Ryan's Hope Discussion Thread

[John]

6 months. i guess that is what she signed for. RH wanted her to stay but RM quit. Then a year later in Dec 85 she started on SB

[amybrickwallace]

Really? I had always thought she had been fired from RH. In any case, she made the right choice by going back out West and joining SB, because she was great as Gina.

[amybrickwallace]

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all RH fans. Here's Helen/Maeve singing "Danny Boy" at about the 4:30 mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBc9yaDPuMY

[DRW50]

As I said in my status update, St. Patrick's Day is Ryan's Hope Day to me. I remember when Soapnet had an all day marathon.

Thanks for the video.

Edited March 18, 2014 by DRW50

[safe]

That Soapnet marathon was a wonderful way to celebrate the day.

While some original viewers say they recall that Maeve singing Danny Boy was a yearly tradition, Maeve didn't sing the song on the first St. Patrick's day episode in 1976. She also didn't sing it in 1979 (Helen was only in the last 5 seconds of that episode -- the show ended with Maeve entering the bar after just arriving home from her trip from Ireland), 1985, and 1986 (on the old Soapnet message board we were told Ryan's Hope didn't have special SPD episodes those two years and that was why Soapnet didn't have them to play in their holiday marathons in 2000-2002.)

In 2003, the SPD marathon was replaced with the airing of the first 5 episodes from 1975. That was the final special marathon of RH they ever had.

Edited March 18, 2014 by safe

[amybrickwallace]

I love those goofy green sunglasses Ilene was wearing when Dee was pretending to be blind to hold on to Pat. That was 1978, I believe.

[safe]

There is a new Catherine Hicks (Faith #3) interview about her 1980 TV performance as Marilyn Monroe.

While others have asked Catherine about the role before (like Ty and Lisa did when she was on Soapnet's Soap Talk) it was great to hear someone interview her who had actually seen the movie recently and asks about certain scenes.


http://blog.tvstoreonline.com/2014/03/catherine-hicks-looks-back-at-her-emmy.html

As I mentioned some time ago, the former Cornell theater student that helped her when she first beginning her career was Jordan Clarke.

Edited June 11, 2015 by safe

[amybrickwallace]

Thanks for posting that!! Awesome.

[safe]

For Applcin

Trent Jones (Ken George Jones) approx. 2006

and in 2011

Edited June 11, 2015 by safe

[amybrickwallace]

As I recall, he was on the writing staff of Y&R for many years. Before that, I think he was on Pam Long's writing team on GL.

[applcin]

Thanks, safe!

Been checking out the show again on youtube and was just wondering what some of the seldom-seen (in front of the camera, anyway) cast looked like lately.

Edited March 27, 2014 by applcin

[amybrickwallace]

It's just too bad that people like Sarah Felder, Karen Morris-Gowdy and John Blazo, to name a few, never really achieved fame outside of RH. No matter what people may have thought of the latter two in the roles of Faith and Pat, that they were miscast, it's a shame they never found roles that played to their strengths. Poor Sarah Felder was never seen onscreen at all after leaving RH. If I'm not mistaken, RH was the only soap all three of them ever appeared on - feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[slick jones]

I always thought KMG would have made a great recast for Hope Spaulding on GL. Between her time playing a drunk and a heroine, she could've worked perfectly as Hope.

[amybrickwallace]

I could always see her as the frosty, hard-drinking matriarch of some dysfunctional soap family, like on a primetime show.

[applcin]

Just wondering. I haven't seen post-1982 episodes since my spotty viewing during the show's original run (I was a kid in school then). SoapNet didn't air them and it'll be a long while before I get to them in my youtube re-viewing of the show (I don't want to watch later episodes out of context). I know Johnny kept his dislike of Jack more or less intact for years. He had some good reasons, particularly in the first few years, even if some of his reactions were rather extreme. At what point in the story did Johnny start to actually like Jack and treat him as a family member as opposed to just tolerating him?