SoapDope78

Yes. Knots never resorted to cat fights like Dynasty but this would be one time I could see Karen physically attacking Abby and having to be pulled off her.

That would have been interesting. Mama Karen would go "Karen" on Ginger's @$$. Imagine that happening at the same time she was dealing with Diana & Chip. There would be no scenery left after Michelle Lee finished 'Acting"

Yvonne Perry won the Soap Opera Digest Award for" Outstanding Female Newcomer" in 1993. I remember thinking it was kind of out of thin air since she had barely started. Yes, the Ned Simon thing was during the time ATWT when the writing was becoming subpar. Things really got bad around 1996 when NuPaul, Sara, Zoe etc...arrived. I noticed most of those actors never had many or any credits after their ATWT stint.

Thanks for the correction and recap. It was an awful storyline and I probably snoozed through most of it. I was also in high school and probably only saw it here and there. This was also when Rosanna started eating the show. I was also surprised when Yvonne Perry won an award right out of the gate shortly after starting on ATWT.

ATWT.....Debbie Simon (Sharon Case). I barely remember her character being a blip on the radar. She wore glasses and didn't she lose her virginity to Hutch?

Y&R.....Jack's Insta Family in the 90's. Vietnam war love Luan. Keemo (Jack's son), and Mai (Luan's daughter). Reportedly Peter Bergman detested the entire storyline and Luan was killed off and Keemo and Mai written out.

Y&R.....In the 90's Woody Brown was cast as an abusive husband named Jake (I think it was) and the Bug was going to help the wife. I remember SOD did an interview with Brown and he said he was happy to be joining the show and how his character was bad news. I got the feeling it was supposed to be long term and play out like a redemption story ala Ron Becker from the 70's. I don't think Jake and his wife appeared maybe like 3 times before they disappeared.

ATWT....Bianca..... Lucinda adopted her then she kind of hung around for years before disappearing. Sometimes she would be absent for long stretches then she would pop up during a breakfast scene or at the Yacht club. Darryl & Carolyn Crawford..... By the time that convoluted murder mystery played out, people didn't give a crap.

Y&R.......Brian Forbes Ashley Abbotts first love interest circa 1982-83 that disappeared by going to make a phone call and never came back. In the 90's a mustached/dark haired Grant Kramer (who had previously played crazy blonde Shawn Garrett) came on as Adam Hunter. He was Ashley's new lab partner/potential love interest (like Brian had been years before). I think they only showed Adam maybe 3 or 4 times and he disappeared. Then came the ill-fated Kurt Costner (Leigh McCloskey). B&B........Jessica Forrester. I don't think she went over all that well. ATWT.....Brad Hollister and a bunch of those other characters the Dobsons introduced when they took over the writing in 1980. It was similar to when all those sucky characters that arrived in the mid 90's. GL......Jennifer (Geraldine Court) That character was blah......along with several other characters that Marland created. Marland was excellent at ATWT but GL was hit or miss. At ATWT he loved to dive into the history of the show. At GL he couldn't be bothered much with character's he didn't create. Dallas.......Mitch Cooper (Leigh McCloskey). Nothing against McCloskey, but he always acted/spoke in an affected manner like he was doing Shakespeare no matter what role he is playing. There's a Princeton/Harvard quality to him as if TV was slumming. KL...Kenny & Ginger Ward. The writers had 4 seasons to come up with something, but couldn't figure out what to do with them.

Re: Dead Leaves Opening. I think it's cool, quirky, and of its time. It grows on you. The theme music is beautiful. They made a good decision when they dropped that creepy woman moaning in the end credits. A lot of the comments on youtube have people saying as children they were freaked out by it and often ran from the room. I read somewhere that sequence was stock footage that was found (maybe a camera test) that they turned into opening credits.

They all look great. The mustache suits Mart. Too bad he & Lenore were off GL by this time.

Dallas wasn't the only one trying to copy Dynasty. Y&R was writing and dressing Jill Abbott to be a daytime Alexis clone. Dallas made the mistake early on by writing out Alan Beam. That character had long term potential. If he and Lucy had been married, they would have been in the thick of things for years scheming to get their piece of the Ewing pie. Lucy would have given Alan her proxy to control her shares of Ewing oil. But the writer's thought "Mitch" was more interesting.🙄 Dallas really started to fall apart early on, especially after the Who Shot J.R. hoopla. The also foolishly killed Kristen off.

I ran across this photo of Linda & Victoria with Kenny Rogers. If Dallas was going to stunt cast with Christopher Atkins, it would have been more believable for Sue Ellen to have fallen for a character played by Kenny. Gray later did one of The Gambler films with Rogers.

I think someone like Robert Parucha (Matt Y&R) would have been more up Sue Ellen's alley.

Some other actors in the age range for Mike & Ed were: Gary Swanson Jack Stauffer Colby Chester John Findlater (who looked a lot like Mart Hulswit as he got older).