As The World Turns Discussion Thread

[Soapsuds]

Haha...I am a fan of the show. Have been since I was a young kid. I must be a dork too...LOL

[Mitch]

If only the  entire show was as good as Lynda Carter as WW! I would love to see if they made the show with today's budget and writers and a young Carter..though now WW would have to have an "edge" and it would be dark and we would loose the WW Diana Prince end credit smile once everything was put right!

Edited February 7, 2017 by Mitch

[Soapsuds]

Lynda Carter made up for the show. I heard rumors that she wanted LW character faded out. That's why he appeared less in the final season of the show. The show was cancelled because of The Incredible Hulk. CBS wanted to only keep one superhero and it was between WW and TIH. At the time I believe that TIH had higher ratings than WW did.

Edited February 8, 2017 by Soapsuds

[Mitch]

Amazing as the Incredible Hulk is so boring and morose..it comes on Saturday nights on ME TV right before WW...(yes, I lead a very edgy life..we go out to pub and get hopped up and then come home to make dinner and watch WW!)

 

LW..while quite the DILF was too old to play Steve, both in WW2 and especially in the 70's....(Steve's kid would have to be in his 30s and LW was in his mid 40s) and he was dull as dull can be..but I felt he had good "friend, boss" chemistry with Carter when they wisely took out the love angle in the 70s.. I did read she wanted his role lessened as she felt he brings down the energy..(he does) but Steve should always be there.  I don't know why they didn't take advantage of the switch to the 70s and bring in a younger more energetic guy to play Steve Jr but I guess he had a contract. Plus if you watch the last episode when they tried to save the show by moving her to LA with a fat grumpy boss (by that time they essentially gave up..Diana would go around with no glasses and WW hair and no one even mentioned it...) it was time to say goodbye.

 

I dont know why the played the show so much like the Bionic Woman, she needed her enemies from the comics, like the Cheetah to spice things up. No matter how bad the show,they always got WW and Diana Prince right...no one ever treated her like a joke (ala Batman) or as a "Jiggly Babe," even the villains.

 

Okay, sorry back to ATWT.

 

[Soapsuds]

Ha....I do the same thing. I watch WW on ME-TV even though I have the dvds....LOL.  My life is so edgy too....ha

 

Actually the beginning of the last season Diana's hair is the same as WW...LOL....the hair department just gave up and didn't even bother caring. The move to LA was cringe worthy. I didn't care for it at all. I wish the show would have lasted at least two more seasons but not in LA.

[Mitch]

Hated LA so wrong for WW..and have a Cagney and Lacey boss and that kid who was trying to mimic Different Strokes was just ...desperate..(though the episode does have one of my favorite scenes, where the villains "guard lion"  he releases to kill her is instead turned in a domesticated kitten by her animal empathy, and she tells him instead to watch the bad guys she got so far, and when she comes back..."The two of us are going to have a discussion on your behavior!" and Carter, doing this all in spangly hot pants number, makes it all seem natural.

 

To bring it all back to soaps, Carter had tons more of chemistry with Ted Shackelford in his episodes then she ever did with LW..plus TS looked like the comics Steve and he was sexy as hell back then.

Last post ATWTs on this....I swear!

 

[Soapsuds]

I was going to mention the kid but didn't...LOL  He was downright awful. And Yes Ted was hot back then..loved him on the WW episodes...now we return you to ATWT discussion....LOL

 

PS...let's not forget Dack Rambo(Dallas) who was also on WW and had chemistry with LC.

Edited February 9, 2017 by Soapsuds

[Mitch]

 

"The part of Steve Trevor is now being played by Ted Shackelford or Dack Rambo..or really anyone but Lyle Waggoner!"

I love the clip above...I notice that in the shot you can clearly see the crew, or some people in the park beyond the trees...one of the many times Diana picks to most open places to do her turn..and yet, no one sees.

 

On to ATWT ..the guy who played Stefano on Days died and they did a tribute yesterday and I havent watched Days in years but they seem to still have a lot of vets...it made me nostalgic...anyone know how our old vets are doing?

[SoapDope]

 

LOL at your Wonder Woman discussion, I watched the show as a kid too. Lyle was duller than watching paint dry. As time went on Carol Burnett used him less and less in skits after the heart throb novelty wore off. He got upset and quit her show and I don't think they tried to stop him. 

 

Remember that TV movie they did with Cathy Lee Crosby as a blonde Wonder Woman ? That was weird, She had a female Evel Knievel costume on and had weird scenes of a donkey in a shower, a snake drinking milk and melted rainbow ice cream looking glop melting out of the walls. People still trash that movie to this day.

[Mitch]

That movie was awful!!! They should have had CLC on the real show as vilainess, or someone who thought she was Wondy. Yes, Lyle was duller then dull can be...They cut his time on the show to just making phone calls to Diana...and who can blame them? I see your pic of Steve and Jaime....its funny, WW aged much better then Bionic Woman....maybe its the clothes...Diana's fashion choices were classics and Jaime always looks like she is going to a macrame class. And Steve Austin was smoking hot until the last season where he got a porn stash and started looking cheesy..okay, I tried to get it back to ATWT.

[SoapDope]

LOL....Yes, Bionic Woman and Six Mill scream 1970's. Your comment on Jaime looking like she's going to macrame class is hysterical. In one episode she is wearing bell bottom jeans, and platform sandals with black socks. In the same episode Oscar Goldman was about 10 years ahead with some of his fashion choices like the preppy pastel color sweaters, straight slim pants and loafers without socks.  CLC would have been great as a WW rival on the series. She had an exotic look. Lee Majors aged rapidly by the time SMDM ended. He and Farrah were having problems by that time too. 

[Scrapple]

Why are we talking Wonder Woman on a soap thread?

[P.J.]

Warren Frost has died. He played Jared Carpenter (Iva's bio-dad) in the late '80's and was on the original TP. He was also Lindsay Frost's father (Betsy), which I don't think I realized at the time, in spite of them sharing the surname Frost. :0

[Vee]

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