OK, halfway decent stories. LOL Mostly it was the cast who made it work.

Did you know Gabrielle Medina is a saint?

In all seriousness, though, Fiona actually wound up in therapy because of the crying Gabrielle had to do during that first run. Granted, her first marriage was falling apart during this time period, too, but still.

I only wish I knew the context of this clip. It's definitely from 1990. It could be between the time period that Max was presumed dead (and Gabrielle denounced God in church) and when he came back alive, but most likely it's after she cheated on Max with Tony to keep his mouth shut about embezzling money, along with her involvement with Carlo (which ultimately sent her to prison the following year).

I could swear this is from the time when Max was "dead" and Gabrielle was going to try to win Cord and take over the Buchanan mansion. Either that or when the Intruder burned down. Not sure if that was 1991 though.

Edited November 16, 201411 yr by DRW50

I'm kind of sorry they didn't do more with the Gabrielle and Cord relationship. I like the casual flirtation and maturity. Of course if it had gone anywhere Gabrielle likely would have gone off the rails yet again, but I like this side of her more than some of the histrionics with Matt (although her "I will kill you" eyes when she sees him in the second clip are priceless).

I'm always so impressed at how Karen Witter managed to step into this material, which was often carried along solely by Andrea Evans' vulnerability and heart. By all rights a recast should have just seemed like a dumb, whiny bitch, but she never did.

Gabrielle has a killer line at about 2 minutes in the second clip.

Karen Witter never did another soap, did she? She certainly had big shoes to fill but I think she did a good job. How would you all rate the Tina replacements' chemistry with John Loprieno's Cord?

Not that I can remember.

Tina recasts and Cord chemistry:

Karen Witter - they were OK. Not what he had with Andrea. She had more with Chris Cousins.

Krista Tesreau - again, OK. There just wasn't much of anything there with anyone because Tina was written to be so grating and stupid.

Thank you!! I guess the chemistry between Andrea Evans and John Loprieno was just so memorable that whenever Tina and Cord come to mind, she's the Tina that immediately comes to mind.

When I started watching OLTL again, KW was in the role and Cord had just returned (correct me if I'm remembering incorrectly), having been presumed dead and was experiencing memory loss. He assumed he and Tina were still together but she'd moved on with Cain and as delicately as possible for Tina resisted his advances. It was weird watching Tina not want Cord.

What year was that again? 1993? 1994? I know Susan Diol's Angela fit in that story somewhere.

I believe it was '93. They'd wanted a full quadrangle with Cord and Angela Holliday on the other end of things, but I think they ended up having to scrap Angela for some reason. Maybe Susan Diol chose to leave.

Diol was, sadly, let go. They scrapped the story because Chris Cousins and Karen Witter wanted to leave.

Thank you. Ironically, both Susan Diol and John Loprieno would later guest-star (though in separate episodes) of the all-too short-lived CBS period drama, Christy. One of its writers/producers was Pam Long, who of course would write for OLTL a few years later.

The general idea (I think Diol mentioned this) was also that a recast Blair effectively took Angela's role on the show and in Cord's story.

I think Michael Malone had also been aching to do Blair again. He apparently took a firm creative hand in the obviously very iffy recasting, though it did work out in the long run - I think it was his idea to finally get his "Scarlett O'Hara" version of Blair. I have no idea what went down with Mia Korf. Maybe she just quit.

Susan Diol later subbed for Jill Farren Phelps Nancy Lee Grahn during the Sonny/Alexis courtship on GH in, I think, early 2002.

Edited November 17, 201411 yr by Vee

It's been a while since I read it but I think Mia quit to be in a Broadway play.