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Samantha had also been involved with Tony Lord who was an older man, so it fitted in with the character. Everything I've read about Phil Carey-the boozy lunches, lack of respect for the scripts, use of teleprompter etc makes me wonder how he survived for so long. Did anybody actually enjoy working with him outside of Clint Ritchie and Bob Woods?

Agnes Nixon wrote 'Manions of America 'mini series which aired on ABC in Sept 81 starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Purl.

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James Lipton who wrote Another World,Capitol and others was responsible for the Broadway musical flop 'Sherry' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry!

It's not uncommon for new writing teams to be warmly received in their first few months. I think Lynne Marie Latham and Maria Arena Bell had good critiques for their early stuff as did Sally Sussman. But once they settle in, their long term writing comes under fire.

Roy Winsor the man behind Search for Tomorrow. Love of Life and Secret Storm who also wrote for Somerset and Another Life. He authored 3 mystery novels in the 1970's, even winning the Edgar Award for best paperback original for 'The Corpse That Walked' I read it and was underwhelmed. Interestingly, there was a soap connection as one of the characters was a soap actor.

Good question Susan as Cecile was on for exactly 2 years,so she may have signed a 2 yr contract and then decided to leave. However, the standard contract for an unknown performer at that time was 3 years, so perhaps she was let go at the end of a contract cycle and replaced. Maybe another poster can shed some light.

I think Susan looks way more 'done' than Deidre. Especially around the eyes. Also Deidre is doing the butch look now with the plaid and pants whereas Susan is still in the spaghetti strapped mini dresses.

If Julia/Tanya is only on for the day I wonder what the point of the character is? Y&R avoids having dayplayers like the plague so you would think this character would have some importance. Maybe she'll reveal the name of the owner of the LA house, which could lead somewhere. A thought- John Abbott -Jack will discover his father knew about Allie's existence!

Julie Montgomery (Samantha Vernon) returns to soaps this week on Y&R as Tanya. In a SOD story she said she disliked working with Philip Carey (Asa) because he never worked on scenes always used the teleprompter. She was bored and it was maddening for her to have to work with him all the time. Otherwise she said she would have stayed longer.

Re Marlena and her age. It did help immensely that Deidre has had excellent work done over the years. Jackie Zeman should have got Dee to give her a referral.

As much as they were (are) ridiculous Leanna could have fitted into Restless Style, GC Buzz/Hilary Hour and now Newman Media. She would bring out Jack's playful side and cause all kinds of mischief. Trouble is Josh would probably use her for sledgehammer comedy relief.

Speaking of MASH, we have AfterMASH which debuted at #1 but slowly dropped in the ratings in its first season, to the point that CBS replaced it with Kate & Allie which luckily for them drew viewers back to Mon @9. For season 2 there were some changes but the show was moved to Tues @8 (traditionally a flopzone for CBS) where it was pummelled by The A Team. What went wrong? Was the format the problem-w/o the war background and Hawkeye/Margaret/Charle The pilot 'Walter' which in contention for the 84/85 season. It dis air at some point. Radar is a spinoff from M *A *S *H with Gary Burghoff in a reprise of his Radar O'Reilly character, now working as a police officer in Kansas City. 20th Century-Fox Television is producing and the team of Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf are scripting.

Big yes to all of this. It seems odd to me that a set can go up for Keemo's LA house, Chance's therapist office, but not a simple set for the police station, Nate's apartment,Amanda's office etc

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I'm not completely up to speed on the Alex North story on Days, but would it have worked better if Alex had have been involved with Samantha, who was pretending to be Marlena? Or was it just so ridiculous that no tweaking would have helped?

This the cancelled soap section and General Hospital is still on the air. If anything it belongs in the Proposed Soap thread, but that is for actual soaps proposed by network and production companies not some fantasy ideas in an article. So I would direct anyone interested in the topic to head over to the 'Proposed Soaps Over The Years' topic in Discuss the Soaps and not duplicate the thread here. Thanks.

The budget situation seems to be dire. There is no money for sets and extras. How is this happening? I believe Days and GH have extras and u/5/ dayplayers. Surely the #1 show deserves better. The women's costuming seems to be supplied by the same manufacturer. Pretty much all the gals are in tight off the shoulder dresses and tops. Characters like Devon,Ray, Nate,Lauren, Jack etc supposedly have careers and businesses but spend their days in restaurants or at home, if they have one.

That's Eric's take. Maybe Mal Young just wanted to take Victor off the frontburner instead of centering the show around an 80 yr old character who had dominated the show for too long.

Well she did stick around at Big Valley for 4 seasons.

That's all they ever do. I'm guessing they were at Society? Are there any extras yet ?

Maybe the time he spends responding to strangers online, he could use to polish the scripts. He must know he is going to be blasted on social media, so why bother investing on any level? Deal with your demons Ron...

Y&R Jack (Terry Lester) and Ashley (Eileen Davidson) Great sibling chemistry. Even though they bickered and challenged each other, you could also see that when the chips were down...

Good point, I hadn't taken that into account. Although in 1980 she would have been in better shape.

This story fall flat on a number of levels. One of them is the 'tell don't show' method of storytelling. If we saw Nate at the hospital checking the x rays etc it would build more suspense. Nate meeting Ashland at Society (where else?) and telling what he found doesn't work for me. Chance got a psychiatrist office set but they can't pull together an office for Nate? (makes no sense)