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Me, too. I've always loved Tom Poston, God rest him.

I saw Bev in some clips from ATWT from the late 80s - she played a short-term character who was involved with Kirk. That was probably soon after the AW 25th anniversary episodes that she returned for. I've also exchanged a couple of emails with Bev's predecessor as Pat - Susan Trustman, now going by her married name of Susan Leider. Long retired from acting, she has since become a painter. On dailymotion, there is a clip of the NBC Daytime promo from 1965 - and she's at the end of it, in jail and crying. I sent her the link and she was shocked - she had never seen it before!!

Yes, and from then on, that day has been known as Black Thursday for soap fans. That particular day, I had come home from a job interview, changed into my regular clothes and got online. I read that AMC and OLTL had been given the ax. My first reaction was "BOTH of them?" I thought what a waste it had been to uproot the AMC people to the opposite coast when the cancellation happened only a year (if that) later? At least OLTL got to stay in NYC. I'm still surprised that The Chew (what a stupid title) is still on the air. The Revolution - and I don't even remember what that show was about - sank without a trace. The only good out of the whole thing was Susan Lucci ripping Frons a new one. I'm still applauding her for that.

That ant movie was so ridiculous - but then that was when everybody wanted to be another Irwin Allen. LOL GG did do a number of primetime gigs through the 80s into the early 90s - Knight Rider, One Day at a Time, Highway to Heaven, Baywatch, Perfect Strangers, The Hogan Family, L&O - but those were episodics, not a star-making vehicle. The actress playing his daughter on Baywatch was played by a young virtual unknown named Mariska Hargitay.

Thank you. For some reason, I thought he went to OLTL in 2003, but I think Clint Ritchie was still making the occasional guest spot then.

RFlow, I love your avatar!! Who was your favorite character on the show? Did you like Shana?

Thanks for posting them, Carl - the Bachmans aka Fran Brill and Allan Miller. I just had the through the mail success from Fran Brill today (along with AW's Beverly Penberthy), and I've had Allan Miller's autograph for several years - before I even knew he had been on soaps. The fan letter I wrote to him was in regards to his primetime career. He went on to be an acting coach for many years (I'm not sure if he is still at it or is retired - he's in his mid-80s by now). The first photo of Fran Brill was when she played Rachel Jackson in 1975's First Ladies Diaries: Rachel Jackson opposite TD's Gerald Gordon as Andrew Jackson.

Thank you, Carl. For the record, the one I sent was the "Star of the Month" with the yellow border. The b&w one - I thought she looked like Mary Frann. I love the most recent photo of her - she looks so glam. AW really did her wrong in 1982, from what I read. She could have been a tentpole on AW for years to come.

That sounds about right. I wanted to say 2004, but I knew it was around that time. Had JvD already moved on to OLTL by then? Thanks.

Thank you, Carl. Keep me posted!! SoapDope, KZ doesn't make it totally clear, but I've always assumed that KT chose to leave. In today's episodes, two pre-fame future soap icons show up - Susan Lucci in the first (a few months before AMC premiered) and Joseph Mascolo (years before he became DAYS' Stefano).

I also got a response through the mail from Fran Brill today, if you want to put that on the HTSAM page. Thanks again!!!

Check your PM while I get something out to you.

In one of today's reruns of The Doctors, a pre-Stefano Joseph Mascolo (credited as Joe Mascolo) played a police officer who helps out Penny Davis (Jami Fields). The episode was from April 30, 1969.

Yes!!

One of the reasons watching the reruns is so fun is because you never know who will show up on any given day. Today we get two for the price of one.

Susan Lucci, several months before AMC debuted, guested as a patient on one of the reruns shown today of The Doctors.

Today I had an AW through the mail autograph success from the wonderful Beverly Penberthy. Not only did she sign the photo I sent, but she sent along two more (also signed) and wrote a lovely note to me in a blank card. I'll send the images off to one of my friends here so everyone can see them.

Didn't they take LK off contract at one point?

I didn't even know he was on OLTL. I guess you really do learn something new every day!!!

I found a 1972 cast photo, after TD won its first Emmy (EP Allen Potter is holding the Emmy in the photo) and emailed it to Susan Bedsow-Horgan (wife of Patrick Horgan, who played TD's villain du jour of the early 70s, Dr. John Morrison). She wrote back saying: "Thanks for the photo - those were very happy times for Patrick. And even though everyone thought Dr. Morrison was a villain, he always played him as wounded. Maybe that's why he was so effective. And he never got one piece of hate mail. By the way, standing next to Patrick is Allen Potter who was the EP. I worked for him as EP on Guiding Light when it went to the hour in 1977. Patrick got me the interview for the job. And Patrick sailed his brand new boat through the Cape Cod canal but it crashed. They weren't hurt." As many of you know, Susie was the EP of OLTL from 1994-1996 (and co-wrote the short-lived Prospect Park revival) and was interviewed in the 2013 book Llanview in the Afternoon by Jeff Giles. She doesn't name the soap, but it has to be TD, given that Joseph Stuart took over the reins of TD after Allen Potter left in 1973. Patrick Horgan was on TD from 1970-74. Susan Bedsow Horgan: Joe [stuart] was a network guy, and boy, was he not liked. He did something very unethical to my husband, preventing him from taking another job and then firing him right after so he was completely out of work. I had the feeling that he was very tyrannical. This certainly fits in with some of the stories saynotoursoap has said. On another note, Carl, have you found the disc yet with Liz Hubbard's Brim commercial?

Exactly. Whatever happened to Patricia Hodges?

Wow, I can't even see that - maybe because Jean Leclerc is so identifiable in the role.

Wasn't Patricia Hodges let go and her character killed off (along with Petronia Paley's Quinn) in 1987?

Thanks. From what I've read, JP continued to act for many years after TD - but primarily on stage.

From what I read, my home market of Cleveland didn't even air EON at all in its last years on ABC. Akron did, though.