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It was, and we even were introduced to members of the Kingsley family to boot (I think if I recall right the daughter had a thing for Andy, who saved her from a car bomb) right around the time Marland had passed away.

I know Shannon was pre-Marland as wasn't her initial start was she came to Oakdale after hearing of it from the stories Karen Haines had told her about it or something like that. I do know that Kasnoff's and Julie's kids, all introduced in 1994 were original creations from Marland's long term bible; at the least for the Kasnoff family their stories went in quite the opposite direction of what Marland had planned.

I'm glad that Steph finally got the exit she deserved and was reunited with BOTH her sons! It was finally the proper type of exit for Steph I'd been waiting for after Susan Bower had obliterated the character of Steph to facilitate her exit(her 2013 return wasn't any better either).

Makes sense, I know she only appeared briefly again as Sierra in later '94/early '95 to reunite with Craig and go back to Montega. The reality of course is very shameful unfortunately. Love your pic of Debbie Simon btw!

The sad thing is I watched an October 2000 episode recently with Emily talking about her history with Craig and mentioning both Sam and Sierra, except it was with Hunt Block's Craig ugh. It was a nice rare history nod though. Other than Tremors and an early episode of Law & Order, I can't recall what else Finn Carter has done while I know Bryce has maintained a steady working acting career on a variety of projects. I did enjoy what Evans did bring in the role of Sierra, but the show barely used and even when Evans finally went on contract nothing big happened.

Your welcome! I've unearthed a lot more 1995 articles, pictures, and recaps I found saved that I'll probably share on this thread later tonight/tomorrow here. Would love to see the Ashley and Brad scenes! Victor and Nikki's couple status at this point sounds even more tortured than Cruz and Eden on Santa Barbara; same goes for Victoria/Ryan/Nina.

I believe we have a gap in the 1992 video collection between summer 1992 and Christmas 1992, so these weekly recaps for September and the first half of October 1992 should hopefully fill a little bit of that gap @YRfan23:

Courtesy of Soap News from 09/26/00, here's an overview timeline of Tom and Margo's first twenty years: 1980 Barbara Ryan dumps Tom at the altar for her former lover James Stenbeck. Tom goes to Europe to investigate James. Margo Montgomery moves to Oakdale to be with her mother Lyla and her sister Cricket. 1981 Tom returns from Europe. Margo has an affair with James Stenbeck (who's married to Barbara). Tom is involved with Maggie Crawford. Margo learns that John Dixon is her real father. 1982 Tom & Margo fall in love while chasing after criminal mastermind Mr. Big after John Dixon is murdered(or so we think!). 1983 Tom represents John's accused "murderer" Dee Stewart so Margo breaks their engagement. However John resurfaces alive and the two reconcile. Margo miscarries her and Tom's first baby. Tom and Margo marry. 1984 (this includes late 1983, early 1985) The character of Tom is recast twice; the character of Margo once. Craig saves Margo's life when an undercover bust goes bad. Margo is made a detective. Margo is diagnosed with hysterical deafness after a shoot-out goes bad. 1985 Kim and Bob marry. Tom and Margo fight over her career/starting a family. Tom helps Barbara start her fashion business. Barbara tricks Tom into thinking he slept with her. 1986 Tom and Margo's first separation. Margo and Hal date, grow very close. Margo finds herself pregnant by Tom, despite their estrangement. Tom defends Kim on murder charges. Tom and Margo reunite. Tom is elected district attorney. Margo loses her baby late in the pregnancy while saving Barbara; James saves Margo. 1987 Tom heads to DC to start the crime commission, leaving Margo alone. Tom and Margo's second separation (it will last the entire year). Convinced her marriage is over, Margo gets involved with Hal. Tom returns to Oakdale as Scott Holmes takes over the role. Tom fights to win his wife back from Hal. Tom has his first case as DA: he prosecutes Barbara for murder, at Christmas, Margo ends her six month affair with Hal. 1988 Tom and Margo reunite. Tom's Vietnamese daughter Lien arrives on his doorstep. Margo finds out she is pregnant with Hal's child, runs to Greece. Tom and Margo's third separation. Tom dates Shannon O'Hara, but can't forget Margo. Adam Christopher Harold Hughes is born; Tom and Margo reunite. Tom and Margo lie to his family and their friends that Adam is Tom's son. 1989 Hal learns the truth about Adam (from Margo). In mid-December, Ellen Dolan takes over the role of Margo. 1990 Margo helps her stepfather, Casey Peretti, die with dignity. Margo is pregnant with Tom's child for the third time. Darryl Crawford, Margo's high school beau, moves to Oakdale. 1991 Casey Robert Hughes is born. Darryl’s wife, Carolyn, is murdered. Tom prosecutes Caleb Snyder while Margo works to clear him. 1992 The Carolyn Crawford mystery continues. Tom meets his brother, Scott Eldridge. Margo is raped by an HIV+ convict. 1993 Margo gets her final HIV test results. Glynnis O'Connor takes over as Margo. Tom faces charges for killing Margo's rapist, Elroy Nevins. Nevin's victim Dawn Wheeler moves in and falls for Tom. 1994 Margo goes to DC to work with the crime commission. Tom discovers Dawn's feelings for him. Margo returns as Ellen Dolan resumes the role. 1995 Dawn dies of AIDS; Tom & Margo take in her teenage son, Jeremy. Lisa sues John for malpractice testing family loyalties. 1996 Margo has her first bout with PTS following a plane crash. Tom takes on a group of white supremacists in Oakdale. Casey is kidnapped. Hal demands that Adam be told the truth about his paternity. Margo's Post Traumatic Stress returns at the end of the year. 1997 Margo is a prime suspect in Diego's murder, is arrested for it. Margo is institutionalized for the PTS. Tom is forced to step down as district attorney; returns to private practice. Tom and Margo experience some marital discord, but resolve their problems. 1998 Tom has, a mid-life crisis, quits the law. Margo kills Eddie's mother, takes Eddie under her wing. Margo is pregnant by Tom for the fourth time; loses the baby for a third time. Tom has a one-night stand with Emily, gets her pregnant. 1999 Tom searches for Emily, later defends her on murder charges. Daniel Stewart Hughes, Tom's son with Emily, is born. Margo gets involved with Alec Wallace. Margo is convicted of Alec's murder. 2000 Margo is cleared of Alec's murder. Tom & Margo reunite and renew their wedding vows.

Unfortunately I do believe John and Lisa's last major stories was the Parker story there in late '98 and early '99. Lisa was vying for John's affections and made a drunken spectacle of herself trying to stop John and Carly's wedding Thanksgiving 1998. I remember John vowing to get married to Lisa by the end of 2000 but their reconciliation/relationship was aborted and dropped. I always loved John and Lucinda and still loved they interacted throughout the 90's but overall their other romances generally flopped badly (Iva and Barbara for John, Eduardo, Martin, and James for Lucinda; we even had a hot-tub scene for James and Lucinda!)

Susan was featured quite a bit more so than even Bob, but aside from the original Ric Decker story she was usually a sounding board for Emily and Alison.

A lot of the photos I've seen always look like a fun and colorful cast! Not to mention I know Dan and Kim's courtship there in 1975-1976 helped kept the show running fine. However it didn't help though that Soderberg & Sommer were the Cryptkeepers of daytime at that point.

Makes sense especially how stagnant the show had become by that point. I've heard a lot of good things about Reilly's Dan although Reilly sounds almost too sexy for 1970's ATWT.

Was there any particular reason why Dan Stewart was killed off? I know it at least let Ellen de-age a good bit as she then only had her much younger daughters to deal with.

The ballerina was Dana, and from the 1979 episode on the ATWT DVD's I agree Carl she was boring lol. I read that Dana's ex-husband later died of a heart attack while having sex with Dee Stewart! The actress was married to AW's Rick Porter after playing one of the Holloways. The Holloways on AW were so pointless, the show already had the Cory's yet added an alleged "billionaire" family that served no purpose. Karen was a high priced con artist played by Leslie Denniston that Bob got mixed up with. Denniston of course would later marry Hastings in real life and later come back to ATWT to play Carolyn Crawford. I've only read a few snippets about it from the old 1978 ATWT synopses that SOD had posted on their website in the late '90s, I don't know if there is anything on Youtube about the story or not.

I always found something likable about Elaine Princi but unfortunately she was only used as a rent-a-diva for the 80s there for roles that weren't very good. I noticed there was a trend in the late '70s and early '80s for Bob to get paired up someone on the "wild" side i.e. Valerie, Karen Peters, so perhaps this was a continuation of that.

I was watching a 1994 episode the other day and Lucinda had called to check-in on Bianca who apparently was out clubbing in NYC. BTW, regarding the 1981 episode what did people think of Steve and Carol being together? If I recall right, she became James' mistress and then later was gunned down by a goon working for James and Mr. Big. I know McLeod is often cited as an example of how Another Life hired "actual soap actors" in 1982 to help propel the show. Other than a recurring role as a doctor on Y&R in the mid-90's McLeod didn't have any other daytime roles.

The first half of 2002 was a complete mess, the second half was a significant vast improvement. Although I never felt the heat between Ryan Brown(I didn't like him as GL's Bill either) and Kelly Kruger in hindsight I believe we must have been too harsh on them; the torpedoing of their love story remains unjustifiable as it destroyed both characters for good.

It didn't help that to watch the Ralph story was also like taking a waking nap. Scuttling the Mac/Amanda/Ralph plot was good, though it was also sad, since a story with that much potential and buildup should have been handled a lot better. Duff and the actor who played Ralph were indeed poorly cast, I do believe a pair of more veteran soap actors might have handled the material better. Then again, I remember reading Robert Kelker-Kelly was in the running for the role of Ralph so maybe not! Unfortunately for us viewers, Smith would retool/recycle elements of the Ralph story just a few years later with Terrible Tom. The original Amanda that appeared briefly in early 2000 seemed decent and mysterious but they dropped it for almost a whole year.

Actually, why are names like Kurtzman, Orci, Harberts and Berg still running around at all? The former two have bounced from show to show leaving a path of destruction, while the latter two probably should have been banned from TV production after their involvement in Shonda Rhimes' massive flop Off the Map.

Late to the party on the isolation parts, I'll share my thoughts on it later on why I loved it so much. But first, a few things : CATCHING UP WITH DIANA BARTON (EX-MARI JO MASON, 1994-96) March 26, 2007 3:14PM Soap Opera Digest: What made you get into making skin-care products? Diana Barton: I was out of everything else and I was already combining different products to create different textures. For years and years I’d been mixing face creams and scrubs. I thought that maybe I would try to create something myself. I was in Morocco in the kitchen of a friend’s house and I put a few things together in a bowl and started jumping up and down and realized I’d invented something I’d never felt before. After I refined the recipe, I realized I’d created something that wasn’t on the market. I’ve been fascinated with cosmetics for years. It’s a lot like cooking. Digest: Are you still acting? Barton: Oh, no, not at all. When I felt the consistency of my scrub, I knew it was time to retire and quit acting, to quit thinking of doing anything else other than this. I was getting an overwhelming response from people in my own life. When you hear from perfect strangers that the product is changing their lives, it’s time to move on. I left acting behind a number of years ago. The invention happened to me. Now the emphasis is totally on running Diana B. I have a wonderful team to work with me; actually, I’m really working for everyone else. Every time I pitch to a new department store or chain, I get the same butterflies I did when I was auditioning. I didn’t ever want to audition again. Ever! By the time I got done with Y&R, I was so through with that feeling. I did a few other things after Y&R, but I didn’t really want to do that anymore. Digest: Do you keep in touch with anyone from Y&R? Barton: I still talk to almost the whole cast. The character’s still locked away in the psych ward. What’s funny is, she was the art director for a cosmetics company, for Jabot. I became very friendly with all of my co-stars and had a very good time. One of the interesting parts of being on Y&R was that you were always directed by different people, so the interpretation changed on a daily basis. That’s very much like real business. On any day, the presentation that worked yesterday will not work today. It’s also an incredible discipline … I learned about showing up, being on time, being focused. Digest: Do you have a favorite storyline of Mari Jo’s? Barton: The last one, where she ended up in the psych ward. The one I went out on was the most intense. Overall, it was a great run. I got to go on two location shoots, to St. Thomas and Pennsylvania, where we shot a car chase. I went with Eric [Braeden, Victor], Peter [Bergman, Jack] and Doug [Davidson, Paul]. I was the only girl [laughs]. They toughened me up a lot! They’re great. I learned quite a lot about what I’m doing now from those experiences. I run a company and work with wonderful people and it’s very political. It’s good to come from a background where you learn to deal with people on a professional level. Digest: What was your most interesting real-life experience in relation to being on the show? Barton: One of the most interesting experiences I ever had was when the entire nominated cast walked to Radio City Music hall together for the Emmys and I sat right behind Oprah. It was a powerful time and show which transformed the complexion of my life for years. For as long as eight years after I left, I would go anywhere and people would stop me. It’s good, hard work and teaches you professional ethics. Digest: Would you consider returning to Y&R for a guest visit? Barton: I would have to be approached in a way that’s both a service to the people I work with now and the people who run the show. Digest: Jabot could do a real-life crossover with your products. Barton: I’ve never seen them use a real-world product and wouldn’t expect that. That would never happen!

I missed the whole the Barbara, Kim, and Lisa friendship during ATWT's last decade. It was sad when Sheffer decimated their friendship when Kim and Lisa disowned Barbara after the aging spa mess and we rarely saw the three ever interact together again after that.

I was just noticing the original Dani the show had cast there in 1994 was definitely way too old looking to be a teenager, passing for her 20s quite easily! Even though I grew to hate her, at least Ashley Williams looked her age.

Thank you for sharing!!! Nothing like spending a lazy weekend watching old ATWT and GL on Youtube. LOL well put! How many actors played Jason Benedict over the years anyways? 4? I remember Olivia Wycroft better than I do Jason. It was strange to me Iva got paired up with him, but then again I felt Iva's exit there in late '93/early '94 was rather rushed and unnecessary.

I do like Rutherford and I suppose the show had to give Steven a child to fight over in keeping in tradition with the original series. The character just feels a little bit beneath Rutherford though.

Ho boy, the first Alexis/Cristal cat fight occurred and it was actually pretty decent. The exposure of Cristal overhearing Alexis and Hank was classic, however the actress who plays Cristal(just got married to Zach Roering I hear) remains dreadful. I'm sorry but I can't buy Kelly Rutherford's obviously fifty-something character being pregnant for one minute at all. I love Sheridan and Gillies, and the actor who plays Sam is smoking hot; the rest of the show has just been meh to me. Jeff and Monica are interesting, but their matching glitter disco jump suits they wore in last night's episode were downright embarrassing.