Dear Sweet Bert! I loved Bert! She was The Guiding Light and The Guiding Light was never the same without her! It sure was something that her name in real life was Bauer!
I could be mis-remembering this now, but Charita's real-life sons were also named Ed and Mike. She asked the writers to give her onscreen sons the same names as her real sons, as it would lessen the likelihood of a mistake like calling one of her TV sons by the wrong name on-camera. The show was broadcast live in those days, and that kind of a mistake would have been difficult to cover up.
Wow. It's evening and I came across this and I dropped everything. In my head, everything came to me quickly. I'm starting to forget things sometimes, but so many things on here are very clear on my mind.
@mthivier Here's another quirky co-incidence, Simone Lahbib had two boyfriends named Sean & Thomas on Bad Girls and in a TV Movie her Sons were named Thomas & Sean. I don't know if it's me but there wasn't a time in Bert Bauer's life in which there wasn't some sort of drema. Was Stephen Jackson of Irish Background or German Background, and to think Rick Bauer his Grandson would also be a Doctor.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hcoh yeah I saw that episode with Roger playing the part of a song writer who was killed by the aparant Rock star..He was drugged with heroin. Rita played his girlfriend and was only seen after the murder with the parents hiring Barnaby to find his killer as so to clear his name.... Lenore kasdorf also had a short stint in the series Mannix as a young model...She had to be around twenty one or so in 1970 with Michael conners ..Also played in the series Cannon She debut here in Guilding light in 1976.
@@darnellanders8768 Michael Zaslow, who played Roger Thorpe, also appeared in the first episode of Star Trek, the original series. He was the first crewman to be killed off the show in the opening scene. The episode was "The Man Trap".
@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc oh yeah I did eventually put that together years later but not until after watching Guilding light. ..Lots of the stars start out early in life and work their way up. . Example I just watched the classic movie Sudden Fear starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance as to where Mike Conners from the series Mannix starred as Junior..He was much younger and comedic..I also looked for his name in the credits and they listed his name as Touch Connors so that through me for a loop ..I use to watch Another world 🌍 in it's early days with Alice and Steve Rachel and Mac and years later come to realize it was Ted Shackleford from Knots landing who played Gary Ewing Also played Ray Gordon on Another world once married to Olive Gordon' who hated Alice who was dating Ray...Ted Shackleford also played in Star trek along side Joan van Ark who also played Valine Val in knots landing.. it all comes back from watching old movies tv series and so forth . Lenore kasdorf also played in the series. In the heat of the night ..As a older woman after she left Guilding light. .She was still lovely at the age of around Fifty something playing a wheelchair bound wealthy woman who was murdered by her husband's mistress to speed up the insurance policies knowing he would be filthy rich upon her death...She only had a small part in that episode mostly at the beginning before she supposedly had a heartache but actually she was poisoned. .
This is 5 days before my 13th Birthday. I can’t believe how clear & vibrant this episode is. I don’t I started watching GL full time until 1979 though since I was still in school. I watched it till the bitter end. Especially, the last year or so which was rough. Both GL & ATWT were my jam. Good memories.
And it was a bitter end. I couldn't keep watching with all of the explosions, alien abductions, amnesia, so and so died but showed up later to no longer be dead, etc etc. The writers were REALLY reaching for storylines. Had they not gone to such extremes I'd be watching to this day
i love Guiding Light.. Everything pre 1983 is appericiated and especially the 70's.. Im so glad someone posted the June/July 1966 episodes.. 31 episodes in a row of the 60's is just beautiful.. and this 1977 episode is such a treasure too
I so agree I don't really remember any episodes until around 1985 even though I watched it with my mother and grandparents so it's so exciting to see these older episodes And see it through my grandma's eyes she loved the show so much .❤️
Thank you so very much for posting. These make my day. Used to rush home from school to watch. Late 70s very early 80s are gold. Not so much once Reva et al came into town
Kelly, I could not agree more!!! Nothing like the days of the late 70’s on the Guiding Light. The characters were so relatable. They were so awesome then. Rita Bauer was so amazing! I liked Reva, but I much preferred the days of Rita.
I wished more GL from the 1970s where available on video. I started watching the show in 1977. And stopped watching around 2001. I thought 1977-1981 where the best years.
Georgine seems none-too-pleased that her attempt to push Rita down the stairs earlier was only partially successful, and her resulting injuries were only minor. I'm so glad that at least this little bit of Delphi Harrington's portrayal of Georgene still exists. She was such an iconic and well-remembered character.
I was so excited for the return of Bill Bauer. The writers should have handled it so much better. Ed Bryce was a treasure and he should have been kept as an active cast member.
Indeed, they should have, but within a few years of this episode, soaps caught the "youth bug", and began began writing out nearly every character over 50s years old. By the early '80s, Steve Jackson, Barbara, Adam, Sara and Lucille Wexler would all be gone, and Jackie's father, and Rita's mother, both of whom played prominent supporting roles, would disappear without fanfare (and Charita Bauer's illness and death would eliminate Bert as a character). Had they not written Bill out when they did, they probably would have dumped his character not too long afteward, anyway, given Ed Bryce's age. It's really too bad. They didn't realize what a great loss to the show losing all of these great characters would represent.
You are ever so right. The older characters and actors brought so much richness and depth to the soaps. Without them, soaps fail. The Y & R has never been the same since the passing of Jeanne Cooper as Katherine Chancellor. I wish those in charge could have recognized the value of those days of old, and if they had, The Guiding Light might still be with us today.
Yes, it's tragic that that TPTB looked on legacy and "elder" characters as a liability, rather than as both the treasure and continuity they lent : - (
The story never made any sense. Bill had less than 10 years to live when he was missing and presumed dead. THAT is the real story that wasn’t handled so well.
I was on bed rest in that day awaiting my first child who was born 20 days later. I watched GL from my bed. I watched till Nola and Quint storyline ended.
I have no idea who that man is eating with Bert. I started watching in 81 and it was all about Nola. She was one of my most favorite characters. Could you post some episodes with Nola? And also Phillip, Rick, Beth and Mindy? I would live to see The Four Musketeers as they were called when they ran away to New York hiding from Beth's step father.
Sorry to say that I don’t have any GL episodes with Nola (which is also another of my favorite characters) and the Four Musketeers at the moment. But of course, if I do have any of them, I’ll do my best to post them.
As was already answered...the guy at the table with Bert is Stephen Jackson, the father of Leslie (Rick's mother). Leslie was killed off in a car accident at some point in the early 1970s. Stephen was a major role model of Ed's...the reason Ed became a doctor was to impress Leslie's father. Stephen and Leslie came to town in 1965. Stefan Schnabel portrayed Stephen Jackson the entire time (1965-1981) but there were a lot of actresses that played Leslie. Ed Bauer, from 1966-1969, was portrayed by Robert Gentry. Martin Hulswit, seen in the 1977 episode, took over the Ed Bauer role in 1969 and was replaced in 1981 by Peter Simon.
Dr. Steven Jackson (Stefan Schnabel). He was Ed's mentor and later father-in-law. He was also Rick's maternal grandfather (Steve's daughter Leslie was Rick's mother).
Georgene was the daughter-in-law of an elderly, wealthy Texas oil man for whom Rita had previously worked as a private duty nurse. He was murdered, and Rita stood trial for his murder, but she was ultimately acquitted. Georgene, apparently unsatisfied with the verdict, stalked and harassed Rita for several months, before trying to murder Rita and her sister Eve in their apartment building laundry room. It later came out that it was Georgene, herself, who had murdered her father-in-law, as well as her husband.
Yes, and it is the same actor (Ed Bryce) who portrayed "Bill Bauer #2" from roughly 1959-69, before he died, allegedly of a heart attack while away from "Springfield" on a business trip, as I recall. So the old adage of "If no body is ever found, the character may still be alive" applies. When Robert Gentry portrayed "Dr. William 'Ed' Bauer, Jr." from 1966-69, he had a very combative relationship with his father, ironic because 'Ed' at that point had also become an alcoholic just like his dad. But 'Ed' left "Springfield' after having had a fight in the "Bauer" living room in which he slugged his father, which I think may have caused "Bill" to have a heart attack, but not killing him. And while "Ed" was away from "Springfield" the role was recast with the equally excellent actor Mart Hulswit (who had already portrayed a semi-recurring young hospital intern in the prime time drama 'Dr. Kildare' starring Richard Chamberlain). Hulswit played "Ed" as a gentler, more sensitive personality, from 1969-81, eventually recovering from alcoholism and was in the role the second-longest after Peter Simon, who essentially portrayed "Ed" from 1981-84, then from 1986 to 1996 and from 2002 until the end of the soap in 2009. But I had originally known of Peter Simon for his originating portrayal of attorney "Scott Phillips" in 'Search for Tomorrow," a role he played off and on for over a decade, and which at one point had his character separated from his wife and law partner "Kathy" (played by longtime soap actress-writer and real life spouse Courtney Sherman-Simon) and married to a character named "Jennifer Pace Phillips Wyatt," portrayed in great over-the-top form by Morgan Fairchild. I can still recall that scene (and have the video on an old hard drive) where Fairchild as "Jennifer" fell through the plate-glass patio door window during an argument with "Scott"(Simon). Naturally, "Scott" remained with "Jennifer" longer out of guilt about her accident. But "Jennifer" recovered sure enough to divorce "Scott" and marry even more successful attorney "John Wyatt" (played by soap vet Val Dufour), breaking up his marriage to "Eunice Gardner Twining Martin Wyatt" (Ann Williams), sister of the soap's longtime tragic heroine "Joanne" (portrayed all 35 years by Mary Stuart, who also, incidentally, came out of retirement to play the revived character of "Meta Bauer Banning" in 'GL' for a few years before she died) and ultimately shooting and killing "Eunice," a rarity in soaps, to kill a beloved, longtime character. Then, strangely, from 1997-98, Robert Gentry returned to play "Dr. Ed" again after an absence of nearly three decades, after Gentry had had a relatively long-term run as "Ross Chandler" in 'All My Children' in the 1980s and early '90s. Another 'AMC'/"Pine Valley" alum, Richard Van Vleet, had also played "Ed Bauer" from 1984-86.
Actually, he was presumed to have been killed in a plane crash, but, being the drunk that he was, he went to the airport bar for several drinks, and ended up missing his connecting flight and so he wasn't on the plane that went down, and then, tortured over his disastrous marriage to Bert, he decided not to contact her to tell her that he was still alive, and eventually made his way back to Simone (Hillary's mother), and made a life with her.
Most internet sites say November 7, 1977. I have never seen the episode that featured Alan's debut. There's another November 1977 episode here on UA-cam where Mike, Alan, Elizabeth, and another character are having breakfast together. The scene plays out like it's the second meeting between Mike and Alan. I thought the first hour long episode of the show is the one that featured the debut of Alan, Elizabeth, and Phillip.
@@ACcountryFan The other person having breakfast with them is Jackie Marler. This was before Jackie and Justin got back together and Jackie had a thing for Mike.
@@ACcountryFan I remember they sent young Phillip away to boarding school? He came back like a year later as this hunky all-grown-up young man. Same with Rick, I think. Then, Rick became a doctor in like 8 weeks because he took the "accelerated Med program" hahaha
I remember briefly when Allan and his family came to town. He was married to Elizabeth at the time. He treated Elizabeth miserably. He would put her down constantly, as if she couldn't make it without him. He was also a womanizer. She finally left Alan. Alan then married Jackie. When I quit watching, he was on wife #3, Hope Bauer. I could tell that their marriage wasn't going to last either. Give it time, and I was right. I know Alan must have been introduced sometime in the early 70's. I never thought he would make it as long as he did. They found him sitting on a park bench and he was already deceased.
@@gregwilliams3120 I remember that accelerated program. The actor playing Rick was in his mid-twenties, so the age for becoming a doctor would have lined up that way.
That's Peter Chapman. He had a backstory filled with intrigue and ties to Santo Domingo. On the show he was the son of Max Chapman, the editor of The Springfield Journal. The same newspaper Fletcher Reade worked for throughout his years on the show in the '80s and '90s.
Peter was also briefly infatuated with Rita, and dated her a couple of times (right after she and Ed broke up for the first time, after he found out about her secret past with Roger), but he quickly figured out that that she wasn't over Ed. (You can see in his face here, when he and Rita were talking about Ed, that the is realizing that she was still in love with him.) He shifted his attentions to Holly not long after this..
The pacing on soaps was much slower in those days, for sure. The joke used to be that you could watch a character opening a door and walking into a room, and then you could tune in three weeks later, and they were just coming through the other side of the door.
Dear Sweet Bert! I loved Bert! She was The Guiding Light and The Guiding Light was never the same without her! It sure was something that her name in real life was Bauer!
I could be mis-remembering this now, but Charita's real-life sons were also named Ed and Mike. She asked the writers to give her onscreen sons the same names as her real sons, as it would lessen the likelihood of a mistake like calling one of her TV sons by the wrong name on-camera. The show was broadcast live in those days, and that kind of a mistake would have been difficult to cover up.
RIP Bert. ❤
Wow. It's evening and I came across this and I dropped everything. In my head, everything came to me quickly. I'm starting to forget things sometimes, but so many things on here are very clear on my mind.
@mthivier Here's another quirky co-incidence, Simone Lahbib had two boyfriends named Sean & Thomas on Bad Girls and in a TV Movie her Sons were named Thomas & Sean. I don't know if it's me but there wasn't a time in Bert Bauer's life in which there wasn't some sort of drema. Was Stephen Jackson of Irish Background or German Background, and to think Rick Bauer his Grandson would also be a Doctor.
Kasdorf as Rita was great! Man I miss this classic show and all the great actors. So happy it focused on the Bauers
Lenore Kasdorf and Michael Zaslow, who played Roger Thorpe, appeared together in an episode of Barnaby Jones.
She was gorgeous
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hcoh yeah I saw that episode with Roger playing the part of a song writer who was killed by the aparant Rock star..He was drugged with heroin. Rita played his girlfriend and was only seen after the murder with the parents hiring Barnaby to find his killer as so to clear his name.... Lenore kasdorf also had a short stint in the series Mannix as a young model...She had to be around twenty one or so in 1970 with Michael conners ..Also played in the series Cannon She debut here in Guilding light in 1976.
@@darnellanders8768 Michael Zaslow, who played Roger Thorpe, also appeared in the first episode of Star Trek, the original series. He was the first crewman to be killed off the show in the opening scene. The episode was "The Man Trap".
@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc oh yeah I did eventually put that together years later but not until after watching Guilding light. ..Lots of the stars start out early in life and work their way up. . Example I just watched the classic movie Sudden Fear starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance as to where Mike Conners from the series Mannix starred as Junior..He was much younger and comedic..I also looked for his name in the credits and they listed his name as Touch Connors so that through me for a loop ..I use to watch Another world 🌍 in it's early days with Alice and Steve Rachel and Mac and years later come to realize it was Ted Shackleford from Knots landing who played Gary Ewing Also played Ray Gordon on Another world once married to Olive Gordon' who hated Alice who was dating Ray...Ted Shackleford also played in Star trek along side Joan van Ark who also played Valine Val in knots landing.. it all comes back from watching old movies tv series and so forth . Lenore kasdorf also played in the series. In the heat of the night ..As a older woman after she left Guilding light. .She was still lovely at the age of around Fifty something playing a wheelchair bound wealthy woman who was murdered by her husband's mistress to speed up the insurance policies knowing he would be filthy rich upon her death...She only had a small part in that episode mostly at the beginning before she supposedly had a heartache but actually she was poisoned. .
This is 5 days before my 13th Birthday. I can’t believe how clear & vibrant this episode is. I don’t I started watching GL full time until 1979 though since I was still in school. I watched it till the bitter end. Especially, the last year or so which was rough. Both GL & ATWT were my jam. Good memories.
And it was a bitter end. I couldn't keep watching with all of the explosions, alien abductions, amnesia, so and so died but showed up later to no longer be dead, etc etc. The writers were REALLY reaching for storylines. Had they not gone to such extremes I'd be watching to this day
Rita was absolutely beautiful
The video quality is so good
Michael Zaslow was great
i love Guiding Light.. Everything pre 1983 is appericiated and especially the 70's.. Im so glad someone posted the June/July 1966 episodes.. 31 episodes in a row of the 60's is just beautiful.. and this 1977 episode is such a treasure too
I so agree I don't really remember any episodes until around 1985 even though I watched it with my mother and grandparents so it's so exciting to see these older episodes And see it through my grandma's eyes she loved the show so much .❤️
Yes, I agree. It became completely unwatchable when it became "The Reva Show" during the early '80s, but anything prior is always WONDERFUL to see.
Thank You. What a treat. Adam Thorpe played by Robert Milli . I also enjoyed him as Wayne Addison from Another World. Great cast of actors .
1977 I was a senior in high school, would come home every day and watch. Thank you for this great memories!
Me too! :)
Even Bert's wrap matched the walls and the tablecloth!!
Wonderful Bert
Thank you....I watched GL until the last episode. I was under 10 when this episode aired. Loved Charita as Bert❤️💔
Thank you for posting these.
Thank you so very much for posting. These make my day. Used to rush home from school to watch. Late 70s very early 80s are gold. Not so much once Reva et al came into town
Kelly, I could not agree more!!! Nothing like the days of the late 70’s on the Guiding Light. The characters were so relatable. They were so awesome then. Rita Bauer was so amazing! I liked Reva, but I much preferred the days of Rita.
I agree, man I loved Rita, the Bauers, Roger and Alan. So many great characters and stories. Who could forget crazy Lucille??
I wished more GL from the 1970s where available on video. I started watching the show in 1977. And stopped watching around 2001. I thought 1977-1981 where the best years.
I would love to see a couple of the episodes following this critical one.
Loved this show
Georgine seems none-too-pleased that her attempt to push Rita down the stairs earlier was only partially successful, and her resulting injuries were only minor. I'm so glad that at least this little bit of Delphi Harrington's portrayal of Georgene still exists. She was such an iconic and well-remembered character.
I was so excited for the return of Bill Bauer. The writers should have handled it so much better. Ed Bryce was a treasure and he should have been kept as an active cast member.
Indeed, they should have, but within a few years of this episode, soaps caught the "youth bug", and began began writing out nearly every character over 50s years old. By the early '80s, Steve Jackson, Barbara, Adam, Sara and Lucille Wexler would all be gone, and Jackie's father, and Rita's mother, both of whom played prominent supporting roles, would disappear without fanfare (and Charita Bauer's illness and death would eliminate Bert as a character). Had they not written Bill out when they did, they probably would have dumped his character not too long afteward, anyway, given Ed Bryce's age. It's really too bad. They didn't realize what a great loss to the show losing all of these great characters would represent.
You are ever so right. The older characters and actors brought so much richness and depth to the soaps. Without them, soaps fail. The Y & R has never been the same since the passing of Jeanne Cooper as Katherine Chancellor. I wish those in charge could have recognized the value of those days of old, and if they had, The Guiding Light might still be with us today.
Scott Bryce was a wonderful actor
Yes, it's tragic that that TPTB looked on legacy and "elder" characters as a liability, rather than as both the treasure and continuity they lent : - (
The story never made any sense. Bill had less than 10 years to live when he was missing and presumed dead. THAT is the real story that wasn’t handled so well.
Don Stewart was a very handsome man.
I was on bed rest in that day awaiting my first child who was born 20 days later. I watched GL from my bed. I watched till Nola and Quint storyline ended.
I just loved Nola and Quinton ❤
The first Hilary she didn’t know she was a Bauer this was before Marsha Clark
The first Hillary was so cute. I never liked Marsha Clark
Thorpe was very young back in that 1970 days.
I loved Rita! I wished she would have stayed on!
Work like to see more episodes of rita stapleton gorgenie and eve
Still loving 'The Light' in 2024
I loved Rita! Man, ‘77- 84 were my fave years. The early ‘90s weren’t bad. I quit by ‘94, with a little sporadic watching here and there.
I have no idea who that man is eating with Bert. I started watching in 81 and it was all about Nola. She was one of my most favorite characters. Could you post some episodes with Nola? And also Phillip, Rick, Beth and Mindy? I would live to see The Four Musketeers as they were called when they ran away to New York hiding from Beth's step father.
Sorry to say that I don’t have any GL episodes with Nola (which is also another of my favorite characters) and the Four Musketeers at the moment. But of course, if I do have any of them, I’ll do my best to post them.
@@EdwynNSanchez Okay.
As was already answered...the guy at the table with Bert is Stephen Jackson, the father of Leslie (Rick's mother). Leslie was killed off in a car accident at some point in the early 1970s. Stephen was a major role model of Ed's...the reason Ed became a doctor was to impress Leslie's father. Stephen and Leslie came to town in 1965. Stefan Schnabel portrayed Stephen Jackson the entire time (1965-1981) but there were a lot of actresses that played Leslie. Ed Bauer, from 1966-1969, was portrayed by Robert Gentry. Martin Hulswit, seen in the 1977 episode, took over the Ed Bauer role in 1969 and was replaced in 1981 by Peter Simon.
Dr. Steven Jackson (Stefan Schnabel). He was Ed's mentor and later father-in-law. He was also Rick's maternal grandfather (Steve's daughter Leslie was Rick's mother).
That was Dr.Stephen Jackson, his daughter was Leslie, and he is Rick Bauer's grandfather. He was also Ed Bauer's mentor and boss at Cedar's Hospital.
Bill bauer in disguise
This aired 16 days b4 I was born🥴
The doctor played District Attorney Zachery Colton on Another World from 1980-1981.
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Edwin, You must mean the vault: Here’s a special episode coming out from the void.
Oh yes, I meant "vault". My apologies.
Who's that woman talking to.the nurse about Rita?
Georgine Granger
Georgene was the daughter-in-law of an elderly, wealthy Texas oil man for whom Rita had previously worked as a private duty nurse. He was murdered, and Rita stood trial for his murder, but she was ultimately acquitted. Georgene, apparently unsatisfied with the verdict, stalked and harassed Rita for several months, before trying to murder Rita and her sister Eve in their apartment building laundry room. It later came out that it was Georgene, herself, who had murdered her father-in-law, as well as her husband.
Why don't you pay attention and stop asking annoying questions?
So is the guy in the beard mike and Ed's father?
@Draper Scott and...is the young boy they're calling Freddie a young Rick Bauer?
Yes, and it is the same actor (Ed Bryce) who portrayed "Bill Bauer #2" from roughly 1959-69, before he died, allegedly of a heart attack while away from "Springfield" on a business trip, as I recall. So the old adage of "If no body is ever found, the character may still be alive" applies.
When Robert Gentry portrayed "Dr. William 'Ed' Bauer, Jr." from 1966-69, he had a very combative relationship with his father, ironic because 'Ed' at that point had also become an alcoholic just like his dad. But 'Ed' left "Springfield' after having had a fight in the "Bauer" living room in which he slugged his father, which I think may have caused "Bill" to have a heart attack, but not killing him. And while "Ed" was away from "Springfield" the role was recast with the equally excellent actor Mart Hulswit (who had already portrayed a semi-recurring young hospital intern in the prime time drama 'Dr. Kildare' starring Richard Chamberlain). Hulswit played "Ed" as a gentler, more sensitive personality, from 1969-81, eventually recovering from alcoholism and was in the role the second-longest after Peter Simon, who essentially portrayed "Ed" from 1981-84, then from 1986 to 1996 and from 2002 until the end of the soap in 2009.
But I had originally known of Peter Simon for his originating portrayal of attorney "Scott Phillips" in 'Search for Tomorrow," a role he played off and on for over a decade, and which at one point had his character separated from his wife and law partner "Kathy" (played by longtime soap actress-writer and real life spouse Courtney Sherman-Simon) and married to a character named "Jennifer Pace Phillips Wyatt," portrayed in great over-the-top form by Morgan Fairchild. I can still recall that scene (and have the video on an old hard drive) where Fairchild as "Jennifer" fell through the plate-glass patio door window during an argument with "Scott"(Simon). Naturally, "Scott" remained with "Jennifer" longer out of guilt about her accident. But "Jennifer" recovered sure enough to divorce "Scott" and marry even more successful attorney "John Wyatt" (played by soap vet Val Dufour), breaking up his marriage to "Eunice Gardner Twining Martin Wyatt" (Ann Williams), sister of the soap's longtime tragic heroine "Joanne" (portrayed all 35 years by Mary Stuart, who also, incidentally, came out of retirement to play the revived character of "Meta Bauer Banning" in 'GL' for a few years before she died) and ultimately shooting and killing "Eunice," a rarity in soaps, to kill a beloved, longtime character.
Then, strangely, from 1997-98, Robert Gentry returned to play "Dr. Ed" again after an absence of nearly three decades, after Gentry had had a relatively long-term run as "Ross Chandler" in 'All My Children' in the 1980s and early '90s. Another 'AMC'/"Pine Valley" alum, Richard Van Vleet, had also played "Ed Bauer" from 1984-86.
Actually, he was presumed to have been killed in a plane crash, but, being the drunk that he was, he went to the airport bar for several drinks, and ended up missing his connecting flight and so he wasn't on the plane that went down, and then, tortured over his disastrous marriage to Bert, he decided not to contact her to tell her that he was still alive, and eventually made his way back to Simone (Hillary's mother), and made a life with her.
Italian Telecommunications Only.
When was Alan Spaulding introduced
Most internet sites say November 7, 1977. I have never seen the episode that featured Alan's debut. There's another November 1977 episode here on UA-cam where Mike, Alan, Elizabeth, and another character are having breakfast together. The scene plays out like it's the second meeting between Mike and Alan. I thought the first hour long episode of the show is the one that featured the debut of Alan, Elizabeth, and Phillip.
@@ACcountryFan The other person having breakfast with them is Jackie Marler. This was before Jackie and Justin got back together and Jackie had a thing for Mike.
@@ACcountryFan I remember they sent young Phillip away to boarding school? He came back like a year later as this hunky all-grown-up young man. Same with Rick, I think. Then, Rick became a doctor in like 8 weeks because he took the "accelerated Med program" hahaha
I remember briefly when Allan and his family came to town. He was married to Elizabeth at the time. He treated Elizabeth miserably. He would put her down constantly, as if she couldn't make it without him. He was also a womanizer. She finally left Alan. Alan then married Jackie. When I quit watching, he was on wife #3, Hope Bauer. I could tell that their marriage wasn't going to last either. Give it time, and I was right. I know Alan must have been introduced sometime in the early 70's. I never thought he would make it as long as he did. They found him sitting on a park bench and he was already deceased.
@@gregwilliams3120
I remember that accelerated program. The actor playing Rick was in his mid-twenties, so the age for becoming a doctor would have lined up that way.
Sweet
Who's the man talking to Rita? The nice looking man with the moustache? Who's the girl in the hospital room?
That's Peter Chapman. He had a backstory filled with intrigue and ties to Santo Domingo. On the show he was the son of Max Chapman, the editor of The Springfield Journal. The same newspaper Fletcher Reade worked for throughout his years on the show in the '80s and '90s.
He was engaged to Holly when she was in prison. I believe they broke up after her release and when she was kidnapped by Roger.
Hillary Bauer. The actress was replaced by Marsha Clark in 1978.
Peter was also briefly infatuated with Rita, and dated her a couple of times (right after she and Ed broke up for the first time, after he found out about her secret past with Roger), but he quickly figured out that that she wasn't over Ed. (You can see in his face here, when he and Rita were talking about Ed, that the is realizing that she was still in love with him.) He shifted his attentions to Holly not long after this..
Cute little soap
Show
Wow
What? Roger thorpe had a father.
Whats the trial?
Bert real name bertha meals Bauer
Bertha Miller Bauer.
meals 😂😂😂
The Ed & Rita storyline was usually dismal. "Oh, Ed."
I'm not trying to be rude. GL is my all time favorite show ever. But I'm watching this dinner scene and it seems very boring.
It kinda drags doesn’t it?
@@TheloniousJacksonsoaps move much quicker now for sure!!!
The pacing on soaps was much slower in those days, for sure. The joke used to be that you could watch a character opening a door and walking into a room, and then you could tune in three weeks later, and they were just coming through the other side of the door.
My mum hated Rita so much!!
Why?
45 years ago, just came out of high school. 🙏🥲