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Jack Coleman looked so...harsh in the role. Al Corley had softer facial features and a quiet demeanor, which I think worked for the sensitive Steven. Plus, I think he and PSM played off each other very well - very believable as siblings who were complete opposites but loved each other regardless.

Last I saw was Althea running out of Liz's surprise bridal shower (thrown by Carolee and the other nurses) in tears. Did the poster put up episodes after that and had to take them down? Does anyone know what happened for sure?

I was just watching episodes - the last I saw were from December 12 and 13, 1967, both prominently featuring Althea. I haven't had any problems. Maybe it was just an upgrade?

Sounds interesting! I wonder how many of these episodes are online, if any.

OK...I'll try to see some post-Gavin episodes from 1983-84 and see what I can find!!

Yeah, he was good as Gabe. Never saw him on OLTL.

Do you think Michael O'Leary had believable best friend chemistry with John Bolger's Phillip?

Valerie Harper was on TD? When?

That's as good an explanation as any! Thanks.

Thank you for the backstory, Carl. How exactly did he hook up with Frannie?

I thought he was asked to go back to ATWT, unless my timing's off.

I like how some doctors were allowed to be ruthless and out only for themselves. That may not have been pleasant to see, but I have no doubt it happened and still happens in real life more than we think (also not pleasant to think about).

Thank you for sharing all that. I know that John James' run on AMC was not successful, so thanks for explaining why.

Was the dance studio still around at the end of the show or was it phased out when Mark Arnold (Gavin) left the show?

Darryl...Rex Smith, right? How exactly did he and Barbara hook up? I know he was Jennifer's bio dad.

From that era? Elizabeth Hubbard and Carolee Campbell (not to mention the second Carolee, Jada Rowland) are both still with us. I don't know who else still is.

I see. Thanks.

Sweet!!! The divine Sharon Gabet.

Thank you, Paul Raven. Carl - yes, Somerset lasted from 1970-76.

Why exactly did Melanie Smith leave?

I started watching DAYS in early 1996, mainly because my younger sister was such a rabid fan of that show. My sis also traded tapes with someone out of state for awhile, so I would watch the vintage episodes with her. So I watched that for several years, but GH was the one I started watching on my own, beginning in the summer of 1997. But I gave it up after several years because I was sick and tired of all the mob crap. I also watched AW from early 1997 until it was cancelled in 1999. But I subscribed to Soap Opera Digest (and my sister to Soap Opera Magazine before that one went under) for many years and read every issue from cover to cover so I knew what was going on with all of the shows. Before I started watching episodes of the long-defunct shows online, I read a lot of soap books - the trivia books by Gerry Waggett (plus his Soap Opera Encyclopedia) and the long out-of-print books like Paul Denis' Inside the Soaps and Robert LaGuardia's Soap World - both published in the 80s when a lot of the soaps no longer on the air were still alive and kicking. Some of that reading I did for a project in a communications class I took in high school. My teacher was a big AMC fan, so I figured I would have her attention if I wrote a paper entitled "The Pros and Cons of Soap Operas", which was a topic I really wanted to write about anyway. All the research I did paid off, because I did get an A on the project. This was in the spring of 1997, right when Michael Zaslow was being dropped from GL, when no one knew what was wrong with his health at the time. With the magazines we had subscribed to and the soap books I'd borrowed from the library, I was able to write about how much Zaz meant to GL, his Emmy win, the controversial storylines he had played out over the years, and how the show was at an impasse without him. (At that time, he was just on a medical leave from the show.) At heart, I just love a good story. The soaps of yore, under writers like Agnes Nixon, Bill Bell, Labine/Mayer, at their best, did that. They provided stories about family, romance and fantasy, with good actors interpreting their ideas. I'll take that any day over the mob, shootings and explosions. If I wanted to see that, I would just turn on the news.

Remember the Bill Bell tribute? "God bless Eric Braeden"? Are we sure that wasn't REALLY a Freudian slip?

I don't know. I'm disappointed - I was looking forward to Peaches & Herb!! So far, all I can see for the show on my DVR for the next few Wednesdays are reruns. Booooo... You are absolutely right about TV One's website being a mess. I have NEVER found it to be user-friendly.

It's always nice to see another AW alum getting a steady TV gig. What channel is that show on?

Althea also had a son, Buddy Davis, with her first husband - who died as a youngster of meningitis (I think that's what I read). Was Althea's first husband ever seen on the show?