Spoon

The Guiding Light

Marcia McCabe - Trish Lewis

Forrest Compton - Mike Bauer

Kim Ulrich - Hope Bauer Spaulding

John Reilly - Ed Bauer or Sean Reardon (Bridget and Matt's dad)

Matt Ashford - Rick Bauer

Nina Aversen - Amanda Spaulding

Cady McClain - Stacy Chamberlain

Bailey Chase - AJ Chamberlain

Dylan Bruce - Peter Reardon

TPTB at Y&R hated her, saw her as too "difficult."

Saw a promo where Days moves to 1 in Pittsburgh to make room for Judge Judy reruns. Hopefully people will eventually realize they're all repeats now. Days has been at 3 here since the mid-90s. We've always been a Y&R household but that show's so dull I don't think they really follow it anymore

The last Noah (RA) was extremely bland, of course a lot of that you can chalk up to the writing.

Reportedly MG resented Jackee for stealing the spotlight, similarly to the Linda Lavin/Polly Holliday situation.  Hopefully these two have put away any grudges or resentments past them by now like Cindy Williams/Penny Marshall or Suzanne Sommers/Joyce deWitt eventually did after many years.

John Considine was a pretty strong actor who should've returned to the show at some point and keep the Love family prominent.  Reggie meddling in his family's affairs is classic soap and writes itself.

6 hours ago, Liberty City said:

 

EXACTLY! I also contribute it to the writing team of Barbara Esenstein & James Harmon Brown, and ultimately the writing team for the 2002 return.

Carolyn Culliton and Millee Taggart really understood the essence or feel of GL. The show improved notably during their short stint and it was really the last time GL felt like GL.

My favorite AW couple will always be Cass and Kathleen.  Ues, young me crushed on Kathleen but it was a good blend of humor, drama and adventure. The dynamic between All the them, Felicia, Cecile and Wallingford were a hoot.   

Reginald Love gets overlooked as a villain, he should've been their Victor Newman/Alan Spaulding type villain. Their was more mileage to get out of him, especially with his family on canvas.  

56 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

CBS

 

I can't believe they let it go for Capitol of all soaps.

 

Once SFT moved to NBC I stopped watching it.

I recall it was P&G who didn't like SFT at 2:30, CBS was content with SFT's performance at 2:30. P&G would rather have SFT die at 12:30 on NBC than be a solid player on CBS at 2:30.

Anyway if SFT did stay on CBS it would've eventually been cancelled for B&B anyway.

June 9, 1994

A new upload by Michael Pannoni showed up in my subscriptions just now. Looks like a good one.

On 2/25/2021 at 7:11 PM, Franko said:

It feels like AW had a target on its back from the moment it was clear the 90-minute expansion was a flop. Also, seems like NBC rather quickly had buyer's remorse over Search.

AW was never a success at 2:00 ET.  Its a wonder that NBC never replaced it in the 80s with something flashier like Scruples or a daytime Flamingo Road revival.  NBC was red-hot in primetime from 1984 on, but couldn't get things going soap-wise until the resurgence of Days during the 90s.

During the early 80s General Hospital aired at 10:30am on WTAE Pittsburgh in the morning, after AM Pittsburgh. I was young and my mom would watch GH in the morning and CBS in the afternoon.  

Of course As The World Turns didn't air on KDKA for decades until the Summer of 1990. All the local cable systems also carried either WKBN Youngstown or WTRF Wheeling any way. Capitol aired at 1:30, later B&B briefly aired at 2:30.

Days has been at 3pm on WPXI ever  since the show's peak in the mid-90s.  Former sister station WTOV Stubenville and WJAC Johnstown used to air the show at 3 as well but no longer do so.

On GL wasn't their once a plot point about old coins? I'm thinking it involved Michelle and Sebastian and would've been around 2004 or so.

Lots of dropped plot points in late 2002 and early 2003.  Blake going back to Spaulding, Josh going into a business partnership (leading to a Spaulding takeover?) with Holly.  Ed's time in Africa.  Plus the already discussed original Jonathan storyline which was changed to make Alex the one stalking Reva and had a "connection" with Marah that made no damn sense with the storyline change.

For years headwriters B&E were building to Gus being Selena's son with Danny Santos's dad (was his name miguel?). Also it was strongly suggested online that Danny's brother Mick was going to be revealed alive.

Prior to casting Joie Lenz as a recast Michelle, they considered bringing her on as Reva's niece via Roxie Shayne and Johnny Bauer. They were so thrilled with her work as the clone and were determined to fit her into the canvas someway.

For the Summer of '99 on Another World it was mentioned that Jake was going to clash with a new character that was going to introduce a new Hispanic family to Bay City.  Also a third Sinclair brother was going to be introduced. Probably a teen to be paired with Paulina's newfound daughter Remy or Amanda's daughter Allie Fowler.  Plus a new opening sequence was planned for late Summer/Fall. AW was cancelled, Goutman moved over to ATWT and they got the new title sequence instead.  Also Paul Rauch planned a much needed new opening sequence for Santa Barbara in '93 if they weren't cancelled instead.

RH was my favorite Paul Ryan on ATWT.  He brought life and energy to the character, his best pairing was with Emily.  Scott Holroyd(?) was dull as dishwater in the role.