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Days also killed off another veteran character, Bill Horton, for literally no reason whatsoever. Can anyone come up with the point of that? There were no ramifications and no story to came out of it. Does Laura even know that her once-beloved husband and the father of her children is dead? I know TPTB killed off David Banning in order to facilitate the story of Julie's gaining a new grandson, but that axing of a beloved Horton was egregious and unnecessary too. Now (potentially) Laura Horton? Ron Carlivati would bring back Penny Hughes to ATWT just to reveal her as a transvestite serial killer and kill her off.🤮 Ron writes low-brow camp and relies on pedestrian shock value. He is a terrible writer. He needs to go.

I must ask, is there a specific reason why unsolicited advice on grammar is suddenly necessary?🤔

My memory is vague on this but I think Naomi Vernon on OLTL staged a "fake" suicide to get attention from her husband, but ended up killing herself for real. Hmm. I'll have to check it out. Oops, I just posted about this before reading your comment. I really must learn to read an entire thread before posting replies!

Believe me, DAYS fans enjoy and appreciate everything you post!

Me too. And Sonny and Jason and Franco and Carly and Sam and...well, half of current characters.🤮

Emily McLaughlin's (ex-Jessie Brewer, GH) daughter said that after her mother was fired from the show and put on recurring, there were no guarantees of any appearances, but when Jessie did appear, McLaughlin was paid a whopping $3500.00 per episode. That would equate to 12.5 thousand dollars today. (Still, often many months went by without any sign of Jessie on-screen, so the yearly salary for EM would not have been high.) Former movie star Joan Bennett allegedly had a less exhausting deal with Dark Shadows. She was reported to receive $1000.00 a week too, but for a three-episode per week guarantee.

When Susan Harney replaced Jacqueline Courtney as Alice in 1975, she was immediately placed at number six in the cast crawl. I took it to mean that TPTB intended to keep Alice as an important character, but the way AW chose who to be higher/lower on the list was always a bit weird. In 1974, they credited actors like this: 1. Jacqueline Courtney 2. George Reinholt 3. Victoria Wyndham 4. Virginia Dwyer 5. Hugh Marlowe 6. Beverly Penberthy 7. Michael M. Ryan 8. Constance Ford 9. Jordan Charney 10. Susan Sullivan 10. Nicolas Coster 11. Victoria Thompson 12, Irene Dailey 13. David Bailey 14. Dolph Sweet 15. Beverlee McKinsey 16. John Considine 17. Christopher Allport 18. Bobby Doran 19. Mike Hammett 20. Douglass Watson 21. Anne Meacham 22. William Roerick The actors names were not in order of seniority OR in alphabetical order. Heaven only knows what thought processes went into compiling the crawl like that. The story was that Breech ended up being flighty and unreliable, and wouldn't always return to the studio on time after going out for lunch. That rained havoc onto the show's schedule and budget. In an interview in 1975, Jacquie Courtney said that when she left Another World, she was given all of Alice's wardrobe. I don't know if it had been part of her contract, or if Paul Rauch had just been an extremely nice and generous person. Oh, wait. LOL!

Ron is one of those writers who inexplicably gets "recognized" for his work, even though it has never been any good. He is a scribe whose continued employment on the soaps just baffles me. After decades of failure, you would think even TIIC of daytime TV would accept the fact that ludicrous, low-brow camp, sci-fi and blatant supernatural themes do not work on soaps which were created to be, and known to be, traditional. The writers who do not have the talent to incorporate character delineation, intelligent interpersonal relationships and at least plausible and recognizable situations into their shows should be purged from the pool of potential hires. Ron C, Jean P, Josh G, Charles Pratt, Dena Higley, and so many others should never again have the opportunity to decimate the soap genre more than they have already done.

It never fails to annoy me when I remember how totally butchered the DVD releases of Beverly Hills 90210 were, with chunks of episodes missing and horrendous hacking out of the original music. They were the worst-quality DVDs I've ever encountered, even worse than the original DVD releases of Little House on the Prairie.

Possibly. Erika Slezak had that in her contract too, which allegedly left newbie Marcia Cross in a snit.

I cannot imagine who this latest internet troll is, who is purposely putting rare soap opera uploads and channels at risk, but this sort of antagonistic troublemaker has long been plaguing the community. It was people like this who made me stop trading and sharing my ultra-rare material to begin with. If they get outed, ostracized and banned from any platform, I won't cry me a river.

Kin Shriner's Scotty Baldwin is one of only two TV characters whom I have literally wanted to marry, for real! LOL!

Even Kin's often...quirky hair looked great!

Never before, and never since, have I watched as many soaps on a daily basis as I did in the 1970s. Probably 15, I think. (Yes, it was insane. I was a geek with no life!) The vast majority of them really were on fire back then, penned by master writers at the top of their game. When shows were broadcast on competing networks at the same time, I'd alternate between what ones to watch and what ones to audio-tape and listen to later, in the evening. The few soaps that were not as good in various years of the decade (Love of Life, General Hospital, The Secret Storm) were still okay enough for me to keep up with, just not every day. And it's true: when Y&R debuted, the sets, lighting, wardrobe, EVERYTHING made it look so lush, expensive and opulent, like a classy Ross Hunter Hollywood motion picture. I was indeed blown away.

@MissPalmer and @FrenchFan, I remember Bryna Laub and her newsletters! Back then, the publication dates of various magazines and newsletters were often slightly "off" from the news contained in them. Still, there's always the possibility that back in 1975, I wrote down the wrong date when I first saw Courtney appear on the show. Or maybe she had actually appeared before *I* first saw her on November 12, 1975. But it's hard for me to figure out how I could have gotten the date THAT wrong, LOL. And Jacqueline Courtney has always been my favorite soap opera actress, so I was waiting on pins and needles for her to show up. I watched the show every day, and on the rare event that doing so was impossible, I audio-recorded it. I am willing to admit I could be mistaken, but...hmmm. I guess there will never be concrete, definitive proof.

In the mid-1970s, Another World was a powerful force in the ratings, while on ABC, General Hospital was in the toilet. It was a poorly-done and tedious mess. As OLTL's lead-in and AW's primary competition, GH crippled OLTL's chances, I would say. I remember writer Gordon Russell saying that OLTL was in dead-man's gulch following GH, and wished AW and OLTL could have competed head-to-head at 3:00 PM, eastern time. I think the original core families and characters would never have been considered expendable, if OLTL had been in a better position to compete in the ratings. I'm sure its numbers would have been stronger. It was a good show. Significantly better than GH at that time, and far superior to anything we see on daytime TV today. Yes, TPTB had to renegotiate contracts when soaps started expanding. BTW, George Reinholt said he was being paid $70,000.00 a year on the hour-long Another World, but on the 30-minue OLTL, he was "only" getting half that salary.

@MissPalmer, that seems like an awful lot of story to play out over a single month, particularly back in the 1970s when everything on screen moved so slowly. I wonder if the synopses was a combination of October and November, although I would not press that point; it's merely speculation. Anyway, I literally watched OLTL every day back then, and I remember I was adding articles to my scrapbook on the day Courtney appeared for the first time, and I immediately added the note/date to my records. So while I, personally, am sure November 12, 1975 is the accurate date of Pat Kendall's first appearance, I can understand why other fans might be unsure, hearing conflicting information from different sources. At least everyone agrees that she debuted towards the end of 1975.

Dorian and a doctor named Mark Toland had accidentally killed a patient named Rachel Wilson, but did not confess to their participation in the incident. Innocent Larry ended up standing trial for the woman's murder. Of course the Woleks loathed Dorian afterwards, but so did most of Larry's friends. Few Llanview-ites were thrilled with Dorian after that. The situation with Dorian and Victor only made the animosity much worse.

Allegedly, several cast members in the latter half of the 1970s were miffed to still be working for relative peanuts, when ABC hired Courtney and Reinholt at almost twice the salary everyone else was getting. Frankly, I'd be annoyed too.

Back in the 1970s, I was an unabashed soap opera geek. I kept "live" scrapbooks on all my favorite shows: I'd rate daily storyline synopses, keep magazine critiques and interviews, keep track of the the Neilson ratings and what actors/characters appeared on each episode, etc. After Courtney left AW, I was hoping ABC would be smart enough to snatch her up for OLTL, and when she appeared as Pat Kendall for the very first time, I was working on my scrapbook and happily wrote down the note in it. I just double-checked right now and yes, the date she debuted on OLTL was November 12, 1975. Where was that summary stating that she began in mid-October? I'm curious. Obviously, I would never say I am right about everything, but since I specifically wrote it down during her very first episode, I'd bet 11/12/75 is the accurate date. Heck, I didn't even drink in the afternoons back then, ROTF!!!!

Reinholt began on OLTL about five months before Courtney, who first appeared on November 12, 1975.

I absolutely loved OLTL in the 1960s and 1970s. I had no idea these vintage episodes had even survived. Thank you for the heads up, and a big thank you to the uploader!

Grant was a major part of TGL's history, but I'd choose other actors as well to celebrate, like Mart Hulswit, Maureen Garrett, Jerry ver Dorn; any long-time, important vets who are still with us and wished to participate.

Nikki and every single person who generously shares content with the community all deserve a huge round of applause! Generous soap fans are truly a blessing!

I have now checked the episodes I have, and although the dates do not correspond on all the files, my 1970s' eps of Y&R are the exact same ones as in the vault. Thanks again for giving me the link, however.