Reverend Ruthledge

What I always thought was funny was how low the music was. People could have quiet conversations in a disco without yelling at each other and it was funny to watch the people dance to music you could barely hear. The sounds of their dance steps were louder than the music they were dancing to.

I thought Don aged VERY rapidly just from the few years between when he was making guest appearances in the early 80s to when he returned a few years later as a regular

At the risk of sounding like an old fart, this is my problem with modern entertainment in general (not just the latter days of Guiding Light). It's like the writers think the audience is too stupid to pick up on nuance or depth of any kind.

October 1967

Ha! Yeah, except that it was another writer that killed of Chuckie Shea. I always thought it was dangerous to be named Jennifer on ATWT. Jennifer Ryan gets killed off, Emily and Paul's baby Jennifer (named after Jennifer Ryan) gets killed off and Jennifer Munson, also named after Jennifer Ryan, gets killed off.

Another "Who's Chuckie?" that evokes sadness. LOL.

Oh. Good question. So many, it's hard to choose. But I can probably pull out my top five: 1938. Reverend Ruthledge talks about the trouble growing in Europe during his Thanksgiving Day sermon. Ned asks Torchy to marry him. Abe dies. So much foreshadowing of the drama to unfold for both the world and for the story. 1945. Reverend Tuttle is worried that he's about to be put out to pasture and his assistant Bill Brown surprises him with a full congregation for his Thanksgiving Day sermon. 1948. The first Bauer Thanksgiving and Mama Bauer is still alive. 1955. Meta is missing Chuckie at the Bauer Thanksgiving dinner and Mike asks, "Who's Chuckie?". I just found that a poignant moment. 1968. When Ed comes to the Bauer Thanksgiving drunk, starts a fight with Mike and passes out before dinner is served. Not a heart-warming moment but good drama.

The week started off with a bang and then lost steam as it went along. Overall, it was much better than the 50th.

I would imagine it would be the same as television soaps at that time which, surprisingly, didn't address it much. At least not the five soaps whose history I'm familiar with. Of those, only ATWT seemed to address the Vietnam War with both Paul Stewart and Tom Hughes fighting in the war.

Oh. Ok. I just looked at the article. Thanks. Perhaps they changed Jack's name to Stuart, added a daughter and had them all have different hair colors.

Thank you. That's what I thought because of the year but who was "Jack with the three blonde daughters"?

Well, she just said "ladies" on the show but she didn't specify they were fellow actresses. It could have been some of the women behind the scenes of the show. There was a lot in the interview that wasn't clear to me.

Thanks for that. It was great to see her in an interview. She's very likable. Although it was somewhat confusing. What new soap is she talking about going on audition for in 1973. Was it The Young and the Restless? Is it just me or did they never even say the name of this soap opera? Days wasn't new in 1973 and there was no "Jack" with three daughters on The Young and the Restless. What soap are they talking about? The editing around that part was weird and choppy. I felt like there was a chunk missing or something. And I'm not sure why she was saying she got colorectal cancer from HPV and said it's because she never got the HPV vaccine but then said she's never had anal sex. I'm not a doctor but that didn't seem to make any medical sense. I don't know. Maybe I'm tired. It just seemed like some of this interview didn't make sense.

I'm currently up to a February, 1940 script and Rev. Rutledge is visiting Mrs. Kransky in Garden Heights. The Kranskys haven't been in the TGL story for a while. Maybe an odd episode here or there with Rose or the Cunninghams. I'm not sure if the Cumminghams were on Right to Happiness. Anyway, it's basically just an expository episode. Garden Heights is established to be five miles away from Five Points. Mrs. Kransky is catching Rev. Rutlhledge up with what, I guess, was going on on RtH. Mrs. Kransky is apparently managing an apartment building and the Burkes (Terry, his dad, his siblings Donny and Kathie and his Aunt Emily) are tenants. Mrs. Kransky talks about how she hopes something will happen with Terry and Rose but she fears that Rose will never love anybody other than Charles. It seems like the Kranskys are already starting to come back into GL. There was talk of something that I know soon turns into a TGL Charles/Rose storyline. It doesn't seem like the Kranskys stayed around RtH very long at all. The Burkes might have left RtH when the Kranskys left and the show became all about Doris and her daughter.

Heather was more or less a confidante of Frannie's and was strangled, but survived, during the Douglas Cummings storyline. I think she knew too much or something. She was romantically involved with Roy.