50 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

Patricia Everly was hired to play Peggy Brooks on Y&R in 1979. The original actress in the role, Pamela Peters, had walked out, so this was not originally meant as a temporary replacement. Everly was not a good actress, however, and TPTB quickly let her go. Eventually, the show managed to lure Peters back and she returned to Y&R until the character was written off permanently.

Ah, thanks for the info!  I remember hearing there was another Peggy but didn't know the details...It kind of sounds similar to what Heather Tom did years later when she first left in 97 and then they had that other Victoria for 3 months and then HT returned by the end of the year....

 

6 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

Ah, thanks for the info!  I remember hearing there was another Peggy but didn't know the details...It kind of sounds similar to what Heather Tom did years later when she first left in 97 and then they had that other Victoria for 3 months and then HT returned by the end of the year....

 

 

Here's a rare picture of Everly from her days as Peggy.

 

11 hours ago, ~bl~ said:

They didn't even include some of the shows you listed vetsoapfan. OLTL was mentioned, but not the other shows you had listed..

 

If you don't mind, I'd love to hear who their choices for Best Recasts really are. TIA.

SOD's covers got lazy and tacky around 2015 when they decided to use the same template each and every week, just switching it up between orange, blue or purple. A couple months back, the page count dropped from 96 to 72. They originally predicted SOD would fold in 2012; I'm actually amazed it's still around in 2018.

 

I'm letting my subscription run out this Spring. I literally feel like I'm reading the same articles over and over when you have repeated interviews about Melissa Reeves loving life in Tennessee and doing a commute to California for DAYS. We get it. The talent pool is only 4 shows. The only interesting articles are throwbacks to cancelled soaps and old-school times, but even I can only read the same blips about Luke & Laura's wedding, the Eterna storyline, Marlena possessed, Reva cloned, or any other tales of yesteryear for so many times before it gets too redundant to bother revisiting yet again. 

 

If you're gonna put Brenda Dickson on the cover, let's see her as her delusional current blow-up doll look, still complaining about Bill Bell, relishing in her Soap Opera Digest Outstanding Villainess trophy from the 1980's, telling us how she still gets recognized for her eleven-and-a-half years on daytime television. 

 

Edited January 8, 20187 yr by Gray Bunny

23 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I have a slight, morbid curiosity about their Best Recast choices.

 

I can see it now:

 

Susan Batten as Connor Walsh!

Wesley Ann Pfenning as Alice Frame!

Charity Rahmer as Belle Black!

Kathleen Tolan as Mary Ryan Fenelli!

Ann Hamilton as Mindy Lewis!

Jayne Bentzen as Nicole Travis Drake!

Darius McCrary as Malcolm Winters!

Kelli Marony as Tina Clayton!

Patricia Everly as Peggy Brooks!

 

EEEK!

 

 

 

Let's not forget Rhonda Lewin as Vicky on AW 

Lauri Landry as Nicole

Philece Sampler as Donna... she should have been Nicole

 

This thread reminds me of how annoyed I am that I threw away so many vintage soap magazines, and then lost so many more when I moved.

 

Back in the day we were blessed with a wonderful set of mags, the best of which were Daytime TV, Afternoon TV, Daily TV Serials, and Rona Barrett's Daytimers. They were packed with interviews, critiques, book-length biographies of actors and their characters, and so much more. I always wanted to read them from cover to cover.

 

Today's soap "press" is worthless. The magazines are mainly filler, nothing worth buying or even reading, as we get any relevant news directly from the internet.

 

 

Best Recast:

Genie Francis, GH

Peter Bergman, Y&R

Erika Slezak, OLTL

Matthew Ashford, DAYS

Jess Walton, Y&R

Tamara Braun & Laura Wright, GH

Melody Thomas Scott, Y&R

Heather Tom, B&B

Anne Heche, AW

Robert Kelker-Kelley, DAYS

 

@vetsoapfan

Edited January 10, 20187 yr by cassadine1991

1 hour ago, cassadine1991 said:

Best Recast:

Genie Francis, GH

Peter Bergman, Y&R

Erika Slezak, OLTL

Matthew Ashford, DAYS

Jess Walton, Y&R

Tamara Braun & Laura Wright, GH

 

(I don't remember if there are others to the list)

 

Thank you  for this list. I actually agree with some of the choices.

 

However, anyone from SOD who compiled a list like this and did NOT mention Judith Light (who took over as OLTL's Karen Wolek from the mediocre Kathryn Breech in 1977) is not an authority I would trust.

12 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

Thank you  for this list. I actually agree with some of the choices.

 

However, anyone from SOD who compiled a list like this and did NOT mention Judith Light (who took over as OLTL's Karen Wolek from the mediocre Kathryn Breech in 1977) is not an authority I would trust.

She might have been on the list