Paul Raven

This has been discussed before. To my mind once Brenda left that was the last character that called her Kay. Maybe Mitchell Sherman continued after that? Did Victor call her Kay in early days? I only remember Nikki calling her Katherine. I seem to recall Dina calling her Kay ? We'd have to check some 80's eps to see what John and others called her.

Charles Grodin True Story Tommy Elson 3/21/60 Susan Brown True Story Amy Carlton 3/21/60 Biff McGuire True Story Dexter Bryon 3/21/60

Thursday 29th January, 1981 Beverly Garland made her first appearance on the show in the role of Kay Thurston.

In the sense that she would be playing against Snapper -yes. Either they were having trouble recasting Chris or decided that it would be best to have some space b/w actresses. Chris' absence made it a natural that a new woman would come into Snapper's life. That triangle was played a bit when Lynne Topping came on as Chris but then DH started his leaves of absence and Chris and Snapper never got a big story again. And Casey was never a viable rival for Chris, Her cold personality was intrinsic to the character and Roberta played it well but that limited her worth as a romantic heroine.

Search for Tomorrow DeeDee Turner

The lack of sets/extras along with terrible story choices really sabotages the show. As per usual Allie's job at Jabot is a success. Why is Josh afraid to let any of the characters experience career setbacks? Maybe because there might be some drama to be mined? We can't have that... BITD we would have seen Allie in the lab and there might be a mini story of her initial struggle. Maybe there's some resentment from a co worker about an Abbott turning up. Perhaps Allie unintentionally rubs people up the wrong way. There's some mix up and she gets the blame. She wants to quit but Jack/ashley refuses. Allie finds out a co worker is siphoning off supplies. SOMETHING. Not just her chatting to Noah.

James Goodwin Dallas unknown role pre GL

Anthony Addabbo Pilots/proposals Up Against It - late night soap for Fox 1995 John Wesley Shipp One Life to Live 'Tony Lord' played him comatose b/w George Reinholt and Phillip McHale

Olivia Birkelund All My Children pre OLTL

According to an Ed Zimmerman interview in Afternoon TV, Pennock worked with Zimmerman on his first day at TGL in October 1967

From Afternoon TV

Peter White In a TV Dawn to Dusk interview from 75 he states that he had 4 different roles on LIAMST over 3 years, 3 doctors and a lawyer he recalls.

Ted Thurston Edge of Night 1971 One Life to Live pre 1980

The promo says 'next week' so that portion of the tape (at least) was from March 87

But it has been repeatedly stated that Eric/Victor was going to be killed off so with Beau leaving also that would have left Julia as a newly widowed isolated character. Just another puzzle from that time...

This always puzzled me as all the actors contracts had to be renegotiated when the show went to an hour (thus allowing Brenda and John to exit) So Beau presumably signed a new contract. But he was gone by mid year. If he only agreed to sign for 6 months then why would Bill Bell give him his first real frontburner romance with Julia, knowing it would have to be cut short? If he signed a standard 3 yr deal, why did Bill choose to dump Brock at the end of a cycle? We know that originally Victor was going to die (I'm sure they were planning a Paul/Cassandra/George type story) so obviously story plans changed, but why did Brock lose out?

That's because Lance and Victor never interacted.

I think it was a couple of weeks in May. From a May synopsis Lance decided to return to Paris after a whirlwind renewed courtship of Lorie, whom he feels needs her freedom. It really didn't make much sense but Bill had lost hold of the story by that point with the introduction of Jonas, Leslie's amnesia,Lucas romancing Casey and Lorie getting involved with Micheal. I would have not bothered with Jonas/Pris as there was enough happening in GC without that tangent. With John McCook leaving, maybe they should have killed off Lance. That would have caused much angst. Lorie could lean on Lucas. Les could fight for him as she mourns for her true love and feel that Lorie is just using Lucas a substitute for Lance.Vanessa would be devastated etc Then maybe in that 2 week return, it is revealed Lance is alive and for some soapy reason wasn't on that plane or survived etc. That well used plot was much fresher back then, And then a recast Lance returns? or not?

Allen Fawcett (Kelly EON)was put on a holding contract to play Paul if negotiations with Doug broke down. Imagine if that had happened and we had a new Paul as well.

That does sound a bit clunky. Maybe the family should have been brought in more slowly. Perhaps some scenes with Paul and Mary, with mentions of the others, then Carl joins the group followed by Steve and Patty. Carl could have already been seen in police scenes, Mary and Paul could talk about him and viewers could connect him to them before they are actually seen together. It really was an interesting time for the show that I could examine endlessly.

For the 79/80 season A Lorimar spinoff from Eight is Enough, in which the older son played by Grant Goodeve goes traveling around the country with a young woman reporter. Guess with such a large cast on Eight, they figured they could lose David and have a known character in a new show. However, ABC did not go ahead. Was there any plot on Eight that hinted at this spinoff?

I've always felt that eliminating a queen in Wk 1 is a little unfair, so I think there should be no elimination in the first week to give everyone at least two chances to strutt their stuff and the audience to get to know them better. Maybe that could even be extended to maybe 4 weeks before the first elimination. During that time there could be some other reward or demerit that might come into play when eliminations begin.

That first photo looks more like Geraldine than Gloria. Nancy Coleman Gloria Gale Gloria Gale 1937 Hawthorne House Frank Dane Betty and Bob George Hartford Sylvia Davis Front Page Farrell Mrs Hartman 1949 Young Widder Brown Maria Hawkins 1954 Sunda Love Romance of Helen Trent Mary Stewart 1938 Requests Christopher Fuller Mark Haining Carole Cook William Kiehl Ted Thurston Peggy Lipton

Of course, silly of me to forget. Some others Lana/Lisa on GH which Doug Marland wrapped up when he arrived in 78. Sonni/Solita on GL Jane Elliot's contract was up for renewal (no doubt with an increased salary) and Potter felt the expense was not worth it as the ratings had not increased so Jane was out. This was probably just one factor that came into play.