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Not sure exact date the Retro eps are up to (late Oct 77?) but Marland is out and Mel and Ethel Brez are the new headwriters.

I think Marland's last story was having newlyweds Tom and MJ take on supervision of her nephew Ricky.

I wonder how the switch to GH worked?

Was Marland dropped by TD and then available to move to GH? Or did he get an offer from ABC and quit TD?

 

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According to one article I've read, Marland was lured away from TD, because the daughter of ABC's then-VP of daytime, Jackie Smith, preferred watching TD over GH.  When Smith asked her daughter why, she said it was because TD featured younger characters and had faster-moving storylines (compared to GH's).

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Smith's daughter obviously didn't realize that Marland and faster-moving storylines didn't mix.  Brez's are worse than Marland???. If so, that's pretty bad sicne Marland was lackluster on this stint and I fell asleep watching the episodes he was head-writer of.

 

Pollack's and Depriest were a better fit for the show..imho.

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I know I've read somewhere that ABC was still using (I think) the last ten HW'ing teams' story projections for GH; that Marland read through them himself and realized immediately that they were godawful and had to be thrown out; and that he would've needed to start fresh if he ever hoped to improve the show.

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For whatever reason Marland jumped into GH and things improved immediately.

 

Probably having Gloria Monty go to bat for him and having the 1 hour format to play with.

 

He also learnt from TD not to continue with stories he didn't like eg Joan Dancy / Carolee stashed away.

 

He wrapped up the Jeff/Lana split personality story quickly when he came to GH.

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