"Loving," a soap opera created by Agnes Nixon & Douglas Marland in 1983, aired for 12 long years on ABC,
but never was a success on daytime. The show premiered as a TV movie on primetime, and during it's early years,
it centered around the blue-collar Donovans and the blue-blood Aldens. The stories revolved around alcoholism,
post-traumatic stress syndrome, murders, and all storylines known to the world of soap operas.

In 1995, ABC no longer wanted to keep "Loving" on it's schedule. The ratings kept falling. Yet, ABC didn't want to
just make it disappear, so they asked the head writers to write a storyline which could allow some of the character
to return in a spin-off called "The City." Relocated from the fictional town of Corinth, Pennsylvania to the trendy SoHo
neighborhood of New York, the residents all lived and worked together in a single building. This building became the
new setting for the series and housed a bar, a medical clinic, an ad agency, several residential lofts and a penthouse.

Unfortunately, none of these changes were enough to ensure the success of the series. After initial viewer curiosity wore off,
the show began to post lower ratings than its predecessor Loving. Then, in October 1996, the series star Morgan Fairchild
departed the show after her one-year contract expired. In a last ditch effort to keep the show alive, the show transplanted the
popular General Hospital character, Tracy Quartermaine to replace Fairchild as the show's lead villainess. However, ratings
did not improve and the show was canceled after less than a year and a half.

How long was Teri Keane in the role ? I think she was brought back a few times as a guest, as late as 1990 right ?

I believe Teri Keane’s original run was through either January or June 1984. I feel like they shipped Pat and Rose Donovan to Florida in January but that Keene as Rose appeared a few times as Rose afterwards. 
 

Keane returns as Rose Donovan at some point in 1990 around the time Jackie Babbin arrives, I suspect. She appears in recurring bits through November 1991. For Christmas 1991, Stacey says her parents are visiting Doug in California.

1 hour ago, dc11786 said:

I believe Teri Keane’s original run was through either January or June 1984. I feel like they shipped Pat and Rose Donovan to Florida in January but that Keene as Rose appeared a few times as Rose afterwards. 

Loving didn't give the original characters a real chance. Stacey's character lost something when her family was gone.

Weren't Cabot and Isabelle gone for a while when Peter Brown was Roger? 

YAY!!!

 

 

BMW commercial with Philip Brown, who looks much the same except for being frosty up top:

 

Great find @Kane you may want to put that in the soap stars where are they now thread too.

The son is also familiar to me. Very good commercial acting from him.

Christopher Marcantel posted these reunion pictures from a recent dinner.

 

Christopher Marcantel, James Kiberd, Lauren-Marie Taylor, Bryan Cranston, Pamela Bowen, John O'Hurley, and .Jennifer Ashe

Bryan Cranston really is all class.

 

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James Kiberd is 73. I think he's been dipping into the hair dye. Very hard to carry that off at that age.

I'm gonna leave Uncle Porkchop and his unnatural burgundy hair alone.

I would cast Jennifer Ashe as a spooky older lady for some story on a soap in a minute. She was so good on both ATWT and this. Lauren-Marie Taylor took years to finally begin to age at all, but she still looks lovely and is a regular on the horror convention scene thanks to Friday the 13th.

A nice cast shot from Twitter I'd never seen. I'm surprised they bothered at a certain point tbqh:

Thanks @Vee I'd never seen that.  I wonder if that was the last (must be 1992).

I just happened to stumble onto a movie Callan White made in the early '80s, one of those popular at the time about women scheming to the top of the corporate ladder. Similar to another I saw that was filmed from that early VHS period which was shot and lit like a soap opera, was Canadian, and featured several actors who went on to be on soaps, it was softcore trash.

Her lover (one of them) was Page Fletcher, whose ass in tight jeans as he walked down a highway was a seminal moment for '80s HBO. You will not be surprised to learn that he had almost no nudity compared to her, but you might be surprised at just how extensive her nudity was.

I wonder how she went from that to, within a few years, playing goody-goody Ann on Loving (not that she was the first softcore actor to go on to daytime - other than Jeff Griggs, allegedly, it didn't seem to hurt any of them). It shows you just how wasted she was as Ann - she could have easily played a bitchier turn in the character.

Don't think this episode has been up before? Not sure. The first few minutes are AMC.

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26 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Don't think this episode has been up before? Not sure. The first few minutes are AMC.

@dc11786 @victoria foxton @Paul Raven @Vee @slick jones @Sapounopera @Joseph @Kane @Soaplovers @danfling @Franko

 

Thanks!

I gather that that must be one of Laura Wright's first episodes. Interesting to see Shana in conflict with Stacey and Trisha since so much of what she gets up to in 1991 ends up getting swept under the rug later, with them all acting as though nothing has happened even though some of Shana's actions (helping Clay get custody of Tommy, paying Dinah Lee to try to break up Jack and Stacey) should have been friendship enders.