One Life To Live-A Daytime to Remember

from 1976

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[CandidCandor]

Actually, Nancy Pinkerton was fired from OLTL. Not because she wasn't a good actress, but because the writers wanted to lighten Dorian up after she killed Victor, so that she wouldn't be written into a corner, They thought that the audience wouldn't be able to see past all the evil Dorian did while NP played her. So they brought on someone else to give her a cleaner slate.

[Muffy2314]

Loved the storyline with Rachel Farmer Larry and Dorian around 1974--the whole show's storylines were great back then.

[LOLOLUTHER]

@Abbyviki Recasts were a huge deal back when the soaps were 30 minutes and there were fewer characters on the canvas. Also, it was rare when major characters were "backburnered" at they are today. You had leading and supporting roles back then, and each character served a specific purpose. I remember Claire Malis took over the role of Dorian when OLTL was 45 minutes. She didn't have any of Pinkerton's icy Nancy Reaganisms, but she did do an admirable job during her two-year tenure.

[TheOriginalSupreme]

I would love to see more scenes of Nancy Pinkerton as Dorian. Though I've grown up with Robin Strasser in the role and can't imagine anyone else as the ever so fabulous Dorian Cramer Lord, I can't help but wonder had OLTL not fired Nancy in 1977 what Dorian would've been like today had she stayed in the role until her passing or quit sometime before that. I can only hope that one day someone will release scenes of Nancy as Dorian because I'd love to see her opposite Erika Slezak.

[netguy02]

@CandidCandor OLTL's execs must have decided to focus on the long-term potential of the Viki/Dorian feud after Victor's death. It certainly seemed like Dorian would eventually be punished in some way for what she did to Victor, but she never was, which is probably the biggest anticlimax in OLTL's history. Over the years, OLTL has apparently tried to resolve (or rewrite) the story of Victor's death in various ways, but none of them has been particularly satisfying.

[netguy02]

Dorian, as played by the late, great Nancy Pinkerton, is definitely OLTL's best villainess. She was such a cold, conniving bitch. I never thought Dorian cared a bit about Victor; she was only after his money. It was so frustrating that she never got her comeuppance for what she did to him, and, to this day, she never really has. But Robin Strasser has added some vulnerability to Dorian that wasn't there before. It was impossible to feel any sympathy for Dorian before Strasser played her.

[dtw1958]

Thank you for this video. Hoping the one with that hunky Brad comng in from his jogging to rape Karen will make it up one day.

[soapfave06]

I love how Dorian's reflection was shown! Added a nice touch of suspense, and it was so simple! The people could act back then too!

[calalilygirl]

@lovenancyp Without a doubt.

[rickram1961]

The guy who played Dr. James Craig on OLTL was on ATWT for many years. He was married to Ellen Stewart's mother, Claire.

[imachildofthe80s8089]

Dorian wouldn't be the true enemy in this storyline though: a pschotic Cathy Craig(Tony's wife, Jim's daughter/Anna's stepdaughter) would put the Riley's through sheer torture when she kidnapped the young tot Kevin Riley(I heard this was the first child napping on soaps ever) Viki would also be smack in the middle of the same crisis exactly a decade later with Jessica/Natalie!

[imachildofthe80s8089]

@zellcurrie Then Robin left again in 2000(traveling the world with Drake Faraday, what happened to Damian Smith's good twin, LOL) and has been back in 2003(since she married Mitch Laurence and took over Llanfair/Llandump once more.) Glad that story didn't last too much longer