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I actually found it pretty interesting from the first uploads up through the Anderson story. The few months of spring-summer 1968 though, seem more like an ongoing rehash (Karen, Maggie, Matt), listening to a 12 year old girl, the rather creepy Steve & Karen relationship.Maybe Nick should give his schizophrenia drug to Karen.

I think I'm more nuts...I know this post is a couple of months old (it's the page I'm up to storywise, lol). Anyway from day one I thought David reminded me of a young Phil Carey. I'm up to early July 68 now (Karen just confirmed she's pregnant) and still waiting for something exciting to happen... and the cornpone ain't it! Been getting though the episodes a little faster since I'm ff-ing more now. Can't somebody threaten to bomb the hospital or something?

I'm still binge-watching, trying to catch up. Up to late May 68 now. As someone who has never seen the show and really has no knowledge of it other than what I read here...I'm not really finding the spring of 68 stories all that interesting. It's just after the Ralph Anderson thing...don't really care about Steve and his shenanigans, Karen has been tiresome since the beginning--I only started binge watching about a week ago and I'm bored with her--I'm tending to ff a lot of her scenes, "nu-Maggie" (to me anyway) isn't interesting me either and I'm not feeling her chemistry with Matt. I keep waiting for Althea/Nick to kick into high gear and instead there's Penny who, to me is another ff character. The guy playing Ed doesn't seem like much of an actor. I find myself wanting to see Nathan Bunker come back or someone else threaten the hospital in some way. Please tell me some interesting stuff is coming up very soon! It's funny that I'm not recognizing right away so many of the "extras" who are otherwise so familiar to me from later roles...until I read about them here, I totally missed catching right away Bernie Barrow, Hector Elizondo, Faith Catlin. The young Maggie DePriest has a facial structure that reminds me a bit of Nancy Addison. The young James Noble has a Tony Perkins-type look and demeanor!

I just started binge watching a couple of nights ago...just up to Christmas 1967 so far. Trying not to read this thread too far ahead. I was just wondering what is the backstory of Nick, Althea & Liz as a triangle that led to Liz's suicide attempt and Althea's pregnancy? My mom used to watch this show (and the NBC lineup) when I was a baby but I've never seen it. There's something very familiar about James Pritchett's voice to me, though. Like Douglass Watson's.

Sylvester Stallone posted a picture of him and Michael B. Jordan from the next Rocky movie, "Creed." Jordan plays Apollo's son, Adonis.

The Jack and Mary honeymoon in Ireland floored me. I was curious why TPTB went to so much expense on an actress that was leaving. Was it to give the fans a big hoopla, Kate a big sendoff? I mean, over the years, some major characters/actors have had grand exits (ex: OLTL's David & Jenny in Vienna but that involved other characters tagging along for the storyline as well) but it seems RH/ABC went all out to give Kate Mulgrew one heckuva goodbye present.

Janet Zarish (OLTL) played Henry's wife, Abigail, as an older woman on "Forever", complete with British accent. Thanks, amybrickwallace! I do love Neil D!

Michael E. Knight was on NCIS a couple of weeks ago. His character was the victim so he bought it in about 20 seconds. He was shown longer as a corpse. Richard Burgi will be on next week's "The Haunting Of" on LMN. Jonathan Bennett will also be on this season.

I'm gonna say it....that little kid annoyed the heck out of me!

That interview with Sharon Gabet above is really good! She really did love EON and the cast. Man, this show needs to be streamed(streamt??) somewhere! AOL & P & G were a bit ahead of the times a few years back when they did it online and it needs to come back!

Richard was a cutie back then...my kiddie self sure thought so! One of the reasons why I hated that Roscoe Born replaced him, lol. You can definitely hear that he came down with something in the scenes after they got back from the beach. I dunno how I'd feel if my family members were constantly posting my family's business on the internet, though.

Does Christian Slater count, coming on years after his dad, Michael Hawkins, got the boot? Also, Nana Visitor/Tucker and Richard Muenz were already a couple, though never married, before they were on RH.

This is Andrew Robinson's daughter, Rachel. She played his niece (Kathleen's daughter) on RH when she was little (he sat and played with her and Little John on the floor) and also did one of the most acclaimed episodes of ST:DS9 (The Visitor) in the 1990s, where Andrew was recurring.

Except when he was playing a former Cardassian spy forced into exile as a tailor. Garak was a very murky character but with some likeable qualities. I remember reading a bit about that book on the forum at that time. Did he ever finish it, I wonder? And, yes, how Andrew's Frank fit into the Ryan family was the thing I liked the best about his portrayal. Well, that, and his acting was good and seemed unrehearsed. Funny, considering he said he wasn't that good when he started. But, at that point on the show, I think they had a pretty good group of actors. The majority of them came across pretty natural in their roles.

And in another personal RH/Trek connection, Andy is the godfather to Nana Visitor's (Nancy Feldman) son with Alexander Siddig as he is good friends with Siddig.

I've been watching this again on and off on youtube. I really did like Andy Robinson as Frank in the sense of fitting into the family, the sibling interaction, etc. He really got into it and did a good job. I know DHK was the definitive Frank, although I never much cared for him because he was the 1st Frank I remember as a kid and my first impression was of him as Rae's "boytoy" and I couldn't stand her or her daughter. I think it's a little bit nuts that AR got fired ostensibly because TPTB were afraid people couldn't get past the Dirty Harry movie but, duh, they hired him after that and did keep him around a couple of years. Looks-wise, maybe he didn't fit the romantic, leading man role that Frank was supposed to be but with Frank being the only recast Ryan at that point in the show, all those actors played so well together they felt like a real family. I saw an interview where Andy mentioned that, in terms of the acting company, his best experiences were RH and DS9.

We'll be seeing Genie Francis advertising Nutrisystem soon. She's the new spokesperson.

Decades ago, the character actor Reggie Nalder worked with Cosby twice. He stated that he hated working with Cosby and called him "rude, arrogant, untalented and a pig." I wonder what he saw or was on the receiving end of, especially to use the word "pig", which I don't think is a word men tend to call each other, it's more a name women use about men. Part of a 1989 interview with Reggie that was published posthumously: You played the title character in The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) with Bill Cosby. Yes, I played the Devil. I went out to the Disney studio and read for that one. Once again I had few lines to say. I hated working with Bill Cosby. He is a pig. I first met him in Rome where I did an episode of I Spy. Bill Cosby is rude, arrogant and very untalented. He walked right by me on the set as if I were a piece of furniture. I tried to be polite but he made it impossible. I have rarely ever worked with someone like him before or since.

Some more tidbits...Skip Homeier started out as a child actor and was in numerous shows and films for decades. Trekkies may remember him from his 2 appearances on TOS as Dr. Sevrin and Melakon. He's still around but retired from acting long ago. Jan Miner was also married IRL to a soapster, Richard Merrell. Oldtime OLTL fans may remember him as Viki's butler, Herron, from back in the day when her kids were little.

Linda Dano just taped an episode of "The Haunting Of" with Kim Russo, a follow-up to her Celebrity Ghost Stories story. Most characters on that show don't stay dead.

On the old Soapnet message board, there are some tidbits mentioned from when Rose Alaio visited the board in 2011 and one of them was that ABC made Sarah Felder cut her hair and then let her go a few months later. I think the short cut kind of aged her. I think the thing that sort of bugged me about the first two Siobhans was that they were constantly seeking out or needing Jack's advice, approval. Yes, part of that was the underlying attraction to him but, for a character that was supposed to be this spitfire, she seemed a little too dependent on what her brother-in-law thought. Re my question about when Jack started to get accepted by Johnny, that makes sense about the father to Ryan thing. The funny thing with me was that one of my memories of the show from its original broadcast (and my child/teen-hood spotty viewing) was that I always remembered Jack as a devoted, overprotective widowed father who still mentioned his wife even though she had been dead for some time. I mean, I never saw his and Mary's storyline at that time (I just remember her name being mentioned a lot) so to have seen the earlier episodes on SN and discovered what a jerk he started out as was a bit of a shocker.

I liked Gavin, mainly because I always had a preference for dark over blond. Don't forget Jeremy, that was who she got shipped off with when the show ended. I'm tempted to relive the Jeff Brown saga on youtube but then I'd want to see more episodes. I wish someone would upload them as a series the way they do Ryan's Hope. My teenage self totally crushed on Larkin Malloy and I cried when Jeff got his comeuppance because I didn't want Larkin to leave the show. Plus, Raven's reaction just killed me. Needless to say, I was thrilled when he came back and even more thrilled when they did a Sky & Raven redux.

No, Doris Belack subbed for Florence Stanley for one episode, where Fish is seen at home and Dietrich comes over and does a Gregory Peck impersonation to supposedly ward off the daughter's boyfriend at the door: "Go away, Beverly is busy!" Florence had already appeared in a couple of previous episodes.

Something similar happened to me once, with a future soap actor being the understudy. Back in 1980, my sister and I got tickets to go see David Bowie as The Elephant Man on Broadway. We went for the specific reason of seeing Bowie in the role. Well, he was out sick that day so we ended up seeing the understudy. I'd never heard of the actor before but he did well in the role and I always remembered his name, then heard about him again when he was on a soap, albeit one that I never ended up watching. The actor was Benjamin Hendrickson.

Is there anyone on youtube posting consecutive episodes the way some folks are doing with RH? I haven't uploaded anything to youtube in a few years (from any soap) because every so often I would get the notice about the music copyright--I had the final scene up and they gagged it because of the Bette Midler song.