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I agree. Two things hurt KNOTS in S13: the fact that the Lechowicks and Stanleys had left the show in such a mess; and the fact that the team hired to replace them (Romano, James Magnuson, Donald Marcus, Rachel Cline, Lisa Seidman) had no prior knowledge of the show. (IMO, Michael Filerman and David Jacobs were stupid not to guide Romano and his team at least initially, until they had learned how the show worked). And you're right about Kasha's passing casting a bit of a shadow over the last few seasons of KNOTS. IIRC, he died either right before the 1990-91 season or soon after it premiered, but they kept his name in the credits until the end of the season. Either way, it does seem like the show began to spiral once he was no longer involved. The latter half of S13 and most of S14 were improvements, but even they paled to "golden era" KNOTS.

It was during KNOTS' abominable S13, with John Romano as Co-EP/Showrunner: I suspect that it was Michael Filerman, who had worked at CBS Daytime (first, under Fred Silverman and maybe Paul Rauch; then, later, on his own, I think), who hired Hardy to perform a lot of the same duties that Lawrence Kasha - like Hardy, a theater veteran - had before his untimely death in 1990.

I agree. All we really know about Willow is that she's Nina's long-lost daughter and the lady who (allegedly) beat cancer. You don't think sex with Michael would be hot? I can see it now: Drew seduces Willow; Willow leaves Michael for Drew; Willow learns Drew only seduced her in order to get back at Nina; Willow begs Michael to take her back; Michael tells Willow to kick rocks (and maybe hooks up with Sasha, which angers Cody); Willow ends up shooting (and maybe killing) Drew; Nina takes the rap for Willow; Willow realizes how much Nina actually loves her; Nina and Willow's relationship as mother and daughter grows deeper. Okay, enough with the boat metaphors, we get it, lol! ICAM!! I agree. Even if Michele Val Jean is looking to bring along some fresh, young talent BTS, she'll also need seasoned vets (such as her old friend, PM) to help get her creation off to a solid start.

I agree. Plus, "love on the run" stories work only when the stakes are high, but what are the stakes in Tate and Holly running off besides their families losing their collective shits about it?

But the fact that he was there for that long doesn't necessarily mean that's where he made the greatest impact, especially if RH fans appear to agree that his time there was, for the most part, poor. I'd love to know what, if any, positive impact he had on any show he produced, or whether he was just someone who was more suited to working in the theater.

Those ladies are smart to launch a rewatch podcast. To a generation of viewers, MP is like visual comfort food, so they'll likely eat that stuff up. (I should know: I, myself, can't get enough of "Murder, She Wrote" reruns on PlutoTV and wish certain cast members were still alive to do a podcast of that show, lol).

Except, his characters weren't as layered as the ones on "Family," nor were the actors on KNOTS as accomplished. And I say that as one who loved both shows. IMO, it was the addition of Julie Harris (and later, William Devane) that forced the rest of the cast to step up their game. TBH, though, I don't know whether Don/Sid would have fit into the direction that KNOTS itself took when Peter Dunne replaced Joseph B. Wallenstein as producer/showrunner. Even if you got Sid out of Knots Landing Motors, it's hard to determine which, if any, part he might have played in storylines like Wolfbridge or Empire Valley. On the other hand, producers wouldn't have needed to retcon Sid's history in order to bring back Annie and have her fill the "young, sexy ingenue" role that Paige filled. I think both Lorimar and MTM had great production values - better than those of Universal or even Spelling/Goldberg - but when it came to the quality of acting and writing, MTM's shows (both sitcoms and dramas) were hard to beat.

It's good to see that mess debunked, but I always come back to the same conclusion: even a Biden who is (allegedly) afflicted with some degenerative, incurable disease is better for this country than even a Trump who is perfectly healthy (which he is most certainly not).

His tanning lotion? His bottle of Grecian Formula? Yes, lol!

Frankly, I don't blame him. Sid could be such a dope, particularly when it came to the people he cared about the most: his wife, his kids, Abby, Gary, etc.

I agree. Like I said before, in another thread, Sonny doesn't know how to be anything BUT a criminal. If he ever left the mob, he'd just go back to being what he was before - a two-bit strip club owner - but he wouldn't be as successful, because both time and the sex industry have passed him by.

I'd love to know that as well. Didn't he also work on LOL and LIAMST? And then, of course, there was that year he spent as Supervising Producer on KNOTS LANDING.

I'd like to see protesters with signs saying, "You're not rich!" (Trust me, that'll get his proverbial goat more than anything.)

I agree. As a man, and as a parent, John had his foibles. Overall, however, I thought he was a decent, honorable human being. It's just a shame that soaps don't have patriarchs (or matriarchs) like that anymore.

OMG, I just made the same comparison in the In Memoriam thread, lol. I agree about what a special addition he was to KNOTS, and to Val/JVA. To me, he was more of a "regular guy" whom the audience could relate to than even Kevin Dobson, whose Mack seemed to become more irritatingly strident as the seasons passed. That's why - as I said in the other thread - it's so difficult to watch anything from his final storyline on the show. Given everything that we had known up to that point about Ben, it made no sense; and it absolutely did not play to Sheehan's strengths at all.

If ABC tends to dominate the largest markets and CBS the Midwest and South, what area(s) of the country does NBC dominate?

[!@#$%^&*]. Doug Sheehan always reminded me of James Stewart with his boyish good looks, quirky sense of humor and easy-going nature. No matter what kind of vehicle he was in - whether it was a soap (like GH or KL) or a sitcom ("Day by Day") or some cheesy TV movie - he always brought a sense of integrity to his role. (Which is why watching his exit storyline on KL is REALLY hard for me, because you could tell he was struggling with that material, for a number of reasons). I always wanted GH to bring him back (on a recurring basis) as Joe Kelly: still a gumshoe, still funny and charming, but maybe a little more weary on account of age and having seen it all many times over. Ah, well.

WTF is going on with Brenda Dickson's hair in that second clip?

Is that Martha Smith from "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" and "National Lampoon's Animal House" playing Sandy?

"Hey, Mom, what did you do to the french fries?" CUT TO: "Mom arrested in bizarre family murder plot - news at eleven!"

Honestly, I think this storyline, as written, would have been problematic even twenty years ago, when a musical artist still had to be "in the closet" in order to be successful.

I'm just glad they quit before they subjected us to the house/industrial version. You haven't been boring me! I've always felt that MK was one underrated daytime diva who deserves some flowers. Same goes for Maureen Garrett and about a dozen other performers.

I remember a version that aired maybe once or twice during the Laibson era that had an island flavor, replete with steel drums, lol.

Frankly, that's giving me "True Light" vibes, lol.

Ron Carlivati writes the way he does, because he isn't trying to please the audience, only himself.