Steve meets Alice on ANOTHER WORLD

[@buckize68]

I loved this soap. We used to watch it all summer long when I was still in school and tried to catch up on sick days. Soaps were so much better back in those days. Thanks for posting this. It was fun tripping down memory lane. I wish there were a network that showed these old B & W soaps.

[@Lovemonkey2005]

I wish, if nothing else, Proctor and Gamble would start a streaming service or a KZbin channel showing all their soaps.

[@castlist3384]

What a treat to see the beginning of the Alice/Steve/Rachel triangle! Jacqueline Courtney's Alice and Robin Strasser's Rachel were perfect foils! Rachel was so reminiscent of ATWT's Lisa--marrying a doctor from a respectable family, falling for an even wealthier man, and having conflicts with her sister-in-law

[@woohooboy]

Lisa on "ATWT" was the original scheming minx. Rachel on "AW" would continue in the same vein and Erica on "AMC" would carry the torch onwards......

[@special7217]

I always loved Another World. I wish there were more shows like it.

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

Robin brought that great blend of humor and evil to Rachel!! Loved her in the role.

[@stumack9755]

she was the best Rachel.

[@donnamarie3930]

One of my favorite soaps. A shame so many have been cancelled when we now have so much trash on tv these days.

[@laminage]

Now many US Soap fans tune into UK Soaps that they enjoy very much like Coronation St., Emmerdale and Eastenders that was once broadcasted on PBS's Detroit Affiliate.

[@WeLoveSoapsVideo]

July 2, 1968. This is George Reinholt's first episode on AW.

[@pursequeen6148]

my FAVORITE soap opera couple! Thank you for this... Memories!!!

[@susieq39475]

I remember Robin Strasser as Rachel! She was a good one.

[@sheiladavis6523]

Yes Robin was 2-21-20

[@Donah]

@@sheiladavis6523 I still think of her as Rachel

[@johnscanlan9335]

Robin Strasser was wonderfully EVIL!!!

[@laminage]

Who would have thought that introduction would create the most popular Love Triangle in Another World's History.

[@jons.6216]

I have such a faint recollection of Robin Strasser playing Rachel just a little while before Victoria Wyndham took over the role until the end of the show from peeking in on my mom's soaps as a preschooler! Haha!

[@HnHBlkM]

This is sooo amazing!! I have always heard about the Steve/Alice/ Rachel love triangle and how iconic it was. This is like watching soap history. Plus, I get to see THE Robin Strasser as Rachel, which I'd always wanted to see. I was curious how she compared to Victoria Wyndam. Outstanding. BTW: Does anyone have the scenes with the 2nd actress who played Rachel?? Margaret Impert I think.

[@sandranorman5469]

I thought I was the only one who remembered that. I can’t remember where I was but the subject came up-i.e. who was the Rachel after the original .. My goodness I thought I was the only one who remembered that Margaret was the 2nd Rachel. Congrats ❤️❤️❤️🎈🎈🎈

[@jaredjlinden]

Fun to watch Robin Strasser - she certainly did have a lot of charisma.

[@stumack9755]

more than Victorra.

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

Soooooo attracted to George during AW days. RIP

[@LOLOLUTHER]

Jacquie was radiant! Great to see Geoffrey Lumb, Barbara Rodell, Joe Gallison, Carol Roux and Jordan Charney too!

[@lmitchell477]

This was my favorite soap.. to see the first Rachael is everything

[@ceceliahoneycutt4638]

I didn't start watching another world til the early mid 70's. I was in high school back then

[@saskwatcher]

This is actually a truly historic meeting. Alice-Steve-Rachel propel the show to record ratings for the next seven years. Only when the idiot producers decide to kill off the very popular (but difficult) Reinholt(Steve)in the winter of 1975 then go on to replace the unreplacable Jackie Courtney a few months later do they begin to understand the power of these popular actors.

[@nickpoff1739]

Wow! This is great! Thank you for this post!

[@comixreadr]

awesome!! Thanx for posting!

[@susieq39475]

Robin Strasser as Rachel!

[@njman1967]

You can see Rachels's eyes scheming already over Steve Frame.

[@laminage]

Also I was blown away to know that her Former First Husband was Laurence Luckinbill who played Larry in the Original Production and Movie Version of The Boys In The Band in 1970 who was also on Search For Tomorrow. His distant cousin is Thad Luckinbill (EX JT Y & R). He later married Lucie Arnaz.

[@metrogoldwyn]

any clips with Audra Lindley (Mrs. Roper,3's Company) as vicious Liz Matthews?

[@andreawilliams1509]

This was so interesting. Even though it was decades ago the Steve Frame character oozed major appeal. I can see how audiences would want to keep up with his hijinks in a world of nice guys. Ditto for Rachel.She would not be boxed in. I wished in the past the powers that be realized archiving some of these episodes was important. :)

[@pjeffery40]

Never got 2 c robin play Rachel until now. The earlier post was right on that this was a historic meeting on the show. Hope 2 c more of Robin as Rachel.

[@lilypondlane]

Val Dufour played Walter Curtin, Sr. Nicolas Coster played Robert Delaney. Walter was Lenore Moore's first husband and Robert was her second husband. Walter and Lenore were the parents of Little Wally (Walter, Jr.).

[@laminage]

The Actor who played Wayne Addison was Robert Milli who would later play Adam Thorpe on it's Sister Show Guiding Light and Michael Zaslow would also write for Another World as did Gillian Spencer.

[@aquariaaustin2077]

I still remember the episode where Rachel announced that her child's father was Steve, not that of her husband--Russ Matthews. The really wicked party of it was that she did it in front of everyone in Bay City....at Steve and Alice's engagement party. I didn't see this episode because my grandmother normally watched CBS shows when this was on, but her friends started talking about this "brazen hussy" on Another World. My grandmother checked it out, and was hooked. When Rachel left for Somerset--the town and the soap opera (how's THAT for a throwback memory?), Bubbe went back to Guiding Light, I think that was when the male version of Rachel, Roger Thorpe, started stirring up trouble in Springfield, so she got even more of a character she loved to hate with him. Only time I ever saw her throw anything at a TV screen was over Roger, LOL.

[@tko718]

R.I.P. to George Reinholt August 22, 1940 - November 11, 2013. So sad that Another World fired him, Virginia Dwyer, and Jacqueline Courtney instead of firing Harding Lemay and Paul Rauch. He was one of Daytime's top 10 soap actors. His pressence will be missed.

[@a.b.s_productions]

Yes but it was known that George Reinholt and Jacqueline Courtney took their Another World status to their heads one of the reasons that resulted to them getting fired in 1975.

[@laminage]

Yeah, boy did he have it rough after he got Fired. Briefly reunited with Jacqueline Courtney on One Life To Live then he got fired. Rented out his Home in Pennsylvania, PA., converted his Garage into an Apt for himself, spent his life savings taking care of his Parents. He also became an Alcoholic and also had an alleged secret that he was Gay. If he had lived and saw how much Society has accepted it, he would be dumbfounded. On Three UK Soap Operas, Emmerdale, Coronation St., and Hollyoaks there are Gay/Lesbian Characters and they are as popular as their Straight Counterparts.

[@janets9179]

I thought he might b gay. Always thought he had good chemistry with alice. One of my favorite soap couples.

[@MattFrame]

@@a.b.s_productions Not true. Reinholt was known to cause problems on the set, but never Courtney. Literally everyone from that era acknowledged she was quite shy and did not fight TPTB, no matter how much their incompetence hurt her character. She was fired because Pete Lemay took an irrational and personal dislike of her and strove for her dismissal.

[@sandranorman5469]

I remember in one of the Soap Opera magazines, there were a number of them who got together (think it was “As the World Turns and the Guiding Light) to demonstrate against the Vietnam War. Soap Opera Actors for Peace.. I think it also made the evening news.

[@laminage]

Did Agnes Nixon still Write for the Show or was she busy with One Life To Live? I still remember watching 50 Years Of Soaps and Robin Strasser talked about how she tried to break up Alice & Steve and how Vicky Wyndham tried just as hard which resulted in both bursting into laughter.

[@michaelmcgavin3715]

Nixon was head writer until early/mid February 1969, when Cenedella took over

[@amiblueful]

Ah. 2:46 The moment when Rachel realizes that Steve has money.

[@jaredjlinden]

The expressions on her face are priceless. I think Victoria Wyndham is a damned good actress, but Robin Strasser’s version of the character is fun (VW’s Rachel was always so serious and often angry).

[@55kego]

Bill & Missy were my favorite couple.

[@sandranorman5469]

Mine also. Was going to name my first daughter after Melissa, but my husband didn’t like the name. So she wound up being named Jamie.

[@laminage]

Boy you saw how Rachel was in her element at The Reception. Considering that she and her Mother lived on The Blue Collar Section of Town, there was a time they wouldn't have been invited to a Soiree like this.

[@sbookey]

I had always wanted to see Robin playing Rachel. Even without dialogue, she's great! What year is this?

[@peterbezrucik207]

I'm trying to find more info about George Reinholt, and would appreciate anyone who can point me in the right direction. His exit from Another World, arguably just as his popularity was soaring, ix well documented, and in an interview he talks about his ego and temper sidelining his career which essentially ended with his exit from One Life to Live after just 2 seasons. He gave acting lessons to small groups, and was invited to a couple reunion shows. And his furious denial that an ad he placed in a Philly paper offering to accompany ladies to social events as their 'escort' was not sex for hire. He did appear on Broadway and DC theaters as well. But nothing about any training he received, his first real break, or how he supported himself after the 1970's He was supposedly working on his memoirs when he died in 2013. His on screen appearance and charisma is evident. For someone as talented with stunning sex appeal, why did he never break back in? I'm on a project for a friend and the smallest detail to fill out his life would be welcomed!

[@susanhorton9492]

any more clips pf russ -- ?

[@pacmanindy]

Do you have clips when Rachel was pregnant with Jamie? It would have been nice!!!

[@sheiladavis6523]

Elizabeth Laughlin I sure hope so and yes it would be great ! 🙂 February 21,2020

[@amiblueful]

Did you know that Rachel was the precursor to Erica Kane? Agnes Nixon was a writer for AW and couldn't yet get the go ahead to start her own soap opera, so she wrote the characters she envisioned into AW. Notice how similar Rachel and Erica were in the early days?

[@laminage]

Give Agnes Nixon her props Were it not for her Another World may have been cancelled. The Alice/Steve/Rachel Love Triangle was the most popular Storyline in it's 35 Year History. When the Show got cancelled in 1999 it was on George Michael's 36 Birthday and Ten Years Later Michael Jackson would die and in the 1980's during the Thriller Era his Music was played on Another World as well as other Soaps from Al My Children and Guiding Light. This Year Coronation Street celebrates it's 60th Anniversary in The UK and their beginnings were so different from The US. The "Men" are just as powerful as their US Counterparts. Sadly enough Two who worked on US Soaps found out there was a major difference. Daran Little who wrote For All My Children and The Young & The Restless discovered that, who is a Legend writing for Coronation Street and EastEnders (currently). Mal Young who was the Bill Bell Of The UK (who also Co Created Another World) who tanked on The Young & The Restless.

[@laminage]

I heard that Rachel Cory was the Prototype for Erica Kane on All My Children.

[@mcat9974]

Yes, maybe not the "same character" but Agnes Nixon wrote the book for AMC which didn't get produced....she used that basis for Rachel on AW -- I think OLTL came next and that got Nixon an invitation to do what she wanted with AMC. Notably, Erica had the first abortion I believe but then years later circa 2010 they rewrote that someone saved that baby somehow and it thrived........and ironically, on the other end, Rachel had twin babies long past her menopause storylline LOL

[@mikemercado5223]

Agnes Nixon created the Bible for All My Children in the early 60s I it was in her suitcase lost by the airline. She then worked at A.W. for a few years. ABC lured her away and she created One Life to live for them. Then about a year later they asked her for another serial. She had found AMC by then

[@laminage]

I think it was around 1967.

[@debraschultz4850]

The original Rachel I forgot her, what happened to her!

[@laminage]

+SaveOLTL1741 She was also Hecuba on Passions. Here's another fun fact. She and Susan Sullivan (Ex-Lenore #2) were Roommates in College and were even a Singing Duo.

[@debraschultz4850]

+SaveOLTL1741 I remember now Robin Strasser, thanks I have senior moments sometimes lol!

[@laminage]

@@debraschultz4850 Were it not for The Internet I wouldn't have seen these clips. I live in Canada and they only started broadcasting Another World in 1972 until it's cancellation in 1999. They also would Broadcast Old School Episodes of Emmerdale 1972-Present a UK Soap Opera but it's Coronation Street tha tthey still show. To a lot of folks especially in Toronto, Ontario it means a lot since many of The Ladies came to Canada after WW II from London, England. Agnes Nixon "Saved" Another World since it was still struggling in The Ratings. In The UK it's The "Men" who rule Soaps. Tony Warren (RIP) who created Coronation Street and Tony Holland who Co-Created EastEnders 1985-Present.

[@irememberla6460]

laminage That's interesting that Canada only started broadcasting Another World in 1972 given its incredible popularity throughout its run there

[@laminage]

I stand corrected. I didn't start watching AW until 1978 when I was Twelve Years Old. Thanks for the Info. Also, who was the Lady with The Pageboy Haircut that was Dancing at around 0:48. Was she an Extra or something.

[@Donah]

Lee Randolf I think. she was John Randolph's oldest daughter who was killed I think by a car

[@laminage]

That's right. I forgot about Lee. I just remember the Twins Michael & Marianne. Thanks for the info.

[@MattFrame]

@@Donah Lee Randolph was indeed John Randolph's first-born child. She died in a car crash while having drug-related hallucinations.

[@metrogoldwyn]

@@Donah Wasn't she dating Sam? Jordan Charney who later was Mr. Angelino on 3's Company? He was Ada(Constance Ford)'s brother, I think

[@davidhouston6899]

Rachel, as played by Robin Strasser, was so similar to Susan Lucci's Erica Kane. I much preferred Victoria Wyndham's protrayal, so much more three dimensional

[@sandranorman5469]

I think they were created by the same writer/producer. Agnes Nixon

[@MrJuly1990ish]

1968.

[@kosmo2cat]

The original Russ Matthews was hot! Even as a little kid watching with mom - I thought so. I don't know why Rachel would want to throw that hottie over for Steve Frame. Not only was he good looking, but he was a doctor, for God's sake!

[@metrogoldwyn]

Sam Groom , I believe?

[@rodolpheettrick2929]

This Rachel was hot stuff and very comfortable with her femininity. Unlike Alice was kinda shy.

[@janets9179]

Rachel was pregnant. Was it russ's? Did she have a miscarriage? I know she had jamie, but that was steve's son.

[@sandranorman5469]

janets9179 I remember the episode that Rachel got pregnant with Jamie. OMG it’s all coming back to me. Would rush home from school to watch it.

[@MattFrame]

Rachel was originally pregnant with her hssband Russ Matthews' baby but had a miscarriage. She later became pregnant again, this time by Steven Frame. That child was born successfully: James Gerald Matthews Frame.

[@tallulah1961]

July 1, 1968 to be exact

[@metrogoldwyn]

I guess they were still broadcasting in B&W then?

[@denzo30]

that is not true. Harding Lemay took Rachel in a different direction but doesnt that happen constantly on soaps when the actor/actress has been recast? I thought Wyndham version was a much more mean than Strasser version. Of course, she changed over night. She lasted longer than any actor on the show

[@RichardKoenigsberg]

Rachel was much more interesting than Alice. And better looking.

[@MattFrame]

The audience disagreed with you.