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Thanks. Clearly those sites got her last name very wrong. It's hard to find anything on her. 

@Tisy-Lish Here she is around 14 minutes.

Irna would have been spinning at such a sugary portrayal...

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Thanks for the video.  Funny there seems to be no information on Betty Lowe online.  That's unusual.  I'm wondering if she may have spelled either her first or last name(s) in some alternative way.  Great to see such a fun Christmas episode.  

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I agree, I love the goofiness of everyone in town coming to the core families house for Christmas Eve (and someone on the writing staff is from the midwest as they called it an "open house" ) I don't care if it makes no sense (Susan is coming? I know this is before AffairGate but really) Christmas Even has to take place in the Hughes or Bauer houses, end of story!

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All true. Abortion rights diminished by the DJT-controlled SCOTUS. Trans rights currently being diminished by red states and DJT. Red states currently determined to rescind marriage equality with several bills introduced at the state level. 

The danger of MAGA people is their incredible ability to ignore facts. They'd rather be seen as stupid than ever admit that they are wrong.

I agree and am also responsible.  But I can't allow lies to go unchallenged.  That being said, I am finished with the politics discussion on this thread. I'll stop.

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I just nearly fell over, laughing. Here, the first line gives ATWT a certain bragging right WRT LGBTQ+ story on daytime. 

The reason this is so funny to me is how ATWT went about doing that. They contacted members of the writing team from AMC's Bianca Comes Out storyline & they asked the question, could you do that again but this time with guys? 

 

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So you liked Robert Calhoun/Douglas Marland era (September 1985-October 1988) over Laurence Caso/Douglas Marland era (October 1988-March 1993).

We saw in the 1980s Ratings thread that it took about a year for Calhoun/Marland era to show growth but I say 1986 and 1987 were the creative peak. Remember too that the tail end of Calhoun's run overlapped with the writer's strike.

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Yes...their was a combo of family, romance, humor, drama, camp (come on, a castle transported brick by brick to the midwest, complete with ghost...James skulking around as a monk...) and the usual Marland tropes, which are okay, I like when writers are distinctive (i.e. Pam Long)Calhoun seemed to lighten Marland while Cato double down on the moroseness...(its a sign of the show's trend with Castle McKecknie, late of drug rings using its tunnels, murders and ghosts, becomes "The Earl Mitchel Center for Wayward Youth or whatever" complete with clunky but well meaning stories like Nancy teaching a black girl to read...

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