Paul Raven

Pamela King was the original Lisa recast. Eileen mentions that Don was dating Jennifer.I have never heard of that before.Was it a major thing or just a few dates? She also states that Bob had never remarried when in fact he had married Sandy. Maybe she meant he wasn't married at that time. I'm surprised that Bob and Lisa never got back together, even briefly in all those years. It could have been an interesting story.

I have read that ABC lured Denise to GH quickly and that the Dobsons were forced to come up with a character and story on the fly and that Leslie wasn't a very interesting character at first.

I guess that those two characters were already cast and written for by that April and they weren't too bothered about tying up all loose ends.

Marcus was going to be the love interest for Melissa Anderson. I wish someone (Carl??) could locate the Afternoon TV story which dealt with Pat Falken Smith's plans for the show.

Was it Brian Frons? We need to get a list of the various daytime heads over the years and see what influence they had on the shows. Re Doug and Julie. While it was nice to see them play comedy the storylines went nowhere and a little of it went a long way.SSH is soap opera and needed better material. The Hayes said that NBC told them research showed that Days core fans would stick with the show no matter what so to attract new fans it was felt that new (younger) characters were the key. They were happy to keep the vets around either on recurring or contracts that offered them fewer appearances and limited story. I noticed that when Pat Falken Smith left DePriest and Anderson didn't follow through on the stories she had launched. Marcus Brady and Vanessa Di Mera never arrived nor did Bill Horton return. Stefano was not interested in Julie etc Val was quickly written off I wonder whether this was intentional and TPTB did not want to face another lawsuit from PFS about using her characters and story projections What we got from DePriest/Anderson didn't follow through on PFS set up.

Also, Rick was the name of Humphrey Bogart's character in Casablanca and Lacey had played Bogart before. The Jonas character had elements of Bogie in that movie so I think Jerry Lacey was trying to move away from the whole Bogart thing. That storyline also brought in the character of Gloria (Lindsay Bloom) and another character played I think by Billy Barty (Max?). To my knowledge this was the first time a little person was cast on a soap, preceding Brett Collins as Mr Big on ATWT.

Leslie did get that story where she developed amnesia and hooked up with Jonas (Jerry Lacey).But I don't think it really took off and once Jonas and Leslie returned to Genoa City, the whole thing fizzled. Leslie (and Victoria) just wasn't strong enough to sustain interest out of Lorie/Lance /Lucas.

Millette Alexander in 2011.She now performs and records classical piano.

Judy was on the show I think in a summer teen storyline in the mid 60's? played by Sybil Collier. Any more details would be appreciated. .It must have been a pretty minor storyline as it never is mentioned in summaries. I recall that Judy was British.This was at a time that all things Brit were considered cool.

Here's a recent pic (2012) of Victoria Mallory (Leslie Brooks)

Tom Ligon was also on A World Apart and Loving.Kind of a sad story.

Do we know about Y&R's current taping schedule? Are they shooting multiple episodes or different parts to allow the show to go dark for periods of time and save money? Whatever the case I'm sure there is way less time for rehearsals, retaping and notes from the director. Thus the lackluster performances we often see.

Kathy Glass was already on The Doctors when Doris Quinlan arrived. Earlier she was granted a release from her Return to Peyton Place role. What were the circumstances of her leaving One Life to Live? It seems her 3 year contract was up,but did she leave or was she fired? Carla Dragoni had been playing MJ and she was replaced by Kathy Glass. Did they lure her away from ABC or did she become available after her departure from OLTL?

Unfortunately,neither actress playing Sandy made much of an impression and there weren't any strong stories for her.Maybe because they didnt 'play much into her history,Sandy didn't have a lot of impact. Had they used Tommy to intro her (i think John Lupton was still active at this point) maybe that would have helped.Sandy's past was a blank slate so maybe something could have been used there.

I thought it was LeAnn Hunley,given that Anna was styled in a very demure fashion when she first appeared.

1982 cast photo

Trish and David's wedding

Kathy Glass as she appeared on The Doctors. In 10 years from 1970 - 80 she had 4 contract roles on soaps and that was it.

Warren Stevens and Kathy Glass (Eliot and Allison)

2010 photo of Pat Bruder,Judith Blazer (Ariel) and Pat's husband

Core of the cast,in the final year

Valerie and Amy in color! Lori March, left, with Jada Rowland on "The Secret Storm."

Not sure if this has been posted before

Rare color shot of Nancy Pinkerton as Dr Dorian Cramer

Mike and Margo's wedding