Lucky me watched OLTL in July '68, when it first premiered, I was all of 13. I was enthralled: many different types of families were showcased: Jewish, Irish-Catholic, African-American, rich and poor. For 1968, this was groundbreaking storytelling. Poor Meredith Lord seen here, was a tragic figure.
@happyrn6177 B&B ONLY stayed at 30 minutes because Susan Flannery threatened to quit the show If went from 30 to 60 minutes..There was a hard pull in 1995 to make it 60 Minutes .
Seeing this episode jogged my memory . In these early days the Lord family of OLTL were well to do and the two Lord sisters were different types . The feminine Meredith was the long suffering heroine and her sister Victoria was a slightly villian like tough . As time went on the Meredith character was phrased off and killed and the Victoria character emerged as the heroine in the tenure of Ms Slesak . The character of Dorian emerged as the arch villian . As always the audience reaction determined the character development .
Strange but true: OLTL's competition in its early years at 3:30 PM ET was CBS' Edge Of Night and NBC's You Don't Say. By 1975 ABC got them both...with OLTL as their lead-in!
Sadly ABC completely wrecked Edge by scheduling it in some very strange and unpopular time slots around the country. In Cincinnati it aired every morning at 10:30 AM . It was so strange to watch a show called Edge of Night at 1030 am lol. When I could watch it was very good but between school and sleeping in in the summer I rarely caught it lol.
@@dg-sl5jb It was up to each affiliate to decide, not the network. Even Detroit's WXYZ, then an ABC O&O, shifted Edge to a late-morning slot themselves so they can expand the start of their afternoon movies a half-hour earlier.
@Tom Lowery Wouldn’t it be P&G’s fault for insisting that CBS place EON at 2:30/1:30c? In any case, I think it’s fair to say that EON probably would have survived a lot longer than it did had the show stayed on CBS in the late afternoons where it worked best. EON had no chance of recovering in the ratings after the ABC move once stations decided to move it around their schedules, drop it or never air it all.
At 14:48, the young girl - the original Cathy Craig - is played by the actress Catherine Burns. In the same year this episode aired, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in the film "Last Summer." Burns gave up acting soon after this and fell into obscurity. (She died in 2019.) But in recent years, the film "Last Summer" has been re-discovered and Burns herself has become something of a cult figure because of her intense role as a rape victim (and due to being one of the most mysterious figures in Hollywood history.)
Victor Lord, when they did not make him a monster who turned out to be a rapist decades later. I heard Erika Slezak said in an interview that she hated what they did to his character. Personally, I dont think it made sense.
They were showing that not every Family was a happy one. Can you imagine how many Women & Men may have felt less guilty knowing they weren't the only ones going through this sort of a thing. We later saw Abuse on All My Children or even Guiding Light. Then Larry has to deal with his Wife being A Hooker.
Well even so it allowed for some extra timeline stories to introduce years later in separate storylines creating Tony, Todd, and Victor Jr as Vicky's long lost half brothers, and Tina as her half sister instead of "Aunt" Vicky, her mom's onetime frat sister.
And almost forgot, when it was decided to kill off his character we were always led to believe Dorian smothered him with a pillow in hospital bed which of course led to a strong hatred of Vicki towards her, she was also Vicky's stepmom at the time--but as night becomes day and stories can be changed the writers actually made it be Vicki instead who had killed her father during one of her alternate personalities I think other than Nicki Smith.
Why didn’t they save old episodes? I love watching old soaps. I hated when the Soap Opera channel stopped showing soaps, then just went off the air. Wow.. Victor Lord!
Video cassettes were expensive at the time...and they were wiped (recorded over) to use for other programs.. When ABC asked Agnes Nixon to expand All My Children to 1 hour in 1977 she agreed only if the tapes would be saved an archived
Mike Mercado those things would be worth so much now.. crazy people trying to save a buck erased history. Yes, it was “just” soaps but.. to me they would mean a lot.. and to many others I think.
Way back then before VHS video cassettes plus VHS recorders, they should’ve used a television time machine to restore all the “One Life To Live” from 1968 to 2012.
I also heard that at one point in the 70s supposedly there was a fire at ABC archives and some old tapes were destroyed. I really wish all the 70s old episodes of GH, OLTL and AMC were saved. All three were so good that decade. GH was great up until around the first half of 1977 then Gloria Monty came and the rest was history. But the earlier 70s were also great because Bridget and Jerome Dobson wrote the show and they were gifted writers. I discovered One Life around 1976 and was instantly hooked. AMC was also phenomenal around that time. They had finally found their audience and they shot to number one in the ratings. CBS's days as number one in daytime were numbered!
dee johns.......I was 12. This is the only soap my Granny watched. As I got older, this was my favorite along AMC & GH. Sadly, Granny is no longer here, but its fun to watch thinking she just might be! Cheers!
Does anyone know who Tom Edwards turned out to be? I heard his story was never resolved... Was there plans for him, to be Tony Lord? Or a long lost Wolek sibling/love child?
Tom was an amnesiac whose real name was Dr. Tom MacKenzie. He was married to Steve's secretary, Marcy, who was in love with Steve. I believe he worked in a hospital on the West Coast.
@@erikandrus4387 The OP had it wrong. Tom was a stockbroker. His twin brother Bruce was the doctor. Joe Galliaon played both parts. Tom was wanted by the Canadian police for embezzling his clients stock certificates. He’d been framed for the crime by his wife Marcy. She was a compulsive gambler who stole the stocks to pay off loan sharks. A guy named Stan Perlo was part of the ring. He tried to kill Marcy but shot and killed Tom instead. Marcy went on to cause a lot more trouble by pretending to be Niki Smith so she could get Viki locked up. Marcy died about a year after Tom. So yeah there was resolution to the stories.
Lucky me watched OLTL in July '68, when it first premiered, I was all of 13. I was enthralled: many different types of families were showcased: Jewish, Irish-Catholic, African-American, rich and poor. For 1968, this was groundbreaking storytelling. Poor Meredith Lord seen here, was a tragic figure.
The acting was far superior then when compared to today.
My dad loved his soaps. I can remember watching OLTL from the very beginning. So much a part of my younger life!
I was 11 when this was on! I do remember some of the characters! What a blast from the past!!
I wish ABC had cut all their soaps from 60 to 30 minutes instead of ever considering cancelling OLTL.
I liked this one SO MUCH BETTER than any other soap opera. It was always my #1 pick even though I was 13 when it started.
So right Iris. The first 7-8 years of OLTL were wonderful. They should have kept OLTL at 30 min. It worked for B&B & it started 2 decades later.
@@happyrn6177 , the 80s were wonderful as well.
Another world went from 60 to minutes 90 minutes and back to 60 minutes.😮
@happyrn6177 B&B ONLY stayed at 30 minutes because Susan Flannery threatened to quit the show If went from 30 to 60 minutes..There was a hard pull in 1995 to make it 60 Minutes .
The greatest opening and closing music of all soaps. But late 70s Another World is right up there.
Seeing this episode jogged my memory . In these early days the Lord family of OLTL were well to do and the two Lord sisters were different types . The feminine Meredith was the long suffering heroine and her sister Victoria was a slightly villian like tough . As time went on the Meredith character was phrased off and killed and the Victoria character emerged as the heroine in the tenure of Ms Slesak . The character of Dorian emerged as the arch villian . As always the audience reaction determined the character development .
Meredith , Vicki's sister !
Strange but true: OLTL's competition in its early years at 3:30 PM ET was CBS' Edge Of Night and NBC's You Don't Say. By 1975 ABC got them both...with OLTL as their lead-in!
Sadly ABC completely wrecked Edge by scheduling it in some very strange and unpopular time slots around the country. In Cincinnati it aired every morning at 10:30 AM . It was so strange to watch a show called Edge of Night at 1030 am lol. When I could watch it was very good but between school and sleeping in in the summer I rarely caught it lol.
@@dg-sl5jb It was up to each affiliate to decide, not the network. Even Detroit's WXYZ, then an ABC O&O, shifted Edge to a late-morning slot themselves so they can expand the start of their afternoon movies a half-hour earlier.
@Tom Lowery Wouldn’t it be P&G’s fault for insisting that CBS place EON at 2:30/1:30c? In any case, I think it’s fair to say that EON probably would have survived a lot longer than it did had the show stayed on CBS in the late afternoons where it worked best. EON had no chance of recovering in the ratings after the ABC move once stations decided to move it around their schedules, drop it or never air it all.
The Llanfair set looked exactly the same throughout its entire run. Way cool.
At 14:48, the young girl - the original Cathy Craig - is played by the actress Catherine Burns. In the same year this episode aired, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in the film "Last Summer." Burns gave up acting soon after this and fell into obscurity. (She died in 2019.) But in recent years, the film "Last Summer" has been re-discovered and Burns herself has become something of a cult figure because of her intense role as a rape victim (and due to being one of the most mysterious figures in Hollywood history.)
"Last Summer" also featured Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, and Barbara Hershey.
Victor Lord, when they did not make him a monster who turned out to be a rapist decades later. I heard Erika Slezak said in an interview that she hated what they did to his character. Personally, I dont think it made sense.
They were showing that not every Family was a happy one. Can you imagine how many Women & Men may have felt less guilty knowing they weren't the only ones going through this sort of a thing. We later saw Abuse on All My Children or even Guiding Light. Then Larry has to deal with his Wife being A Hooker.
Very sadistic what they did to Victor Lords character.
Well even so it allowed for some extra timeline stories to introduce years later in separate storylines creating Tony, Todd, and Victor Jr as Vicky's long lost half brothers, and Tina as her half sister instead of "Aunt" Vicky, her mom's onetime frat sister.
Ok, my bad, the 3 men all had different mothers, Todd and Vic were fraternal twins separated at birth.
And almost forgot, when it was decided to kill off his character we were always led to believe Dorian smothered him with a pillow in hospital bed which of course led to a strong hatred of Vicki towards her, she was also Vicky's stepmom at the time--but as night becomes day and stories can be changed the writers actually made it be Vicki instead who had killed her father during one of her alternate personalities I think other than Nicki Smith.
Why didn’t they save old episodes? I love watching old soaps. I hated when the Soap Opera channel stopped showing soaps, then just went off the air. Wow.. Victor Lord!
Video cassettes were expensive at the time...and they were wiped (recorded over) to use for other programs.. When ABC asked Agnes Nixon to expand All My Children to 1 hour in 1977 she agreed only if the tapes would be saved an archived
Mike Mercado those things would be worth so much now.. crazy people trying to save a buck erased history. Yes, it was “just” soaps but.. to me they would mean a lot.. and to many others I think.
Way back then before VHS video cassettes plus VHS recorders, they should’ve used a television time machine to restore all the “One Life To Live” from 1968 to 2012.
I also heard that at one point in the 70s supposedly there was a fire at ABC archives and some old tapes were destroyed. I really wish all the 70s old episodes of GH, OLTL and AMC were saved. All three were so good that decade. GH was great up until around the first half of 1977 then Gloria Monty came and the rest was history. But the earlier 70s were also great because Bridget and Jerome Dobson wrote the show and they were gifted writers.
I discovered One Life around 1976 and was instantly hooked. AMC was also phenomenal around that time. They had finally found their audience and they shot to number one in the ratings. CBS's days as number one in daytime were numbered!
I enjoy them too character development is fascinating especially when they are true to life or relatable.
Was 11 years old, also one month before Woodstock.
dee johns.......I was 12. This is the only soap my Granny watched. As I got older, this was my favorite along AMC & GH. Sadly, Granny is no longer here, but its fun to watch thinking she just might be! Cheers!
Boy do I love Lillian Hyman. Never heard anyone put things into context the way she did with Anna about Kathy.
DAM FINALLY AN old one and no Joe I want to see when Joe was younger since LEE was and still is my favorite actor
Larry had two wives named Karen.... Karen Martin and Karen Wolek, his distant cousin!
JOSEPH GALLISON ALSO PLAYED DOCTOR NEIL CURTIS ON DAYS OF OUR LIVES 1974----1991
Thank you for posting you have any 1968 or more 1969 Episode
I remember it like yesterday so close yet so far
Any clips with Trish Van Derve playing Merideth ??
The famous Victor Lord
Tom Edwards sure asks a lot of questions.
Does anyone know who Tom Edwards turned out to be? I heard his story was never resolved... Was there plans for him, to be Tony Lord? Or a long lost Wolek sibling/love child?
Tom was an amnesiac whose real name was Dr. Tom MacKenzie. He was married to Steve's secretary, Marcy, who was in love with Steve. I believe he worked in a hospital on the West Coast.
@@njpubadjuster3710 Oh cool, so there was resolution. Very cool, thank you for the update.
Tom Edwards portrayed by vet soap actor Joe Gallison aka Dr. Neil Curtis DOOL and Bill Matthews 1964-1969 AW
@@erikandrus4387 The OP had it wrong. Tom was a stockbroker. His twin brother Bruce was the doctor. Joe Galliaon played both parts. Tom was wanted by the Canadian police for embezzling his clients stock certificates. He’d been framed for the crime by his wife Marcy. She was a compulsive gambler who stole the stocks to pay off loan sharks. A guy named Stan Perlo was part of the ring. He tried to kill Marcy but shot and killed Tom instead. Marcy went on to cause a lot more trouble by pretending to be Niki Smith so she could get Viki locked up. Marcy died about a year after Tom. So yeah there was resolution to the stories.
Ajax liquid, cleans like a white tornado
Reverse discrimination😂😂😂
0:20 Dr Neil Curtis from DAYS?
GLBizzie I was wondering that too
Lori M it‘s him! I love that actor
I JUST noticed that too. That IS Joe Gallison!
@@marcelparker6755 , I remember him from Days in the late 70's and early 80's.
I thought I recognized him.
What happened to Meridith
Why was this in B& W
Cool
Haha Jim & I (gemini)
Wow was that the first Asa?
Asa wasn't in the show yet until 1980. Here it's Viki's father Victor Lord. The first victor that is
@@b-ryemendez8335 oh so that’s very goody too
@@b-ryemendez8335 , I think it was 1979.
This Meredith resembles Erika Slezak.