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I agree!! People want to act like this is akin to killing off Maureen Bauer, and I'm just not here for that. GH was fine without KM and Sam before, it will be fine without KM and Sam again.

I always figured they replaced Marguerite Ray, because she looked TOO matronly, if that makes any sense.

Nope. Even her most successful work at GL was due more to Robert Calhoun and Nancy Curlee's influences than to anything she could have come up with on her own. JFP always had a very dark, nasty and brutal vision for her shows; and no amount of dreary musical montages or "special episodes" was gonna cover that up either.

Yeah, the past 20+ years of DAYS is like a jumble in my mind - and can you really blame me for that? - so I'm not sure who did what and when, lol.

LOL!!

I wonder if that was because he was afraid of repeating the Douglas Cummings storyline with Frannie. She was supposed to be this intelligent, level-headed young woman; yet, she kept falling for dirtbags and psychos. On the one hand, that could be fascinating to explore, but on the other hand, it might make the girl look like a moron. For sure, however, I definitely think the story was supposed to end originally with Frannie pushing Darryl to his death out of that ski lift thing that they went on location to shoot in. Weren't Paula Cwikly and Peter Brash responsible for retconning Rex and Cassie as Roman and Kate's children? If so, I'd say they were well-regarded, at least by DAYS fans.

Seriously, Y&R, just kill her off.

I've no doubt Debbi (and Darnell) will pop up one day on BTG in a recurring role.

LOL!! Was it? Because, from where I'm sitting, I think Niki Smith did us all a tremendous favor by pushing Derwood out that window.

Fantastic news!! "Original recipe" L&O is like "Murder, She Wrote": it's a show that holds up so well even after all these years.

If there's one thing Okies don't do, it's beat around the bush. If we're not sure about something, we'll let you know. Beverlee McKinsey was getting a rare opportunity (not to mention, a lot more money) to spin her popular character off to her own show, but she made it clear: she didn't think it was gonna work. And she was right.

I don't care if Miss "Open Bed, Insert Slut" jumped off the show or was pushed. Just so long as she is gone.

I'll echo everyone else and agree that Niki Smith became a cartoon after the '95 DID story. And as I've said before, you know you're a hack when you've committed character assassination on a split personality. The same could be said for Jack Scalia. I still can't believe how AMC screwed THAT up.

I should have followed your lead and bailed right away. But, like I said, I'm a fan of Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye's. Most of the time, their unconventional casting worked. (I still remember when peeps like Jessica Hahn and King Kong Bundy would pop up on MWC). But that was one time when they needed a beautiful woman who also could act. I think the Tartikoff era at NBC was pretty special. There seemed to be more variety in the network's programming, so that you didn't end up with 12 sitcoms that all attempted to be the next "Friends" or "Seinfeld."

When the man who plays TGVN says, "[!@#$%^&*] this place, I'm outta here!"

Also among the guest cast: Charles Flohe (ex-Preacher, EON; ex-Connor, SaBa; ex-Grant, B&B). He played the OTHER guy who sat with Jerry Hall at that restaurant. I'm not a "Married...with Children" fan, but I love just about everything else that Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye wrote, so I really wanted to like this one. But...oh my God...Jerry Hall, lol.

Agnes Nixon gave us the inside scoop on why she left SEARCH FOR TOMORROW after the first thirteen weeks, but zip on LOVING. Between that, Douglas Marland's decision to leave in '85 and have his name removed as co-creator, and Patrick Mulcahey's somewhat cryptic statements about the show on social media, something tells me LOVING was not a very pleasant experience for anyone involved. I'd agree. I've long suspected that the network, knowing about Erica and Maria's rivalry, forced the storyline on Lorraine Broderick, who attempted to root Erica's choice to steal Maria's baby in her own issues with daddy Eric. Unfortunately, I don't think there was any way to justify her doing that; and in fact, I'd argue that it might've damaged Erica and diminished her somewhat in AMC's final years. I agree. And I will go to my grave detesting Viki's DID storyline, bravura performances and writing be damned.

It was a rare time when Douglas Marland cut to the chase rather than do his usual, gradual build; and maybe the second time he had a character change on a proverbial dime with no real explanation (the first time being with Kathryn Harrold's Nola on THE DOCTORS).

Oh, no. I got enough of Black women lying about the identity of their babies' fathers on "Maury." I don't want to see them do it on BTG, too.

Hell, even David Chisum seemed to be having some fun there for a moment, portraying a man who was new to sex but apparently not to ab crunches.

Debbi's black never cracks!! And every time I see Richard Lawson, all I can think is, "That's the man who knocked up Molly Dodd!" (IYKYK).

Oh, I beg to differ. I think Trevor St. John had a high old time, lol.

True, but were they really her finest moments, lol? Even the damage that Paul Rauch tried to do to Dorian before RS left the first time didn't compare to how TPTB treated her every run thereafter.

The less I say about Viki's disastrous relationship with Charlie.... I think a BIG problem for Viki during that same period was the show's basic inability to write for her children or recast them properly. Dan Gauthier turned out to be okay as a Kevin recast (although - and I say this about all the adult Kevins - I would've liked to have seen at least some of Joe Riley in their oldest child), but they never found the right Joey after Chris McKenna left; and Bree Williamson's Jessica was just wrong. To me, it says a lot that the insta-daughter, Natalie, turned out to be the child of Viki's that had the most staying power of any of 'em!

I don't know if she was diminished so much as she was trapped (again, by TPTB, who wouldn't allow her to mature, for whatever reason). However, I do think there came a point when storylines involving Erica felt less character-driven than they had been in years past (although, you could make the same argument for pretty much every veteran character on AMC).