I think this may be the article you are referring to:

http://www.column-of-life.com/loving01.html

Yes it is. Thank you

I always wonder why more soaps don't try to make use of a university setting. I know AMC has kinda dabbled in it but without much point and under Malone--both of his eras--OLTL did but it just seems such a perfect venue for soap storylines

I always wonder why more soaps don't try to make use of a university setting. I know AMC has kinda dabbled in it but without much point and under Malone--both of his eras--OLTL did but it just seems such a perfect venue for soap storylines

I think that soaps shy away from the university setting because for whatever reasons the show's ratings tend to be low. By the time "Loving" premiered, the idea of a professor sleeping with one of their students was cliche. It dated back to at least the 1960s when Amy Ames slept with her married professor Paul Britton and had baby Lisa as a result. In the tail end of the 1960s, both "Bright Promise" and "Where the Heart Is" were led by characters who worked in a university setting, however Julian Hathaway's focus seemed to be more on his students bodies rather than their minds while Thomas Boswell and his son Jim were written out six months after the show premiered.

"Love of Life" tried to revive the university setting in 1979, which it did well in the late sixties with its exploration of drug use and sexual awakening among the youth of America. Ann Marcus had Bruce become a law professor who was teaching his vengeful illegitimate daughter, while Van gained an admirer in young scoundrel Steve Harbach. Right before the series ended, ingenue Leann saw her younger sister arrive in town as did nasty Mia Marriott enjoy the arrival of her kid brother Wes. The show was gearing up for a younger set, but smartly balanced it with hospital and legal drama while maintaining characters that had made the show a success in the 1950s and 1960s (Meg, Van, Bruce) and the 1970s (Betsy, Arlene, Ben).

Also around the time "Loving" premiered, Ken Corday developed "Rituals" for syndication based on Charlene Keel's novel. A pilot was later produced starring Joe Lambie as the college professor who slept with all his female students. The novel dealt with four or five young ladies all trying to bed the professor or rebuff his advances. I remember one was named Sandy, and she was the British half-sister of the bitchy Priscilla. When Sandy confronted Priscilla's mother, the woman called her a liar claiming her husband was gay (he was actually bisexual). Priscilla was the nasty one of the group who became pregnant by professor Judd only for her mother to reveal Judd was her biological father. Priscilla aborted the baby and left town. One of the girls was the daughter of a rock star and I'm sure there were some others hanging around. I do remember Sandy was the ingenue who ended happily married to her longtime beau.

Anyway, somewhere along the line the pilot was scrapped in favor of what came on the air: a story about the girls school and the family that had founded it. As time went on, the girls school was less the focus and by the time the year ended with the Corringtons writing, "Rituals" dealt with two feuding families, the Robertsons and the Fields, with C.J. and Carter fighting it out for everything, while Christina lost her mind and C.J.'s ex-wife and Carter's half-sister Taylor returned to town for the final battle.

Even when "Loving" revived the university setting in spring 1992, I would say most of the university centric plots were gone by June 1993. The last major university set storyline was Stacey and Jeremy's romance being thwarted by Hannah Mayberry's accusations that Jeremy had sexually harassed her.

In the late 1980s, there were several storylines about literacy. John Danielle (Dr. Frank Grant from All My Children) played a police detective. For a very short time, the character of his son was on. The son was in high school but could not read. Can anyone tell me who played his son and the name of the character. Lt. Art Hindman was the name of the character that John Danielle played.

Here is a summary of Loving's main stories during it's run.

I found it on the net and kept it.

1983

TV reporter Merrill Vochek [ Patricia Kalember] has a secret affair with politician Roger Forbes [John Shearin], husband of wealthy Ann Alden Forbes [Callan White]. When the affair becomes public, Ann divorces Roger.

Noreen Donovan's [Marilyn McIntyre] troubled marriage to Vietnam vet Mike Donovan [James Kiberd] ends in divorce when Mike refuses to seek help for emotional problems he brought home from the war. Mike dinfs confort in the arms of Ann Alden Forbes.

Jack Forbes [Perry Stephans], the handsome and athletic son of Ann and Roger, falls in love with brilliant young pianist Lily Slater [Jennifer Ashe]. Their youthful romance is doomed when Lily develops a split personality as a result of being sexually abused by her domineering father, Garth [John Cunningham].

1984

Jack Forces is cleared in the mysterious murder of Harth Slater, when the killer is revealed to be the dead man's wife, June [Ann Williams]. Jack falls in love with his best friend, Stacey Donovan [Lauren-Marie Taylor], who is on the rebound from an ill-fated love affair with Jack's pal, Tony Perelli [Richard McWilliams].

Cabot Alden [Wesley Addy], the patriarch of Corinth's wealthiest family, fires his right hand man, Dane Hammond [Anthony Herrera]. Determined to ruin Cabot, a vengeful Dane locates Cabot's illegitimate daughter, Shana Sloan [susan Keith], and brings her to Corinth. When Shana refuses to cooperate in his scheme, Dane, still obsessed with ruining Cabot, marries his daughter, Ann Alden Forbes.

Mike saves Shana from her kidnapper, Harry Sowolsky [Ed Moore], and the lovers get engaged.

1985

Jack breaks up with Stacey when he learns the shocking truth that his family's bitter enemy, Dane Hammond, who is now married to his mother, is actually his real father. Jack reluctantly marries the conniving Ava [Roya Megnot] when she becomes pregnant with his child. Ava miscarries, but keeps the loss a secret. Determined to hold onto Jack, Ava presents Jack a son, her sister's baby!

Cabot and Isabelle's [Augusta Dabney] teenage granddaughter, Trisha Alden [Noelle Beck], falls deeply in love with mechanic Steve Sowolsky [John R. Johnston]. Jealous of Steve's love for Trisha, sexy Cecilia Thompson [Colleen Dion] unjustly charges the young man with statutory rape, and later forces him into a loveless marriage.

Shana is heartbroken when Mike breaks their engagement and reconciles with ex-wife, Noreen. Shana is able to get on with her life with the support of Father Jim Vochek [Peter Davies], a priest with whom, before he took his vows, she had an affair.

1986

Jack divorces Ava, and marries Stacey on Valentine's Day. In the fall, Stacey gives birth to a son, Jack Jr. Jack undergoes successful surgery for a brain tumor. On the rebound from Jack, the upwardly mobile Ava enters into a short-lives marriage to Alden grandson, Curtis [Chris Marcantel].

After her breakup with Steve, Trisha enters into a regrettable relationship with sleazy casino owner Nick Dinatos [Jeff Gendelman], who is later murdered. Trisha's grandfather, Cabot, stands trial for killing Nick, but is acquitted when it is proven that he fired the fatal shot in self defense.

Cabot and Isabelle's granddaughter Lorna Forbes [Parker O'Hara], the daughter of Roger and Ann, marries her lawyer, Zach Conway [John Gabriel]. Jim Vochek, who has lost his memory, forgoes the priesthood to marry Shana.

1987

The Alden family is shocked when long lost son, Clay [Randolph Mantooth], returns from the dead witha new face that he claims has been altered by plastic surgery. Clay divorces his wife, Gwyneth [Christine Tudor], and proposes marriage to Ava after they survive a plane crash.

Rick Stewart [Ron Nummi], the illegitimate son whom Gwyneth and Clay had when they were teenagers and gave up for adoption, turns up in Corinth, and blackmails his mother.

Finally free from obsticles, Trisha and Steve are married, but sadly, Steve is gunned down and killed during a bank robbery.

1988

Ava marries Clay, but later she discovers that her new husband is an imposter named Alex Masters. Alex's secret is threatened when his first wife, Egypt Jones [Linda Cook], unexpectadly appears to claim her man.

Jim regains his memory, but keeps the revelation a secret fron Shana. When she uncovers his deception, a pregnant and confused Shana argues with Jim, tumbles down a staircase, and loses their baby. The heartbroken Vocheks divorce, but eventually remarry and leave town.

Lily Slater [britt Helfer] is release from a mental institution and lures Jack into a forbidden love affair. A furious Stacey divorces Jack and sets up housekeeping with manipulative Rick.

A love struck Trisha falls for slick TV producer Jeff Hartman [Richard Steinmetz], unaware that her mother, Gwyneth, is having a secret affair with him too. When Jeff tries to break up with Gwyneth, she videotapes them making love, and uses it to blackmail Jeff into dumping Trisha. In the park, Trisha encounters the handsome and elusive Trucker McKenszie [Robert Tyler], once the Alden family chauffeur, who took the rap for Clay in a hit and run accident and was sent to prison for eight years.

1989

When the fake Clay, Alex, is missing and presumed dead in South America, the real Clay [James Horan] makes a miraculous return to Corinth and becomes intimately involved with Ava [Lisa Peluso]. Alex returns and fights Clay for Ava's affections.

Gwyneth and Jeff form an unholy alliance to keep Trucker and Trisha apart. When they convince Trisha that Trucker is an irrational womanizer, Trisha marries Jeff in Rome. Jeff fights with Trucker, falls, and is paralyzed. later, a deranged Jeff regains the use of his legs, and kidnaps Trisha, but she is saved by Trucker. Jeff is institutionalized. Trucker clears his name in the hit and run accident, adn discovers that Clay was innocent of the crime as well.

Just as Jack and Stacey are about to reconcile, Stacey discovers she is pregnant with Rick's child. Stacey marries Rick but soon discovers the depth of his treachery. Stacey gives birth to daughter Heather, and realizes that her heart still belongs to Jack.

1990

Egypt fights Ava tooth and nail to regain Alex's [Robert Dubac] love. Egypt emerges victorious and soon becomes pregnant with Alex's baby. They become closer and marry, and Egypy risks her life to bear him a baby girl, Alexis.

Trucker's younger sister, Rocky [Rena Sofer], dates illegal immigrant, Rio Domecq [Rick Telles], but Curtis [stan Albers] is determined to remove Rio as competition for Rocky's affections. Curtis loses out to Rio and leaves for the Persian Gulf.

With the loving support of sanitation man Louie Slavinsky [bernard Barrow], Kate Rescott [Nada Rowanr] recovers from cancer surgery. Kate and Louie marry in a double ceremony with Rocky and Rio. Ava vies with her sister, Carly [Colleen Quinn] for the affections of Louie's mobster son, Paul [Joseph Breen].

On Jack and Stacey's wedding day, Rick [brian Fitzpatrick] kidnaps his daughter, heather. later, Rick is murdered, and Stacey stands trial for the crime. She is freed when the killer is revealed to be Rick's accomplice, Denny [Walter Bobbie].

Trucker and Trisha marry in a simple ceremony held in a rustic chapel in the woods. Jack and Stacey remarry.

1991

Cabot dies, leaving a video will that throws the Alden family into chaos. Trisha gives birth to a son, who soon dies. Later, she and Trucker adopt Abril Domecq's [Marisol Massey] baby. When Clay discovers that he is the father of this child [the new Alden heir], he takes Trucker and Trisha to court to try to gain custody. Ultimately, the court awards the child to Abril, who leaves town with her son to start a new life. Clay's obsessive behavior leads to the quick demise of his recent marriage to Carly.

When Stacey takes an extended cruise, Jack [Christopher Cass] hires seductive nanny, Dinah Lee Mayberry [Jessica Collins] to take care of their son, J.J. [Timothy Salter]. Dinah Lee tries, but fails, to seduce Jack.

Kate's granddaughter, Allison Rescott [Laura Sisk], falls in love with teenage runaway, matt Ford [Eric Woodall]. Together, they go on the run to prove that Matt was falsely accused of a rape committed by his abusive stepfather.

Paul and Ava are engaged, but the wedding is postponed when Paul is paralyzed in a warehouse explosion. Carly locates her long lost son [fathered by Paul], whom she had given up as a teenager.

1992

Trisha gives birth to a healthy son, Christopher, but breaks up with Trucker over Dinah Lee. Trisha is terrorized by deranged art professor Giff Bowman [Richard Cox], who dies in a fall. Trucher and Trisha reconcile and remarry in a glass chapel in the woods.

Ally breaks up with Matt, and despite her love for Giff's son Casey Bowman [Paul Anthony Stewart], she sleeps with wild adn deeply troubled Cooper Alden [Michael Weatherly] adn becomes pregnant.

Ava and Casey break up a cocaine selling operation run by Leo Burnell [James Carroll], the nephew of a department store mogul. After Paul reunites with Carly, Ava falls for the elusive Leo.

While cruising on the Alden yacht with Stacey, Jack disappears and is presumed dead. Clay [Larkin Malloy], who's out to destroy the Aldens after learning that Tim Sullivan, not Cabot, was his real father, attempts to drive Stacey insave to gain control of her shaves of Alden Enterprises.

1993

New Corinth resident, Jeremy Hunter [Jean LeClerc] helps Stacey to expose her new husband Clay's [Dennis Parlato] treachery. However, Clay's mother, Isabelle [Patricia Barry], takes the rap and saves her son from a long jail sentence. Meanwhile, Jeremy and Stacey become closer.

Shana [whose husband Jim and infant son were killed in a 1991 plane crash] pays Leo to father a child for her. A jealous Ava plots revenge when Shana and Leo fall in love.

Trisha's car goes over a cliff, and she is presumed dead. [The body found in her car is really that of a car-jacker]. In actualily, she has amnesia and, by chance, meets up with ex-husband Jeff Hartman, and flies off to Rome with him.

Curtis [Patrick Johnson] returns from the war, and falls in love with Dinah Lee, unaware that she is his father's former love.

Mysterious newcomer Buck Huston [Phillip Brown] arrives in Corinth, and moves in with Gwyneth. Her son Curtis, who knew Buck frlom the Persian Gulf, vehemently disaproves.

When a pregnant Ally cant pay her medical bills, Casey and Cooper concoct a scheme to secure Alden money for her.

Hannah, Dinah Lee's sister, develops a crush on Jeremy, her professor, and the crush grows into an obsession.

1994

Alex [Randolph Mantooth] returns, and is a thorn in Jeremy and Ava's romance. Ava and Jeremy eventually break up, and Ava and Alex remarry. Jeremy then starts up a romance with Gwyneth, after her miscarriage with Buck.

Curtis [Chris Marcantal] marries Dinah Lee Mayberry, but is slowly going insane. A mad man named Dante Partou [Thom Christopher] kidnaps him, and locks him in a cage, calling him "!@#$%^&*] cat". Dante was Tess's [Catherine Hickland] ex-husband. Curtis was freed, and Dante was killed.

Doctor Angela Hubbard [Debbi Morgan] comes to Corinth with her son Frankie, and meets police officer Charles Harrison [Geoffery Ewing].

Cabot Alden was found very much alive, and gave half of his company, Alden Enterprises, to Kate Rescott, because Cabot's father had scammed Kate's. Kate turned him down, but Cabot gave Ava, Kate's daughter, Burnell's, Leo's store which he sold to AE once he and Shane left town with their daughter.

1995

Jeremy is kidnapped by his presumed dead twin brother Gilbert, who in turn takes over Jeremy's life. Ava and Sandy are then kidnapped, and Alex shoots an unarmed Gilbert. Alex turns in his badge, but then takes it back.

Ally's life was turned upside down when Casey started doing drugs. It got worse once he started selling them. In the climax of the story, Casey was shot by Mr. Big, who was really the chief of police, Graham. Ally went into seclusion, and Charles was asked to be the next chief fo police. Angie and Charles were married.

Curtis went insane after being kidnapped by Dante, and Dinah Lee divorced him. She started a romance with Trucker, and Curtis started sending Trucker signs that Trisha was alive. Trucker searched Rome for her and Jeff, and found them. Trisha wouldnt come home, but sent a letter to her family, telling them that she didnt know who they were, and wanted them to get on with their lives. Trucker, Dinah Lee, and Christopher moved to Maine.

A serial killer came to Corinth, killing some of their most beloved residents. Stacey Forbes was murdered with poisoned body powder. Clay was the next to go with poisoned brandy. Curtis was then killed by drowning. On their 50th wedding anniversary, dear old Cabot and Isabelle were murdered with poisoned candles. Gwyneth and Ally were almost killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, but were saved by Ava, Buck, and Alex. Jeremy Hunter was killed when the killer poured quick drying plaster on him. Neal Warren [Larry Haines] was in town, and everyone suspected him, he even confessed. Tess was almost killed, but Steffi Brewster [Amelia Heinle] saved her when she walked in on Gwyneth. She was the murderer! Neal was really Gwyn's father, and was protecting her. Gwyn thought she was Trisha, and that she was putting her friends and family out of pain. When she realized what she had done, she asked Steffi to push the hypodermic needle in her, which she did, and she died.

After the murders, Ava and the kids moved to Florida, after she and Alex broke up. Kate and Neal got engaged. Deborah Brewster won the lottery. Ally, Tony, Steffi, Danny, Richard, Alex, Jocelyn, Tess, Buck, Jacob, Angie, and Frankie moved to New York City's SOHO district, and brought forth THE CITY......

Yes, you can find this sypnoses in my page:

http://www.angelfire.com/80s/cultsoaps/lovsumm.html

In the late 1980s, there were several storylines about literacy. John Danielle (Dr. Frank Grant from All My Children) played a police detective. For a very short time, the character of his son was on. The son was in high school but could not read. Can anyone tell me who played his son and the name of the character. Lt. Art Hindman was the name of the character that John Danielle played.

Bill Christopher-Myers played Dave Hindman, who appeared around 1989-1990. I have one note saying he was hired by Curtis to track down Rocky and Todd, Egypt's brother.

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