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Trudy (very rarely) popped up a few times after she and Clyde moved to New York. The couple continued to be referred to into the 1960s when Agnes Nixon was writing the show. In one script, there's talk about young Mike possibly going to visit Trudy in NY. After Nixon left, however, I don't recall Trudy ever being mentioned again.

I don't now remember why Pat and Bo broke up, but JC did not lose her leading-lady status on the show. TPTB introduced a character named Adam Brewster and were obviously planning on making him a romantic interest for Pat. Unfortunately, the actor was not attractive or appealing at all, had no chemistry with Courtney, and was dispatched relatively quickly without much fuss. Courtney had much more success with actor Tom Fuccello, who played Pat's ex-husband Paul Kendall. He was adorable, charismatic, and the actors oozed chemistry. Watching Adam/Pat scenes versus Paul/Pat scenes, it was clear that even the writers were shifting alliances towards Paul. The year before ABC let her go, Courtney was being tried out on-screen as a love interest for Michael Zaslow as David Renauldi. They sizzled together, too, and would have made a great couple, but ABC put politics before audience favorites, and a while after Courtney was dismissed for alleged "lack of storyline," The Roach descended upon Llanview and (IMHO) crippled the show.

The first thing that came to mind was one of the earliest examples of slapping (or in this case, spanking) which I saw on daytime TV: when a usually stoic and patient Russ Matthews finally lost his cool over his wife Rachel's atrocious behavior, and took her over his knee and spanked her. The scene would never be allowed to air today, but it was sooooo satisfying.

The show was engrossing and smartly written in the 1960s and 1970s, when the great Henry Slesar was head writer. There were so many memorable stories and characters.

On this day in 1973 (August 1st), Adam Drake and Nicole Travis finally got married after an eight-month engagement (he had proposed to her at the stroke of midnight, December 31, 1972). This was one of TEON's most popular couples.

God only knows why "Nova Scotia" (of all places) was woven into the bizarre and inexplicable fantasies fabricated by the Soap Central storytellers, LOL. Honestly, the need/insistence of some fans to write absurd fiction on the internet, and present it as "fact," suggests certain mental...weaknesses.

Yes, that bit arose solely from some contributor's imagination. When Aunt Meta showed up in Springfield, played by the legendary Mary Stuart, Bruce Banning was left completely unmentioned and never referred to at all. I've noticed repeatedly that on Soap Central, contributors fill in a lack of storyline and character knowledge/information with their own fantasies. Even more annoyingly, the SC site wove a huge amount of fan fiction about Meta's sister, Trudy Bauer Palmer. None of the following bullcr@p they posted about the character happened at all. "Trudy was mentioned having been contacted in 1973 when her father, Papa Bauer died. She was also contacted, along with Meta, in 1983 when their brother Bill died after being pushed out a window. In 1984, the Bauers received word that Clyde had died. In 1986, Trudy was contacted when Bert Bauer passed away. Though Trudy never visited her family, in 1999, Meta, living in Springfield again, would visit Trudy for a time."

@slick jones thanks for the shout out.

Thank you for your kind words. After Joey left, I don't remember him being referred to much, if at all, on the show. Particularly once Aunt Meta became involved with and married Bruce Banning. When Mary Stuart took over the role of Meta, I really hoped that TPTB would study up on the character's history and reintroduce Joey and his offspring to the show. It would give Meta an expanded family (God knows, the Bauers had mostly been hacked away by then), but when Meta showed up in Springfield, no one even mentioned Bruce Banning or what had happened to him. Yet another dead husband for Meta, I suppose. I doubt TPTB at the time even knew who Joey was.

As he grew into his late teens, Joey left for a life in the military, and never returned home. Thanks @DRW50 for the link. These vintage eps always make me feel like I'm watching old home movies; very comforting.

Thank you, @DRW50. Yes, I had heard Janice Lynde was set to appear at the AW event. Sadly, both her roles on AW and OLTL were drab and unsuccessful, IMHO, but I blame inept PTB at the time. Given strong material, Lynde can be dynamite (as her reign on Y&R proved so well).

She was wonderful on that show.

Thanks, @JAS0N47 and @slick jones. I loved her as Hester Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie!

Yes, that's Geoffrey Scott. None of the other actors ring a bell, however.

Thanks for the link @DRW50

I think it was Rona Barrett's Daytimers which published a blurb about Jayne, saying that while she was generally liked by the cast, most acknowledged that she should have remained a model and not tried to be an "actress." She was so awful and miscast as Nicole. How she actually landed the role, I'll never understand. Shades of Wesley Pfenning and Linda Borgenson on AW. YIKES!

My pleasure.

Yes, it sure is.

My mind is reeling with sarcastic replies.🙄

I'm dreaming in Technicolor here, but I'd be delighted if DVD showed up as Tommy Horton, Jr., a character from the show's halcyon years, who has been in total limbo for decades now. Even if the actor is unlikely to recur indefinitely, or return as a guest on DAYS again in the future, what a gift it would be for both DVD fans and OG fans of the series. Of course, it will never happen.

Great stills, @slick jones! They bring back memories of my earliests days of watching my beloved GH! To me, Steve Hardy and Jessie Brewer were daytime royalty!

IMHO, Lemay's writing weakened as his tenure went on, but when he was at his peak, AW was exhilarating; everything a soap should be.

ITA. Rita Lakin has never really been placed alongside the greatest of the greats, like Phillips, Nixon, Bell and other writers of their ilk, but she was a solid and capable scribe who put out fine work. She was definitely the best writer TD ever had.

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@DRW50, these vintage ATWT links are priceless. Seeing the legacy Hughes and Stewart families together made me verklempt. Thanks for the uploads.