18 minutes ago, Vee said:

I had a fondness for poor Susan Misner, not unlike Tava Smiley. Grace was just a futile role.

Never knew Susan Misner was on a soap. I know she had numerous roles on the Law & Order franchise, and she was pretty good! One of those roles on Criminal Intent was opposite a then-unknown David Harbour as her wackadoodle religious-nut hubby. LOL.

I do also remember Darlene Vogel (Melanie, OLTL) from that USA cop show on bikes, Pacific Blue. Why I remember the name, I don't know! And Barbara Niven had at least three separate guest roles on Silk Stalkings back in the day. Cheesy, but fun!

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

I feel like Jax wasn't very committed to a type like Sonny is. Well, actually his type is probably woman Sonny dated mostly

Ha

56 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

I liked Juan Pablo more than Carlos, but yeah, both didn't really last long. Wasn't that all part of the Fusion Sex and the City thing they were going for?

It was.

23 minutes ago, Wendy said:

Never knew Susan Misner was on a soap.

Her most memorable moment was a brief dance interlude with RSW at the LPD, IIRC.

AW in the 80's was a revolving door of characters who were brought in and given prominent stories and then dropped-mainly because new writers arrived.

I think they were often too hasty in dumping some characters instead of working with what was there and doing some tweaking.

Derek Dane-the brooding mystery man destined for a sizzling romance with Stacey Winthrop.

Miranda Bishop-Iris in waiting

Amy Dudley, Neal Cory, Olivia Delany, Tracy De Witt Matthews, Diana Frame, Vince Frame, Leigh Hobson etc etc

With all the upheavals it had to endure throughout the '80's and '90's, the fact that AW lasted as long as it did at NBC is nothing short of a miracle.

4 minutes ago, Khan said:

With all the upheavals it had to endure throughout the '80's and '90's, the fact that AW lasted as long as it did at NBC is nothing short of a miracle.

And they wondered why viewers were leaving. If you got attached to characters that weren't named Mac or Rachel chances are they'd be gone within a year or so.

24 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

AW in the 80's was a revolving door of characters who were brought in and given prominent stories and then dropped-mainly because new writers arrived.

I think they were often too hasty in dumping some characters instead of working with what was there and doing some tweaking.

Derek Dane-the brooding mystery man destined for a sizzling romance with Stacey Winthrop.

Miranda Bishop-Iris in waiting

Amy Dudley, Neal Cory, Olivia Delany, Tracy De Witt Matthews, Diana Frame, Vince Frame, Leigh Hobson etc etc

The most egregious to me was the Shea family, where the parents were violently killed off in separate stories about six months apart.

10 minutes ago, Khan said:

With all the upheavals it had to endure throughout the '80's and '90's, the fact that AW lasted as long as it did at NBC is nothing short of a miracle.

20 years of transition...and one of the more stable periods (around 1993) was when they were nearly canceled.

SFT Laine Adamson

An ambitious businesswoman, a contrast to her more sedate sister Sunny, more like her scheming father Ted.

She got involved with Gary Walton, Stu's grandson and broke up his marriage to Carolyn, getting pregnant with his child in the process. She also had a thing going with David Sutton.

There was years of story potential there but Laine left town after a year, never to be seen again for the next 6 or so years Sunny remained on the show.