Another World Discussion Thread

[Khan]

I know she still has her fans, but Ann Wedgeworth always struck me as being one-note.

 

[reallyhateskateonlost]

 Betty White guest starred on ANOTHER WORLD as Brenda Barlowe. 

I watched AW and don't remember her and I can't find any clips.

[jam6242]

 

[reallyhateskateonlost]

Wow. Thank You!

[watson71]

In January 1988, NBC Daytime created a Where's Betty contest where fans had to guess how many times Betty White popped up on ANOTHER WORLD, DAYS OF OUR LIVES and SANTA BARBARA over the course of a week. The winner was to receive a trip for two to Hawaii and $1,000 cash.

Here Betty's appearance on ANOTHER WORLD as "Brenda Barlowe" who calls Douglass Watson's Mac Cory

 

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[Xanthe]

I can recognize Steve in the illustration, assumed it must be Alice kissing him, and eventually figured out that in the foreground Ada must be standing over the supine Rachel. I presume the couple on the right would be Jim and Mary Matthews, but am less certain who the other characters would be. Lenore and Robert maybe? Or Pat and ???

[FrenchBug82]

Does anyone know the backstory of why Rachel is on the floor like that? Was she having health troubles at that time or something?

Such a bizarre pose, especially with her legs up in the air like that

[j swift]

As indicated by my thread about soap caricatures,  I have an affinity for that form of mid century advertisement.  

I also id'ed Steve and Alice kissing, with Rachel on the floor attended to by Ada in leopard pedal pushers, then Lenore at the top of the stairs.

But, I cannot figure out the couple on the stairs (maybe John & Olive Randolph?), or the guy on the sofa, holding something (Vic Hastings or Walter Curtain holding either a murder weapon or a remote control?)

Perhaps, someone can recall the plots surrounding the hour expansion and that would solve this mystery.

Edited January 7, 2022 by j swift

[AbcNbc247]

The guy on the sofa is Vic. The curly hair gives it away. 

[TVFAN1144]

Good article.  Expanding to an hour was good for spending more time in Bay City and Harding Lemay pulled it off by good writing of expanded dialogue.  However I think the hour long soaps eventually became a detriment to the genre with added characters and wasted time that took away from the original focus and core families (Matthews, Bauers, Hughes)

[Paul Raven]

The couple on the stairs is Jim and Mary Matthews.

[TVFAN1144]

I don’t remember Vic

[jam6242]

He was played by John Considine.

[Mona Kane Croft]

The characters are: Vic Hastings, Lenore Curtain, Jim and Mary Matthews, Steve and Alice Frame, Rachel Clark, and Ada McGowan.  

I was watching at the time, but I have no idea why Rachel is laying on the floor and Ada appears to be praying for her. I don't recall Rachel being ill or anything during this period.  I also do not recognize what object Vic Hastings is holding.  It appears to be a TV remote or maybe a camera.   Vic was on AW for a couple of years.  He worked for Steve at Frame Enterprises.  And I believe he ran the company while Steve was in prison.  If my memory is correct, he dated Janice Frame and Lenore Curtain, and I believe he had a severe crush on Alice Frame.