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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.

Thanks for the link, @slick jones. Even though I only watched OLTL daily from 1968 to 1983, and then during the Billy Douglas/AIDS quilt saga, when it was good, I loved the show dearly and have great memories of its golden era. And I'm still interested in its overall history, even the years I was not a regular viewer.

Thanks @slick jones!

Yep. I'd watch 1973-82 again for sure, even the "less effective" material with Vanessa Prentiss. Suzanne Lynch was another hard-to-take-seriously plot point character. I've always thought she was used to garner sympathy for Katherine, after all Mrs. C's egregious, earlier behavior. Even at her worst, Lorie always had traces of humanity and guilt about her crimes. I think William J. Bell tried to redeem her the most, and evolve her away from being primarily a bitch, when Lorie fell in love with Mark Henderson. He made her happy for the first time in her life, it seemed, and then Lorie discoved that he was in reality her half-brother (they shared a biological father). Lorie's anguish was gut-wrencing to witness, and I think Bell really turned the tide of sympathy towards her at that point.

I agree it would have been a wiser (and more emotionally-satisfying) choice for Brad and Leslie to ride into the sunset togther when the show did not renew Lynde's contract. Fans cry foul when their favorite, beloved couples leave town, but better them depart together and have a happy ending, than the couple breaking up and making the audience endure a recast. When Another World fired George Reinholt in 1975, I would have preferred to see Steve and Alice move to Australia together, than see Steve die and an unfortunate replacement in the role of Alice. But Y&R was highly invested in the character of Leslie, and AW was so centered on Alice (even with Rachel waiting in the wings to overtake the show) at the time, I'm not surprised that TPTB made the choices they did. I just don't feel those choices were successfil in hindsight.

The Chris/Snapper and Leslie/Brad sagas were brilliant: beautifully conceived, written and acted. The original actors had star appeal and charisma to burn; a certain "je ne sais quoi" and chemistry that can't be forced or manufactured. I was instantly mesmerized. I consider the debut year of Y&R to be the best opening of any soap I have seen in all the decades of my watching daytime TV. Personally, I felt the Lorie/Lance/Leslie/Lucas business was a step down in effectiveness (not a huge plunge, but just not as riveting). Victoria Mallory was an exquisitively attractive woman, who played the piano beautifully and sang like an angel. She also (to me) came across as poised as self-contained, lacking the depths of insecurity and emotional pain that Leslie had always exibited under Janice Lynde. There did not seem to be the "still waters run deep" quality to Leslie now, so integral elements of the character disappeared. Leslie felt like a different character who did not incite as much protectiveness and sympathy anymore. (Rona Barrett's Daytimers magazine referred to Mallory's take on the character as "colorless," which transferred the rooting value to Jaime Lyn Bauer's tempermental, complicated and emotional Lorie.) I believe Mallory would have worked out in a different, newly-created role, but she wasn't right for Leslie. (Think Linda Borgensen in comparion to Jacqueline Courtney on Another World or Marj Dusay in comparion to Beverlee McKinsey on The Guiding Light.) The romantic uncertainties of the four Ls were lopsided because the rooting value (again, to me) remained hugely in Lorie's favor. I know there are fans who enjoy campy villainesses like Vivian Alamain and Susan Banks on DAYS, Susan Piper on TGL, Justine on Another World, etc., but I never have. The rest of the characters on Y&R were nuanced and relatable, and portrayed by actors who brought subtle layers to their roles. Vanessa Prentiss was an over-the-top loon played by an actress who took a highly affected, theatrical, "hammy" approach to the role. She did not mesh with the other actor's naturalistic and believable style. Mainly, I found Vanessa to be unrealistic and absurd. I couldn't settle into and believe in any story she was part of. So with two performers I felt were miscast, the four L/Vanessa stuff never captivated me as much as the earlier Chris/Snapper, Brad/Leslie, and even the intitial Lorie/Lance stories did. That being said, the four L/Vanessa storylines were MASTERIECES compared to anything we've seen on daytime TV in decades!

I adored the storyline Janice Lynde and Tom Hallick played out during Y&R's early years; it is tied for first place as my all-time favorite Genoa City story. That being said, it's completely erroneous to assert, "We were the first super-couple of daytime...." Brad and Leslie were certainly NOT the first super couple of soaps. In fact, they weren't even the first superr couple of Y&R. Chris Brooks and Snapper Foster were already tangled in a blossoming star-crossed relationship in the very first episiode, before Leslie even meet Brad.

Yes, Naked at Dawn was the first book Lorie had written. She penned In My Sister's Shadow later on, about her contentious relationship with Leslie. I imagine Fairman might have just jumped on duos or groups of people who were already talking to each other anyway, and asked them for brief interviews. With prior planning, it would have made sense to include Tom Hallick.

I had not caught this interview until you pointed it out to me. Thank you so much @DRW50! It was a treat! I also wish we could have had some interactions like this with their characters on the show. Acknowledging Victoria Mallory with such respect was sweet. I found it amusing that Jaime Lyn Bauer mixed up Lorie's book titles Naked at Dawn and In My Sister's Shadow. I instantly caught her error. Die-hard fans can remember even the most obscure details. I don't believe there's bad blood with JL and Tom Hallick. She's in the classic Y&R Facebook group, and she has often posted very glowing comments about Hallick, their characters' storyline, and working with him.

Nothing could ever be more egregious than the "Mary Stewart" tribute fiasco. UGH!