8 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

The news that CBS is considering a new soap and consequent posts about bringing back beloved soaps in some sort of revamp got me to thinking about GL.

How about a reboot that went back to the original 1937 radio show.?

Set in a diverse inner urban area, with the lead character a minister of  a non denominational church (Rev Ruthledge) his daughter (Mary) and Ned a young man with a blank past. 

The Kranskys a migrant family with a daughter out to make a better life for herself. (maybe revamped as an Hispanic family with the parents illegal immigrants) Ellis Smith a mysterious artist with a nihilistic attitude.

All of this sounds as relevant or more so as any modern soap. Mix the inevitable social issues with traditional soapy love affairs and secrets.

Diverse casting-the Rev and Mary could be black. The Jacob Kransky character could be gay etc.

What do you think?

I love the idea and and I would also ad the Bauers to the mix. Papa Bauer, Bill and Bert with their young boys, as well as Meta and Trudy with their drama. 

Edited March 10, 20241 yr by Sapounopera

10 hours ago, Sapounopera said:

I love the idea and and I would also ad the Bauers to the mix. Papa Bauer, Bill and Bert with their young boys, as well as Meta and Trudy with their drama. 

I agree that in theory, the idea sounds wonderfully appealing.

Perhaps I am just jaded, however, but I'd be terrified that TPTB would royally screw it up.

Someone who truly understood soaps, and TGL's special qualities in particular, would need to oversee the production.

I'd lean towards Nancy Curlee.

On 3/9/2024 at 9:28 PM, Paul Raven said:

Set in a diverse inner urban area, with the lead character a minister of  a non denominational church (Rev Ruthledge) his daughter (Mary) and Ned a I young man with a blank past. 

I never understood why TPTB didn't do more with the 7th and 5th Street neighborhoods.   Obviously 7th street was an inner ring area with the hospital across the street, and 5th street along with it. The most we saw was a bunch of cliched white characters in the diner and when Alan wanted to knock down 5th stteet....all proclaiming Buzz the King of 5th steet in really bad Greek accents. The first Hispanic family should not have been a mob family but a new family moving into the area with the Reardon's and Coopers reflecting on the changing neighborhood. Or instead of Mel...pairing Rick with a Latina who is fighting the Santos family for all the bad that they had done the community...(i.e. brining in drugs, prostitutes, strong arming biz owners...if your going to do a mob do it right.) and waking Chele up and putting Danny on the offense. 

I found out that Michael Zaslow had written for AW in 1988. Are there any other GL actors who wrote for the soaps? I know Jay Hammer did but I'm not sure of anyone else.

29 minutes ago, chrisml said:

I found out that Michael Zaslow had written for AW in 1988. Are there any other GL actors who wrote for the soaps? I know Jay Hammer did but I'm not sure of anyone else.

Roger Newman and Sofia Landon Geier (although she didn’t write for GL, but other soaps) are the other two that spring to mind.

And, Ellen Weston, I guess….😬

1 hour ago, chrisml said:

Are there any other GL actors who wrote for the soaps?

John Boruff who played Henry Benedict wrote for GL in the 60's.

Fran Myers.

2 hours ago, chrisml said:

Are there any other GL actors who wrote for the soaps?

Yeah.  Megan McTavish.

Delete post. 

I see someone already mentioned Roger Newman. lol😜

Edited March 13, 20241 yr by MichaelGL

I had no idea that Michael Zaslow wrote for Another World! That's very cool.

Annette

 

I don't want to clog up the thread but the same channel put up a number of other 1984 videos just now.

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Does anyone know who sung "Hold on to Love" at the end of the September 23, 1992 episode? I think it's Roberta Flack and someone, but I can't find it on google.

Edited March 13, 20241 yr by P.J.

I believe the singers were Roberta Flack and the late Billy Chinnock, whose song "Somewhere in the Night" had been the final theme song for Search for Tomorrow.

19 minutes ago, robbwolff said:

I believe the singers were Roberta Flack and the late Billy Chinnock, whose song "Somewhere in the Night" had been the final theme song for Search for Tomorrow.

Thanks!

Am I the only one who never really cared for "Hold on to Love"?  I mean, the accompanying visuals were nice, but that song was just a little too John Williams for me.