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Recently I have found that whenever I click on a post in search results in order to read the full post in the thread, instead of taking me to that post it takes me to the most recent post in the thread. It used to work so I am not sure what changed.

Alice dated Mark Singleton briefly but those stakes were pretty low. Is there any character from Alice's past who should have been brought back onto the canvas in 1984 in order to make the best use of Alice?

Or didn't like it and was trying to "fix" or reshape it. Was there any transition from one HW to the next that wasn't marked by cast turnover and/or major set renovations?

I had to look up the name of the series but I have very fond memories of watching her and Geoffrey Palmer in Executive Stress. She seemed very elegant.

Thank you! I did not realize that Sally's memory of the flash of light had been extracted so early in the investigation. It was several months later when she recalled that the flash had been the stone in a ring that cast suspicion onto Donna.

Some small bits and pieces, not sure if any are truly new, some are obviously old. I don't recall knowing that Michelle Hurd was the godmother of one of Alicia Coppola's children. It's nice how many actors seem to have fond memories of the elders who mentored them. https://welovesoaps.substack.com/p/youve-taken-away-another-world-memories

I see that you have a credit for Finola Hughes in the bizarre 1980 musical The Apple, but did you know that Catherine Mary Stewart played the lead role of Bibi?

I didn't realise she had been still living. I think of her in Kismet with Howard Keel.

I spend a lot of time frivolously working on my family tree so the algorithm feeds me a lot of genealogy-related items. I was surprised to recognize Lisa Brenner (Maggie Cory) in a clip from a podcast "Unraveling Me" talking about how her own DNA test had inspired her to make the movie One Big Happy Family. https://shows.acast.com/690534bf3906f8011add9159/69d1b2d0d2e95f5131876702 Thanks for the reminder. 27 years!

I am generally oblivious to this kind of thing but I would say that I didn't notice any appreciable difference in quality between AW and other P&G soaps.

They were definitely in character -- my favourite part was Lisa talking about how she had spent too much time making herself small to please Jamie. This was also where Ada recalled her youthful romance with Sid Sugarman who came back into her life for a little while played by Larry Haines. The framing device was that Amanda was working on a piece about video dating and wondered about the POV of the various single women they knew (day 1). Then we got the talking heads of various single characters and little sketches. I have no memory of hot topics like safe sex and date rape but I do go into a bit of a tailspin when I think about how they had tried to present safe sex information when Amanda and Sam were seeing each other while still ensuring that Amanda got pregnant and had to marry Sam. Here's day 1 on YouTube:

Based on the prominence of Robert Kelker Kelly and Sandra Ferguson and the two days of relationship stuff I would guess this is about the Valentine for Singles episodes on Feb 9 & 10, 1989. http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/special.html

I can imagine that perhaps they felt that Russ and Sharlene had been played out and they wanted a different relationship for Russ -- but revamping Tracy to do it seems odd unless they had a compelling reason for the connection to Iris which does seem like a stretch.

Looking at the timeline originally the character was created by Lemay and was then off the canvas for at least 3.5 years before Tom King/Robert Soderberg brought her back. I wonder why they repurposed that character instead of creating a new one under the circumstances.

Was Tracy a singer when Caroline McWilliams was in the role, or only after Janice Lynde was cast?