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I had never even heard of Lady Blue until seeing that clip. I take it that it didn't last too long.

The Viveca Fox episode that aired last night was nice and did touch on her soap beginnings. I had known about Generations, but didn't know she was on Y&R and that's what led her to Independence Day (some producer had seen her on Y&R and thought she'd be great in the movie). Viveca herself had nothing but nice things to say about how hard people of soaps work.

The videos are great. I have no idea who owns SB now. Is New World Productions even still around?

Susan - I hope Maggie kept that receipt!! LOL

I hadn't heard about it. Good catch.

Good old WEWS, my hometown ABC affiliate!!!

Bliss? Were they watching The Colbys? LOL

That's the way to do a good remote. Paris was a wonderful backdrop to the action - and a wonderful way to introduce Carrington Garland!!

Just the writing for Althea/Nick has spoiled me. Who writes this good for a couple in their mid-30s (and upwards) now?

Speaking of favorite credit sequences, I have a new favorite from one of the episodes aired just yesterday. Martha and Ed leave the lab with one of the geraniums she keeps by the window. Then, the scene cuts to Anna's room and Martha presents the geranium to Anna. So cute and sweet!

Thanks for posting that GL scene. I didn't know she was on that show, either!!

Carl, tell your mom I agree with her that these episodes don't even seem "soap-like". As a long-time lover of old shows, I think TD from the era we are seeing now is more like Ben Casey meets Bewitched.

I never knew Barbara Garrick was on ATWT - I thought her only soap had been OLTL.

Thank you for your insights, Carl - it always fascinates me that her 25+ year run on ATWT (1984-2010, minus the few months in 1999 when she left due to a contract dispute) lasted several years longer than TD itself lasted (just shy of 20 years).

I think that was Bethel's second-to-last episode, where Althea "tried on" the glow-in-the-dark, psychedelic bikini. It was even funnier because you knew Nick would show up during the "demonstration" and sure enough, he did. Bethel was in the episode after that, where she and Matt were chilling out at home. Then Penny ran away again (to Nick's, of all places), and Althea was seen pouring out her worries at the Powers' house, and the Maggie comforting her was Lydia Bruce in her first episode. I've said before that I realize the era we are watching now was a completely different one when it came to smoking and drinking - but they really knew how to put away the booze on this show, didn't they? On duty, all they drink is coffee. Off duty, they consume scotch, brandy, bourbon, wine, etc., like water. Still, the sight of Matt and Nick, blitzed out of their minds, staggering around in each other's suit jackets was a moment of comedic genius. James Pritchett and Gerald Gordon played the scene to perfection - even though we couldn't hear what they were saying!! LOL

While I never watched the CBS soaps with any regularity (the soaps I watched, with the exception of GH, were all on NBC), every time I did watch ATWT I was always struck by Lucinda - Liz Hubbard just has that presence that commands the viewer's attention. Lucinda was the cutthroat businesswoman but was also a fiercely devoted mother - and Ms. Hubbard played her to perfection. Since Retro TV began airing the reruns of The Doctors this past fall (starting with December 1967 - they are in September 1968 now), it's been so much fun seeing Liz Hubbard in the role that made her a star (and an Emmy winner). Dr. Althea Davis is so different from Lucinda Walsh in many ways (Althea is not a schemer and more like a classic heroine), but she has the same maternal chemistry with Penny as Lucinda had with Lily. So to those of you who are watching TD (or have already watched it when it was originally on) and have also watched ATWT, which Liz Hubbard character do you like better - Althea or Lucinda? Like slick mentioned a few pages back, it would have been wonderful had her TD love interest, Gerald Gordon, come on ATWT - even for a short-term part - so fans could have seen them act together again before he passed away.

Another favorite of mine is the recent proposal in Ronnie's Restaurant. The credits rolled over the waiter and patrons shaking hands with the happy couple before they left. I also liked how another end credits sequence was divided between a glum Steve, Maggie and Karen in the clinic and the nurses and orderlies gossiping after one of them had spotted a couple kissing in the lounge.

Did he get to write at all for Anna Holbrook's Sharlene? She was on the show by 1988, wasn't she?

That is for sure. They make every second count so there is no filler - and everything moves so fast!! Hey, does anybody have a favorite ending credits sequence? Mine would have to be Matt and Nick, sloshed out of their minds, putting on each other's suit jackets to go out to dinner (this is when Matt was living in the hotel when he and Maggie were separated).

No, you don't want to skip, especially where Althea/Nick is concerned. They'll be teamed together on a tough medical case that will eventually lead to all sorts of things happening for them. Carl, I agree with you about the episodes we are seeing feeling so alive. To me, they don't even feel "soapish". Althea/Nick remind me a lot of Samantha and Darrin of Bewitched, which was still going strong in 1968. Many of the end credit sequences are like mini-sitcoms. There's just the sense of TLC given to each character and story that the genre at large lost somewhere along the way.

I wonder what they thought when Marisa Tomei went on to win an Oscar a few years after they fired her!!

Here's a real treat for everyone watching the reruns now. This video was made in 2012 - the Sally Draper of the show, Jami Fields aka Penny Davis:

I do remember Sharlene coming back to be with Josie after the miscarriage. That was in the spring of 1999 - either March or April - right around the time the cancellation was announced.

This is from 2012, but it'll be a treat for everyone watching the reruns of The Doctors on Retro TV. Jami Fields aka Penny Davis:

Thank you for clarifying that. I know David Forsyth left AW in the summer of 1997, but didn't he come back for a few days in 1998? I know Anna Holbrook did.