26 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

I always liked Teri, too, and think it's a shame they squandered her when they had her on the show.

I think Jack and Lainie were on for a year, maybe? As far as I can recall, they never did anything like that for them. I just remember them hanging around in the background a lot.

Sure, they weren't rich jetsetters, but somehow GL came up with major storylines for Bill and Bert back in the day.

I don't know how they thought just putting these characters in front of the camera was going to result in them becoming the new heads of the Bauer family. A total, self-inflicted flop.

I think it was a way to answer the viewers' complaints that there weren't enough Bauers on the show. This was their way of saying, "Look! We have more Bauers on the show!". Uh, yeah. That's not what we meant.

Introducing another branch of the Bauer family should've been done while Theo Goetz was still alive. You really needed Papa Bauer to explain why no one had mentioned Otto or his offspring up to that point.

4 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I wanted Ellen Demming (the actress who had previously played Meta for 21 years) to reprise the role. She was only 63 years old in 1985. Springfield needed the stability and comfort of seeing familiar faces back on-screen. Having her and Mart Hulswit return would have mollified me a lot. Having Don Stewart and Elvera Roussel asked back as well would have helped me forgive TGL for all the crap it had heaped on viewers for the last few years.

Agreed. I think Demming would have been more than capable of reprising the role. Speaking of Meta, does anyone know why Irna Phillips decided to kill off Joe Roberts? I assume the actor wanted to leave the show? I haven't seen much footage of Meta's third husband, Bruce Banning, at all, so I don't know how their chemistry was.

Going to Dick Grant...I never found the character appealing at all. He never seemed to fit in as a leading man. I thought Paul Fletcher was a more interesting character of the Springfield doctors prior to the Ed Bauer and Joe Werner years.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Introducing another branch of the Bauer family should've been done while Theo Goetz was still alive. You really needed Papa Bauer to explain why no one had mentioned Otto or his offspring up to that point.

I don't know...we accepted Alexandra as a never before heard from sister...I know at her intro she was estranged but all the drama around Brandon's death and will and she was never mentioned. I think a branch of the Bauer family was acceptable...but Johnny was just so damn dull!

I always wanted ATWT to bring on Chris Hughes brothers grandkids, this would have worked well during the Dobsons efforts to "contemporize" the show...I could see a farm girl moving in with Nancy and Chris and Nancy having another Lisa on her hands!