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A movie? OK, thanks. Shows how much attention I've been paying to the movies lately. LOL

Cool, thanks!

Alan Feinstein also did a terrific job as a villain in a Charlie's Angels episode called "The Sandcastle Murders". Ironically, the same episode featured another guest star who would make her name on soaps - Melody Thomas (pre-Scott).

Yes, Althea and Maggie indeed have a wonderful friendship. I've only seen the relationship with Bethel Leslie as Maggie, so I wonder how it will play out when Lydia Bruce takes over the role.

I've never seen that show, but it sounds like a great role for Sela Ward. Hope it all works out for her on the show.

Really? I know that she was in a Season 3 episode of L&O - who met an unfortunate end by the mob.

Does anyone think Nancy Barrett (also of DS) could have made a good Alice? She was a blond and while she wasn't right for the role of Dr. Faith Coleridge on RH, she might have made an interesting Alice - certainly no worse than the ones who played the role after Jacquie.

The only writer listed in the credits was Rita Lakin, but I do know they had medical professionals hired on as consultants.

What a wonderful article!! Thank you for posting it - and I will pass along your congrats to my folks. Thanks for your well wishes. Ironically, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes were doing a meet and greet in my town about 4 or so years ago. I really wanted to go, but at the time I was in an immobilizer and on crutches due to dislocating my left knee in a car crash. I wasn't able to drive again yet, and there was no one available to drive me to the event. Oh, well. Maybe they will visit again in the not so distant future. You never know. Does anyone have the current SOD with their 40th anniversary interview? I'd love to read that, too. I hope DAYS will commemorate the occasion. Yes, I know that Doug and Julie didn't actually tie the knot until 1976, but it would be lovely if they would still do a special episode for Mr. and Mrs. Williams AND their portrayers.

It's a fascinating idea - not to mention that it had been done before, in reverse. Nicolas Coster originated the role of Robert Delaney on Somerset and had problems with the producer there, and Paul Rauch asked if he would like to play the character on AW instead. It would have been fun to see the Frames in a new environment - especially if Henry Slesar had been writing the show then. Ahhh, what might have been...

The episode is right on the website - so the link above should work. Such a fun show!!

Yeah, I found it ironic that the German doctor was played by a native of Poland. One of the old soap magazines (I saw it on eBay) had a photo of her with her kids on the cover and boasted her "the Bavarian Bombshell"!!!

Speaking of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes, today marks their ruby wedding anniversary - their 40th!!! October 12, 1974 - which, ironically, is the day my parents also tied the knot. Happily, both couples are still together!!!

Speaking of vintage treasures, MeTV is now airing reruns of Celebrity Bowling!!!! Most of you know that this was Jed Allan's side gig while playing Don Craig on DAYS (in fact, Bill and Susan Hayes appeared on the show). Here's the site, where episodes have been uploaded: http://metvnetwork.com/videos/celebrity-bowling Here's the episode featuring "Doug" and "Julie". Opposing them is Vince "Ben Casey" Edwards and Whitman "Grady Wilson" Mayo!!! http://metvnetwork.com/videos/celebrity-bowling/celebrity-bowling-episode-134

Looks like we've got a lot to look forward to!! Thanks for the info. I would also love to see the First Ladies Diaries specials that earned Elizabeth Hubbard and Gerald Gordon Emmys (she for playing Edith Wilson, he for playing Andrew Jackson). My understanding is that Paul Rauch produced the specials. How many were made?

This show really is a window into the past. Doctors smoking in the hospital - like Nick when he and Althea were talking in her clinic. He offered the pregnant-with-his-baby Althea a cigarette before lighting one up for himself and smoking it right in front of her. When she refuses and tells him he should quit, he says, "I can't. I'm addicted." Sadly, when Gerald Gordon passed away in the summer of 2001 - it was from emphysema.

I wonder how Jacquie Courtney would have fared in the show's 90-minute era. I would have liked to see her Alice wrestling with guilt over John giving his life to rescue her from the burning cottage.

That blooper is mentioned in the book Inside the Soaps - and the one who made it was David O'Brien in character as Steve Aldrich.

Didn't Althea already give Matt her letter of resignation - just asking that he not turn it in until she began to show? I liked the scene of Liz becoming Carolee's roommate, and when at their new bachelorette pad they proceed to get drunk and reveal certain things they probably wouldn't have sober. At last, we get an Althea AND Nick episode. Love how he just barely manages to be civil, leaves and just one second after closing the door barges back in and demands that they get married. In one of those Google-archived articles I read, it said that Gerald Gordon was one of the first - if not THE first - actor in a soap to say "damn" and get away with it. I've heard some people who watched TD in the later years of his run say that Nick mellowed a little bit, and became a mentor of sorts to the younger doctors like his nephew, Rico. The 1967 episodes are now done - when RTV picks up on Monday they will air the episodes from January 1 and 2, 1968. I know that's the same year Lydia Bruce took over the role of Maggie and kept it until the show's end in 1982. Does anyone know when in 1968 she debuted? When we see Maggie again (right now she is out of town with her daughter Greta), will she be played by Lydia?

I've read conflicting dates on when he began playing Nick. One site said 1964, another said 1966. I've gotten a kick out of reading old Google-archived articles about Mr. Gordon. Apparently, he got letters from fans asking why he had to be so mean. LOL Another article has him recalling how he would yell at the directors for having Nick yell so much!! Apparently, a special 90-minute special of TD aired in 1976, with Mr. Gordon, who had left the show, returning as Nick was summoned from out of town to operate on Althea, who had fallen through a glass door (or something like that). In an article commemorating the occasion (I can't find it on Google Archives; I may have read it on this thread), an anonymous castmate said that it just hadn't been the same without Gerald around - yelling all the time, onscreen and off. "I guess we missed it!" He didn't stay long, as he was lured to GH later that year with what was one of the lucrative contracts for a daytime actor at the time (not just more money, but a guarantee for primetime appearances and even the possibility of his own series). Still, Dr. Mark Dante didn't gel with fans the way Nick had, and he ended up bolting in 1978 just before Gloria Monty took over (he did make a brief return to the show in 1983). Gerald Gordon did do a couple of spots on primetime that I've seen - including an appearance on Perfect Strangers as the managing editor of "The Chicago Chronicle". The same episode features another familiar face who made a splash on soaps - Holland Taylor. This synopsis has a picture of him in the episode: http://www.perfectstrangers.tv/episodeguide31.htm He and Barbara Barrie played the grieving parents of a murder victim on an early L&O episode ("Vengeance" from Season 2). Stephen Bolster, who played Ted Clark on AW in the early 70s, also appears in that episode as a doctor.

Joan Collins was born in May 1933, and JEH was born in November 1957. Michael Nader was born in February 1945, so it's kind of surprising that they were both up for the same role.

For all the morals clauses being imposed on Althea, the board of Hope Memorial apparently looked the other way when the single and obviously lively Dr. Karen Werner stayed unsupervised at the home of Dr. Matt Powers when his wife and daughter were out of town. Maybe that was also a sign of the times? At least we finally learn the state of Mike Powers - he is away at school. I guess there was a falling out between father and son, as Matt muses in his voiceover that he hopes to see Mike at Easter, "the season of forgiveness". Both Althea and Liz are too good and too smart for Old Yeller (aka Dr. Nick Bellini). Maybe because we have yet to see many episodes with the two together (so far, it seems most of the episodes feature Althea or Nick, but rarely Althea AND Nick), but I don't see what Althea apparently sees in him. A smart and resourceful woman like Althea doesn't seem to be someone who would put up with Nick's nonsense for too long, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Let me guess - Ruth and her psychiatrist husband, who are childless, will end up adopting the orphan Danny?

Several websites I looked at say they moved to the JC Studios in Brooklyn in early 2000. Before that, they had taped at the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan.

Wow. How does this woman keep getting EP jobs???

His last season on SVU was Season 12 (2010-11). He left when contract negotiations fell apart during hiatus, and hasn't been back for any guest appearances as yet. Maybe that will change now that Mariska has become one of the show's producers since this season began. If anyone can coax him back for a return gig, it would be her. Could it have been any more obvious that they were channeling Lindsay and Dina Lohan on tonight's episode? Lookalikes and sound-alikes, the both of them. I'm almost surprised their real names weren't used. LOL