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Yes it was, if I recall right her last name is Lee and her first is something rather unusual. I can't remember exactly, but years ago I remember seeing in the original 1989 Christmas closing credits an Yod remember thinking how strange, same as the Hey You character LOL. The other Lynn Michaels recast was Beth McDonald in the late 90s.

I'm thrilled 1994 Y&R eps are up now on YT. Its funny that Y&R actually brought back Eilbacher and later Alex Donnelley as their respective characters whereas today we'd probably end up with Tracey Nelson in the role of April. The whole April story had me mesmerised for the entire duration, and I'm glad clips of it are finally surfacing. I actually would have been interested to see Lori and Leslie have returned fully there in 2002/2003 I could see the show then bringing in Brooks Prentiss as a love interest for Victoria after the Diego mess...oh the failed possibilites.

The initial go-around had its moments like Nancy very reluctantly helping Alison, Chris seeing Susan naked("Kim hasn't been seen naked in her house since 1956!") and Alison and the nurse obsessed with Chris fighting but overtime the whole thing became superfluous and goofy for its own good. I don't even want to attempt to understand what happened on ATWT in 2008.

Didn't know where to post this chat transcript but its with Joseph Breen from May 5th, 1998 on the old SOD website:

From the 5/23/98 issue of SOD on Bell's announcement to step down:

It seems that Nina's infamous shooting has finally surfaced on Youtube. I remember enjoying it in spite of some inconsistent writing and compared to today's crap the whole thing is compelling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbNbclz7I0Q&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFTeDOSwPGQ&feature=relmfu

Thanks hope to see these up on youtube in the future! Conci Nelson was fabulous and I wish the show had kept April and Heather around. Nelson was on the show before as Faren's daughter.

Haven't posted much recently but I was fantasizing after getting my GL DVDs about what if Y&R was to release its own DVD set? I supposed in particular if Y&R was ever get released on DVD I'd love to see at least the following three: Summer 1979 episode of which a back from the dead Katherine shatters through Jill's glass terrace doors in the middle of a storm. 1986 episode where Victor let's Ashley have it for the abortion. In 2003 there was flashbacks of this and they stuck me as very powerful. May/June 1994 episode which featured Heather's nightmare of April being found guilty and executed.

I absolutely adore those plates! What year did they come out? I assumed the woman in the fur was suppose to be Dina.

Can someone shed some more light for me on Curt Dawson's Peter character? I know he had a romance with Holly, but I've read some of story there about Peter having a secret past with some woman and killed her sister by accident but ended up getting engaged again to this same woman again with his 1980 exit. It all sounded rather strange.

Walters certainly did have her moments especially during the custody battle and later on when Jack invited her to move back in but overall lacked Donnelley's fierceness and regal nature. Part of the problem is because by 2003 and 2004 Diane was suppose to be an antagonist to all (pool house fire mystery yet then bailing out Jabot with money she got from Victor's divorce settlement) but Walters while competent couldn't carry enough weight.

Thanks for finding and sharing those 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2004 episodes Carl! They certainly brought back a lot of nostalgia for myself. I always forget about Rianna, Alexis Thorpe's first big role. I also forget how much Stafford and Phyllis were so vibrant there 2000-2004. Not to mention when the creepy strange Kevin/Lauren friendship occurred I was fascinated by it as Michael desperately tried to keep secret his ties to Kevin. Easy to forget that Michael was such a vibrant character 1997-circa 2005. Those Isabella/Diane scenes were better than I remembered.

I should note regarding Lisa's introduction there use to be a clip from early 1988 on YT with Jack telling Ashley his discovery of Brad and Lisa and how it eerily paralleled Brad and Traci ie Brad was the gardener for the Mansfield family. It was enough of a coincidence that Ashley seriously believed Jack's argument that Brad was after money. Michael didn't kill Rebecca just like Sheila didn't kill Jay on B&B

That's interesting about Leanna and Lisa being compared together and being on the show at the same time together. Personally I think they should have eventually brought Lisa back at some point to mess up Brad's life but I don't know how it would have fit in anywhere except for the early 00s or even when Sally Sussman Morina said they were intending to bring her back for Brad's big 2006 story before LML ran away with her Nazi relic garbage. Unless we insert Lisa snapping pictures of Brad and Lauren's affair instead of Sheila... As for Leanna, well her crazy didn't seem to be as threatening as the others (Lisa, Sheila). I mean who would be seriously threatened by this:

Funny, I thought the spinning globe closing credits had stopped in early 1995. I know at one time time in '96 they simply used still shots as opposed to live footage.

Kucinich has had troubled primary campaigns before, I seem to recall even his 2008 primary was a hot mess for him. Simply to put, Kucinich was defeated by a 30 year+ incumbent (the above mentioned Marcy Kaptur) who has the exact same voting record as him thanks to redistricting due to Ohio's population loss. I've always liked Kucinich and wish him well, but I don't think I could ever label him as an icon. He made a lot of noise but never gained any traction.

It did with me as well, especially with the particular person being Frank Runyeon.

This is an article from the 2/27/98 issue of Soap News, which is pretty damning towards both the character of Molly and Leslie Kay. Molly was certainly a character I grew to love but I found her annoying her first year but it got better over time, but I don't remember it being this bad:

This is from the 8/31/99 issue of Soap News which mentioned in passing about the 1999 whereabouts of some former ATWT stars:

Thanks saynotoursoap. If I recall right Parnell said he didn't share the story until decades later after it happened. Quite unfortunate that it had happened but I don't if anyone else on the show knew or could know.

Question for anyone who remembers this: on the old defunct WOST website Brian did an interview with, I think Dennis Parnell who was the child actor playing Ben in the 50s. Parnell talked about how he had been molested on the set by an individual he didn't refer to by name except that it was an announcer who pryed on Parnell's developing sexuality. Does anyone remember if we confirmed the identity of that announcer? I seem to recall Ken Roberts was ruled out.

True not to mention Brown went on B&B as Taylor's dead husband right? I guess it was a quickie role and I wonder how many by 1990 had forgotten Brown's previous role back in 1982 since the Laurences didn't have much of an impact and Bell wrote them off. For Days its strangely commonplace but for Y&R it is a little odd. I guess last year's temp casting of Jeffery with Kin Shriner is the only other example I can think of.

I've seen somewhere a credit listing for Brown in the role of Robert in 1990, but I thought it was highly unlikely much like the debatable credit for Kerry Leigh Michaels as Faren in 1991. Otherwise generally no with the prominent exceptions of Quinn Redeker and Veleka Gray(a story by itself of course)

Thanks Carl, I knew the pics looked very familiar to me but figured why not lol. I remember checking that book out in my college library. I loved it back in the day in college with all the soap opera books my library had. Bob really had nothing to do afterwards did he? I know there was the Valerie stuff and course the later Miranda story but between that is a mystery to me until that 1979 episode on the DVD set.

Not sure if these have been posted, but I found them earlier tonight going through some old soap stuff I had on a disk: