U make a great point. After it was clear she was gone oltl dwindled near the bottom of the ratings in 91. That's when they hit the panic button & hired Linda Gottlieb & gave her full control to help the show. She did that b/c 92 to 94 was the last golden age of the show. I know much of the cast did not like linda but the show went back up to 5th from 11th & won all those emmys for that huge 93 spring fling & trial aftermath. Once the todd & marty saga had its closure Andrea's loss was felt again. I read that during mitch & Tina's hot affair in 85 or 86 the ratings were at their height.
@@natalieps2387none of what you said is true. OLTL’s peak ratings were before Andrea Evans’s return to OLTL. And while her character’s popularity may have helped the show to remain in the top three for most of her years, the ratings did not plummet to the bottom. They remain relatively stable with the rest of daytime in a relative middle and did not reach near the bottom ranking until the late 90s. Either you’re making this up or you have bad numbers.
Andrea leaving honestly took a piece of the show w/ her. When she left it was never the same & the show got a huge bump in 93 w/ the marty todd saga but when that ended creatively at least ae's loss was there
I was so sad when Andrea Evans left the show and even more upset about the fact she was forced to leave the job she loved. Tina "WAS" OLTL. She was flaky, campy, flighty but also a vixen! I love how Tina was always in trouble. I know she constantly played the damsel but she was just so much fun.
The original actor or actress is usually the favorite with the viewers, especially being andrea evans was the female lead on oltl along with Erica slezak and robin Strasser.
Not sure what timeline. Andrea Evans had a starker . Always loved Tina. Vicki and Tina are my favs. One life to live is the only soap I ever watched . ❤️❤️😢😢
Tina was the daytime, drama, version of Lucille Ball; someone who was always in trouble with her husband, and others, and always cooking up hair-brained-schemes.
Funny you should say that. Questionably red-headed/strawberry blonde with Latino(half in Cord's case), always involved in hair-brained schemes. I wonder if the writers had the Lucy/Ricky thing in mind when they paired them up.
Losing Depaiva, Fiona Hutchinson, and later on breaking up Clint and Viki also contributed to the demise of this show. But I agree losing Andrea Evans was the biggest blow.
@ziola90 I wanna say LOL but at the same time I'm so serious about your comment. I wonder how long Tina would have stayed on OLTL if that nut didn't go after her
Andrea's leaving was due to the fact she was being aggressively stalked by her Stalker and she wanted to heep herself AND her coworkers safe from him !!!😢
Andrea Evans was the best Tina. No offense to the recasts, Karen played Tina's naivety, Krista played Tina's scheming ambition. But Andrea Evans perfected the balance between the two. They also moved away from the Cord and Tina pairing with the recasts. Why? The show suffered without Andrea Evans. Sadly she left due to being stalked in real life. As a fan of Andrea Evans, that was the best choice for her safety and her peace of mind. Who knows what could have happened to her if she stayed on the show. As a fan of OLTL, it was a great loss to the show I don't think they fully recovered from. The subsequent writers did introduce some great characters, like Todd and Blair. But it felt like at times they wrote for newer characters at the expense of legacy characters. It became less of an ensemble as it was in the golden 80s. Like with Viki, they never should have split up her and Clint. Yes, at the end of the show, they reunited VIki and Clint, as well as Cord and Tina. But they had needlessly been apart for 20 years.
@@MrCraigblaze I believe he was caught. When she went to LA she kept a low profile. The stalker had managed to get into the studio before she quit and was planning to kill her. She figured moving across the country was the best way to get away from him.
@@keithalvarez6229 Yes I would think that would work but does LA not have stalkers ..?? Was he charged with stalking.?? Wasn't Elaine Peicsi playing Dorian in 1990 ?? XD
@@MrCraigblaze Yes, Elaine was playing Dorian then. Andrea only had the one stalker so she didn't have to worry about anyone else. I'm not sure what the man was charged with but I'm pretty sure he did get caught because she returned to soaps in 1999 and moved back into the public eye.
