Who do you think will be the one to physically attack Nathan Bunker- with a punch or a slap? Personally, I see Nick at the top of the list, followed closely by Althea, Liz, Karen, and even Nurse Carolee and Maggie!

I can see all of them waiting in line with baseball bats, wrenches, boxing gloves, etc., just like one of my favorite scenes in Airplane!! LOL Seriously, of course, at the top of the list of suspects would be Nick. Whatever he dished out on John Rice would be a million times worse for Mr. Bunker!!!

Here's another TD anecdote from Inside the Soaps:

An established actor on The Doctors for a single day's work, playing a visiting doctor, had a big scene with Dr. Matt Powers (James Pritchett). The actor blanked out and Pritchett began to repeat the other actor's lines and then ask, "Isn't that true?" The actor stumbled through the scene, unable to recall a single line. Then, when the scene was finally over, he rushed out of the studio, walked out of the NBC building...and never came back.

Edited October 25, 201411 yr by amybrickwallace

From the 1984 book Inside the Soaps by Paul Denis:

Often, actors who are "heavy" on a soap (being used three or four times a week) become so confused learning and then forgetting their lines, that they get foggy even away from the TV studio. Jason Bonderoff, editor of Daytime TV magazine, recalls the story about David O'Brien (who played Dr. Steve Aldrich on The Doctors) walking down Eighth Avenue in New York and being stopped by a stranger. The stranger cornered him, held him and complained, "Hey, David, don't you remember me?" David couldn't remember him at all. The "stranger" was his agent!!

That's pretty foggy If you can't even remember your own agent!

Thanks so much for posting that article about "The Silent People," DRW50. I actually did a play with Dorothy Butts-she was Isabelle Sanford's half-sister!

Edited October 26, 201411 yr by TimWil

I didn't know that. Wow. I wonder if she was ever on The Jeffersons.

What was she like?

Long running character Martha Allen, played by Sally Gracie, makes her first appearance today in episode #1345 (1/30/68) as Nick's new lab assistant.

I've been informed on another board that veteran TV/film actor Joel Fabiani is playing Liz's nextdoor neighbor, Joe Finch.

I look forward to seeing these new characters.

She was quite nice, DRW50. We did the play while The Jeffersons was still on air, it was 1975.

Has anyone seen a post of today's episodes, or a description anywhere?

Sally Gracie stayed for another 10 years and then moved to OLTL for 6 years as Ina Hopkins.

She also appeared on Portia Faces Life and AMC.

She was married in the 1950's to actor Rod Steiger. She died in 2000 at age 80.

Joel Fabiani would move to the UK to film the cult series Department S in 68.I have seen him listed in TD cast lists but always assumed it was from the anthology days.He was on Dark Shadows later appeared on AMC,The City,GL (as Roger Thorpe)

Edited October 28, 201411 yr by Paul Raven

1970 cast list from Daytime TV Yearbook

Lydia Bruce as Dr. M. Powers
Peter Burnell as Michael Powers
Carolee Campbell as Miss Simpson
Zaida Coles as Anna Ford
C.C. Courtney as Jody Lee Bronson
Jami Fields as Penny Davis
Gerald Gordon as Dr. Nick Bellini
Sally Gracie as Martha Allen
David O'Brien as Dr. Steve Aldrich
James Pritchett as Dr. Matt Powers
Greta Rae as Ginny
Frances Sternhagen as Phyllis Corrigan
Robert Salvio as Gary Corrigan

Are Althea and Liz back yet? I honestly lost interest in their absence.

Julie Ridley portrayed a scrub nurse prior to her role as Annie Stewart on ATWT and her subsequent role on The Catlins.

The episodes were posted on Dailymotion sometime over night. Apparently, there were issues uploading them.

Liz's next-door-neighbor Finch is seriously creepy.

Has anyone seen a post of today's episodes, or a description anywhere?

Liz is back and staying in a hotel. She has a stalker next door neighbor. Althea is still gone but, according to Maggie, "returns to work on Monday."

Are Althea and Liz back yet? I honestly lost interest in their absence.