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LOL I think it's just a punch-warmup gesture, lol...

It's really too bad there are so few ties on the show to these 70s characters and families. I guess by the end of its life AMC was no better but the loss of family (despite how decimated they were--inarguably--the last decade) seemed more a gradual progression to me for some reason--I guess because even characters like Jamie had ties to Phoebe as well as Ruth and Joe, etc . On the other hand One Life now is basically ones tied to the Lods via Vicki (but really tied to the Buchanen's who were more an 80s thing) and Dorian.

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I didn't realize there were so many Vinny recasts. I thought Ponzini was there straight into 1981. I am actually disappointed LOL. I just don't like a character being recastso much.

I would love to see that scene of Niki and Vinny at the cafe or diner from 1969. Its in the Anniversary book and looks so 60s.

It would have been interesting to see Niki and Vinny interact had he been alive in 1985.

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I would love to see some Gillian Spencer as Viki as well and I am sure she was great in the tole, but I couldn't imagine Viki without Erika Slezak in the role, especially today. Viki would probably be gone too, I think Gillian left acting on her own and there would be no vets on the show today.

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Oh when I say that I don't mean any disrespect for Erika who is undoubtedly THE Vicki in my mind, or the only one as I've only seen about 6 pics of Gillian. Though I do know some felt in the mid 70s Vicki was backburnered...

But yes, even back then I think I read Gillian left to focus on family or at least not have such a heavy acting schedule. Agnes cast her because she felt she was so good on Guiding Light the last few years Agnes wrote, but I think she took a break after then for a while. She always was interested in writing (and of course was a creative consultant on AMC for much of hte 80s and maybe 90s and even wrote at AW while on AMC), and much of her time on AMC really was more coming back for one or two stories and then leaving--something that was her decision (ditto her 90s role on ATWT). Even at a younger age I doubt she had much interest in playing Vicki at least for more than five years or so on a steady basis.

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I think Gillian would probably play her not too far off from the Viki of today - Viki has become flightier and a bit weaker over the years, compared to the more regal and sometimes very cold, imperious figure she was in the 80's and early 90's.

It's always strange to me when I read about Dorian/Marco. I can never picture that, and I wonder if the show ever mentioned it later on, after Marco was reformed and Dorian was Strasser.

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Was Robin's Dorian ever really in Marco's orbit? I know he and Karen were for several years but Dorian by then always seemed to be seperate more or less.

Gillian did seem to play Vicki as a bit more timid--which would fit 1960s Vicki anyway. I always wondered if her Nicki was anything like Daisy--just in the way she was played more broadly, earthy, etc--which I get the impression Nicki back then was more like.

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My mom said Gillian was so good as Niki, I wish I would have asked more follow up questions. But I think it's safe to say that her Niki was much more human, like Slezak's eighties Niki.

I've only seen that one episode of Gillian as Viki, and she was very reserved. I wouldn't say "cold" by any means, but at the risk of offending our British friends, kind of "English". Imagine how the Queen would play a stressful hospital situation. Emotion and even warmth there, yet rather contained.

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