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I may have mentioned this actor in an earlier post, but I cannot remember. I am interested in Ron Martin (David Grant #1 on Somerset). I saw his mother, Denise Lor, on a rerun of To Tell the Truth recently.

I don't understand the connection with Sons and Daughters. i can, though, remember that two soap operas previously had brothers and sisters fall in love with each other. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing introduced Andy Hurley (Don Scardino) with the intentions that he would be homosexual. The CBS network did not approve, so that storyline was dropped and Mr. Scardino departed the show. Andy was recast (with the late Rusty Thacker). Andy met Nikki Cabbot (played by Jody Blocker), a ballerina who was also the illegitimate daughter of Andy's father. Andy's mother Jean realized this. Andy and Nikki learned that they were siblings but decided to leave town and to marry elsewhere. She was dancing and dropped dead. Later, on Somerset, Heather Lawrence (Audrey Lawrence) and Greg Mercer (Gary Swanson) fell in love with one another. It was later discovered that they were siblings. i know that these two eventually broke up, but I do not remember the exact resolotion. Also, on All My Children, Mark Dalton (Mark LaMura) and Erica Kane Martin (Susan Lucci) were attracted to each other. (This was after her divorce from Dr. Jeff Martin and the murder of Jason Maxwell.) Mona learned that Mark was the son of her former husband Eric Kane, and she made every attempt to see that they did not get together. These scenes were actually quite humerous at times!

I did not see Linda Gibboney in the television promotion for the Who's the Boss show! it looked like Kate Capshaw (Jinx Avery Mallory #1 on The Edge of Night) to me. Was that Kate Capshaw?

I had not heard of a spin-off of Walker, Texas Ranger. Forgive me for being ignorant about this show. I liked the Dakota storyline, but I also did not see why it was introduced with Jillian's amnesia storyline. I have always supposed that the show wanted to give to Nancy Addison Altman a new big storyline. I also agree with the post above that the introduction of Dakota was brought too late for the good of the show.

And, Somerset was mentioned as a town on The Edge of Night. When Mke was working for the State Crime Commission (and was not seen for a number of months, to which the show attributed to his being in Capital City), there were thoughts that perhaps Laurie was in danger. She was sent to Somerset to wait until the trouble with the loan sharking syndicate was over. I have often felt (although I have been told that the original Somerset Bible called for Sam, Lahoma, Missy and Ricky to move there from Bay City) that Somerset was originally intended to be a spin-off show from The Edge of Night (rather than Another World). The Edge of Night was higher rated than Another World at the time, and Henry Slesar had submitted a new soap opera based on spies to CBS (which was rejected). Mr. Slesar even began writing Somerset during its first year (following the departure of the show's credited creator, Robert Cenedella). Incidentally, several of the performers on Somerset (Alice Hirson, Edward Krenner, Ann Wedgeworth) had appeared earlier on The Edge of Night, but that has nothing to do with what I have posted above.

Evidently, Joseph is quite interested in Maeve McGuire. She is seen in the All My Children clips above in a commercial for Dove. Harriet Hall (Brooke #3 on All My Children) is also seen in a commercial for Q-Tips squabs. Also, in the clip from the actual All My Children program, who (what actress) is playing Elizabeth's mother? Is is Constance McCashion? I do know that she auditioned for the role of Ann Tyler Martin at one point when the character was returning to the show.

I am sure that you have this and have posted it already. However, I missed seeing it. Gwen Gillis replaced Shirley Knight in a role on One Life to Live. I don't know the name of the character, but it was around 1985 or 1986

What primetime success was found by James Wlcek? I do know that he performed in some episodic television shows, but I had been thinking that those came prior to his being on either Ryan's Hope or One Life to Live.

My local station had dropped The Edge of Night in April of 1979 (during the months of this recasting and death of Winter) until September of 1980. I had not known that Logan had refused to tell Winter that he loved her. Writer Henry Slesar had a habit of breaking up happy couples. I think that this was another time that he broke up a couple for whom the audience (or at least I) wanted a different, happier ending.

Actor/singer/television game show host Adam Wade played John Burroughs on Search for Tomorrow in 1970. He has passed away. He had battled Parkinson’s disease. His death was announced by his family and friends via Facebook. He was 87 years old.

from Then Came Bronson? I don't think that he appeared in the pilot, but I will check later.

I have two reinterations (or additions) to post: 13 Bourbon Street was NOT intended for a daytime time slot. it was to be a nighttime primetime serial. And, Harding Lemay had nothing to do with Texas. The credited creators were Paul Rauch, William Corrington, and Joyce Corrington.Froa The name of Brian Frons was mentioned in the post that I quoted. The pronoun "he" was used, and the anticedent was, I assume, Brian Frons.

"Most of what he did at AW wasn't really "AW" stories. He had had this soap that was supposed to really take off, air at supper time, be set in New Orleans, etc. It may have been named BOURBON STREET. It may have been earmarked for the USA network. (Might have been Hallmark.) And, JG may have been co- with him on it. Not sure. But, I am sure that the leads were a couple Shane & Lila Roberts. I believe Shane had been a pilot in the Air Force but now he is a doctor. Lila was very much a fainting Southern belle type & she was terrified of storms. So, Robert Kelker Kelly had been hired back at AW but not as his old character, as a new character, Bobby Reno, a race car driver who had had a terrible accident & had had to have his corneas replaced. The corneas he got were from Ryan Harrison donation, Vicky's beloved, who had died. Malone gave Bobby Reno a whole new character, that of Shane Roberts. Lisa Peluso was hired as Lila. Malone took the iconic working class guy who always had a chip on his shoulder & was generally defensive Jake McKinnon & decided that he was a Cary Grant type. Whoosh. Personality change. He tampered a bit here & a bit there, always changing things with the rest of town. Mostly he used up that show bible! Frankly, I think it would've made a good soap but it was not good as a transplant onto struggling AW." I think that you are confusing too different proposed television serials, neither of which came about as they were proposed. There was a primetime show planned for the FOX network whose title was 13 Bourbon Street. It was created by Michael Malone and Josh Griffin. There was a pilot filmed. I don't know if this pilot was ever aired or not. Linda Gottlieb was the executive producer. (Mr. Malone, Mr. Griffin, and Ms. Gottlieb had collaborated on One Life to Live.) The associate writer was Paul B. Margolis, who had been a producer/writer for several other primetime shows. I seem to remember that the show was interested in Kirk Geiger (after he had been replace as Kevin on One Life to Live) being cast, possibly with Ellen Bethea (who had originated the role of Rachel on One Life to Live). They, however, were not in the completed pilot. The only name with which I was familiar who appeared in the pilot was Henry Simmons. The show was to be set in New Orleans and was said to include voodoo elements in the storylines. There was another show that the announced to be aired by the USA network. I am thinking that the show was to be called Park Avenue. It never came into filming or taping. I seem to remember that the creator was Sharon DeBord, an actress who had appeared on the General Hospital serial during the early 1970s as Sharon McGillis. Ms. DeBord was also the former wife of actor Antony Ponzini (who had created the role of Vinny Woleck on One Life to Live and later played Charlie Smith on the same show). I had been hearing for years that Sharon DeBord had been working on a soap opera creation, but that was all that was being said. So, when this program was announced, I then knew what the actress had been working on for all those years. Park Avenue (assuming that was the name) was planned to air in the very early evenings as counter programming against the network's news shows. At one point, there were published reports that John F. Kennedy, Jr. was interested in a role on the show. He had recently failed his New York bar exam. This was prior to his creating George magazine. I don't think that this was true but was, instead, a baseless publicity leak by those involved with the show. Mr. Kennedy's first cousin, Christopher Lawford, did in a few months bring the character of Little Phil/Charlie Brent back to the screen. I thought, at the time, that it was probably Mr. Lawford who was interested in serial roles and not Mr. Kennedy. I also heard a rumor that Victoria Wyndham (The Guiding Light, Another World) had considered filling one of the show's roles. (This was after Another World's cancellation.) I never heard of any show that had been created or co-created by Brian Frons, but I could certainly have missed information about it. I do know that producers have been listed before as co-creator of shows (such as Paul Raunch as creator of For Richer, For Poorer and for Texas and Wendy Riche as a creator of Port Charles).

I saw Lori Cardille on both The Edge of Night and Ryan's Hope. Her work was extremely good. These two roles were quite different. Winter (on The Edge of Night) was a major character, and she and Joe Lambie (Logan #1) worked so well together. Her role on Ryan's Hope was a minor character, but Ms. Cardille played it well enough. I first saw Stephanie Braxton on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing in a day role as a blind student in a school being visited by Leslie Charleston (Iris #1). She then replaced the wonderful (in my opinion) Linda DeCoff as Laurie on The Secret Storm. That character was written delicately. Laurie had been, up uniil that time, the "other woman" who stole Joel Crothers (Ken Stevens #2) from his wife Barbara Rodell (Jill Stevens #2). She was a fragile, misunderstood and troubled husband-stealer, but a husband-stealer nevertheless. The show made her sympathetic while still maintaining the goodness of Jill (who married a man who would never be suited for her, Hugh Clayborn). Widowhood, the apoption of a son whose mother had deserted him, a custody battle resulting with the murder of Alan Dunbar, and falling in love with a priest made Laurie the show's #2 young heroine (following Jade Rowland and Lynne Adams as Amy). In her next soap opera role, she was cast as Tara #2 on All My Children. She was so good in this role, although different from Karen Gorney (Tara #1). I imagine that she was more like the Tara that Agnes Nixon had envisioned than any of the other three actress who played Tara. Ms Braxton, of course, met her second husband (Dan Hamilton) on The Secret Storm (on which he played Robert Landers). After she was cast on All My Children, he was hired to play Hal Shea, the first husband of Kitty (Francesca James) who posed as Hal Short. Mr. Hamilton later played Wade Meecham on The Edge of Night (the murder victim of Winter Austin). Interestingly enough, Laurie was a concert pianist who eventually stopped playing the piano. Then, in his next soap opera role on Somerset, Joel Crothers played a concert pianist who stopped playing the piano. (These two were later reunited on The Edge of Night.) And, Stephanie Braxton later played the wife of a concert pianist (played by the late Michael Zaslow) on the ABC primetime serial King's Crossing.

I have thought that Linda Gottlieb was one of the best producers ever. The show, I feel, was a colaboration of the co-headwriters (Michal Malone and Josh Griffin) and Ms. Gottlieb. Mr. Malone needed a good co-writer, judging from his first months on the show during which he did not one. It also took him a while to learn to write for Robin Strasser after she returned to the show. With these three, there was true magic on the television screens. Also, at one point, Ms. Gottlieb advocated story arcs that would last a few weeks at a time. This, thankfully was dropped. It was not a good practice for a daytime soap opera.

Mary Ryan Munusteri, Trent Jones, and Louise Shaffer all have connections with the ABC drama Ryan's Hope.

I wonder how Agnes Nixon (in her heyday) would have handled Friday's decision by the U. S. Supreme Court.

Why did Richard Baccus leave the show as Barry? He was really good in the role, and I assumed at the time (and since then) that he had decided to leave and that the show probably would have preferred that he had stayed.

The awful Supreme Court decision released this morning reminds me of the first time a decision about reproduction was made on the soap operas that I can remember. Dr. Dan Stewart had married Dr. Susan Burke Stewart, who was extremely ambitious. She made an attempt to get Dan to move from the revered Memorial Hospital to practice at City (or maybe Community) Hospital (where her father, Dr. Burke, was the chief of staff). She thought that she and Dan would be writing their own tickets to lucrative medical practices because of her family connections. Dan, however, refused to leave Memorial (after much consideration and a lot of airtime discussion. Then, Susan discovered that she was expecting Dan's child. She was very unhappy about this. She was wanting children someday, but not at this point when she was building her own medical practice that she did not want to be interrupted by the birth of care of an infant. Dan, however, was very happy that the marriage had been blessed with conception of a fetus. I don't remember, but I can imagine that his step-mother (who was actually his birth mother) Ellen and his father David were overjoyed. Susan, however, was determined that nothing was going to disrupt her plans to become a successful physician. Her solution was to stand on a chair and to jump off it. This resulted in the loss of the fetus. I had not watched Another World when Pat had an actual abortion. This was the first time that this issue (reproduction) had been presented on a show that I was able to watch. I wish I knew who was playing Susan at the time. I know that it was not Jada Rowland. It could have been after she left and Marie Masters was playing Susan; however, I doubt it. It was probably one of the earlier actresses who played Susan (Connie Scott, Diana Walker, or Leslie Perkins).

It is so interesting how our soap operas would change plans from the original intentions! Did the show think that the actor who played Draper was going to stay only to be suprised at the actor's leaving the cast?

I think that Bennett Hadley came onto the show much later. I hope that I am thinking of the right character (Bennette Hadley). My mother had watched As the World Turns from its beginnings in 1956, and, for some strange reason, she liked the Bennette Hadley storyline so much that, when Mr. Hadley was dropped from the show, she stopped watching As the World Turns for the rest of her life.

Actor Charles Siebert, who played Dr. Wally Matthews (a minister) who dated Lisa, has passed away this week. He was on the show in the early 1970s, and he was also on Search for Tomorrow and Another World.

This week on PBS, a documentary about Joe Papp has been airing. I am watching it as I post this. Mr. Papp had a job on Search for Tomorrow. I cannot remember which backstage job he had for a number of years, but it was mentioned in the autobiography of Mary Stuart, Both of Me. This week on PBS, a documentary about Joe Papp has been airing. I am watching it as I post this. Mr. Papp had a job on Search for Tomorrow. I cannot remember which backstage job he had for a number of years, but it was mentioned in the autobiography of Mary Stuart, Both of Me. This documentary is a part of the American Masters series. The late actress Olympia Dukakkis, who appeared on Search for Tomorrow, was one of the people interviewed.

Marty Ross went on to be cast as one of "The New Monkees." David Snell, of course, had appeared onscreen on Edge of Night as well the early years of One Life to Live.

I am fortunate enough to have seen Flora Campbell in her final soap opera role, Margaret Garrison, on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.