Imagine if BM were still Iris when she was unmasked as "The Chief."

Not likely. Iris came back as a wall street business woman. Bev was snopping home wrecker, jealous type. personally, i like the home wrecker who wants to snoop. fabricated iris story with carmen

I nver understood the hiring of Wesley Ann, no disrespect to the actress. She lasted only a few months. Harding Lemay and Paul Rauch were in charge at this time. The dream team of AW. How did they make such a bad decision to hire her as Alice? At this point, ALice was a completely different person and brunette. I remember Susan Harney most as Alice and I have to say, I thought she was great. I never understood why, when they recast the role, the character becomes someone completely different. When Wesley showed up as Alice, it was like WTF are they thinking!

It was odd because about ten years after she was done with AW, SOD had a feature on actresses who are speaking out about anti-abortion laws. Wesley Ann was there, and was described as being "a friend" of one of the actresses...no mention of her AW run at all! It's like they blocked it out.

I do think Carmen would have been fine as a socialite, Donna type, but then that would have undercut the powerful return story where she "saved" Mac's company.

I thought missy died in the early 70's? i am sure i am wrong. i agree, i hated this about soaps. as much as i cant stand days of our lives, they do continusly bring back the hortons all the time. I know in the late 80's Michael Liabson the producer, said "back to the basics". The frames and corys and matthews but it did not last long. Does anyone know if the ratings slightly increased that time? I know I tuned back in

I thought Missy just left Somerset after about 6 months, and wasn't mentioned again.

I agree. AW was fantastic in the 70's since the Frame's and Matthews were all in play and the introduction of the Corys. After 1980, the offspring characters of those families were in play and in the middle 80's completely gone. Harding Lemay returned back in late 1988 bringing back the characters he created. Iris came back to Bay City, The Frame family started to come back, Russ Matthews returned to town. Donna Swejeski did a great job crafting the familes again but I think it was Harding Lemays stuff she was scrpiting from. He did not stay long after his return. After the 25th anniversary special, that was the death of the show for me. All the familes back out of the picture again and silly characters created

You have the timeline all wrong. Lemay returned for all of 2 months- from September '88 to November '88. Then the writers' strike happened and Donna Swajeski took over. Lemay never came back. The 25th Anniversary didn't occur until May of 1989- Lemay was LONG gone by then and there's no way he drafted stories 8 months in advance during his 2 month stint. Swajeski is 100% responsible for those episodes.

Actually, the writers' strike happened earlier in 1988 before Lemay returned as head writer in September. It is widely known that Swajeski served as head writer during the strike and she eventually replaced Lemay in November. And it is very possible that the stories that were happening in spring 1989 were Lemay's ideas since head writers then often wrote one- or two-year bibles for their soaps.

Actually, the writers' strike happened earlier in 1988 before Lemay returned as head writer in September. It is widely known that Swajeski served as head writer during the strike and she eventually replaced Lemay in November. And it is very possible that the stories that were happening in spring 1989 were Lemay's ideas since head writers then often wrote one- or two-year bibles for their soaps.

Very possible since back then, writers did draft one to two year bibles for approval ahead of time. I do think that stories that happened circa 1990-1992 were more likely Swajeski stories... I know that Jenna/Dean was her idea based on interviews back then where she stated that.. and I bet Lorna/Felicia being mother/daughter was her idea as well...

Pat,John and Lee Randolph.Susan Trustaman and Gaye Huston were the first to play Pat and Lee. They were replaced by Beverly Penberthy and Barabara Rodell.

Pat always looks so old in that shot.

Actually, the writers' strike happened earlier in 1988 before Lemay returned as head writer in September. It is widely known that Swajeski served as head writer during the strike and she eventually replaced Lemay in November. And it is very possible that the stories that were happening in spring 1989 were Lemay's ideas since head writers then often wrote one- or two-year bibles for their soaps.

Incorrect. The strike happened after Lemay was brought on, and Swajeski wrote during it. When the strike was over, they kept Swajeski and fired Lemay.

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2009/07/harding-lemay-interview-part-three.html

Sorry, but the strike happened earlier in the year -- from March to August 1988.

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2001/jan01/jan15/3_wed/news3wednesday.html

http://televisionista.blogspot.com/2008/01/writers-strike-1988-how-and-why-it.html

http://www.igs.net/~awhp/credits.html

Incorrect. The strike happened after Lemay was brought on, and Swajeski wrote during it. When the strike was over, they kept Swajeski and fired Lemay.

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2009/07/harding-lemay-interview-part-three.html

I guess Lemay is remembering things wrong then.

Actually, if memory serves me well, and I may be wrong, Sheri Anderson was briefly head writer in early 1988 after Margaret DePriest was axed. Anderson lasted just a few months and it was then that Lemay was hired as head writer. But then the writers' strike hit and Swajeski wrote AW during the strike. Lemay returned as head writer after the strike but only lasted a few months when he was booted in favor of Swajeski. Actually, the following article, from January 1988, confirms Lemay was hired early in the year.

http://anotherworldboard.freepowerboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2147

On a side note, this article states that Thom Racina and Sheri Anderson were married. I never heard that before. Anyone know if that's true? Why, just the year before, Anderson and Joe Manetta, who were married, were head writing Guiding Light.

I guess Lemay is remembering things wrong then.

Thom Racina married? To a woman? I don't think so. ;-P

About a dozen or more clips of some sort of hostage/cabin drama in 1981 that I don't know very much about, starring the beautiful Richard Bekins.

On these men in bondage/women tied up fetish type channels, you will always find random soap stuff you can't find anywhere else. The hypnosis fetish channel is the first time I ever saw anything of Another Life.

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Let me get this straight: Al Bundy and some chick whom I've never seen before kidnapped Jamie Frame, who they think is Sandy Alexander, for "a mere $100,000." That's small potatoes even in 1981 dollars!

On the bright side, Paul Rauch produced ANOTHER WORLD so lavishly back then, it's unfathomable to me how his style came to be so overblown on subsequent shows. Either he didn't have the same level of talent supporting him on OLTL, GUIDING LIGHT, etc., or he was overcompensating for poor writing.