Chopper? We Hardly Know ’Er
Search for Tomorrow alum Morgan Fairchild, who’d appeared on primetime soaps Dallas, Flamingo Road and Falcon Crest, was intended to attract an audience as Sydney Chase. She… erm… didn’t.
The City: Photos From ABC’s Remix of Loving
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Free Parking
Image Credit: Ann Limongello/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection ABC MVP Roscoe Born, previously Joe Novak on Ryan’s Hope and Mitch Laurence on One Life to Live, was tapped to play Nick Rivers, an old flame of Sydney’s that… well, never really reignited.
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Fortune Favors the Bold
Image Credit: Robert Milazzo/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The City came thisclose to a groundbreaking storyline with the relationship between shutterbug Bernardo Castro (Philip Anthony-Rodridguez) and transgender model Azure C (Carlotta Chang). But the show couldn’t stand the heat and got out of Hell’s Kitchen. Well, SoHo.
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Seems Like Old Times
Image Credit: Robert Milazzo/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The Loving offshoot hoped to capitalize on Darnell Williams and Debbi Morgan’s popularity as All My Children’s Jesse and Angie Hubbard by pairing her character with a Jesse lookalike named Jacob Foster. All My Children fared better when it just up and resurrected Jesse in 2008.
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The Kids Are All Right
Image Credit: Dramatic Creations/Courtesy of the Everett Collection The younger City slickers were Corey Page as Richard Wilkins, George Palermo as Tony Soleito, Amelia Heinle (now Victoria on The Young and the Restless) as Steffi Brewster, Laura Wright (now Carly on General Hospital) as Ally Alden and Ted King as Danny Roberts.
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The Shape of Things to Come
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Years after The City paired Wright and King as Ally and Danny, General Hospital re-teamed them as Carly and Lorenzo, the less villainous of the Alcazar twins.
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Walk This Way
Image Credit: Dramatic Creations/Courtesy of the Everett Collection King and Palermo were, so to speak, key to The City.
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High Stakeout
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Jocelyn Roberts (Lisa LoCicero, now Olivia on General Hospital) had it bad for good guy Alex Masters (Randolph Mantooth of Emergency! fame).
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Cheetahs Never Prosper
Image Credit: Dramatic Creations/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Before becoming One Life to Live’s conniving Lindsay, Catherine Hickland crossed over Tess from Loving to The City.
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Fingers Crossed
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection When Fairchild bailed at the end of her one-year contract, Loving producer Jane Elliot was tasked with reprising her General Hospital role of Tracy Quartermaine. Which, frankly, should’ve worked.
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If Looks Could Kill…
Image Credit: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection … the bonkers one on the face of Melissa Dye would’ve done the trick. As The City neared the end of its run, her Molly Malone was revealed to be a serial murderer known as the Masquerader.
