Just now, Franko said:

I wonder if the producers regretted that it was tied to Frisco & Tania, a pairing that didn't even last a year.

All he needed was just a little more time to be sure what he felt wasn't all in his mind; and when he had that time, he realized it WAS all in his mind, lol.

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Denise Alexander as a celebrity guest on a 1976 episode of the NBC gameshow The Magnificent Marble Machine!

Thanks @Jdee43 great find

Interesting that NBC would have an ABC performer on the show. Better to have someone from Days for cross promotion, rather than highlighting the competition. But then Anson Williams was from ABC and Gary Burghoff was on a CBS show,

MMM was something Lin Bolen was responsible for scheduling. It was an expensive production that didn't pay off in ratings.

Did they go to a celebrity version to try and get a bump in the numbers?

On 4/21/2026 at 9:02 PM, Vee said:

If they hadn't been so fixated on the Balkan saga

Coming back to this, I can’t believe they wasted Adrienne Barbeau and Daniel Benzali on such a lackluster overall story. And then to saddle Brenda with a kid that was fathered by a dead rando instead of Jax. And as @carolineg pointed out, the time in Rome was such a waste, as was Brad Rowe.

Charles Pratt is a nightmare to me as a HW, he certainly should never be in total control. But one thing he got that Guza did not was there has to be some excitement, especially on a show like GH. The pace and style of Vanessa’s first return has Chuck Pratt’s fingerprints all over it. There is plenty of Guza there too, but it had an urgency that was missing with the later return.

10 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

Coming back to this, I can’t believe they wasted Adrienne Barbeau and Daniel Benzali on such a lackluster overall story. And then to saddle Brenda with a kid that was fathered by a dead rando instead of Jax. And as @carolineg pointed out, the time in Rome was such a waste, as was Brad Rowe.

Charles Pratt is a nightmare to me as a HW, he certainly should never be in total control. But one thing he got that Guza did not was there has to be some excitement, especially on a show like GH. The pace and style of Vanessa’s first return has Chuck Pratt’s fingerprints all over it. There is plenty of Guza there too, but it had an urgency that was missing with the later return.

It was a real shame to waste good actors plus Brad Rowe like that lol.

And you are correct. The pacing was so off. Practically nothing happened for 3 months and we had very repetitive scenes of people recapping Brenda's love life (including her) for weeks. Then the wedding, the kidnapping, the kid, the break up, etc. were wrapped up in another 3 months.

I assume the Balkan story got changed and the Dante baby idea was scrapped, but it literally made no sense. Not even in a wacky Stefano Dimera kidnaps Marlena in a cage way. These two big time, dangerous criminals were playing the long game with Brenda? Suzanne spent years working for her? Created a charity? Then decide to strike when Brenda has everyone from Jason to Jax to Sonny protecting her? What? They had approximately 5 years to kill while Suzanne was her closest confidante and didn't.

The Decline and Fall of the Monty Empire

Week 17 (April 21-25, 1986) -- Part I

Ruby: "Can I, um, offer you some advice?"

Kevin: "Well, anything from Bobbie's aunt, I'll take."

Ruby: "Well, your life's pretty good now. Don't let petulance and anger screw it up for you. ... Okay, I better get in the kitchen and get on with my chili."

Laurelton, the Frisco stuff: Kevin's declared not guilty of murder halfway through Tuesday's show. Monday's cliffhanger concerned his jury being deadlocked. We'll soon find out that Kevin's innocence is false, but in the meantime, GH teases its audience with a few days of "What's next?" Kevin and Anna spend the most time picking up their pieces, but there's also some reckoning for Frisco, Patrick, and Terry.

Anna: "When you wear this badge, you have to do many things that go way against your own personal sense of morality."

Frisco: "Really. To be a cop, I have to play dirty, is that it?"

Anna, after a pause: "Criminals play dirty. What choice do you think you have?"

Frisco: "Lucy Coe is not a criminal!"

If I didn't have enough reasons to be thankful for the reveal of Lucy's true colors, it's apparently what's going to toughen up Frisco. I want to have more sympathy for him, and really, there's more disillusionment as 1986 goes on, but right now, it's like, why even be a cop? The correct answer is that GH apparently needs a male hero to pick up Tristan Rogers' reins.

Frisco: "What about the people in between, huh? What about the Lucy Coes?"

Lewis: "The means justify the ends. You do what you have to do."

Spurred by Lewis, Frisco decides not to chicken out. The young man's humiliated early in Friday's episode. Felicia, her professor's star pupil and poised for work as a bookkeeper, stops by the police academy. She unwittingly demonstrates the logic and steps needed to safely disarm a gunman. Frisco and Sam both wind up "dead" in Lewis' exercise, and Eric's admonished for his shoot first, ask questions later attitude.

After letting jealousy make him insult Felicia -- he's seeing Lucy, someone who needs him -- and fearing he's been stood up, Frisco makes amends. Ruby doesn't offer any wise words before this, just a sympathetic ear and some light flirting. Felicia takes things up a notch by walking into Kelly's in handcuffs, then dropping the key down her top.

Frisco: "Do you know what the penalty is for trying to seduce a cop in this state? Hmm? You have to spend the entire evening in the arms of the arresting officer."

They kiss, and the key drops to the floor.

Felicia, laughing as she puts both arms behind Frisco: "Guilty as charged!"

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