Actually, the Gregorys supplanting the Matthews family is an urban myth, even though it has been mistakenly presented as fact in several soap opera history books. The Gregorys were brought on to replace the Baxter family whose storylines had finished. They were never intended to replace the Matthews clan. During the entire period the Gregory family was on AW, the Matthews were still very firmly AW's core family -- just read the episode synopses or the scripts. When Agnes Nixon arrived as head-writer, she quickly (but not as quickly as most people assume) replaced the Gregory family with Lenore and Helen Moore, and Rachel, Ada and Sam -- two small families, the Moores and the Lucas's.
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