20 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Both Helen and Don seemed to age in that gap, moreso Don.

I thought Don aged VERY rapidly just from the few years between when he was making guest appearances in the early 80s to when he returned a few years later as a regular

On 12/8/2025 at 9:37 PM, DRW50 said:

Ginny's whole style is very silly to me for some reason - she seems like she is more suited as a side character on a British kids show. That and the disco set are the antithesis of ATWT. I'm reminded of how the short-lived Australian soap Arcade had a last gasp effort at staying on by introducing a nightclub

Well that and the disco crowd was going hot and heavy like a coke fueled night at 4 a.m. at Studio 54, while across town at Nancy and Chris its early evening and dinner time. I do love that they tried to "be hip" and still keep Nancy and Chris.

Just now, Mitch64 said:

Well that and the disco crowd was going hot and heavy like a coke fueled night at 4 a.m. at Studio 54, while across town at Nancy and Chris its early evening and dinner time. I do love that they tried to "be hip" and still keep Nancy and Chris.

Someone should write a story about Nancy and Chris somehow ending up in the disco. Nancy would be aghast. Chris might enjoy himself.

On 12/8/2025 at 9:59 PM, Reverend Ruthledge said:

I thought Don aged VERY rapidly just from the few years between when he was making guest appearances in the early 80s to when he returned a few years later as a regular

Wagner said he started to fail as soon as they put him on recurring, and then silently just fired him. I mean really Bunim, how much could he have cost to just keep the patriarch on?

1 minute ago, DRW50 said:

Someone should write a story about Nancy and Chris somehow ending up in the disco. Nancy would be aghast. Chris might enjoy himself.

"Chris, what IS that thumping sound coming from across town? Now it seems to me that is against the Oakdale Noise Ordinance, which as you recall, was put into effect when our Lisa was ...uh, entertaining her MANY gentleman callers after 10 p.m.?"

15 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

"Chris, what IS that thumping sound coming from across town? Now it seems to me that is against the Oakdale Noise Ordinance, which as you recall, was put into effect when our Lisa was ...uh, entertaining her MANY gentleman callers after 10 p.m.?"

I can hear it now.

They should have done a story where Nancy ran for city council or the PTA board. She would have run them with an iron fist.

Throwing in a disco seemed to be the go to solution several soaps attempted to be more hip.

And they always came off as super clunky as extras gyrated to music that was added later.

Okay, so I've never watched ATWT but thought it might be nice to post this in here. (Sorry if this is inappropriate.)

I know the actor Michael Forest was on the show back in the early 1980s, playing a character named Nick Andropoulos. (I mostly know him from prime time guest spots like Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and just from seeing him in the soap mags.) He lost his wife a few years back and now resides in a retirement home. He reprised his ST character, Apollo, in the fan-based Star Trek Continues over a decade ago, and the starring actor, Vic Mignogna, has set up an email account for one week for people to write messages or letters of thanks for Michael to help lift his spirits for the holidays. The email is [email protected] and the deadline is next Tuesday, 12/16.

Below is the message Vic posted on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1544098210142357

Again, sorry if this is inappropriate to post here but I thought that there might be some viewers that remember him on the show and might like to participate.

Edited Thursday at 05:26 AM1 day by applcin

@applcin It's not inappropriate at all. Maybe the Soap Stars Where Are They Now thread could work alongside this one.

Edited Thursday at 03:46 AM1 day by DRW50

20 hours ago, applcin said:

Okay, so I've never watched ATWT but thought it might be nice to post this in here. (Sorry if this is inappropriate.)

I know the actor Michael Forest was on the show back in the early 1980s, playing a character named Nick Andropoulos. (I mostly know him from prime time guest spots like Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and just from seeing him in the soap mags.) He lost his wife a few years back and now resides in a retirement home. He reprised his ST character, Apollo, in the fan-based Star Trek Continues over a decade ago, and the starring actor, Vic Mignogna, has set up an email account for one week for people to write messages or letters of thanks for Michael to help lift his spirits for the holidays. The email is [email protected] and the deadline is next Tuesday, 12/16.

Below is the message Vic posted on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1544098210142357

Again, sorry if this is inappropriate to post here but I thought that there might be some viewers that remember him on the show and might like to participate.

Would he would appreciate it if I wrote to him that in his Apollo day...also when he played the headhunting native on Gilligan's Island...I kid you not.. he was a real piece of a**!!! : )

He worked continuously..and he must have been pretty gay friendly as he played a bisexual biker in a bad movie (with a hilariously cliched campy sidekick) and in on weird Italian movie where he played a guy who continuously broke in on this guy and basically raped him..and by the third time the guy was loving it!! And this was what passed as and Italian sex comedy!

It was too bad the Dobson's wrote Nick so badly..he was a chauvinistic ass who was always angry. He and Hayes had good chemistry and they were popular, but as soon as they got married they got the Nancy and Chris treatment and were rarely seen.

The Oakdale disco could be called The Acorn!

14 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

The Oakdale disco could be called The Acorn!

Haha..the only disco on earth that is a HOT spot at 5:30 p.m.

IMO, the problem with incorporating disco - and this is true not just for ATWT, but for other shows as well - but the problem was that, because of network standards and practices being what they were at that time, no one could be completely honest about the culture. They couldn't talk about the casual drug use, the sexual hedonism or the unsavory fellas who ran many of the clubs - even GH's Campus Disco was couched in euphemisms about "The Organization," lol - so what you got instead was the same old kitchen table conversations about infidelities and paternity secrets, but with a bunch of rhythmless white folks "dancing" in the background to some Donna Summer soundalike that would be dubbed in later. Those who were on either coast and were ass-deep in disco culture probably thought it all looked false, while those who lived in flyover country took one gander and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about.

Similarly, any attempts to incorporate what came afterward - namely, punk and new wave - always came off as punchlines or rehashing of plots and dialogue from '50's "teens in trouble" movies.

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by Khan

What I always thought was funny was how low the music was. People could have quiet conversations in a disco without yelling at each other and it was funny to watch the people dance to music you could barely hear. The sounds of their dance steps were louder than the music they were dancing to.

1 hour ago, Reverend Ruthledge said:

What I always thought was funny was how low the music was. People could have quiet conversations in a disco without yelling at each other and it was funny to watch the people dance to music you could barely hear. The sounds of their dance steps were louder than the music they were dancing to.

Yes, you're exactly right. They had to keep the music low, so the mics could pick-up the dialogue. But the mics would always pick up their footsteps too, which sounded ridiculous. Not to mention, most soap opera towns during that era were too small to support a disco anyway. It was later in the 80s, that nearly all the soap towns suddenly became major cities. Several soap operas (I'd say at least half of them) included discos over the course of three or four years, but I never believed any of them worked. Discos simply do not work on videotaped daytime soap operas.

1 hour ago, Tisy-Lish said:

Discos simply do not work on videotaped daytime soap operas.

I have a hard enough time believing 'em on shows like "The Jeffersons," lol.