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Thanks. According to the ibdb it looks like he would have been in NY doing Me and My Girl in 1989.

I don't see him listed in the Actor Guide on the AWHP, but I am pretty confident that this is Edward Hibbert here (March 31, 1989). 20230627_230753.mp4

Just saw the news that Nic Coster has passed away.

The photo that sparked the triplet rumours was shown to Anna Stuart as Donna right before she was institutionalized and subsequently recast as Philece Sampler. The audience was not shown the photo until much later when it was revealed to be John Hudson holding two bundles and the trigger was supposed to have been that it reminded Donna that because John had raped her as a teenager he could have been the father of the twins. Nothing about the photo has ever made sense -- even if John had been in the same place as Marley and Victoria when they had just been born, it wouldn't be any type of evidence that he could be their father. What I don't remember noticing or discussing is that there appear to be palm trees in the background of the photo. I have always assumed that Reginald had faked the photo to freak Donna out. But if he did fake the photo, why wouldn't he have changed the background to make it look like John could have been in Bay City? And if he didn't fake the photo, and just fortunately happened to have one of John with two babies in Vietnam, why would anyone who sees it assume that the babies were Marley and Victoria instead of two Vietnamese babies? http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/donna.html

I've been watching some episodes from early 1989. I can tell at this point Rachel doesn't know that Evan is Janice's son. Who did know and when? I assumed that Iris would know and that's how she brought him into her dastardly scheme, so perhaps Jason also knew but not Sharlene? 20230624_193950.mp4 I can't believe how long Amanda's investigation of Video Match went on. I was thinking that it was primarily an excuse to frame the Valentine for Singles episodes but it started in December and carried on into at least March. She and Sam went on a double date with James Kiberd and Jane Krakowski (or rather I should say she and James Kiberd as Dustin Trent went on a double date with Sam [pretending to be Amanda's brother] and Jane Krakowski as Tanya). It was a bit jarring to see Jamie so wholeheartedly devoted to Vicky while Lisa had nothing much to do. I suppose it was because Joanna Going was on the verge of leaving anyway. Perhaps if Lemay had stayed he would have made more of the triangle and the parallels to Rachel/Steve/Alice.

I read the Soaps & Serials novelizations when they came out in the 1980s and the cover of Haunted by the Past always amused me because the characters depicted had a faint resemblance to Ed Fry and Sally Spencer who were then playing Adam and MJ even though the novel was about storylines from 10 years earlier. I don't know if I was reading too much into things but I thought there was an element of classism in the Robert/Iris/Clarice triangle that explained more about why Iris pursued Robert than anything like love. But that is assuming that the Delaney family and his career as an architect made Robert that kind of catch.

What about Robert's relationship with Clarice? Was it convincing? Were we supposed to think Robert was truly romantically attached to Clarice or was he merely taking advantage of her?

I remember whoever killed Kirk Laverty holding Iris and Vivien hostage in the apartment Iris lived in, which would have been 1979. I think I remember Brian being in the same apartment but maybe that could have been after their marriage broke up. I don't remember Cecile moving in but I know by the time Cecile left in 1984 she had been living in a house that Cass was later living in and evicted from. In a completely unrelated event, today I learned that Linda Dano and John Aprea apparently played siblings in a 1975 series called The Montefuscos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Montefuscos

I don't remember these characters first hand, and I believe the novelizations end before the storyline starts, but there are some oddities in the AWHP synopses for 1977 and the character guide. According to the character guide, Regine's father's name was Knut and according to the synopsis for January 31, 1977, Sven's character name was originally Knut (and Helga referred to Sven as her cousin). On February 10th, Lars was mentioned as the name of Helga's husband who died. Then in July Helga starts having nightmares about her husband and Regine's father, Knut, whom Helga married only because she was pregnant and she seems to suggest that she would have preferred Sven. At the same time Regine had become pregnant by someone called Cliff, but as part of his evil moneymaking scheme Sven engineered a situation where he put an unconscious Regine in bed with an unconscious Mac and expected to force Mac to marry her or at least pay blackmail or something. So on the one hand maybe Helga simply did marry Knut because he was Regine's father. But it could also be possible that Sven and/or Helga had an elaborate scheme to take advantage of Knut by claiming he was Regine's father when Sven was actually her father. http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/aw1977d.html

It doesn't seem as if Ian was charged with manslaughter or anything either. Clearly problem solved -- the bad guy was dead and Felicia was not technically guilty. I liked Ian as a character reasonably well at the time, but somehow now 30 years later I wonder if he and Derek Dane had essentially the same function and maybe I only preferred Ian because I found him better looking.

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.

The May 4th anniversary passed unremarked this year. It would have been the 59th. Next year will be the 60th so maybe we're saving up for a big diamond jubilee. I don't think I remember knowing the fact [the broadcast itself was before my time] that Sarah Cunningham was the first Liz Matthews on day 1 who was then replaced by Audra Lindley on May 7. And apparently Audra Lindley's last day in the role happened to be June 25, 1969, exactly 30 years before the series finale.

Gordon Lightfoot has died. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gordon-lightfoot-dead-1.6828991

I vaguely associate the Red Swan with Ken Jordan and Paulina so I was shocked to scan through the AWHP synopses from 1989 and 1990 and discover that for months and months before Ken arrives, people [Lucas, Derek, Mitch, Caroline, Griffen Sanders?] talk about and try to acquire the Red Swan by fair means or foul [and fail to notice it depicted in the background of a painting] but there seems to be no ultimate reveal about its significance. Was it intrinsically valuable? Did the papers it contained prove that Mac had had an affair with Paulina's mother? Was the painting evidence of anything at all? Did its function as a MacGuffin drive story in any meaningful way? If Mac had been alive would they have cast Paulina's mother to create a love triangle?

Since we were talking about Wallingford's personal life a while ago, just wanted to note for posterity that around the time Felicia met Zane, Wallingford confided in her that he had been engaged before but his fiancée's family had interfered and prevented the marriage.

According to the AWHP Willis and Gwen were married in August 1978. And Angie Perrini had married Vince in May 1978. But maybe they are no longer together since Vince apparently marries Mimi Haines in June 1979.

Thanks! If it's that early in the year I guess I should have been looking for Tim Holcomb and not Richard Bekins and he must be the young man between Ada and Louise and not the partial figure in the back.

I don't recognize everyone and/or can't make out all of the faces in the back. How many Frames were there at this point? I can see Gwen and Janice and maybe the top of Jamie's head. But I suppose Jamie is also being counted as a Cory? Are the 8 Mac, Iris, Rachel, Brian, Ada, Charlie, Jamie, and Blaine? What about Clarice (Charlie's daughter) and Larry (Blaine's brother)? As I write that out it seems as if none of the Cory set have any close connection with the Matthews set. When did Pat and Liz start working for Cory Publishing? Matthews: John, Dan, Susan, Alice, Michael, Liz, Pat, and ... Sally?

Thanks everyone for the clarifications and corrections. So Pat's was the first, Erica's in 1971 (in NY, having travelled from PA where it would not have been legal), would be the first legal, and Maude's in 1972, also in NY where she lived, was also legal but both hers and Erica's were pre-Roe.

As I understand it Pat had the first abortion on US TV. Erica had the first legal abortion on Daytime. (I think Maude had the first legal abortion on US TV period.)

Was that when Liz told Matthew about Mitch's past?

The Character Guide entry uses the term "assault, wrongful use of office, and conspiracy to commit murder" and gives his final words as: [The courtroom, to Victor Rodriguez, before being taken to prison,] "Carl would have done some serious time. But no. You know better." ETA: I don't remember whether I liked Kevin with Lorna but I do remember liking her with Victor.

It's funny -- the AWHP character guide mentions he went to jail, but the weekly synopses don't actually mention it as far as I can tell. Based on the dates he left at the end of September 1993. Morgan Winthrop arrived in October. I liked Morgan but reading through his character page all of his storylines sound depressing. Too much rape, for one thing, and too many non-core girlfriends. That was something I always worried about with Nancy, that after Perry her boyfriends had no other connection to anyone. Maybe they should have used Nancy instead of creating the character of Courtney.

How soon we forget about Jake's half-brother Kevin Anderson (1991-1993) and nephew Sean (1999). I can't remember what purpose Kevin served. Did he do anything interesting or worthwhile? Was he Nicole Loved off to jail or was it more Iris-ish? What character filled the Kevin Anderson void?

To each their own. I had never been able to warm up to Sandra Ferguson and didn't feel like her Amanda was a fully fleshed-out character. Her flaws seemed plot-contrived rather than character-based. I didn't buy the theoretical class conflict when the rich debutante fell in love with the struggling artist and I thought Robert Kelker Kelly did the heavy emotional lifting in their scenes. Christine Tucci was a stronger actress and I felt like I could understand her motivations day to day.