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AMCOLTLLover, you must be pleased that Babette Van Veen is back next week! No Anton but still good news.

Oh no, THANK YOU for responding! Wow, I thought that Babette VanVeen had decided to leave and they just wrote off Linda and Anton together. I had no idea she was actually let go. Yikes. That’s not cool. I wondered if maybe you knew what happened with the young actor who played Valentijn, Vincent Visser? Very good looking kid, not a bad actor at all but I suspect something went wrong and he ended up being fired and Val was sent to prison. I remember they tried to pair Val up with Merel for about two episodes but there was no chemistry at all between them. I used to subscribe to Visser’s YT videos but all it seems to be is his riding expensive cars and hanging out in very expensive looking apartments and going on very expensive vacations with his “buddies.” Very dull. Speaking of Merel Sophie Bouquet is absolutely stunning looking and has improved tremendously as an actress since joining the show. I’ve only ever been able to watch during my year end visits to The Netherlands so can’t easily track her character. Has it never been suggested that she’s actually the biological daughter of Julian and Jessica? It makes far more sense to me. She physically looks a lot more like Katja Schuurman than Tamara Brinkman! Hah. OK, now that’s ME writing too much! Maybe we could carry on our conversations in the Message Center? Would that be possible? Again, thanks for your response!

I know the actress who played JoJo quit to “do other things”-in fact she’s the lead in a film called Costa coming out next week. I was a little surprised that both Richard and Roman have been written out. Babette Van Veen (Linda) left the show for a number of years but then returned so I think she’ll be back someday. I wish I could see clips from recent GTST episodes on YouTube but the channel obviously got some sort of warning by RTL.

I think she was born in 1947 and that is her in that ad. It looks so much like her, starting with that glare she’s got! I’m pretty sure Tudor did a fair amount of modeling back in the day.

Is there any possibility that this is Christine Tudor? It sure looks like her. But this was shot in 1968 so not sure she would have been old enough for this.

One of the leading ladies on the Dutch soap Goede Tijden, Schlecte Tijden, announced on Instagram tonight that the show’s last episode of the season airs May 28th, about five weeks before their cliffhanger season finale would have aired. Because they had to abruptly halt filming a few weeks ago they hadn’t gotten to the point of filming the cliffhanger yet. I wonder if this sort of situation has also affected any of the German soaps? I know Sturm der Liebe is shot many months in advance.

Well, Bryant Park is even closer! I wonder if that’s where they shot that scene.

Here’s a clip of the Verduyn family, the first one with all of them together in one scene.

I realize the earlier thread was shut down years ago but I became hooked on this show when I was in the Netherlands from mid December to mid January. I couldn’t understand any of the dialogue so it was fun to figure out what the storylines were. Anybody out there who can fill me in on the basics? I’m already a big fan of the Verduyn family-patriarch Julian had been a character on GTST from 1995 to 1999 and has returned with a wife, three kids and a dog!

I think it was something like January 25, 1977? I’m not positive but it was definitely around that time.

I loved finally seeing the episodes Geri (Geraldine) Court told me about, the ones where Steffi was in the hospital sick with rheumatic fever. She would have us rolling on the floor describing how the little girl playing Steffi was not the most patient when having to lie in bed for long periods of time, pretending to be unconscious. At one point during a take the kid volunteered the line "Steffi's not feeling too good!" and the alcohol-soaked towel on her forehead slid down to her mouth. Geri said she and David O'Brien (who at that point were watching her through an observation window) thought that was a hoot and a half and cracked up laughing. God bless Retro for finally giving me the opportunity to actually see it! I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention this but Doug Marland did want Geri for Tracy Quartermaine on GH but Gloria Monty nixed the idea-she wanted Jane Elliot. Doug made up for it with GL, though.

That’s very kind of you, thank you. I miss Geri every day. Watching her performance as Dr. Ann Larimer from the beginning thanks to Retro TV really has been amazing. When I did that play with her in the fall of 1977 (I played her son, she played a nightmare of a mother) I had only seen bits of Dr. Ann Larimer before then and she was clearly a villainess. I’m trying to remember why Doug Marland never created a character for her on ATWT but I think it was really down to the fact that the show was already chock a block with leading ladies. I want to say she was offered the short term role of a visiting socialite friend of Lucinda’s (someone named Adelaide?) but she ended up turning it down. I doubt it had anything to do with Liz Hubbard. I seem to remember she liked Hubbard well enough but was never close with her like she was with Anna and Lauren (White).

I think she was only meant to be a temporary replacement because Jennifer Houlton was back a few weeks later, wasn’t she? It’s fun watching what I think are the final weeks of my fellow Adams Chronicles castmate David Elliott as Billy. These days he’s a master carpenter, he builds sets out in LA. I’ll definitely be fast-forwarding scenes of his replacement Shawn Campbell. When I’d see Campbell at auditions he gave me the creeps big-time. For one thing he always gave off a drug dealer/porn actor vibe. Blecch. Ah, Paul Carr as Dr. Summers. I remember Geraldine (Court) loved working with him along with David O’Brien and Glenn Corbett. They shared a lot of laughs together. I’m looking forward to the scene where they were all behind the observation glass at the hospital watching little Stephanie Aldrich. Geri had me in stitches describing them failing miserably at avoiding laughter jags at the child actress whimpering “Steffie feeling bad!” while the sheet meant to cover part of her face kept sliding down. Now that Anna Stuart’s gone I’ll cherish on YT what seemed to be the only scenes they shared on TD which was the aftermath of Toni giving birth. Anna Banana was Geri’s best friend right up to her death a few years ago.

Back in the early 1980s I went several years in a row to a Christmas dinner hosted by a friend at her beautiful apartment at the Apthorp on NY's Upper West Side. I remember James Greene (Jason #2) would be there with his girlfriend...Christine Baranski. He was an extremely nice man. I think he died in the late 80's and she soon afterward began a relationship with Matthew Cowles (Billy Clyde, AMC) which led to marriage.

The one character I’ve ever wanted to see in a prison storyline, Pat on EE, was never seen in prison on camera during her stint.