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On 4/23/2026 at 6:18 PM, SoapDope78 said:

Thanks! They mention that Kale had been on the show for nearly 6 years so it must be close to when he left the first time.

San Bernadino Sun April 17 1983.

Bekins left in June. I guees that story of him being in 267 eps in ar ow is true? It seems unbelievable- surely they would have rested him here and there?

Richard Is Real 'Jamie' Isn't .

Do soap opera actors ever "become" the roles they play? "There is a symbiosis with the characters," says Richard Bekins, who plays James Frame on NBC's continuing daytime drama Another World, airing weekdays at 1PM. "After five hours a week on the screen, the characters become almost personas of the actors," Bekins reflects. "It's acting, but we're often playing ourselves. The storylines can affect your personal life or the writers may pick up on whatever you're going through-and write for it. So your life and your character's life tend to parallel."

Bekins says Another World fans feel a particular closeness to Bekins' character because they remember the tempetuous affair between Jamie's unmarried parents that resulted in his birth. "Salesmen, strangers in the street all call me 'Jamie' when they see me. Nice young ladies send me romantic letters, inviting me to be their dates at graduation or visit them in Oklahoma City."

When Bekins took over the role three-and-a-half years ago, he had only one year of professional acting experience under his belt. "I was a novice then," he remembers, "but I was very lucky to be working with fine actors such as Doug Watson (as his stepfather) and Vicky Wyndham (his mother) because their style of acting rubbed off on me. Perhaps that's why Vicky and I play mother and son so naturally."

Bekin's popularity has kept him in the forefront of the show. At one point he worked 267 episodes in a row. "Jamie was newly married and working hard for his stepfather. To keep up with the work he started taking drugs and losing his sanity. It was hard to act out the role day after day, month after month," Bekins recalls. "I kept expecting his neurosis to end, but it kept getting worse. I began to have bad dreams. I began having the classic actors' nightmaregetting on stage and not remembering my lines. With an average of 30 pages of dialogue a day I sometimes lived that nightmare!"

In the past year Jamie has given up drugs, divorced Cecile, been reunited with his real father and enjoyed success as a novelist. "Now that Jamie is no longer a victim, it makes me (eel stronger," says Bekins. Just as Jamie has grown up considerably in the past three-and-a-half years, so has Richard. "You have to leave your work behind you when you leave the studio to make it better," says Richard. "I care about my character and I feel a big responsibility to the viewers because I think they care as well. But the totality of Richard is more than this character. One's alive and one's not real and that's the bottom line.

19 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Bekins left in June. I guees that story of him being in 267 eps in ar ow is true? It seems unbelievable- surely they would have rested him here and there?

Richard Is Real 'Jamie' Isn't .

The AWHP states that based on scripts and available episodes it is not true.

http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/misc.html

That said, I do wonder where it came from. According to my understanding the actors' contracts would have guarantees for the number of episodes per week and if they didn't get included in that many days they would still have to be paid for that number of days. Conversely I suppose if they were contracted for 3 days a week and were used on 4 days they would be paid for 4 days. Either way someone would have to be keeping track of how to pay the actors. Is it possible that Bekins was paid for the equivalent of 267 days over a period and that got interpreted as he worked that many days? It's more than a year of weekdays ... the only other thing I can think of is a fan keeping track. I don't know how early it started but in Canada certainly as early as the mid-80s, they always showed a bit of the previous day's episode before the current day started. In theory if Jamie was in that clip even if he wasn't in the current episode it could give the impression he appeared both days -- but anyone counting appearances that closely for that long would presumably learn that pattern and understand it.

I don't know how early it started but in Canada certainly as early as the mid-80s, they always showed a bit of the previous day's episode before the current day started. In theory if Jamie was in that clip even if he wasn't in the current episode it could give the impression he appeared both days -- but anyone counting appearances that closely for that long would presumably learn that pattern and understand it.

I see your point but I doubt it would have been included in his, or someone else's, miscalculation.

That bit of short scenes from the day before, before the actual show and theme started, was unique as far as I know. I used to think it was CTV allowed less advertising time, or that they couldn't sell advertising time, which was ridiculous, the show was immensely popular in Canada..

It aired at the same time in Canada EST and EDT, so on cable our Canadian broadcast substituted the American simulcast. It gave Canadian advertisers an advantage.

Then I spent a week Skiiing in Stowe Vermont and watched AW in my hotel room (The Golden Eagle) eating pizza (from The Flying Tomato) and saw that on the NBC station (WPTZ Plattsburgh) there was an NBC newsbreak we didn't get in Canada.

Hence the previews from the day before, to fill the time.

It says a lot that someone was hired to do it.

44 minutes ago, Stevel said:

I see your point but I doubt it would have been included in his, or someone else's, miscalculation.

It was definitely a stretch -- it wouldn't have originated with Bekins in that scenario for sure. But for some reason he was willing to believe it.

2 hours ago, watson71 said:

Happy May 4th.

AW should have been having its 50th and 60th anniversary celebrations. Miss the show so much!

I'll always miss AW and will always think with proper care it would have run much longer - I don't think it would have survived the NBC soap purge, but maybe a decade at least.

Eddie Drueding posted this 1985 clip which hadn't really been around (it had been part of a larger soap bloc recently put online).