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These were not television shows, but Kathleen Cody had a movie contract with Walt Disney Pictures, and Marsha Mason was a successful star who was nominated for an Oscar.

This is just speculation, but maybe Marilyn Maxwell was offered the role of Selena Cross.

Nancy Wickwire played Claire immediately before Barbara Berjer assumed the role.

In my opinion, it was seeing Jack be a father to Ryan that made Johnny appreciate Jack. Others viewers may have different opinions.

The series Route 66 is now on Hulu. In the first episode, actress Nancy Wickwire appears. She was one of the actresses who played Claire English Lowell Casson Shea on As the World Turns.

Actress Phyllis Frelich played a role on Search for Tomorrow. She was a deaf actress who has just passed away.

I had never known that Frances Sternhagen was a temporary recast as Eileen. I had thought that she was cast in the role. (Also, Frances Sternhagen returned to One Life to Live later as a judge, and I remember thinking that she had played Eileen in the past.) Both Mike Karr and Nancy Pollock Karr on The Edge of Night had replacements. Jeffrey Lynn played Mike. Susan Brown and Frances Helm both played Nancy at times.

I saw a clip on YouTube in which Elliot was talking to the nephew of his first wife. The nephew was, by then, a college professor. Who played this character?

Some other performers who left Search for Tomorrow and were later on One Life to Live were: John Loprio Anthony George Cain Defour Joan Copeland Matthew Ashford Marilyn McIntyre Lee Goodart (dayrole) Mary Stewart

Marcia McCabe had a contract role as Alicia on One Life to Live. She also played a district attorney on All My Children (non-contract).

I think that Luci Ferri was one of the best executive producers in soap opera history.

Also from that audio tape, it was revealed that Ina's late husband was named Harvey. And the actor who played Ethan later played on the show Somerset.

I have been listening to a audio tape that had been posted on YouTube. The title is One Life to Live March 1, 2, 3 1978 CD 59. The poster was Jeff Cooper. These may have been recorded on an audio tape recorder. The voices sound squeaky, as though this is a little faster than normal. The female voices are easier for me to discern than the male voices. The female voices that I have heard have been Jill Voight as Becky #1, Claire Mallis as Dorian #2, Sally Gracie as Ina, Ellen Holly as Carla, Judith Light as Karen, Jane Badler as Melinda #2, Lee Lawson as Wanda #2, Kathy Glass as Jenny #1, Erika Slezak as Vicky #3, Jennifer Harmon as Cathy #5, Lori March as Adele, and Jacqueline Courtney as Pat. There are two male character who I do not remember at all. Both were connected to a character that I loved, Ina Hopkins. There was a man named Ethan Bottomly. He was evidently being brought in as a romantic interest for Ina. He and Ina kissed. Credit is given to Stuart Germain for portraying Ethan. There was also a young lawyer named Lionel West. I have since read that he was Ina's nephew. His scenes were with Becky. The scenes were about Becky consulting him because Richard wanted her to marry him, but she had already been married (prior to her introduction on the show) to Luke Jackson (Marshall Bordon as Luke #1). There was nothing romantic between Lionel and Becky. I am surprised, though, that he did not remain on the show because there was no other lawyer on the show, and, during Vicky's murder trail (in which she was accused of killing Marco), William Mooney as Paul Martin was brought over from All My Children to defend her. (I do not know who the actor was, and the poster evidently did not know either.) The males in the cast were Luke Reiley as Richard #1, Anthony George as Will, Jameson Parker as Brad #1, Nat Pollen as Jim #2, Michael Storm as Larry #3, Jeff Pomerantz as Peter #1, Lee Patterson as Joe, Michael Ingram as Vinnie #2, Byron Sanders as Talbot, Marshall Bordon as Luke, and Tom Fuccello as Paul. In the plot, Ethan and Ina kissed, Carla had tried to get Wanda to enroll in some college courses, Vinnie did not understand why Wanda would want to enroll unless the classes were domestic-type classes, Ed and Carla both wonder why Carla seems so restless, Dorian tells Peter that Melinda is unstable, Richard wants Becky Lee to marry him and to set a date, Becky is reluctant to do so, Jenny and Brad learn that they are not expecting a baby, Jenny thinks that Brad is relieved and she does not understand why, Larry and Karen are invited to dine at the home of Vicky and Joe, Karen explains to Vicky that she wants the evening to be special and declines the invitation, Karen (possibly in a flashback) recalls meeting Talbot, Vicky tells Joe that Karen is very nervous to make the evening special to Larry, Becky recalls being married to Luke, Pat and Paul are together, Paul wants Pat to put Brian's death behind her, Kathy tells Jim that she always falls in love with the wrong men (Joe, Tony, and Larry are mentioned), Larry (I'm not sure why) brings Talbot and Adelle home with him to meet Karen (but, of course, Talbot and Karen have met before), and Adelle tells Karen that she assumes that they (Larry and Karen) have an open marriage.

Sheila MacRae, who appeared on Search for Tomorrow in a role written for Cher, has died. Her daughter, Heather MacRae was in the casts of both A World Apart and One Life to Live.

I stand corrected about Tom Happer. (He was also on Dark Shadows.) Flora Plumb records books for the visually impaired today.

Yes, he did. I wish that the article above had mentioned Flora Plumb and Tom Happer.

Richard Baccus is a soap opera/serial writer. Also, Christine Jones was later on One Life to Live and Another World - plus the primetime serial Number 96.

I heard an interview with Ms. Fulton. She said that the show was going to kill off Lisa when Betsy van Fonstenberg was leaving. The show invited her back and, if she ever left, would probably kill Lisa off the show.

Terrence (Terry) Logan and Jane Elliott, who were both on this show, had appeared together on Broadway in The Impossible Years. Also in the show was Scott Glenn (who was on The Edge of Night).

I think that it is interesting that Mr. Hardy mentioned Barbara Rodell and Gordon Gray. Barbara Rodell replaced the first actress (Audrey Johnston?) in the role of Jill Stevens on The Secret Storm. Gordon Gray created the role of Ken Stevens (and was later replaced by Joel Crothers in the role). Therefore, Ms. Rodell and Mr. Gray played a married couple later on The Secret Storm.

Upon watching Ryan's Hope a second time, I decided that Mary #2 reminded me a little of the young Debbie Reynolds. She strongly resembled Helen Gallagher, who played her mother Maeve.

Ray Fulmer was on the final season of Hazel. Hazel, which had been on NBC, had moved to CBS. The show's star, Shirley Booth, used her own money to finance the CBS season. Ray Fulmer played the brother of Don DeFore. I guess that he and Whitney Blake (who was once the mother-in-law of David Birney of Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and The Best of Everything) were too expensive to use, so the two new characters were introduced. On the soap operas, Mr. Fulmer played two villians. I do not know why because he could have played some very nice characters. I understand that he invested his money very wisely and thus no longer has a need to work. I also understand that about Anthony Call (The Edge of Night, The Guiding Light, For Richer For Poorer, One Life to Live). Ironically, Mr. Fulmer and Mr. Call were in competition for the same lady (Dr. Sara McIntyre) on The Guiding Light. Perhaps they shared investment conversation.

I stand corrected about Harry Johnson. Harry Johnson was also a character on Dark Shadows, played by the late Craig Slocum. I wonder if, perhaps, the mention of a Somerset character could be a mistake. The Harry on Somerset used Presidential names. Ike was from Eisenhour, and Harding was from Dwight Harding. In his real name, Harry was from Truman, and Johnson was from Lyndon B. Johnson.

Ms. Harriman was on The Ted Knight Show on CBS. She changed her name to "Fawne."

American Home Products sold both The Secret Storm and Love of Life to the network at the same time. The network seemed to pair The Secret Storm and Love Is a Many Splendored Things together (using some of the same production workers) and Love of Life and Where the Heart Is. After the shows' cancellations, American Home Products repurchased the rights to both shows. Of all the cancelled shows, The Secret Storm came the closest to actually being syndicated. (I know that some stations had agreed to air the syndicated version which never materialized.) The company then tried to sell the show to NBC, but the network decided instead to air How to Survive a Marriage. During part of the 1980s, NBC had rights to both Love of Life and The Secret Storm. I think that the company still owns the shows.