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[DRW50]

Interview with then-headwriter.

[Khan]

Photo 1

First row (from left): Lewis Arlt, ?, ?, Maree Cheatham and John Cunningham

Second row: Andrea McArdle, Courtney Simon and ?

Third row: ? (although she probably played Suzi), Billie Lou Watt (?) and Val Dufour

Fourth row: Joel Higgins and ?

Photo 2

First row: Michael Nouri, Meg Bennett and ?

Second row: Millee Taggart, ? (I'm talking about the kid she's holding), Peter Simon and ?

Third row: Duh (LOL!)

Fourth row: ? and ?

[rcsnj]

Picking up from Khan...

Photo 1

First row (from left): Lewis Arlt, ?, Drew Snyder, Maree Cheatham and John Cunningham

Second row: Andrea McArdle, Courtney Simon and ?

Third row: ? (although she probably played Suzi), Billie Lou Watt (?) and Val Dufour

Fourth row: Joel Higgins and Anne Wyndham

Photo 2

First row: Michael Nouri, Meg Bennett and Carl Lowe

Second row: Millee Taggart, ? (I'm talking about the kid she's holding), Peter Simon and Sherry Rooney (John Aniston's wife)

Third row: Hmmm. Let me think.

Fourth row: Richard Lohman and ?

[DRW50]

Thanks for your comments. In a few minutes I'll put in spoilers the identifications for each photo, and you can look if you want to.

[DRW50]

First page.

Second page

[DRW50]

[soapfan770]

If SFT had stayed on the air and on CBS and had lasted into the 90s what do you guys think the show would have been like?

[DRW50]

For some reason I think they would have, as a PR stunt, had Jo and Stu get married. They may have written it seriously, or they may have just had them marry for some other reason (as a protest, or for insurance).

I think Jo would have experienced a certain renaissance after years of downplaying Mary Stuart.

I think they would have given Stu some long-lost children.

Sunny would have her own talk show.

Liza would become the new Patti in terms of recasts.

[Paul Raven]

Interesting how they dodge the topic of minorities - "Lt So and So is black" - some short term part.I don't think SFT ever had a contract black performer.Maybe if they had have added some black characters at some point,it could have helped the show?

Edited September 15, 2011 by Paul Raven

[Khan]

For one thing, I think SEARCH would have added an African-American family to its canvas. There seemed to be a push on the part of CBS to have greater focus on minorities on all their soaps in the mid- and late-1980's.

[DRW50]

I wonder if they ever would have had any gay characters (Bruce?).

[Paul Raven]

Looking at the cast photos,i had never heard of Joy Franz or seen her in cast lists.So I did a little research and discovered she played Betty Heywood,who I assume was the wife of Ralph,Eric's natural father.

[Khan]

Imagine if Liza's son, Tourneur (sp?), had come out as a teenager?

[DRW50]

February 1977 TV Mirror

[soapfan770]

Thanks guys, my dream CBS schedule would have to be:

12:30-Y&R(Bell was able to keep his show at 30 min quite successfully)

1:00 SFT

2:00 ATWT

3:00 GL

Of course the 1981-82 schedule works as well for me, why the heck the idiots at both CBS(who wanted something more "glamorous") and P&G(who wanted to keep SFT at 12:30) didn't stick with it is beyond me.

Edited September 17, 2011 by soapfan770