1 hour ago, vetsoapfan said:

Thank you.

I've hunted around for the episode in which Nancy and Laurie Ann sit in the Karr living room and talk about Sarah Capice and Winston Grimsley, but to no available.

As the December, 1984 eps are being uploaded, I hope it pops up.

If you catch it before I do, please let me know.

Gracias!

Nancy and Laurie talk about family while decorating the tree and I believe this episode was during the final week the show aired in December. Aren't all those episodes loaded on YT?

12 minutes ago, VelekaCarruthers said:

Nancy and Laurie talk about family while decorating the tree and I believe this episode was during the final week the show aired in December. Aren't all those episodes loaded on YT?

I have seen it in the past, but I couldn't find that episode again when I looked for it recently. Someone seems to be reuploading eps from December, 1984, again, so I'm hoping this one turns back up (or that I can find it again, somewhere).

Edited January 3Jan 3 by vetsoapfan

It was definitely Lisa Sloan who would have played Nicole's doppelgänger. I recently came across some posts about the proposed story from 2008. It had been discussed here and on the late Danfling's message board. A few people, like myself and Soapslover, recall the story being planned for 1985. Others remembered it differently. One person said the story was planned for 1983 after Sloan quickly regretted leaving Edge and asked to return. The person said ABC and P&G vetoed the story. That said, Sheldon did plant the seeds for the story in September 1983 when Miles saw a Nicole lookalike in a restaurant. Here's the scene:

As for the Nancy/Mike/Laurie scenes, they were available online at one point. Sharon Gabet used to post episodes on her Facebook page -- kinda a watch party -- and people would chime in with comments and memories about the episode. I'm pretty sure she had screened that episode, so we should hopefully be seeing it soon. It was a lot of fun. Larkin Malloy even showed up for a couple of the discussions.

Thanks @robbwolff

I had forgotten Sloan wanted to leave. No wonder she regretted it - not sure she did much after the show.

Nice to see that Joel Crothers remembered his old Dark Shadows face. That's just how he looked when Joe was attacked by a werewolf.

I don't recall why Sloan opted to quit the show, but I think one of the rumors was that she was frustrated by the lack of movement/direction with her character and wanted to quit. There was another rumor that once she realized that a new head-writer was coming in, she had second thoughts.. but it was too late and her character was killed off onscreen.

Maeve was the ultimate Nicole from what I recall, but I did think Sloan had some of the essence of the original version of Nicole. Someone that carried herself as confident and someone that acted as though she was raised in an upper crust family.. and carried herself off as being older than she really was. I think she was 30/31 when playing Nicole though she acted/carried herself off as though she was in her mid to late 30s vs Jayne's Nicole that seemed like a 20 something year old in looks and aura.

@vetsoapfan We're in the home stretch. This is Laurie Ann's first appearance (mostly in bed).

THE EDGE OF NIGHT - DECEMBER 13 1984

Very jarring to go from the beautiful old school soap music to the techno version of the theme.

The whole episode has many different music styles, which probably shows how unsure the show was of its direction by the end.

Karrie Emerson is lovely (as is Michael Conforti - I didn't even realize he was the one who played her last boyfriend as I just associated him with the GL writers in their closing credits), but she doesn't bring most of what Lori Laughlin did to the part of Jody. She seems more like someone who would have lost parts to Phoebe Cates in '80s teen comedies. Or someone who would have been on romance novel covers.

The female roles seem more conservative than where they were 5 years earlier. Part is down to this being Reagan era, I suppose, but maybe it was also Lee Sheldon. I know Chris Egan was more upfront about her sexuality, similar to Deborah years earlier, or Raven, but by this point she's barely on. You have the chaste Beth, you have Jody guilt-ridden over feeling desire for another man, you wife and mom Raven, you have Liz as the former mental patient who horrifies Beth by sleeping with a taken man...

I didn't know Judith Barcroft had this much to do on the show. Other than briefly temping as Viki on OLTL this must be her last major acting role.