I know this is going back some weeks, but just playing catch up. That William Mooney interview is new to me and had two interesting points:
"Crossing-over: There were no major changes when Agnes [Nixon, Creator of All My Children] sold the show to ABC. It was more work for all of us (particularly the technicians and crew) when we moved to an hour. After we had been an hour show for some time, ABC became fearful that NBC's Another World was going to expand to a ninety-minute show per day. So they decided to tie One Life to Live and All My Children more closely together--after all, Pine Valley and Llanview were only twenty or so miles apart. So I was chosen as the crossover actor that would tie the two shows together. I was sent to Llanview to defend Vicky [Buchanan, played by Erika Slezak] in a big trial. But, as will happen, the schedules of the two shows got awry, and I ended up shooting three shows in one day. I was half-crazy with fatigue. "
I'd never heard before that THIS was part of the reason for the cross over and it fascinates me--so I wonder if they had promos about Paul being on OLTL (it also shows that they felt he was enough of a character of consequence.) Of course ABC had tied their shows together before--I think in the first year of OLTL, Steve Hardy from GH came over to consult, and we have a 1970 AMC episode where... was it Anna Wolek? One of the OLTL characters comes to visit Joe. The Steve cameo on OLTL seems a bigger deal as they'd have had to fly him from LA to NYC to tape (unless he was there anyway,) but I do wonder if the press or anyone was aware of these cross overs (I sort of think not, but then how would they bring over viewers?)
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