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Agree. much closer to Flannery than Bauer. Never got the Bauer casting ...even tho I love the actress. Erika needs a new role similar to Nikki not Vickie.

She's not listed in this position at the government website. There's another person in the role. Fired perhaps?

Ron probably tried to get Erica to play Vivian. Glad she has more class and dignity and didn't take these BS roles. Poor Robin trashed herself to play Vivian for 30 episodes and wasn't invited back. Loved how Erica called out her fav head writers (Malone and O'Shea and Carlivati) and indirectly shaded Higley. But she defended Frons. I never realized that Gillian Spencer was fired as the first Vickie. I wonder why since she ended up playing Daisy and was a story consultant to AMC for a while. Erica also mentioned that she was originally up for a new role. I think the role was Mary Kennicott on AMC.

I didn't know Hastings wrote GL and ATWT under a pen name. Does anyone know the name he wrote under? He said he wrote GL when Robert & Edith Soderberg were head writers (sometime between 69-73).

Boy, Doug Marland deliberately didn't call out thanks to Potter and the camera caught Michael Tylo's eyes popping out because of the omission. I tend to think Marland probably had good reasons to think poorly of Potter. Probably more than just firing Jane Elliot. Patrick Mulcahey was cute!

Article about wacky Hogan Sheffer. Very interesting and sad man. https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/columnists/mike-argento/2019/10/15/york-mark-hogan-sheffer-screenwriter-soap-opera-world-dies/3917041002/

I wish Alan Locher would get assemble interviews with some of the writers. Here's an old article about Nancy Curlee and Steve Demorest. http://www.newsoforange.com/news/article_471ac8fa-681a-11e3-abf7-0019bb2963f4.html

Wasn't Ann Howard Bailey the head writer/creator of How to Survive a Marriage? Did they replace her in the last few months with DePriest?

The first four months of the Emily/Kirk storyline was painful. I hated that milk toast actress. But Slesar turned it around in the second half, culminating in the August amusement park location shoot. Edge took off after that through Slesar's firing. Last great chapter of the show. Joe Lambie was a revelation. So sexy and dang good actor. I loved Poppy and Eddie! I thought they should have kept Poppy around and made her Mitzi's sister. It was so depressing to watch Lee Sheldon ruin the show in the last 18 months.

Robert Soderberg and Edith Sommer wrote the show from 69-73. I have part of their story bible in my attic. I won it off of ebay at some point. It's really interesting. It's been a while since I've read it.

The actress who played Carmen was overrated; she couldn't cut it with the pros on the show. I hated the Santos family.

OMG Jon Lindstrom called Liz Hubbard a battle-axe! Alan couldn't end the interview fast enough. A battle-axe is a term, generally considered pejorative, for an aggressive, domineering and forceful woman.

Anna, Elizabeth and Count look fierce. All could be great additions to current soaps.

I think the Corringtons were brilliant on SFT but it was too much too soon and the older audience didn't cotton to the New Orleans angle. But Travis and Liza kept the show going. Texas was a hot mess. The Corringtons lasted a hot minute as HW of Capitol, OLTL and GH. GL even hired Joyce for a few months during the Doug Anderson head writing debacle. Maybe the Corringtons should have stayed on SFT and expanded it to an hour. They found their footing after they moved the action back to Henderson.

These two episodes were broadcast on March 13 and 14 1979. Sharon Gabet's last episode before a six month break. Her departure episode is one of the best EON / Slesar episodes ever. Sharon's performance, the directing, music, the rest of the cast. late 1978 and early 79 was a high water mark for Edge on ABC. The next six months on the show was tough with Sharon's exit and the Mansion of the Damned plot. They also scrapped the Paige story and wrote her and Brian off. But Kim Hunter was so entertaining. And when Sharon returned during Margo's murder trial it was the beginning of another big classic EON period.

Maeve left GL after a 20 year run that started in 1980 (she took three 6 month breaks during her 20 year run) and ended in 2000. Paul Rauch became EP in Nov 1996; Maeve worked with Paul for three years/ stayed until Sept 2000. She then returned in 2005 until the end (Wheeler/Kreizman/Swajeski).

Just today on the Locher stream with GL actors, Maeve Kincaid who played Angie on AW and Vanessa on GL made a veiled reference to the toxic AW environment. When asked if she recalled day one on GL set she remembered the actress who played Hope Bauer telling her that the GL set was nothing like that other show.....

There's a reason VW never worked again in daytime. There are stories from many actors that AW was miserable backstage. VW was the only one there throughout all the EP and writer regimes. Think about all the other actors from cancelled soaps who were immediately rehired: Gabet, Malloy, Ann Flood, Joel Crothers, Lois Kibbee. Everyone who talks about Edge has nothing but amazing things to say about the Henry/Erwin years. Has there every been a positive AW backstage story?

Susan looks amazing and her voice hasn't really changed. She has aged beautifully. Wow

Iconic episode. Beverlee was so awesome. Iniitial scene between Reva and Alex was fabulous. Krista's acting is so poor. And I never liked the actress playing Mother Reardon.

Conboy productions hired Slesar to helm Capitol, a position Slesar held from Nov 1984 through Jan 86.

Poor Maura. She was awkward, sitting in the sun; and her face OMG, so sad! Martha, Michael and Don were so dignified and classy.

Speaking of Ralph Ellis and Eugenie Hunt. They were prolific (and well respected) soap writers and not only served as headwriters of TD but at SFT twice and other shows. Both were also hired as breakdown writers, script writers and story consultants on various shows. Eugenie died a few years ago. https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/past_obituaries/article/Obituary-Gene-H-Ellis-82-actress-and-writer-14003844.php

Interesting. I think she and Cherrill will be gone from credits soon. I know Levin started writing scripts for SFT in spring 1980 when the Corringtons were replaced by Linda Grover/John Porterfield as head writers.