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What is the cost/benefit in changing it though? If your brand is not cutting edge, maybe keeping the existing opening has more value because it appeals to the demographic you have. It's not as if Crystal Gayle was particularly in style in 1987.

Brian Mulroney, Canada's Prime Minister from 1984 to 1993, has died. https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/its-hard-to-imagine-canada-without-brian-mulroney/article_399e5528-d75b-11ee-b79b-333d76d64fd1.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/americas/brian-mulroney-obit/index.html

It's somehow worse than that -- I just looked it up and he entirely absolves himself of taking her seat intentionally ("I had apparently appropriated the wall seat she usually occupied"), but sneers at Dwyer both for his assumption that she would have preferred his seat in order to let her public gaze upon her but also for his idea that she was more than consoled by the fact that the seat she got allowed her to gaze at her reflection in a mirror. He mocks her to the reader for graciously signing autographs for fans before she arrives at the table, for bringing fan mail to show him how popular she is with the audience, for drinking sherry, for claiming that she understood her character and her fans' appreciation of her, and for daring to disagree with his assessment that the character was unrealistic. Then he insults her to her face by telling her she is an inexperienced actress and makes up his mind to write Mary out.

I recently started worrying about not having access to the VHS format so I have been making an effort to transfer VHS to DVD since that was the easiest first step for me. Most of my tapes were in good condition although there was the occasional failure. I don't have anything before probably 1987. I know youtube has a lot of 1980 but there isn't much of 1982 to at least 1984 as far as I can see and there is a lot of 1983 that I keep hoping will show up.

Her comment was the first thing I looked for when I saw the news and I was touched by everything she had to say. One thing surprised me -- I think I had imagined that the show was a vehicle for Richard Lewis and Jamie Lee must have been cast for him. (But it has been a very long time since I have seen it and it is also possible that some of my memories of it got scrambled with Mad About You and Paul Reiser).

According to the AWHP she appeared on AW on a few days in the spring of 1970. http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/spinoffs.html I thought there had been some speculation here that the casting notice for Pammy in the 1980s was actually a cover for recasting Iris. Hard to know without other evidence but it doesn't seem entirely implausible. Could also be they were looking for an antagonist for Rachel and could have gone either way.

Maury Povich? Or do you mean Les Moonves who is (was?) married to Julie Chen?

Is Hank the Vietnam Vet Guiding Light or could it be Hank Jetter on Another World around Thanksgiving 1995? He was a character that John had apparently known in Vietnam.

On Spotify the latest episode is Feb 7 (Sean Ringgold).

The bee in my bonnet -- Catlin and Sally's theme in 1984/1985 was this song which was played at their wedding on a portable stereo. Usually they played a very nice instrumental version in romantic scenes but at the wedding it was a version with vocals and lyrics. Per the AWHP the title was "When" but I have not been able to find any other information about it. Who wrote it? Who sang it? Did it have a life outside AW? Wedding version: Instrumental version:

You're welcome! I find the voiceover over the end credits/theme can be a real gold mine when you are trying to date episodes. Funnily enough, while I was poking around for old TV listings, I thought I was getting somewhere when I found a picture of Sharon Gabet on this page and then I realised that this was for the following week instead. But there was a fall preview that had a little section on Another World but the page is oddly cropped and I don't think that the jade Buddhas mentioned at the top of the next column are part of the AW plot (although since they jumped from Egypt to Arizona who knows what kind of broken telephone might have been happening).

I believe it must be the Thursday, September 12 -- the voiceover over the end theme mentions that Thrill of a Lifetime would be on that night and I found these listings showing that that show was on on Thursdays in 1985. (Note that the first couple of scenes in the broadcast were repeated from the previous day -- the first scene of September 12 would be Kathleen reading Felicia's book.) And more particularly,there is a commercial and a mention in the voiceover for The Terry Fox Story airing that night, and the listings for September 12 show Terry Fox at 10pm.

I had forgotten she was on HIMYM -- I think the brainspace that remembers *Ashley* Williams was on the show absorbed Virginia Williams. I know she was on Fairly Legal with Sarah Shahi (which I didn't watch), but I did see her on the last season of Why Women Kill in a smallish role and she was memorable enough to me from ATWT that I call out "Brandy!" when I see her.

Thanks. I was surprised to see Jay Leno in an acting role and that .

Thanks. So she had no other connections or interest other than being paid, at least at first. Not secretly someone's child or parent or lover.

Does anyone remember the details of the character of Brandy? I recently came across a couple of episodes from September 2002 and I remembered her name and the fact that I liked Virginia Williams, but I am entirely confused about the storyline. Someone I assume must be Paul has caught Brandy snooping in Marshall's room while Bonnie is with Marshall somewhere else trying to convince Marshall that she finds him overwhelmingly attractive?

And Thomas Ian Griffith was unlikely to renew his contract since he was presumably going to follow her to California as soon as he could. But Catlin's support of Kevin had been such a key part of his relationship with Sally that it just felt ugly that when Sally died Liz took Kevin away and Catlin never thought about him again. Dealing with Sally's death properly should have enmeshed Catlin with the Matthewses and/or brought him into conflict with Liz or Alice over Kevin's upbringing. Don't get me started.

For AW, I would say Felicia's first husband, Zane, for sure, and probably also Julia Shearer and Sally Frame. I understood why they killed Sally in the sense that it provided closure to her romance with Catlin, but it basically choked off any story with Aunt Liz or Kevin and really the entire Matthews family until Russ popped in a few years later. But it was badly handled and Catlin just went on with his life until he was sent off with Brittany as if that were a happy ending.

Are you back from the dead if you had never been a live character, only a dead relative or connection to existing characters, but then someone decided they had an exciting storyline for you and brought you to town? If so, for AW I would nominate Reginald Love and Brittany Peterson, at least as they were handled.

Does anyone recall whether Jamie's blood type was ever specified? Was it used to determine that Steve was his father? Or that Maggie was not his daughter? Or that Steven was his son? I have just come across the scene in April 1989 where Jake, secretly believing that Steven is probably his son based on the fact that both of them have the blood type AB, has learned from Marley that she and Vicky (who had told Jake that she was also type AB to throw him off) are type O. In reality it is extremely rare for a type O parent to have a type AB child, but also a couple of years earlier in the question of whether John was the twins' father, they said that John and Vicky were type AB. If they could choose only one of continuity or science I would rather they had gone with science, but they ignored one and confused or oversimplified the other. I am just trying to amuse myself by adding whether they made any of this worse by what blood type(s) they chose for Jamie.

I disliked them killing off Maisie and Quinn but the Depriest era had already killed off Sally and Zane and written off a bunch of other characters with or without fanfare. Maisie had always been a supporting character and Quinn had been marginalized over time so it wasn't surprising that they were on the chopping block. The only reason they had boyfriends at the time was for the storyline purpose of bringing them to the attention of the Sin Stalker. And the Sin Stalker apparently escalated from killing prostitutes to killing respectable single and not especially promiscuous middle-aged women. I don't think Quinn was even sleeping with Zack, was she? The Sin Stalker was also terrorizing respectable young women who even thought about dating -- or in Lisa's case obsessing over her as a perfect virgin and rejecting her as spoiled when she told him she had been raped. The Sin Stalker's pathology was really all over the place. I would rather have seen Nancy on the canvas as a foil to Amanda in the future so I would not have wanted to kill her off. I wish they had brought her back -- she could have been recast.

If you want to add a date here, Dave Wilcox was Maisie's boyfriend (which naturally provoked the Sin Stalker to kill her) so Dave was only on the show in early 1987 (AWHP DP list says Feb 2 - March 5).

I'm not sure whether Edge of Night aired in my area. I was completely unfamiliar with Forrest Compton and Ann Flood as well as Sharon Gabet. Alfred and Vivian just dropped in and out so it didn't seem like there was any long-term plan for them. They didn't even come to Adam and MJ's aborted wedding. Rose seemed like she might have more to do -- she turned out to be Sara Montaigne's mother -- but nothing materialized.

Thanks. I see Denise Alexander has her special credit at the end of the roll by this time. It seems so strange that Mac would have invited Reginald to this event, especially with Vince and Mary. Maybe it was explained in the story that they had invited Peggy and Peter but Peggy brought Reginald instead? I seem to recall Peter was also a suspect, so it would be important not to give him an alibi by having him in the room.

Along with Sally, Liz, Neal, Carter & Thomasina, followed by Zane, Larry, Clarice, and Dee a couple of months later.