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I'm not familiar with it, but the fact that the cast included Domini Blythe (ex-Estelle Kendall, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW) and Jonathan Crombie (aka "Gilbert Blythe" in Anne of Green Gables) piques my interest just a tad.

You know, I'm not saying Ellen Holly's criticisms about the show weren't and aren't legitimate, but it seems to me, from my own experience, that some minorities have such a proverbial chip on their shoulders about race that they make it impossible for others to embrace them or spend inordinate amounts of time with them.

Five people (out of many) who were responsible for AMC's demise.

Let's just say, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

If they only knew....

As long as I live, I'll never forgive AMC for eighty-six'ing the Tyler mansion (or "updating" Cortlandt Manor). Those sets were almost historic, IMO. To me, losing them was like losing the Reardon boarding house on GUIDING LIGHT -- a clear sign that that show's days were numbered.

Oh Lord.....

I thought that was the Shapiros' main story. Are you referring to the story they talked about in that online interview that was (and might still be) on YouTube?

That's my Dorian, too. And this (especially toward the end w/ Mitch and Tina): RS' relationship with then-EP Paul Rauch might have redefined the word "acrimonious," but not even the damage he did to her character compares to what JFP, FV, Linda Gottlieb, or any other EP or HW did.

To this day, I refuse to think Dorian, regardless of who was playing her, would ever fall for the likes of Jason Webb.

Yep.

I heard she tried out for Max. I'm kidding. From JDP to Philip Brown to...Hunt Block? Seriously, they should've scrapped the role altogether.

As I said in the Y&R thread, Michael Learned, aka Olivia Walton, is no Jeanne Cooper, but I wouldn't mind seeing her on some soap as a matriarchal figure.

In retrospect, though, we would've been spared Quint's OOC infidelity and the general nasty tone of their return during the McTavish/Laibson era.

Plus, if Julie Hanan Carruthers were still EP, she'd probably hire someone like Louise Sorel to replace Natalie Ross.

Without Greg, though, or even one of Greg's sisters, Enid wouldn't have much of an impact.

For one thing, Thomas Gibson's very fey performance as Derek. He and Martha Byrne's Lily generated about as much "heat" as a warmed-over Lean Cuisine dinner. And I'm not even gonna talk about that dialogue. That just proves Mitch's point about Marland. LOL!

BWAH! There is so much that's wrong about that promo w/ Lily & Derek! Nice try, though, CBS!

Between 1976, say, and 1987, I'm there. Before and after that, though, not so much.

Well, they were from a local station; Butch & Ben McCain, better known as Thing One and Thing Two, left KOCO eons ago after the Good Lord saw fit to cancel their early-morning program, "Good Morning Oklahoma." Those kerntry-ass s.o.b.'s used to annoy me so damned much.

In theory? No. On the other hand, I think it was clear to TPTB that Judith Barcroft 1) was virtually irreplaceable as Ann; and 2) was not interested in returning (at that time).

I get the thinking, too. It's like when former RH actors, or fans, complain about how the show was undone by ABC's micromanagement tactics. Yeah, they have a point, but it wasn't as if RH was this monstrous, out-of-the-box hit that got messed with for no reason. RH was destined to be a "little" show, and while it's unfortunate the network couldn't (or wouldn't) accept that, I could understand why they felt the need to make adjustments to it. But back to AMC: I never understood why Agnes and her producer, Bud Kloss, felt the need to recast Tara as much as they did, unless the idea was to keep the Tara/Phil/Chuck triangle going. (IMO, Karen Lynn Gorney wasn't a great actress, but I think her Tara, when paired with Richard Hatch's Phil, might have been too indelible to allow Tara to continue w/o Hatch and/or Gorney, either as a central heroine or even supporting character.) The only problem with that logic, though, is that I think the tide eventually turned against the three, viewer-wise, to the point where Chuck and Donna were a much bigger couple than Phil and Tara; and unless I'm mistaken, too, there seems to be a very strong corollation between the end of the original triangle and AMC's ascendancy to number-one in the ratings during the late '70's.

Allegedly, Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer wanted Tara #2, Stephanie Braxton, to succeed Kate Mulgrew as Mary Ryan Fenelli on RYAN'S HOPE, but Agnes deliberately kept her on AMC longer than she had planned to out of spite. Allegedly. (I mean, between this and the rumors suggesting AN goaded ABC into swapping RH's timeslot for LOVING's, you'd think this woman had a vendetta against Labine/Mayer or something.)

It also makes a fantastic crystal ball!

Was Ted the doctor Larry Wolek was accused of killing?