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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 367322" data-attributes="member: 27">In the period I&#039;m watching (Summer/Fall of 1981), there is a short-term character named Sharkey (a slimy creep) who becomes the key to blowing open two major plotlines.&nbsp;&nbsp; He&#039;s played by Christopher Goutman, who ends up moving from acting to directing soaps (mostly at other P&amp;G soaps), ultimately becoming the Executive Producer of Another World when it was cancelled, who then moved to As the World Turns until it got cancelled.&nbsp; He was a good director, but a lousy EP from the look of things.&nbsp; All I can say right now is that he&#039;d better quit being mean to Nancy!Speaking of Nancy (and Mike), I find it sweet but sort of hilarious that the couple (a holdover from the 1960s style of soap operas) still have twin beds on the bedroom set at the Karr house.&nbsp; Across town we have Raven rolling around in bed with....well, fill in the blank, and couples like the Scotts and the Cavanaughs having the sort of &quot;pillow talk&quot; scenes that we see all the time with soap couples.&nbsp; It&#039;s so rare that they write a scene for Mike and Nancy talking (and certainly not doing anything else) in their bedroom that the show apparently hasn&#039;t updated the set to include a full-sized bed.&nbsp; It&#039;ll be well into 1983 before Nancy suggests that perhaps it&#039;s time they redecorate the house...and they broach the subject of finally buying a full-sized bed.&nbsp; I remember they made it a humorous sub-plot amid all the serious drama going on at the time.&nbsp; It made them seem like senior citizens, when in fact Forrest Compton was not even 60 and Ann Flood was around 50.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 367322, member: 27"] In the period I'm watching (Summer/Fall of 1981), there is a short-term character named Sharkey (a slimy creep) who becomes the key to blowing open two major plotlines. He's played by Christopher Goutman, who ends up moving from acting to directing soaps (mostly at other P&G soaps), ultimately becoming the Executive Producer of [I]Another World [/I]when it was cancelled, who then moved to [I]As the World Turns[/I] until it got cancelled. He was a good director, but a lousy EP from the look of things. All I can say right now is that he'd better quit being mean to Nancy! Speaking of Nancy (and Mike), I find it sweet but sort of hilarious that the couple (a holdover from the 1960s style of soap operas) still have twin beds on the bedroom set at the Karr house. Across town we have Raven rolling around in bed with....well,[I] fill in the blank, [/I]and couples like the Scotts and the Cavanaughs having the sort of "pillow talk" scenes that we see all the time with soap couples. It's so rare that they write a scene for Mike and Nancy talking (and [I]certainly not doing anything else[/I]) in their bedroom that the show apparently hasn't updated the set to include a full-sized bed. It'll be well into 1983 before Nancy suggests that perhaps it's time they redecorate the house...and they broach the subject of finally buying a full-sized bed. I remember they made it a humorous sub-plot amid all the serious drama going on at the time. It made them seem like senior citizens, when in fact Forrest Compton was not even 60 and Ann Flood was around 50. [/QUOTE]

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