Gloria Loring is returning to Days of Our Lives

Will she be in an urn?

Will Austin Peck and his tits be back?

Doug, Julie, Liz & Neil gather around the piano for a song after dinner

Susan Flannery coming back next.

They’re bringing back Stephen Schnetzer after 44 years too.

Isn’t she dead? I could have sworn.

Is her black friend and lover tagging along?

^^ Probably not, being dead & all.

Does all of this have to do with resurrecting the Horton house?

No, it has to do with Doug’s funeral, which makes it not random at all.

NuHortonHouse

Does Horton hear a Who?

Who's the queer at the piano auditioning for Star Trek?

I emailed her last year. She sent me an autographed photo. She seems really sweet. However, she confessed out of nowhere that she gets a not-so-fresh feeling sometimes. Maybe she thought I was a casting director for commercials. I guess I’ll never know.

[quote] No, it has to do with Doug’s funeral, which makes it not random at all.

Of course it does. They didn’t even use the majority of the current cast for John Aniston’s death, even characters close to his character. These people they keep bringing are long forgotten.

Is she the one who was married to Alan Thicke before he died?

Did he know Victoria Buchanan? Asking for a friend.

R15: She's the one who was DIVORCED from Alan Thicke...and then landed hottie Don Diamont.

She also sang The Facts of Life theme song.

Is she related to Skye Chandler Buchanan Quartermaine?

She is douchebag Robin Thicke's mom.

Gloria Loring and two children.

If Liz is coming back, is her daughter (and Sarah’s sister) Noelle returning too?

NuElle

I don’t know her nor do I want to.

[quote]These people they keep bringing are long forgotten.

And yet are perfectly appropriate in context of Doug's funeral.

Helen Funai (ex-Kim Douglas) is also slated to return, and a catfight with Julie over Doug's casket will ensue.

R2 I preferred Austin Muldoon myself.

R2 *Patrick Muldoon

They can cremate him for a 1/4 of the price of a regular funeral.

I was hoping they'd bring back Patricia Barry, but she's dead.

Then I was hoping they'd bring back Robert Clary, be he's dead.

So I'm hoping they bring back Denise Alexander and Brooke Bundy.

I don't really care if Fancy Face comes back, KA is such a bitch.

The long O vowels in both her names is annoying.

[quote] The long O vowels in both her names is annoying.

DOOL

[quote] but she's dead

[quote] be he's dead

Where’s Dr. Rolf when he’s needed?

they should have brought him to the Doctors. Oh well, I guess we only have one life to live.

Will Macdonald Carey be attending Doug’s funeral?

I think Deirdre Hall was recently asked about Loring's return and she said from what she understands the story will revolve around it being revealed that Liz is actually Marlena's birth mother...

There aren't too many still alive from those late 70s days of, uh, DAYS. That was the era I remember, when Mom watched religiously. Julie had her face burnt UP for a while.

I don't know who else they could bring back from that time for Doug.

Her styling, especially the hair, is very 80s. I suppose her fans like her that way?

[quote] I suppose her fans like her that way?

I’m sure all six of them told her they do on AOL Messenger.

All I keep thinking about is that SONG!! I am almost 45 and it played all the time in the 80's!!! 1989?

LOVERS!

WE COULD BE BOTH TO EACH O-O-THER!!!

i am so scared to go find this on Youtube.

I can hear it in my mind-

and I'll be YOUR- FRIEND

and I'll be YOUR-LOVAAH!

oh shit. It's as horrible as I remember.

It has this cool sound effect that saves the song- Its like this plinkety plink keyboard thing after each verse?

if you know, you know.

What about Sr. Marie ?

Here she is singing it on DAYS in 1984.

She got to have Don Diamont as a love interest on the show. Their song was “I’m on Fire” by Bruce Springsteen.

I know, R40. It was Shane & Kimberly's song! (my favorites). Played over countless end-of-episode montages while they longed for each other.

Oops I meant to post the clip of her singing it on the show. Oh well.

She sang that song with known homsexualist Carl Anderson.

The only blond he was dreaming of was tall and hung!

1986!!! Holy cow. I just googled it! I was only 7. This song played well into the early 90's

Its the kind of music on Joy-105- FM in New England-

Hated this song, but it reminds me of my mom.

Miss you mom!

Will Liz try to shoot Marie again at the funeral?

Sister Marie! The hussy that fell in love with her own brother......of course she didn't recognize him, what with the plastic surgery and all......

Susan Lucci is joining as the new Samantha Brady. She's always wanted to call Dee 'Mother'.

I'm assuming that Liz will sing Amazing Grace and Patty Weaver will sing The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face at the funeral. Marlena will do a reading.

If they hadn't de-aged Mike Horton to the point of ridiculousness, they could have brought back Wesley Eure.

I think Gregg Marx played the character that got killed off and was Eli's father. Or was it grandfather? Shit, they really played with the ages. Julie is like a great great great great grandmother.

Meanwhile Maggie - and her 5.99 McCrory's Shake and Go wig - is still trying to get some Greek dick. Hussy!

Mike Horton was born in 68 or 69, so they just age corrected the character.

If we don't hear The Look of Love at Doug's funeral you don't know Days history, before stupid Stefano, Elecrtra Woman and Dr. Rolf bull crap the show became in the mid 80's.

Unlikely to see Brooke Bundy back as her character of Rebecca North is dead.

However, Patty Weaver can return as Trish Clayton is still alive.

Can also bring back Rick Hearst to play Trish's son Scotty Banning, the grandson of Julie.

Can also bring back Tracy Bregman as Donna Craig. Although Donna didn't have any connection to Doug, maybe she can say she is there to represent her father, Don Craig.

Can also bring back Denise Alexander as Susan Martin Peters is still alive and Susan certainly was a major part of the Julie-Doug romance.

Show could also introduce the adult character of Dougie LeClair, the biological child of Doug Williams and Rebecca North. Dougie was raised by Robert LeClair, Doug Williams best friend.

[quote] Can also bring back Denise Alexander as Susan Martin Peters is still alive and Susan certainly was a major part of the Julie-Doug romance.

Was she, though? I thought Susan was out of the picture, and that Julie and Susan fought over David Banning. (This was before my time so maybe I am wrong)

Susan hired. Doug to romance Julie as revenge for stealing David Martin’s heart after she married him, or something like that, . And then Doug fell in love with Julie

Is this the show that had the murdering clown story?

They should bring back Jason Brooks and his meaty cock.

Julie and Susan were best friends. Julie and David were in love. David thought that Julie no longer loved him. Susan was upset about her parents divorce. They slept together and Susan got pregnant. Susan wanted an abortion, but Dr. Tom talked her out of it and she and David married to give the baby a name.

The plan was to end the marriage after the baby was born and the child would be put out for adoption. After the birth Susan saw the baby and wanted to keep it. Not wanting the child to grow up in a broken home, she wouldn't give David a divorce. This pissed off Julie who began sleeping with David and started scheming against Susan.

Because of an accident, Susan and David's baby died. Susan blamed David, went crazy, and shot him. Meanwhile, Julie was pregnant with David's child and turned bitter, thus the Julie/Susan feud began.

Julie interfered in Susan's relationship with Scott Banning, by seducing and marrying him. Julie also interfered in Susan's relationship with Bill Horton. Up until that point Susan was the good girl and Julie was the bad girl.

Pissed that Julie had ruined her chances for a family with Scott and baby Brad (later David), Susan hired con man Doug Williams to romance Julie. The truth is Julie didn't really love Scott, she just used him to get her baby back, Susan knew this but couldn't prove it.

Basically for more current viewers, Julie was the OG Sami Brady.

I love this clip from the 70s. Frances Reid couldn’t sing but she doesn’t have that shrill caterwauling voice that old bat Helen Wagner did when she sang “Always” on As The World Turns.

Jason BrOOks

And Jason Brooks' cum filled dong, aiming for Missy Reeves' face!

Jason IS really sexy, it's a shame he ended up getting blamed for what happened, in a manner of speaking - that he can essentially never come back to DAYS (I'm sure that was part of Missy's resolution of the DAYS lawsuit.)

Liz-Neil-Tony angst -- with a shot of Julie -- at Doug's Place

I didn't even watch the show and knew who Jason Brooks was. MMM MMMM

Please don't disparage the late great Carl Anderson. He was fine...and could sing circles around anyone.

Baby Dickie fell from a swing and died while Julie and David sat on a park bench. God I remember being like 7 years old and my Mother watching the show and being upset. She adored Denise Alexander. I think Charla Doherty was playing Julie at the time this happened, maybe Cathy Ferrar. The melodrama was beyond a 10.

Denise Alexander was one of the most popular characters on Days for many years. She was so popular that GH lured her away with, at the time, with one of the biggest contracts for a soap opera actor ever. After Denise left, the replacement Susan never really caught on and by that time Julie was the #1 most popular on the show. I think Julie, by that time had gone through, Scott Banning, Bob Anderson, Don Craig, and several others. Doug was with Julie's mother's Addie.

Don Craig was one of my first crushes. His deep voice and the hairy chest I caught in one scene......I always figured he had a Big One.

He was very much of the (late) 70s.

R42 & R43, I think “I’m On Fire” was also used when GL’s Josh & Reva first had sex after the Reva (and the rain) cure Josh’s paraplegia.

R70 LMAO....I thought of that when I read those earlier comments.

I didn't remember it exactly being Josh and Reva making love (not saying you're wrong, I just didn't remember that) but I remember them playing that song as Josh's face, then H.B.'s face, was on screen....then flames, of course. All very 80s.

“With Bill Hayes’ passing, the show is doing a special celebration for the life and memory of the character he portrayed for so many years. ‘Doug William’s’ funeral is giving us the opportunity to welcome some important and fan favorite, legacy characters back to Salem, including Gloria Loring, Stephen Schnetzer, and more. The episodes taping this week include Doug’s funeral and the historic 15,000th episode. They will not air until December 2024.”

Julie’s brother Steve Olson (Schnetzer’a role) was a sleazy con artist. They should give him a couple of kids.

15,000 episodes. WOW!

And wow! Days is now nine months ahead?!?!

Taping December episodes in April.

R75 they do tend to tape in clumps and then have the studio be dark for long periods of time.

[quote]Julie’s brother Steve Olson (Schnetzer’a role) was a sleazy con artist. They should give him a couple of kids.

Several times in the early 90s, Julie mentioned Steven Olson's son Spencer. We'd never heard of Spencer before but several references in just a few weeks led many to believe they were about to bring the Spencer character to Salem. However, that never happened and Spencer had never been mentioned since then.

Maybe this time, Steven will bring his son Spencer and/or his grandson to town with him.

[quote] WOW!

WOOW!

They should bring Noelle Curtis and Spencer Olson both on and have them be a cougar/cub relationship like Aaron what's his dong and his older director wife.

I think Bobby may turn out to be Steven's son(or grandson)

Will the grandson be a NuTeen?

more returns

Marie will be there, so she can get into a geriatric cat fight over the dead Neil Curtis, or Liz can shoot her.

[quote]Gloria Loring is returning to Days of Our Lives

In an urn or an ashtray?

[quote]so she can get into a geriatric cat fight over the dead Neil Curtis

Wait. Dr Neil Curtis is dead? WTF?? I didn’t know.

There was a throwaway scene a few years ago between Maggie and Sarah, and Maggie told Sarah that Neil “would have been so proud” that she became a doctor.

Technically Neil has never died (unless I missed a throwaway comment sometime) but his portrayer died years ago. Much like Don Craig, who was last seen going to mail a letter, Neil Curtis ceased to exist after going to do rounds at the hospital.

I always find it so disrespectful to the actors and the audience when they drop a long time character without explanation or acknowledgement of their departure.

R86 We posted at the same time ( and both used the expression 'throwaway comment'). I missed that scene, thanks.

[quote]Technically Neil has never died (unless I missed a throwaway comment sometime) but his portrayer died years ago.

Are you sure that Joseph Gallison has died? I can't find an obit for him.

I don't recall ever hearing that he died.He was born in 1935 and would be 89 this year.

Last I recall hearing was that he had moved to North Carolina to retire near Wilmington. There is a decent sized community of industry professionals living in Wilmington thanks to film studios being located there -- Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill both filmed in Wilmington.

I don’t think he’s dead. Wikipedia doesn’t say so.

Will Susan Seaforth Hayes be appropriately dressed for the memorial service?

At some point you have to assume. For instance Tommy Horton has never "died" on screen and to the best of my knowledge it's never been acknowledged on the show (correct me if I'm wrong). It makes sense that Marie is still around since she was only about 5 years older than Julie when the show began.

[quote]At some point you have to assume. For instance Tommy Horton has never "died" on screen and to the best of my knowledge it's never been acknowledged on the show (correct me if I'm wrong).

Julie confirmed just last month that Tommy is dead.

[quote]Technically Neil has never died (unless I missed a throwaway comment sometime) but his portrayer died years ago.

It's the opposite. Neil is dead but Joe Gallison is alive.

Thank you R93. I must have missed it.

Also, I hate what they did to Neil. I also hate how they gave Maggie all of these extra kids.

I am so sorry I could swear that I read of Gallison's death some time ago. Maybe I dreamed it.

R93 what was the context of Julie mentioning Tommy had passed away? Just curious.

Joe Gallison should have been hired on another soap. He was in daytime for decades, and Neil and Liz were very popular.

Julie mentioned Tommy Horton to Everett while they were in the Horton house.

I don't recall what she said precisely but Julie said something like, "my late Uncle Tommy."

Did he have a secret room?

Or a secret storm?

I used to give him some of my fan mail to cheer him up.

Days Trivia: Met late Richard Guthrie-‘’David Banning’’ 1975-1981 at West Hollywood club early 80’s such a nice guy. He died in 1995-bad combo heart meds. Did anyone here know him? He was also a pilot.. So cute.