20. Joey"Jake" Martin(Michael Lowry, All My Children)

He sucked.

I think Mary Beth Evans should be on a list of great recasts. She took over Kayla and made the character her own. She never really gets much opportunity to have a story of her own nowadays, but she's good when she gets a chance. She also took over the role of Sierra on ATWT and did a great job. I'm not saying she should be number 1, necessarily, but she should be on the list.

5. Billy Abbott(Billy Miller, The Young and the Restless)

44. Michelle Bauer Santos(Nancy St. Alban, Guiding Light)

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Penn Badgley was good but this kid still gives me nightmares.

I am just lost on how can an adult recast be compared to the child actors.

I think Krista Tesreau (original Mindy GL) would have been a good Patty Williams recast on Y&R instead of that mess we wound up with.

I think Mary Beth Evans should be on a list of great recasts. She took over Kayla and made the character her own. She never really gets much opportunity to have a story of her own nowadays, but she's good when she gets a chance. She also took over the role of Sierra on ATWT and did a great job. I'm not saying she should be number 1, necessarily, but she should be on the list.

I agree on Kayla role but I think many forget that Catherine Mary Stewart Originated the role in 1982

Kathleen Tolan's atrocious turn as Mary Ryan. This is also one of the first episodes for Nancy #2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lttgjFaOGQ

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One of the worse recasts in the history of the soaps was Jensen Buchanan taking over the role of Vicki (Another World) from Anne Heche. Talk about going from the apex to the nadir in less than 2 seconds. Buchanan was terrible

The original Jack on Days Of Our Lives, Joseph Adams debuts here in 1987

http://youtu.be/Evci6ULU1yM?t=4m40s

One of the worse recasts in the history of the soaps was Jensen Buchanan taking over the role of Vicki (Another World) from Anne Heche. Talk about going from the apex to the nadir in less than 2 seconds. Buchanan was terrible

Word.

Kimberly MacArthur's first scene as Kelly Capwell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PesURXXZD_s

I LOVE the music cue that they play over that scene. Any time there was a "miracle" of sorts on SB in its heydey, they used that cue. IMO, the most memorable and effective sequence it was used in is when Eden swam into the cave to meet up with a recently escaped Cruz, revealing that she was no longer paralyzed.

Doees anyone know how long Chip Albers played Curtis on loving. What did people think? Chip looks out of place there but I never saw it live.

About a year. I rather liked him myself, though I hadn't watched when the original actor played him.

Is this the first Jeff Hartman?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5PxifQLWc

Pretty sure that's Richard Steinmetz and I also was pretty sure he was the only actor to have ever played that part, but I could be wrong.

Can La Tudor play someone's icy bitch mama on AMC/OLTL 2.0, please?

I've been SCREAMING that for years. I ADORED Christine Tudor Newman's Gwen and have never understood why she hasn't landed on another soap.

Is this your opinion or did you paste it from somewhere because the list is automatically garbage having Bergman at the top.

Yeah, that whole list was garbage. Mark Collier too low, Winsor Harmon too low, Jess Walton easily should be #1, and many MANY people on there that wouldn't even come close.

Penn Badgley was good but this kid still gives me nightmares.

Courtland Mead?!? He was totally a creep but I got used to him as Little Phillip.

That was Nicholas Pappone actually.

That was Nicholas Pappone actually.

who's that?

who's that?

He played Chance as a kid. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0660653/

My top recasts (bearing in mind that I only watch 2 soaps) would be:

1. Jess Walton as Jill

2. Heather Tom as Katie

3. Winsor Harmon as Thorne

4. Susan Walters as Diane

5. Judith Chapman as Gloria

6. Billy Miller as Billy

7. Michael Muhney as Adam

8. Kyle Lowder as Rick

9. Peter Bergman as Jack

10. Jennifer Landon as Heather

11. Robert Adamson as Noah

12. Hunter King as Summer

13. Tammin Sursok as Colleen

14. Sandra Nelson as Phyllis

15. Ashley Jones as Bridget