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Thanks, @DRW50 . For whatever reason, I was unable to post a video in my message box.

The batty old woman behind the clown mask was not the brightest bulb in the box.🙂

Somerset suffered from a curse which has befallen many soaps throughout the decades: it opened with tepid, uninspiring writing. It meandered along for a while, not luring in a sizable/growing audience, so P&G brought over the great Henry Slesar from The Edge of Night to handle Somerset too. Unfortunately, the suits were never patient enough to wait for results. Slesar was great, but TPTB were restless and replaced him (and all the show's writers, really) in a whirlwind of chaos. The soap's focus, tone, central characters and plots kept changing drastically. It was disorienting and frustrating. To me, Somerset was at its best under Henry Slesar and later Roy Winsor, but they were preceded by and replaced by a lot of mediocre scribes over this drama's lifespan. At the time of its cancellation, friends and I agreed that the soap had been a good, worthy show for a total of about three years--so not even half of its run. But I will concede that when it was good, I enjoyed it very much. Plus, I hung with it from beginning to end, so I suppose that says something.

Somerset 1972: Chuckles the Clown terrorizes Andrea Moore. I never thought this oft-spoken about material would ever resurface. The system won't let me post it in video form, alas. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1457393626265701

Thank you, @DRW50 . I can honestly say that you (among other fine posters, to be sure) are a good incentive to stick around this community.🙂

I'm so sorry to hear about your old friend, too. Cancer has contaminated my family's life as well. It is a scourge on life. The individual I spoke of in my last post has been having health issues for an extended period of time, but has gotten significantly worse lately and can no longer walk or care for himself. It's no fun getting old. As my grandmother was wont to say, "Always show more than the bare minimum of kindness to people, for you never know who needs it today more than ever." I wish your friend well.

Hi, @DRW50 ! I've been largely absent from SON (and the internet in general) lately, as I am helping care for an elderly, incapacitated individual with increasingly-severe health issues. I'm sure I am missing a lot of great conversation and news, but I am grateful that you alerted me to this. I will watch and enjoy it. What a bizarre choice for the cover photograph. The brief, least-memorable actresses in the roles of Alice and Sally, really? At least have key actors who were present at the time like Wyndham and Watson to grace the cover of the book.

@slick jones , as always: 👍

Soap Central (or as I call it, Sop Central): UGH. That site goes off on major flights of fancy and makes sh*t up to fill in the blanks about history they know nothing about. Adam Brewster had serious complications from diabetes. That's the health issues he was fighting. It was talked about on OLTL, and Jacquie Courtney referred to it when she appeared on a soap-centered episode of the Phil Donahue show.

Those sausage fingers do ALL of us in, LOL!

I loved many of those people! Now I am verklempt. Thanks for the heads up, @slick jones !

I can't lie and say that I dislike my friend flooding my inbox with pictures of men all the time, but it is distracting, not knowing if they are real or created by AI. Either way, if the AI is good enough, the beauty is pleasant to behold, I guess (but I'd still rather know for sure). I'd say that at least the two smoking pictures might be/probably are AIs.

I have a longtime friend who is wont to flood my inbox on a regular basis with images of beautiful men. Often I just smile, roll my eyes a bit, and enjoy the sights. These photos made my eyes pop out of my head, however. Athlete Ben Cohen is a damn handsome man.

Much obliged, @AbcNbc247 !

I thought he would have passed away, but according to Google, Jerry Lacy is still with us at 90 years old.🙂