Members titan1978 Posted October 12, 2021 Members Share Posted October 12, 2021 Agree, and I’m not surprised. Someone was showing an interest in his character after a long stretch of being trapped in the same cycle of stories or no story. Of course he liked what Pratt was doing. Colleen Zenk on ATWT being a prime example- when Marland made her character go after Tom, she didn’t really agree with it. Cut to a decade plus after, and she loves Hogan for making Barbara a psychopath. A decade where she was not featured as prominently as she should have been, and now she was one of his main engines of story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted October 12, 2021 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2021 It feels a bit like cheating because Agnes Nixon had so many shows, but she wrote Gillian Spencer into three of her series—GL (as Robin), OLTL (as Viki), and AMC (as Daisy). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 12, 2021 Members Share Posted October 12, 2021 Plus, she also became a writer on Agnes' shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted October 12, 2021 Members Share Posted October 12, 2021 Not sure if this was mentioned but Marla Adams seemed to be cast on whatever show Sally Sussman was writing. She came on as Dina when Sussman was part of the Y&R writing team and I think came to Generations and later Days, during her stint there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Liberty City Posted October 12, 2021 Members Share Posted October 12, 2021 I don't think Diane was the wrong role, honestly... the writing just wasn't there, because Maria Arena didn't want her there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 13, 2021 Members Share Posted October 13, 2021 In the early days of One Life to Live Agnes Nixon used several actors that she had written for on Guiding Light and Another World. Anthony Ponzini Danny AW, Vinny OLTL Bernard Grant Paul Fletcher GL, Steve Burke OLTL Joe Gallison Bill Matthews AW Tom Edwards OLTL Ernest Graves Alex Bowden GL Victor Lord OLTL Doris Belack Madge Murray AW Anna Wolek OLTL Patricia Roe Sara McIntyre GL Eileen Riley OLTL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mitch Posted October 13, 2021 Members Share Posted October 13, 2021 Who would she have played..Margo? If only Deas had truly been an FOJ and followed her right off of GL! Not only roasted, but can you imagine if that happened now and the lawsuit which would ensue..especially with her being so bold and proud about firing a man who was ill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 13, 2021 Members Share Posted October 13, 2021 Especially the ALS community, families, caregivers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted October 13, 2021 Author Members Share Posted October 13, 2021 Susan Ward, who’d been on Aaron Spelling’s Malibu Shores, joined Spelling’s Sunset Beach as Meg. (Aaron’s son Randy, of course, was on both series as well.) Carol Potter (Joan) had been on BH90210 as Brenda and Brandon’s mom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 13, 2021 Members Share Posted October 13, 2021 On the same show, Margarita Cordova (Carmen) had previously worked at the other SB with Pratt/Guza/Bennett (who wrote for both shows). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted October 13, 2021 Author Members Share Posted October 13, 2021 Lots of intersections there… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 13, 2021 Members Share Posted October 13, 2021 Definitely, especially with behind the scenes people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted October 15, 2021 Members Share Posted October 15, 2021 I forgot about Susan Ward on Malibu Shores. That was like the early version of Sunset Beach except for teens, and for whatever reason aired on Saturday nights on NBC when no young people were home lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted October 15, 2021 Members Share Posted October 15, 2021 8 PM on Saturday nights, I believe. They definitely missed their target demographic. Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted October 15, 2021 Members Share Posted October 15, 2021 LOL they did indeed. I mean some of the cast went out to bigger and better things (Keri Russell and Charisma Carpenter for one) you think they would have put it in a better time slot. But instead NBC put it in JAG’s old slot after they cancelled it and moved it off to CBS. Yikes. Randy Spelling was on it of course. Greg Vaughan later did another Spelling show with his really crappy forgettable role as Dan on Charmed during its second season. Double yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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