Jill Farren Phelps at ATWT? I shudder at the thought, she killed AW when she killed Frankie.

Oh my God, that broad at my show! She would have had a serial killer trap Kim or Nancy in the kitchen and off them (hell this is JFP she has to top herself, how bought both!!!)

Though, I can't even imagine her having to deal with Fulton....(Gautman just ignored her and they didnt writer for her, she was treated like the crazy Aunt in the attic) or....Hubbard!!!

That just goes to show FMB's poor judgement in certain areas. I think she did some detrimental things to AMC like that when she took over (Cliff/Nina, Chuck/Donna, Angie). Good thing she had Agnes Nixon to write the show, otherwise I don't think AMC would have survived the turmoil it was in before FMB came over from Ryan's Hope.

Wasn't FMB brought on because AMCwas beginning to slip a bit, and viewers felt there were too many characters and too many isolated stories? I know she first brought Maggie DePriest on as HW (I believe Nixon was focusing on Loving again at that time-as she would again in 1994), which seems to have lasted a year or so and then Nixon came on with McTavish slowly taking over. What I've seen of DePriest's stuff is kinda weird (but much better than when Rauch brought her on right after for OLTL--was she known as a soap writer doctor or something at the time?) in tone, but I do believein general FMB (and yes, with a lot of help from Nixon) helped to restructure the show for the 90s. Some characters like Cliff/Nina IMHO were kinda played out--and yet fans didn't like seeing Cliff with anyone else, and they quickly build a pretty solid base while not completely restructuring the families on the show like Bell did with Y&R in the early 80s. Obviously in hindsight it can be argued that some of this was a mistake, and a decade later we were stuck with some unfortunate characters and structure (the way it can be argued about Gottlieb's work at OLTL which was even more severe), but for the time being...

Wasn't FMB brought on because AMCwas beginning to slip a bit, and viewers felt there were too many characters and too many isolated stories? I know she first brought Maggie DePriest on as HW (I believe Nixon was focusing on Loving again at that time-as she would again in 1994), which seems to have lasted a year or so and then Nixon came on with McTavish slowly taking over. What I've seen of DePriest's stuff is kinda weird (but much better than when Rauch brought her on right after for OLTL--was she known as a soap writer doctor or something at the time?) in tone, but I do believein general FMB (and yes, with a lot of help from Nixon) helped to restructure the show for the 90s. Some characters like Cliff/Nina IMHO were kinda played out--and yet fans didn't like seeing Cliff with anyone else, and they quickly build a pretty solid base while not completely restructuring the families on the show like Bell did with Y&R in the early 80s. Obviously in hindsight it can be argued that some of this was a mistake, and a decade later we were stuck with some unfortunate characters and structure (the way it can be argued about Gottlieb's work at OLTL which was even more severe), but for the time being...

Like I said, I think FMB doesn't have the best judgement in some areas. She was with AMC in the 70s as was JDB. AMC dropped in the mid 90s, and I don't think it bounced back all that much when they brought in Broderick.

No, I don't think it really did at all--even as much as I loved much of Broderick's work when FMB was still EP. But she did help it climb from a slight drop networks were worried about in the late 80s to being nearly constandly number for a number of years there.

Who was the writer who wrote for AW around 83, 84,85? I think Tom King? That was the first and really only time I watched that show..but he had Felicia, and that good looking deep voiced guy, and Cecile and the black woman who went on to primetime and Wallingford, as this weird mini family and they would get into solving mysteries and going on adventures and kooky Lucy stuff, (like the horny gorilla.) I stopped watching when new writers cam on and it was all so serious, and years later I would turn it on and couldnt believe the lawyer guy was having all this angst and that Felicia was and no one was getting stuck in a trunk when they were looking for clues and it was kind of a shock.

I know it was the only time I liked Victoria Wyndam's Rachel ..she had amnesia and got kooky and looked at her closet and said, "I was DOWDY????"

• Robert Soderberg, November 1982
• Robert Soderberg and Dorothy Ann Purser, 1983
• (In 1983, with Cynthia Benjamin, Lloyd Gold, James Pashalides, Joe LeSueur, Leslie Lee, Frances Myers)
• Dorothy Ann Purser, 1983 - winter 1984 (In 1983, with Judith Donato, James Pashalides, Joe LeSueur, Lloyd Gold, Frances Myers, Roger Newman)
• Richard Culliton, (March) 1984 - June 1984

  (In 1984, with Linda Elstad, Joe LeSueur, Lloyd Gold, Gary Tomlin, David Cherrill, Carolyn DeMoney Culliton, Judith Donato, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Frances Myers, Roger Newman, Judith Pinsker, Cynthia Saltzman)

• Richard Culliton and Gary Tomlin, July 1984 - January 1985

  (In 1984, with Linda Elstad, Joe LeSueur, Lloyd Gold, Gary Tomlin, David Cherrill, Carolyn DeMoney Culliton, Judith Donato, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Frances Myers, Roger Newman, Judith Pinsker, Cynthia Saltzman, Warren Hite)

  (In 1985, with David Cherill, Carolyn Demoney Culliton, Judith Donato, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Frances Myers, Roger Newman, Judith Pinsker, Stephen Wardwell)

From AWHP.

I agree with you. That was such a good time. I loved the flair and humor AW had at this point. When people talk about camp, *this* is the camp I want to see.