1 hour ago, dc11786 said:

In the summer of 1985, Sarah Whiting was interested in becoming a singer. It was a bond she shared with her grandmother, Jo. I believe Jo pulled out the guitar and sang “Green Coffee,” which I believe was a staple of Mary Stuart’s.

Green Coffee is featured on her record album from the mid 1970s. Very good album, by the way...

6 hours ago, dc11786 said:

In the summer of 1985, Sarah Whiting was interested in becoming a singer. It was a bond she shared with her grandmother, Jo. I believe Jo pulled out the guitar and sang “Green Coffee,” which I believe was a staple of Mary Stuart’s.

Sarah Whiting-another of those strange attempts to revisit the past. Len and Patti had a daughter Tracey who could have been aged up, but instead they create a never before mentioned adopted daughter Sarah. WHY??

And then she gets killed off and Pod Patti arrives with no kids in tow...

Who was making these cockamamie decisions at the very time SFT needed a solid direction.

@DRW50 thanks for the tag.

On 3/13/2026 at 6:26 PM, Franko said:

And thank you for remembering to tag folks. (I need to start doing that.) Here's hope that more of Eileen and Don's week will show up.

@Franko (and @DRW50 for the tag),

Thank you so much for posting the link to this. I didn't think I would ever see any footage of Don's appearances on this show!

Alan Locher posted on FB that he received "two hard drives filled with classic episodes" of ATWT, EON, AMC, OLTL, GL, "and more" from the 70s-00s. Seems like he plans to share them via YT, but I'm not sure how that's gonna work if P&G and ABC get wind of it. He's asking where he should start, and it's like...dude. This is daytime. This is soaps. Start with the earliest stuff you have and just go forward from there.

1 hour ago, All My Shadows said:

Alan Locher posted on FB that he received "two hard drives filled with classic episodes" of ATWT, EON, AMC, OLTL, GL, "and more" from the 70s-00s. Seems like he plans to share them via YT, but I'm not sure how that's gonna work if P&G and ABC get wind of it. He's asking where he should start, and it's like...dude. This is daytime. This is soaps. Start with the earliest stuff you have and just go forward from there.

That's interesting. I do wonder if they may be episodes that we already know of. I hope not.

I doubt P&G will care...but ABC does take down OLTL and AMC episodes at times, especially AMC.

Oh and if Alan doesn't know about the main EON channel maybe they can help.

https://www.youtube.com/@Edgeofnight80s

Edited April 5Apr 5 by DRW50

AW and SFT ruled the cast change columns around this time.

On 4/4/2026 at 8:45 PM, DRW50 said:

That's interesting. I do wonder if they may be episodes that we already know of. I hope not.

I doubt P&G will care...but ABC does take down OLTL and AMC episodes at times, especially AMC.

Oh and if Alan doesn't know about the main EON channel maybe they can help.

https://www.youtube.com/@Edgeofnight80s

I see that he posted the 10/16/1958 episode of EON a few days ago, but only for his paid subscribers. Insanity bc that episode has been on YT for years now. Read the room, bro.

2 hours ago, All My Shadows said:

I see that he posted the 10/16/1958 episode of EON a few days ago, but only for his paid subscribers. Insanity bc that episode has been on YT for years now. Read the room, bro.

Maybe it's in better quality, I don't know, but I've just come to assume none of the episodes will be material not already around.

I used to live for the comings and goings sections-- it was always so exciting back in the day.

15 minutes ago, Spoon said:

I used to live for the comings and goings sections-- it was always so exciting back in the day.

The soap press became obsolete once the internet took off.

I don't know why SOD and the other soap magazines haven't digitized their archives. That's so much soap history sitting there. Back issues go for ridiculous prices on eBay, it would be nice to have a single resource.

The last few minutes of this has the broadcaster talking about violence in television soaps and how the cozy domesticity of radio soaps are gone. He mentions a few soaps. He also mentions that any time Portia Faces Life tried to move away from courtroom stories, the ratings went down. (I assume he meant the radio version)

WNYC

[Radio broadcasting] | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podc...

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate. "A batch of assorted notes about broadcasting, mostly." Gilbert Seldes mentions

not sure where to post this. putting it here because it rambles. I'll link on the OLTL and Doctors threads, too.

Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes (Data and Riker from Star Trek) have a podcast called "Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny", in which the guests discuss various famous people they've interacted with through the years. [Frakes is married to Genie Francis.].
The Feb. 26, 2026 episode of their podcast is called "Once we all were spacemen" because the guests are Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk who have also been in sci-fi series, so they talk about that some.

At about 18:50, soap operas come into the conversation.

Nathan Fillion talks about being cast on Firefly and randomly encountering Jonathan Frakes at a restaurant; and he recognizes Frakes from Star Trek -- but also because Frakes was with his wife Genie Francis, whom recognized due to Fillion’s past on OLTL.

Fillion talks about playing Joey Buchanan on OLTL (says jokingly he was the "best Joey") and his first interaction with Phil Carey (Asa), which is quite interesting. (Carey mentions the prior Joey's exit).

Brent Spiner says he played a kind nerd who was john of Judith Light’s Karen Wolek on OLTL, and how he reappeared in the same role a year later, being kind to Karen and she wanted to give him the money back. He says what a phenomenal actor Judith was and how she could cry a tear on cue. He mentions that Kathy Bates was a guest star the same time he was there.
Fyi, @slick jones -- IMDB says Spiner was in one OLTL episode but he says here that it was two episodes.

Jonathan Frakes mentions being on The Doctors – his character was a troubled Vietnam War veteran who was a childbeater.

For the scifi/soap connection, they all bring up John DeLancie (Q from Star Trek) being on DAYS. And mention Arleen Sorkin.

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