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Yes!! It makes it all the more a pleasure watching Sally play Martha knowing that she was just as nice off-screen. One of the things about the show I love is how different all the characters are - a bunch of people from all different walks of life who come together because they are "dedicated to the brotherhood of healing". It's pretty much like any office environment when you look at it that way. Some co-workers drive you batty, some become your friends for life, and it may be both in some cases.

Today I got a through-the-mail autograph success from one of AMC's earliest cast members, Judith Barcroft (Ann Tyler). It was a outdoor cover photo of Afternoon TV magazine with her and William Mooney (Paul Martin). Her husband was one of AMC's earliest writers. Do any of you have memories of her as Ann? Was the character a typical heroine?

That is so great. Sharon's the best, she really is. In today's mail, I had my latest autograph success - this time with Judith Barcroft, the first Lenore. I'll get the image off to Carl soon.

I love Sharon!! Thanks for posting that. She's located on the West Coast now - and it's criminal that none of the remaining soaps have scooped her up.

Yeah, so do I, but it is still one of the most entertaining memoirs from an actress I've ever read.

I'm rereading Zimmer's book and can just imagine how it must have felt to work on the show in the Wheeler era. Not that I think everything was Ellen Wheeler's fault (she had to answer to the folks at P&G, she was given a certain amount of money to work with and was still told to make cuts, etc.), but Peapack was for sure a failed experiment. There had to be a better way to keep things going than that.

I loved that vintage Don and Marlena clip, since I haven't seen much material on them available.

Wow, I never heard that. Cool.

Have we heard anything about cast additions - i.e. the replacement for Amaro/Pino? I haven't.

Dan, I've tried getting into contact with Pam to no avail. I still hope she'll respond but I am not holding my breath. I totally agree with you about Martha. Sally Gracie was all too often relegated to comic relief so it was GREAT to see her get a scene that she could really sink her teeth into. I think the last time we saw her give such a serious monologue was when she was trying to comfort Ed Stark, who had yet to reveal his "disappearing acts" (i.e. helping Anna). About a month ago, I emailed Carolee Campbell and asked who her best friends amongst the TD cast were other than David O'Brien. She responded that she was close to Jim Pritchett and his family, and absolutely adored Sally Gracie. I found out that Sally's only child, Tim Kebbe, is now an attorney with his own firm located in NY. I emailed him (and passed him along Carolee's email) and this was his response: "Dear Monika, Thanks for you kind note and the forwarded message from Carolee Campbell. Like Carolee, your messages bring me to and through memory’s gateway. Carolee was a great friend of my mother and father, as was her husband Hector Elizondo. She also stands out as a respected and fun part of my childhood. I have seen some older - that is, from the 1950’s - clips of my mother on YouTube. I am not familiar with the Retro Television channel, but will take a look. In a way, I grew up with The Doctors and its cast. I finished my adolescence with One Life to Live, another day-time drama, and its cast. I had a happy childhood and adolescence. My mother, I discovered, was more or less the same at home as she was on television, on stage or in movies. So the delightful person you have encountered on Retro TV is the same one who raised me. I appreciate your note. I think that Sally would be pleased that television aficionados still enjoy her work. Take care. Tim"

Yup, and I just saw him on Jimmy Fallon last week promoting it. He looks well and seems in very good spirits.

I haven't seen the reruns from today yet, so I don't know if Pam is back or if MM kept filling in for awhile. The only other character we had seen temped since Retro began airing the reruns was Maggie - first when Kathleen Murray was in a couple of episodes due to Bethel Leslie being out with the measles, and the second when Bethel left (supposedly temporarily) to play Sean Connery's wife in The Molly Maguires, and Lydia Bruce was supposed to fill in for 8 weeks. Of course, as we all know, Bethel stayed out west and Lydia's 8-week run turned into nearly 15 years.

I don't know, because other cast lists I read had her listed as still part of the cast in 1970, and some other sources had her staying until 1971 (Julia Duffy took over as the slightly aged Penny in 1973). I'll try to find out for sure and let you know if I hear anything. As for Pam Toll, she married at least twice more and is today the mother of four grown children (and is probably a grandmother by now). She has two daughters from her second marriage and twin sons from her third. One of her sons, Daniel DeVault, is very active in theatre in Tennessee.

Very cool!!

Watson71, you hit the nail right on the head, I couldn't have said all that better than you just did. Carl, thanks for posting my AW autograph success stories (and all of them, really). I hope everyone enjoys them as much as I do.

I always thought that it was so ironic about the whole Hubbard/Marland thing. What an incredible actress she is to have made two completely different characters and completely own them. I REALLY want to see her other Emmy-winning project - the First Ladies Diaries special where she played Mrs. Edith Wilson (and Gerald Gordon's Emmy-winning turn in the Rachel Jackson installment of FLD, as President Andrew Jackson - David O'Brien was in that one, too!!).

Yup. I thought that with his popularity throughout his 15-year run on the show that he'd be a hot commodity once TD ceased production at the end of 1982. His gig on AW didn't come until 1987, I believe. I guess I'm just surprised that none of the other soaps - either in LA or especially NYC - snapped him up right away.

Yes - that's where they belong, and I figured that's where you would put them. Thanks again, I really appreciate it. I'm surprised that Jim Pritchett and Lydia Bruce never landed long-term roles on other soaps after TD, but it seems that they preferred the stage. Gerald Gordon, after leaving GH for the second time in 1983, didn't grace daytime again until the summer of 1994 when he had that short-term role as Adam Chandler's lawyer on AMC. It seems that Liz was the only one who wanted to continue long-term on soaps, and it's too bad that out of 9 nominations she never won at least once for Lucinda to go with her Emmy as Althea. What do you all think about where David O'Brien's career might have gone had he not passed away in 1989? Do you think he would have gained another daytime role or maybe just primarily stuck with the stage like Jim Pritchett did?

Those are all awesome. Thanks for posting them!!!

Thanks for sharing that article...and yes, if you ever do come across Liz's return interview from that 1981 SOD, that would be wonderful. If you have any Liz interviews/articles from her ATWT era, would you please post them on that board? Thanks. Dan, Pam Toll married her first husband in December 1967 and was still wed to him at this point (June 1969), so my first guess would be the show temped for her due to illness. But we have no way of knowing until Pam appears again how long Maureen Mooney temped for her.

I've never even heard of Mary Grover, but that might say more about me than her.

Marta Heflin makes her debut as Shana in today's first episode. Meanwhile, Maureen Mooney temps for Pam Toll as Liz Wilson. (Of course, MM would appear years later in a Brim Coffee commercial with Liz Hubbard.) Carl, would you happen to have Liz Hubbard's "return" interview from 1981? It was in the SOD issue dated May 12, 1981, and Denise Alexander and Chris Robinson of GH were on the cover. If you do have it, would you please post it here? Thanks.

RFlow, did you also like the character of Shana? Susan Keith is an absolute doll - I treasure the autographed picture I have of her and the lovely handwritten note she sent along with it.

It's so funny that I just wrote that last entry a few days ago - Maureen Mooney (later best known for her run as Ann on GL from 1975-79) temped for Pam Toll as Liz Wilson in one of the Retro TV reruns shown today (from June 1969).

Carl (or anyone), would you be able to post any Liz Hubbard features from her time on ATWT? I have the first part of an interview from the 6/20/1995 SOD, but not the rest. Then there was the big article about Lucinda's return in the 8/17/1999 issue (which I used to have but accidentally wound up with the recycling out on the curb one day long ago). Anything from the 80s and 90s would especially be appreciated. I do have the interview SOD did with her in the 6/15/2010 issue. Thanks in advance!!!