Remembering Douglas Marland: A Week-long Celebration

[Toups]

http://marlenadelacroix.com/

[YRBB]

Awesome!

[Khan]

My heart still breaks over his death and how it has affected the industry as a whole.

Thanks, Toups.

[Cat]

Spooky! Yesterday I was getting into some old, classic episodes of General Hospital... Guiding Light... Loving. I picked the episodes at random, just cause I was bored. Each one turned out to have been written by Douglas Marland.

The quality was outstanding. And by quality I don't mean production values (which were pretty simple), I mean the acting and dialogue was such that it didn't feel like "acting" or "dialogue." It felt so organic that I was swept along in the story and the characters. It was pretty hard watching today's soaps after that.

Will definitely be checking out this week-long celebration.

[EricMontreal22]

Where did you see the Loving ep? He only wrote the first year of Loving and there was a great episode of it on youtube but I think it's been gone the past month now that the poster Washes Whiter's account was deleted

[Noel]

You and me both, Khan. The infamous How Not To Wreck A Show seems to have disappeared in Daytime.

[Toups]

I never saw any of Doug's storylines, but I do love hearing/reading about writers. So thank you Marlena and Patrick Erwin for sharing your stories and for this tribute to him.

[Toups]

Did Marland ever write for OLTL? In Tom O'Neil's Emmy book, Marland is listed as HW for OLTL - is this a mistake?

[Sylph]

Patricia Mulcahey?

[Toups]

LMAO!!! I never noticed that!

[stenbeck212]

That's a shocking admission. I suggest a YouTube crash course.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

It looks like they forgot to list Douglas Marland in the credits for 'Guiding Light' since judging by the other credits, it looks to be from the early 80's time frame.

[Sylph]

That was hilarious!

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Hmm, IMBD doesn't list OLTL as apart of Marland's resume, however, they list a nomination for OLTL under Marland's award section. I always assumed that when he left GL in 82, he left to create Loving and then wrote the first year of that show before going over to ATWT in 1985.

[Toups]

Yeah, it's for the 1982 Emmys.

So I guess the book made the mistake of putting Marland for OLTL instead of GL.