As The World Turns Discussion Thread

[All My Shadows]

I believe so. They divorced the same year Andy was born. There's a clip out there that was used for the 50th anniversary of John pleaded with Kim to not go through with it, but she rather sympathetically tells him that she'll only hurt him. Kathryn Hays in her prime!

[DRW50]

If it had been me I would have pulled the trigger on a Dan/Kim/Bob triangle, although I guess they were afraid this would traumatize viewers.

[TimWil]

amybrickwallace, Suzanne Davidson also played the little girl in a 1973 TV remake of The Miracle on 34th Street starring Jane Alexander and Sebastian Cabot!

Edited July 31, 2014 by TimWil

[amybrickwallace]

Thank you, I never knew that.

[Khan]

How so? (I'm not baiting you into an argument, Carl. I'm just being curious.)

Edited August 1, 2014 by Khan

[DRW50]

Why would they think viewers would be traumatized? Mostly because Kim and Bob were supposed to be truly good people, and that was a time in their lives where they'd both been bad, one they (especially Kim) paid for dearly. I think Kim being torn between both men, and the idea that Dan was a replacement for Bob, would have been too hot for the show to handle, and they wouldn't have trusted fans to accept the story.

[DRW50]

Daily TV Serials.

[amybrickwallace]

Gotta love those illustrations that the soap magazines used back in the day - especially when the drawings looked nothing like the actors portraying the characters mentioned in the articles. LOL

[DRW50]

I know. I think that was a generic drawing they used.

The guy looks like Tony Curtis.

[soapfave06]

Thanks for sharing that. I would love to see that entire story line and the resulting Kim/John/Dan/Susan quadrangle.

Is any of the 70s footage available? I know Soap Classic had 1978 onward and some of the 60s seem available but I haven't heard anything of the 70s.

[DRW50]

Just clips here and there.

[NothinButAttitude]

Ugh! What I'd do to get some existing video clips or episodes around the time the Jenn/Bob/Kim/John quad occurred. That era just seems so interesting.

[amybrickwallace]

Was Gillian Spencer (Jennifer) one of the first soap actors to make the transition to soap writer?

[P.J.]

I would assume so. Or at least one of the more highly regarded soap actors to transition to writing.

That synopsis isn't exactly the way I heard the story---I believe I heard at one time that Kim had set out to seduce Bob in FL. And I don't think I've ever heard of Jennifer described as "neurotic" or "unreasonable".

LOL...if Franny was Bob's "middle-age" attempt at fatherhood...Chris was practically his grandson.

[Khan]

That makes total sense -- and you are absolutely right. If anything, I suspect the viewers would have accused the show of cramming Bob and Kim down their throats, something today's soap fans know and understand only too well.