cityfan01

Didnt Lisa initially audition for Lois when they brought on Lesli Kay? Then ABC gave her that throwaway role on OLTL, something Santi? I agree she should have been Lois but that ship has sailed and so glad that Rena is coming back!

Ahh yes! I forgot about Melador! The AMC cosmetics companies (Enchantment, Fusion) are more in the forefront of my mind

Can anyone ready what the text says on her phone? I read "I am going to...." and that's it. I agree she is probably Martin's bitter ex-wife, but I wonder how that will tie into Deception if true?

Weren't there also rumors at the time of Another World's cancellation that they would cancel PC, cut OLTL to a half hour, and then move Another World to ABC? Then it changed to taking Felicia Gallant from Another World to ABC Daytime. Then Gretel Rae Cummings?

Didn't they almost do this with Port Charles before cancelling it? I remember they aired a special 1-hour episode in One Life's time slot in early 2003 and, while they got higher ratings than normal, were not at the same level as OLTL. Rumor at the time was that Port Charles would be moved to either 1:00 or 1:30 central and OLTL cut back to a half hour, creating the 3-hour ABC soap block and giving the 11:30 time slot back to affiliates. When the ratings for the special didn't pan out, I think that is when they decided just to outright cancel PC and keep OLTL as an hour.

Loved the ABCD summer 2002 promos with that Enrique song

It may be backwards, but what about Michelle Stafford and Cynthia Watros (both were on Y&R then went on to play Nina)

I really think this Nixon Falls story got changed a few times. First, when it was rumored that Roger was going to play Todd and they set this town to be pretty close to Llanview. Then again at the end to hurry up and get Sonny back to Carly before her and Jason got it in. To think what could have been…

I wrote continuations of The City and Port Charles

I often wonder how ratings in the past were affected by antenna signals. Where I grew up, in northern Minnesota, ABC was the channel that came in the clearest with our rabbit ears, so that's what we mainly watched.

And don't forget a couple other "pranks": -Sydney having blood smeared on one of her robes -Molly's bird being killed and sent to her on her b-day -Tess's obituary ran in the newspaper (pretty sure she was the one that was supposed to get put behind the wall instead of Jocelyn, but Jocelyn got in the way and got it instead and Tess was unharmed)

I believe I read somewhere that Noelle agreed to return at the end ONLY if she 1. wasn't the killer and 2. wasn't a victim

What is the longest temp replacement? Would you consider Jen Lilly a temp? She was technically a placeholder until Kirsten could return.

So happy those promos have been uploaded! I have them on tapes somewhere, but the quality is nowhere near as good. Thank you!

I met Tom Pelphrey tonight! He's in Minneapolis doing a show at my work (Guthrie Theater) about Judy Garland. He was extremely nice and spoke with me for a few minutes. Guess I'll be seeing a lot of him for the next couple months

With Alex there she would have had some sort of past connection, and it would have added a lot more options for past Loving characters (Trucker for instance) to make appearances

That was probably before Jane Elliot signed on to bring Tracy Q over.

I think this was right before the cancellation announcement. They had been building up the problems that Alex's son was having living with Ava in Florida and he was supposed to move to NYC with Alex. Would have been interesting having Trisha on CITY. I wrote some fanfic about it once.

Towards the end of CITY's run, Alex was having conversations with Ava regarding Sandy coming to live with him for a while. I always thought that they were planning on an Ava return, but the show was cancelled and that whole story was scrapped.

well towards the end of CITY's run, there was a lot of talk about Sandy (alex and ava's) son moving to NYC. I always felt that Ava was going to come along and cause problems for Alex and Jocelyn since they had hit a point in their relationship where they were "happy". Then the cancellation came and no Sandy, no Ava, and Alex was left with the hooker.

it was such a bad move. Ava would have fit in perfectly in NYC.

I've never heard/read anything of the Dolly Jones character/storyline. I'd kill for tapes of early Loving if anyone has them...

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I just watched the episode when Tracy hired the prostitute. Gino called in the middle of it. One of my good friends actually asked me to put on an episode for him finally because I speak so highly of the show.

Love it!