http://marlenadelacroix.com/

Awesome!

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

Thanks, Toups.

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.

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

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

Thanks, Toups.

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

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.

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

Patricia Mulcahey?

Patricia Mulcahey?

LMAO!!! I never noticed that!

I never saw any of Doug's storylines

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

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.

Edited March 14, 200817 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

LMAO!!! I never noticed that!

That was hilarious!

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.

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.

Yeah, it's for the 1982 Emmys.

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