Alan (as played by Ron Raines) could be ruthless and cold....especially during the latter years of GL, but when he first arrived on the scene, he was simply too "nice". Alan's death during the final week of GL simply tore my heart out, the way Phillip found him on that bench, dead.
+SoapsNthings I know, the 2000's saw a very ruthless Alan, which I hate with soaps making one character responsible for so much heartache. But yes when I watched the episode when Alan died, that was the first time I ever almost cried over a soap! Nice to see that he was considered a hero from the folks of Springfield just before he passed.
ok, I have a million things to do today as usual but all I can do is watch these Guiding Light classics. I swear every time I heard the word "Affidavit" I thought back to these times with my two favorite daytime characters of all time. #1 Alan Spaulding and #2 Roger Thorpe. RIP Chris and Michael. Love you guys, thanks for the memories.
The acting was excellent at that time.. Guiding Light had such good writers. I still miss it. Guys liked the show also. Chris & Michael playing the roles of Alan and Roger kept us in suspense, I loved Mike Bower . Vanessa showing up to see Ross in a fur coat wearing nothing underneath. I liked the actress who first played Jackie Marler. She and Mike Bauer would have made an ideal couple. Grant Alexander as Phillip is a great actor and so handsome.. Reva and Josh were quite the couple. Kim Zimmer was gorgeous .I am surprised she let her go and put on so much weight. Robert Newman still looked great. So many story lines through the years. I was a faithful viewer from the time I was 4 until the last show.. I remember Bert Bauer as a young Mother who was a trouble maker in those days. The show was only on 15 minutes a day.. I would love to see it come back. Às long as the writers develop good storylines the show always had great actors. I think it would be a huge success.
I concur. But I compromise. I do my housework while listening to it. The dialogue is so great. You don't even have to watch it. Just let it play in the background while I putter around the house, just like my mom did back in the day.
I was 15 at this time. Absolutely mesmerized by Lucille Wexler (Rita Lloyd). It became my favorite part of the soap after Roger-Holly earlier in the year. I remember when they killed Lucille off in October 1980, falling on the letter opener meant to kill Jennifer--Jane Marie Stafford (Amanda's real mother). I was so disappointed they didn't try to keep her on as a conniving psychotic character somehow. I was that hooked on her and her strained relationship with Amanda. The Wexler mansion was always shot dark and "noir-ish". One of the creepiest scenes when Lucille deliberately sent Ben up to a door-to-nowhere on the upper floor and he fell out of the house during a storm at night. She was insanely jealous of him and tried to kill him/sabotage his relationship with Amanda in so many wonderfully twisted ways.
Im with you. Roger was my fave but Lucille was right up there. I was also about 15 yrs old and these girls in my Ancient History class in high school always used to talk about GL. I went home one day and turned on CBS and I got hooked lol. I also watched General Hospital back in those days. In my area GL ran from 230 to 330 pm on CBS channel 10 and GH aired from 3 to 4 on Channel 12 ABC lo. So at 3PM I had to switch back and forth lol. Cool behind the scenes fact is that Bridget and Jerome Dobson wrote GH in the early days and they wrote GL during this era! I also believe that one of them is actually the child of Frank and Doris Hursley who created GH lol. The Soap Genre really is one big family despite how tribal viewers can be lol.
Love seeing these old episodes. Takes me back to when I was in high school. I watched GL until the end. Roger Thorpe was one the best daytime villains ever. Michael was so talented. My grandma used to put hex on him lol.
They had a little blonde girl playing Christina in an episode. That blonde Christina was the younger sister of Jarrod Ross, who plays Phillip Spaulding .
So true Michael Zaslow was such a good actor that despite how wicked Roger could be Michael was able to give him a vulnerablity and a humanity. I really related to him and in some ways I was rooting for him to get Christina. I also believed that because Holly was in love with Ed while married to him that was a kind of betrayal so by raping her he was taking back what was his. Of course thats twisted dysfunctional logic. But Michael's performances made it real. He gave Roger very real relateable motives for even his most heinous actions. Thats the mark of a talented actor!
Me too! That was the storyline that hooked me on GL, when Rita was on trial for murdering Cyrus Granger, and his son Malcolm, though it later came out that the murders were committed by Malcolm's psychotic widow, Georgene Granger.
This was when soaps were good!! Guiding Light started to go bad after the half-time "Ritournelle" was changed in late 1981. Then 'GL' got weird what with the Quentin McCord story line and the influx of the Lewis'!! Bleh!!😝😝😝😝😝😝😦😦😦😦😦😦 And GL killed off a lot of it's female characters sooooo violently!!
I agree. Doug Marland killed off both Diane and Lucille. They were 2 of the best villainesses in the show's history. Rita Lloyd and Sophia London were terrific actors. Sadly I never saw either of them again after they left GL.
@@MrCraigblaze She appeared on ATWT, GL and Another World, almost continuously from 1965 through the late 1990s. In 1971, when her character, Claire Cassen, was killed off on ATWT, I believe she moved over to GL as Barbara the very next week!
Lucille Wexler is furious when her 'daughter' Amanda is signing the stock certificates and accepting her inheritance from Brandon Spaulding. Amanda doesn't know that Brandon is actually her grandfather and that her real father is Brandon's son Alan. Rita Lloyd as Lucille Wexler was an excellent actress !
+1976mcil Rita Lloyd tenure on GL was waaay too short. What a shame. But in regards to your comment about Amanda being left Brandon Spaulding's inheritance, it's a wonder that either Amanda or Ross couldn't figure out the obvious!
@@soapsnthings4182 It was really bad. Lucille actually killed Brandon Spaulding (or watched him die and did nothing), yet, he was alive and well in the '90s.
Dr. Peter Chapman, played by the late Curt Dawson. He nearly married Holly, but the wedding was called off at the last minute when he realized that he was still in love with his former girlfriend in (I think) the Dominican Republic, and he returned there to reunite with her.
@@mthivier thankyou, when I first started watching, I could only watch the last 15 minutes, till they moved the time of the show. This was around the time Rodger raped Holly.
At this point in the show, yes, all parties knew the truth. Jackie was the first to keep this secret (after Phillip's birth, a devious doctor convinced Jackie to give the baby up for adoption, and the doctor gave the baby to a woman who'd had a stillborn baby---Elizabeth, who was then married to Alan). Justin later learned the truth, and eventually Elizabeth, who suffered a breakdown afterwards.
Brandon Spaulding left her a lot of stock in his will, and Amanda became a majority stock holder, in Spaulding, wielding a lot of power. The reason that Brandon did this was because Amanda was his biological granddaughter, with Brandon's son Alan Spaulding being Amanda's biological father, from an affair he had with his girl friend's sister Jane Marie Stafford when he was young. Brandon had an affair with Lucille Wexler at the time that his son Alan fathered Amanda, and because Lucille loved Brandon, she agreed to take Alan's baby and raise it as her own as a favor to him. Amanda had no idea who her parents were until the trial of Jane Marie Stafford.
