46 minutes ago, j swift said:

Stacey Winthrop was a character that fell between the cracks.  During Cass's dramatic final few years in Bay City there's nary a mention of Stacy (or her Beast-ilke lover).  I was never a Mark Singleton fan so I appreciated when Stacy returned as a single gal.  The UK soaps are always good about having out of town relatives phone an excuse before a wedding but people become estranged when they live Bay City.

 

The show did a terrible job with Stacey during Hilary Edson's stint. By the end I despised her, which is a real feat, as Hilary was one of my favorite actresses on GL. Her behavior during the custody trial was shameful and her relationship with Michael was dull beyond belief. I remember Vicky  following her around town dogging her and humiliating her, and sad to say it was more than deserved. It was the least she deserved, really. 

 

I remember there was some magazine claim that JFP was going to bring her back (the character - I don't know about an actress).

Edited January 29, 20187 yr by DRW50

1 hour ago, Xanthe said:

 

Yes. M.J. was mostly involved in police work at first. My dim recollection is that she had a degree in psychology and tried to apply that to a case where someone was stalking Quinn. She had a kind of silent crush on Larry that never went anywhere. Jamie had been mixed up with Stacey Winthrop and then Nicole Love, but both of them had left town. Jamie and M.J. met when she mistook him for a criminal for some reason. Their relationship was pretty low-key and she was charmingly neurotic about it. I liked them together but it didn't set the world on fire and then Jamie left town.

 

I liked Kathleen Layman a lot as M.J. and thought she and Julie Osburn (Kathleen) made terrific sisters, but M.J. didn't get a major storyline until after Sally Spencer took over the role. And I liked Ed Fry as Adam tremendously and his romance with M.J.. I could have lived without Chad Rollo and M.J.'s past as a prostitute (at least as it was written), but on the other hand I adored the scene where Adam had to tell her family he was jilting her without revealing why.

It's so strange how the story was aborted. Leaving both Adam and Chad with not much to do until they left Bay City.

37 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

The show did a terrible job with Stacey during Hilary Edson's stint. By the end I despised her, which is a real feat, as Hilary was one of my favorite actresses on GL.

 

Didn't she and her AW love interest have problems getting along off-screen? (Sorry, I don't remember the actor's name or the name of his character.)

19 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

Didn't she and her AW love interest have problems getting along off-screen? (Sorry, I don't remember the actor's name or the name of his character.)

 

 

That was Derek Dane  (Kevin Carrigan)

1 minute ago, slick jones said:

 

 

That was Derek Dane  (Kevin Carrigan)

 

Yes, that’s right. Thanks!

It's funny, I probably would have had to look it up, but I saw an article somewhere about KC and his Felicia connection late last night.

 

Wasn't he supposed to have some sort of connection to Paulina before they made her a Cory?

MJ is certainly one of the missing pieces in the Kevin Anderson story.  As a cop she would have been an interesting part of the Jake's cousin as a DA story.

This has been discussed before but AW had a viable new structure with the Loves,McKinnons,Corys and  some Matthews and Frames but let it all fall apart.

22 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

Wasn't he supposed to have some sort of connection to Paulina before they made her a Cory?

 

According to the AWHP synopses from 1990, they were in foster care together. I don't think that is inconsistent with the story where she turns out to be Mac's daughter, is it?

Lin Bolen the NBC executive who made NBC Daytime #1 in the 1970s, expanded AW and DAYS to one hour, and introduced Wheel of Fortune has passed away.  She was truly a program innovator who was willing to take risks.   Had she stayed at NBC, I wonder if the daytime schedule would have collapsed in the late 70s- early 80s?!?

 

http://deadline.com/2018/01/lin-bolen-dies-first-female-vp-of-programming-at-a-network-was-76-1202272021/

I was reading today's AW recap from 1981 on tumblr and it occurred to me that Clarice Hobson had an entire family for two years.  Two brothers, Denny and Leigh as well as her father Charley.  I clearly remember Leigh because he was played Chris Knight from the Brady Bunch and that was a huge deal to me as a child. 

 

However, in re-reading the family's history two thoughts come to mind.  First, Denny seems almost like a re-cast for Leigh.  Leigh came on as a bit of a schemer, was coupled with Sally but, was basically a good guy and left town. Whereas, Denny came on a schemer, was coupled with Sally, and then turned out to be a more interesting bad guy (mostly due to the actor James Horan).  Second, I know each writer wants to create their own history but, it would have been interesting if the Hudson's were really Hobson's but the Hobsons flee Bay City just like the Halloways.  Micheal and John never seemed to have historical ties to Bay City, despite living there through high school.  Having familial ties to Clarice would have been a nice touch. 

Didn't the Hobson brothers show up after Charley had died? Speaking of which, was Fred Scollay let go or did he choose to leave?

I think Charlie Fred/Charlie was fired as the show was going through another revamp and having Ada married didn't serve the story. She functioned just as well on her own and shows were going 'youthful' at the time.

 

Ada was Bay City's black widow- having Ernie, Gil and Charlie all die while wed to her.

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

I think Charlie Fred/Charlie was fired as the show was going through another revamp and having Ada married didn't serve the story. She functioned just as well on her own and shows were going 'youthful' at the time.

 

Ada was Bay City's black widow- having Ernie, Gil and Charlie all die while wed to her.

 

I remember way back on the old WOST website it was discussed that Charlie's entire death story was almost entirely lifted from Gil's death right down to the dialogue, and that SOD published a complaint from one viewer and their mother that the story was poor and was "just another dead husband for Ada". 

 

The most perplexing attempt for a historical tie-in was saying that Joe Carlino was Nancy McGowan's high school sweetheart. Just utterly bizarre. 

Edited February 3, 20187 yr by soapfan770