgan's mother.)

We should get Roger Newcomb (We Love Soaps) and Brandon's Buzz in on this...

How was Josh as a character pre-Reva? Usually when one thinks of Josh, they think of him with Reva.