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Darn, I keep hoping for early June episodes to pop up---that's when Maeve debuted as Vanessa. But I'm sure someone will be happy for the find. For all my exhaustion with Buzz, this is news you never want to hear. With the recent DAYS and GH star deaths, I realized how lucky we are to still have so many beloved CBS vets.

Kimmer does seem like "that" kind of broad, who hangs with the guys. She certainly wasn't a delicate flower...those first couple of years, I was kind of shocked how physical both RN and JC are with her.

Nun Reva would've burnt down any church she entered, that's a fact.

Good grief....did KZ really think she needed emmy bait? When did she never not have emmy material handed to her on a silver platter?

I found James E Reilly and Pam Long credited on the Christmas 1990 episode. (the date on it is Dec 19th, but I believe that to be incorrect.) The first American episode I have saved to my 1991 (Jan 15) playlist lists Curlee/Demorest/Reilly. January 1991 is spotty (which sucks...). I know it's not the preciseness that you wanted, but that's what I could verify. So, did anyone listen to Deas?

Alright...now I've got to ask...what the hell makes Maureen Roger's friend? Is there something huge that I miss by not watching the first half of '89? Because I can literally recall one conversation between them, and that's during the blackout. I get that in that from '89 to '92, she's almost literally the only person not actively out for his blood, but if that's all it took, then damn.

Thank you again! This is literally the picture I see most often.

not gonna lie....Roger/Alan is probably the number one reason I want more of the Dobson's work to surface. I don't quite get how that all developed. I believe there's a similar pic with Maeve looking straight ahead, but I usually see that in black and white. I don't know why, but it's hard to find Billy/Vanessa photos.

Thank you! I'm not sure I've ever seen this picture in color!

In looking it up, Springfield is a fairly common name. According to wiki, Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver also took place in a Springfield (not to mention, The Simpsons). I'm guessing whenever Guiding Light moved from Selby Flats to Springfield, somewhere USA, didn't ever really think we'd care where in the USA it was. Second question...please tell me they didn't fire Chris Bernau in 1984. They just couldn't have been that stupid.

LOL....Well....actually I kind of get that. They wanted to represent Springfield as a smaller town (as small as a town could be with multiple conglomerate HQ's, an international airport and the former queen of an island nation in residence). They never wanted it to be the capital city.

When did GL really embrace that they were located in Illinois? I was rewatching the end of the Eli Simms story, and Bert has a curious line. They're talking about Bill having received a speeding ticket on the way home, and Bert says "it was a small town in Illinois". I guess it could've been a slip by Charita, but it just seems curious.

SOD got to the point for a while where subscribers got a different cover. That's how I got a Jack/Carly cover once. Can't blame ATWT/GL fans for not buying a mag that for years had barely covered their shows anyway. You'd get half a page combined for ATWT/GL, meanwhile there'd be three interviews with DAYS stars about their latest burp.

Is that Robin Mattson with Ben as Hope?

I don't know if I ever knew, but for some reason I thought he'd been driving drunk. Thanks!

Or Vanessa and Rita. Whew...that would've been epic. Can someone remind me how Ed hurt his hand?

I think there's a over-the-top quality to their romance and acknowledged focus on them by the show that pushes a couple into "super" couple status. In addition to the likeability/rootability factor.

Sweet baby Jesus, I swear it took 3 years for Adam's paternity to come out completely, but IIRC, some of that was due to HBS' maternity leave coming on the heels of needing to recast Tom. I know I have problems with the praise for the Dobson's GL, but that is mostly because I remember their ATWT tenure, which was filled with wacky adventures (sigh, I can still see Barbara hallucinating in 1800's garb FCOL).

@Paul Raven thanks for the scan. I'd never seen such an early interview of Marland's. BTW, who is in the picture? I can't place them at all.

What era of what show are we talking about? Or just in general for both? As much as I love ATWT, I think his best moment was when Kelly nailed Nola on GL. I swear that scene went on for 10 minutes uninterrrupted, with Kelly just dragging her for filth. It was really the first time I "got" it.

Re: Bill Bauer---are we sure Ed Bryce would've been open to coming back full time at any point after they killed Bill off circa 1970? I've always meant to ask, as I've never seen any interview of his. He obviously came back to usher Hilary in, and he did the brief stint in 1983, but I don't really know what he did otherwise.

eee....then again, I think he'd also laid out Carly's backstory

I'm not sure when they changed the credits, or how long his story ideas where used. From what I recall, he was rumoured to have his stories plotted a year in advance.

His second ATWT run would've been 1985 to March 6 1993 (his death).

Point taken. I haven't seen enough of LePlat's work to judge if he could've given Andy more layers. I do tend to forget Marland had a "primer" for ATWT in that time he had before the Dobson's showed up.