@FrankoUrsula Blackwell returned for a brief run in 1989. When Jamie, Elizabeth and Ursula briefly escaped Statesville. Elizabeth had a great line about being too old for out running bullets. 

https://onelifetolive.fandom.com/wiki/Storylines:_1980-1989#1987_-_1989

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17 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

 @FrankoUrsula Blackwell returned for a brief run in 1989. When Jamie, Elizabeth and Ursula briefly escaped Statesville. Elizabeth had a great line about being too old for out running bullets. 

https://onelifetolive.fandom.com/wiki/Storylines:_1980-1989#1987_-_1989

Thanks so much!

A recent comment about Wanda being Asa's cousin got me Goggle-ing this morning and I found this old family tree, which kind of explains it...

But it also lead to more questions - like - When (blonde/short hair) Andi and her police pals hung out, where they at Wanda's Diner or Carlotta's Diner (given that Andi dated Antonio)?  Did Carlotta take over Wanda's, or were they two different diners?  Whatever happened to Max's western themed bar?

Also, somehow I fell into a hole about Trent Chapin, Laurel's brother/Larry's brother-in-law.  Most of what I found had to do with the fact that his portrayer David Beecroft dated Robin Strasser  (I always mix up David and Greg Beecroft, later of which is gay so it confused me that he had an affair with Robin, but now it makes sense).  Any way, I found this summary that tied Trent to the death of Samantha (spoiler alert), the details of which I totally did not recall.

 Herb Boden killed her.

He was stealing her jewels from the wall safe in the Vernon Inn's
Health Club. She walked in at the wrong time.
Boden was stealing the jewels for Trent Chapin, right hand man of
Alesandro Corenale (sp?) who is a big crime boss (but otherwise a
nice guy). Brad Vernon was going to use the jewels to buy back
ownership of the hotel from Alex Crown (alias Alesandro C.).
Alex doesn't know anything about all this. Trent is the real bad
guy. He had Boden kill Leo Corinale in Atlantic City. Leo was Alex's
dad. Boden also shot Roberto Corinale while killing Leo. Roberto
is Alex's son and has been hiding in the theatre in Llanview for
the last week. Alex is still searching for Roberto.

There is another woman named Jinx who is missing now. She is a
photographer and also a lover of Trent. She's the one who told him
about the jewels, but she didn't know he would have them stolen.
She also caught Boden in the act, but Boden didn't see her. She
took his picture and ran out. She went downstairs and told Trent
she saw a robbery and that it was the same guy who killed Leo.
She doesn't yet know Trent is behind all this.
Trent sort of dragged her out of the hotel and wouldn't let her tell
the police. Now the police are looking for her.

I'm guessing these aren't the same jewels mentioned above that Jamie wants in order to fulfill his life-preserving faux-gold/cheapest-prop-ever pyramid?

Which now leads to two more questions/comments - (1) Who played Jinx? and (2) I had no memory that Rob stayed around long enough to have a love affair with Joanna (who I only recall because she was played by Roma Downey).  Does anyone else always associate actors with the roles they played on soaps, no matter how famous they become in other genres?

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@j swift Carlotta's Diner was in Angel Square. The poor part of town. Where all the Puerto Rican's in Llanview lived. 😂   And all the White characters were scared to venture too.

ELIZABETH BURRELLE   (BETH SCHAFFEL)

 

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS        Barbara Harding      1981-82

ONE LIFE TO LIVE        Agent Jinx Rollins             1984-85

ANOTHER WORLD    Gillian, Michael's secretary  1988

 

Rob (Ted Marcoux) left in 1986 but returned (Mark Arnold) in 1988 with Joanna Leighton and her father, Lord Henry. Lord Henry was involved with Elizabeth Sanders plot.

 

@victoria foxton & @slick jones Your combined forces never cease to amaze me

Just to clarify the summary above, Samantha loaned her brother Brad her jewels so that he could buy back the hotel.  But first she stashed them in her locker so she could work out and that's when Bodin tried to steal them, she saw it, and then he drowned her in the hot tub?

And those jewels were not the same one's that Jamie needed a few years later?

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@j swift Thank you kindly, sir.😊 Samantha's murder is before my time. But i'm pretty sure those are different jewels. I would love to see the embryo transfer. Between a brain dead Sam and Delilah.

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1 hour ago, Franko said:

Thanks so much!

You're Welcome. I will never forget the way Lois Kibbee delivered those lines. A shame the scene is not on YouTube.

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I really wish we knew more about Head Writer Michael Schnessel because the late 80s was just so much camp and I love it, those scenes with Cord battling Titan and Tina battling Ursula in the wrestling ring and ensuing electric chair drama is just insane.. 

With that said, I really wish they had more balanced the insanity with more real family drama/diversity as it ultimately killed the show once AE left as Tina, Schnessel left (or passed?) and they had no one else to rely on 

https://youtu.be/z5Sj0pD_Ixg

 

Is it correct that Lee Patterson left the show in the late 70s because he was unhappy with Joseph Stuart? Is anyone familiar with the circumstances? Thanks.

I'd never heard that but at this point nothing re: Joe Stuart would surprise me.

On 11/24/2021 at 1:16 AM, Vee said:

I'd never heard that but at this point nothing re: Joe Stuart would surprise me.

Same here.

Didn't Jinx Avery and Marco had a flirtation or an affair?