Search For Tomorrow Discussion Thread

[DRW50]

May would have been very good as Lloyd.

I'm still not sure why they didn't do a better job casting that part, aside from Joe Lambie. Who thought hiring Robert Reed made any sense?

[SoapDope78]

Meg Bennett as a contestant on Three On A Match (1971). I remember Meg saying on a 80's Pyramid appearance that she was a contestant on this show and said it furnished her first apartment in New York as a struggling actress. She started in SFT in 1973.

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I wonder how Janice Lynde would have been as Patti ? 

Robert Reed seemed pissy in everything he did outside of the Brady projects. Ironically, he thought the BB was beneath his talents a serious actor.  

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[DRW50]

Nice to see such an early clip of Meg Bennett.

I could see Janice fitting into the more neurotic type Patti had been. And she was also closer to the right age range.

[TEdgeofNight]

Going back abit, the Search actors HATED the Nicholson, Braxton, Avila Mayer era. I was in NYC during that time and spent alot of time outside the studio and got to know some of the actors. They were miserable. Marcia McCabe, in particular absolutely hated the Sunny suicide story. She was very very vocal about it. 

[Paul Raven]

Why was there such a turnover of writers/producers in that era?

You would think they would be looking for stability but each new team that came in changed direction , seemingly for no good reason instead of tweaking what was there.

A lot of the new characters had little chance to get established before they were gone. Surely some of them had potential to be used by subsequent regimes?

And what about bringing back writers familiar with the show ?

Would Ann Marcus, the Corringtons, Henry Slesar or Peggy O'Shea been approached or interested?