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Six episodes? A little return to the anthology style of storytelling, I see. C.C. and Sophia's first marriage lasted from 1961-69, but they weren't legally divorced until 1985. http://santabarbara-online.com/SophiaCC2.htm

The first day of the Old West storyline has been posted:

I've always loved Knots, but you could make an argument it was past its sell-by date.

I'm such a dork. I always thought the first Perfect Strangers intro was sweet. Calculated as hell to be touching? Oh, absolutely. "America or Burst," indeed. But it worked for me. Michelle Lee even took a pay cut just to be in every episode that season. If Knots stuck around for 1993-94, who knows what would have happened?

I was *this close* to posting Too Many Cooks. My favorite part of Turn and Smile was when they all turned, but Ashley Marketable was a second or two behind on smiling. It could have been genuine or a dead-on parody of how the Olson Twins weren't that good of actresses.

This was a pretty good spoof of the Miller/Boyett style of opening credits:

Thank you for answering that question. It was driving me up the wall.

Be still my heart, the old NBC "In Stereo" graphic. Interesting that Christine was enough of a name to have the "as" credit and Josh Taylor is enough of a name to have the "and ... as ..." credit.

Her future husband: "I just always had my head in the clouds ..." (That is a fine scene, BTW.)

I just had a little Back to the Future moment there, imagining if GH *had* been cancelled in 1977 and Marland's career possibly ended as a non-memorable headwriter for The Doctors. With him alone, the ripple effect is staggering -- no GH revitalization, no Nola-era GL, no A New Day in Eden, no Loving and no ATWT renaissance.

Thanks @robbwolff. I wondered because I know Kathryn became pretty active on the TV-movie and guest star circuits beginning in '78, so I figured her time on The Doctors was nearing its end.

How much longer does Kathryn Harrold have left?

I wish I did. I was hoping to find that, too. It sounds like it was/is a site to rival Jason47's site, the EON Homepage and, of course, the Another World Homepage.

Information about Elena (and a host of additional characters I was unaware of) can be found here: http://www.geocities.ws/oltlx2/ I was especially fascinated to learn the likes of Cathy Burns and Joanne Dorian came back, albeit in much smaller roles the second time around.

Maybe go one step further and have it turn out that Scott Eldridge was Charles "Chuckie" Shea all along. That way you have the option of either having Scott Eldridge be genuine down the line, or just a plausible trick.

Ellen's great. I just wanna know what's up with her character.

That's Ellen Foley, who's playing an apparently shady girlfriend of Pete O'Neill's. Alas, the role's not on Ellen's IMDB page. And the girl would be Julie Ann Johnson as Joy O'Neill.

Oh, Sable and Connie were on a whole different level. I'd go so far as to say Connie was the best overall rival for Sable, followed by Alexis and then finally Frankie (a lot of that has to do with Katherine Ross). I definitely agree with you about Krystle. Linda Evans had a nice balance of authoritative and elegant. There used to be a clip on YouTube from the Krystle in the attic storyline. George Hamilton and Rita are going over footage of how Krystle carries herself, how Rita's going to have to get it just right. It's a little kooky, but also 100 percent correct.

I like this scene:

I'm glad you touched upon the parody aspect, because I want to throw it out to the other readers. Did Passions work as a parody? I say yes in the sense that it frequently had humor, but no in the sense that it didn't have something to balance it against. There's gotta be something, like a distinct sense of style (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), excellent acting and genuine emotion (Soap at its best) or an apparent affection for the material (Carol Burnett's As the Stomach Turns sketches, Acorn Antiques).

That's a thread topic of its own -- revisiting the masculinity (or femininity) of soap characters.

Popping in to share a few observations, so please forgive the multiple quotes. Ships in the night. I started watching on the third week, which stands out because I remember thinking it would be fun to follow a soap right from the beginning. You and I might be roughly the same age (I was 10 going on 11 that summer). A lot of the leading ladies were stellar -- I'd also include Kathleen Noone in that list -- but in retrospect, it's a case of "for this?" As for the second point -- indeed! Between Days and Passions, 1999-2005 had quite the bumper crop of guys who helped me realize it wasn't a phase. Tabitha's constant quest to kill Charity was a pretty good hook, I must say. On the other hand, I'm not surprised the show eventually switched gears with Tabitha, since Juliet (and Josh Ryan Evans prior to his death) was sort of the show's mascot. "It's fate, Whitney! It really is!" Uh, no, bitch. I always thought Hartley was beautiful and charismatic, but she got stuck with such an off-putting character. Don't forget Galen. Luis' rage-boners about the Cranes were always good for an unintentional laugh. I'm just speculating here, but I suspect Maureen was replaced because Andrea Evans would be more distinct opposite Kim Johnston Ulrich. Why have two blondes when you can have a blonde and a reddish blonde? Still, it is fun to imagine how Maureen would have handled Rebecca and Julian's wackier moments. Then again, maybe the show would have gone a different direction with those two. It really didn't. Off the top of my head, it took a year for Theresa to break up Ethan and Gwen the first time and two years for Ethan's paternity to be revealed.

Or India's dad, the baron. Did he ever appear on GL? I could see DD doing well with the imperious factor.

No worries. Thank you.

Would you please upload the Stacy's death episode? I've never seen it. If not, I understand.