The Guiding Light - February 27, 1973

[@EdwynNSanchez]

Any thoughts on this revised version of the episode?

[@TheDeadmanRules]

Awesome! I am amazed at the audio quality, especially the announcing portions!

[@funbank1]

Edwyn Sanchez it’s a beautiful thing to watch again. I rushed home from school to see the end every day. Thank you for the memories.

[@jeffreycoval4618]

Edwyn Sanchez you made my day!!!! Amazing

[@CaliforniaGuy888]

Hello Edwyn, I believe it was broadcast in color. “Colorized”? Thank you for loading this😀👍

[@EdwynNSanchez]

@@CaliforniaGuy888 - No problem, I’m happy you enjoy this. And yes, you are correct about this episode broadcast in color. I just wanted to add a tone that adds a little more color to it.

[@SaxonC]

Back then, soaps had some great writers and storylines and superb actors. They hired actors based on their acting skills and not by their physical appearance, like today. Soaps weren’t that sex crazy with graphic scenes like today’s soaps. Sure they had sex but it wasn’t the main attraction like today. Thank you for posting these. I stopped watching the soaps in 1986. They no longer had me glued to the set anymore. Watching these videos reminds me of simpler times and more importantly, they remind me of the many times I watched them with my beautiful grandmother. CBS had the best daytime lineup and even Their prime time lineup was extraordinary! CBS was once known as the Tiffany Network because of the best programming.

[@sonyafox3271]

The Soaps were sponsored by P & G, Proctor & Gamble! I was born out of Cincinnati, Ohio and, lived in Harrison, that P & G was heavily in bedded in Cincinnati back then, not only did we buy their products, but, also we supported them by watching the soaps. A lot of the commercials were products that were made at P & G and, people don’t realize though you no longer see the symbol they also made Duncan Hines Products back in that time clear into the 80s! 29:03

[@SaxonC]

Even when I was really young and watched this with my grandmother, I always loved Bert Bauer. It’s hard to believe that she was only 49 years old here. Back in the day, everyone looked older than they were. Bert was the backbone of the show

[@kiba4687]

That is so true I am literally 49 right now and I feel like she looks like she's 10 years older than me at least L o l.

[@micheleasgian415]

I’m watching this as I did as a young girl at my grandmothers side many years ago! So fun so nostalgic

[@sonyafox3271]

Course, she was because, the Guiding Light was supposed to actually be based on her life, I think people forget that! 26:42

[@Soapking1965]

Any scene with the incomparable Charita Bauer as Bert Bauer were always worth watching.

[@tammylewis2408]

It was really cool that her last name was also Bauer in real life. She truly was meant to play the part. She also made daytime history with her character diagnosed with cervical cancer during a pap smear and encouraged women (who were the main daytime drama viewers at the time) to get pap smears, which has saved countless lives.

[@DitalianCole]

Wow! I'm surprised this episode is in such excellent shape! Thanks for posting vintage GL!

[@Sheronick]

GL really lost its way when they ditched the Bauers as the main family of the show.

[@frankieseward8667]

If it were the Reardons I wouldn't have minded.

[@TitanicTubi]

@@frankieseward8667 I loved the Reardons but they made it too much about the young and Reva and Josh. Loved them but not the whole show

[@JozarS.-ol4fj]

The entire series of Guiding Light started on radio with the family religious soap opera of religious family of a preacher. Then it made its transition to television with the Bauers as the main core family until it shifted its focus to Reva and Josh until the end.

[@JozarS.-ol4fj]

The Bold and the Beautiful is the only soap opera that never ditches their main family (the Forresters), unlike its sister soap, The Young and the Restless, who also follows Guiding Light in ditching the main family for another senseless family.

[@adriannegrillo8394]

I totally agree! They lost so much by writing out the characters of this time period. The characters were better the actors were better and the story lines were as well.

[@patsyk.1563]

Papa Bauer's funeral episode? Perhaps that's why it was on the DVD? Theo Goetz had just died 2 months before this airdate so the pain of his passing was still fresh to the cast. Thank you. I know I didn't see this as I was in school, but my own grandfather died 3 weeks later.

[@christobellagio191]

Charita Bauer was a great actress

[@jamieburroughs427]

Interesting and coincidental that Bauer played a Bauer 😊

[@julenepegher6999]

This is Fantastic! I’m a great fan of Guiding Light. I started watching when I was about three, I remember sitting under the ironing board as my mom ironed watching it. It was only on for fifteen minutes. I watched it my entire life, after school, when I worked I taped it then when I was a stay at home mom til it ended. I especially loved the organ music.

[@tammylewis2408]

I watched GL in my playpen from the time I was an infant in the late '60s until its ending in 2009. Remembering the Bauers, Spauldings, Lewises, Marlers, Coopers, Reardons, and Roger Thorpe (RIP Michael Zaslow) through those years. My late Mom watched GL throughout its TV run, starting with my late Grandma. She cried at the end of GL in the final episode when Reva, Josh, and Reva's young son drove off into the sunset after meeting at the lighthouse.

[@julenepegher6999]

@@tammylewis2408 good story. It was such a main part of my life. I would watch it with my mom later in her life. We would lay on her bed together. I loved Roger Thorpe and Alan Spaulding and Lujack. The bad boys! Good memories. ☺️

[@dickiegreenleaf750]

They need to bring these classic soaps back.

[@adriannegrillo8394]

That would be great! They have repeats of other shows.

[@tammylewis2408]

@@adriannegrillo8394 Yes, but many of those soaps were erased until the late 70s when the networks began saving them. Wiping, as it was called, was to save videotape, which was expensive at the time, and before 1975, soaps were done live, and kinescopes were used to distribute them to low-powered local TV stations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_television_broadcast#Soap_operas

[@BillboardPenguin]

Don Stewart's singing near the end was really outstanding.

[@laminage]

In the 1970's he did a promotional appearance at a Charity Dance.

[@laminage]

Mart Hulswit looks so much like the Actor who plays Geordie's Lover on Granchester. Little idea did Ed know that Rick would continue the tradition of Bauer Men having a challengng personal life.

[@EverythingIsChromeInTheFuture]

To call the audio quality phenomenal, amazing, and downright pristine would be an extreme understatement!

[@brookehanley3659]

Really enjoying this!

[@EdwynNSanchez]

I'm happy that you are! Thank you!

[@soulshaker9018]

I surely do miss these days. My Granny watched this show and I surely do miss her too.

[@calvinbealer7264]

The Commercials from the Early 1970s. Bring Back Memories.

[@59skupe]

I just saw Michael Zaslow from an old Barnaby Jones' episode from 1978, 20 years or since he died from ALS and was still in his heyday. He was so young and handsome and played a similar character to Roger Thorpe.

[@sandrasanders706]

MZ was just great. His passing was one of the saddest in Daytime Drama History! Sad loss.

[@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc]

@@sandrasanders706 Michael Zaslow last acting role was on One Life to Live.

[@laminage]

You know what's also so sad, Three Generations of Bauer Men had affairs. Bll with his Secretary Maggie. Mike with his Wife's Boss Pat Randolph when he lived in Bay City on Another World. Ed with Lillian Raines and Rick with Beth Raines his former Highschool Prom Date.

[@laminage]

​@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hcRight On! God Bless Agnes Nixon for bringing im back to educate folks about ALS. Now Roberta Flack apparently has it who was neighbors with John Lennon & Yoko Ono in The Dakota. She appeared on Guiding Light as well as it's Sister Show Another World. I just realized Hope was the first Bauer Child to be born in America.

[@tammylewis2408]

I loved Michael Zaslow; he was such a fine actor, sad that ALS took his life.

[@ronaldbaldwin4505]

A master tape from a TV station. Amazing it survived. A lot of that stuff was taped over back then

[@coasterpimp2]

OMG That organ music ! Loved TGL in the late 70's !

[@jamieburroughs427]

0:34 10:40 This theme (La Lumeiere) did stay on GL till ‘75 although it switched from organ to orchestra in ‘74

[@erikandrus4387]

Back when Soaps were basic, and I don't mean that in the common definition...they just didn't overcommit to the story at hand to pacify an audience that constantly needed something happening every 10 seconds. Once they dispense with that you can follow a story and it's nuance. This was all striking, and 30 minutes is enough time to commit to a show - if only today's executives would realize that - and of the soaps remaining figure a way to cut them down, and then create/return one of the established shows.

[@anthonymeans7439]

The storyline were more nuanced back then and had depth and quality to keep the viewers engaged.So yes definitely more simple in a good way to be depicted more realistically

[@cyranothecat]

Agree. An hour is too long. Storyline in soaps went to a faster pace after the success of General Hospital and Luke and Laure plot lines. What worked for GH didn't really work for other soaps.

[@duranddavis7710]

Yes it was more a day in the life. And through those days things would happen. Yes.

[@timr3023]

Where on earth did you get this gem! This should be house in the Hall of TV and Film -an important episode !

[@EdwynNSanchez]

Well, it was on a DVD containing classic GL episodes. The DVDs are no longer in stock…. from what I’ve been hearing.

[@shortlandstreetfan]

I always adored Mart Hulswit as Dr. Ed Bauer! X

[@Timcrtr1]

I was born in 1972 and started watching the soaps when I stayed home from school if my mom stayed home too. I grew up watching the CBS soaps. Y&R, ATWT, GL and Search for Tomorrow before it moved to NBC. Seeing these old episodes is such a treat. Thanks for sharing!

[@darnellanders8768]

so did i, when i was home due to a cold or coming home early from school. i guess i was a momma's boy, loved cuddling next to mom, lying across her lap and slobering on her soft thighs when i was around 3 to five, didnt really get into guilding light until i was ten when dr sarra mckintosh was almost killed by her husband joe warner. then i didnt pay much attention to doctor Ed and Janet but i remember her slightly but started tuning in more when Ed got with Rita in 77 and stayed tuned when that Roger Thorpe raped Rita whom i thought was so sexy and then he later raped Holly, by then i was hooked, some of my friends called me a sissy for watching.

[@sheriheffner2098]

My mom watched Guiding Light when I was little. I didn't like soap operas until I was i to my late teens. I remember the story where Holly was being chased by Roger in the Dominican Republic. I thought she went around the same place over and over. Then I started watching it daily in 1981 when Nola was trying to get pregnant by that good looking Kelly the doctor. I watched it until it was cancelled.

[@julenepegher6999]

I was a soap opera fanatic!! Watched them my whole life, especially the CBS soaps.

[@micheleasgian415]

I remember when I got to stay home from school, watching these shows with tomato soup grilled cheese !

[@micheleasgian415]

I loved GL ATWT YATR

[@JozarS.-ol4fj]

That Guiding Light episode from February 27, 1973 was 29 days before the debut of The Young and the Restless.

[@brookehanley3659]

Watching this clip is so relaxing. And good!

[@suzannestafford4250]

I love this episode I remember and the old commercials

[@ilovebeinagirl]

I always loved to hear Don Stewart sing.

[@duranddavis7710]

All of these old faces. Wow. Now I’m old.

[@merricat3025]

Me too

[@brookehanley3659]

Where did Bufferin go? It was very popular back in the day. And Roast and Boast which was very tasty!?

[@der22672]

This is an amazing find. I've heard for a long time that 1970-1978 episodes of soaps don't exist. But then I see this and this gives me renewed hope there are more out there. Particularity As The World Turns and Guiding Light. I thought I'd ask if by any chance you might have more episodes? Really appreciate this one. And the original commercials are an added bonus. Thanks again. ❤️❤️

[@EdwynNSanchez]

@der22672 - You’re welcome! I’m happy that you enjoy it. I have a partial GL episode from 1978 which will be published here soon.

[@Wizardof]

Tapes were SO expensive that they recorded over them. They recorded Richard Dawson's family feud over Carson tapes or something... Or these were live and never taped by CBS/PG! NBC on the other hand wiped everything they could find.......

[@ryanwolff4058]

I wonder if there are any old Another World episodes from this era left.

[@Wizardof]

@@ryanwolff4058 maybe. they would have to have had a vcr in that era which was expensive. PG if they have tapes are locked in a vault prolly. IF they are any then the magnetic tape has degrated. It will degrade no matter how WELL you preserve it.

[@tammylewis2408]

@@Wizardof According to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_television_broadcast#Soap_operas "Two soaps have full archives: Days of Our Lives, which premiered in 1965, and The Young and the Restless, which premiered in 1973. Both series were originally distributed by Screen Gems." (now by its successor, Sony Pictures TV) Days has all of its episodes, from its November 8, 1965, NBC debut to the present ones now showing on Peacock. Young & the Restless has all their episodes from their CBS debut on March 26, 1973, to the present. Thankfully, Sony had the foresight to preserve those two iconic soaps on tape.

[@ctlacy1963]

All that we send into the lives of others... comes back into our own.

[@sheriheffner2098]

I remember that during Guiding Light's last years on television.

[@kmchatzkendra]

Love this episode./: I rewatch often and I was born in ‘73. I so wish there were more early 70’s. I am sure if they knew what would happen with technology in the future there would be more :-)

[@pacmanindy]

It has been 50 years!!!

[@elainemurley9509]

Good memories

[@SaxonC]

It was nice to see Leslie Jackson Bauer, Rick’s mother, again.

[@FlavioGirl]

hi. thanks for including commercials. video quality of the show is top notch

[@aliciabishop4264]

THANK YOU I WAS 11 YRS OLD DURING THIS TIME MY MOM WATCHED.THESE SOAP OPERA'S I APPRECIATE YOUR PUTTING THEM OUT HERE AND I LOVE THE COMMERCIALS OF THAT ERA NO NAKEDNESS THANK YOU!

[@stevenlewis7921]

My God, such a classier and more civilized era!

[@judytacyn6085]

This is pure gold!

[@anthonymeans7439]

The quality of this video was excellent .

[@sheriheffner2098]

Ha! That Grape Nuts commercial, Carol Burnett was making fun of that old man on The Carol Burnette Show on MeTV.

[@rogertemple7193]

When the commercials advertised things that you needed unlike those of today that try to push unwanted things on you.

[@alandale2182]

There was no drug advertising in the 70's.

[@jamieburroughs427]

@@alandale2182prescription drug ads didn’t appear on tv/soap operas until the late 90s

[@rogertemple7193]

The way the few remaining soaps are going it makes me want watch old episodes of them if they have any episodes still on tape and didn't wipe them that is.

[@ericsamuelson5656]

For those of you who are now over 55, if you guys filmed Guiding Light with Fire Island Lighthouse on a sound movie camera, can you please post them here on KZbin

[@baconbap]

Oh my! Milette Alexander was there! Dr. Sarah McIntyre.

[@caroldry9262]

This was my grandma’s favorite soap. She never missed watching it.

[@baconbap]

Ha! Peggy showing up in her nursing uniform. I loved her.

[@KJTV67]

This was the hospital chapel-right?

[@Sugarbehr1967]

Loved Barbara Rodell as Leslie.

[@cdw3497]

Such a different character than Joyce on ATWT. A great actress!

[@kirkmorgan-austin1187]

It was quite obvious the mourning was there for actor Theo Goetz as well.

[@UserNameRedacted-d7u]

I could totally get into this, why don't they upload them all

[@KJTV67]

If only that were possible

[@gailbannister3919]

Guiding light was the best.

[@gailbannister3919]

Would sooo love to see those episodes with Roger, Peggy, Holly, ed, and others.

[@erikandrus4387]

Papa Bauer was the most loving and kindest of Irna Phillips' patriarchs. Papa Hughes, not so much, that guy was dreadful the way he got under Nancy's skin, lol

[@rogertemple7193]

This was not to long after Theo Goetz passed away and then they had Papa pass away off screen.

[@ScottEllzey]

Thank you for posting this. I enjoyed this. But, I don't think soaps would be as hugely popular as they were in their 80's glory days had they not picked up the pace.

[@ctlacy1963]

This is great... Im so glad that this has been remastered.

[@techontesla5284]

Sometimes my mother would let me skip school and I would sit and watch this with her. What good memories.❤️

[@mariavani8839]

Love the commercials

[@rscottjohnson6169]

Brilliant!

[@callicordova4066]

Wow! That heavy organ music!

[@sunflowerlady1810]

I almost didn't recognize Bert Bauer,, wow. Loved this Soap hated when it was taken off.

[@CMinorOp67]

6:40 could a commercial look more like it was filmed on a set? And…that little girl looks like Kristy McNichol.

[@hoagie1978]

That is her.

[@markc-ru4qz]

I loved mart hulswit as ed he was so cute

[@duranddavis7710]

Acting on the phone with no one on the other end.

[@brookehanley3659]

Actors did it all the time

[@stanbrown32]

Amusing to hear in the Saniflush ad that apparently they thought "toilet" was not an acceptable word. "Bathroom bowl," and they wouldn't even show it, only the tank, lol.

[@baconbap]

I used to love the opening to Secret Storm. Waves crashing, "brought to you by Sani Flush."

[@timr3023]

The Buffrin commercial Is creepy!

[@LakeLivingPA]

I forgot about "bathroom bowl" LMAO Memory unlocked, lol

[@vinylsingleman]

Papa Bauer has just died (the actor Theo Goetz had died in real life).

[@pecpower]

That is Kristy McNichol in the Crisco commercial at the 7:00 mark.

[@greenbrown7776]

I started watching this show about three or four years later after this aired. What an amazing change in those few short years. It was much more sophisticated with much larger sets and cast than in 1973. The is a look at soaps just before they entered those true glory years of the mid-1970s to mid-1980s.

[@jad8123]

Young-ish Bert Bauer. I didn’t start watching until 1979 or so.

[@merricat3025]

I grew up watching this show. I was born in 1964 and I have memories of this show when I was a little kid. I didnt watching towards the end. I got so sick of the Lewis Shane crap. Reva and her sister made me sick. That storyline with the cousins falling in love grossed me out. I didn't want to see how they explain that one away. I really wish they wouldn't have focused on the Shane Lewis's and the Santos. I pretty much quit watching at that time. It was so much better when it was the Riordan's and the Bauers. There was actually some very good characters in the seventies too

[@KJTV67]

@@merricat3025 What's to explain-they are from Oklahoma!

[@baconbap]

This is how my first memories are of Bert, watching with my mom.

[@baconbap]

@@merricat3025 they killed the one cousin. I started watching around the same time as you. With my mom. It changed so much but I just could never give it up. Reva going through menopause twice and having babies afterward got to be a little much.

[@julenepegher6999]

These were the best years, I grew up watching this too, my mom would watch I remember when it was on for 15 minutes. I watched til the very end, it did get to be too much though. I liked the half hour format.

[@MrCraigblaze]

Thanks for the Upload !! A very long time before Maji Dusay !! XD

[@sheriheffner2098]

Marj was my very favorite actress as Alexandra. I also liked her as Blair Warner's mother on The Facts Of Life. I was so upset when she died. She was my moms age.

[@gsnfan]

19:01 Love the Duncan Hines jingle!

[@VickySwindoll]

My favorite soap for many years! I was so upset when they took it off the air.

[@dontabaltimore1974]

Love the voice over tosses to commercial break its great television

[@LannieLord]

Compared to the ABC soaps ; The CBS and NBC soaps were like going to the nurses office and waiting for your parents to pick you up from school because you were not feeling well. They were so so slow moving and dry. I used to think they were religious as well.

[@hoagie1978]

🤣

[@BerniceFlowers-l3e]

I was four years and three months old when this episode aired.

[@callicordova4066]

The lady in the Crisco oil commercial was in the last episode of Star Trek (the original series).

[@edgeof1956]

I wish GL would've kept the blueish-hue logo for the entire run.☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[@ronaldbaldwin4505]

That child is probably about 51 yrs old now

[@chriscaffee4227]

I assume Charles Paul was still organist for the Guiding Light and was playing throughout this episode!

[@joannakapsha4199]

I was laughing at the organ music. This was the year I was born.

[@jamieburroughs427]

Was GL still live in February ‘73 even though the announcer said “This program was recorded” at the end of

[@mthivier]

I liked the young lady who played Hope here (Elissa Leeds, I think?). She was a very good actress, but she also looked physically like she could have been Mike's daughter and Bert's granddaughter.

[@ttresser9883]

She is 65 now.

[@lisamiller8335]

Bring back guilding light

[@larry1824]

Mom loved it

[@johnodonnell5474]

I thought the show would have been in color by this time.

[@kirkmorgan-austin8361]

Too bad we didn't get to see Lynn Deerfield as Holly

[@jamieburroughs427]

There is a 90 second audio clip of the Lynn Deerfield Holly on Danny Hills KZbin channel (GL August 3 1971 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoHFc3t9hcaSkNU) And there is a 1 second snippet of what she looked like in a 1974 GL promo.

[@jamessullivan1714]

This when I started watching it when Ed was in love with Janet Norris Ken's wife and then got stuck with Holly

[@baconbap]

I had forgotten about Janet. Wasn't Holly married to Janet's dad?

[@jamieburroughs427]

6:00 9:20 14:45 18:06 Interesting how Alan Berns notifies the viewers that there are commercials coming and to stay tuned “Our program will continue in a moment”. Was this just for master copies/or dvds or was this shown on actual broadcasts?

[@joannakapsha4199]

9 months before I was born

[@paulvoorhies8821]

OMG. I was probably watching then, as my mother and housekeeper did, but I sure dion’t remember this far back.

[@sheriheffner2098]

I can barely remember Mike Bauer. But Ed, Peter Simon was the Ed I remember.

[@joannakapsha4199]

That was my favorite Ed

[@liz5465]

This Ed reminds me of my childhood

[@laminage]

Looking back but it would have been too heavy and controversial. Have it be discovered that Frederick aka "Papa" was asked to join The Nazi Party. Then he said no and escaped to America and for safety purposes he changed his family named from Silberbauer to "Bauer" so they wouldn't be tracked down. Also "Papa" was such a good man, kind, compassionate, patient and very forgiving over everything that his family especially "Willy" put him through.

[@laminage]

The Young Lady who plays hope looks so much like Princess Leonor of Spain who is now in Military School. She will one day be the future Queen Of Spain.

[@lagarde2011]

Charita Bauer was 12 years older than Don Stewart who played her son Mike.

[@jamieburroughs427]

That’s what happens with SORASed characters

[@tammylewis2408]

This episode was the funeral of patriarch Papa Bauer; the actor Theo Goetz died in real life on 12/29/1972 and his death was written into the show. This was also before the intro was changed in 1975 from the lighthouse shots to the leaves shining thru the trees and dropped the word "The" from Guiding Light.

[@lesliekozachik8503]

I was 7 years old when this episode aired.

[@Leealee09]

I was 9, I watched this with my mother all summer when out of school! Such good memories. Charita Bauer was a classy lady!

[@laminage]

They used to do this opening on Coronation Street. Looking back, I wonder if Hope was inspired by Margaret Simon from The Book Are You There God, It's Me Margaret.

[@bethaltmann868]

Is there anyway to air these from start to finish ? I watched these with my mom and sister , such sweet memories

[@EdwynNSanchez]

If only we could find a way to get our hands on the surviving episodes. If there are any. I know for a fact that almost all of the episodes from the 50s all the way to 1978 are lost forever. Rumors suggest that P&G also destroyed their entire soap archive after their run with dramatic TV ended in the late 2000s.

[@debrawindsor6720]

That woman is actress jobeth Williams

[@mrs.rucker2448]

I never realized until just this moment that my beloved Leslie from GL was hated Joyce Coleman on ATWT! I was six when Leslie died and I still remember when she flatlined!

[@aphillyate1]

This is amazing really. Not one month later the iconic soap Young and Restless debuted and changed the face and tenor of daytime forever.

[@merricat3025]

When The Young and the Restless first came out I liked it. After a while I couldn't stand it anymore. I didn't like anybody on the show. Hard to watch a show when you don't like them. A few years ago I watched it again for a bit. I gave up once again when they brought Michelle Stafford back to reprise her role of Phyllis. I was pretty much back to I don't like and now there's people I can't stand. I stopped watching and have no desire to ever return. It's sad it was the last of the Soaps that I used to watch that was still on. GL and ATWT had some great years.

[@edgefan4437]

@@merricat3025 I agree. Most of the characters on Y&R have had their better days and stories and when you only sort of like 1 or 2 characters it's not worth watching. Y&R really could use a new group of interesting characters and stories. I think the ones now have run their course.

[@darnellanders8768]

oh yes i loved it right off the bat, especially Gil who was living at home with her brothers and mom, and then she became Catherine's personal assistant and or manicurist. i liked the Brooks sister's except for Lorri at first because of her whining about Lesily being a pianist and feeling as if she was living in her shadow. i started liking her when she met Lance and was set up to take the fall for Lance and Luke's evil controlling mother's death, i also enjoyed watching Gil when she manage to marry Stewart Brooks and somehow she fail down the stairs trying to stop him from divorcing her. she manage to save his life after a heart attack. then i hated Gil for getting pregnant by Phillip Chancellor, she had the baby boy and neglected him , Liz Foster spent most of her time changing diapers while Gil search for another rich guy to swindle and met John Abbott. i disliked Gil for years until Jess Walton played the role.

[@edgefan4437]

@@darnellanders8768 I wasn't sure what show and who you were talking about because her name is spelled Jill not Gil. and I loved the original actress Brenda Dickson playing Jill and being so overly confident after having people treat her so badly for wanting a better life and a man who could take care of her. To me Brenda made the show. I still miss her and I know lots of other fans that I have conversed with that feel the same way. But we all have our own opinions.

[@darnellanders8768]

@@edgefan4437 oh yes opinions r like assholes and we all have one, my ex girlfriend spelled her name Gil . so i'm sorry about the misspell. but i'm sure u knew who i was talking about, there was nothing wrong with Jill wanting a better life for herself but its the way she went about it with such deception and rage, she did work hard to put Snapper though med school and i admired that but the way she treated mrs Chancellor was despicable and unnecessary . she changed from a soft spoken Jill into self absorbed bitch and even her mom Liz Foster grew to despise her at times. she went after the older guys to make a better life for herself using her body and even gave up a good man like Derrick and Andy to get what she wanted , money can't buy happiness and u sure cant take it with u, the only thing u can take with u when u leave this earth is another person to heaven.

[@freemangriffin4953]

Is that Mart Hulswit and Caroline McWilliams talking on the telephone?

[@hrh-xj4fh]

Its caroline mcwilliams...not sure about the man

[@EdwynNSanchez]

If my actors history knowledge is right, The man is indeed Mart Hulswit. And yes, That is Caroline McWilliams.

[@christopherlyons5900]

Ah, they still had a house organist then. Probably also played organ for things like funerals and weddings on the show. I recognize nobody here but three of the Bauers. So at what point did they start showing couples in bed? I've always been curious. Did it overlap with the offscreen organ music at all? Anyone know?

[@hodjpodj3958]

Perhaps in '82 or '83, with Elizabeth and Jackie gone and Mike needing a suitable new leading lady, actress Barbara Rodell, who left ATWT in early '81, could have returned somehow to GL as Leslie's twin. Some viewers thought that Don Stewart had stronger chemistry with Rodell than with Lynne Adams.

[@baconbap]

I remember they tried to pair Mike with Alexandra but it didn't go anywhere.

[@timr3023]

@@baconbap 😜😂

[@paulvoorhies8821]

I didn’t even know there was a Rick Sr. I thought this was Bill Bauer’s funeral.

[@darnellanders8768]

wow Ed sure looked great as a youthful guy, wish he would have met sexy Rita at that time, she came into his life later and broke his heart. if that baby had lived they may have worked things out, but it dies after Sarra discovered through testing that Ed was indeed the father. it s ironic that Lenore Kasdorf was pregnant in real life at the same time and i heard had a son in 1980 the same year my niece was born.

[@sheriheffner2098]

That must have been before I began watching it. I remember Rita, but not any baby. The only baby I remember is Michelle. Ed's child of course. I only remember Rick as a teenager. Along with Phillip.

[@liz5465]

Lenore Kasdorf had a girl

[@karoldisaac8593]

I Loved Rita Stapleton Bauer

[@darnellanders8768]

@@karoldisaac8593 So did I but mosly when she smiled which was very rarely after she got raped by Roger Thorp in october 1978. She was always weary and worrying about Roger instead falling prey to his threats and intimidation unliked Holly who stood up to him charging him with rape. Rita almost shouted out in court that he raped her as well but she sit back down in her chair. When she came back after loosing the baby that turned out to be Ed's she was radiant at the Bauer pool but I had a feeling they wouldn't get back on tract. She was just to restless and insecure about Holly and Ed so she then turned to the ruthless Alan Spaulding giving up the most wonderful husband and Doctor who loved her unconditionally. She was quite the beauty but nothing upstairs as far as loyality and being content was not on her radar.

[@darnellanders8768]

@@liz5465 oh yeah I had read the wrong statement , Lenore did have a girl.