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Franko - YES!!!! "Can I have your autograph?" "Not on that thing!"

I was watching a few clips and noticed that at the beginning, Agnes Nixon and Douglas Marland were listed as co-creators in the closing credits. Later on, only Agnes Nixon was listed as creator. Why did Douglas Marland distance himself from Loving?

Very nice!

Applcin, right now it seems that all the stories are in a holding pattern. Getting way too much airtime right now are Mike Powers and Nancy Bennett, complete with the sexy saxophone music that is so not suited for them. On the upside, Laryssa Lauret (Karen) has a Facebook fan page and has been communicating with the viewers. She is a total departure from the dour Dr. Werner - and seems to be thrilled that a whole new generation of fans are enjoying the show and her work.

The young man playing Penny's date Eric (Joey Baio, cousin of Scott and brother of Jimmy) went on to a highly successful non-show biz career. He is now a lawyer practicing in NYC. Here is his webpage, complete with a current photo: http://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/baio-joseph-t

Pat Sajak also appeared on another NBC soap, SB, years later with Vanna White.

Yup, and Peggy Ann Garner also won an Honorary Oscar as a child for her role in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Nick will get even more abrasive as 1968 gives way to 1969...but then, so will Althea and Penny, and several other characters. Again, I don't know how our two favorite guys on the show got along off-camera (I would presume they were friendly), but the show's three main couples were all close friends IRL. I've read several articles about that Jim Pritchett and Lydia Bruce were very good friends, and they would often get together with their real-life spouses for shows and dinners. In 1976, JP and LB were in a play in Philly about the Lincoln-Douglas debate and her husband, Leon Stevens, was the director. Carolee Campbell mentioned in a couple of emails to me and also in the vintage soap articles that she and David O'Brien were close friends off-camera and even did a play together in 1977 after she had left the show. Carolee was also very close to Sally Gracie (Martha) and Jim Pritchett and his family. Elizabeth Hubbard told Serial Scoop in an interview from October 2014 (just as Retro started airing the reruns) that she and Gerald Gordon remained friends for many years. He would accompany her to the Emmys, and whenever he would come home to NYC from trips to Vegas at 7 AM, he would call her. He knew she was an early riser and he wouldn't be waking her up with his calls. She also confirmed they were very good friends when she answered my letter about a month ago. The Serial Scoop interview is on YouTube. The core group of actors and several key members of the crew stayed together on the show for a number of years, so I guess they were a tight-knit work family in many ways. Jim Pritchett, Lydia Bruce, Elizabeth Hubbard, Gerald Gordon, Carolee Campbell, David O'Brien, Laryssa Lauret, Peter Burnell, Sally Gracie, Jennifer Houlton, etc....all had significant tenure. Allen Potter was also at the helm for about 6 1/2 years.

Ahhhh. One paragraph that shocked me was the one that said, "so far, all their bedroom scenes they've done have been on television". My jaw actually dropped. These were supposedly the conservative soap mags!!! LOL

AW's Susan Trustman (the original Pat Matthews Randolph), now going by her married name of Susan Leider, is now an accomplished painter. Here is her website: http://susanleiderart.com/about

Speaking of Susan Trustman, she is a painter now - using her married name of Susan Leider. Here is her website: http://susanleiderart.com/about

I wonder what led to their falling-out if he dissed her in a later interview. I saw Dorrie Kavanaugh on the SoapNet reruns of RH, and also in a small but crucial role in the 1978 miniseries The Awakening Land, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Hal Holbrook, Jane Seymour and (in his first screen role) William H. Macy. George Reinholt himself seemed like such an enigma. I heard he had written a memoir and finished it just before his passing. Does anyone know if it was ever published? I and doubtless many others would certainly be interested in reading it.

Thanks again, Carl!!

Really? Thanks! I'll set the DVR.

Thanks for posting the picture, Carl. I actually also sent it to Jacquie's daughter, Jennifer. She was thrilled as she had never seen that picture before, and commented that she thought her mom had the least attractive dress of the four. LOL

I wish someone would get the surviving cast and crew together for a reunion while we still have them. Maybe We Love Soaps could get on this?

Yesterday, I had a wonderful email from Carolee, who shared a lovely story about her good friend, Sally Gracie (Martha): "Darling Sally. I loved her. When my mother was visiting us in NY, Sally had us over to her apartment on Madison Ave. and served petit fours from the very best bakery and tea. My mother was thrilled. Be well, Carolee" I learned that Tim Kebbe, the son of Sally Gracie, is a lawyer who has his own law firm in White Plains, NY. Here's the link to his website, as well as a photo. I can definitely see resemblance to his mother. http://www.kebbelaw.com/ Anyway, I emailed him at the address on the top right-hand corner of the site last night, and was delighted to receive a response from him this morning. I had also forwarded him the same message from Carolee that I just posted here. Here goes: "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" I hope you all enjoy this note as much as I have.

That might have been more entertaining than Victoria Rowell vs....well, anyone. (Sorry, I had to say it!!!)

For those of you who wanted to see the Different World episode, you're in luck - TV One will be rerunning it on Wednesday (5/20) at 9 PM EST.

Even though the two Irises had very different acting styles and very different takes on the character, each actress was/is larger than life. That's why both were believable.

I haven't yet, but will soon. Thanks again.

In 1992, People profiled James "Uncle Porkchop" Kiberd and his wife, Susan Keith: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20113007,00.html June 29, 1992 Vol. 37 No. 25 Romance in Sudsville By Karen S. Schneider Love Was in the Stars for All My Children's James Kiberd and Loving's Susan Keith—but First It Was in the Script LATE ONE AUGUST NIGHT 1983 ON THE Manhattan set of ABC's newly created soap opera, Loving, leading man James Kiberd was engaged in a passionate kiss with beautiful blonde No. 17—the last contestant in the day's audition for his character's Ms. Right. "They're all fine except her," Kiberd told the producers after the actress left. "I don't like her." Sound like a story line for a daytime drama? It soon became one. Despite Kiberd's protestations, Susan Keith was hired as Shana Sloane Vochek, the temperamental lawyer she plays today. (In 1985, though, Kiberd, now 37, left the show, and since 1989 has played cantankerous detective Trevor Dillon on ABC's All My Children.) For months when the camera taped, the couple kissed, but when it stopped, they glared. "I thought he was just like his character—blunt, a chauvinist pig and inarticulate," says Keith, 32. "He was mean to me for the longest time." "You were mean to me too," shoots back James, nibbling cold cuts in the kitchen of their three-story restored Victorian house in Westchester County, on the Hudson River north of New York City. But love, like organ music in the afternoon, overwhelmed the dissonance. In less than a year, the sniping had turned to after-hours heart-to-hearts, and before long the couple's on-air smooches were looking suspiciously sincere. "There was one scene at a fashion show," recalls Loving producer Barbara Duggan, "where he just grabbed her and kissed her, and everyone in the studio went, 'Whew!' " In September 1985, during an emotional Loving goodbye scene, Kiberd ditched the scripted "Shana, I can't marry you." Instead, as the stunned crew looked on, he ad-libbed, "Susan, will you marry me?" As the cameramen prepared to retape the scene, recalls Keith, "I started laughing. I mean, he didn't have a ring. No flowers. No kneepads." Replies Kiberd: "But my shoes were tied...and my zipper was up." Friends questioned the union. Keith, from rural Crystal Lake, Ill., the daughter of a grocery-chain supervisor and a clerical worker, was a self-described "nice Midwestern girl"; Kiberd, son of an architect and a landscaper from Providence, was "a wild man," says Keith, known for "getting down on all fours in hallways and barking. People would take me aside and say, 'Are you sure about what you're doing?' " Six years later, the answer, say both, remains an emphatic yes. "It's been heaven ever since," claims Kiberd. Well, OK—not ever since. "He leaves drawers open and runs red lights," complains Keith. "Turning red, honey," corrects her spouse. Playful banter aside, the couple's only source of real concern has been their difficulty having children. "I'm losing hope," says Susan, who last year had two pregnancies end in miscarriages. "Last night I saw an ad for EPT home pregnancy test. I put the blanket over my head." Adds Kiberd softly: "It's been very painful." Yet between their soap lives and their own lives—curling up to watch Roseanne, touring art galleries and communing with their rottweiler, Omen, and their Siamese cat, Caliban—they have neither the time nor inclination to dwell on sadness. Nor, in Kiberd's case, on the rowdy life that used to be. "I never thought I could be faithful," says Kiberd, glancing tenderly at his wife, "but she's the doll of dolls." KAREN S. SCHNEIDER MARIA EFTIMIADES in Westchester Contributors: Maria Eftimiades.

People did a profile on the Kiberds in 1992: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20113007,00.html June 29, 1992 Vol. 37 No. 25 Romance in Sudsville By Karen S. Schneider Love Was in the Stars for All My Children's James Kiberd and Loving's Susan Keith—but First It Was in the Script LATE ONE AUGUST NIGHT 1983 ON THE Manhattan set of ABC's newly created soap opera, Loving, leading man James Kiberd was engaged in a passionate kiss with beautiful blonde No. 17—the last contestant in the day's audition for his character's Ms. Right. "They're all fine except her," Kiberd told the producers after the actress left. "I don't like her." Sound like a story line for a daytime drama? It soon became one. Despite Kiberd's protestations, Susan Keith was hired as Shana Sloane Vochek, the temperamental lawyer she plays today. (In 1985, though, Kiberd, now 37, left the show, and since 1989 has played cantankerous detective Trevor Dillon on ABC's All My Children.) For months when the camera taped, the couple kissed, but when it stopped, they glared. "I thought he was just like his character—blunt, a chauvinist pig and inarticulate," says Keith, 32. "He was mean to me for the longest time." "You were mean to me too," shoots back James, nibbling cold cuts in the kitchen of their three-story restored Victorian house in Westchester County, on the Hudson River north of New York City. But love, like organ music in the afternoon, overwhelmed the dissonance. In less than a year, the sniping had turned to after-hours heart-to-hearts, and before long the couple's on-air smooches were looking suspiciously sincere. "There was one scene at a fashion show," recalls Loving producer Barbara Duggan, "where he just grabbed her and kissed her, and everyone in the studio went, 'Whew!' " In September 1985, during an emotional Loving goodbye scene, Kiberd ditched the scripted "Shana, I can't marry you." Instead, as the stunned crew looked on, he ad-libbed, "Susan, will you marry me?" As the cameramen prepared to retape the scene, recalls Keith, "I started laughing. I mean, he didn't have a ring. No flowers. No kneepads." Replies Kiberd: "But my shoes were tied...and my zipper was up." Friends questioned the union. Keith, from rural Crystal Lake, Ill., the daughter of a grocery-chain supervisor and a clerical worker, was a self-described "nice Midwestern girl"; Kiberd, son of an architect and a landscaper from Providence, was "a wild man," says Keith, known for "getting down on all fours in hallways and barking. People would take me aside and say, 'Are you sure about what you're doing?' " Six years later, the answer, say both, remains an emphatic yes. "It's been heaven ever since," claims Kiberd. Well, OK—not ever since. "He leaves drawers open and runs red lights," complains Keith. "Turning red, honey," corrects her spouse. Playful banter aside, the couple's only source of real concern has been their difficulty having children. "I'm losing hope," says Susan, who last year had two pregnancies end in miscarriages. "Last night I saw an ad for EPT home pregnancy test. I put the blanket over my head." Adds Kiberd softly: "It's been very painful." Yet between their soap lives and their own lives—curling up to watch Roseanne, touring art galleries and communing with their rottweiler, Omen, and their Siamese cat, Caliban—they have neither the time nor inclination to dwell on sadness. Nor, in Kiberd's case, on the rowdy life that used to be. "I never thought I could be faithful," says Kiberd, glancing tenderly at his wife, "but she's the doll of dolls." KAREN S. SCHNEIDER MARIA EFTIMIADES in Westchester Contributors: Maria Eftimiades.

That's awesome!! God bless her.

Very interesting! I always love stories about the behind the scenes work, like set construction.