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Karen is a great villianess. She will quiverand whimper at first when she is told off by Althea ,Maggie or Steve but all of a sudden lash back like a devil when attacked.

I love Carolee Campbell's  ticks and quirks and wil miss her when Jada Rowland steps in. I loved Jada on the Secret Storm and am curious about her take on the role.

1970's episodes are out of order. You have to watch the dates as you watch the show.

I am enjoying the show. Even Ira Avery"s time there were some good stuff. Some didn't like his material. He doesn't last that long. I have said before that the Pollock's do a lot of recapping and flashbacks but I am still  loving their stories. Makes it hard when you binge watch like I do. I fast forward during those.

15 hours ago, Althea Davis said:

Is anyone other than me currently watching ? 

I am! I am enjoying the 30 minute old school drama! I wish Rita Lakin had stayed longer! I am in Feb. 1972 and it is still good. I binge watch. I may watch 1, 2 or even 3 weeks worth at a time.

I never watched The Doctors when it came on originally but I am enjoying it now. True soapy goodness in every episode. Rita Lakin is a great writer. I loved EH as Lucinda on ATWT but she is great here. She deserves every accolade she gets!

Did DePriest do a serial killer on The Doctors?

I am watching the show on the It's real good TV app. I haven't got to her stint as Headwriter yet. I am still watching the Pollocks. They do a lot of recapping. Unlike Rita Lakin ,Rick Edelstein or Ira Avery.

As the World Turns

co Head writers (and breakdowns)

Millee Taggart

Nancy Curlee

Stephen Demorest

script writers

Janice Ferri Esser

Susan Dansby

Nancy Ford

Patrick Mulcahey

Frank Salisbury

Script Editor

Courtney Sherman

Story Consultants

Robert Soderberg

Edith Somer

Consulting Producers

Allen Potter

Robert Calhoun

I would have to have a big budget to handle this talent.

On 9/5/2023 at 11:00 AM, DRW50 said:

Carolee Campbell was brought on as an extra/day player on The Doctors and her part was slowly built over a number of years.

I have started watching recently and it is better when she is on and behind the nurses desk. She adds a lot to the scene and I suspect it is not all written on the page!

I am watching NBC's The Doctors on the It's Real good TV app. Never watched it the first time because we were CBS people. Rita Lakin is a great writer. She was joined by Rick Edelstein. I just noticed she is gone and he is solo. I hope the quality keeps up.

I wish Rita had written some of my CBS favorites.

I was a die hard ATWT fan . I watched for over 30 years.When Hogan Sheffer took over it got hard to watch and for me ,almost unwatchable the last 2 years. I tried to hold on but I stopped watching every day and read the boards and magazines to catch up on what I did not see.

Still, I miss As the World Turns. In its' heyday when it was ran by good writers and producers who cared, it was must watch,don't miss TV.

The Young and The Restless is at that point now!

Wasn't Robert Cenedella the creaor of Somerset?

I have always been curous about him. There is not a lot of info on him. He wrote for many soaps but his tenure was never long. Was he not considererd a successful wrier or just someone who was lucky to be hired and rehired at different soaps?

There was also Montgomery and Associates that Craig started. It was a management consulting company too.

Congratulations DAYS fans! I wish there had been streaming services availiable for ATWT and GL when they were canceled.

It reminds me of the fictional Mary Tyler Moore Show.

On the last episode the new owner fired everyone in the newsroom except the inept news anchor wo had been the butt of all the jokes and made all the mistakes.

JG is Ted Baxter,LOL!

GL :If I am not mistaken,the Coopers were going to be Bauers - related to Johnny Bauer. Pam Long returned and made them Coopers.

The Santos family were to be the Santo family before they added the "S". That is a lot better. I did not care for the Santos family though!

6 minutes ago, Tonksadora said:

Before 1982 Bay City was anywhere or nowhere. It just was never stated. Then, in 1982 someone decided to place it & they put it outside of Chicago, in Ilinois just like all the other towns in Irna Phillip universe - Oakdale, Springfield, Henderson, Somerset, I'm blank, but there are a few more.

Why would Henderson be a part of the Irna Phillip's universe? Irna didn't create it.Agnes Nixin ( her protoge ) did head write and may have helped to create it but Roy Winsor and Irving Vendig was there at the beginning too.

The big three networks decide that all of their aged serials have run their course. All four soaps are cancelled and replaced with new serials. Some use veteran actors but most use new talent, in front of the camera and behind the camera.

Thank you @FrenchFan for  providing these synopsis. The seventies,in my opinion,were the golden years for the soaps. Thanks  for adding the writing and production credit too. It helps to see when the writer changes if the story gets better or worse. I am a credits junkie too. LOL!

About recasts:

I didn't like Lynne Adams as Amy on Secret Storm when she replaced Jada Rowland.

I didn't care for Kathryn Hays as Leslie Bauer on Guiding Light.

I didn't like Patty McCormick as Kim on ATWT.

Lynne Adams, Kathy Hays and Jada Rowland was the best on GL, ATWT and Secret Storm.

Love of Life

Videos of:

~The opening shot of the flowers by the window.

~ The reappearance of Meg played by Tudi Wiggins.

~  Van and Cal in the meat freezer.

Search for Tomorrow

Videos of:

~Eunice shot in that boat.

~Jennifer falling through the glass door

 ~Andrea on the floor of the courtroom picking up the pearls of her broken necklace.

As the World Turns

Videos of

~Elizabeth falling up the steps to her death.

~One where the cast went to church on Good Friday. They put

all their differences aside that day. They would do that every year.

~Ellen clocking the housekeeper over the head to keep her from revealing 

Dan's paternity.

Guiding Light

Videos of

~ Bert Bauer's uterine cancer story.

~Bill Bauer's alcoholism story.

~Leslie Bauer's death.

~ First appearance of Roger Thorpe.

The Edge of Night

Videos of

~Stephanie Martin Story

~Keith Whitney/Jonah Lockwood story

~ The New Year's Eve where Adam Drake raced against the clock to

get to Nicole Travis and propose to her before midnight.

~The psychiatrist who hypnotized Liz Hilyer Fields to drive off the road to her own death.

@ClassicSoapsFan and @DramatistDreamer

I agree with all that you have said! It is so sad ATWT ended the way it did! 

Irna Philips and Douglas Marland  would be turning in their graves.

Call me a bitter Oakdale fan!

I would have liked to see Mike and Ed Bauer, Hope and Alan-Michael return and have a Bauer story to wrap up Guiding Light.

The treatment of Lisa and her portrayer Eileen Fulton on ATWT was awful. She put the show on the map in the 1960's. Also, Penny should have comeback for Nancy's memorial, and it should have been a multiple episode thing. We didn't need Katie and Juicy Janet and Liberty.

Leah Laiman (ATWT, AW, and others)wrote a series of novels.

I am a Downton Abbey fan, so I had to see it because it is from the same writer.

I really am enjoying it. I see many comparisons to characters on DA and some dialogue is the same, but I will continue to watch.  Baranski is good and Carrie Coons is good as the newly wealthy and upwardly mobile Bertha Russell.

ATWT: Mid Seventies (Soderberg era), Early Eighties (Dobson Era), Late Eighties ,Early Nineties (Marland Era), 2000's (Broderick era).

Y & R:   Michael, Lauren, Jack, Traci, Ashley, Jill, Victor, Nikki, Nina, Sharon