I just got back into interviewing some of the vets of AMC. I have a bunch lined up, and have completed a few of them. I just posted a new interview on my site:

http://thepinevalleybulletin.blogspot.com/...e-they-now.html

I think this one turned out really good. He really opened up, and was such a wonderful historical resource.

Loved reading this. Thanks for sharing.

I really want to read your interview with Carmen Thomas-Paris, who played Hillary. Does anyone else think that Hillary was essentially Tad's first real love? I think it would be interesting to see a Tad/Hillary redux.

Edited February 8, 200916 yr by Jonathan

The photo on the main site is a recent headshot. Carmen is still looking so beautiful, remember she was only 16 when she started on AMC! Michael was ten years older than she was. Stay tuned for the interview, it is one of my favorites, though they all have been.

I always loved Carmen Thomas and Hillary. I wish AMC would bring her back to the show. Besides Dixie, Hillary was always my fave love interest of Tad's. And physically Carmen Thomas and Michael E. Knight were a better match. Carmen's still beautiful.

Edited February 8, 200916 yr by Mulder

I was just a kid, but I remember loving Tad & Hillary! There was something special about Carmen Thomas, and the above comments are right, she is still gorgeous to this day.

If soaps, including AMC, aren't long for this world, I'd really like to see Tad end on a happy note. Having him reunite with his first true love would certainly do it for me (and for others, from what I can see).

The oldest surviving episode of AMC that I have (from 1986) is Tad and Hillary's wedding, which didn't happen because he got himself locked in the PV bank vault during a robbery! Hillary was certain Da Cad had stood her up, so she stormed through town in her wedding dress determined to find him and either marry him or kill him! I believe Edna and Dottie ended up running her down in their car, so the wedding never happened because Hillary eventually fell in love with Tad's terminally ill best friend Bob Georgia. I loved Hillary's spunk, so count me in with those who would love a T/H redux!

The oldest surviving episode of AMC that I have (from 1986) is Tad and Hillary's wedding, which didn't happen because he got himself locked in the PV bank vault during a robbery! Hillary was certain Da Cad had stood her up, so she stormed through town in her wedding dress determined to find him and either marry him or kill him! I believe Edna and Dottie ended up running her down in their car, so the wedding never happened because Hillary eventually fell in love with Tad's terminally ill best friend Bob Georgia. I loved Hillary's spunk, so count me in with those who would love a T/H redux!

Actually, I believe the wedding did happen. Hillary's relationship with Bob was already over (and he was out of PV) at the point, because Bob was faking his illness - just like Dottie was faking her pregnancy to have married Tad. Tad had a past with Robin McCall (Deborah Morehart AKA Hunter Tylo). The two ended up locked in the vault. Nothing transpired between them, other than some conversation... and Robin was really into Greg Nelson anyway... So... Hillary wasn't seriously injured by the car incident, and she and Tad were relatively quickly able to resolve the misunderstanding... They did go on to get married, though I can't recall for certain where.

Things were going fine.... then Antoinette Byron's Skye showed up, seduced Tad and split him and Hillary. That of course happened so Michael E. Knight could make his first exit from AMC.

Edited February 9, 200916 yr by YurSoakinginit

You're doing an awesome job with these interviews. Keep it up!