I wonder if bringing Colenback back was a mistake. I haven't seen any of his work so I can't say but he looked a bit old and it seemed like John Reilly had been a big hit with viewers.

Do you think their firing that Dee was a mistake? Of course I know a lot of people like Schultz.

Actually it was Marcia McLain who played Dee from 76-78. Martina played Annie. Those actresses played out the Beau,Dee,Annie story.

Dee was offscreen for several months before Jacquie arrived.Julie Ridley was also new as Annie.

Doug Marland had no interest in either character and that was really the end of the Stewart girls. In the case of Annie,it was understandable to some extent as the character had been married 3 times and was the mother of quads. Dee,however had a lot of potential as John's ex wife and a young single woman.

In the mid 80's,following general SORAS rule the quads could have come on the show as the new teens.That would have given Ellen more to do and kept Pat Bruder on the show.

Ellen still could have stayed thanks to her ties to Emily and Dani, so having the quads there may not have made a difference but you're probably right.

Marland clearly respected and mined ATWT's history but when he didn't want a character to be a part of that history, boy, they sure weren't. I never knew a darn thing about Annie or Dee until I got the ATWT history book, and I was shocked to learn Lyla had a sister Maggie, or a daughter Cricket.

Didn't the Stewart sisters make an appearance under Marland's pen? I think I remember seeing them at the Hugheses' house for some holiday or get-together on YouTube, and I'm pretty sure it was from early Marland...

In the mid 80's,following general SORAS rule the quads could have come on the show as the new teens.That would have given Ellen more to do and kept Pat Bruder on the show.

Wouldn't the mid-80s have been way too soon for the quads to be teens? I thought they were born in 1984. I figured they would have been a good addition in the early-to-mid 90s, shortly after Marland's passing.

Didn't the Stewart sisters make an appearance under Marland's pen? I think I remember seeing them at the Hugheses' house for some holiday or get-together on YouTube, and I'm pretty sure it was from early Marland...

They came back very briefly for Chris's and Nancy's 50th wedding anniversary, and then when Chris died a few months later, and after that it was done.

Eileen Fulton, so glamorous The Lisa/Grant/Joyce stuff comes in at #2 behind Susan/Dan/Liz/Paul on my list of ATWT stories I just *need* to see.

Re SORASing - here is a list of ATWT births from the beginning to 2000,so you can see how quickly some kids were aged

1958 Dan Stewart

1961 Tom Hughes

1967 Chuck Shea

Carol Ann 'Annie' Stewart

1969 Dawn 'Dee' Stewart

1970 Betsy Stewart

1972 Emily Stewart

1972 Frannie Hughes

1976 Andy Dixon

1978 Amy Stallings

1982 Billy Montgomery

1983 Jill Andropolous

1983 Nancy,Maria,Gregory and Lowell Ward

Danielle Andropolous

Suzie Ross

1986 Christina Hughes

Chris Hughes

1987 Bryant Montgomery

1988 Adam Hughes

1989 Katie Peretti

1990 Jennifer Munson

1991 Carolyn Crawford

Lucy Montgomery

Aaron Snyder

Casey Hughes

1993 Will Munson

Bonnie McKechnie

MJ Dixon

1994 Alison McDermott

Cricket & Ernie's child

1995 Luke Grimaldi

1997 Johnny Dixon

1998 Faith Snyder

Hope Dixon

Parker Munson

1999 Bridget & Michelle McKinnon

Daniel Hughes

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This was the last episode ATWT was seen at the 12:30 pm timeslot. The following Monday B&B premiered and ATWT went to the 1:00 hour. Dan Region tells the audience during the closing credits of the change. I wonder had ATWT still been on the air had it stayed during the 12:30 timeslot and B&B take the 1:30 timeslot from Capitol.

Scheduling changes screwed a lot of the P&G soaps.

I had forgotten about that hilarious photo showing Kirk/Frannie/Jay/Marcy being "cool"