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Joanna Cohen wrote Tuesday's script. The outline writers decide how things are going to play though.

OMG: Jamie Lunar...gross drugged 17 year old actor on Melrose Place and did nasty things. https://www.thewrap.com/melrose-place-jamie-luner-drugging-filming-oral-sex-anthony-oliver/

OMG catching some April 1975 episodes and the campy scenes with Rex and Iris are hysterical. The actor playing Rex was as gay as the day is long. Unfortunately, the actor died in 2008. Tanny McDonald played Iris and she died in 2005 of melanoma. Sad. The Pollock's writing was smart a lot of the times. The show had more spunk and character development that today's shows. And most of the acting is very good. But I have to say I never liked the actor playing Matt; he sounded like he had a pile of tobacco in his mouth in every scene.

Lee Sheldon (EONs last and worst writer) discussed his time head writing EON in the following interview: http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/257/

Deborah Sherwood was an accomplished novelist and wrote for several soaps. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=184461122

All of this happened on one day/evening during Slesar's tenure and after the writer's strike. The info I have on Slesar firing comes other sources at a later date:) I lived in Manhattan for ten years and worked in the east village. For college money I worked at a xerox copy shop and met Melissa Salmons (who had been hired as a new script writer on Search just as it was cancelled) and often talked with Joe LeSeur, now deceased Another World script writer. Joe had the scoop on P&G; poor Joe was a raging drinker and often came into the shop to copy his AW scripts while sauced. In those days Robert Soderbergh and/or Tom King assigned script writers one day a week, usually the same day and I think Joe wrote Tuesday or Wednesday episodes. I also took a writing class by Barbara Seiger who was on AW script writing staff during that time. What a piece of work she was.

I had the wonderful privilege of meeting Ernie Townsend one day on a NYC street and he invited me to his show with Marianne Aalda (Didi) that evening. He revealed a lot about the behind the scenes. He confirmed that in 1981 Slesar had left a story outline during the writer's strike and that Lois Kibbie and Laure Durbrow wrote the show for those months. That's why Kibbee replaced Steve Lehrman as Slesar's sole script writer. Townsend said Henry was incredibly bright and that P&G and the network interfered a lot less with him and his stories than they did on the other shows. (By the way: Henry was let go by P&G and it was partly a budget decision as Less Sheldon was 33 years old and was paid a lot less; second reason for firing P&G wanted more control over stories and pacing and thought Henry was outdated). My brothers and I attended the show that evening and met practically the entire cast. Ernie, Marianne, Dennis Parker, Meg Myles, Larkin Malloy, and a few others were at the show. Meg Myles was tipsy and crying and revealed that she had just been fired. The writer was done with her character, she said. It was fantastic to meet them all and hear about Slesar whom I idolized as a writer. I watched Search when he took over as well as Capitol. The best of EON at the end were his creations: Sky, Raven, Gunther, Mitiz, Didi, Cliff, Derek, Miles, Preacher, Geraldine, Mike, Nancy, Laurie Anne. Lee Sheldon almost destroyed the show's credibility but he couldn't mess with those classy actors and memorable characters.

What a great group of writers. So sad that Phelps and P&G had to tinker with the writing. Although I think Curlee needed to retire to raise her kids. She was the emotional backbone of the team.

Hopefully, this latest scandal regarding that scumbag Trump will sink him before the final debate. Friday cliffhanger! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?postshare=3561475870579757&tid=ss_tw

I don't know if this has been posted but it's a one hour parody of Guiding Light, written and produced by Marcia Clark during 1980 over a three month period. It's fantastic and great to see all the actors and sets!

two incredibly well written and acted scenes between Rachel and Mac. WOW. The first clip: this either Harding Lemay's last episodes or Tom King's first episodes without Lemay. The second clip was during DePriest/Racina stint I believe.

And ABC did some tinkering with EON after the first two years. They wanted younger demos and pressured the producers and Henry Slesar to write in younger characters. Jayne was 15 or so years younger than Mauve. ABC was glad to go with a younger actress. In 1980/81 the show dramatically changed with the arrival of Gavin, Jody, Kelly et al.

That Jordan plot was a clunker. I remember now hating it. And thinking why, why did they have to do that.

Ugh, James Lipton. Did you know that Henry Slesar replaced him on EON years ago then decades later Slesar was fired from Capitol and replaced by Lipton who embarrassingly ran the show into the ground with those final story lines.

Can someone give me a synopsis of the Jordan Stark story? Maybe it was ahead of its time...given what Carlivati is doing on GH now with Jason and Victor... The sets on this show, the directing and scripts were great. It was getting good again when they cancelled it. That's why they hired the same team to take over ATWT but it didn't work out so well. Leah Laiman ran out of ideas.

Robert Reed left because he was battling AIDS. Pam Long had retired from soap writing to have her babies with Charles Jay Hammer. She was effectively the headwriter of SFT and Addie Walsh/Trent Jones were her outline writers/associate headwriters. But Pam wrote the long story for the last six months of the show which I thought sucked. Gary Tomlin was doing a good job and didn't need to be replaced but P&G loved Pam Long and wanted her in the fold; she needed a break from the grind of writing GL, an hour long show. Does anyone have any info on the final producer of SFT, David Lawrence? The best thing about the show was the casting in the last year or two. They hired many wonderful EON actors including Ann Flood, William Prince and Mauve McGuire!

why hasn't a soap hired her for some guest work. she'd be great!

Picture of Ann Flood from a few years ago; she's on the left and looks fantastic!. Her married name is Ann Granath

Addie Walsh posted an amazing photo on her facebook yesterday of her home computer screen with the last episode of the show script on the screen; the writers finished yesterday. Janet Iacobuzio posted that the writers finished and that the NY POST article may not be true. Aida Croal posted on JI facebook wall that she hadn't heard of it.