Delila!

Going from fried hair to perfect hair about halfway through.

Did Erika play both Nikki and Viki??

Thanks for those Delila pics, Adelaide...awesome!!!

Did Erika play both Nikki and Viki??

I'm not sure, but I think she must have had a stand in for the long shots. Regardless, Heaven was the best two weeks of OLTL ever! After seeing that clip, I wanna go watch more! LOL!

I'm not sure, but I think she must have had a stand in for the long shots. Regardless, Heaven was the best two weeks of OLTL ever! After seeing that clip, I wanna go watch more! LOL!

what I mean is 80s Nickie looks nothing like Erika Slezaks's Vicki. With that flaming red hair and everything. Her hair doesn't even look like it is a Whig. Her voice is different as well.

Here is a better example of what I am talking about:

what I mean is 80s Nickie looks nothing like Erika Slezaks's Vicki. With that flaming red hair and everything. Her hair doesn't even look like it is a Whig. Her voice is different as well.

Yes that clip is Erika playing Niki. that 1985 story was a little werid i thought. I mean when Erika played her in 1978 scenes "from the 60's", she acted very much like the Niki we all knew later on. She smoked, she was crude and trashy. but then in 1985 it was like they wanted to rebirth Niki. In the begining of the storyline, she spoke sweet, she didn't drink much and she liked to dance. she wasn't the sexpot she was before or since. and she mostly wore girly dresses instead of the typical Niki clothes that were tight and wilder. It wasn't until later when she was pretending to be Viki to stay out of the looney bin that she started changing into a more agressive Niki.

This was several years before Michael Malone was writing the show and the character of Todd had been created, but the name of the plant was Lord-Manning. I had not realized that until now!

I thought during that time that Viki was going to be revealed as the mother of one of the O'Neill daughters - probably Joy because the show, when Kristen Vigard left, hired Julie Ann Johnson to play Joy. Julie Ann Johnson had a strong resemblance to Erika Slezak to me. (This was before if was revealed that Viki actually did have an older daughter).

This was several years before Michael Malone was writing the show and the character of Todd had been created, but the name of the plant was Lord-Manning. I had not realized that until now!

Wow, I hadn't realized that either though I had made the connection.

This was several years before Michael Malone was writing the show and the character of Todd had been created, but the name of the plant was Lord-Manning. I had not realized that until now!

Wow, I hadn't realized that either though I had made the connection of the two factory names. I wonder if Michael had made the connection when he created Todd or if Irene had anything to do with the naming of it though she had been dead for years by then.

I'm sure OLTL's writers at that time named it the Lord-Manning plant as a nod to history, since it had been established long ago how Viki and Irene were old college friends. However, according to her interview with Brandon's Buzz, Susan Bedsow Horgan, who wrote the breakdown for the episode that introduced Todd (or "Rapist #3," as he was originally referred to), named him Todd Manning completely unaware of the history. It's only afterward, when the show realized they wanted to keep Roger Howarth, that they decided to tie it all back to Irene.

January 1991 Weekly

Edited September 19, 201213 yr by CarlD2

November 1996 Weekly

August 1996 Weekly

Scanning Soap Opera Weekly's are ya, Carl? Better you than me! LOL!