I've always liked Kate Jackson, been a fan since she was on Dark Shadows, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that she would not have won the Oscar if she had been cast in the role. I saw Streep in an off-off Broadway show before she did any movies and you could already tell she was going to be a star. She co-stared with Nancy Marchand and Elizabeth Wilson and she frickin' stole the show from them.
I found some interviews at a Santa Barbara blog with Bridget Dobson. In this part she talks about the shift from GL to ATWT:
https://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/search?q=bridget+dobson&updated-max=2012-09-27T19:50:00%2B02:00&max-results=20&start=20&by-date=false
How wild that the reason why the Dobsons were yanked from GL to ATWT is because they were TOO successful with GL! It had jumped over ATWT. The network and P&G saw ATWT as their #1 show. So they moved the Dobsons over to bring ATWT back up to #1, which they did.
She also describes some things they did with GL, experimenting with the form. How interesting that we were discussing a page or two back how good those 1979 scenes were...well, it wasn't an accident.
What makes me want to cry is just as they were talking about moving them over, the Dobsons still wrote the bible for GL--I assume for 1980, the upcoming year. The network loved it, but still moved them to ATWT, because ATWT's bible wasn't great. What I would give to read their final storyline projections for GL!
There are more parts to the interview. The site is a little challenging to navigate, but it's worth reading all of the interview. Fascinating insights into the soap world at the time.
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