10 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Because of the shows physical location the show will continue to have to confine itself to four sets.

Four sets?  Wow, that's three more than what DAYS has today!

Been bingeing some OLTL '93 and I have never seen this much of Jason Webb and Dorian together before - Robin and Mark Brettschneider were hot. What's curious is that by April they are [!@#$%^&*] around again but in January or February he was still devoted to Lee Ann, while Kevin worked to wedge them apart. Did he rebound that quickly inbetween?

Also, I know the Jason/Dorian relationship started under Elaine Princi. Is there a timeline of how that began and when in '92?

It seems like the show hedged its bets a lot on Jason and Lee Ann, or Jason and Dorian or even the hints of Jason and Marty beyond their friendship. I always found him sexy.

Julie Montgomery (Samantha Vernon #1) looks great on Y&R's day-ahead episode. As someone who's only seen her very early in her run in the '70s and then near the end with Asa, it's a bit surreal to see her decades apart.

 

2 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

 

WOW! Another episode from 1981!!!! I love it!!!

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5 hours ago, Vee said:

Julie Montgomery (Samantha Vernon #1) looks great on Y&R's day-ahead episode. As someone who's only seen her very early in her run in the '70s and then near the end with Asa, it's a bit surreal to see her decades apart.

You've never seen "Revenge of the Nerds"?

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Edited March 23, 20223 yr by victoria foxton

14 minutes ago, Khan said:

You've never seen "Revenge of the Nerds"?

Not in ages; I don't remember her.

28 minutes ago, Vee said:

Not in ages; I don't remember her.

She played Betty Childs, who was Ted McGinley's character's love interest, until Robert Carradine's character raped her - yes, I said raped her - at the Greek Games while dressed in a Darth Vader costume (which was either Ted McGinley's character's, or one like it, I can't remember anymore).  

Yep, here it is.  Remember, she (Betty) has no idea it's not Stan under that mask -- and afterward, when Lewis DOES take off his mask, she's surprised, but she also says he was "wonderful" and asks him to meet her after the pep rally:

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again: you could easily remake Revenge of the Nerds as a gritty drama about young sociopaths with little changes to the script. Older ones, too. John Goodman's comments about justifying vandalism to the tri-Lambda house "in the eyes of my God, my father and my coach" is straight-up hate speech.

Julie (or Julia) Montgomery also played a Diane Chambers act-a-like in a final season episode of "Cheers," and she was the victim in an episode (co-starring J. Eddie Peck and Leslie Nielsen) of "Murder, She Wrote," which taught us all a VERY valuable lesson: NEVER ask Julie Montgomery to play a drunk scene.

On 3/20/2022 at 2:12 AM, Paul Raven said:

New life for One Life Aug 4 1976

Qunlan adds actors as ABC show changes timeslot 

More people. More work was the cheerful but resigned exclamation of Doris Quinlan when she contemplated the expansion of One Life to Live the soap opera she produces for ABC which expanded to 45 mins last week.

But she indicated it would be all worthwhile if the longer time period and changed place in the daytime schedule do all they are intended to do – which is simply to get higher ratings and more loyal viewers to draw advertisers

Quinlan has already added 3 actors to the show and is expected to add at least one more on a regular basis.Or at least the writing staff will, there are currently five writers working on the show under headwriter Gordon russell and one more will probably be taken on.

The producer is also looking for a young production assistant 'preferably male' she said although it is somewhat difficult to find such help because men are less likely to be able to type.

The three actors new to the show are led by ex film star Farley Granger. He plays the head of a family with Teri Keane as his wife and Jameson Parker as their grown son. An entirely new family gives the writers still another peg on which to hang storylines which is necessary if the serial is to avoid 'padding' a common problem in continuing stories and one which Quinlan wants to avoid.

Already, Russell and Sam Hall (they worked together on Dark Shadows and plot this series while the other writers do the dialog) have provided more situations for the series through introducing the Granger headed family before the expansion. Granger plays a psychiatrist, so there should be no shortage of stories for the trio.

Because of the shows physical location the show will continue to have to confine itself to four sets.

Director David Pressman found the extra 15 min required more than a 50% boost in preparation.

Pressman is working under some handicaps due to summer relief technicians for a network already manpower deleted by a heavy engineering drain from the conventions and Olympic Games coverage.

Although Pressman found his work increased by more than the simple mathematical formula, Quinlan thinks that after the shakedown costs will only arise by about 40% although she said no final figure had been arrived at yet and the network finance people had put no pressure on her.

The program had been budgeted at about $75,000 a week and final figures Quinlan estimates will rise to about $110-115,000 weekly.

The producer admits though she doesn't entirely understand the figures the network accountants come up with. She remembers with relish the time she used a nickel on a show and was charged 7c in production costs.

Perhaps more important than the expanded time, Quinlan thinks is the shows new place in the ABC schedule. No longer will it have to face the second half of NBC's Another World as it did when it was on at 3.30pm as it will now have the 2pm $20,000 Pyramid as a lead in instead of General Hospital.which now follows at 3.15pm.

She seems to think that Guiding Light on CBS and The Doctors on NBC will prove easier than the old opposition. Also CBS goes with All in the Family reruns at 3.00 and NBC Another world.

Changes aside Quinlan believes that soap operas are finally achieving the recognition they deserve.She pointed to TVQ surveys and other polls as indicators of the soapers popularity over the years. And she was quick to mention a growing tendency towards family drama in primetime as seemingly soaper inspired. But the strongest clue, she said, is the fairly new phenomenon of heavy fan mag coverage. And a syndie newspaper column by Jon Michael Reed now appearing 3 times a week in 80 papers is another indicator Quinlan thinks, of 'how powerful we are'

 

Can you please send me the actual name of the article and the name of the publication? I need the source for my research.

2 minutes ago, allmc2008 said:

Can you please send me the actual name of the article and the name of the publication? I need the source for my research.

It was from Variety.

Just now, Paul Raven said:

It was from Variety.

Link? Or was it from a hard copy? Direct me to something that isn't just a type out on a board.

 I took a photocopy from the actual issue BITD.

I guess the only way to get access now would be a subscription to the archive which is mega expensive.