Thanks for catching me up on him. I had no idea what his future career was. I'm glad he's happy and has a good life. He wasn't the best actor but was charming and fun, and he was one of many RH seemed to toss aside for no real reason (I think he didn't even last a year).

Don't you think he looks like Todd McKee in that photo?

Always fascinating to find out what becomes of these actors who don't find continual work in that field.

I think many would say Mary Carney was the least offensive. Goulet was OK but she had no chemistry with anyone and was also cold and talked too fast. To me the real problem was the character - Mary was self-righteous, smug, judgmental, and tough for me to take even with Mulgrew in the role.

I agree with this, but the other actress (cant remember her name) was horrid

Kathleen Tolan is possibly the worst recast ever on a soap.

Nicolette Goulet wasn't very good, although she got better towards the end.

Edited May 11, 201114 yr by CarlD2

There is excitement brewing at ABC these days. And it is being generated by their new serial, Ryan's Hope. This is the first new show the network has produced since 1970, when A World Apart, The Best of Everythingand All My Children made their debut.Written by the expert team of Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer (former writers of Love of Life), the setting is New York City. The producer is George Lefferts, with Monroe Carol as his associate producer.

Both men are new to daytime, but have impressive credits from nighttime and movies.

Following is a breakdown of the characters and setting. As of our deadline, there had been no cast chosen. The final auditions were set, and ABC hoped to gather an expert group of faces familiar and new to the daytime audience. Also, changes in the characters and how they relate to each other could take place as the serial is further developed. But here is what is planned to take place, a sneak preview to tempt your viewing pleasure:

Ryan's Hope

The people who share an attitude called Ryan's Hope come from different backgrounds and a wide range of experience, but they have certain qualities in common: independence, energy, determination, all directed toward being the best at what they do and making their lives count in a positive way They all share in man's natural heritage of pain and trouble and occasional tragedy, but they prevail--and share.a laugh somewhere in the process.

Three families dominate the on-going story, which is set in the Riverside community of the upper West Side of New York City.

Largest of these is the Ryan family: Johnny, Maeve and their five children, whom they have taught to be responsible, loving and loyal.

Johnny Ryan owns a bar, which is in a curiously central location. To the East lies Broadway and pockets of urban poverty, largely Spanish and black. Directly across the street is the Emergency entrance of Riverside Hospital. Down the block is the local precinct headquarters. And to the West is an increasingly affluent area of new apartment houses intermingled with traditional brownstones, that extend all the way to the Hudson River.

Johnny Ryan was a school dropout at 14, prohibition beerhandleratl6, briefly a boxer, and W.W.II infantryman. He married his wife, Maeve, in Ireland and re-turned to the United States, where he bought a bar after being a bouncer, bartender and bar manager. He is proud of his five children and worked hard to put them through college.

Maeve Ryan had her heart ~captured by Johnny when he was in Ireland. She is not afraid of life, is warm, passionate and full of opinions, which she is not afraid to express. She was born in Dublin of a poor Irish background.

Frank Ryan is everything a parent could want. He is dark, calm and placidly self-assured, and has been since a child, He is a detective on the police force and has a Clouded marriage to Delia.

Delia Ryan is a beautiful Irish colleen. She met her husband through her brother Bob, since Frank and Bob are best friends. She is troubled and emotionally insecure.

Cathleen Ryan is the baby of the family, attended Manhattanville College and is now a novice of the Sisters of Sacred Heart.

Patrick Ryan, the third child, is a study in contrasts. He is fairly excitable and an intuitive leaper into knowledge. Me loves himself and returns his family's devotion because he has felt loved. He vitalizes other people.

Siobhan Ryan Moscolo is married to a chemical engineer, Art, and lives in Pittsburgh. She has two daughters, Maura and Dierdre. She is pretty, practical and predictable.

Ed Coleridge has tried his best to raise his two children, Roger and Faith. He is a physician, dedicating his life to medicine, and lives in the same brownstone in which he was-born.,

Roger. Coleridge was a lonely, unhappy teen. He won't admit he is wrong about anything~ He.is handsome with superficial .charm and has never learned how to love. His central figure is his father, of whom he wants approval. He lives on the top floor of his father's brownstone. He %s one of two first assistant residents at Riverside Hospital.

Faith Coleridge is daddy's girl. She isolates herself from emotional involvements and is determined to excel in her work. She, also, is a doctor, but many of her colleagues at the hospital don't like her. She is shy, inhibited and inexperienced and uses her intelligence as a protective barrier. She lives wit~ her father and keeps house for him.

Clem Moultrie, a supremely confident black man, is an intern and,first assistant resident. Heoan~ssumetobe relaxed and congenial with others.

Romona Gonzalez is the head nurse at Riverside.She grew up in Spanish Harlem of parents who came to New York in the 1940s.

Bob is Delia's brother and Frank's best friend. They work together on the police force. Bob is the living prototype of every Irish cop. He is big, broad-featured, steady, easy-going: a man's man.

Seneca Beaulac is of French Canadian background, a physician and is fierce and brooding, He had an excellent reputation as a doctor and will be a catalyst in the lives of the Collins and Ryan-families. His grandmother was a full-blooded Seneca Indian,from whom he:got his name. He is precise, demanding, and intimacy does not come easy.

Nell Beaulac is Seneca's wife. She is of a wealthy Boston family, is fluent in French and was indulged in material things as a child. She is a determined research doctor and takes for granted the luxuries of life:

These are the characters, as now planned. Of course, there will be additions as time passes, but, for now, Ryan's Hope looks to be interesting and different from anything now on the air.

Edited May 13, 201114 yr by Paul Raven

Thanks for sharing this. I am always wondering why they switched the names for Kathleen and Siobhan and why they decided not to have Siobhan as a nun. And if Ramona was supposed to be a bigger character than she turned out to be. The description of Nell is also a little off. There's also no mention of Jill. Or of Nick Szabo.

This is from the January 1976 Daytime TV. One of the only things I've seen on Rosalinda Guerra, who played Nurse Ramona Gonzales and was a fairly prominent supporting character in the show's early months before slowly fading and finally vanishing entirely (which also happened with their other minority character, Clem). I wonder if they had more plans for her but the actress didn't cut it, or if they just gave up on her character when they had to take up more airtime by keeping Frank around.

The only other writeup I've seen on her was around this time in another magazine, a brief mention that she was a S cientologist.

Edited May 15, 201114 yr by CarlD2

Along the way of learning how to cope with life, she became interested in Scientology. "It teaches you how to get yourself together," she explains, her big hazel-brown eyes growing thoughtful. "It gives you the tools to live your life better.

"There are some things I'm still not sure about and I want to find out more about. But I've done a lot of things they tell you to do in order to work out your problems...and it's worked!

"In fact, when the producers of Ryan's Hope called me for my first audition I spent the night before reading up on Scientology. I read one of its bulletins about confronting whatever situation you happen to be in. And it helped me tremendously the day of the audition.

"It's important for me to keep growing. I must study and think and feel and know...and grow!"

As is evident on the TV screen, Rosalinda is an outstanding beauty: five-foot-seven, 128 pounds, brown hair. Such a beauty could hardly avoid romance, and she confesses that "I used to go for the flashy type of man."

And then He came into her life. She met investment banker David Heuwetter, on a blind date, and they went to Casey's for a snack. She was impressed "by the way he handled himself. He's quiet, serious."

Before David, she had men she might have married. "But, always, there was a gut reaction that said to me, 'This isn't right.' And I never went through with it. Some of those times, I really tried to work it out, but the communication wasn't there. But with David I have a natural rapport, although I've known him only a short time. Why, I've never met such a man who is so aware of his environment!"

She sat in our office, chatting, when she suddenly became tearful. She dabbed a handkerchief at her glistening eyes, and said, "It's all right...It's just that I feel he's so fantastic!"

Her mother used to tell her, "When the right man comes along, you'll know," and Rosalinda used to say, "Oh, sure, ma!" But now Rosalinda says, "Mother was absolutely right."

On September 20, 1975, at 12:00 noon, Rosalinda became Mrs. David Heuwetter, in a quiet ceremony at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. Her parents flew in for the occasion, and everyone then joined the newly married couple at the Plaza Hotel for a sit-down reception dinner.

Now her folks, who still live in Los Angeles, are pleased she became an actress. "Oh, they love it! They realize now that acting was not just fun and games with me...that I was serious!"

In fact, I've been happy ever since I decided to devote myself to an acting career."

What does Rosalinda think of her role as Ramona Gonzales? "My character on Ryan's Hope is a strongwilled, determined head nurse; she's really tough. She wants things to go right, and that's it! She wants things to be perfect. Now, Nurse Gonzales and I have similar backgrounds. I'm Mexican and raised in Los Angeles, and she's Puerto Rican and raised in New York. It's a similar thing - two minority groups having similar hardships, although I personally didn't go through the same prejudice and poverty she faced."

Rosalinda admits she hasn't spent much time in Mexico. "I feel more American than Mexican. But I love Mexico and am going to buy a house there some day."

She's alive, aware. She loves tennis and, a couple of years ago, when she was vacationing in Florida, she got involved in scuba diving and underwater photography. "I'm surprised my first underwater photos came out so great!"

She likes to travel and she's also taking singing lessons, so she can sing in a show. And some day, too, she hopes to get into the movies and be a star.

She's ambitious and determined about her future. "The key to success? You yourself making it happen for yourself!"

Michael Denis

I wanted to bring a few more posts over from the Soapnet forum - before it disappears.

This was from the Totally Kate webmaster.

It's from an article in the magazine 'American Film' Nov. 1976 titled "Soap Springs Eternal".

It’s about a quarter to ten in the morning. Cast and crew are camera blocking now. It is rough, bumpy work so utterly lacking in polish that it is hard to believe they will actually be taping the scenes they are rehearsing in just a few hours. It’s clear, too, that they are working now not for the benefit of the actors but for the cameramen, the sound men, and the lighting crew. The difficulties are, for the most part, mechanical ones. Can you get the number three camera (actually a videotape machine) from the first scene of act two and into position in time for the second shot of the second scene? Will the boom mike cast a shadow if it follows Kate Mulgrew across the set for her big speech? Where the hell do you put it so it won’t cast a shadow?

The protagonists here are Jerry Evans, the director, and Dick Briggs, the stage manager. They are well aware of the physical limitations imposed by the tight, narrow layout of the building. Their job, continual and often quite taxing, is to overcome these limitations and to make it possible for the actors to do their own jobs. Considering all this, it is remarkable that things go so smoothly and stay so loose and relaxed during what is essentially a hectic hour and forty-five minutes. Cameraman Peter Blank remarks to me as he pushes his bulky machine into position for the next shot, “I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but you go on some sets and nobody will even crack a smile. ‘Ryan’s Hope’ is what you call a loose group.”

The big worry that day was the baby. The script called for the appearance of two-year-old Jadrien Steele, who plays Little John, the son of Frank and Delia Ryan. He is to cause a little commotion and cry on cue. Well, there have been, shall we say, difficu1ties with him in the past. There always are with children that young on the set. “The baby’s a real terror,” says Karla Mitidieri, one of a number of female crew members, “but a real comedian. He just doesn’t like show business much. The cameras seem to bother him.”

Director Jerry Evans is preparing contingency plans. “If the baby is there, and it’s OK, then give us a wide shot on the baby. If he’s giving us a hard time, then give us a tight shot on Mary and Jack.”

By the end of the run-through for camera blocking, Evans has decided to keep Little John out of rehearsals altogether. Instead they will continue to use the big doll that has been his stand-in. If the cameras bother the child, then they’ll only let him see them once.

Edited May 20, 201114 yr by safe

This was posted, in 2007, by Michael Corbett(via his webmaster).

I thought you all might find it interesting to know how the end came

about for Michael Pavel.

I personally didn't know that they were going to kill off the

character. Kelli Maroney (Kim) and I had just finished a big publicity

tour with Luke and Laura from General Hospital.

We got back to town on a Sunday and that Monday I was called into the

office by the executive producer at the time Ellen Barrett. She never

seemed to like me or the character of Michael Pavel very much. She

told me to come in sit down. She said "I have some news for you."

"Michael Pavel is going to die." "You're kidding," I said. "No I'm

not" and in Devil Wears Prada finesse she tossed out a parting "That's

all."

Within 6 or 7 shows, I was taking bullet shots from Kim and her mother

Rae.

Fortunately - within a few weeks I was asked to join the cast of

Search for Tomorrow at NBC!

The topic of Ilene being fired in 1983 came up again, today.

This would be from the summer of 1983 news, before she was fired later that fall.

DAYTIME TV – October 1983

Ryan's Hope star ILENE KRISTEN (Delia) was in Durham, North Carolina doing something very special for herself. Ever since she came back on Ryan's Hope, she hasn't been pleased with the way she looked or felt. She flew down to Durham and checked herself into Duke University for a total physical. Ilene was put on a strict diet under total supervision.

The show was so proud of Ilene's fortitude, they gave her a full 6-week medical leave so she could do this for herself.

Thanks for these. Poor Ilene.

I shared Ellen's feelings on Michael - I loathed the character - but that's not very professional. It helps explain why the show was such a mess at this time.