16 hours ago, SoapDope78 said:

I really wish those early episodes would be made available on a streaming service. I remember reading quotes in recent years from Tom Hallick and Janice Lynde saying they wish they had never left Y&R. Hallick said he had been lured by false promises to NBC about projects that never came to be and Lynde said since Y&R was her first TV gig she felt that there were bigger greener pastures to explore, but realized she made a mistake in hindsight.

Re: Trish Stewart. Not too long ago I saw her on reruns of Match Game 74. Kay Stevens (the big mouth) was impressed with her. She mentioned that Bill Bell was also writing Days at the time and Bell was was praising Stewart as an actress and her work on Y&R.

I do personally feel that Hallick and Lynde made poor decisions when they left Y&R; Brad and Leslie were the roles of a lifetime for them. Alas, people have dreams (and illusions) of grandeur, and often believe in their own publicity.

Stewart's work on Y&R was top-notch. Her performances during Chris Brooks' rape storylines were gripping. Those first several years of the show were amazingly good.

8 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I do personally feel that Hallick and Lynde made poor decisions when they left Y&R; Brad and Leslie were the roles of a lifetime for them. Alas, people have dreams (and illusions) of grandeur, and often believe in their own publicity.

Stewart's work on Y&R was top-notch. Her performances during Chris Brooks' rape storylines were gripping. Those first several years of the show were amazingly good.

I hope someday those episodes will surface and get a chance to see them. I wish that when Hasselhoff and Topping left in 1982, Bell had gotten Espy and Stewart to return.

The storyline with Sally returning with Chucky would have been perfect for them. Lee Crawford's return was kind of a dud with her playing opposite 2 actors that she had no prior connection to.

2 hours ago, SoapDope78 said:

I hope someday those episodes will surface and get a chance to see them. I wish that when Hasselhoff and Topping left in 1982, Bell had gotten Espy and Stewart to return.

At least, when the Brooks sisters returned to Genoa City in 1984 to attend the Newman wedding, Trish Stewart was chosen to reprise Chris. I was hoping to see Janice Lynde as Leslie, too, but no such luck.😕

Speaking of that wedding, it was rather random and far-fetched that Nikki and Victor would even invite all the Brooks girls (along with Maestro Fausch, no less🙄) to attend. It's not like they were all close.

I was thrilled when William Gray Espy and James Houghton returned as Snapper and Greg for the show's 30th anniversary celebration, though. It was just soooo disappointing to see David Hasselhoff and Wings Hauser (the worst of all the Greg recasts🤢) chosen to play out Liz Foster's death story.

2 hours ago, SoapDope78 said:

The storyline with Sally returning with Chucky would have been perfect for them. Lee Crawford's return was kind of a dud with her playing opposite 2 actors that she had no prior connection to.

Yes, Lee Crawford's return was a dud and fizzled out, but I was happy to see her, anyway. It would have been so much more meaningful and effective, had she had the chance to be reunited with Espy and Stewart. (The boy who played Chuckie was quite good, BTW, and the show blundered by never bringing back either that character or Brooks Prentiss as adults.)