https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyrrmF0F2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXJtzGQEct0

I am not sure if the Ted and Tad thing was Agnes's idea. Only because I remember reading the first storyline McTavish pitched and had a hand in was the whole Trevor marrying Janet while Natalie was trapped in a well story. Then again, Agnes was still listed as HW at that time. I think Tad's initial return from the dead the first few months and the building to him and Dixie seeing each other was well written, but then somewhere around that spring or summer it became really dumbed down, and their subsequent romantic reunion that fall was lackluster by comparison. Ted Orisini never seemed fleshed out beyond a point point.

On 2/14/2022 at 12:37 PM, carolineg said:

I definitely think MB has a big ego, but it doesn't seem like it's an issue with many of his co-stars.  Outside of a few things he admits everyone seems to like him fine?   If Vanessa, Kim, Chad, etc are good with it, then why should we care?  I am not condoning bad behavior or anything, but it seems like they all good friends.  MB probably does think he's awesome, but people and the press treat him like he's Brando.  

I wonder if MB would reach out to old co-stars on AMC.  He seems to bring on guests he is still in touch with or close with.  Is he close with any former AMC co star?

MB did say on twitter he'd like to have Michael Knight and Cady McClain on his show.

RIP Lisa

16 minutes ago, allmc2008 said:

Megan loved borrowing from herself. As said, she was going to redo Fake-will/Janet with Maria (after her death).

 

I also learned that the Mardi Gras explosion was borrowed from her idea of Janet blowing up the courthouse during Laurel/Trevor's marriage (but that was scrapped due to the Oklahoma City bombings). 

 

Oh, she was mad that the focus groups hated Kelsey and they hated 'soft' Janet. She was going to turn Kelsey into a Janet but, evidently, that was changed. She stated that hating a character was better than indifference.

interesting. I just always assumed McTavish got rid of Kelsey cause she was more of a Broderick creation. They watered Kelsey a lot by the end compared to the schemer she had been. I do remember McTavish was asked in an interview why Trevor and Janet didn't have much of a story during that time, and she snapped that there wasn't a lot she could do with a 'nice' Janet. Eventually she did give them that story where Harold died.

I guess she wanted to phase out Gillian elsewhere if she wanted Kendall for Ryan. And interesting that when Agnes came on she decided to make David's brother Leo rather than Ryan if those were the original laid out plans. Leo was actual similar in a way to Ryan was in the beginning, a con artist. Also, for someone who thought Dimitri was Erica's soulmate, she didn't have them much together during her whole second run. 

Do you know who's idea it was to bring back Anton and put him in a triangle with Dimitri/Brooke? was that a Broderick idea from before she left or something else?

Interesting about Scott and Becca, I thought McTavish was phased out by the time they came along.

Thanks for the info. Interesting read.

16 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

   .@allmc2008 Wow! i never knew that. It's even worse than the trash that aired. Very dark and cringey.  What i remember from that time. Was Gillian & Ryan going on the run. Which felt like an eternity. And MM trying desperately to make Kit and Edmund happen. I also remember how bad Nan Martin's son was. He clearly didn't  inherit  his mother's acting talent.

It sounds a lot like a reiteration of the whole Dimitri/Kendall/Anton story. Kendall slept with Anton and accused Dimitri of rape. The DNA was similar enough to Dimitri's that Erica believed it and stabbed him with a letter opener. 

On 11/19/2021 at 10:06 PM, divinemotion said:

Guys I want to start watching the show. I really wanna ask you for a favour... if you could recommend for me a period that I should start watching. I would prefer something that I can find on youtube or on the internet. Thank you so much.

I've never watched it. 

archive.org has a bunch of stuff in order that is no longer on youtube circa 1987-1992

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren1987Jan-jul

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren1987Aug-Dec

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren1988JanThruMay10gb

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren1988JunThruDec7.9Gb

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren1989JanThruAug1421.6Gb

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren19892AugThruDec18.5Gb

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren19901Jan02ThruAugust14-16.9Gb

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren19902Aug14ThruDec3116.9Gb

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren19911JanuaryThruJune

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren19912JulyThruDecember21.5Gb

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren199201JanThruMay16.8Gb

I don't know if this was posted, but Yaya Decosta and Debbi Morgan reunite on a new FOX series. She plays her aunt on this show.

Cameron Mathison and Esta Terblanche reunited

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=148829900712966

2 hours ago, allmc2008 said:

Does anyone know where the 1980/1981 episodes went? They were on Youtube but seemed to have vanished. Perhaps on another site?

 

Those were on BlueRose's channel, which got deleted in the purge this past fall. Some of them were saved on archive

https://archive.org/details/AllMyChildren198019811982

All My Children’s ‘Martin Family’ and Co-Stars Share Remembrances of Ray MacDonell

https://michaelfairmantv.com/exclusive-all-my-childrens-martin-family-and-co-stars-share-remembrances-of-ray-macdonell/2021/06/29/

Since the Sean D. tribute is on GH this week, that reminds me. Was it ever the plan for Felicia to be Sean's daughter? It seemed they might of been going in that direction early on when he was after the Aztec treasure that was a part of Felicia's family legacy, but then ended up not going there after all.

22 hours ago, LeClerc said:

Esta was let go because either Angela Shapiro or Felicia Behr didn't like her. Not sure which -- the reporting at the time was just that an ABC Daytime exec didn't like her. And TPTB were hoping that killing Gillian would help convince Cameron, who was complaining a lot at the time about his lack of airtime and making noise about leaving, to re-sign. He only extended for six months. 

 

This lines up with an old interview I read with Cameron. He said after the Ryan/Hayley storyline was aborted, he never got the same amount of airtime again during his first run on the show. I do remember one of the magazines at the time said there were rumors someone BTS didn't care for her, but they didn't name names. Jean Passanante seem to brush off in an interview about the idea of reuniting them (Ryan/Gillian) when asked about it around the time of Ryan/Hayley. 

22 hours ago, Vee said:

To this day I don't know WTF happened with Esta and Gillian in the final months of the network show. Her return, like all the others, was heavily hyped and promoted. But in the final air shows, Esta appears for maybe 90 seconds, maybe a little more, maybe a little less and has a max of maybe three to five lines. She appears considerably less than any of the other undead or ghost characters who returned that summer in 2011. It looked to me a lot like they'd cut huge swaths of any material she shot - like Josh Duhamel, where I believe Leo was supposed to actually be alive and reunite with Greenlee in the original plan which supposedly may have actually been filmed, until Prospect Park first stepped in, they thought they were going online right then and didn't want to write permanent happy endings for Greenlee or Ryan with other people to write them out bc they didn't know if Budig and Cameron would sign onto the new show. So then Leo's appearance became a dream and they cut the rest of his material. I've long wondered if that is what happened with Esta/Gillian and Ryan as well.

What I remember reading at the time was that Cameron was the one that proposed they bring back Gillian as a ghost for Ryan like they had brought Leo for Greenlee. Originally they told him no, but decided last minute to add her. Cameron talked about it in a facebook post at the time we were lucky to get her at all.

21 hours ago, DemetriKane said:

AMC  Demon seed Kathy Martin in 2008. I liked the route they were taking her, it felt fresh, interesting and fun. Definitely could have opened up some character driven for the entire Martin to play.

This reminds me, wasn't the original plan going to be that Emma was actually Kate? I thought I read that somewhere.

The Wisner Washam interview is up:

https://anchor.fm/the-chatpodcast/episodes/S4E13-64-An-Interview-With-Wisner-Washam-e1093mi

A lot may have already listened to this one, but Kate Collins talks about her father in this interview around 6:20

https://www.soapcentral.com/radio/news/2012/121207-collins.php

On 4/8/2021 at 5:25 PM, ironlion said:

In that same breath, from what I understand Wendy Riche was removed as GH EP? Why was this after she brought General Hospital significant acclaim and awards in the 90s? 

Bob Guza left toward the end of 2000 because he supposedly got fed up with not being able to tell his stories without interference. Wendy got the blamed and she was fired too a couple months later. That's why when Bob Guza returned in 2002, he negotiated in his contract that he would have an executive producer credit as well so he would have more power.

The other rumor was that Jill Farren Phelps had a contract at ABC, and Felicia Behr couldn't stand her and wanted her out of the New York soaps (she oversaw the NY ABC soaps at the time.) That was just a rumor at the time, I'm not sure the truth in it.