Ryan's Hope 50th Anniversary

I met Ilene Kristen at a Farewell OLTL party. I said. 'at last, my Delia Reid Ryan Ryan Coleridge' and we clicked glasses. She's a peach. Was the best part of the show.

Christian Slater will celebrate by throwing Ilene down a flight of stairs.

LOL r2

I'm sure Christian's mother Mary Jo Slater would approve.

His late father would likely appreciate it too.

I watched the truncated run on SOAPnet — what a great show.

I fell for Sarah Felder. She was perfection as Siobhan.

I also LOVED Tom Lisanti’s oral history.

Kate Mulgrew was the perfect Mary. They never managed to find another Mary as good as Kate. But show certainly did try. Tried with three other actresses.

Show went through five Franks, four Marys, four Pats and five Siobhans.

One of the Siobhans got fired because she was fug, right?

I seem to recall a young Marge Helgenberger in this.

Nothing against Ilene, but Randall Edwards was my favorite Delia.

I agree with R4. Sarah Felder was PHENOMENAL. I also enjoyed Kelli Maroney's Kimberly towards the last year of her run when she had the baby. Michael Corbett's Michael was also sex on a Stick and Louise Shaffer's Rae was a goddess. I guess I liked the supporting players more that the lead Ryans!

I liked Maggie Selby. And her background music.

Michael Corbett sucked alot of cock. Alot! He always smelled like cum.

They really did have a lot of trouble with Mary recasts. They did better with Siobhans (Ann Gillespie and Carell Myers were kind of duds, but Marg Helgenberger and Barbara Blackburn were great). and they also lucked out with Franks once they got rid of Michael Hawkins. Haven't seen as many of the Pats, but Malcolm Groome was so damn cute that I don't care.

Scott Holmes as Dave Greenburg made me moist - down there.

Reading the Ryan's Hope book was fascinating. The general consensus seems to be that ABC kept making mistakes with the show, with the time slot move being the final nail in the coffin. Ben Shelby, Dakota Smith, and Chaz Saybrooke were hot.

I know we have a Bill Hyde fan here.

I thought John Blazo was a hot Pat.

Both Hyde brothers were ultra hot and sexy -- Rick and Bill.

Both Grant Snow and David Sederholm were terrific in the parts.

David is 72 now......

R20 and still sexy!

TV Guide ad from the debut of RH

I had a crush on villainous Roger Coleridge. He was so sexy.

I remember thinking Ryan's Hope was particularly interesting in particular because at the time, I lived in "Riverside," on 75th between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive.

R22, were the three vital families the Ryans, the Coleridges, and the Beaulacs?

Then the Kirklands came along and fucked everything up

R25. Or the Reids

R27, that makes sense!

Thanks for posting that ad from summer 1975, r22.

The really interesting thing is the ad lists One Life to Live as coming on at 2:30 p.m. Every bit of history I've ever seen had OLTL airing at 3:30 p.m., after General Hospital. Then in July 1976, ABC expanded GH and OLTL to 45 minutes and moved OLTL to 2:30 p.m., airing before GH.

But that ad from 1975 contradicts that. Very curious. Do we know what TV market that ad is from?

R29 I found it on the Retro TV Listings FB page, just went back to look and it was the Los Angeles TV market.

Thanks, r30. Maybe the West Coast time zone is the cause of OLTL airing at 2:30 p.m. instead of 3:30 p.m., like on the East Cost.

I grew up on the East Coast and I always thought OLTL aired before GH. Im my market (once they were an hour) it was always OLTL at 2 and GH at 3.

this would have been long before that r32, when OLTL was only 30 minutes.

I used to see the closing credits (fireplace) right before Dark Shadows at 4pm.

Daddy!

Why this is bad news for aging Harris/Walz Irish New Yorkers feeling nostalgic.

Scott Holmes -Now there's a name I haven't heard in ages, R15! I saw him live onstage playing Che in Evita in LA four times. You may have been moist, but he made me hard and tingly...

I stopped watching Ryan's Hope when the gorilla showed up.

Ryan's Hope was a critical favorite but not a popular one. It never had the ratings of ABC's Big 3 although it regularly swept the Daytime Emmy Awards.

And then Agnes Nixon killed it...

You got that right, R39. The old bitch Haggie Nixon wanted our timeslot for her precious Loving and ABC bumped us to the 12 noon timeslot. The beginning of the end.

The most entertaining parts of that supposed Megan McTavish book were the parts where she knocked the halo off of Hagnes Nixon's head, and outed her as being just as much of a backstabby bitch as her characters.

Bowel Maevememt

The pipes are NOT calling for R42!

I had no life at one point...I watch RH then AMG, OLTL, GH and then EON... Every day.I never missed a show

My then-bf had a MAJOR thing for Jack Fenelli.

I still associate Kate Mulgew with this show.

Jack was hot in a neurotic daddy sort of way back in the day.

I was working in an office in Brooklyn and often had lunch at a friend's nearby place, who would have Ryan's Hope on the TV.

Of course, I was fascinated -- the first scene I remember was somebody tossing something to Delia, who was suffering from hysterical blindness at the time and she deftly caught it. The jig was up and I was hooked.

Haggie Nixon was a major cunt!

[quote] Haggie Nixon

*sniffs* I wasn't a fan.

According to McTavish, when Marland died he left his house to his partner in the will, and it pissed Agnes off, she was bitching about it when she found out.

No one needed to kill RH, it was never going to be a huge daytime hit in any way. It was too gritty, perhaps too dark and I mean that visually as well. It didn't have enough fun and the dramatic peaks weren't operatic enough. It was a fine show with great writing and acting but I could understand why it was more a transition while people waited for AMC to start.

When RH debuted in 1975, it aired at 1 p.m. after All My Children at 12:30 p.m.

Ryan’s Hope had great demos per Queen Jason47, the ratings queen. They were the #1 ABC soap in demos just before Gloria Monty blew up the genre.