Nancy Addison (Jill)

Five Soap Opera Stars Know How to Stay in Shape

TV Dawn to Dusk - September 1978

Nancy Addison (Jillian Coleridge - Ryan's Hope) had a weight problem as a teenager and learned that the perfect regime for losing is a combination of exercise and low food intake. " I still watch myself very carefully and limit myself to one meal a day. Dinner is the perfect one because I can sit back and relax. On days when I have to go out to lunch, I make that my one meal." If she's sitting around waiting for taping or learning lines and gets the urge to snack, she finds that rice cakes (24 calories each) combined with cheese or fruit is a delicious and guilt-free treat. "Sometimes I fast for one day, drinking only fruit juices to clean out my system."

Nancy swims 20 laps and jogs a couple miles every day to firm her muscles. " I have found the perfect way to fit exercise into my schedule. I have two dogs and I run them for half an hour in the morning and half an hour at night. They are quite a workout. When it is nice out, I don my sweat pants and sneakers and walk the two miles from my apartment to the studio."

Nancy loves outdoor sprorts - especially swimming and horseback riding. She takes karate lessons for self-defense as well as exercise. She gets up at 5:30 each morning and goes to sleep at midnight or 1 o'clock, needing only a small amount of rest to function well.

That's an odd comment about Alicia's brother. I remember him as being a good kid.

That's an odd comment about Alicia's brother. I remember him as being a good kid.

I think that was just speculation on the writers part. Interesting how they also thought Bucky was going to be the one paired with Alicia.

Edited January 19, 201114 yr by safe

I would have preferred that. Justin Deas had no story for about a year and a half until he finally left. Perhaps this was dropped by his choice or for some other reason? Bob/Alicia never really went anywhere.

Thank you for constantly sharing these with us.

I suppose having Alicia hang out with Bob tied her closer to Delia. But Bucky was Pat's best friend and would have still been a link. In fact, Bucky's strong negative view of Delia might have made Alicia feel even more torn about her promise to keep the miscarriage secret.

Edited January 19, 201114 yr by safe

Helen Gallagher (Maeve)

Helen Gallagher: The Latest News / Gossip

DAYTIME TV

July -1977

HELEN GALLAGHER (Maeve Ryan, Ryan's Hope) was interviewed in Raleigh,N.C., some time back and said watching daytime soaps was”dangerous” because “children are watching now.” She doesn't like the idea of children watching "sex, divorce, and abortions” but insisted Ryan's Hope is "set apart from some of the other soap operas because immorality does not take place in an atmosphere of approval.”

I will put entire piece in the Discuss The Soaps section.

Apparently, some names were misspelled in the piece.

The Return of The Best & The Worst

Those Who Came Out on Top...and Those Who Hit the Pits...

Daily TV Serials – July 1977

by Jon-Michael Reed

Finally, we come to the best of the serials, Ryan's Hope. In a year that must be judged as tortoise-paced for most shows, the tempo on RH, with its well-turned tension, was energetically straightforward. Even with three concurrent pregnancies, there was rarely a pregnant pause or halt to the invigorating story complications. The show's tone and theme remained consistent. The plots were logical and riveting, and there wasn't a glaring weak link in the cast lot.

MALCOLM GROOME (Pat) and CATHERINE HICKS (Faith) projected immense sensitivity and warmth. ILENE KRISTEN (Dee) and DON HALE (Roger) were perfectly despicable connivers, but humanly empathetic. There isn't a more convincingly concerned “listener” in all of soapland as HELEN GALLAGHER (Maeve). And KATE MULGREW (Mary) remains the most refreshing golden talent on the soaps

I love this type of thing. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. It's great to hear some critical pieces from that era. I think he was right about no weak links in the cast then - I do wish they'd been given better material, mostly because I don't have a lot of patience for the "evil Delia schemes" type of stuff.

"Don Hale".

From the September 1978 Digest (SOD Publishing Inc).

Sarah Felder interview from March 1979 Daytime TV. Ryan's Bar Online already posted the interview quite a few years back, but not the photos. I will just post the photos.

http://ryansbaronline.tripod.com/felderdtvm79.html

The same is true for a Randall Edwards interview in a July 1980 Soap Opera Magazine. I will just post the photos.

http://ryansbaronline.tripod.com/edwardssom80.html

People.com has the 1980 interview she and several other soap actors were involved in.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20076738,00.html

The cover:

http://www.people.com/people/archive/issue/0,,7566800616,00.html

From the October 1979 Daytime TV.

From the October 1977 Digest.

Also from this issue.