50 years of Soaps pt 15

This was a special that aired on CBS in October of 1994. This segment featured a clip of Jackie Zeman and Kin Shriner on GH and the reunion of Jo and Stu from SFT - Mary Stuart and Larry Haines.

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• soap
• opera
• Larry
• Haines
• mary
• stuart
• jo
• stu
• jackie
• zeman
• kin
• shriner
• gh

[NelsonAspen]

Mary Stuart: gone bur not forgotten. The all-time Queen of Daytime. Great star, great lady, great friend!

[Soapking1965]

Larry Haines, who passed away in July 2008, and Mary Stuart are in reunited in Heaven. Jo and Stu will never be forgotten.

[juniorz1]

Check it out- Jackie Zeman looks like a HUMAN BEING. Is that.....her.......face......M­OVING?!?.........nah, couldn't be

[CarlD2]

Such legends. And right up to the end of their soap careers (Larry on Loving, Mary on GL), they were amazing actors. Never one bad performance. Never phoned it in. If only that level of professionalism were on soaps today.

That little clip of the two of them is adorable.

[spectrafashions]

That is just beautiful! Such a shame SFT was canceled. Truly one of the best soaps ever. I'd say better than ATWT even and I love that show! Compared to GL and ATWT in the 50-70s it was on fire and very daring and innovative. It's the 80s when things started to become all mixed up.

So nice to think a soap special would acknowledge a soap canceled 8 years earlier like this. Would love to see some AW stars acknowledged on the Emmys or something.

[ackgh73994]

WOW! Look how much taller Stuart was than Haines.

[gymnastix]

Just to not conclude with a downer--let's hope some better writers & actors (including maybe the rehiring & rejuvenation of some older actors & characters still around from the better eras) will restore the prominence of this once-great broadcasting form, before it's really too late!

[gymnastix]

Excuse me, I meant Terry O'Sullivan's "Arthur Tate." I'm confusing those Irish surnames--I'm from the Boston area, and Terry O'Reilly was a hockey player on the Boston Bruins team.

[gymnastix]

It may be trite, but of no TV soap opera, save perhaps the best years of "The Guiding Light" and "As The World Turns," is the following statement truer than of this one--"They don't make 'em like that anymore!"

Sadly, they don't, and I very much fear that daytime dramas as we know them, as a genre of televison will be gone by the next decade, barring some unforseen turns for the better.

[gymnastix]

I thought "SFT" had deteriorated a bit by the 1980's (the NBC run), and Mary herself complained about the virtual sabotage (by the show's writers) of the "McCleary" family at the expense of longer-established characters. But after recently viewing some episodes of those years on another website, even those episodes seem positively Shakespearean by comparison with today's soap operas.

[gymnastix]

Bob Mandan was also great on "SFT" in those years, as the first and best "Sam Reynolds," who was "Jo's" best romantic interest of the show's entire run, even surpassing Terry O'Reilly's "Arthur Tate."

Mandan would, coincidentally (or maybe not?), have his best-known role on a soap satire sitcom called "SOAP," playing "Chester Tate," the surname the same as that of "Jo" when "Sam" was courting her.