Who the Christ was Jimmy Whitman?

In one of the 1982 clips when Viki is in prison, Pat and Tony visit her separately and at one point they seem to mention a foster child or boy who may have to go back to his mother. I guess that was Jimmy.

Cue the "why did they kill off so many of Viki's siblings" rant.

In one of the 1982 clips when Viki is in prison, Pat and Tony visit her separately and at one point they seem to mention a foster child or boy who may have to go back to his mother. I guess that was Jimmy.

Cue the "why did they kill off so many of Viki's siblings" rant.

2 dead but we got 3 retconned ones along the way!

History question: When the show started, what was said to have happened to Sadie's husband / Carla's father? I thought I read somewhere that Carla left after he died, but I can't be sure that I didn't just make that up somehow. LoL

Meredith Brown: "Is it linen?"

Chip Lucia (grins): "I'm not sure. Touch it."

Why do I feel like that was a come-on?

You just expect the worst from those Lord men.

This is from a November 1986 Digest. Is this Uta Hagen on OLTL?

SOD once again gets in a dig (this is the third dig at her OLTL run I've seen in a soap magazine).

Yeah, many in the industry seemed pretty annoyed she got a nom...

This may be one of the earliest Gottlieb clips I have seen. I have a very strong wish to see complete episodes of Rauch's last months and Gottlieb's early months. There is no EP credit on this. It's still the opening credits of late Rauch, and Rafe is mentioned, but I don't remember Gottlieb creating Jason. Then again this doesn't seem like Gottlieb's Jason - he's more of a one-note punk. He also has one of the most horribly wandering accents ever - in one scene he goes from his normal voice to Guys and Dolls to Madonna's "British" accent. The pointless car crash is also more like Rauch.

Edited August 30, 201114 yr by CarlD2

The music in the Lee/Marilyn scenes is another example of how wonderful the score in the Rauch era was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JWnhJTCI60&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Just fantastic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oss0r6xMDsU

To think, there was a time on OLTL when Victor Lord was written with a bit more respectability.

It must be Gottlieb, because remember Carl, Linda talked about hiring a guy with a scar on his face (Brettschneider). I think he was part of her casting project, finding interesting actors first and creating roles for them (e.g., Mia Korf and Susan Batten).

If there was no EP credit, then Rauch had left the building. My recollection is that Linda Gottlieb was hired, but she had to finish work on a movie she was producing and wrap up some things her production company was involved with before she could devote herself full time to OLTL. She was in and out of the studio at first and her name didn't appear until she fully took over the show fulltime. In the interim, producers kept the show going.

Thanks. What did you think of the show at this time?