GUIDING LIGHT-- Roger/Peggy "sorry"

in this clip from 1976, Roger tells his wife Peggy that he is the father of Holly's child.

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[gymnastix]

You know, my friend (and we've commented on each others TV memories before), if you compare this clip with some of the more abundant ones (kinescopes) of "GL" from 1966, "Peggy"'Fran Myers has matured so much by this clip it's amazing!

I only wish there were some clips of the intervening years (1967-75). What the TV networks did by destroying/wiping their videos of daytime programming  of the 1960s & '70s borders on cultural homicide!

[mthivier]

@stanbrown32 the Roger/Holly/Ed/Rita stuff was what hooked me on GL, and what propelled GL for the better part of the late '70s.

[anabanana0714]

Was Maureen Garrett already playing Holly at this time? I know she took over the role in '76.

[gymnastix]

@OceanKingNY I also loved the romance of "Peggy" and "Johnny Fletcher," but when "Johnny " was played by Erik Howell, who was the youngest-looking to have played the character. I think Howell also played the role longest, about five years. Sadly, as you note, there seem to be no episodes surviving of that era.

"Peggy's " son, "Billy," was adopted by "Johnny," but I seem to recall the father as being another guy, perhaps "Marty Dillman?"

[firmingitup]

@firmingitup I said it 1 year ago and still feel that way. Peggy could be Scarlet Johansen's mother. The resemblance is uncanny.

[zamusicza]

@gymnastix Oh you are so right. What I would pay to see my soaps when they started. Could you imagine a box DVD set?

[Sheri451]

@madonnaman9 Yes I remember him being on One Life To Live, he played his character with ALS. He had theis computer that spoke for him. I just thought it was sad and cruel to get rid of him on Guiding Light. I still have a VHS of him and the Roger Thorpe character on my book shelf.

[Sheri451]

This man was such a good actor. He came on here and stayed for years and when he began gettting symptoms of ALS, the powers that be on Guiding Light Fired him! They told him they didn't "Want an old man" Then after the poor man died, then they "honored him'" Hows that for a kick in the face?

[firmingitup]

Peggy bears a striking resemblance to Scarlett Johansen

[stanbrown32]

I was a really little kid, but I vaguely remember when Ed and Holly were married, and Roger and Peggy were married, and the two couples were friends--went out to dinner together and so forth. I also remember a dramatic moment vividly--Peggy was babysitting for Holly and Ed one evening, and she walked out into the dark kitchen and tripped over a mop bucket that Holly had left out that afternoon! How's that for riveting drama? Funny considering how terrifying the Roger/Holly/Ed/Rita plot became

[OceanKingNY]

Yes, it's hard to believe, but Peggy had been appearing on GL for about 10 years by the time she did this scene. She started out as a troubled teen in the 60s, dealing with her parents' rocky marriage.

It's really unbelievable that most of those older episodes were not preserved in some manner. All of the soaps had such high quality in those years (1960s-70s) that they were later expanded to an hour.