ATWT during the 1970:s is the best soap ever. No soap has beaten the quality of it. The acting, the pace, the characters, the music. Everything is perfect. Thanks for the upload.
So good to see 1979 episodes when Don MacLaughlin, Helen Wagner, Don Hastings, Eileen Fulton, Henderson Forsythe, and Patricia Bruder were still at the forefront. Would enjoy seeing more episodes with Santos Ortega, Ethel Remey, and William Johnstone--if only they were available to the public.
Was thinking to myself, as I was watching this great clip, how many of the actors and characters would be gone from the show in a matter of months....all of them, except the character of Betsy that would be recast. Of course, Nancy and Chris would be gone in about a year or a little longer, but both would, thankfully, return.
So great to see these late 70s episodes again. I started watching actually in the summer of '78. I was 14. And I had a lifelong love hate relationship with the show ever since. Through the good times and bad. The good being what a lot of people probably think was the show's heyday, the mid to late 80's, when the late great Doug Marland was head writer. And I watched the show till it's last episode. Really loved Van Hansis's Luke coming out story. I thought at the time how bold for a long running soap like this taking taking a leap of faith telling this kind of story. Yes, it did lose some viewers, but it also gained viewers as well. I was never much of a fan of Luke and Noah's. But I did love Luke and Reid together. I thought it was a horrible mistake killing off Reid before the series ended and leaving poor Luke all alone. They should have been together in the end. Still kind of strange seeing Peter Simon in this role. Because we all know him better in his other long running role as Dr. Ed Bauer on Guiding Light.
Thanks. Some wonderful scenes here. That scene with Ralph and Nancy was fantastic. I wasn't expecting it. Keith Charles gave a very poignant performance. I like seeing Nancy so smart and conflicted. The bookstore scene was great. I guess Melinda thinks Sheila is a con. I had no idea so many people worked at the bookstore (Kim is too). How did Lisa keep it afloat? I have rarely seen Jay. Awful makeup on Mary. I wonder if she may have been a good Alice on AW. Were they pairing Ian/Barbara?
Thanks for the upload 👍 !! XD Did I just hear my ears right.. When Barbara says "I enjoy helping people" This is NOT the same scheamer Barbara would become by the mid 80's . Talk about a COMPLETE character rewrite..I guess this is Barbara Pre James Stenbeck..And her worst enemy Margot .I am sure if the show just wanted to bring her down to his level .Or the show wanted to just make a jerk of her in between jobs For Anothony H. Much prefer this Barbara..VS the one she would become by 1986 !!
For whom asked who Ralph & Mary were: Mary & her then husband adopted Joyce & Grant Colman's son Teddy (in the later years of the show Teddy was known as Ryder); Joyce gave Teddy up for adoption when Grant left her - she didn't tell Grant she was PG @ the time so he didn't know about his existence until years after the fact when she unsuccessfully sued for custody. Joyce was later married to Don Hughes but had an affair with Ralph when she managed to get PG by Ralph but let Don think the child was his even after miscarrying. When Ralph (who was friendly with Don) threatened to tell him the truth regarding the paternity of the child Joyce lost, she was fixing to fatally shoot Ralph, claiming he was a prowler - but ended up shooting Don, temporarily paralyzing him. She was going over the deep end @ this time and people were looking to commit her - but she drove off a bridge a few months before this episode and was presumed dead. Spoiler alert: a few months later Joyce returned very much alive & @ least partially reformed - just about the time she had been declared legally dead - and Don & Mary got engaged. To Joyce's credit she did turn herself into the police for trying to kill Ralph and for shooting Don - and agreed to a divorce so Don & Mary could be legally free to marry. She did start squabbling again with Lisa over Grant (Grant married Lisa after leaving Joyce) just lke a few years earlier.
