Paul Raven

Has Ashland explained why he decided to fake this illness?

Better than the best Easter Egg! Thanks so much.!!

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Maybe Victoria wakes up and thinks she is still happy with Ashland and they play the'she is too fragile right now to face the truth so everyone has to do along with it and pretend Ashland and Victoria are happily married.' Have you not been watching? They'll just have Ashland either be forgiven or pretend it never happened. See Chelsea Adam Phyllis Victor etc etc I think she is probably as annoyed and depressed with the show as the viewers. Stuck in ugly, unflattering costumes on tiny sets playing a supporting role in boring stories. This is not the Nikki she used to play.

Nice overview of Kathryn's career and life here https://neptsdepths.blogspot.com/2022/04/fond-farewell-kathryn-hays.html

Way to go Victor. Use violence to sort out your differences...

Knots didn't air that week. CBS showed a 2 hr Simon & Simon 9-11 Thursday. Knots premiered the following week Th 10-11 and ranked 8th 21.1/34 beating hill St Blues 22nd and Baseball on ABC 24th

I kinda feel sorry for Charlie in the American Dream clip. Not only did he have to suffer a tongue lashing from Victor, he was further punished with a song from Brock! Ah yes Victor- a country where you can lock someone in a bomb shelter and get away scott free or throw a woman from a moving vehicle without consequence....

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Who's the Boss was given the Thurs @ 8.30 slot, so it seems ABC had little faith in it and it could have gone the way of so many other sitcoms and cancelled after a few eps. But there was some star power involved and reviews were fairly positive so ABC quickly moved it to Tuesdays where it started to gain some traction. Also in it's favor was that ABC had so many pricey flops like Paper Dolls, Glitter etc Males you wonder how many other shows might have blossomed into hits had TPTB shown a little patience.

Paul was slowly marginalized. First he lost family members over the years. Patty was brought back as a psycho and written into a corner. Heather was given 3 recasts then dumped. Ricky is SORASED, is a psycho and dies. He's remarried to Christine but LLB hardly appears so he has no personal life. A retcon gives him Dylan as a son, But SB leaves and the character is forgotten. They never played his connection to Lauren. So Paul is pretty much an island. And when he did appear in a police capacity he was always gruff or seemed disconnected. I think Doug should still be there in some capacity.

How is it , that in a few minutes posting, we can come up with better plots than a man whose full time job earns him six figures???

Would Devon stand for it? What was the point in bringing on Moses? Looks like he'll join Charlie,Mattie and Reed in the needlessly SORASED group. And Ana, Scott, Fen in the wasted returns category.

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I think you still need some public spaces, but not overly rely on them. Some clever directing/editing that lack of extras isn't so noticeable. Agree the cast needs to be trimmed, however I would keep non contract/recurring so that characters can be used when/if necessary. I think ATM scenes are short because they believe viewers don't like longer scenes and also they are easier to tape- longer scenes require more dialogue for actors to remember and more blocking as characters move around. YES! all of those have been used and overused so time to get back to basics. I'd be looking at characters that are part of the core but haven't been used for a while, if ever eg Scotty Banning, Stephanie Johnson, Andrew Donovan etc Say goodbye to the DiMeras.

P Phyllis is responsible for just as much (or more) s**t than Diane so her taking any kind of moral ground is nonsense. I get the feeling that the D stories -we go from A to D on this show - are basically written to fill in airtime and give the rest of the cast something to do week to week. Job changes, health scares, misunderstandings etc

Going by Jason 47's detailed episode listing, the scenes posted above are from the Wed June 25th 1980 episode.

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Really enjoyed listening to Tristan Rogers. A contrast with Maurice's meandering approach. Wished he had more time to talk about his GH experiences.

I believe Ina's boarding house appeared first in late 77 as the show prepared to move to an hour and new sets and characters were needed, In addition to Alice Lovelace, Ina had a boyfriend Ethan Bottomley, who worked at the newspaper morgue. So it seems they were going for a light comedy/oldies vibe at first with those characters. Marco was living there and Becky Lee moved there so it was probably through Marco that we first saw Ina's? Sally Gracie had been dropped by The Doctors after along run as Martha. Joseph Stuart was producing OLTL after exec producing The Doctors, so he may was familiar with her and might have got her the role. It's funny to look back and see older characters being introduced. When was the last time a new over 50 character came onto a soap recently?

When Mal Young updated the opening, part of the reason was so it could be updated easily. You can see that when Eileen,Beth or Lauralee appear they are included in the opening. They need to get the new actors to do a quick pose so they can be included. The show is so incredibly cheap these days.

Guess Mrs Calder is housekeeper at the Merritt's? Or a visitor ? She must have had some importance to that day's script or why would they bother?

The lighting and make up are two more areas where lack of budget and overall care is showing.