Harding Lemay had a deep passion for the Frames. He is the one who created this family and he did keep the Matthews family in play. Remember he wanted to bring back Michael Randolph as a gay character. Lemay was a big fan of the Matthews. Paul Rauch want to sensationalize the writing and stories and Lemay was dead against even the story of killing of John Randolph (Matthews family) Lemay was about writing the trials and tribulations of these families. Lets face it, 1988 when he returned, he started to bring the families back into play but it did not last long. too bad

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Funny you should bring up Lemay and Rauch decimating the Matthews and Frames. I've often heard it argued in the end they destroyed the success they had created.

I can believe that Lemay liked Pat, and Liz, but he seemed to have little use at all for the rest of the family in his writing.

Irna Phillips liked to dump actors very quickly.

A satisfactory answer actually lol. I knew she cut Hal Studer on ATWT pretty fast and almost did so with Helen Wagner but AW's start seems more notorious.

I will have to visit the Paley Center then someday SFK

Can I say the 1975-1981 opening and music sounds like we're watching Masterpiece Theater or something. I think the music fit very well with Lemay's theatrical and realistic outlook on the show. The 1981-1986 opening was nice with the space credits ala ATWT. The music and opening itself is pretty tame though compared to the updates that ATWT, GL, and SFT got.

How did you guys like "You Take Me Away" with the '81-'87 opening? I thought it worked, although a bit strange. Perhaps the only instance in daytime the music changed yet the opening remained the same aside from SFT. When SoapNet began airing the reruns, this was the opening:

Edited July 15, 201114 yr by soapfan770

Can I say the 1975-1981 opening and music sounds like we're watching Masterpiece Theater or something. I think the music fit very well with Lemay's theatrical and realistic outlook on the show.

Agreed, the show (from what I have seen of the era) was reminiscent of taped British programs you see on PBS.

Sorry to hear about Roberts Blossom. He had such an impressive resume but his portrayal of Sven was so memorable that every time I saw him, I thought of Sven.

How did you guys like "You Take Me Away" with the '81-'87 opening? I thought it worked, although a bit strange. Perhaps the only instance in daytime the music changed yet the opening remained the same aside from SFT. When SoapNet began airing the reruns, this was the opening:

I always wondered why there was that period from March to October of 1987 when AW had that opening you mentioned. Perhaps it was because it took that many months to perfect the glizty new computerized opening, and AW was unable to postpone Crystal Gayle's appearance on the show past March.

Edited July 16, 201114 yr by Max

You can find a lot of 1994-1999 AW clips here. Mostly Carl/Rachel, but also some John/Felicia, and the story where Felicia was scarred after falling through a skylight.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Caloosavista2008

That's beautiful. I've never seen this before.

(That hair is a little too blonde on blonde for her).

st?

PS has anyone ever seen the original 1964 opening? I know there's an audio recording on the AWHP and was one on the old WOST site but I don't believe I've seen video of it other than a picture of it.

As of Sunday, it is online at my YT channel, just for you.

Thank you so much for posting that! That opening was absolutely awesome, like all of AW's other openings.

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As of Sunday, it is online at my YT channel, just for you.

Wow that is just incredible to watch. I can't express how much I appreciate that, thanks so much! ^_^

Let me add my thanks,as I have never seen that opening.

AW should have stayed with the concentric circles as its trademark.They kept them at the beginning of the 82 revamp but that was it.Also,the 'we do not live...'statement should have been maintained in someway.Perhaps revived in a later opening-maybe flashed on screen between character shots.

I disliked the 82 opening-it was too generic and the sihouettes looked amateurish.I hated the Crystal Gayle opening.Having to listen to that song every day and the crappy images and Another World script was ugly.

The JFP opening was all wrong.It gave the impression of some slick primetime show.i know that was the intention but the show IS a daytime soap.

The later theme tunes were bland.

I did like how the ER opening had that spinning circles globe thing (Rachel had a similar piece on the sofa table).