28 minutes ago, Vee said:

She was a disastrous flop. Barely lasted a year.

I remember even Thorsten commented on the recast. Basically SH didn't like what they wrote for Marty's return

On 11/30/2025 at 4:09 AM, DRW50 said:

Y&R - Shari Shattuck as Ashley. I think the only reason she stayed as long as she did (3 years!) is because of the huge malaise Y&R was under for much of that time and because they were waiting to get Eileen back.

Y&R - Sarah Aldrich as Victoria. I don't know if she could have made the part work if they hadn't gotten Heather Tom back.

ATWT - As @P.J. mentioned in the other thread, Glynnis O'Connor as Margo. This may be another case where Ellen Dolan being available made the choice easier, but she's the only Margo viewers didn't support.

ATWT - Jason Kincaid as Tom Hughes. From the little available of him, he's not awful, but he's an odd choice for a leading man.

AMC - Gwyn Gillis as Ann Tyler. She did play the part for 3-4 years, but they also chose to kill the character off...

B&B - Ingo Rademacher as Thorne Forrester.

GL - Michael Dietz and Michael Dempsey as Alan-Michael Spaulding. Bryan Gaskill as Dylan Lewis. Geoffrey Scott as Billy Lewis, Ann Hamilton and Barbara Crampton as Mindy Lewis (I thought Scott in particular was horribly wrong).

Search for Tomorrow - Louan Gideon as Liza Sentell.

Damn I even forgot Ingo played Thorne LOL That’s how memorable he was.

From what I gathered back then KT as Tina Lord on OLTL wasn’t really accepted :(

7 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

I remember even Thorsten commented on the recast. Basically SH didn't like what they wrote for Marty's return

Both Susan and Sarah Brown(! - FV tried her next) turned down the job in '06 for a few reasons including Susan's pregnancy, though IIRC neither liked Dena Higley's pitch. I liked Christina Chambers on SuBe but she was never anywhere near Susan's caliber of talent and it was insulting that they even put her onscreen as Marty.

Once Higley was gone they approached Susan again and she returned, though her second stint ended badly onscreen and BTS.

On 11/30/2025 at 3:52 AM, Soapsuds said:

Susan Batten taking over the popular role of Connor Walsh on As the World Turns.

But tbf was Connor ever popular with the audience ? No shade here but an honest question?

16 minutes ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

But tbf was Connor ever popular with the audience ? No shade here but an honest question?

Connor was never an iconic character, but she did have fans. I was one of them. I think it was easy to take her for granted, which is why FMB and MADD felt so comfortable firing Allyson Rice Taylor to give a friend a job. Taylor was a very thoughtful, intelligent actress who did a lot with what she was given (although even then I couldn't sit through her last year of stories).

30 minutes ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

From what I gathered back then KT as Tina Lord on OLTL wasn’t really accepted :(

She wasn't. The material was bad, and she struggled to play it. Malone's disdain for Tina was also very clear, as it was through his whole run. Inexplicably SOD named her best recast of 1994.