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I'm pretty fond of Donna's work in "A Star is Dead." She's playing a takeoff on Marilyn Monroe, with Peter Palmer of Lil' Abner as the Joe DiMaggio analogue, June Lockhart as her callous mother, Robert Foxworth as the JFK type and best of all, William Daniels as the politically conservative publisher of a sleazy tabloid. William laying into Donna with that voice is just something else.

It was. Val's original title was "A Family in Texas." "Capricorn" doesn't directly translate to "Ewing," but it was close enough for the writers, I guess. (Ewes being female sheep and sheep being members of the caprini species.)

Ha! Two parts of "Conundrum" are now reality. Although in that case, Southfork was completely gone to facilitate a housing development. (The first thing that came true was Linda Gray appearing on a daytime soap.)

The first person who came to mind is Kim Zimmer, although I feel like playing Constance would have been a been there, done that kind of gig for her. Assuming that David Selby would have left for Falcon Crest, what about Michael Zaslow as the daytime Tyrone?

I've said it before and I mean it: the Emmys only (slightly) respected the soaps when they had to, then they went back to praising the prestige shows to high heaven.

Don't forget Constance MacKenzie's shop on PEYTON PLACE. The idea of Cory Publishing having a lobby-mezannine bookstore is brilliant. I wish they actually had done it. Think of the subtext whenever characters come "to read." For whatever reason, Paulina comes to mind as the manager. Or if they did it back in the Laurence Lau era, Jamie (rather than have him be a doctor).

I'll go a step further: Why is everyone in Haddonfield a raging dick? Okay, back to our regularly scheduled Guiding Light ...

Going off the boxing promo, this is from the week of January 8-12, 1979. ETA: Whoops, it's even in the title that this was presumably Wednesday, Jan. 10. Sorry.

I'm wondering if Anjelica & Neil was never seriously considered or if the pairing was cut short (did their marriage even make it to six months?) as a response to any/all of the above: Jane Elliot's departure, Shelley Taylor Morgan's (intentional?) temping, Judith Chapman's arrival, lack of chemistry between Joseph Gallison and any of these ladies or good old-fashioned ageism.

Did the good people at Politico come out of a two-year coma? We've already got a 50/50 Senate. (And now that I look it up, Vice President Harris just needs to cast six more tie-breakers to both hold the all-time record and have cast the 300th ever.)

I fear that like/dislike on individual posts could easily be (for lack of a better word) abused. I'd be willing for a compromise where it could be enabled or not allowed when someone creates a thread, however.

This one, but you gave some great examples in the other direction.

I should have been clearer with my intent with this thread. I intended it to be about actors who noticably overacted (or to be charitable, added extra flourishes) upon their returns. There's been some good examples throughout the thread, but your mentioning Marco stands out because Gerald Anthony was specifically called out by Michael Logan in 1992. Something along the lines of Gerald's talent being undeniable, but that this time around, he was coming across as subtle as Jackie Gleason.

They did have an opening, since Stephanie had been killed off, and I assume Wilma (Anita Gilette's character) didn't fit that bill.

"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," starring Roman & Marlena & John & Isabella!

This thread is inspired by @DRW50's perceptive comment about Robin Strasser trying especially hard with her performance during her third run as Dorian. I'll also add Marj Dusay's second go as Alexandra. Anyway, discuss.

ABC's 90-minute 1:30-3 p.m. EST game show block was better counterprogramming than I realized. That's a rather tight race at 2 p.m. among DOOL, The Newlywed Game and TGL. Also, notice that all but one of these shows in the top 12 were at least six years old (if we count Let's Make a Deal on ABC as a continuation of the NBC run).

Shut your eyes and you can practically hear Gary Owens' voice ... Great stuff, @JAS0N47!

The proper response to that image is, of course:

Manipulative, I'd say. It was usually more stealth, but every so often, she got childish. For the love of God, woman, Bobby's an adult here. It's not like he's either you or Jock's caregiver.

I'll just let Dabney Coleman speak for me.

That's cold, Victor. He was your son in law BITD.

Anyone want to bet on (a) Peacock burning off their remaining Days episodes, (b) when they start doing it and (c) the frequency of the burn offs ("Two episodes daily! Three on Saturdays and Sundays!")?

Mary Louise Wilson as Mrs. Verdon, Michael's mole/Brenda's new nanny for Steven (and what appears poised to be a recurring role), beginning Feb. 13, 1990 on OLTL.

Mind. Blown.