On 3/3/2026 at 12:48 PM, Maggie said:

Can someone tell me the birth order of Maeve & John's Children; Frank, Paddy, Kathleen, Mary & Siobhan?

Almost just like that. From oldest to youngest: Frank, Kathleen, Pat, Mary, and Siobhan.

1984 ABC promo Ryan's Hope #2

@safe Not sure if this was posted before, but it's not on the IMDB credits for Lisa Sutton (Nancy Feldman #1).

@slick jones Not sure if this is in your files. Sorry if it is.

@safe A Visine ad with Geoff Pierson.

On 3/2/2026 at 10:14 PM, DRW50 said:

@safe Dennis Jay Higgins (Sam Crowley) only other IMDB credit. Directed by Lela Swift.

The Haunting of Rosalind 1973

Thank you so much, Carl! I appreciate these little gems you find.

People wondered what happened to him after RH. Some people thought Kate Mulgrew might have known since the soap magazines played up a close friendship between the two -- but I think TotallyKate webmaster would have told us at the SN forum if Kate had known anything.

On 4/2/2026 at 9:08 PM, DRW50 said:

@safe Not sure if this was posted before, but it's not on the IMDB credits for Lisa Sutton (Nancy Feldman #1).

@slick jones Not sure if this is in your files. Sorry if it is.

I had seen this before but it's a reminder that Lisa Sutton (Nancy #1) had a good deal of prime time exposure mid 1980's to early 1990's-- particularly her recurring role on Hill Street Blues.

Thanks for the Geoff Pierson commercial, too.

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On 12/29/2015 at 9:49 PM, safe said:

I had never heard this before – not even as a rumor --from Tracy Brooks Swope's IMDB biography page –under Trivia

 

I'm not sure what the difference was between 1973's “Me “ listed as a movie and the paragraph saying “Me” was a PBS show that kept her from taking the role in 1975.

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842884/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

 

 

 

A long time for an update since I posted that originally over 10 years ago. Someone sent me this from author Tom Lisanti's Instagram and he posted the following several months ago---

PAGING DR. FAITH COLERIDGE MIGHT HAVE BEEN

I interviewed actress Tracy Brooks Swope who played Chris Wylie on Another World in 1982 for my upcoming book, Another World: The Drama Behind Daytime’s Only 90-Minute Soap. She talked about her time as Liz Hathaway on Where the Heart Is prior and how that almost led to a role on Ryan’s Hope.

For the last year or so, the head writers were Claire Labine and Paul Mayer who really liked me. When they created and began casting Ryan’s Hope, they invited me to sit down with them and casting director Shirley Rich. They offered me my choice of two roles. I had to decide between Faith Coleridge and Mary Ryan. I would have loved to have played Delia, but they thought I was too classy for it. I chose Faith because she was a doctor. I know they also cast from Where the Heart Is Diana van der Vlis [as Dr. Nell Beulac] and then the great Louise Shaffer, who I loved, came onto the show [as Rae Woodward]. [Bernie Barrow who played Johnny Ryan was also on Where the Heart Is.] But I began to get offers to do prime time shows in California, so I didn’t do it. That was a mistake and I should have done the soap.”

The roles of Faith and Mary were constantly being recast and when asked if the creators ever reached out to her again, Tracy replied, “No, they did not. I think they were unhappy with me for walking away from the show.”

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Thanks @safe you may want to add this to the They Almost Became thread.

My guess is she wouldn't have lasted that long as Faith either. It was just not a good part.