P.J.

I seem to recall Finn Carter returned as Sierra to exit Craig out in early '95 anyone else remember?

I believe it consisted of a one day return.

^^^^back when "character development" consisted of more than a three-line exposition the day they showed up in town. Rosanna's finding out about Carly (or about to) eight months before Carly shows up on her doorstep.

Yowza---I'd forgotten how sexual Lucinda's wardrobe could be. I remember a lot of suits. A LOT of them. ATWT was pretty blessed with "older" actresses who aged well. Marie Masters, KH, CZ, even EF...and La Liz.

Oh, I beg to differ----MP (dawg though he apparently is) was sex on a stick back in the day. Probably moreso on GL than as ATWT's Brian McCall though.

I'm going back to Kavovit (and skipping John Howard's modelPaul alltogether).

I don't get Holmes either. Had he been hired in the mb/twitter era, I don't think he would have lasted a year. I've always looked at his casting as TIIC casting a short term actor and then forgetting they intended to replace him. I think Tom suffered as a character with Holmes' stuffy and priggish portrayal.

I'd second both Dolan (at least in the beginning) and MES. For me, Scott Hoylrod as Paul as well.

It's weird some recasts meshed so well, and yet all the Toms had distinct characterizations.

Actually, on the whole, I think Meg's a more dynamic character than Ellie. Of course Passnante and Goutman gutted the character, but since I assume they really didn't have a written-in-stone outline of what they wanted to do with her---it made more sense to bring back the used-to-be-a-bitch Meg than the quirky-and slightly slutty Ellie.

Passanante wasn't with the show in '97---neither was Goutman. That had to be Broderick. Ellie does seem to be an odd choice to think about recasting at the time. The Snyder family consisted of Holden and Jack then. Could be a call went out for a petite brunette---cover for recasting Molly, maybe?

I never understood what Reid saw in Luke. Reid was an accomplished professional. Luke was at best an idealistic child (and at worst a whiny, self-righteous, spoiled brat who was repeatedly handed everything he wanted simply because he was Lucinda's grandson and had the attention span of a gnat.)

I didn't realize that. I had stopped watching ATWT by the time he died and I was so shocked and hurt - I'm not sure any soap actor's death has ever affected me so much. I couldn't watch the memorial. I finally did a few years later, on Youtube. It was OK, I guess, although someone seemed so fixated on Hal having a bunch of kids (yet didn't bother to have several of them on the show).

I can't forget---he died right before my sister's wedding. I remember being so busy that week, running around, finishing up those little details---it was one of the few times I was both off-line and behind watching the 'sodes (honestly---I didn't care that much about Jennifer, period. Being the odd-woman-out of the Katie/Mike story and stuck in the hell-hole of Craig/Dusty/Paul---if there was ever a perfect storm of complete story suckitude with an actor I actually didn't loathe, that was it.)

I actually didn't find out he'd died for a couple of days. I was devastated. At that point for me, he was the heart & rock of the show.

LOL---I remember that article. I probably still have it somewhere.

Geez, I miss Ben H. The anniversary of his death is right around the corner.

Yeah---the Kim who befriended Katie and to a lesser extent Molly---that wasn't Kim to me. Kim wasn't snapping at Susan for no reason---Susan knew exactly how to push Kim's buttons and Kim called a spade a spade. TIIC (in the last fifteen years) may never have alluded that the history between Susan and Kim went back to Dan but we knew it did.

I'm pretty sure Marland had no intention of making the Kasnoffs any kind of core family. Stern and Black (?) were kind of forced into it once Jon Hensley left and the Snyders had no men left on the canvas. Once Hensley came back (and Christain decided to go Hollywood), Walters was pretty speedily ditched, if I remember correctly.

what a completely random picture. I had to look at it twice...at first glimpse I thought that was Maura with the Brothers Kasnoff.

I'm pretty sure JD wanted to try LA. That being said, TIIC clearly never exactly knew what to do with her Alison---oy vey, the Dunphy/Chase pairing was arguably the creepiest thing I've ever seen on soaps---and I got tired of all of Alison's "goofy" adventures.

It's weird to read, knowing how much the writing for soaps has devolved. Does anyone for a moment believe breakdowns are still so detailed as to go to the "time of day"? ATWT regularly, gleefully, ignored "trivialities" like geography and the time-space continuum. "Time of day"? Phfft....

Sigh---I miss Doug. I'm really glad he stayed instead of developing his own show.

LOL...I'll give everyone a hint. This actor/actress is also in one of the final episodes of MASH.

Sadly, he died of AIDS in 1993.

http://www.kidsfromcaper.com/actorsbiffbio.htm

*squee* I remember that clip of Iva and Kirk kissing in the promo! I FLOVED it so much, it was the first time I really saved an episode to tape and watched it over and over and again. I watched it so much, I could FF through the eppy and stop at their parts.

. And I didnt know Susan Dansby had directed an episode of ATWT.

From soapopera451...

In honor of this gift to daytime fans, we visit with Emmy-award winner Susan Dansby, who recalls directing Carly and Jack's first kiss:

I had been fired from my directing job on Port Charles; and, though I made many claims to the contrary, took a real hit to the ego.

My agent arranged for me to direct three episodes of As the World Turns – which was kind of inconvenient. I lived in LA and ATWT shot in New York. But I figured it was worth the airfare to prove to myself I still had serious directing chops – hopefully.

On one of those three days, I was lucky enough to direct Maura West and Michael Park having one of their first on-screen kisses (the ice cream scenes at the cabin in Montana).

During the dress rehearsal, Michael was playing Jack as "nice guy." So, when I went out to the studio floor to give notes, I suggested to him that Carly was throwing down a challenge; and rather than running from it (as Carly anticipated), Jack's G-man persona would come to the fore and give Carly (in the form of a toe-curling kiss) WAY more than she – or I – expected. I still remember that kiss. Have mercy!

I fell in love that day with Michael and Maura. With their skill as actors, and their willingness to play in the creative process.

That whole thing with Molly/Holden was the one where they hadn't had sex and she made Lily think they had? Or was this another time? I know one time Lily said she didn't believe it, and proved he had been drugged.

Yes. Molly taped her and Holden "doin' it", and eventually, Lily proved she'd edited footage together to make it look like Holden was actively participating. (I swear this involves Lily somehow pretending to want to buy Molly's "sex tape" or something and going "undercover" at a porn distributor, but I can't swear to it.)

I think Sierra became irrelevent to TIIC the minute Peyton List left. If she was ever truly relevent to them at all. I think for a while, MBE was insurance against McClain's ping-ponging "do I wanna work this next six months or not" routine. I really wish they kept her---God knows Sierra was more welcome in town than some other NBC "talent"....coughcoughJanetcoughcough.

Dusty and Sierra went nowhere, unfortunately. In about three weeks, Jen slept with Craig. In May she and Mike married, by July, (nearly full term) he dumped her, and Dusty started stepping in to being her hero.

That probably would have been done if ATWT had gone on a little longer. Or, with the pick-a-paternity wheel, he would have been Mike Kasnoff's son.

One, BITE YOUR TONGUE. Gawd how I hate that box-of-rocks. The only useful thing Collier-as-Mike ever did was finally dump Katie's sorry ass.

Two...ATWT ain't B&B.

I'm really eternally grateful Parker was not a Stenbeck.

The episode is from Tuesday, June 29, 1999. Monday's episode is when Carly pulls him in there after Jack sees Reid propose to Julia, and Wednesday, they wake up and almost make love, only to be interrupted by Hal, Barbara and their wedding planner.

Transcript links.... http://atwtx.0catch.com/ATWT06291999.txt (atwt.x0catch.com 's transcripts start in March '99) while tvmegasite.com's start in 2000.

Well, they stopped using Molly as a run-of-the-mill-psychotic. I'm sure that helped.