Matt

I don't know how I've never seen this before, but I just found it the other day and it was new to me, so I thought I'd share. It's a fanvid montage of the entire history of the show (loaded with clips) set the an orchestrated medley of nearly all the important theme songs (it's missing the early 70s one). Apparently, it was done by the Italian fansite of "Sentieri" (a.k.a. GL in Italy). I literally wept several times while watching.

WoST only had the FRFP opening. As luck would have it, I actually have the entire theme song for FRFP. Here's an mp3 to download from mediafire --- http://www.mediafire.com/?mricll53r0yjb57

Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

Did you ever see the show?

Nope. I've never seen a single episode of either it or For Richer, For Poorer.

Weekly newspaper synopses...

Week of January 3 - 7, 1977

(Debut Week) The middle-class Saxton family moved next door to the wealthy Cushing clan. The Saxtons include mother and father Josie and Lester (a reformed alcoholic), their children Rhett (who has an old flame, Connie Ferguson), Jason, Bentley, Tessa, and Eleanor (who is married to George Kimball, who financed the Saxton move and secured a job for Les). The Cushings include Edith and Richard (who's having an affair with secretary Barbara Manners), their children Megan (who's engaged to rich Desmond Hamilton) and bohemian dropout Austin (who had a disastrous love affair with former neighbor Laurie Brewster).

Week of January 10 - 14, 1977

Megan admitted to Austin she's marrying Desmond because she's bored. Edith was distressed that mother Sophia was neighborly with the Saxtons. Ellie was upset that Les counseled Austin on alcoholism.

Week of January 17 - 21, 1977

Amy was crushed to learn that Austin is working and laying off the booze to win back Laurie's love. Megan refused to set an earlier wedding date, then invited Connie and Rhett to double date with her and Desmond.

Week of January 24 - 28, 1977

Austin agreed to help Jason find a job, then was miffed when Jason made a heavy play for Laurie and began drinking again. Rhett agreed to help Megan with her thesis and Jason needled him about fooling around behind Connie's back.

Week of January 31 - February 4, 1977

Edith offered to introduce Ellie to society. In return, Ellie warned Amy not to chase Austin. Megan sanctioned Richard's liason with Barbara. Connie grew increasingly jealous of Rhett and Megan. Austin accused Jason of trying to steal Laurie from him. Jason refused a factory job Les had set up.

Week of February 7 - 11, 1977

Jason set up Rhett and Megan in a compromising situation. Desmond found them and ordered her to stop seeing Rhett. Austin admitted he had a drinking problem and wanted Les to help him, but Richard insisted he go to an expensive sanitarium.

Week of February 14 - 18, 1977

Richard hired Jason to replace Austin who refused to be admitted to a private sanitarium. Les offered Austin a job at the plant that Jason had turned down. Megan asked Rhett to find a job for Laurie so she can stay in town. Rhett blew up at Connie and Ellie for suggesting hanky-panky between him and Megan.

Week of February 21 - 25, 1977

Richard advised Megan to consider whether she wants to lose Desmond. George claimed that Ellie was being used as a pawn by Edith. Amy congratulated Austin on his new job by falling into his arms.

Week of February 28 - March 4, 1977

Connie and Rhett announced their formal engagement. Desmond told Megan that Edith had been in love with his fatehr before she married Richard.

Week of March 7 - 11, 1977

While Megan and Desmond went off on a secret weekend, Edith and Richard accused Rhett, then Jason, of running off with their daughter. When Megan returned, Edith was appalled that the couple couldn't wait until after the wedding, but Megan admitted to Laurie that i was a platonic weekend. Austin begged Amy to stay and help him with his drinking problem.

Week of March 14 - 18, 1977

Laurie warned Amy to prepare for a fight to win Austin, then convinced him she loved him. Ellie was frantic to learn she's pregnant, but overjoyed when Richard consulted with George for legal advice. Afraid that his job was in jeopardy, Jason told Rhett to lay Megan off. Rhett insisted there's no cause for alarm, and threw Jason out.

Week of March 21 - 25, 1977

Laurie didn't resist Jason's advances. When they were caught by Austin, he wouldn't believe she was being forced. In retaliation, Austin ran to Amy's arms. Megan was miffed with Desmond after he'd consulted with Connie about getting Megan away from Rhett.

Week of March 28 - April 1, 1977

To win Austin back, Laurie plotted to make it look as though Amy was interested in Desmond.

Week of April 4 - 8, 1977

Megan admitted to Richard she's in love with Rhett and must break her engagement to Desmond, then learned of Laurie's schemes. Ellie told George she doesn't want a child. Desmond assured Laurie he'll help her stay in town.

Week of April 11 - 15, 1977

Desmond refused to accept Megan's decision to break their engagement. Everyone tried to convince Rhett not to "steal" Megan, and Ellie had a miscarriage after a confrontation with Him. Josie and Les worried about Connie.

Week of April 18 - 22, 1977

George blamed Edith for setting Ellie up for the confrontation with Rhett which ended in Ellie's miscarriage.

Week of April 25 - 29, 1977

Jason told Megan that Laurie wants to marry Desmond, then he tried to convince Laurie she could have both him and Desmond at the same time. Laurie's mother, Viola, threatened to drag Laurie back to Paris, because Viola is running out of money.

Week of May 2 - May 6, 1977

Connie and Jason made a pact: He won't reveal that she might be pregnant if she won't tell Rhett that Jason wrecked the studio. Ellie left George and moved home. Edith accused Rhett of being after Megan's money. (Friday was the show's final episode. It goes on a summer hiatus to return in the fall.)

You can find the weirdest & most unexpected stuff on youtube sometimes. Buried into this demo reel for actress Lynn Lowry is a very short (maybe 30 seconds?) clip of Lowry & Ken Kercheval in a scene from How to Survive a Marriage. This clip begins at the 3:18 mark. Most everything else is from her low budget horror film work.

mp3 mediafire download of the full length 1977-1980 moody closing theme...

http://www.mediafire.com/?0asm5klacaror4a

mp3 mediafire download of the full 1977-1980 theme song...

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2jjxrummwnh

I'm not sure if there's more than one episode available of them! I guess there may be one more. Either way, I agree with you, I really enjoyed their scenes. Meg has a Joan Crawford vibe in that episode.

There's at least one more of them with Beanie where Meg claims to have a splitting headache and he asks Evans what it means when a headache splits. Evans explains that a headache is simply just a headache until it becomes an excuse and then it's a splitting headache. Jean McBride's Meg was just so. damned. snarky. The more I see o her in the role, the more I realize how perfect Tudi Wiggins was as a recast.

IMO, there can never be enough Meg Harper & Evans Baker.

It's just speculation, but I doubt the original Molly would've been right for the character when she started to become fully involved with Montecello. The orignal Molly was very rigid and patrician. The 2nd Molly was much more maternal when it comes to Emily which is definitely played up later on as they very much do have a surrogate mother/daughter relationship. Once you see more episodes with Molly more involved, you'll see how the original Molly just wouldn't have been right for the role.

Truthfully, no matter how good Texas got under Long/Kobe, the show was doomed once NBC moved it from 3pm to 11am. I can't think of a single soap that's ever had any ratings success when aired before noon. The closest example I can think of would be 'Love of Life' in the 1970s, but they're ratings were so iffy most of the time and the best the could ever do was middle of the pack with Labine/Mayer writing.

Well, HTSAM did air its 1st episode as a 90 minute special.

HTSAM had quite a bit of a cult following. Originally, it aired at 3:30pm, sandwiched between 'Another World' and 'Somerset'. It was known to be slightly risque (for the time, at least) and attracted quite a sizable college-aged and teen aged following as a result. Hopes were so high for the series that it premiered with a special 90 minute episode which featured 2 couples in bed together after love making. Although not explicitly shown, it was implied that they were naked under the covers and that was a first for daytime. However, when AW expanded to an hour in January 1975, it knocked HTSAM out of the 3:30 time slot and the network moved the series to 1:30pm, meaning that it aired immediately before Days and was the lead-off soap in the afternoon block. Moving to so early in the afternoon, the series lost all the younger viewers it had (they were all still in class at 1:30) and the ratings (which were never especially strong to begin with) bottomed out. When Days expanded to an hour a few months later (moving its starting time up to 1:30, putting it in direct competition with ATWT), HTSAM was toast and was cancelled. HTSAM was one of a string of series NBC put after AW at 3:30 that never caught on and only lasted a couple of years. The first one was 'Bright Promise' which was cancelled in favor of 'Return to Peyton Place' which was cancelled in favor of HTSAM. That's 3 different soaps in the same time slot between 1969-1974. Not exactly a great track record, there. lol

Pamela Lincoln was/is married to Darryl Hickman who was also producer for 'Love of Life' (after being a network exec) while she was on the show as Felicia Flemming Lamont. Darryl is also the brother of actor Dwyane Hickman, better known as Dobie Gillis.

Step Into the Badside

One Night Only

When I First Saw You

Dreamgirls

all from the Dreamgirls soundtrack

I bought the DVD and I can't stop watching it. I think I have the DVD player set on repeat.

Just uploaded "Beautiful Liar (Freemasons Mix)" by Beyonce & Shakira to my mp3 player along with "Shining Star" by Get Far and "Imagine If" by Tara Z.

Monster-In-Law with J.Lo....I was surprised....I had heard that the flick was funny but considering J.Lo's acting career I really didn't picture it. But it was a RIOT! It was funny. I'd recommend it

I've been wanting to see this movie because it looks extremely funny.

I just bought Fantastic Four & Mr & Mrs Smith (I'd never seen either) and I *loved* both of them. Chris Evans is *so* dreamy in F4. However, M&MS started to drag a bit towards the end. IMO, the later was needlessly long. I thought F4 played extremely well and captured the feel of the comics perfectly. Pfft to all the naysayers who were pissed there wasn't more action -- F4 was always more about the dysfunctional interactions of the characters anyway.