I thought of Robert Newman, too! In his case I can believe women saw him and said, "Wow, he's cute," but more like in a teddy bear way, not in a hot hunk way. I can see Marland being annoyed that he didn't work out quite the way he intended. But Long came in and figured out a much better way to use him, as the spare child who lost his first love.

Beecroft, I don't know. I think he had his fans.

Derek was a snore of a character from Day 1. Probably another case of not using the actor to his best advantage. Venton almost was cast in the Bruce Willis role on Moonlighting, so he must have had the ability to be funny and sexy. On GL he was never anythingbut dull as dishwater.

True. But hard to spark with the ever dull Hillary.

I don't know--it's hard to distinguish "flopped" from "didn't work as intended."

LOL...poor Peter Simon. Not easy getting months of "We want Mart back" mail.