This storyline renewed interest in the noir & gothic style of movies. Thank you! LB & MT, Redfield Fritz they were great actors. The barking Dobermans : "The Hounds of the Baskervilles". ❤❤
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I loved it. I've never seen Carrie at this late stage. I wonder what Marland's plans were for her. The Nola story was fun too, although Gracie kind of annoys me. I loved Bea's eye roll when she learned Mrs. Renfield was coming over. It's so weird seeing Alan as the nice guy, and as friendly with Ross. The show was so densely plotted at this time. No wonder it fell when Marland left.
In an interview before he died, Doug Marland said he had planned a six-month story for Carrie in which psychotherapy helped her find the roots of her psychosis and become a whole person again.
Nola was my all time favorite character on here at the time. I bought a dress that I thought looked like Nola's It was a sailor dress. I remember when Samantha came back as a teenager. I sure would love to know what happened to the actress that played her. Is Phillip Spalding , played by Grant Alexander on here yet? Poor Muhammad Ali, dying from Parkinson's disease, more likely from all the beatings on his brain he took over the years. Didn't Alan find out Amanda was his sister? I miss A&P grocery stores. I remember one year when I started working, I bought one of those Jane Parker Fruit cakes they sold. That baby looks like a boy to me. A cute baby too. She? he? looks like the Gerber baby
I remember when I got in trouble with my mother for sprinkling the Carpet Fresh on the floor like in 56:30 and as a result used the whole bottle up on one room. I feel I should've defended myself better and blamed this commercial.
Dr. Sara McIntyre was the best "Lady Doctor" on Daytime TV and was portrayed beautifully by MILLETTE ALEXANDER on GUIDING LIGHT for 14 years. The Show was never the same after she left.
it was a shame that they wrote her out. With Charita/Bert's death a year or so later, the show was left without a wise, maternal presence. Sara could have easily filled that role, and provided a nice sense of history at the same time.
Seems weird that they kept Evie on the show at this point. (I think they finally wrote her out in 1983), since most of her storyline connections were already long gone by this time, with the departure of Rita a year earlier, and Ben no longer appearing on-camera (though Evie and Ben had remarried by then, Stephen Yates had already left, and so we never actually saw them together, she only referred to him, from time to time). Her only function seemed to be helping Justin with the baby after Jackie's death, but that seemed totally unnecessary from a storyline persecutive,
I thought I remembered reading that Doug Marland or maybe the executive producer, insisted on a more exciting opening theme. To paraphrase, he would say "you'd have this intense opening scenes and fade to this slow opening theme. Hence, the "Disco opening"....(which I liked, lot.)
Nola did name her Kelly Louise at first since Kelly delivered her. However, Kelly told Nola that, while he forgave her for lying that he was the baby's father, they could never be friends. So Nola ended up changing her name to Anastasia after one of her favorite movies.
It would have been great to see Jane Elliot (Carrie) go toe-to-toe with Cindy Pickett had she still performed the role of Jackie. Pickett's replacement would have been better off in a different role. Pickett's Jackie was independent, feisty, and confident, and I don't see her backing down so easily from a fight with Carrie #2 (she more than held her own with Alan, Diane, and every other character with whom she interacted).
This is from the last glory days of Doug Marland as head writer. He and producer Allen Potter had major blow ups about future storyline and in particular, Carrie Todd(Jane Elliot). Elliot and Marland were old friends and Potter's horriible attitude gave Doug a very quick exit from the show as did Elliot. Both were needed for the upcoming nightmarish, confusing and downright disasterous eight months.Ratings were high now, then began collapsing like a house of cards.
I never knew she came back either. She seems like a character who should have had a lot of potential but didn't fit in. I remember how flabbergasted I was when Ross mentioned her upon finding out Ben Warren was his brother. A rare use of history by this time (by this time you had things like Reva saying Marah was her first born!).
very good. I searche the episode / scene of Guiding Light with Maeve and Kyle in the bathtub. I believe it was between January and March 1986. Can you upload this ? greetings from Germany
You can see, unfortunately, the effects of GH’s ratings on the show. More “adventure” plot lines, especially Quint’s stuff, never my favorite part of the show.
@@neworleansguy10 Yes Texas another P&G show on NBC up against GH and GL was doing adventure too - The Hitopah story line with geologist Brett Wheeler played by Harley Kozak who went on to play Annabelle on GL. I think hit movies like Raiders of Lost Ark at the time was influencing these daytime shows.
That was Nola's friend Gracie, last name LONG forgotten. This was before the Reva show began. Kathleen Cullen was Amanda Spaulding then, until the pretty lady came on here, I'm not saying Kathleen wasn't pretty because she was. But they made Amanda way younger. Later on I mean. I have no idea who that man was. There's Ross Marler, WOW! Ross is SO GOOD LOOKING! That was the crappy disco music opening. Thanks for the commercials. I thought Quint was Vanessa's brother?
The man with Amanda is Mark Evans. Mark was married to Amanda's mother, Jennifer Richards, but the marriage fell apart after Mark and Amanda slept together. Quint is Vanessa's half-brother but this is before Quint's paternity was revealed.
Bonnie Danielson Well done!! Nola was my favorite character. There are a lot of episodes from 1980 and Jan and Feb 1981, but most episodes from the spring and early summer of 1981, before the big confrontation on 7/31 (GAME OVER) are missing. I wish that there were more episodes from March-July 1981, when Nola's machinations were at their peak.
Hey. Some of us remember that "crappy" disco theme fondly, though I'll agree that the previous theme, Ritournelle, and the theme just following this, were the best.
Is there an episode of GUIDING LIGHT anywhere that shows the opening sequence in late 1982 that features "Dr. Sara McIntyre" in it? I would love to see that version again.
It is sad that they killed off Jackie in a plane crash but seemed to bother me was it was not that long before Justin ended up with Helena. ON Mindy 's Birthday Phillip cried about missing his mother's funeral. I thought the truth was that all they found was a piece of the plane not Jackie or the Pilot's bodies. Oh well.
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YUCK that whiny sister of Justin's wife, I can't even remember her name, or the whiny sister's name either, all I remember is her always whining and crying all the time. I hated her. And who's the pregnant woman? Jackie, the pregnant woman called her Jackie. OH YEAH it was Evie! That's the woman that's on General Hospital now. Scary Carrie. This must have been when the multiple personality craze was going on, at least 2000 women supposedly had multiple personalities from their traumatic childhoods, HA! Turns out the stupid psychiatrists were draining the women dry of all their money by hypnotizing them and convincing them they were raped, tortured, etc- Then all of the truth came out in the 90s that these women were normal.
