Susan is on the Knots podcast.

We're Knot Done Yet - Episode 58

I'm sure there's nothing in here Susan hasn't said before but I still enjoyed hearing her talk about the making of the early days of AMC.

Susan is always such a pro - at around 27 minutes there's a moment where she graciously tells Michele she has no idea how to respond to her question.

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by DRW50

Janet is mentioned in this episode from 1986, in an exchange between Jeremy and Natalie.

Was this the earliest mention?

9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Susan is on the Knots podcast.

We're Knot Done Yet - Episode 58

I'm sure there's nothing in here Susan hasn't said before but I still enjoyed hearing her talk about the making of the early days of AMC.

Susan is always such a pro - at around 27 minutes there's a moment where she graciously tells Michele she has no idea how to respond to her question.

Great, now I'm wishing Susan Lucci and Donna Mills would do a movie or TV show together. (Just kidding, I've been wishing for that since I still was in diapers, lol).

Great podcast interview. Susan did a really nice job helping guide the conversation as well.

2 hours ago, Sensuelle said:

Janet is mentioned in this episode from 1986, in an exchange between Jeremy and Natalie.

Was this the earliest mention?

Wow - I didn't realize it was that early on when Janet was established - very cool!

On 6/21/2026 at 8:16 PM, Jonathan said:

Tuning into Pluto TV Canada and I'm enjoying seeing Gillian Spencer as Daisy. This is the storyline where Palmer cheated on Opal and Seabone Hunkle, Dixie and Del's dad, starting courting Opal.

Yeah, I think they actually write out Seabone Hunkle pretty quickly IIRC (he had joined the show under McTavish in her final months...) But I love seeing Daisy. I think this was her last return (except for Palmer's funeral?? She was there, right? I know Nina was.)

We're about 15 episodes to where we initially were for the first two weeks of the Pluto TV stream before they jumped back to May 1995 (right now we're in July 1995.) I'm curious to see if they'll properly just continue from there... Still, I am enjoying the show, and I have the feeling I missed a month or so that Summer the first time around (I never remembered the introduction of Pierce for example,) probably due to ahem a musical theatre summer camp I used to go to...

23 hours ago, TheyStartedOnSoaps said:

@EricMontreal22 Susan Lucci is in Canada to promote All My Children on PlutoTV making the talk show rounds 3/3

I appreciated that she basically did all the Toronto shows in one day? And of course said a lot of the same stuff--still I'll always appreciate her shout outs to Agnes Nixon (though in at least one of the interviews she name drops Nixon with no explanation who she was :P ). Still, fun to see. And I was surprised she didn't talk about her book more--was Pluto TV actually paying in part for her Canadian appearances? I'm glad that she actually seems aware enough of what storyline is playing on on Pluto right now.

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1 hour ago, EricMontreal22 said:

I appreciated that she basically did all the Toronto shows in one day?

It helps that three of those shows are taped in the same building! So she didn't have travel far.

11 minutes ago, TheyStartedOnSoaps said:

It helps that three of those shows are taped in the same building! So she didn't have travel far.

Ha well that makes sense. I only know The Social and The Good Stuff or whatever--I don't think the other shows air on the West coast.

2 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

Yeah, I think they actually write out Seabone Hunkle pretty quickly IIRC (he had joined the show under McTavish in her final months...) But I love seeing Daisy. I think this was her last return (except for Palmer's funeral?? She was there, right? I know Nina was.)

Yes, that was it until 2010. It's a shame she didn't appear again in-between but I suppose that was her choice.

@EricMontreal22 Here is a picture from her press conference the other day meeting some of the media in Toronto (sponsored by PlutoTV)

Wow. Well I still have issue with the way they are showing these episodes (I was away from my TV and computer for two days and was worried I may have missed a chunk of new episodes before they were rotated out but I stayed up till 2am catching them yesterday and now they've cycled back a couple of episodes--which they did last week too, so I guess I wasn't in fear of missing them.) But I was worried that this might be an experiment that they'd already pull the plug on, so I'm glad that doesn't seem to be true at all, for now anyway...I just hope they improve it (though the little tie in phone app actually is kinda neat...) I mean Susan Lucci is a great ambassador for the show and Agnes Nixon's legacy but she's obviously not doing this promo for free...

33 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Yes, that was it until 2010. It's a shame she didn't appear again in-between but I suppose that was her choice.

I'd love to see an interview with her talking about her soap writing etc (I know she largely seems to have done script work, including AMC in the late 80s and very early 90s--as well as a story consultant credit.) But she also is listed on Wiki as an Interim HW at One Life to Live during the weird JFP era
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January 4, 1999 – July 15, 1999	Jill Farren Phelps (de facto, uncredited)
July 16, 1999 – October 1, 1999	Gillian Spencer (interim)
October 4, 1999 – November 25, 1999	Gillian Spencer Megan McTavish
November 29, 1999 – May 4, 2001	Megan McTavish

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