4 minutes ago, Khan said:

Reading an article that @Paul Raven posted in the Y&R Classic thread has me thinking: what about Kay Alden?

I mean if it's in a totally hypothetical world, where she didn't write Y&R during the years when GL most needed rescuing, she wouldn't be so bad. Her tenure was the last when I regularly watched Y&R; after she left I fell off as a viewer.

I just see her as Bell's protege who was meant to take over when he retired. I connect her so strongly to Y&R. But she was a good HW.

12 minutes ago, Khan said:

Rita Lakin was a wonderful writer. I think she and Rick Edelstein were the best writers TD ever had. If she had been willing to take on GL, I think she would've done amazing work there, too. But I also think she told some interviewer once that writing for soaps was hard work and that it never allowed her to spend enough time with her family.

From what I recall, Rita was the only writer on The Doctors writing every episode for over a year. I think Rick Edelstein was added in order to give her some help because she was burning out fast.

I recall Edelstein was the one to write that creepy gothic kidnapping story on The doctors, perhaps he could have been a good fit at GL. I always viewed GL as more gothic in the 70s/80s.