I was also going to say Sam Hall and Gordon Russell (though Russell died relatively young in 1981). They didn't just do Dark Shadows, they wrote OLTL during the 70s--that was a golden period for that show, I was just talking about it in the Iconic Soap Moments topic. I think they would have done well on GL, if Russell had lived longer.
Henry Slesar did not just write for EON, he also wrote for SFT and Somerset. He wasn't just good at writing mystery stories; my mom and I practically swooned over Adam and Nicole's love story on EON and he wrote some really interesting, complex characters. I could see him writing GL.
Then there's Harding Lemay, who I think wrote for GL for a while but not as HW. I don't know what the deal with him was; once he left AW he never was quite as good again. But maybe he could have got back some of his mojo writing GL.
EPs, I'm having a problem coming up with someone--if I didn't have 20/20 hindsight, I'd have thought that Rauch would have been a good EP because I loved AW when he ran it during the 1970s. I had no idea back then what a you-know-what he was.
What I wish more than anything is that Kobe had never been EP. I wish that Pat Falken Smith had been given a fair shot after Marland left. Unfotunately, Allen Potter had retired; I wish he had stuck around longer, too.
Thanks, I found it! That's very much how I remember her. I started watching shortly before she left the show. She had that short bob hairstyle (most GL promo stuff shows her with long hair).
She married news anchor Bill Beutel. I remember him very well because I grew up in New York and he worked on one of the local stations for many years. I guess she quit acting.
That "handsy-kissy" stuff was unfortunately extremely common on game shows back in the 1970s. Dawson was even "famous" for it.
By
DeeVee ·
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.