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Geraldo does a story on the new trend of Disco in 1975. Nick Benedict appears at the 10:05 mark talking why he likes coming there.

Joan Van Ark appears in the 1969 Playtex girdle ad at the 8:13 mark.

Thanks for all the info. I was curious why Timm abruptly left the show mid storyline but remained in Virgina Beach till his death from a car accident. If he had wanted more acting opportunities he would have left the area and went back to L.A. or New York to find steady acting work. Since Jeannette Larson did Playboy early in her career, I wonder if Timm did something similar like Playgirl etc... A lot of models, actors, struggling college students etc... did those magazines in the 70's and 80's for quick cash. They figured they would run their course and be quickly forgotten. They would use fake names to try and hide their identity.

Tom Urich did short little cooking segments on CBN back in the 80's. Here is one of them.

I always thought Robert Foxworth looked like he could be a brother to Robert Reed. I ran that through Google one time to see if anyone else thought the same thing. I found a write up. It said that in the final season of the Brady Bunch. Sherwood Schwartz threatened Reed that if he didn't shape up he was going to be replaced if the show had continued. When Reed scoffed by who ? Sherwood mentioned Foxworth. Reed was taken aback. Reed knew and had worked with Foxworth. Foxworth said Reed had admired his curly hair and mustache. The next time Reed and Foxworth crossed paths, Reed was sporting his new curly do. After the BB ended, Reed started sporting the mustache copying Foxworth's look. Reed also later did roles with the full beard like Foxworth.

Ron Moss on the 80's show "The Judge". This uploader who does mostly game shows has started uploading episodes of 1980's courtroom dramas. Meredith MacRae appears in another episode. I used to watch these fake court series as a kid back then and I remember a lot of soap actors appearing on them like Tonya Lee Williams, Joanna Johnson etc...

Joan Van Ark Betty Crocker frosting commercial circa 1972-73. I wonder if she really ate that frosting and if she jogged 5 miles to make up for it ?....LOL I wonder who the other actress is ?

I liked the first season for its late 70's feel, but some of the storylines could be a bit cheesy. The Avery's marriage was most interesting to me to watch unfold. Richard was always trying to keep up with the Joneses with the house, furnishing etc...he could not afford. In the beginning you almost suspect that Richard would start beating Laura at some point the way he bullies her. Gary & Val being newlyweds did damage to the Ward's purpose of being on the show. They could have downplayed the remarriage and let Kenny & Ginger have more of those types of stories or they could have had Kenny & Ginger be married right out of high school and by 1979 be married for about 6 or 7 years. Sid & Karen and their kids could be boring at times. Michelle Lee loved to chew scenery, especially in that campy motorcycle gang episode. Diana grated on my nerves.

That's sad. I don't think many companies and networks thought that archiving a then current show was worth the time and effort. I read when the Brady Bunch went into syndication in the mid 70's ABC foolishly used the master prints to chop up to accommodate rerun time slots. When the show was released on DVD a lot of 16mm prints had to be alternated in with the original 35mm to make complete episodes. That's why certain scenes on DVD look grainy.

I wish some more of the Catlins would show up. There had to be someone who recorded this series back when it was airing. It's kind of strange to think that a lot of stuff that aired in the 80's is now considered "lost media". I read NBC was still wiping daytime programming like game shows etc...up to the mid to late 80's. Most of Chuck Woolery's/Susan Stafford's 1975-1981 run of Wheel of Fortune is gone and some of Pat & Vanna's daytime shows are lost. All that survives are home video recordings.

I think the actor (John Castellanos) that played John Silva was married to someone behind the scenes of B&B. I say that may be one of the reasons his character replaced Michael Crawford in the 90's.

Brenda and Colby were good together. Colby and Jess Walton worked together many times when they were both contract players at Universal in the 1970's. They both wound up on Y&R together in the 80's. Leslie Charleson and Tom Selleck were also at Universal at that same time.

I was scrolling ebay through a seller who has a lot of random photos. Among them were some vintage 70's and 80's slides of actor Colby Chester (Michael Crawford). I remember reading a blurb in one of the soap magazines that when he won the role on Y&R, one of the stipulations was he had to shave his signature mustache. I wonder if that was because Eric Braeden (Victor) and Robert Parucha (Matt) had staches and they didn't want any other actor sporting facial hair ?

True. I wonder why he never did another soap ? He could have been a cast as Thorne on B&B.

Thanks for the info. Timm was a model for years, so one could speculate he may have done something like nudity etc... that violated CBN's moral clause. He was good in the role. He had an awesome mop of 80's blow dried hair that would rival Ted McGinley.....LOL

I think the husband (with the beard) is David Bailey. The actress is model Pam Huntington who was the first to play Blair's mom on Facts of Life in 1979.

I always liked Victoria but it seems she was an outsider with the cast. The public often viewed her as frosty and a bit eccentric. She came up in a time when it was pretty much a man's world and I think she had to put on a tough exterior to succeed. She built a comfortable lifestyle for herself with her business ventures (skincare etc..)

I wish Brock and Peggy had married. It would have given Kay ties and storyline with the Brooks. I would loved to have seen Kay interact with Jennifer. The Brad storyline seemed like something from a TV movie of the week.

I wonder why Jerry Timm left AL? He pretty much spent most of his career doing cigarette ads etc.. I saw he died in a car accident in 2005 and was still living in Virgina Beach where they filmed AL. Peggy Smitheart did a lot of commercials and a few short lived series. She reminded me a bit of Deborah Adair.

It would have been great if CBS had worked things out with P&G and brought SFT back to the network in 1987 when they knew Capitol was going to be axed. Then hired good writers to do their thing to revitalize the show. No offense to the late great Bill Bell, but B&B has been a mess.

Meg Bennett as a contestant on Three On A Match (1971). I remember Meg saying on a 80's Pyramid appearance that she was a contestant on this show and said it furnished her first apartment in New York as a struggling actress. She started in SFT in 1973. I wonder how Janice Lynde would have been as Patti ? Robert Reed seemed pissy in everything he did outside of the Brady projects. Ironically, he thought the BB was beneath his talents a serious actor. 🙄

Someone posted years ago that they remember Pamela Peters (Peggy) was having some sort of issues behind the scenes during the rape storyline and barely participated onscreen when it played out. Trish Stewart (Chris) seemed to carry most of the storyline along with Dick DeCoit (Ron) and David Hasselhoff (Snapper). I think the poster also mentioned that Anthony Hererra (Jack) said that Pamela Peters one day looked into the camera and exclaimed she didn't know what she was doing and walked out of the scene.

Kari Michaelsen (who played Katie on the 80's sitcom Gimme A Break) interviews Donna Mills. Michaelsen has been a TV host and motivational speaker for over 30 years after leaving acting.

Kristy McNichol and Scott Baio fall in love on The Love Boat. Season 1 (1977). Coincidentally Richard Mulligan who later played Kristy's father on Empty Nest also appears in a separate storyline.

I never understood why Pam would want to have a friendship with Sue Ellen. When things are good between her and J.R., she throws Pam and Bobby under the bus. When things fall apart, she comes crying to them. The time Sue Ellen got into a fight with Pam at Pam's house by the pool, Pam should have been done with her for good. Sue Ellen was a real bitch to her from day one. I loved it when Pam slapped her across the room when J.R. & Bobby's plane went down. I also loved it when Pam busted her playing lady of the manor on the stairs when Jock was in the hospital with his heart attack. Those 1978-79 episodes are real gems. Victoria was stunning to look at.