OLTL Tribute Thread

[DRW50]

Thanks for watching.

[EricMontreal22]

I believe she is on Facebook...

[Vee]

I remember this page well. Ellen Holly wrote a wonderful book, but she took what Erika said totally out of context here - Erika was critiquing the state of the show at that time. When asked about it years later, Erika began her explanation in her newsletter with the immortal opener "yes, that's bullshít." She explained that she'd taken issue with how white the show had become at the time, and added that she'd loved Holly's work on the show.

I give Holly a lot of credit and credence to a lot of what she had to say, but she was wrong on this passage. And I honestly think she was speaking facetiously (and angrily) in what you refer to in the oral history.

Edited Friday at 12:15 AM by Vee

[EricMontreal22]

Totally agree

 

[Planet Soap]

Yes! He's in almost every Pinkerton scene. I'm finally growing to appreciate Pinkerton's portrayal.That I love how cold and calculating she is. Dear I say I might like her more than the great Robin Strasser.

There was a thread about day and night in soaps, and I noticed how rapidly 70s OLTL advances time. You could go from one day to the next in a single episode.

[Soaplovers]

I found Princi's take on Dorian to be a wonderful mix of Pinkerton and Strasser's take of Dorian.

It was such a good take that Strasser's first year back as Dorian in 1993 was closer to Princi's Dorian (more subtle and cold).

[Vee]

@EricMontreal22 was kind enough to share some material in the Loving thread re: ABC crossovers - I had no idea Antonio/KDLR was floated to potentially move to Port Charles after his first OLTL exit, or that Joe Lando campaigned for Jake Harrison and his buddy Lucky to move to GH.

[EricMontreal22]

Yes, I should have posted those pages here, but I now deleted the pics I took from the OLTL Trivia book -- but you can check it out in the thread (and the AMC cross over section from the AMC trivia book--the AMC one is from 1998, the OLTL is from 2008)

[DRW50]

Kamar going to PC to help kick the show off would have been a good idea, if it had worked out, although there was probably too much going on to really fit him in.

I had forgotten about the Nora and Gannon crossovers to AMC, which may be for the best as IIRC the Cutting Edge one isn't great. 

I also did not remember Paul Martin returning to OLTL in 1983. That must have been difficult for Paul Mooney.

I think they missed Alex appearing on OLTL in 1997.

The only reason I know about the Princi Dorian/Adam Chandler crossover is the AMC cards I used to have. 

Jake doing a stint on GH with Lucky Lippman could have been fun, although if this was during the big Monty changeover I'm not surprised she wouldn't go for it. 

[EricMontreal22]

RIGHT!  This was the one I remembered, helping Antonio with some crime thing (I think it had location shooting.)  IIRC it happened just before The City was off the air so it seemed odd to me (in my mind it happened just after The City was off, actually, but that doesn't seem possible...)

[Vee]

IIRC it was about Bo and Alex Masters meeting up re: either the Men of 21 or that other terrorist after Patrick Thornhart. I may be wrong. Was it really after The City was off??

[DRW50]

 I think this was the scenes that got laughs at the time because Alex was holding Andi hostage with a curling iron or something along those lines. I am not sure if Alex was in those.

I did wonder if they might have been thinking of moving Alex over to OLTL. 

I think it was around March? I can't remember.

Edited Saturday at 12:24 PM by DRW50

[DRW50]

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Never knew Peter Allen was on OLTL. This is 1982 apparently.

 

Edited Saturday at 11:20 PM by DRW50

[EricMontreal22]

Oh, I'm probably misremembering it and The City was still on, but just barely (at any rate, I remember thinking "why bother doing a cross over now when it doesn't matter if viewers go over" though really it does make sense to use Alex if they're going to New York...)

If it was that would be The City's final month, so maybe why I thought that?

That Peter Hall clip is wild (and again I'm always fascinated about what writing credits we'll get in 1983-84--interesting Don Wallace was still there.)  As a Bacharach fan I had no idea Peter Allen ever sang Arthur's Theme (he's credited as one of the three song writers but only because lyricist--and Bacharach's then wife--Carole Bayer Sager had taken the one single line "when you get caught between the moon and New York City" from a song she had been working on with Allen some years earlier.

[DRW50]

Neither did I. Nice to hear his interpretation.