@@Nigelsmom2136 I get that you find that distracting or maybe a sign of bad acting. But consider this, are Delia's emotions genuine? Is she really sad or is SHE putting on an act? You are watching Delia try to appear sad and remorseful. Should SHE be a believable actress? Her ranting and screeching and tantrums without tears seem very much like an attention seeking ploy to me. I never had any sympathy for her character. Isn't that how I am supposed to feel?
@@kenyattasimpson8468You forgot Phyllis(Y&R), Tina(OLTL) and Lindsey(OLTL). I know the ladies are not on Delia's level but they still deserve a mention.
Addictive time capsule - Ryans Hope. Crazy eyed Delia and her over dramatics were a hoot, I believe they still used strait jackets back then, one size fits all. LOL !! Johnny and Maeve were the perfect Irish couple. Frank bares a somewhat resemblance to Harrison Ford, the dreary looking sets, black dial phones,and Captain Janeway (Mary) to boot... What's not to love ? Thanks for uploading.
I love how nobody ever can fall on the soaps without having a serious injury. Delia was awesome , running down the stairs and announcing she had killed Jill so matter-of-factly :)
At least when Blake Carrington pushed Steven's lover, the guy's head hit the fireplace railing. Jill just landed on a padded carpet and the desk she supposedly hit was off at an entirely different angle from where she landed.
Me too ! Most of time sprinkling laundry to be ironed and putting it in the upright freezer for momma to iron.. the good old days. A coke was a coke and snuggling into bed with fresh linens, dried by Mother Nature herself, oh what Sweet memories.
Haha! Death by tricycle. These scenes and actors are bringing back memories I didn' t know I had. This wad my mom's favorite soap opera when I was a very young child.
I read something recently that said the show was at its best in the 70's, then went downhill in the 80's, with too many recasts, too many different writers and too many other characters taking the focus away from the Ryan family. Too bad they didn't leave well enough alone.
@@abe_froman8360 I agree. The first 3 or so years of RH were some of the best soap I’ve ever seen. But once ABC bought the show they tried turning it into knockoffs of the rest of their lineup. Giving Loving RH’s time slot also spelled the beginning of the end of the show. A lot of stations were starting noon newscasts and preempted the show.
I didn't watch soaps back in the 70's because I was a baby, when I got into soaps around the early 80's , I was so hooked on Knots Landing, that it took me a while to follow the daytime stories, even though As The World Turns, and Guiding Light were really good back then, my family was more into the NBC and CBS soaps, around 86 I started watching some of the ABC soaps when I wasn't at school, Ryan's Hope, Loving and One Life to Live were my favorites. I'm glad someone uploads these, because this is really good, soaps just aren't like this today. Wish I had the money to start a soap channel, and acquire the rights to Ryan's Hope, Loving, All My Children , One Life To Live, General Hospital, The Edge Of Night, Port Charles, The City, Days Of Our Lives, Another World, Santa Barbara, Sunset Beach, Generations, Passions, Search For Tomorrow, Young and The Restless, Bold and The Beautiful, Capitol, As The World Turns, Guiding Light, Knots Landing, Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Hotel, The Colby's, Another Life, Saturday Nights' I'd try to air short lived soaps, and then on Sunday Night's for 5 hours I'd try to air a special series called "Soap Stars On Game Shows" ( where a game show aired has at least one or more soap star on it)
This is when soaps got really GOOD -- from the late 70's until the mid 80's. After 1984 or 1985, they got really pretentious, and that's why they don't exist anymore. If they had all kept THIS format, down to earth stories like this, they'd still be around today.
I do feel like As The World Turns was excellent when Douglas Marland was head writer, and that was late 1985 to early 1993. It’s the only period of any soap I’ve seen that in terms of the writing, acting, and the sense of community and ensemble comes even close to classic Ryan’s Hope. But I do know what you mean, definitely. Certainly by the mid-nineties most soaps had nosedived in quality and the amount of care put in them. There’s so much going on in the world today; if we had a creative headwriter who could write original and relatable stories based on that as opposed to yet more tired who’s the daddy and back from the dead retreads, it would be really refreshing!
Good stuff, which as a 14 year old, I didn’t appreciate. RH really strived to take the genre to a higher plane, through the vision of the creator-show runners (at that time) Meyers. The series floundered after their departure, becoming creatively erratic and imitative rather than proactive in the storyline choices that were made. And as is nearly always the case, recasts did very little to engender ongoing viewer loyalty (one reason the Bell serials have endured is their unwillingness to recast principal roles quite as readily as some of the other serials, now defunct, IMHO). But to RH, a shout out for creating, casting and executing four of the most original, realistic and compelling roles for female actors in television history. Helen Gallagher as Maeve Ryan, Ilene Kristen as Delia Reed Ryan, Kate Mulgrew as Mary Ryan #1, and later Louise Schaefer as Rae Woodard, were a quartet of highly watchable RH performers who always stole the scenes they played, overpowering most of the male actors with heartfelt intensity, even when the writing lapsed into trite predictability (which all serials fell victim to at some point in their respective runs; 280-odd episodes per annum will do that to a writer’s room). Those four actresses consistently made RH worth the watch effort. If one could reboot RH today, and focus more solely around those characters with those actresses, the show would have relevance and likely be a sale in the room. Oh well, looking back is 20/20; RH deserves its place in the Pantheon of tv history, and someday may be appreciated for its efforts even more than it already is, just as the daytime drama genre itself will be, should the long perspective of history rightfully prevail.
I was about 8 or 9 years old, my family watched As The World Turns and Guiding Light, they would sit through Capitol to get to Guiding Light, I didn't like Capitol back then because it looked boring, I decided to watch it on UA-cam (what I could, and some of it is really good. As a kid it was a lot harder for me to follow stories especially on daytime soaps, I ended up liking to watch the beautiful women on soaps , 85 I watched Ryan's Hope and Loving when I could. I would also started watching One Life to Live, and General Hospital (especially loved Grant Puntham kidnapping Anna)
To those commenting about there being so much ado over a tricycle - you don't realize for over a year Delia was causing constant problems, adding to the strain of the Ryan family. Not that Delia wasn't justified at times, but like Maeve said to her she rarely dealt with her problems in a constructive adult manner. That kind of mania of Delia 'needing' could be emotionally and physically draining to a family already emotionally and physically drained from putting in an honest day's work. Pushing Jill over a tricycle (which precipitated a fall, did not cause her death like poisoned pancakes ala AMC), this exacerbated the family's anger towards Dee. This was a well written drama, in it's first several years and the characters psychologies were compelling.
I have a sister that's the Lite Beer version of Delia. It's more entertaining to watch a train wreck like that on TV than real life. And my family indulged her just the way the Ryans did Delia. Amazing.
Am I the only one gets upsets because no one tells Jack big news first? "How does jack feel about your being pregnant?" "I haven't told him yet" why the hell not?! He's the father!
Kate was always about Kate ,,, a harsh character as Mary. Not a soft heart. I thought she was usually interesting to watch. But sometimes just unbearable loudness , an always needing to be right. Seemed to slip over into her other acting roles. Tiresome.
Good old Delia, always throwing people around, literally i'm a big Sopranos fan too and Ilene Kristen was on one ep - she's in the same resto next to Dr. Melfi and Melfi's son Jason - Melfi is a little buzzed and throws a cloth napkin at Ilene because her character is smoking
@@scottholston8353 / Agreed. They went downhill fast when they started focusing more on richer families and just in general tried to do the General Hospital thing. It was at its best when Rae Woodard and the Coleridges represented the rich people. And the show was very hit or miss on casting and recasts. A good second Mary might have let the show last longer. But Delia and Mary were such major characters, and the replacements just didn't cut it. That hurt as so much of the show was centered on them. Plus the new Pat. Ugh. Only the new Franks and Faiths were improvements, but there were too many of them.
Sometimes I wish we could get a bunch of us together, and write a soap as good as this one was (granted I didn't get to see Ryan's Hope from beginning to end, but to me Ryan's Hope so far has the best first episode of a soap I've ever watched. Granted though it would probably have to be a primetime soap, since networks are doing pretty much away with the daytime soaps.
I wonder if Delia was the inspiration when Claire Labine created Carly on General Hospital? Carly has the same characteristic of justifying her actions by blaming everyone else!
cdwag6 Yep! I wasn't even born until about 3 years after this episode, and the first time I ever experienced Delia was on GH. But I decided to look up some of her history tonight and all I could think was "this self centered bitch reminds me so much of Carly!"
In watching these a couple of times, I truly don’t understand why Delia was not institutionalized for a much longer period because care at the hospital isn’t enough. At least that, or be medicated. This chick has not been charged for assault?
This was Michael Hawkins' last episode. The next episode picks up where this one leaves off, but with Andy Robinson standing where Michael Hawkins had stood the day before, wearing the same outfit.
6828Lu "but with Andy Robinson standing where Michael Hawkins had stood the day before, wearing the same outfit." Sounds like science fiction! :) Imagine that happening on, for instance, Star Trek.
I was about 14 back then, and I hated the new Frank. I never liked Frank again. I only could watch in summer or holidays, and by college, I’d given it up. Still good memories of it, though.
Ryan’s Hope was exceptional for a soap opera, even in that time. Most of them were set in fictitious small cities in flyover country and starred beautiful people playing vapid characters. Even Delia, the most vapid character here (and, arguably, most beautiful), is delightfully quirky and unhinged-actually, Ilene Kristen gives a really convincing portrayal of someone with borderline personality disorder. And the setting is a vibrant, multiethnic community (Washington Heights) in a real city (New York) with more of a focus on working class people (although, admittedly, a disproportionate number seem to end up as doctors, lawyers, or reporters).
This was a throwback to the ethnic soaps on radio that dealt with immigrant parents and their American kids and grandkids. In some ways it reminds me of The Goldbergs radio drama (not the much changed tv sitcom), aside from all the sleeping around and near death experiences. :) There is very much an old-fashioned look to the show. I'm surprised at how Maeve and Johnny manage to convey a sense of being physically active and youthful and yet considerably older than the young folk, with touches like Maeve's apron still being worn when she rushes to the hospital and Johnny's open vest. The show is filmed in dark tones. Delia's room's decor is from another generation. It's rather claustrophobic, all those strong-minded adults together in small spaces. A film student would have fun analyzing it. :) I wouldn't have watched it if it hadn't been in the ABC afternoon line up. Now I'm sad that soaps seem to have given up on realistic, if grossly dysfunctional, families like this one. For instance, One Life to Live started out with a good ethnic and cultural mix with the forceful presence of the Woleks, Siegels, Rileys, and Grays, with the upper crust WASP Lords (get that name!) and evolved into just another soap where everyone has an unnatural amount of money to look and live the way they do. It doesn't matter what ethnicity or class people are in most soaps today, they all look wealthy. I wasn't surprised when it was pulled off the air after years of increasingly stupid and contradictory plot lines. (That is in marked contrast to British soaps where most people look and act miserable. Aussie soaps are famously upbeat like American soaps today.) Of course it is all to attract the young viewers but I have to wonder if they would have more young viewers if the shows didn't seem so flavorless and repetitive. I'm talking to you, GH!
Very interesting thoughts and comments on the sets. New York, and really much of the country, in the 1970s was a bit dark and dingy. I think the old fashioned dark bar and Jack's basement apartment were very much of the times. (But then you had the lighter, brighter Coledrige kitchen, also a standard of the era in some homes.) And to this day, I still like Roger's bachelor pad!
I only know Kate as Mary Ryan! My mom would always excitedly shout “Mary Ryan” …Mrs. Colombo, TV movies, plays, Voyager…haha OITNB/Red = I said Mary Ryan. I love you mom. Good times. So, was this Frank was the dad of the actor from Heathers? I was watching the Sag actors strike on TV recently, can’t remember the guys name. But he referenced Ryan’s Hope.
Mary called her father "Da" which is Irish. When I started watching this show in 1980, nobody called John Ryan "da". I slacked off watching, then came back about the time that illegitimate son, Dakota, came on there, and suddenly they were all calling him "da". I didnt know they called him "da" earlier. I wonder why they stopped? It looked odd for them all to suddenly start saying it like that.
Mary, Pat, and Frank called him Da in the early days of the show. When Siobhan showed up, she called him “Daddy” - definitely something to show that she was youngest and was a daddy’s girl.
Agreed. But gosh, I can certainly understand why Frank would rather be Jill instead of Delia. I couldn't fathom why a guy like him would marry her to begin with.
I agree. And back in the 70's he would have gotten away with slapping her. I think back then you could still have people put away in psychiatric hospitals on just a man's say so!
Helen Gallagher was in the movie Strangers When We Meet from 1960. She played a friend / neighbor of Kim Novak married to an oversexed Walter Matteau. Now that's acting .
She didn’t die !! Dee was hysterical as usual. Dee an absolute nut job. Couldn’t stand her weird expressions and bizarre smacking and talking with food falling out of her mouth.
I never watched RH, but these Ryan folks were slow learners. Prior to watching this clip, I watched a clip from 1978 where they find out she faked a miscarriage. lol
This is when soaps were in their golden era! Amazing acting! I miss Ryan’s Hope , All My Children , One Life to Live and General Hospital!
What about Loving and The Edge Of Night
Those were the absolute BEST
@@robertrodriguez787I was an ABC guy Ryan’s Hope, All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital
@Frank Clark Yes the soaps peaked in the late 70's/early 80's.......the best writing and acting, before they turned pretentious in the mid 80's!
Me too
"WHY DOES EVERYTHING ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?!" As she thinks Jill is dead on the floor. 😅
Yup, classic Delia.😂
It was great that the Ryan family stayed the focus of this great classic daytime soap opera which was on ABC from 1975-1989.
Ryans Hope was one of the best written soap operas on the air
Delia was one of the greatest soap troublemakers of all time.
She ranks with Kendall (AMC), Gabrielle (OLTL), and Lucy (GH)
She was a lousy crier, though. Never any tears. She'd screw up her face and pretend to cry.
@@Nigelsmom2136 I get that you find that distracting or maybe a sign of bad acting. But consider this, are Delia's emotions genuine? Is she really sad or is SHE putting on an act? You are watching Delia try to appear sad and remorseful. Should SHE be a believable actress? Her ranting and screeching and tantrums without tears seem very much like an attention seeking ploy to me. I never had any sympathy for her character. Isn't that how I am supposed to feel?
Yes
@@kenyattasimpson8468You forgot Phyllis(Y&R), Tina(OLTL) and Lindsey(OLTL). I know the ladies are not on Delia's level but they still deserve a mention.
I Loved Ryan's Hope❤ I was So young when I watched it. Just the BEST.
I recently re-watched Orange is the New Black & it made me nostalgic for Kate Mulgrew on Ryans Hope. Happy memories!
I used to always get that way watching her on Star Trek.
She was the best Mary. I was glad when they killed the character off. Kate’s replacements just didn’t work
I love Ryan's Hope!! Such great acting and talent!!!
The stony silence she gets from everyone in the hospital is just deafening.
Addictive time capsule - Ryans Hope.
Crazy eyed Delia and her over dramatics were a hoot, I believe they still used strait jackets back then, one size fits all. LOL !!
Johnny and Maeve were the perfect Irish couple.
Frank bares a somewhat resemblance to Harrison Ford, the dreary looking sets, black dial phones,and Captain Janeway (Mary) to boot... What's not to love ?
Thanks for uploading.
I love the shade of sick green shading in the hospital -- very much of the times.
WE ALL LOVED DELIA!! ❤️
Yes this is when TV was great! Ryan's Hope was wonderful! This was soap acting at it's best!!
I love how nobody ever can fall on the soaps without having a serious injury. Delia was awesome , running down the stairs and announcing she had killed Jill so matter-of-factly :)
At least when Blake Carrington pushed Steven's lover, the guy's head hit the fireplace railing. Jill just landed on a padded carpet and the desk she supposedly hit was off at an entirely different angle from where she landed.
How did Ilene Kristen never win an Emmy?
It's a travesty against art. Should've MAILED the EmmieS to her!! She's brilliant. Not a spec like Delia in RL.
I was 10 years old watching this with my mom folding laundry in 1975. Lol
Me too ! Most of time sprinkling laundry to be ironed and putting it in the upright freezer for momma to iron.. the good old days. A coke was a coke and snuggling into bed with fresh linens, dried by Mother Nature herself, oh what Sweet memories.
Used to try and play sick to stay home from school to see this stuff
I was 5 yrs old when I first started watching this with my mom never missed an episode couldn't get enough of this soap opera 👍
Delia was certainly a piece of work. Cunning to the core
Haha! Death by tricycle. These scenes and actors are bringing back memories I didn' t know I had. This wad my mom's favorite soap opera when I was a very young child.
Love and miss Delia, this actress is above and beyond. So wish she greater part of GH or have her own project.
She was hilarious years later on OLTL as Roxanne "Roxy" Balsom.
6:13 MARY: "OH DELIA, WILL YOU BE QUIET?" LOL
I read something recently that said the show was at its best in the 70's, then went downhill in the 80's, with too many recasts, too many different writers and too many other characters taking the focus away from the Ryan family. Too bad they didn't leave well enough alone.
Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer sold the show to ABC in the early 80s. Once the network started tinkering the show went downhill.
@@abe_froman8360 I agree. The first 3 or so years of RH were some of the best soap I’ve ever seen. But once ABC bought the show they tried turning it into knockoffs of the rest of their lineup. Giving Loving RH’s time slot also spelled the beginning of the end of the show. A lot of stations were starting noon newscasts and preempted the show.
I didn't watch soaps back in the 70's because I was a baby, when I got into soaps around the early 80's , I was so hooked on Knots Landing, that it took me a while to follow the daytime stories, even though As The World Turns, and Guiding Light were really good back then, my family was more into the NBC and CBS soaps, around 86 I started watching some of the ABC soaps when I wasn't at school, Ryan's Hope, Loving and One Life to Live were my favorites. I'm glad someone uploads these, because this is really good, soaps just aren't like this today. Wish I had the money to start a soap channel, and acquire the rights to Ryan's Hope, Loving, All My Children , One Life To Live, General Hospital, The Edge Of Night, Port Charles, The City, Days Of Our Lives, Another World, Santa Barbara, Sunset Beach, Generations, Passions, Search For Tomorrow, Young and The Restless, Bold and The Beautiful, Capitol, As The World Turns, Guiding Light, Knots Landing, Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Hotel, The Colby's, Another Life, Saturday Nights' I'd try to air short lived soaps, and then on Sunday Night's for 5 hours I'd try to air a special series called "Soap Stars On Game Shows" ( where a game show aired has at least one or more soap star on it)
This is when soaps got really GOOD -- from the late 70's until the mid 80's. After 1984 or 1985, they got really pretentious, and that's why they don't exist anymore. If they had all kept THIS format, down to earth stories like this, they'd still be around today.
I do feel like As The World Turns was excellent when Douglas Marland was head writer, and that was late 1985 to early 1993. It’s the only period of any soap I’ve seen that in terms of the writing, acting, and the sense of community and ensemble comes even close to classic Ryan’s Hope. But I do know what you mean, definitely. Certainly by the mid-nineties most soaps had nosedived in quality and the amount of care put in them. There’s so much going on in the world today; if we had a creative headwriter who could write original and relatable stories based on that as opposed to yet more tired who’s the daddy and back from the dead retreads, it would be really refreshing!
One of my favorite soaps from the 70’s I also started watching General Hospital in the early 60’s, All my children One Life to live too
Good stuff, which as a 14 year old, I didn’t appreciate. RH really strived to take the genre to a higher plane, through the vision of the creator-show runners (at that time) Meyers. The series floundered after their departure, becoming creatively erratic and imitative rather than proactive in the storyline choices that were made. And as is nearly always the case, recasts did very little to engender ongoing viewer loyalty (one reason the Bell serials have endured is their unwillingness to recast principal roles quite as readily as some of the other serials, now defunct, IMHO). But to RH, a shout out for creating, casting and executing four of the most original, realistic and compelling roles for female actors in television history. Helen Gallagher as Maeve Ryan, Ilene Kristen as Delia Reed Ryan, Kate Mulgrew as Mary Ryan #1, and later Louise Schaefer as Rae Woodard, were a quartet of highly watchable RH performers who always stole the scenes they played, overpowering most of the male actors with heartfelt
intensity, even when the writing lapsed into trite predictability (which all serials fell victim to at some point in their respective runs; 280-odd episodes per annum will do that to a writer’s room). Those four actresses consistently made RH worth the watch effort. If one could reboot RH today, and focus more solely around those characters with those actresses, the show would have relevance and likely be a sale in the room. Oh well, looking back is 20/20; RH deserves its place in the Pantheon of tv history, and someday may be appreciated for its efforts even more than it already is, just as the daytime drama genre itself will be, should the long perspective of history rightfully prevail.
I was about 8 or 9 years old, my family watched As The World Turns and Guiding Light, they would sit through Capitol to get to Guiding Light, I didn't like Capitol back then because it looked boring, I decided to watch it on UA-cam (what I could, and some of it is really good. As a kid it was a lot harder for me to follow stories especially on daytime soaps, I ended up liking to watch the beautiful women on soaps , 85 I watched Ryan's Hope and Loving when I could. I would also started watching One Life to Live, and General Hospital (especially loved Grant Puntham kidnapping Anna)
Ilene Kristen was incredible as Delia. Great job!
We marched together when they're was the SAG AFTRA UNION strike this summer IILENE a pretty cool lady ❤
To those commenting about there being so much ado over a tricycle - you don't realize for over a year Delia was causing constant problems, adding to the strain of the Ryan family. Not that Delia wasn't justified at times, but like Maeve said to her she rarely dealt with her problems in a constructive adult manner. That kind of mania of Delia 'needing' could be emotionally and physically draining to a family already emotionally and physically drained from putting in an honest day's work. Pushing Jill over a tricycle (which precipitated a fall, did not cause her death like poisoned pancakes ala AMC), this exacerbated the family's anger towards Dee. This was a well written drama, in it's first several years and the characters psychologies were compelling.
In the 1970s, it was probably the most realistic show on TV. Very well done and quite true to New York.
Delia don’t care about nobody but herself
You forget Delia pushed Frank down the stairs in the beginning.
Delia was such a drama queen over the top
I have spent time with Ilene.She is such a sweetheart!
She's a good actress. I bet she had a blast playing Delia.
She’s so fcking selfish
I have a sister that's the Lite Beer version of Delia. It's more entertaining to watch a train wreck like that on TV than real life. And my family indulged her just the way the Ryans did Delia. Amazing.
My mother acts like Delia
Realistically, the Ryans would have washed their hands of Delia instead of letting her hang around all the time.
One of the best scene's in Soap Opera history.
Am I the only one gets upsets because no one tells Jack big news first? "How does jack feel about your being pregnant?" "I haven't told him yet" why the hell not?! He's the father!
Jack was too busy pushing Mary away, wanting to be alone for the longest time....until a few months later ;)
Jack doesn't want the baby
like Kate mulgrew will always be Mary.ryan
Kate was always about Kate ,,, a harsh character as Mary. Not a soft heart. I thought she was usually interesting to watch. But sometimes just unbearable loudness , an always needing to be right.
Seemed to slip over into her other acting roles. Tiresome.
She was the best
To bad she left
Good old Delia, always throwing people around, literally
i'm a big Sopranos fan too and Ilene Kristen was on one ep - she's in the same resto next to Dr. Melfi and Melfi's son Jason - Melfi is a little buzzed and throws a cloth napkin at Ilene because her character is smoking
That's right! I forgot that was her. That scene was CLASSIC - LOL!
to me Ryan's hope will be number. one. in quality
i hate the ryan's
It was so good the first five years
@@scottholston8353 / Agreed. They went downhill fast when they started focusing more on richer families and just in general tried to do the General Hospital thing. It was at its best when Rae Woodard and the Coleridges represented the rich people.
And the show was very hit or miss on casting and recasts. A good second Mary might have let the show last longer. But Delia and Mary were such major characters, and the replacements just didn't cut it. That hurt as so much of the show was centered on them. Plus the new Pat. Ugh. Only the new Franks and Faiths were improvements, but there were too many of them.
@@greenbrown7776 i loved the second pat....and i really enjoyed nancy...the show was top knotch from 75 till about 79
OMG the drama. Delia really was an over the top, out of control, piece of work drama queen.
Dee is despicable!
Ilene Kristen is just amazing.
Sometimes I wish we could get a bunch of us together, and write a soap as good as this one was (granted I didn't get to see Ryan's Hope from beginning to end, but to me Ryan's Hope so far has the best first episode of a soap I've ever watched. Granted though it would probably have to be a primetime soap, since networks are doing pretty much away with the daytime soaps.
MARY to DELIA: You're about as helpless as a BULLDOZER.
loved Ryan's hope forever they made mistakes over. the years like with Mary Ryan's character
What??????
Crazy conniving Delia, always playing the victim!
Wish we had another Soapnet.
I don't see why streamers can't get the rights to some of these other than music rights :( .
I wonder if Delia was the inspiration when Claire Labine created Carly on General Hospital? Carly has the same characteristic of justifying her actions by blaming everyone else!
cdwag6 Yep! I wasn't even born until about 3 years after this episode, and the first time I ever experienced Delia was on GH. But I decided to look up some of her history tonight and all I could think was "this self centered bitch reminds me so much of Carly!"
Delia was ten kazillion times worse than Carly is. Carly never uses Delia's favorite "poor me" excuses, never as childish as Delia.
Delia was ten kazillion times worse than Carly is. Carly never uses Delia's favorite "poor me" excuses, never as childish as Delia.
Delia was ten kazillion times worse than Carly is. Carly never uses Delia's favorite "poor me" excuses, never as childish as Delia.
Hell no. Carly has a spine and doesn’t have a breakdown every 5 minutes
In watching these a couple of times, I truly don’t understand why Delia was not institutionalized for a much longer period because care at the hospital isn’t enough. At least that, or be medicated. This chick has not been charged for assault?
Jill is fantastic!
Jill did not deserve to be hurt! But Delia's cruel behavior nearly cost Jill her life!
Ryan’s Hope had 514 actors play Frank Ryan😂😂😂😂
Kmsl yes 😂😂😂there were a lot of Franks
Yes they did.😂😂😂
My favorite Frank was Daniel Hugh-Kelly. Andrew Robinson who replaces this Frank was very good too
Thanks for the upload !! How can somebody possibly die from a fall like that ?? Xd
Complex characters!
Delia is irritating. How the Ryan’s ever put up with her for so many years is beyond me.
This was Michael Hawkins' last episode. The next episode picks up where this one leaves off, but with Andy Robinson standing where Michael Hawkins had stood the day before, wearing the same outfit.
6828Lu "but with Andy Robinson standing where Michael Hawkins had stood the day before, wearing the same outfit." Sounds like science fiction! :) Imagine that happening on, for instance, Star Trek.
@@653j521 Maybe Frank regenerated.....(cue Doctor Who theme)
I was about 14 back then, and I hated the new Frank. I never liked Frank again. I only could watch in summer or holidays, and by college, I’d given it up. Still good memories of it, though.
They shouldn't never killed Mary off!
Delia was a wild child that grew into a wild woman.
Back when people looked like regular people. With their original noses butts and teeth.
Ryan’s Hope was exceptional for a soap opera, even in that time. Most of them were set in fictitious small cities in flyover country and starred beautiful people playing vapid characters. Even Delia, the most vapid character here (and, arguably, most beautiful), is delightfully quirky and unhinged-actually, Ilene Kristen gives a really convincing portrayal of someone with borderline personality disorder. And the setting is a vibrant, multiethnic community (Washington Heights) in a real city (New York) with more of a focus on working class people (although, admittedly, a disproportionate number seem to end up as doctors, lawyers, or reporters).
Ilene Kirsten. was. the best Della sorry
This was a throwback to the ethnic soaps on radio that dealt with immigrant parents and their American kids and grandkids. In some ways it reminds me of The Goldbergs radio drama (not the much changed tv sitcom), aside from all the sleeping around and near death experiences. :) There is very much an old-fashioned look to the show. I'm surprised at how Maeve and Johnny manage to convey a sense of being physically active and youthful and yet considerably older than the young folk, with touches like Maeve's apron still being worn when she rushes to the hospital and Johnny's open vest. The show is filmed in dark tones. Delia's room's decor is from another generation. It's rather claustrophobic, all those strong-minded adults together in small spaces. A film student would have fun analyzing it. :)
I wouldn't have watched it if it hadn't been in the ABC afternoon line up. Now I'm sad that soaps seem to have given up on realistic, if grossly dysfunctional, families like this one. For instance, One Life to Live started out with a good ethnic and cultural mix with the forceful presence of the Woleks, Siegels, Rileys, and Grays, with the upper crust WASP Lords (get that name!) and evolved into just another soap where everyone has an unnatural amount of money to look and live the way they do. It doesn't matter what ethnicity or class people are in most soaps today, they all look wealthy. I wasn't surprised when it was pulled off the air after years of increasingly stupid and contradictory plot lines. (That is in marked contrast to British soaps where most people look and act miserable. Aussie soaps are famously upbeat like American soaps today.) Of course it is all to attract the young viewers but I have to wonder if they would have more young viewers if the shows didn't seem so flavorless and repetitive. I'm talking to you, GH!
Very interesting thoughts and comments on the sets. New York, and really much of the country, in the 1970s was a bit dark and dingy. I think the old fashioned dark bar and Jack's basement apartment were very much of the times. (But then you had the lighter, brighter Coledrige kitchen, also a standard of the era in some homes.)
And to this day, I still like Roger's bachelor pad!
Ava Jerome's mother , Delia.
MAEVE: I don't much feel like your mother. I feel tired.
Just fantastic.
In 1976 I was 10 year's old
I was 15
Love how Ryans love Jill home wrecker.
Delia was no saint either.
I only know Kate as Mary Ryan! My mom would always excitedly shout “Mary Ryan” …Mrs. Colombo, TV movies, plays, Voyager…haha OITNB/Red = I said Mary Ryan. I love you mom. Good times. So, was this Frank was the dad of the actor from Heathers? I was watching the Sag actors strike on TV recently, can’t remember the guys name. But he referenced Ryan’s Hope.
Yeah, the guy from Heathers is Christian Slater, and Frank is played by Michael Hawkins, born Timothy Knight Slater.
Dee was the best on there drama queen
Lover of the 80's And overacting.
Ilene Kristen was brilliant, but she played the most unsympathetic character ever pkayed on Ryan's Hope.
Poor Delia!!! They won’t give her a break!
I saw another one called the truth comes out about Delia lol back when they found out she was lying about being blind lol
Mary called her father "Da" which is Irish. When I started watching this show in 1980, nobody called John Ryan "da".
I slacked off watching, then came back about the time that illegitimate son, Dakota, came on there, and suddenly they were all calling him "da".
I didnt know they called him "da" earlier. I wonder why they stopped?
It looked odd for them all to suddenly start saying it like that.
Mary, Pat, and Frank called him Da in the early days of the show. When Siobhan showed up, she called him “Daddy” - definitely something to show that she was youngest and was a daddy’s girl.
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RIP Helen Gallagher who passed away November 24 2024 at the age of 98.😢
Should Dellia have been charged with two counts of attempted Murder?
Pat and Frank really look like brothers.
Whats the next scene after this one im trying to find it
Jill was no saint either sleeping with Frank.
neither was Frank
I agree
Agreed. But gosh, I can certainly understand why Frank would rather be Jill instead of Delia. I couldn't fathom why a guy like him would marry her to begin with.
Jill was a home wrecker and poor delia suffered
Frank should've belted Delia right then and there! That girl needed to be slapped! I was so happy the time Mary smacked her!
I agree. And back in the 70's he would have gotten away with slapping her. I think back then you could still have people put away in psychiatric hospitals on just a man's say so!
i whish we had show like that again
...And, RIP Nancy.
And Delia, LOL
What a freak
She should have been cast in Nurse Jackie as a foil to Ak
Jill has guts
Helen Gallagher was in the movie Strangers When We Meet from 1960. She played a friend / neighbor of Kim Novak married to an oversexed Walter Matteau. Now that's acting .
Delia was a mess of drama wasn’t she. Goodness
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The truth ALWAYS come out
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Isn't that Tom Brooke English ex husband from All My Children
No; to the best of my knowledge Richard Schoberg was never on Ryan's Hope.
At this time Richard Shoberg was on “The Edge of Night.”
DELIA ❤️💯 2023
Really death by tricycle! Daytime was not alone in stupid deaths, but this is really silly
She didn’t die !! Dee was hysterical as usual. Dee an absolute nut job.
Couldn’t stand her weird expressions and bizarre smacking and talking with food falling out of her mouth.
Besides Edmund.did Jill and frank have a kid together
Yes, they had a daughter, Mary, named after Frank's late sister.
I never watched RH, but these Ryan folks were slow learners. Prior to watching this clip, I watched a clip from 1978 where they find out she faked a miscarriage. lol
Very dramatic ,Delia!
these creeps mistreat poor delia and wonder why she lashes out.
I used to not like her, but looking back on it I feel sorry for her now.
I bet if she was real and in your family you'd be sick of her too and feeling sorry for her would be old.
Poor Delia
Jill is a home wrecker
Mary is like acid rain
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whatever. u don't know nothing
Reboot!
Wow what a great actress Delia Ryan love her
Jill is a home wrecker