Another World Discussion Thread

[DRW50]

More 1981 episodes being uploaded.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKvHjBJskbFGmxUzhXq-IPg

[amybrickwallace]

I just saw Linda Dano in a Starsky & Hutch rerun from 1977 - playing totally against the type we're used to seeing her - as a woman who physically abuses her little boy. (Her kids, by the way, are played by Meeno Peluce and a pre-FOL Nancy McKeon, and the policewoman assisting S&H on the case was played by Rosalind Cash, years before becoming Mary Mae on GH.) LD was positively scary as the person one would least suspect to be a child abuser - and light years away from Felicia Gallant.

[Khan]

As Jon Lovitz would say, "Acting!".

[amybrickwallace]

It's fun seeing her in primetime parts from the 70s - she and Nic Coster were in a Charlie's Angels episode together. That time, she was the victim and he was the victimizer.

[Khan]

She was also supposed to bear a striking resemblance vocally to Jaclyn Smith -- which I found to be absurd.

[Franko]

I always get a kick out of her first Rockford Files appearance, as the wife of Ted Kennedyesque Robert Webber. She bears a slight resemblance to Linda Gray in that episode.

[Khan]

Is that the episode where Webber's character falls for a hitchhiker who ends up getting killed (as does he)?

[amybrickwallace]

khan, the Charlie's Angels Casebook gave that episode a write-up with the sentence, "Nicolas Coster, usually up to no good in daytime as well, plays the guilty Professor Croyton". I just got a kick out of that.

[Franko]

That's the one. And IIRC, Rockford briefly thinks Webber killed her.

[denzo30]

I actually thought both actress's acted and looked quite the same. I only really saw Meave Kinkaid as Angie other than the old clips I bought of Toni Kalem playing the role. Each actress was also hooked up with a different actor playing Willis Frame as well

[DRW50]

There's a little of Kinkead at AWHP - mostly her going out with some guy (her boss?) to get over Willis, and he's too fresh. Then she talks with her mother Rose. It's always so strange seeing Maeve and Kathleen Widdoes as mother and daughter, or imagining her as Ray Liotta's sister.

The most I have seen of her, she seemed very depressed. I wish Toni's work was around.

[Matt]

One of the most fun parts of watching old 70s episodic television episodes is playing "Spot the Soap Star", especially when they play against type.

[amybrickwallace]

Toni Kalem in that picture looks more like Anna Stuart than Maeve Kincaid, but I digress. A Martinez (Cruz Castillo on SB) said in an interview on Brandon's Buzz some months back that he and Ms. Kalem dated for awhile back in the 70s, after she had left AW and the East Coast.

Edited February 27, 2015 by amybrickwallace

[watson71]

19 years ago today- March 1, 1996- Another World aired the (You Take Me Away to) Another World theme for the last time. On Monday, March 4th, AW would debut its last theme. While the (You Take Me Away to) Another World theme was innovative when it debuted in 1987, by 1996, it was dated looking and in need of an update. Not sure the ER ripoff that JFP gave us in March 4th was what the show needed. As the show started to fire cast members, this opening got shorter and shorter as cast members were edited out of the opening sequence.

[amybrickwallace]

True story - years ago I bought Gary Morris' Greatest Hits II CD just for the full-length version of the AW theme. Thankfully, after listening to the other nine songs on the CD, I ended up liking most of them, too. I never did care for that last opening sequence - especially after people had left and the edits were so awkward.