The housing discrimination story started with "White Wood" development, and flowed into the "Deconstruction" on the PV campus. Some is up on YT.

The old people housing scam was "Willow Lake Acres" involving Mona, Myrtle and Peg Moody, Aunt Phoebe, Edmund/Eduardo, Brooke and to lesser extent Maria and Erica. That story is just starting to go up on YT.

Here's a clip of Brooke interviewing the con artist from 'Willow Lake Acres':

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The housing discrimination story started with "White Wood" development, and flowed into the "Deconstruction" on the PV campus. Some is up on YT.

Oh, that sounds vaguely familiar.

Didn't the white supremacists mess with Tom & Livia's phone, so it would explode when they answered a call? I remember that for some reason, but maybe I'm confusing it with something else.

Livia and Tom were painting the town red - I believe in NY. Livia called home because she was worried, and it was her phone call that caused the explosion.

Yes!

I knew I remembered it was something with the phone. LOL

Here's what they said about it in 'The Soap Opera Book'

In 1974, AMC took some time to present a storyline on child abuse. Stacy Coles beat her little boy; it was pointed out that many people beat their children, and that help is available. Stacy realized she had a problem.and presto, she and her child were gone. The story was neither fully developed nor integrated with other events in Pine Valley. But it was daring,for daytime

I wonder which characters were involved -probably Ruth and Joe and/ or Jeff and Mary.

Maureen Mooney played Stacy. She went onto GL as Ann Jeffers. Bruce Gray was her husband Wyatt and Jason Lauve was Jamie,

Agnes has spoken about this story, briefly, in a number of places. Apparently they ran PSAs after it with help lines for any women who were in a similar situation--they knew they were abusing their child but didn't have the power to stop or find help, and at least from what she heard in one market, it got a huge reaction. I guess Nixon suspected, and probably rightly, that there were a lot of viewers who were women who felt stuck at home, unfulfilled with their lives, and would take it out on their children.

I thought it was nice of them to bring back Kelly. You could tell they had done this all quickly (supposedly they weren't going to do anything until Thorsten Kaye asked - not sure how true that is) but bringing her back was vital, even for just a few scenes.

I think Agnes would have interfered. Of course she has also revealed now that for the first time ever, under Pratt, she wasn't even welcome in the writer's room, so who knows (what a fuckhead). AMC by and large did good by their vets, and I suspect that was slightly due to what little power Nixon had--Warrick and Mitchell, for instance, stayed on contract to the end, even though they could barely work, if work at all, when other shows were starting to drop doing that with their vets, left and right.

Richard Shoberg (Tom Cudahy) was a veteran who should have also been retained. When Skye moved to Llanview (appearing on One Life to Live), she needed a confidant. Tom could have been moved to Llanview and opened another restaurant (possibly with R. J.).

Louis Edmonds as Lanley/Lenny and Elizabeth Lawrence as Myra were two other veterans who were not retained as they should have been.