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Hmmm. Maybe saynotoursoap would know?

I seem to remember reading that the Y&R staff got memos from the censors to tone Jack's sexual antics down a bit when Terry Lester was in the role. Can anyone confirm if this is true or not?

I'd totally forgotten that Sela Ward was also in the cast. This should have been a hit based on the cast alone, but poor, directionless writing will work against the great acting almost every time.

You're welcome. As for the story, I have no idea. I just found this promo randomly. Do you have any SODs that would have the recaps from July 1981?

Here is an NBC promo from 1981 featuring Kim Zimmer as Nola (start of the clip):

That he did - and all of it gone because he made a stupid, stupid error in judgment. In interviews she's done in the years since, his co-star Jennifer O'Neill still is very emotional about that day. I'm sure it can't be easy for her right now as it happened 30 years ago next week. Do you think he would have made a good Dex? Somehow I can't picture him in that role, maybe because Michael Nader is so identified in it. But JEH looked like he was made for a Spelling show...it's a shame that things turned out the way they did.

Just a few weeks ago, at the end of July, Terry Kiser (Dr. John Rice) appeared on Today to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Weekend at Bernie's, and posed for a selfie with Al Roker. Pretty ironic that the man who played such an animated, fun-loving character on TD found his greatest fame over two decades later playing a dead guy!! Here's the write-up: http://www.today.com/popculture/25-years-after-weekend-bernies-star-terry-kiser-still-kicking-1D79975845

Do you feel Gina Tognoni had any chemistry with him? Maybe it's just me, but I don't think she really had much chemistry with any of her leading men - with the possible exception of Nathan Fillion.

How long did ATWT tape at the studio they were at before taking over AW's old studio in Brooklyn?

Who wasn't that guy after back then??? LOL

A vintage treasure indeed. Thanks for posting it!!

OK, then that makes sense. Did ATWT and SFT tape in the same NYC studios?

Yes, I agree that the Christmas episode (which actually aired on Christmas Day in 1967) was very sweet. It was relatively light on the drama because it was indeed Christmas and also they probably weren't expecting a large viewership that day - but it was also a welcome reprieve from the gut-wrenching fallout from the previous episode. Dr. Rice claiming he wasn't Paul Newman to Mrs. Winters and Nurse Carolee ("NOW you tell me!") was cute, as was Maggie's good-natured complaining about always ending up doing last minute Christmas shopping alone. I also loved James Pritchett breaking the fourth wall and wishing the viewers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. He had such a rich, orator's voice, didn't he? Also, he had the tones and inflections similar to Doug Watson's (AW). NBC sure was lucky to have wonderful core leading men in their soap heyday (Pritchett, Watson, Macdonald Carey at DAYS).

I thought the little touch of Steve getting Nurse Carolee a Christmas gift (and what the gift was) utterly charming. I also loved seeing her swoon and giggle - she almost melted when he blew her a kiss and winked!! She was a blushing schoolgirl!! On the other side of the coin, we have Nick and Liz. Finally, the truth is out there. The deceptively simple scene of Liz going home to the apartment she shares with Althea and breaking down - especially as she stands at the Christmas tree and despairs that never once did he tell her he loved her - with the strains of an instrumental version of "Silent Night" wafting through the apartment's radio - is as lush and still heartbreaking as you will ever see. I give Pamela Toll a lot of credit for not going overboard with the histrionics. Who wouldn't be deeply hurt upon learning what Liz did - and on Christmas Eve? The visit from a concerned Maggie coming to comfort the girl is very sweet, especially when Liz breaks down in her arms. Finally, Liz calls on Nick for calling her "kid" - more than once!! She certainly proved to be the more mature of the two - especially when he bawls out the innocent janitor for simply wanting to decorate the lab (on Dr. Matt Powers' orders). She's better off without him!!

Thank you. That's one of the periods of SFT I am the most eager to see. I wonder if he got to work with Sherry Mathis on the show, since I read in one of the google archived articles that she took over the role of Liza sometime in the spring of 1978 - either April or May.

Yay - Steve comes back in the first episode. Can't wait to watch the rest!!

Thanks for posting that - that was the episode that won him the Emmy in 1989. To think that Pat and Vanna are still on WHEEL after all these years - and they don't look all that different!!

A Martinez will be starring for the next two months in an LA-based production of Othello, in the title role: http://shakespeareinla.com/2014/09/16/a-martinez-and-jack-stehlin-to-star-in-othello-directed-by-john-perrin-flynn/

A Martinez (SB, GH, B&B, OLTL) will be starring for the next two months in an LA-based production of Othello, in the title role: http://shakespeareinla.com/2014/09/16/a-martinez-and-jack-stehlin-to-star-in-othello-directed-by-john-perrin-flynn/

Here's a 1982 article about SFT's move to NBC and the stars' travels to different cities to promote it: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19820327&id=6NYwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v-AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1190,3580079

Wrapping a tricycle with crepe paper! Too funny. I love little scenes like that.

I was trying to think of who she reminded me of, and yes - she does really resemble Susan Walters both in looks and mannerisms. I wonder whatever happened to Pamela Toll.

They didn't put Kelly into Kevin's orbit until Tim Gibbs played him, right? I always felt that was another case of JFP-propping.

They'd boycott the studios!!!

Didn't she have a baby IRL around that time?