Which is an utterly fantastic episode.

Edited January 3, 201015 yr by EricMontreal22

The Beth Martin saga was 1976/1977ish, so the beginning part is probably gone, but there's definitely a good bit of it still out there, I would say.

And yes, I think I know the Gwyn Gillis picture you're talking about! I'm seeing the one where her Ann is on a chair/sofa wearing a blue housecoat and looking positively sick.

Yes! And I think she has a scarf tied around her wrist!

I was very turned off by the show when JHC started (and still am), but did she dismiss them?

No, Carol Luiken and Bill Mickley were long gone by the time JHC arrived. In fact, one reason why Felicia Minei Behr never ranks as high on my list of fave EP's is because she dismissed them (in favor of (IIRC) Charles Schoonmaker and Margarita Delgado, and Kevin Rupnik, respectively).

FMB also got rid of Mickley when she joined ATWT, along with costume designer Toni-Leslie James, claiming in one interview that the clothes got "loud" in order to compete with the "loudness" of the sets. Granted, it was a bit of a shock to go from Larry King, who'd been all earth tones, to Mickley, who used more pastels. But, seriously, Felicia?

Edited January 4, 201015 yr by Khan

To be fair Behr was essentially hired by AMC to modernize the show's look--that was, from what I understand, her main priority (and to tighten up the canvas a bit). I am not sure when she fired the people mentioned, but she could have thought that was the first thing to do for her job. At least the show still looked pretty great under her.