Nancy and Joyce

[@lindaeasley5606]

Love the way old soaps were .They showed characters doing things that reflected real life , like putting away groceries , going to funerals

[@memati7199]

I didn’t see a single soap bar 🧼 on the video. What do you mean?

[@CarlD2]

Great to see more of this. Joyce is fascinating to watch, fragile and tough all at once. And I love seeing this version of Nancy. I guess this was one of the first times ATWT characters dealt with the back from the dead syndrome.

[@LCM2248]

This was the first time.

[@halfdome5705]

The 1st time, a new storyline was compelling. When it was repeated, & repeated, it was trite & predictable.

[@stanbrown32]

I love seeing Chris and Nancy--I don't remember this particular scene, but I remember seeing the show in those years, as a child--Joyce and Don, Joyce sending the toy to Teddy when everyone thought she was dead. I feel like Chris and Nancy are like my other grandparents :)

[@mrob75]

this was the era before they began putting the Hughes family in the background in exchange for a zillion new characters and too many twisted plots...I miss the days of Nancy's 1970s green kitchen

[@jabjab4434]

I adored Barbara Rodell as Lee Randolph on Another World. Devastated when she left the soap and then appeared on ATWT. Two completely different characters.

[@ronon3849]

I ran into Ms. Rodell on Broadway. She was working at one of the theaters. She told me that she was blackballed in the industry and could never get back on any of the soaps. It was quite sad.

[@alexisdiva9]

@@ronon3849 that's so sad and outrageous! I enjoyed watching her as Joyce on ATWT.

[@kriskringle2274]

Great scene. I only started watching in 1985, so this was "history" to me, but GREAT history. Barbara Rodell (Joyce) was nominated for 3 or 4 Emmy's I think her for her performance. Helen Wagner is on top of it all...she was a great historian for the show, amazing how much of the who's who & who did what she could remember. But always a treat seeing Don MacLaughlin (CHRiS). In a Memorial Book about Mac, "Grant Coleman" wrote, "Don MacLaughlin was a prince of a man....and EVERYONE knew it!"

[@TimEasterling-ug6go]

Barbara Rodell was great on The Guiding Light& As The World Turns&Another World. Fine acting as Joyce Colman Hughes she played that role great.

[@patriciapiekarski8375]

Miss as the world turns. Grew up watching it and guiding light. I watch other soaps now a days . but my favorites were.ad the world turns and guiding light especially the the.70s and early I enjoyed the thanks giving and Christmas shows when familys.got together for the holidays. Soaps today don't do that. I loved the watching the family's come together for the holidays that when soap operas were good. Miss those days

[@19ccj65]

I'd always heard about Barbara Rodell's, Joyce. I would have love to have seen this way back when.

[@melissameyer8328]

I miss the Nancy and Chris part of the story. They felt like family.

[@adelgado75]

I was hoping to win the Power Ball so I could produce a retro style soap opera with a multi generational cast and real storytelling.

[@ThorneAstor]

This was during the time when coming back from the dead was an event.

[@a.b.s_productions]

Now when a character comes back from the dead on a soap it’s no surprise or entertaining in my opinion.

[@mikeelmira]

Yeah, I remember someone telling me Bill died and I asked if she saw the body, several years later he reappeared, I think Amnesia was his reason for not returning sooner.

[@atwt1871]

LOL i did some research and it says Joyce returned on Valentines day 1980 so this episode is dated Feb 14, 1980

[@SamiTwyla9]

At Wt Thanks for the clarification

[@DanMan869]

Yes, I've seen on the web that Joyce returned on Valentine's Day 1980, but I thought the character also mentioned here that she returned to town "yesterday" and had seen Mary Ellison and (Joyce's) son Teddy in the park that day (before). (Though I'm not sure why Mary wouldn't have blabbed that shocking info all over town, but...whatever.) So, with all that in mind, could this scene have aired during the Friday, February 15, 1980 episode?

[@lisa8817]

That was only 1980? Wow.

[@castlist3384]

The antagonism between Nancy and Joyce was especially palpable when Joyce shot and paralyzed her husband, Nancy's son Donald. Chris acted as the buffer in the storyline.

[@ozzielee9058]

I'm very unfamiliar with this era of ATWT. The writing is character driven. The Joyce character reminds me of the Rita character (played by Lenore Kasdorf)...on Guiding Light. Thx for the upload.

[@CoopyKat]

I wish somebody would post videos of her the way she was before she came back from the dead. The months leading up to her "death" were quite dramatic, in a very entertaining way.

[@jimdavis3435]

Those episodes might not be available...most of these shows were erased and the tapes reused-lost forever!!!

[@CoopyKat]

Jim Davis yes I know, that really sucks!

[@jimdavis3435]

I just love this scene...i have watched over several times...i know there are a few lost episodes around but unavailable to the public but places like The Paley Center in New York has some lost episodes from the soaps

[@rickram1961]

Joyce was certainly one piece of work. Joyce was huge enemy of Lisa since they were both fighting over Joyce's ex husband Grant who was involved with Lisa.

[@marcusjones2094]

Rick Mileske I remember that well Rick, Joyce cause Ed a lot of trouble for Lisa

[@mthivier]

How bad was Joyce? When the writers wanted to turn Lisa into a sympathetic character in the mid-70s , they brought Joyce in or Lisa to go up against. As conniving and scheming as Lisa had been, Joyce was way worse!

[@alexisdiva9]

Yes, Joyce was (especially before her "death") behavior wise like Lisa in the early 1960's but on steroids. This was another reason why Lisa didn't care for her besides their squabbling over Grant. If you think Joyce was bad - fast forward about 15 years and meet Orlena. Orlena IMO was a woman who made Joyce the pictures of sanity and kindness in comparison. This Orlena was a woman impersonated Damien Grimaldi's mother Bettina, gaslighted the real Bettina and made her serve her as a servant, gaslighted Lily who married Damien, killed Damien's cousin Eduordo (who had just married Lisa) and another man by poisoning (Orlena was a nurse and these men had something on her).

[@CoopyKat]

One time Joyce kidnapped her son Teddy for a few hours, and I always wondered if the writers of "Fatal Attraction" stole that idea from ATWT!

[@alexisdiva9]

And when she returned Teddy safely to his adoptive mother Mary, that's when she fled town to avoid the Hughes family trying to commit her, accidentally driving off a bridge in the process. Since no body was found she was presumed dead for a few months where she apparently somehow went back to her hometown San Francisco, entered into therapy and with perfect timing to bollix up Don & Mary's wedding plans returned from the presumed dead.

[@sondraschreiber9209]

Nancys kitchen was really ugly but homey and nice at the same time.

[@halfdome5705]

This image is a bit faded. The renovation of the kitchen was a storyline; the progress was shown in several episodes. The new island counter with chopping block top, plus the avocado green, were very stylish at the time. The curtains were made by Liz Talbot, who lived with the Hughes before she married Dan Stewart and birthed Betsy.

[@atwt1871]

do you know the date of this episode

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

Why did they think Joyce drowned? Was she in a car that went over a bridge or???

[@alexisdiva9]

Yes, as I recall, the Hughes were fixing to have Joyce committed - she got wind of it and left town to escape. In the process her car went off a bridge; somehow she managed to get out of the car. Even though no body was found it was presumed she drowned. (In real life Barbara Rodell left the show to try her luck in Hollywood - this kind of writing left a door open in case she wanted to return to the show - which is what happened). I'm no lawyer but I surmise that the Hughes family with Chris, Don & Tom as attorneys had the same kind of clout in Oakdale that the Kennedys had in the real world (since they had Joyce declared legally dead after being missing only a few months; I always thought someone needed to be missing 7 years to be declared legally dead). Another thing I think I recall reading was that they were considering divorce in absentia on the grounds of desertion (by Joyce). Ultimately she did the right thing for Don's sake: consent to a divorce so that he could legally move on and marry Mary.

[@halfdome5705]

Film was shown at the end of an episode. Joyce's car went over a cliff, with a long descent into a lake. Thus, it was quite believable that Joyce was dead.

[@duranddavis7710]

Joyce!

[@Bunnylefluf]

the kitchen.. how did they get curtains..to match that ugly wallpaper ?