EricMontreal22

Thanks Carl!

Was this from the same time Christopher Reeves was on LOL? Golly he was handsome I would almost buy that awful sounding shirt.

I should look for that. I do remember a lot of pairings I had no interest in and very little actually compelling plot.

It seems to be being set up as a Girls for Gays. However, I have some hope--the cast isn't bad (Russell Tovey from Dr Who and the UK Being Human) Though Scott Bakula was someone I hadn't heard connected. The main director--of the pilot and other key episodes is another Brit, Andrew Haigh who did the great UK gay film 2 years back, Weekend. I largely hated the US/Canada remake of Queer as Folk, but I'm pretty surprised it's taken this long for cable to do another gay based drama (those cheap shows on Logo or whatever like Dante's Cove do *not* count.)

I just finally finished reading all of Llanview in the Afternoon, and Thom says that he quickly realized his character would be used pretty exclusively as a "hinge" character (his word.) Ie coming in to cause and propel or else tie up a storyline and then going away again quickly--which is largely how he was used after a time. All I remember really about Malone's last little while was all the Irish mob stuff but maybe that was a bit earlier. Still I don't think I would have replaced him with Leah Laiman and Jean Passanante--all I remember of their era is what a boring muddled mess the show was.

Oh just when I started to really lose faith in Malone...

Aww I loved Carla! I'm surprised the actress never ended up on another soap. Tony was such a drip, though...

Any soap could do far worse than copying a Douglas Sirk melodrama. What year was that? Because I don't remember it at all....

Judging from the logo, that's the Canadian basic cable station Women's Television Network which has since been rebranded W. They showed a number of Lifetime programming until Lifetime Canada started this year.

So is that Jeff Byron as Jeff? What was up with him and Angie and man that other nurse sure is mean about it.... I know Charles Frank briefly returned to the role in '88

Ah I was expecting video, but still this is great! Agnes Nixon discusses this very episode in All Her Children. The week of hour episodes was also done to get people watching earlier to check out Ryan's Hope the next week--At the time Nixon seemed sure they wouldn't go to an hour permanently.

It won't be anytime soon it seems

Oh we so do not agree. In theory I feel that way about some of the best soap scenes--classic length ones they rarely do now. But these are just DRAWN out. They say things in 5 mins which should be said in 2. "So I heard you were with that slut." "You heard I was with that slut?" "Yes, I heard you were with that slut." *pause* "Oh." "Well were you!" Add rinse repeat. Add the slow direction.... IMHO the way the scenes are stretched out is the definition of filler.

Yes that would make sense withthe writer and EP listed--and they had a brief run (with that stylized opening.)

Gray Bunny, while I love Loving, that fan written piece kinda makes me laugh. That would have been early 92 I believe when Fran Sears very briefly revamped the show. The show did have a ton of recasts of core characters like the Aldens (some including original actors coming back for the end of their character's run like Curtis, I believe.) So it's true she was the original cast member left (till the Murders where they killed her partly to show anyone could die) but a number of *characters* were there. That said the show was largely retooled--first as early as after Marland left a year in (which is around when Ava came on.) Noelle Beck as Trish would leave shortly after he article but had been there a long time, etc. Carl, another thought about Levinson as HW after Marland--Wiki of course doesn't mention him, but he does seem to be one of the few people from Marland's original writing team (as shown in the Feb 1984 episode online) who remained. If Agnes Nixon did step in largely as HW as most assume she did (myself included) maybe they didn't want to credit her and promoted him up.

I've never heard of Levinson (the first writer listed in the credits.) I dunno, sometimes I feel like these episodes didn't list the HW, or at least when Nixon apparently was writing, but?

I found this kinda interesting -- an interview with Gary Tomlin a few months into his run as EP.

Thank you for the link! Dunno why it was not coming up--I have watched it before, and yeah, I suspect they are close together.

Thanks so much for that! I don't think I've seen the other 1986 episode and can't find it--do you have a link? know of the two episodes from 1987...

LOL Tyler Perry really does look like he genuinely believes he's selling the Greatest/Most Socially Important TV Show Ever.

Finally!

LOL Fair enough. But having Higley come in after sure made me appreciate it more (which is a huge backhanded complement.)

Griffith talked about leaving due to Frons being too controlling, but it was a vague comment and that's all I've heard about the run. What I meant about day to day writing is I never felt like just fast forwarding (OK, some of the Heaven Can Wait stuff) or like it was a huge chore to sit through an episode myself the way I did for huge chunks of Higley's run.

I admit I kinda enjoyed all that mess in an "WTF" way. At least the day to day writing worked a lot better for me than JER's whacked up day to day writing did. That said it was a [!@#$%^&*] mess undeniably. I forgot about the Indiana Jones room! And of course this kinda led into Victor's crazy Lion Heart Manor or whatever in the haunted woods outside town--again or whatever. Michael Malone gave a pretty candid interview about his first time at OLTL including what didn't work and what stories he couldn't tell. I wish someone would get him to talk about why he decided he wanted to go all gothic borderline supernatural when he returned to OLTL. Were these left over story ideas from 13 Bourbon Street (as apparently his glowing eye fertility statue on AW was...)?

Thanks Carl for that article--how long was he on OLTL? I had no idea he was... Kilderry is most famous to me for being on the cast album of that 1960s South Pacific (gorgeous voice) and for having an on and off again affair (allegedly) with Leonard Bernstein--and the flop musical Breakfast at Tiffany's