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Thank you very much for the Vaults. It's such a relief to have so many vintage episodes preserved.

Julianna McCarthy clarified the situation a bit more. Julianna McCarthy: Well they wrote him out with no notice or warning He found out from Wardrobe They had a little farewell party with white frosting ghost cupcakes He was much loved But management? Kay Alden Nelson: Julianna McCarthy Julianna! I had no idea things happened that way with Robert. I would guess the power battles might have begun by then, because Bill Bell adored that man.

In a facebook post announcing the passing of Robert Clary, Julianna McCarthy (ex-Liz Foster on Y&R) wrote that she was still angry about the disrespect TPTB at the time heaped on him. Janice Lynde (ex-Leslie Brooks) then chimed in and echoed the sentiments. I'm saddened to hear that RC was treated so badly by the show; badly enough for both actresses to still be annoyed about it today. Clary was an asset to Y&R and deserved better.

Right. More gratuitous butchering of historically-important characters. The business with Rick Webber and the crap with Jeff were both choices made by incompetent PTB who understood neither the core of the show nor what viewers want to see on their soaps.

Exactly. ME and his eight million characters should have been dispatched from the show years ago, not foisted into a slimy story with Liz. Turning Liz into a supporting player in (supposedly) her own story is an affront, and destroying the character of Steve Hardy's only biologal son is an egregious slap in the face to the history of the series. Just vomit.🤮

The classic character of Jeff Webber, so beautifully written during the Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith years, and so sweetly played by Richard Dean Anderson, has been trashed...for a stupid, illogical and alienating storyline. Sigh.

Thanks @j swift and @DRW50!

Exactly, considering that on Ryan's former show, ATWT, we also had characters like Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Coleman McCall Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn, LOL!

Meg Ryan once remarked in a derogatory manner about her experience on ATWT: "My character's name was Betsy Stewart Montgomery Andropolous, so that shows how many times she was married!" She said this as if Betsy's being married a "whopping" two times in her life was so absurd. Pffft. Many people in real life get married two (or more) times. I do think TLJ was just snarking to degrade the soaps. His story about how he left OLTL doesn't ring true.

Having an affair on his fragile wife, killing a patient, letting Larry be suspected of the crime, and then leaving a badly-injured Dorian to die after her fall down the stairs...seems bad enough to me for TLJ to realize that his character was a villain LONG before his final week or two on the soap.

Hi @DRW50, Either TLJ is having false-memory flashbacks, or he's shooting a lot of bull. Soap opera storyline arcs are written and approved well in advance, and no writer could instantly turn a hero into a villain, generate all the required scripts, and write him out within two weeks. Mark Toland's descent into ambiguous "villainy" started much earlier than a week or two before TLJ left the series. He was cheating on his sweet wife, Julie, by early 1973 (two years before being written out), and was responsible for accidentally killing a patient named Rachel Wilson in 1974. When Dorian Cramer (Mark's affair partner) intended to inform the authorities of how Rachel had actually died (the police at the time suspected Larry Wolek), Mark tried to flee, resulting in Dorian's falling down a flight of stairs and going into a coma. Mark just ran off and left an injured Dorian there, possibly to die. Then in 1975, Mark discovered that Tony Harris was really Victor Lord's son and tried to blackmail the elderly man with the information. Before he could do much damage in that area, however, Mark was shot and killed in early 1975. Anyway, all this to say: despite TLJ's peculiar account of how Mark supposedly turned into a villain and was written out pratically overnight, Mark Toland's dastardly behavior began two full years before the character left the show.

On GH, is it ever acknowledged or referred to that Laura and Liz are cousins? (Rick Webber adopted Laura, IIRC, and his brother Jeff is Liz's father.) Also lost to history is the fact that Gail Adamson (Baldwin) adopted Monica. Lorie Brooks being Liz Foster's niece on Y&R was swept under the rug and forgotten about, as was the fact that Jo and Stu (SFT) were step-siblings (their widowed parents married each other).

Thanks @DRW50.

Thanks for the tag, @victoria foxton! IMHO, AMC and RH were at their very best in the 1970s!

I don't believe it is either Courtney or Myers, but the actress does not look familiar to me and I cannot identify her, alas.

I feel like I have been CORRUPTED and lured to THE DARK SIDE! Whatever will become of me???

@DRW50 Thanks!

@AbcNbc247 Tell me about it. I have fallen down a rabbit hole, and am presently obsessed with sexy men!

@AbcNbc247 Don't encourage us, LOL!!!🤣

Particularly when the pants fit like THAT!🤭😍

@Soapsuds, it seems even Freddy Krueger can't keep his hands away! LOL!

I would get banned, and banished to Pornhub island, where I doubt my soap opera rants would be appreciated, LOL!🤣 But I must say, there are many delicious photos out there of the divine Matthew Camp.