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Off the top of my head, I believe Tracy Harris was a recovering drug addict who was helping Kelly Harper when she became addicted to cocaine. I think Tracy died of an overdose which facilitated Kelly's decision to quit. Anyway, I know Tracey was a recurring character involved in Kelly's addiction plotline.

KMan, from what I've read, the period where Henry Sleasar wrote seemed to be the strongest. When I read the weekly synopses for his period (1985) the story was fairly strong with the return of Baxter McCandless, the Trey/Sloane dynamic, and the baby Allison plot with Julie / Tyler.

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Whatever happened to Prince Ali? (I've seen the final episode, and he is not in it.) How did his relationship with Sloane end? It's unfortunate that these two never became a supercouple.

Based on the tiny bit of Capitol that I have seen, it is way superior to B&B. For a California soap, Capitol had a very strong cast. And if it had B&B's timeslot, I have little doubt that Capitol would have been a much bigger hit than it was.

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Some newly uploaded vids (in Italian):

Beginning of primetime movie premiere

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Myrna's masseuse (don't you love the doves-to-hands?) went on to play Deacon Frye's (Sherman Hemsley) housekeeper who had a crush on him in Amen.

This is all I have ever seen of Robert Sampson as Sam.

I saw this in its entirety (in English) on WoST. I hope it makes it to YouTube.

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A nicely produced scene. They had me at Myrna stepping out of her two-toned Rolls-Royce Corniche in a full-length fox. This is the only time I have seen Myrna have a tender moment with (still thought to be dead) Baxter, her first love.

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