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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

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!!