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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.