8 hours ago, Khan said:

Trust me, inquiring minds, you'll be sorry when you learn who tried to burn Alexis.

It was Alexis's plastic surgeon, looking for an extra pay day after fixing Steven's face. 

Not sure if this was posted before, but a few years ago someone uploaded a brief clip from The Survivors (with plenty of Lana Turner Eye Acting).

There's a preview for the show in the first few minutes of this - the same as a clip that has been on Youtube for years, but timestamp aside this is better quality.

 

Desert Sun, 13 April 1985

ABC’s 'Dark Mansions’ Loretta Young quits movie

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Loretta Young, citing “creative differences,” has withdrawn from her role as the family matriarch in “Dark Mansions,” an ABC movie and projected series, a spokesman for the actress said. The Academy Award-winning actress had been due to come out of retirement to begin work on the two-hour movie on April 22.

The movie goes into production on Monday. “Loretta Young will not be rendering services because of creative differences over the story,” her agent, Norman Brokaw of the William Morris Agency said in a statement. “The parting between Miss Young and Aaron Spelling was amiable despite the story differences,” the statement said. Miss Young had been scheduled to play the role of Margaret Drake, the matriarch of a Seattle shipping family in “Dark Mansions,” a contemporary Gothic drama.

There was no immediate word from either Aaron Spelling Productions or ABC who would replace Miss Young in the role. “It’s true that we had creative differences over the way her character was developing,” Spelling said in a statement released by a spokesman, David Horowitz. “She's a great star and a great friend and I hope she always remains both.” Miss Young won an Academy Award as best actress in 1948 for “The Farmer’s Daughter.” She was the star of 94 motion pictures and was the creator, producer and star of “The Loretta Young Show” during television’s so-called Golden

Age Miss Young had been scheduled to work eight days out of the four week shooting schedule. The movie, a pilot for an ABC prime-time soap opera, also stars Michael York, who would make his series debut, Linda Purl, Paul Shenar, Melissa Sue Anderson, Raymond St. Jacques and Dan O’Herlihy. Miss Young s last film was “It Happens Every Thursday” in 1953. She then took the unprecedented step of retiring from films to produce and star in "The Loretta Young Show" on television. She won three Emmy awards as best dramatic actress in 1954, 1956 and 1958. She was also nominated five other times. The anthology show ran on NBC from 1953 to 1961. In the 1962-63 season she starred on NBC in a dramatic show called “The New Loretta Young Show.”

As we know Joan Fontaine took on the role 

Santa Cruz Sentinel, 5 November 1981

What is Mel Ferrer doing in a late-night soap opera? Having fun, he insists. If Elizabeth Taylor can make a guest appearance on "General Hospital," why can't Ferrer star in "Behind the Screen"? He's doing just that each Friday on CBS's answer to Johnny Carson.

"Behind the Screen" may be the ultimate in the peculiar art that has spread from the daylight hours into prime time ("Dallas," "Flamingo Road") and now into the insomnia period. The new once-a-week half-hour is a soap opera about a soap opera. The cast: Ferrer, a powerful Hollywood promoter; Janine Turner, star of the serial "Generations" and victim of Ferrer's manipulation; Joanne Linville, her crippled, ambitious mother; Michael Sabatino, a serious actor slumming in "Generations;" Joshua Bryant, his father and producer of the series; and more.

"When they sent me the script," said Ferrer, "I was immediately interested because David Jacobs' name was on it. David created 'Dallas,' and I am a mad 'Dallas' fan. I think Larry Hagman has made a creative and inventive character out of J R. and I have an eye for Sue Ellen (Linda Evans)." Ferrer discovered that taping a halfhour weekly show is no easy chore. The "Behind the Screen" cast rehearses at CBS Television center on Friday, tapes on Saturday and Sunday. Reason for the weekend taping: "Behind the Screen" uses the stage occupied by "Archie Bunker's Place" during the week.

The series came along at just the right time for him, Ferrer said. "I had been living in Switzerland and making three pictures a year Italian, Spanish, French, German, English," he explained. "Production in Europe has become very tight, except in Germany. In Italy there is very little money to finance films. "So it seemed like a good time to resurface here. I have an avocado and lemon ranch in Carpinteria (80 miles northwest) that I wanted to look after. And I'm developing 'Peter Pan' at Paramount."

Ferrer has long held the film rights to the James Barrie classic, once planned it for his then-wife Audrey Hepburn. For a time Mia Farrow was to star. Now producer Ferrer has a revolutionary idea: Peter Pan will be played by a boy. "But not Ricky Schroeder," he added. "I have already talked to Ricky, but he is already too old to play Peter. "I have seen all the Peters in recent times Jean Arthur, Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan. While they are wonderful, they are not what Barrie intended. Our film will be done from the original play, not as a musical comedy."

^^

To think that "Falcon Crest" was just a month away for him when that was published!   

 

It was sort of an interesting idea, but I think too many viewers would've been confused with it airing an half hour once a week. It seems quite random when everything else was airing Mon-Fri in the late night line-up. 

I keep hoping something of Behind the Screen will show up.

Thanks again @Paul Raven.

Was that Peter Pan ever made?

I dumped a ton of links in each thread but may as well post the link here to the Archive channel - there are a number of audio recordings of interviews with primetime soap actors of the early '80s.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Edited May 28May 28 by DRW50

https://youtube.com/@cfbennettmediatv?si=6rETeiMq6jaIvPVy

Found This Channel With Episodes of Some 1980's Soaps:

The Yellow Rose (1983)

Berrenger's (1985)

Flamingo Road (1980 - 81)

Paper Dolls (1984)

Some kind soul has uploaded all three seasons of Once and Again (1999-2002) starring Sela Ward and Billy Campbell. 

Season One 

 

Season Two 

 

Season Three 

 

On 6/7/2025 at 9:59 AM, Forever8 said:

Some kind soul has uploaded all three seasons of Once and Again (1999-2002) starring Sela Ward and Billy Campbell. 

Season One 

 

Season Two 

 

Season Three 

 

This is wonderful! Thank you for posting this! I loved the first two seasons and never got to see the final season when they cancelled the DVD release. I've been hoping this popped up on streaming but no luck. Happy I'll finally get to see how it ended!

Now this strikes me as funny. I have it up on my acct. The thing is I only have S2. Didn't want either 1 or 3. 

Perhaps I should just list all of these that I have up. 

Parodies: Dirty Sexy Money, Filthy Rich

Incomplete: The Monroes, All That Glitters, Falcon Crest (have all just not all up), Once & Again S2 only

Complete: Models Inc, Pasadena, Pacific Palisades, Paper Dolls, Flamingo Road

 

https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-louise-fisher-dies-79-1236432626/

Fisher created 2000 Malibu Road.

After starting it several years back, I finally finished Emerald Point, N.A.S.

I think the overall premise of a family saga incorporating the soapier aspects of the military wasn't a terrible idea, but I don't think it every got where they wanted it to. The story never seems to be strong enough, but I still wonder what a second season would have been like. At the very least, I imagine the title would have been shortened to Emerald Point as they seem to be downplaying the military angle by the end of the series. Even if the story picked up, I don't think the acting would have. St. John is serviceable as Deanna, but Vaughn wasn't as Harlan. I would have accepted Patrick O'Neal back. Dennis Weaver was very bland as Tom, but when they seemed to write him more as a father and less of a military commander I felt it was slightly better. Unfortunately, the crux of a season 2 being successful would have needed a strong Tom / Harlan dynamic and I am not sure if Weaver could have risen to the challenge even if the scripts did.

It was nice to see the end of event that has been mentioned for years: Harlan attacking Tom's wife, Jenny, and as a result the paternity of one of the daughters was in question. Is the paternity issue mentioned on air? I only half listened to some episodes. The mystery of the gazebo was one of the stronger sequences and some of the sequences in the psychiatrist office were better lit than usual. The filming of the flashbacks also worked to capture the film look of photographs from that era which worked well for me. Wikipedia states that it was Leslie Mallory's paternity in question. This makes sense based on Celia's age in the flashbacks. It also makes sense as Sela Ward and Doran Clark do bare a slight similiarity. In addition, Leslie being torn between her two sisters, Kay and Hilary, would have been appealing. To be honest though, none of the Mallory girls were standouts by the end. With all that said, the resolution of this story would have been of some interest to me. 

The show improves when they wrap up the KGB/Russian deflection stuff involving Loggia's character and Alexi. The ending of the story is brutal; Deanna rats out Leslie and Alexi to Loggia's KGB head leading to Alexi's kidnapping and Leslie being held hostage in her personal attempt to save him. Ultimately, Alexi dies and Deanna's criminal charges are dropped in order to perserve the character, err keep the fact that Loggia's character would be a double agent a secret. It was a mistake. I cannot help but wonder if the show could have made more strides if they ended it earlier or did something else. I thought the tension between Leslie and Deanna at the end was the most interesting Leslie got to be all season other than the constant low level sexual tension between Leslie and Simon. 

The show seems to lose Simon and Celia somewhere towards the end. I don't know if Lakin decided to downplay them because they were overexposed early on or if she had run out of ideas for them. Celia's divorce drags out all season with Jack just hanging in the wings until they make a decision very late in the run that Jack and Hilary are going to be a couple mostly to lure Glenn away from Kay. I feel like Jack would have been the easiest character to dump if there was a season 2. As a concept, a navy lawyer with romantic ties to both the Mallorys and the Addams he has some significant weight, but I never get the sense they knew what to do with him. Though, I have to wonder if Susan Dey was done as well since the season ends with Celia's breakdown and becoming catatonic. 

Some of what they were trying with Tom and Maggie worked. I thought some of the David Marquett / Maggie story was effective with his connection to her husband, writing a novel with Maggie as the prototype for the lead, and the sense of mystery. The kidnapping provides a nice cliffhanger, but I cannot imagine that the show wouldn't have reunited them without much fanfare. I do think Maud Adams has a nice rapport with Susan Dey and the Maggie / Celia friendship was one of the more enjoyable pieces of the final sequences. 

I do wonder if the decision to play Hilary and Jack wasn't an attempt to shift the Hilary / Kay rivalry to Hilary / Celia. The Hilary / Glenn / Kay material was pretty dominate in the final episodes. Some of it was pretty strong and some of it was too plot heavy. I feel like it is the reverse of Lakin's work on "Flamingo Road" several years earlier. Glenn's emergence as a business shark in training falling into gambling just as Kay discovers she is pregnant was a fun sequence especially given Glenn's comments about his father being a gambler. Hilary manipulating him further and further into debt by paying off the loan shark in order to keep Glenn spiraling was downright wicked.  The plot twist that Kay wasn't pregnant due to a lab error was trite, but Kay lying about the baby was the most interesting she was the entire series. Hilary was devious as anything by arranging an accident at a horse farm so that Kay would be injured which revealed she was in fact not pregnant. It was all very messy. Hilary and Glenn's one night stand right before the finale and Glenn and Kay reuniting only for Hilary to reveal Glenn's gambling debts was nice movement for a slow show. 

I do think there was a missed opportunity by not letting Kay actually be pregnant. It could have been used to explore the secret of Jenny's attack with Deanna making veiled comments about Jenny. There could also have been an arc with Celia and Jack slowly reconnecting over the loss of their child while Celia and Simon not being super firm on where they see their relationship going.