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Time Magazine: 1976 From Weekday TV (unknown year)

Another World's 10th Anniversary: Alice remarries Steven (May 3, 1974) From Daily TV Serials, 1974: Jacqueline Courtney Leaves (Gets Pushed Out) of Another World, 1975 Oops, the last line of the paragraph got cut off: "One thing we know for sure, the role of Alice will be recast. Susan Harney has been hired to play the part."

Original Cast Members of The Young and the Restless, 1973: Brenda Dickson (Jill Foster), Janice Lynde (Leslie Brooks), Trish Stewart (Chris Brooks), and Lee Crawford (Sally McGuire) It's hard to believe that TPTB told Trish Stewart she was overweight and needed to slim down. Pffft! Here are summaries of the show's first four years' worth of storylines, as published in Daily TV Serials' Anniversary Issues (in June/July of 1974, '75, '76, '77).

Patricia Everly was lovely but did not have Peters' (or Strangis') innate "cuteness," so I was not surprised when she came and went in the blink of an eye. I wish TBTB had axed Wings Hauser that fast. Strangis probably would have made a better Peggy than Everly did.

It's called "Vetsoapfan's Treasure Trove" and it's here on SON in the DTS: Cancelled Soaps folder. I hope you find something there you'll enjoy reading!

I'm happy to hear that you are enjoying the thread. It's hard to know what to post; what will interest the SON community, but I am trying to upload material from many different soaps and stars and hope something, anything, hits a bulls-eye with readers. Yes, EM had a daughter, Mary Ann Anderson, whom the actress adopted later on. I spoke to Anderson personally, when she was selling a biography of EM which she had written. Very interesting. That's an apt comparison, comparing Pamela Peters to Judy Strangis. Both young actresses were cute and perky, and quite pleasant to watch in light roles, but I would not cast or expect them to do well in heavier parts, like...Anne Frank or Helen Keller. On Y&R, Peters was appealing as Peggy until she was asked to stretch beyond her range. I definitely wanted her to remain on the show, as part of the Brooks family and as an original cast member, but I preferred when the heavier material rested on more capable shoulders like Trish Stewart, Janice Lynde, Julianna McCarthy, Jeanne Cooper, etc.

From Daytime TV Super Special # 2, 1975 From Daytime TV, April 1973 From Daytime TV, April 1973

From Daytime TV, April 1974 From Daytime TV Super Special # 2, 1975 From DaytimeTV, February 1975 From DaytimeTV Library Series #2: All My Children

From Daytime TV Super Special # 1: 1974 From Daylight TV, August 1975 George Reinholt Fired from Another World

The soap press of today is pablum and lacks any integrity or purpose, but back in the 1970s, editors like Jon-Michael Reed told it like it was, and I appreciated their blunt honesty so much. Often what critics wrote corresponded quite well to what the audience was feeling. You don't see sharp, insightful commentary about daytime TV in SOD anymore. I am one of those viewers who loved the long, intimate, drawn-out scenes focusing on character delineation and subtext...if such scenes ultimately had a purpose, a point. Masters like Harding Lemay, William J. Bell, Pat Falken Smith, Irna Phillips and a few others were so gifted that they could make the audience feel like we were eavesdropping on actual conversations between real people, so even the longest of scenes could be fascinating. The trouble is, many soap writers did not have the talent to write extended, character-driven scenes effectively, so the 10-minute conversations ended up sounding like endless "filler," which was deadly, and a struggle to sit through. Pamela Peters was very cute and had a pixie-ish quality about her, which was quite appealing. Unfortunately, she was not the best dramatic actress in the world, which became obvious during Peggy's rape storyline in 1976. (Useless trivia, LOL: Peggy was raped on June 16, 1976.) When Peggy was raped, Y&R showed flashbacks from when Chris had been attacked in 1973. This allowed the audience to compare the performances of Trish Stewart and Pamela Peters, and it was easy to conclude that Stewart was the far-superior actress. (Still, IMHO, Peters had more skill as an actress than many of the hair models we have had to endure on soaps during the last few decades.)

As Hope Bauer on The Guiding Light, Robin Mattson lacked substance and was simply...colorless. She was not awful, per se, but she was dull. After seeing two other dreadful actresses in the role of Heather Webber on General Hospital, I cringed when Mattson was hired. I thought that if they could NEVER hire a decent actress for the part, Heather should just be eliminated from the canvas ASAP. Surprisingly, Mattson had matured as an actress from her days on TGL and ended up being a decent recast on GH. She was pretty good on AMC too (although not-so-great as Delia Reid Ryan on RH). Some performers just click better in some roles than in others.

The first two years of Y&R were a soap fan's heaven. It was mesmerizing every day, and that original cast had charisma to spare. I think I have a couple of interviews, from two different years, with the Ladies Who Lunch, which I'm sure you guys will enjoy. All those gals were such fun!

The last time I moved, I threw out a huge amount of classic magazines, which was the BIGGEST and DUMBEST mistake of my life. I'd kill to get them all back now. I'm lucky that I have any left at all. I've found some Afternoon TVs from the 1970s and plan to upload content from them. I loved that mag's book-length life stories of both characters and actors. I know I have the ones of Bert Bauer, Julie Olsen, and Viki Lord. Woohoo! I don't think he was as bad or as bland as some of the other actors cast in the role, but I agree that AA was not right for Mike.

This works extremely well, and it only takes a few seconds to enlarge the text to a very readable size. Thank you so much for offering us this solution. I downloaded the articles in full size, but the text appeared significantly smaller once it was uploaded to SON. I was wondering if potential readers would just give up in frustration, which would be a shame because I wanted to share some long-lost goodies with the community. While I cannot promise anything (I can only share what I find), what kind of stuff do y'all want to see?

My pleasure...now that I have figured out how to do this. It's a shame the print is so small. I hope folks don't get eye strain from reading the articles. I have tons more stuff, BTW, but my ancient scanner is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow. It took me a couple of hours just to post what you can already see in this thread.

I'm posting rare and vintage clippings in the Cancelled Soaps Forum, if anyone is interested, featuring both past and present shows.

The Ladies Who Lunch: Audrey Peters (Vanessa Sterling, Love of Live), Ann Flood (Nancy Karr, The Edge of Night), Mary Stuart (Jo Vincente, Search for Tomorrow), Charita Bauer (Bert Bauer, The Guiding Light), Lydia Bruce (Maggie Powers, The Doctors) and Eileen Fulton (Lisa, As the World Turns) The Somerset cast, 1976 William Gray Espy (Snapper Foster), Julianna McCarthy (Liz Foster) and James Houghton (Greg Foster) from The Young and the Restless, with Susan Flannery (Laura Horton, Days of our Lives) in the picture below. Beau Kayser (Brock Reynolds, The Young and the Restless) Erika Slezak and Lee Patterson (Viki and Joe Riley, One Live to Live) from their gorgeous wedding filmed in on location Central Park. From Daily TV Serials, July 1977

From Daily TV Serials, June, 1976 Editor's Year in Review From Daily TV Serials, July 1977 The Best and the Worst of Daytime TV, by Jon-Michael Reed

From Daily TV Serials, June 1975 Editor's Year in Review

From Daily TV Serials, June 1977 Winners of the Year!

From Daily TV Serials, June 1974 The Very First Readers' Poll: Viewers' Choice for Best Shows and Actors/Actresses From Daily TV Serials. June 1975 Winners of the Year! From Daily TV Serials, June 1976 Winners of the Year!

I have recently found a huge stash of soap magazines from the 1960s and '70s, and I want to see if I can scan articles from them onto my hard drive and then upload the vintage material to SON threads. I am making a test in this post, using a vintage Y&R photograph which was already saved to my laptop. (No disrespect to @PaulRaven who just posted this same image a few pages back, but this version does not have the watermark in front of the actors, so I though no one would mind if I reposted a cleaner copy.) I hope this works.

Sorry, she does not look familiar to me.

This is Billy Kay, who played Shayne for a few years prior to Marty West. This is Mr. West.