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Anna Stuart (Donna, AW) is currently married to James Cromwell

I would have had Monica shoot the bastard right after it was revealed that he killed AJ, but she was pretty much forgotten about once everyone found out. When I was watching GH on and off, I actually liked Sonny, but after I started watching everyday he really began to annoy me. What really made me start to dislike him was Avery's conception. That was just nasty.

In that case, I think the character of Franco has run out of story possibilities lol

I've seen them and I really enjoyed them too. Soderberg, Purser, Culliton, etc. really did clean up the mess that Jacker made. I hope more old episodes get rediscovered and posted to YT, including 1982 episodes. As lousy as that year was, I'd love to see more of it. She was one of the pets. Like with Connie Ford, he probably blamed himself if Beverly Penberthy had a problem with the story. Unlike with George Reinholt, Jacquie Courtney and Virginia Dwyer lol One of P&G's biggest mistakes. I would've loved to have seen that story play out. On the bright side, it seems like Bev got the last laugh. She's still remembered and loved as Pat to this day, whereas Corinne Jacker is pretty much only remembered for being the worst head writer AW ever had. As for Rauch, he was probably freaking out about the show and how much it was declining that he probably said yes immediately when Jacker said she wanted Pat gone.

Wow. This is an amazing article. Thanks for posting @Efulton It’s really a shame what happened to AW in the late 70s and early 80s. The show never really recovered after General Hospital got so popular. There’s so much we don’t know about what went on behind the scenes during Corinne Jacker’s tenure and this sheds so much light on it. It sounds like Beverly Penberthy was hinting that the only reason CJ brought in so many new characters was to make money, rather than try to save the show.

Thanks for posting! I never knew SB beat B&B, and poor AW, all those changes in 86-87 and they did nothing for the show.

Nice to see AW get a little bump in August. I'm pretty sure those were the weeks that Zane died and Reginald and Mitch came back. Unfortunately later in the year, Reginald's machinations, Mary's return and Mac/Rachel/Mitch part 2 didn't seem to help at all. DAYS was still hanging in there, but was starting to decline a little. What was happening on GH in the Fall that caused it knock Y&R out of the top spot?

If anybody's interested, the 8/12/80 episodes of Another World and Texas are uploaded on Youtube. I watched them along with the episode of DAYS one day just for fun, and IMO, on that particular day, DAYS was the most interesting. I think it may have had something to do with the writer and the network. The consensus was that Nina Laemmle didn't know how to write for a soap, plus it's clear NBC execs were stupid in the late 70's and early 80's. But also, I have to ask, had the fans changed that much already around that time? Were they so crazy for the action/adventure stories that GH was doing that they didn't care for the character studies/melodramatic storylines anymore?

I think that's the guy who played Arnie Cunningham's father in the movie "Christine", but I'm not sure. Wikipedia says his name is Robert Darnell.

Top it off with a Martimmy and I'm down lol

I love them. Those classic episodes are the reason I started watching B&B now. Even though it's very different now, it still like the most realistic soap that I watch. As for James E. Reilly, according to his Wikipedia page he doesn't show up until 1990.

A lot of his plays are available in e-book form. I think you can buy some of the print editions on Amazon too.

Love this scene, love this song, love this dance. Too bad you don't see stuff like this on soaps anymore.

Lmaooo 60s and 70s soap fans were the best. This makes me wonder what happened to the fans that Lemay wrote about in his book

Happy Halloween!

Poor Texas never stood a chance against GH

Would a viral campaign on social media help at all?

That was one of the flaws of Passions. They made it seem like the only passion that a person could have was for the man/woman of their dreams as opposed to running a business, etc.

My storyline would have been a nice, simple, who murdered Gwen?

Not too long ago for Days of our Lives, I heard there was supposed to be another serial killer storyline. Glad that didn't happen. And that a SORAS-ed Johnny Dimera was supposed to come back, join Dimera Enterprises and just be an all around troublemaker.

True, but that was pretty much every male character on Passions lol

Thanks!