SB

John Novak was brought in as Keith a couple of years after Justin Deas departed. Deas played Keith for more than 2 years Novak was gone in 6 months.

Lesli Kay did a fine job as NuLois IMO and had chemistry with Wally Kurth, etc. As someone who had very minimal tolerance for Molly on ATWT she really surprised me. But GH at that time had no interest in that side of the canvas whatsoever and it was all C-stories, right down to her inexplicable backburner pairing with Alcazar. To me it always screamed someone at the show or Brian Frons just wanting to grab LK because of her name value from other soaps.

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17 hours ago, 1974mdp said:

Another for me is Eileen Davidson as Kelly on SB. Great actress but didn't work in the part. The whole switch-a-roo was even more glaring as Carrington Garland had already been the perfect recast.

This, this, this. One of the worst mistakes the Dobsons made was firing Carrington Garland.

33 minutes ago, Vee said:

Lesli Kay did a fine job as NuLois IMO and had chemistry with Wally Kurth, etc. As someone who had very minimal tolerance for Molly on ATWT she really surprised me. But GH at that time had no interest in that side of the canvas whatsoever and it was all C-stories, right down to her inexplicable backburner pairing with Alcazar. To me it always screamed someone at the show or Brian Frons just wanting to grab LK because of her name value from other soaps.

This happened repeatedly with Lesli in the '00s - I thought she did a decent job replacing Colleen Dion on B&B, and Colleen was one of my favorites when I watched B&B. She never really found a foothold on any soap after her ATWT exit.

6 hours ago, Chris B said:

I can't recall if this was the time they fired Ilene Kristen for gaining weight but whatever the reason, Mattson was a total disaster in the role. I always assumed she would've been decent just based on her soap pedigree and was shocked when I saw episodes with her. You'd never believe she had a succesful role on a soap. She completely didn't understand the character and couldn't give her any warmth. They had endless recasts on Ryan's Hope and I'd argue this might be the absolute worst.

I don't know that anything could ever top Kathleen Tolan as Mary #3 in that department. OOF.

Another Ryan's Hope recast that I think would fit here would be Nancy Barrett as Faith Coleridge #2. Faith was suddenly noticeably older and vaguely Southern(!). She only lasted a little over a month and then Catherine Hicks took over a couple of weeks later.

Another one: Marguerite Hickey as Flame Beaufort #2 on Santa Barbara. The recast that comes to my mind most to try to describe how jarring it was was actually on primetime...when Dynasty replaced glamorous Brit Catherine Oxenberg with dowdy American Karen Cellini as Amanda. I thought Roberta Bizeau was one of the definite bright spots of the last couple years of Santa Barbara and to me just seemed to radiate off the screen...and they replaced her with someone who didn't have the acting chops or charisma to be a convincing under-five "May I take your order?" waitress. She was mercifully gone in a couple of weeks.

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Forgot this.

16 minutes ago, Ryan Mason said:

I don't know that anything could ever top Kathleen Tolan as Mary #3 in that department. OOF.

Another Ryan's Hope recast that I think would fit here would be Nancy Barrett as Faith Coleridge #2. Faith was suddenly noticeably older and vaguely Southern(!). She only lasted a little over a month and then Catherine Hicks took over a couple of weeks later.

I'd add the third Pat Ryan, Robert Finnocolli. He always seemed like he wanted to rip somebody's head off.