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1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Are Susan Keith & James Kiberd still married? Seeing them both on the list, it made wonder. 

I think it is safe to assume the only reason James will be in attendance is because Susan will be there.  I can't imagine any Another World fans are going to this so they can see the guy who played Dustin Trent for 2 months.

11 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

ANOTHER WORLD 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Sat., May 4, 2024 in Tarrytown, NY

Cast Reunion & Fan Luncheon

RSVP by Aug. 31, 2023

https://www.greenvelope.com/event/another-world-60th-anniversary-celebration

 

There are 153 tickets still available, out of a total of 180. Once they're gone, there will be no more. The size is designed for a more personal fan experience. The event organizer has to meet a minimum ticket sales or the event will not be held.

 

Over 50 actors have been contacted.

 

Please feel free to post this in AW communities where you are a member.

 

At the link you will find all information about tickets, registration, hotels, etc.

Thanks for posting this Donna.  It would be incredible to be able to attend. I am already fascinated by the list of cast attendees - Barbara Rodell & Susan Keith!  I would love to hear them talk about their time in Bay City.

Another World in the mid 80s - Felicia, Cass, Wallingford, Cecile, Lily, Kathleen.  They could move from drama to comedy seamlessly.  Also, Tony the Tuna and Dee.

General Hospital 80s-90s: The Quartermaine's.  Especially when David Lewis was playing Edward.  

Santa Barbara 1984-88: The Lockridges, Gina & Keith, Julia and Mason - intelligent, quirky humour.  After the Dobsons left the humour was dumbed down.

9 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

There's a recent article on LOVING but it's really pretty short. However, there's a disqus conversation going on, still current, and it has 38 comments so far. Might be of interest to a LOVING fan.

https://daytimeconfidential.com/2023/06/28/tv-insider-looks-back-at-abcs-loving?fbclid=IwAR21GrigdqPDt_oECPoep7BzmoqAseDFRJdf5MtYVLlB9vgskFtLPgqYZ4w

Thanks Donna.

The people in charge at Loving made many decisions that I will never understand. Why they did not do everything they could to get back Peter Davies (Jim Vochek), Perry Stephens (Jack Forbes) and James Kiberd (Mike Donovan) is at the top of my list.

2 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

And the rumor was that Nic Coster didn’t bother learning his lines and just relied on Beverlee to get him through their scenes.

Yes I am sure Beverlee may have had a different take on this.

4 hours ago, TVFAN1144 said:

I’m thinking Nicholas Coster and Beverly McKinsey did not get along 

That is an understatement.  

https://www.welovesoaps.net/2010/09/coster2.html

We Love Soaps: You shared many scenes Beverlee McKinsey.  What was that like?
Nicolas Coster: Well, I have to admit, it was not the most pleasant experience I ever had.  She had a photographic memory, and she was patronizing of people who did not.  Let’s leave it at that.

14 hours ago, ~bl~ said:

Thanks for the link to Linda Dano’s podcast.

You are welcome.  Enjoy!

Does everyone know about Linda Dano's new podcast?

https://rss.com/podcasts/lindadano/

I have only listened to the first 2 episodes and it is so good to hear her voice again.  She truly is a special person.

1 hour ago, Xanthe said:

I thought she was extremely good in the small and nearly thankless role of Reginald Love's henchwoman Gomez on Another World and was disappointed when she left for the primetime series Mariah.

I loved her as Gomez! She was good as Santana but I was really hoping for a return with so many new characters and recasts at that point. 

1 minute ago, DRW50 said:

I liked Gina Gallego but her Santana was so weak, Jed would have blown her off the screen.

I have seen Gina in other roles and she can play strong.  Her Santana was written to be weak.  I would liked to have seen her back playing a stronger Santana.

I am pretty sure Jed Allen did not keep a excel file of exactly how long the actors stayed on Santa Barbara so it is understandable if he was off by a few months.

Here is a link to an interview with Michael Brained.

http://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2012/06/exclusive-and-unusual-interview-with.html

1 hour ago, Paul Raven said:

In his book, Jed Allan talks about Paul Rauch hiring an young  actress to play against CC. Jed says she was there for 3 months and made his life a living hell. He said she was an angry woman who upset the cast and crew.

WHen he asked her why she took on the role, she replied that she was just killing time until something better came along. He mentioned she was living with a nice guy, a well known actor at that time.

They were glad to see the back of her and he says it was only the second time in his career he's had to deal with someone like that.

Who was that actress?

I’m pretty sure it was Wanda De Jesus (Santana). Jed was very vocal about how horrible she was to work with. If the Dobsons would have been allowed to bring back Gina Gallego like they wanted to this could have been avoided and Santana may have lasted until the final episode. 

When Elena threw Eden out of the plane on Santa Barbara.  The characters thought Eden was dead but the audience knew she was alive and with Cain.

6 hours ago, Jdee43 said:

Why didn't Harding Lemay get a longer stint back in 1988? Penny pinching from network execs? Swajeski came cheaper? Did Lemay want to stay?

We Love Soaps: So when you were asked to come back to ANOTHER WORLD in 1988, was the plan to be a consultant or the head writer again?
Harding Lemay: I don’t know what they had in mind, really. I was the head writer for awhile. And then there was a strike. And during the strike they hired some NBC people to do the writing. Then they fired me and kept the ones they used during the strike, and the show got worse and worse and worse. But even by then, when I went back, it wasn’t going to work. I could see they weren’t interested. They weren’t excited enough by what I wanted to do, whereas before they had been very excited about the ideas I had. Procter & Gamble were very upset by my book [“Eight Years in Another World”]. I was very harsh on them. Nobody thought they would ever hire me again. But they were in deep trouble, so they hired me, and forgot all about it.

I was no longer that keen on doing it either. I didn’t need the money. And then I began to be a consultant. And it’s very interesting, the consultant’s fees were very high. You’d make $2,500 a day. I had a contract that said I had to be paid for three days a week whether they used me three days or not. I did that on four shows altogether. What you do is sit in with the other writers, make suggestions, and try to help them work out what they’re doing.

2 hours ago, j swift said:

I'm confused by why Esme is going to prison/the mental hospital if Heather confessed to being the Hook.  Was she tried and convicted for her scheme against Trina (or Ava)?  Because it feels like she was kept on Spoon Island rather than being convicted of a crime.  And now she's been exonerated.  So, she why isn't she free?

Because she drugged Trina, secretly recorded Cameron & Josslyn having sex, released the video to the entire PCU campus and drugged Oz Haggerty which put him in the hospital.  But you do have a valid point. She has not been tried and convicted of any of it.

6 minutes ago, j swift said:

That was a special extended episode, correct?

So what happened to the other show that was normally broadcast in its place after AW that day?

March 5, 1979 was the first 90 minute episode.  It was not a special extended episode. 

On 2/24/2023 at 12:08 PM, victoria foxton said:

 

An interview with Petronia Paley.

Thank you!  Petronia Paley and her portrayal of Quinn Harding was a favourite of mine.   It was great to see her and learn about her continued creative success.

3 hours ago, Neil Johnson said:

When Lemay left AW in 1979, both NBC and P&G knew the show needed to become a "normal" soap opera again.  Eight-years of Lemay's character-driven stuff had been a tremendous success, but it was clearly time to return to the ATWT, GL, AMC model -- which (in 1979) included strong believable characters, but also strong identifiable storylines.  Unfortunately at that time, there were precious few head-writers capable of taking-on that task, especially since AW was running itself into the ground with the awful 90-minute format.  In my opinion -- only Agnes Nixon, Doug Marland, Bill Bell, and possibly Claire Labine could have successfully taken on the reigns, after an iconic head-writer such as Lemay.  Unfortunately, all of them were unavailable, or perhaps wanted too much money.   Too this day, I cannot think of any other writers who could have gotten AW out of 8th (or was it 9th?) place in the ratings, while the show was still at 90-minutes.  And then -- even after AW returned to the 60-minute format, TPTB seemed unwilling to hire a first-rate iconic head-writer with a long successful reputation.  Without that, I thought the show had little chance of improvement.  And it was the worst soap-opera on the air for it's final 20-years (my opinion).   Yes, it had wonderful actors and moments of greatness.  But moments of greatness do not typically raise the ratings.   And although some may have enjoyed the writing of Sam Radcliff, Tom King, and all the others up until 1999 -- the question to ask is, "did those writers bring-up the ratings?"  I believe the answer is "no."     But I bet you a milk-shake Agnes Nixon, Bill Bell, or Doug Marland would have been successful at getting the ratings up to a respectable point.    

Did the ratings go up a bit in 1984 when Richard Cullton and Gary Tomlin were the head writers?  If they had stuck around for a couple more years I believe the ratings would have gone up.  

11 minutes ago, Tonksadora said:

Another thing we have not touched on that pertains is that NBC very aggressively dictated story, specifically & generally. Probably the most famous example which I'm sure you all know is dictating that Jake would rape Marley. Swajeski refused. They insisted. Finally they pressured her to the point that she wrote it & then she quit. I believe the words were ... wrote the damned story & quit & walked out. So, they easily could have dictated crime stories, piece of cake, right? 

Jake raped Marley on October 25, 1990 and Donna Swajeski was head writer until November 1992. When was she supposed to have quit?

1 hour ago, Neil Johnson said:

Oh yes, there was definitely a mandate for more plot-driven material.  NBC/P&G wanted AW to become a more "normal" soap opera -- to get away from Lemay's almost experimental character-driven plotless stuff, -- and become more similar to AW's sister shows, ATWT and GL.  Unfortunately, TPTB at AW seemed unable to hire a head-writer who was capable of that. So the show floundered, and ratings fell for years.  Ironically, it was Harding Lemay's brief return in 1988 that refocused the show, and gave AW a new solid foundation of characters. And then Donna Swajeski finally made AW a "normal" soap opera in the model of All My Children, As the World Turns, and Guiding Light.  I was never completely happy with Sawjeski's writing, but she was certainly one of AW's four best head-writers.  The others being: Agnes Nixon, Robert Cenedella, and Harding Lemay. None of the other merry-go-round of head-writers could ever compare to those four.  My opinion only.    

My favourite era of Another World was definitely 1975-79 with Harding Lemay as head writer.  My second favourite was December 1982 - mid 1985.  I thought Dorthy Ann Purser & Robert Soderberg and then Gary Tomlin & Richard Culliton struck a nice balance of the old and new.  I enjoyed Donna Swajeski and Peggy Sloane's tenures but for me Another World was a completely different show after 1985/86.

4 minutes ago, Darn said:

Man, soap fans have long memories lol the first nail in a show's coffin happened 30 years before its cancellation. Only in daytime!

*This was not a dig at you, I'm still mad at stuff that happened 20 years ago

lol.  No worries I chuckled at your comment.  It was a loooooong slow death.  

22 hours ago, chrisml said:

I'm curious. For those with a wider knowledge of AW (my knowledge extends vaguely to the MJ hooker storyline and beyond), what do you think were the major mistakes that were made with AW? I always felt that AW would right itself and then there would be an idiotic mistake that would derail everything.

Each decade behind the scenes decisions would put another nail in the Another World's coffin.

1960s

1966 - Writing out Janet Matthews and never bringing her back was a huge missed opportunity.  Actress Liza Chapman died in a car accident but after some the role should have been recast.

1969

Losing Audra Lindley (Liz Matthews), Shepperd Strudwick (Jim Matthews), Carol Roux (Melissa Palmer Matthews), Joseph Gallison (Bill Matthews) and Barbara Rodell (Lee Randolph) changed the show significantly.  While Liz and Jim were successfully recast killing off Lee and Bill and never bring back Melissa (other than briefly in 1970) was short sighted.  Lee, Bill, Melissa and their children should have been the future.

1970s

Popular characters Sam (Jordon Charney) and Lahoma Lucas (Ann Wedgeworth) were spun off to Somerset.

I loved Harding Lemay and Paul Rauch's Another World but their egos got in the way and they made some horrible decisions that had negative effects for the rest of the show's run.  

Firing George Reinholt (Steven Frame), Jaqueline Courtney (Alice Matthews Frame), Virginia Dwyer (Mary Matthews) and Michael M Ryan (John Randolph) gutted the show's core and it never completely recovered.

1980s

After Harding Lemay left in 1979 subsequent writers decimated the Matthews family. Beverly Penberthy (Pat Matthews Randolph) was fired in an unbelievably stupid move.  Hugh Marlowe (Jim Matthews) died. The Steve and Alice recasts did not work out. Michael and Marianne Randolph were forgotten.  Susan Matthews was written out again. Julia Shearer and Sally Frame (who was very popular when played by Jennifer Runyon and Mary Page Keller) were killed off.

It did turn around from December 1982 - mid 1985 but then Margaret DePriest took a wrecking ball to it from 1986 and 1987 and after that it was completely different show. I could right short novel on all the things DePriest did wrong.

1990s

From 1990 to mid 1995 the show was different but still enjoyable with many of my favourite stories (Who Shot Jake, the return of Carl and Kathleen and a new super couple era (Vicky/ Ryan, Jake / Paulina, Carl / Rachel, Dean / Jenna, Donna / Matthew, Cass / Frankie, John / Sharlene).  Then the Jill Farren Phelps followed by Charlotte Suavity torched the show and it never recovered.

Sorry for writing an essay!  

Another World - From the premier in 1964 until they were written out in 1969 Melissa Palmer (Carol Roux) and Bill Matthews (Joseph Gallison) were the show's it couple.  They were front and centre and had every plot device thrown at them.  In 1970 Bill was killed offscreen and Melissa returned briefly to help launch Somerset.  After that neither was ever seen again and rarely mentioned.  I believe that eliminating theses two characters plus Lee Randolph (also in 1969) was the first nail in Another World's coffin.

The first couple of minutes here got me.  A great use of history.

https://youtu.be/sMoEwO0LHUA

I just started watching The Golden Girls from the beginning.  Brent Collins (Wallingford) guest stars in episode 13 as Rose's new boyfriend.  The episode is hilarious!  I had forgotten just how funny Brent was.