GH: Classic Thread

[DRW50]

Thanks. 

[vetsoapfan]

Thank you @SoapDope78 for the post, and @DRW50 for the tag.

[Liberty City]

I had not; thanks for linking.

[Paul Raven]

Thanks so much @SoapDope78 Wow-the first week of 1 hr shows and Gloria Monty's tenure.

It's been reported that she scrapped the first few shows that had already been taped in the hour format, but like so many stories from the good ol' days that might be a myth.

Nothing about what we saw there suggests any noticeable changes in direction or production.

 

[Khan]

I apologize if this has been covered already, but does anyone know whether Douglas Marland was HW'ing by that point?  If he was, then I see what he meant when he said (in so many words) that he had inherited a mess when he started at GH.  Aside from Alan and Monica, none of that material seems very promising.  The story with Mark Dante and the Corbins is the wrong kind of predictable (y'know, the kind where you know what's going to happen, but you just don't give a crap?), the stuff with Scotty and Laura is cute but toothless, I don't know WHAT the hell Gina and Steve Carlson's character are arguing about and Rick Webber has to be the dumbest man alive not to see David Hamilton twirling his invisible moustache over how to make a killing off Lamont Corbin's declining health.  (By the way, "LAMONT CORBIN"?  What is this, "The Shadow"?  And "Corbin Limited" sounds like some jive I'd hear over on Y&R.)

In a way, it's kind of like watching today's GH, right down to the dialogue that's serviceable and pushes plot along but says nothing about the characters' inner lives.

Edited 6 hours ago by Khan

[prefab1]

I don't know how reliable the information is, but from what I've read, he joined GH in 1977, and Alan (who started airing in September 1977) was one of his creations. That should have been enough time to get the show in better shape by the January 1978 episode we saw, but then again, shifting from a 30 minute to a 60 minute format is a big transition, one that requires a lot of filler scenes like Monica having a long flashback to a scene that must have only played out a few weeks earlier. 

[MissPalmer]

Thank you for tagging me!!!!! And thank you to Soapdope78. It is wonderful!!!!

[jam6242]

Thanks for the tag @DRW50

[Paul Raven]

Doug Marland came on board shortly before Gloria Monty, I believe.

Jackie Smith was in charge of ABC daytime at that point.

All of the characters in place were not his creations. Alan was created by Irving and Tex Ellman who wrote the hurricane story a few months before and brought in Alan, Scotty, David Hamilton, Dorrie and Lisa/Lana.

His first character was  Bobbie in Jan 78. Apart from wrapping up the Lan/Lisa story he pretty much kept all the stories going just adding new elements.