One Life to Live - April 1, 1977 

I just heard about it! 🙏🏻

@@EdwynNSanchez Me too. One of the originals

I may have one last episode from the 70s. I may share that one here as well even though all the episodes I published here from that decade have been share here before I did. Stay tuned!

@@EdwynNSanchez Greatly appreciate the time and effort you put into your channel.

@@stephenhonicki3528 - It's my pleasure!

@@EdwynNSanchezwhere did these episodes come from?? I don’t think home recording exist and networks usually destroyed the masters.

@@gabelogan5877 - Well, I wish I'd known. But I understand that home recorders first became a thing sometime in the late 70s.

It was great in the 80s.

It was great in the 80s, too. That's when it was the most popular.

I sure wish of a lot of these people that had the new DVR’s or recording it in 7071. They’ve got some good storylines they are going on.

I loved the 80s era.

80s were the most popular and my favorite era.

yep it does indeed seem accurate. only 12 mins of commercials and 33 of screen time from 45 min eps...and they didn't need "halftime" bumpers. Coz I do know that by the 80's the 80' when all soaps officially reached a full hour eps(1978 and after) an episode was at least 45 or 46 mins long and by mid to late 80's about 43. Now I hear their only 36 mins of viewing time without commercials. And that's not including if the shows were to rebroadcast what else besides commercials would be edited out as Edwyn mentioned. The wonder of television!

Never knew he played Dr Will Vernon. I remembered another actor

Agree about Karen.

Agree, they did give some likability to her. She had a heart of gold at her core

Shit you need to see her on “The Doctors.” The woman literally screamed “Don’t mess with me.” She was a great actress. I like her way more then Robin Strasser.

When I was in elementary school I was home sick a lot….The lady who kept house for us was insane about ABC soaps so the television was on the whole afternoon and OLTL was her favorite…Watching these pulls me back over 40 years and it feels like I was watching these yesterday…. I remember this storyline ( Kevin kidnapped by crazy Cathy C) so well…I know that Dorian was connected elliptically to this plot but I can not remember what it was…Years later when I became a fan in my own right, Robin Strasser was established in the role and I could not get over the complete departure from the way the role was originally styled. Robin Strasser’s interpretation was very broad and almost campy at times…Her Dorian was the epitome of a flashy, nouveau riche arriviste who was always over-the-top and could go from 0 to 100 in histrionics in the matter of a minute…There didn’t seem to be much of Nancy Pinkerton’s character left, her Dorian seldom got explosive and was usually cold and very calculating…RS Dorian could come off as absurd and humorous, almost satire at times, but there was NOTHING funny about NP’s Dorian…she was actually a frightening presence that almost had a sociopathic streak-her antics were REALLY shocking and her misdeeds were hard to predict because she kept you guessing just HOW monstrous Dorian could be…In later years, RS’s Dorian seemed haunted by what she did to Victor, whether it was guilt, or fear she would be exposed, the past frightened her and she would react in some extreme, desperate way and at times didn’t seem like she had it completely under control--By contrast, NP’s Dorian seemed to always have that icy little smile, and her persona was kept rooted in the original concept: She was ultra-intelligent, well educated ( a doctor of course) and utterly ruthless…She also was not initially written as any kind of rival or nemesis to Vicki--the unhinged Cathy Craig was clear antagonist throughout most of the 70s

Sorry to go on and on but this makes me very nostalgic. And I remember often throughout the later years thinking “How would the “original” Dorian have played this scene?”

I think the essence of the RS Dorian at its most intense was the scene when she was completely about to violate Victor’s grave, open his coffin and actually pour LYE on his fucking skeletal remains…that was one of the most BRILLIANT moments in the entire history of OLTL--I had never seen ANYTHING like it on daytime or nighttime television…They really pushed the envelope that day!

@@CRESCENTII1968 This was a great soap back in the day. I loved One Life to Live pre-Buchanan era

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@@lisadelpeche3371 yes

*Zeman

Yes. She was on the show for a couple of years. Her character was killed off on the show after Brad Vernon impregnated her and then spiked her drink with sedatives.

I believe she played Lana Wood on this show pre General Hospital

I think it’s because This Dorian is intense, you can tell in her eyes she does not care about the baby but only wants to make sure she is the one who finds it so she can be a heroine.

She is definitely up to something, her eyes are intense and she was ready to take any info for her own benefit, I liked this Dorian for her subtle and cold demeanor , she is the opposite of Robin’s Dorian. This is the Dorian who murders her husband.

The episode that I have has already been published here as well by a different channel which I will not get into any more details. But I plan on sharing that episode without the commercials myself very soon. Also, I unfortunately do not have the entire AMC episode with Cheryl from '77.

Well, what I have next is from all from 2005. But I may bring up a few episodes from the 90s from time to time. Stay tuned!

@@EdwynNSanchez that be nice to see 90-92(which I heard were stale years) still would be ok to see...I saw everything 93 and after...

Eh? Really? Episodes from OLTL's last 20 years are much easier to find and aren't exactly collectors items. These 70s episodes are extremely rare, and I for one would much prefer to see them over anything more "recent."

I believe Tommy Lee Jones had left. Maybe by 1976 but I think it was 1975. He committed a crime I recall

Tommy played Dr Mark Toland.

Laurence Fishburne was gone at this point. That's his replacement, Todd Davis as Josh. Todd went on to play Bryan Phillips on General Hospital a year later.

Tony's place.

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@@erikandrus4387 There May have been others before that, but I cannot remember them

Sorry to say that I do not have anymore 2003-04 episodes with the Music Box Killer. But I did recently just shared another episode from 2003 in random. It's not complete but it’s better than nothing.