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Families have always been the bedrock of soaps so just about everyone is a member of a family or has onscreen siblings. Who are some actors who are really believable looks wise as members of the same familly? And who did you never buy as being related? Of course, in real life, some family members look totally different so there's that... The first that came to mind for me were Carl and Paul Williams on Y&R. I wonder if that was a consideration when they cast the role of Carl in 1980?

Olan Soule We Are Four 1938 Hope Alden's Romance Reggie Smith Jenny Peabody Dr Paul Chandler Romance of Helen Trent Ken McKenzie 1939 Laurene Tuttle Masquerade Marion Dr Christian TV Matinee Theater 'A Family Affair' 5/14/56 Viki Vola Dr Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy Lynne Miller 1938 Aunt Jenny Gloria Gale 'villianess' 1937 Robert Griffin Pretty Kitty Kelly Allen Crossley The Guiding Light 'attorney' 1938 Robert Shayne Young Dr Malone Mr Allison 1941 Marilyn Erskine Hilda Hope MD Life Begins Jane Arden

Reading the Pam Lincoln's comments in her interview might leave you believing the gossip re the affair. Her approach to parenting also seems somewhat casual. Kinda like 'I carried the kids for 9 months FFS what more do you want from me?'

I'm talking about the cabin mentioned here from 2016 Phyllis agreed to go to the Abbott cabin with Jack to celebrate his birthday, but she intentionally drank too much Champagne to avoid having sex with him. Phyllis remained at the cabin alone, and Billy joined her to have a passionate encounter.

Thanks Broderick. Interesting analysis. Random Y&R question. Can anyone tell me when the Abbott cabin came into play? When it was introduced was it purchased as a getaway or just assumed to belong to the family all along? How far away was it from GC and was a locale ever specified eg a few miles from Hicksville... From what I've seen it looked pretty basic. Wouldn't a wealthy family that regularly uses a private jet have something a little more spacious and luxurious? Thanks in advance!

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In the 1971 ep Emily MacLaughlin as Jessie Taylor RN. So weird to see that name. Jessie went back to Brewer. Was this because her marriage to Peter was invalid because Phil was alive? In later years it seemed that Peter and Jessie had a professional relationship. Was the marriage pretty much forgotten?

They were married in 59 so 1977 marks 18 years, which makes Darryl and Pam the likely subjects. What other actresses were married to producers? Offhand,I can't think of any. They hung on till 82. I wonder if this was tied in any way to Pam landing the job on The Doctors. Maybe Darryl arranging that job for her calmed Pam's anger for a while...

Unless Steve lowers his asking price , Y&R wouldn't be interested and even then, why bring back another older unsuccessful character?

Howard Petrie Story of Mary Marlin announcer

Shouldn't this be posted in the Bold from the Beginning tthread?

And Katherine was a real alcoholic😒

I think the first was Micheal Bauer on TGL. He was born in the early 50's a few years later was about 11 years of age. By the early 60's he was an adult.

I know Bill bell respected Wes Kenney but this article and others at the time seem to credit Kenney with storyline decisions. I would imagine Bill might listen to Wes, but surely Kenney couldn't just say 'Kill off Cash' and Bill would acquiesce? It would be interesting to know how that relationship worked.

Days took a big risk in 1980 by killing off/ writing off a bunch of characters Bill,Laura, Linda, Robert, etc and focusing on a new set Kellam, Liz,Joshua etc The show was moribund and needed to make some changes but all of this turned viewers off and ratings tanked. Within a year or so most of the newbies were gone.

Days The Salem Strangler This was really the first story of it's kind in daytime. Only Edge of Night came close, but they never did a serial killer story. They used it to kill off a major character (Mary Anderson) and hyped up the 'death' of Marlena as well as introducing a new 'supercouple' in Roman and Marlena and making the killer a major character (Jake).

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Erik Rolfe This Day is Ours Paul Gangbusters Announcer Charles Carroll Road of Life Conrad Overton 1951

The flipside to Amy's thread. What were some chances soaps took that didn't work? Now we know there were many so let's try and keep it to those that did go out on a limb a little bit rather than just stories that you didn't like. To start Y&R Paul and Nikki as parents of Dylan. To accomodate Steve Burton, TPTB decided to tie him to beloved core characters and return to a past storyline. But viewers didn't buy it as they twisted history and Dylan was a pretty dull character. He's hardly been mentioned since he left. AW Steve/Rachel/Alice. AW resurrected it's signature 60's/79's story but the revived triangle had 2 recasts ,neither of whom captured the essence of the original with Rachel a different character to what she had been originally. The end result was killing off Steve again, and dropping Alice. Days David/Val. The groundbreaking interracial romance ended with Val being written out. She was never contract anyway. Overall, they decided not to continue as ratings and response wasn't there. Looking forward to your responses...

Richard K Weber (Tom Love of Life) began his career as Rick Ely. Seems Weber was his real name but as there was another actor with that name he had to change it. For anyone interested there is a facebook page devoted to him. https://www.facebook.com/RickEly1970

Josh Griffith, please step forward...

Yes, seeing Phyllis rant about Sally might have worked had her hypocrisy been called out, but Nick supported her schemes.Had he been resistant, their subsequent problems would have been more realistic.

That's a shame. Considering he was the longest serving cast member, Doug/Paul has been treated badly. He agreed to recurring status, so someone/something must have caused this as Lauren, Micheal,Chloe,Kevin,Gloria,Traci,Nina,Ashley etc get airtime Although it seems the same thing has happened to Kate Linder only she's not talking, maybe in the hope they'll bring her back. There is enough going on that Paul could appear to discuss police matters if nothing else. When Lauralee appears, Paul and Christine could have some convos. They could do a mini story about Paul feeling depressed with Chris out of town. Lauren decides to cheer him up, They get reminiscing, drink a little too much and kiss. Both laugh it off but there's underlying feelings etc.

Lamont Johnson Portia Faces Life Billy Manning David Harum Billy Cullen 1940 Front Page Farrell Neil Emment 1949

Bobbie GH - scheming rival to Laura to beloved nurse. Rachel AW from villian to lead heroine Liz AW horrible mother in law and self centred to loveable busybody