Members vetsoapfan Posted December 10, 2017 Members Share Posted December 10, 2017 She killed off Maureen Bauer, the heart and matriarch of TGL. JFP was capable of anything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 18, 2017 Members Share Posted December 18, 2017 If there's any consistency to early '80s AW it's that the show is simultaneously boring as hell and weird as hell. I'm aware the full episodes are out there, I just don't have any great rush to see it, but what in the world was this obscene caller stuff supposed to be, and was I meant to laugh? Poor Gail Brown. The comfort level with Kit and a half-naked Joey and Sandy is...very high. Between that and my always thinking they could have easily whipped up a bisexual past for Sandy in his trick-turning days, I imagine I'm reading far more into this scene than I'm meant to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danfling Posted December 18, 2017 Members Share Posted December 18, 2017 Leslie Jackson Bauer Norris Baurer, R. N was the heart and soul of Guiding Light, in my opinion She too was killed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted December 18, 2017 Members Share Posted December 18, 2017 If she had fired DW and/or CF, NBC and P&G never would have heard the end of it. The reaction to Frankie wouldn't even have registered compared to the uproar they would have gotten had that happened. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted December 19, 2017 Members Share Posted December 19, 2017 There was similar fury when Paul Rauch and Harding Lemay killed off the characters of Mary Matthews and Steven Frame, then fired JC as Alice. Around the same time, Susan Sullivan quit as Lenore. The network and studio were bombarded with negative mail. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members watson71 Posted December 19, 2017 Members Share Posted December 19, 2017 I wonder if P&G ever considered transferring Douglas Marland to AW after he made ATWT a critical and ratings success in the 80s. He worked at AW in the 70s with Lemay so he had experience with the show. I also wonder if P&G ever considered hiring Paul Rauch back as EP in 1996 when he was hired at GL. Clearly Rauch was willing to work for P&G again. He also would have been better for AW than the sub-par Charlotte Savitz, who was EP for two years. In hindsight, P&G probably hired her to dismantle the show in order to make it easier to cancel. Goutman was probably getting "practice" as EP at AW knowing that if it was cancelled that he would be transferred to ATWT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members teplin Posted December 19, 2017 Members Share Posted December 19, 2017 ABC was firing on all cylinders at the time and AW was as dull as Ada's dishwater. It really was a slog to get through most days.Really, all I cared about was Vicky Wyndham and even she was saddled with dreck. It's no wonder the show sank in the ratings. AW would get appreciably better by the mid 80s, but it was too little too late for lapsed viewers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chadster Posted December 22, 2017 Members Share Posted December 22, 2017 (edited) I watched AW from the summer of 1986 until the final episode. However, I'm currently watching the whole Janice/Mitch poisoning of Mac storyline. While I'm enjoying it, I'm wondering what the reaction was from the fans at that time. I know I've watched the Janice/Rachel pool scene a million times, but I'm wondering if the storyline was as legendary then as it seems to be now. Edited December 22, 2017 by Chadster 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted December 22, 2017 Members Share Posted December 22, 2017 I've always believed that P&G would have asked Marland to assume the HW'ing reins at AW once it was clear he was becoming tired at ATWT. It's just that he died before anyone at P&G got the chance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted December 22, 2017 Members Share Posted December 22, 2017 I thought that he had been planning to leave to start his own soap, but it's all academic now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members adrnyc Posted December 22, 2017 Members Share Posted December 22, 2017 I got to Mac's death episodes last weekend. I hadn't seen them since original airing. On Sunday morning from 9 to noon, I cried. And cried. And cried. And cried. So many of those actors do such wonderful work. It must've been so difficult to relive it all, only as the characters this time. Although I have to say, it really distinguishes the quality actors from the pretty people. Some of them just can't pull it off. This weekend I'll keep going (or maybe not...it *is* Christmas) Coming up next is the funeral and the will reading. They had some good actors on that show, I'll say that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members watson71 Posted December 23, 2017 Members Share Posted December 23, 2017 Below is a 1965 promo for NBCs Daytime lineup, including Moment of Truth that starred Douglass Watson who would go on to play Mac Cory on AW: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted December 24, 2017 Members Share Posted December 24, 2017 Speaking of Doug Watson and his alter ego, Mac Cory, I'm in the mood for his Christmas toasts...now more than ever. I have a feeling that he was a surrogate father/grandfather figure for many audience members...and maybe some cast and crew members as well. ❤ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted December 24, 2017 Members Share Posted December 24, 2017 Doug also never gets credit for his very strong ugly christmas cardigan game. Mac's sweaters get louder as the 80's progress. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted December 24, 2017 Members Share Posted December 24, 2017 He was a pioneer in that he made ugly Christmas sweaters cool. He was ahead of his time!! 😊🎄 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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