TEXAS August 1980 Episode Count

[Andrew]

TEXAS August 1980 Episode Count

From 4 August to 29 August out of a total of 20 Episodes

From 8/4/80 to 8/29/80 out of a total of 20 eps.

1. Carla Borelli (Reena Cook) 15

2. Elizabeth Allen (Victoria Bellman) 13

*. Bert Kramer (Alex Wheeler) 13

*. Beverlee McKinsey (Iris Carrington) 13

5. Jerry Lanning (Justin Marshall) 12

6. Catherine Hickland (Courtney Marshall) 11

*. Josephine Nichols (Kate Marshall) 11

*. Jim Poyner (Dennis Carrington) 11

*. Shanna Reed (Terry Dekker) 11

10. Philip Clark (Ryan Conner) 10

*. Chandler Hill Harben (Max Dekker) 10

*. Dana Kimmell (Dawn Marshall) 10

*. Ellen Maxted (Nita Wright) 10

*. Lee Patterson (Kevin Cook) 10

*. Scott Stevenson (Clipper Curtis) 10

16. Joel Colodner (Bart Walker) 9

*. John McCafferty (Billy Joe Wright) 9

*. Barbara Rucker (Ginny Marshall) 9

19. Robert Gerringer (Striker Bellman) 8

*. Randy Hamilton (Rikki Dekker) 8

*. Caryn Richman (Elena Dekker) 8

22. Lisby Larson (Paige Marshall) 7

23. Shirley Slater (Maggie Dekker) 6

24. Ann McCarthy (Samantha Walker) 5

25. Paul Stevens (Brian Bancroft) 3

26. Maher Boutros (Colonel Hassin) 2

*. Stephen D. Newman (Mike Marshall) 2

*. Actor Playing (Detective Waylon) 2

29. Donna Cyrus (Jasmine Zehedi) 1

*. Greg Sutton (Steven Marshall) 1

*. Douglass Watson (Mac Cory) 1

Catherine Hickland is the only one of these actors and actresses who is in a soap right know, OLTL as Lindsay Rappaport, of them who is still alive she is the only one in a soap!......

[LoyaltoAMC]

Thanks so much for this. I loved Texas, especially near the end when Gail Kobe was EP and Pam Long was HW. Barbara Rucker was one of my faves. Even though they never really gave her much to do, especially near the end, she was a lovely actress who was able to convey a good deal of warmth. Were Texas still on the air today, I'm sure that Rucker's Ginny Marshall would be the show's matriarch. I know she showed up a couple of years later on that horrible TBS soap The Catlins, but I don't think she's done much since then.

[EastMA2]

I loved Texas as well. Gail Kobe and Pam Long just couldn't save the show, but boy did they work magic at GL! They created characters that we still see today.

[Aaron]

Isn't it funny that, out of the top 20 most-featured characters, the only one in that "desirable" teenage demo was the ghastly Dawn Marshall? Oh, how soaps have changed, and NOT for the better.

[REALTOR Rich]

It's hard to believe this was almost 28 years ago. NBC made several grave mistakes: 1) giving Texas the 3:00 pm timeslot which had been Another World's from 05/04/1964; 2) airing a new soap opera against two formidable competitors, General Hospital and Guiding Light; and 3) "taming" Iris.

Don't get me wrong. I did enjoy Texas. It is amazing how NBC/Procter & Gamble made Texas feel contemporary and Another World staid even though they were both produced in the same studio.

Regrettably, I didn't follow Beverlee Mc Kinsey to Guiding Light. In certain respects, I'm glad I didn't for fear it would tarnish my memories of her "Iris." For the Alexandra fans out there, you're lucky to have clips available!

[TC]

I think I was 11 or 12 when it started. Remember it followed on the heels of AW going 90 minutes with lots of filler , i.e. "Today on ANOTHER WORLD" and "Tomorrow on ANOTHER WORLD" ... and a cast that was harder to keep track of than that of "War and Peace"

TEXAS was smart in the very beginning to show every cast member by name at the end, after the AW 90 minute fiasco of of 1,000 characters.

Very early on I remember Lisby Larson, as Paige, singing OKLAHOMA!

Reena was the "My shape belongs to FIGURINES!" lady from commercials at the time.

And of course Kevin had once been Joe Riley on OLTL.

As a burgeoning gay male I had a tremendous crush on the CLIPPER CURTIS character, though I didn't understand the sexuality of it at the time. And apparently I didn't know how to pick 'em. Scott Stevenson who?