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You have found it now, at least, so you can die a happy camper, LOL.

In an ideal world, that IS how it should be. And their pants and shirts should always be so form-fitting.

Yep, I agree.

Could it be Marian Mercer? The video is pretty fuzzy, but it sounds and looks like her.

Ooooh, those workout pants should be a staple of every hunk's wardrobe.

To me, Hatch was the only "real" Phil. He was so endearing, so earnest, so wholesome. I adored him. None of the character's best features were evident in his replacement's portrayal, alas. Nick Benedict was a hunk and a half back then, and looked great in tight jeans (LOL), but he just wasn't Phil. Even Karen Gorney said as much!

Of all the cancelled soaps I have watched and loved, TGL is the one that had the firmest grasp on my heart, and the one I wish would come back. Yes, it's probably for the best that it is dead, because watching it get hacked to pieces over its final few decades was painful to endure, but in the right hands and structured well, I do fantasize about Springfield living on! I'd kill to see the Bauers having coffee in their kitchen again.

I would say no, that is not either of them.

I think the problem must have been the actress, and not Bell's inability to know what to do with the character. He created a major, longterm storyline for Peters in 1976 when Peggy was raped by Ron Becker. He would not have done so if he did not plan to use her through it. Also, there's no reason he would not have used her alongside her sisters when their on-screen mother died. I have no proof, but considering the story told by Herrera, about Peters' just walking off the set one day, I think Peggy's absences were brought on by Peters' own behavior.

Herrera said that Bell told him the ratings were low, and Pamela Peters had walked out, so it was decided to drop hererrara's story and go in another direction. Peggy Brooks kept disappearing for stretches at a time, usually without explanation. This was a recurring problem on Bell's shows. Characters like Tommy Horton and Susan Martin (DAYS) or Peggy Brooks, Stuart Brooks, and Carl Williams on Y&R would drop off the face of the earth, leaving viewers scratching their heads wondering where they went.

Me too. I miss the real TGL. Not what it became in its final years, but what it was for the first several decades of existence. Yes, the Dobsons' best work was on this show. I would say that the audience was quite lucky with TGL; it had an amazingly long stretch of continuous quality storytelling, lasting into the early 1980s. It's too bad that a great deal of the awful final years survive, but many of the material from the halcyon years is lost.

Yes, I remember JBL talking about how exhausted she was from overwork, but they never wanted to reduce her appearances or give her a break. Janice Lynde injured her back once and her doctor advised her to take time off from the show, but TPTB (allegedly) did not want to acquiesce. The infighting among the people running the show must have made everything worse.

Some of the actors who later commented on their experience with Y&R (like Janice Lynde and Tom Hallick) admitted that they had been foolish not to realize how good they had had it while on the show. Lynde, particularly, was given amazing good material to work with, which any actress should have been thrilled to do, so her badmouthing the character in the press was baffling.

I know there was a lot of tension, as various people in front of and behind the camera have admitted. I do think the Bell/Conboy feud contributed to it, but many of the actors were restless for real, and wanted off the show pretty quickly. William Gray Espy busted his hand by punching a set wall at one point. Janice Lynde announced in the press that there were times she "just hated Leslie," and that her character was a "nerd, a nebbish." Poor William J. Bell sure had his hands full.

The story about her walking off the set originated in an interview with Anthony Herrera in Rona Barrett's Daytimers. He was paired romantically with Peters on-screen. Herrera claimed that one day in the middle of taping, Peters looked directly into the camera, announced she did not understand the scene, and just walked off the set. Shortly afterwards, William J. Bell called Herrera into his office and announced that he was letting the actor go and shelving his storyline with Peggy Brooks. Peters' character was raped in 1976, and during the on-screen trial, Peggy (and Peters) simply vanished without explanation and was not seen for an extended period of time. It was very weird and awkward, watching the show work around her, and God only knows what was going on behind the scenes. When Jennifer Brooks, passed away, the Brooks sisters were featured prominently as they dealt with their mother's death, but Peggy was often absent from their group scenes. I have an episode in which the Brooks sisters are reacting to their mother's impending death (as Jennifer had just told them she was ill). As the girls are crying together, Chris asks, "Where's Peggy?" Lorie answers that their kid sister simply wasn't able to handle any of this. Again: weird. The show did try to replace Peters with an actress named Patricia Everly, but she was awful and did not last very long. Every time after that when we saw Peggy, Peters was in the role. I would love to know the reasons behind the actress' spotty appearances and awkward disappearances during key storylines, but at this point I doubt we ever will.

January 25, 1937: The Guiding Light was born, and became the longest-running drama (so far) in broadcast history, thrilling audiences for decades (well, from 1937 to 1984, anyway, and then again in the early 1990s). Ahh, the good old days.

I've also tried to track down Trish Stewart, as well as Pam Peters, to no avail. Peters did have black hair briefly on Y&R, and the character of Chris Brooks remarked, "Remember when your hair was this color, and how Mom hated it?" It was weird, considering Peggy quickl;y went back to being a redhead, and no one ever mentioned again that it was not her natural hair color.

Pamela Peters Solow was quite cute, and although I personally preferred her with red hair, she had had black locks long before she joined Y&R in 1973. She had been dark-haired when she appeared on the vintage sitcom Room 222. She seems to have disappeared. I wonder whatever happened to her.

Just trying to say thank you for initiating this great thread, is all! Besides, I think Jax does the same thing to ALL of us, LOL!

Affection is hot any day of the week.

This is my favorite thread on the public boards, woohoo!

I know, I feel guilty too when I criticize his version of Russ, but after Sam Groom's poignant portrayal, so full of warmth, sweetness, and quiet strength, Bailey's interpretation of the character never did it for me. Russ become flat. I was okay with Therese. The actress is superb, and Lemay adored her, but as a relatively minor, accessory character, I never invested much emotion in her. I must say, however, that her death scene was quite poignant, and almost made me think I might miss her. But of course, the character I REALLY missed who was killed off in the mid-1970s was Mary Matthews.