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Personally, I'd be down for a "Falcon Crest" reboot, because I think it (and "Knots Landing") has a premise that could work today, but I'd be so afraid that it would suffer the same identity crisis that the original series suffered.

I think even David Jacobs admitted in several interviews that "Dallas" was created and developed with Linda Evans in mind. At some point, however, either Jacobs, Michael Filerman and CBS realized she wouldn't be a good fit for the show, or Linda herself came to the same realization. Either way, I don't think I could ever see Linda Evans as Pamela Barnes Ewing. She really was meant for a show like "Dynasty." RE: Victoria Principal -- I agree with those who think she didn't set out to be so hated by her castmates, or the public. I mean, you shouldn't go into any line of work expecting to win friends and influence people. You're there to do the work, so you can pay the bills, keep a roof over your head (and your family's heads, if you have one), food on the table and clothes on everyone's backs. That's it. If you want to party and socialize with others, well, like the song says, that's what friends are for. And I think it was really cruel of fans to expect her to be Andy Gibb's personal savior. Anyone who has battled addiction or knows someone who has battled can tell you that no one can save an addict BUT that addict; and if he or she don't want to be saved, then the only thing you can do as a loved one and bystander is save yourself.

He might have had more successful partnerships with Gloria Monty and Allen Potter at GH and GL, respectively, but I truly believe Robert Calhoun was the best EP Doug Marland ever worked with. (Actually, the same might go for Calhoun's working relationships with Pam Long and Nancy Curlee at GL. The guy was just a damn good producer, period.)

Um, why just those four years? I'd be much more interested in a book that covered the show's entire run and its' overall impact on daytime (and why a show like EON would totally work in modern times).

Well, when you put it THAT way, lol. I dunno. TPTB obviously thought those kinds of stunts would boost the ratings, but I always feel like the energy TPTB put into quick fixes is the same energy that could be put into writing, producing and directing worthwhile, quality drama that will go much further with the audience in the long run.

Judging from all the pictures and synopses, '70's AMC seemed to be really literate.

I don't know whether Wisner Washam could or would have resisted the push toward more gimmicky stories. After all, this is the same WW who has since self-published a novel about the cloning of Jesus. But, I do think he, Agnes Nixon and Lorraine Broderick were well on their way to ushering in a new "golden era" for AMC before Megan McTavish's wacky ass took over.

Oy.

Thanks, @victoria foxton. I think. I really don't know WHAT Mayer/Braxton or their EP, Erwin Nicholson, were thinking with all that.

I think I said the same thing...in 1994. So, was the whole premise just Will goofing on those goofy Hallmark Christmas movies, or what?

In that case, it probably was Jamey Giddens who wrote it.

Again, my memories of that period are fuzzy, but I do recall Hulk Hogan and another pro-wrestler putting in an appearance on SFT. In fact, isn't there some magazine article floating around here, w/ a picture of Lisa Peluso physically caught between the two slabs of meat and pretending to be all helpless about it? But, yeah, in an attempt to appeal/cater to the WWF crowd, SFT had on pro-wrestlers. It was weird, and a low point, both for the show (between that, the circus crap, and the Sunny/Hogan/Liza/Lloyd quad, it's really no wonder that Gary Tomlin and Michelle Poteet Lisanti were forced to wash away the entire town in a last-ditch effort to save the show) and for daytime in general.

I knew about Beverly Johnson's allegations against Chris Noth for decades. Surprisingly, though, it has never stopped me from enjoying his run on L&O. (Life is too short to waste time watching L&O:CI.)

It's one reason why I think Paul Avila Mayer and Stephanie Braxton's tenure is looked upon very unfavorably by SFT fans. Well, that, and the cameos from the WWF wrestlers.

I mean, if you're gonna bring Lexie back from the dead, you can't do it with some mealy-mouthed nothing who'll fade into the cheap woodwork within six months and then be promptly killed off (again). NuLexie's got to be portrayed by someone who can bring the fire and heat that served the character well in her biggest, most OTT moments.

Honestly, why are we still paying attention to this jackhole? He's off the show. Time to move on.

I love how all the actors in those photos look so natural and normal. No plastic-looking hunks or bimbos in the bunch.

I have few memories of the Sunny/Hogan/Liza/Lloyd quadrangle, and none of them are good.

Yep. The Dobsons believed that Caroline had long-term potential, but Anne Howard Bailey and Charles Pratt, Jr. were just so terribly short-sighted.

Agree. Wisner Washam (and Agnes Nixon) could dream up the more larger-than-life stories, but Lorraine Broderick knew how to ground them with character-driven scenes. Agnes. Not sure where she got the name from, but I know she was credited for it.

Not always. In "The Seduction," for example, she portrayed a TV news personality, who was stalked by a psychotic photographer, played by Andrew Stevens. (And then there was the time she portrayed Sandra Bernhard's lesbian gf on "Roseanne," lol.) Granted, it was all before my time, but from reading synopses and such, it seems like Alice sort of devolved into a victim, or at least one of those hapless, put-upon types that always had to suffer nobly. I think casting someone like MF and then writing to her strengths -- if not as an outright vixen, then certainly as someone who could be very sultry -- might have prevented that from happening. Certainly, any smart HW would keep the Rachel/Alice rivalry alive, since they were (or could have been) to AW what Viki and Dorian were to OLTL. But, Alice, as played by someone like MF, could be spun off into other story orbits as well. And if, in my fantasy version of AW, my dream storyline (Alice and an adult Jamie involved in a May/December romance) had ever gotten off the old ground, for sure, you'd want someone like MF playing Alice, if only for the chance to see her and VW go head-to-head in scenes.

Sharon Gabet as Barbara (even a temp Barbara) would have been awesome. Also, I wish P&G had lured Julia Barr (ex-Brooke) away from AMC to play a Dee recast. That would have awesome as well.

Translation: she and several of her classmates are involved in a call girl ring headed by her school's headmaster. If she were up for working on soaps, I'd cast Jasmine Guy (a.k.a. Whitley Gilbert-Wayne, "A Different World") as nuLexie.

Robin Givens would do anything. And I mean anything.

Forget about Jeff. It's been how long? And we STILL don't know who the hell is Liz's mom.