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    Debuting on 26 June 1983 with a two-hour telemovie starring Lloyd Bridges and Geraldine Page (neither of whom stuck around for the series), this long-running daytime drama from ABC took place in the fictional sleepy college town of Corinth, Pennsylvania – home of sleepy Alden University – and centred on the lives of the wealthy Alden family, headed up by the prestigious Cabot (Wesley Addy) and Isabelle (Augusta Dabney) Alden.

    The charismatic new president of the university, Roger Forbes (John Shearin initially, then Peter Brown) was the son of a self-made millionaire. A former Congressman and ambassador, Roger had national political ambitions. His wife, Ann (Shannon Eubanks then Callan White) was a member of the Alden family, and the social-climbing couple had two children – Lorna (Susan Walters), a pretty trouble-maker, and Jack (Perry Stephens) a  clean-cut athlete.

    Their sibling rivalry was compounded by the sudden and mysterious arrival from Europe of their scheming and manipulative cousin, Curtis Alden (Christopher Marcantel).

    Key characters initially included magnetic WCN-Television anchorwoman Merrill Vochek (Patricia Kalember) who was idealistic, caring and ready to fight for what she wanted from life.

    Merrill and her family were longtime neighbours of the working-class Donovans. One of the Donovan sons, Douglas (future Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston) – Merrill’s sweetheart from childhood – was a playwright and drama professor at the university.

    By contrast, his police officer brother Mike (James Kiberd) went to Vietnam instead of college and still bore the emotional scars. Mike’s spunky wife Noreen (Marilyn McIntyre and then Elizabeth Burr) was a nurse at Corinth Memorial Hospital who longed for a family Mike wasn’t willing to give her.

    The pride of the Donovan family was sportswoman Stacey (Lauren-Marie Taylor), a college freshman.

    Other long-running characters included Ava Rescott (played by Patty Lotz, Roya Megnot, and Lisa Peluso), a schemer whose adventures ranged from stuffing a pillow in her dress to simulate pregnancy to being kidnapped at Universal Studios to being menaced by her lover’s identical twin, Gilbert; boarding house owner Kate Rescott (Nada Rowand), mother of Ava and Carly, whose tenants often included teen and young adult characters in trouble, or in numerous romantic entanglements; and Gwyneth Alden (played for the majority of the run by Christine Tudor), the long-suffering matriarch who never stopped loving her roguish ex, Clay (played by James Horan, Larkin Malloy and Dennis Parlato in succession) or her mentally disturbed children, Trisha (Noelle Beck) and Curtis.

    Up against The Young and the Restless, the series never really stood a chance, and a flurry of ever-changing head writers didn’t help, keeping the plots unfocused and inconsistent.

    Languishing as the lowest-rating soap opera, Loving received a makeover and was reinvented as The City in November 1995. Gone was sleepy Alden University. Gone too were half-a-dozen characters who were done in by a fiendishly clever serial killer – spoiler alert: it was the long-suffering Gwyneth – who not only thinned out the cast but also spiked up the Loving ratings.

    Sweet-as-pie Stacey Forbes (Lauren-Marie Taylor) – who had been with Loving since its inception – was the first to go. A poisoned powder puff did her in.  Clay, Curtis, Cabot and Isabelle Alen went next, wiping out the Alden clan, followed by the fantastic plaster death of artist Jeremy Hunter (Jean Leclerc) in which he was turned into a statue.

    A dozen survivors got the hell out of Corinth and moved into a lovely old sprawling cast-iron loft building in Manhattan’s SoHo district. The new series also brought in the big guns, in the shape of Morgan Fairchild as media mogul Sydney Chase. The City ran until March 1997.

    Cabot Alden
    Wesley Addy
    Isabelle Alden
    Augusta Dabney (1)
    Celeste Holm (2)
    Patricia Barry (3)
    Curtis Alden
    Christopher Marcantel (1)
    Linden Ashby (2)
    Burke Moses (3)
    Chip Albers (4)
    Patrick T. Johnson (5)
    Michael Lord (6)
    Clay Alden
    James Horan (1)
    Larkin Malloy (2)
    Dennis Parlato (3)
    Gwyneth Alden
    Christine L. Tudor
    Cooper Alden
    Michael Weatherly
    Ann Alden Forbes
    Shannon Eubanks (1)
    Callan White (2)
    Dinah Lee Mayberry Alden
    Jessica Collins
    Ava Rescott
    Lisa Peluso
    Carly Rescott Alden
    Colleen Quinn
    Ally Rescott Alden Bowman
    Laura Wright
    Michael Rescott
    Alexander Kniffen
    Trisha Alden McKenzie
    Noelle Beck
    Trucker McKenzie
    Robert Tyler
    Merrill Vochek
    Patricia Kalember
    Stacey Donovan Forbes
    Lauren-Marie Taylor
    Douglas Donovan
    Bryan Cranston (1)
    Victor Bevine (2)
    Mike Donovan
    James Kiberd
    Patrick Donovan
    Noah Keen (1)
    George L Smith (2)
    Ed Bryce (3)
    Noreen Volchek Donovan
    Marilyn McIntyre (1)
    Elizabeth Burr (2)
    Rose Donovan 
    Dorothy Stinnette (2)
    Kate Rescott Slavinsky
    Nada Rowand
    Shana Sloane Vocheck Burnell
    Susan Keith
    JJ Forbes
    Geoffrey Wigdor
    Jack Forbes
    Perry Stephens (1)
    Christopher Cass (2)
    Roger Forbesc
    John Shearin (1)
    Peter Brown (2)
    Lorna Forbes Conway
    Susan Walters (1)
    O’Hara Parker (2)
    Heather Forbes
    Hallee Hirsh
    Casey Bowman
    Paul Anthony Stewart
    Gifford Bowman
    Richard Cox
    Jeremy Hunter
    Jean Leclerc
    Leo Burnell
    James Carroll
    Buck Huston
    Philip Brown
    Louie Slavinsky
    Bernard Barrow
    Stephanie Brewster
    Amelia Heinle
    Deborah Brewster
    Nancy Addison
    Alex Masters
    Randolph Mantooth (1)
    Robert Dubac (2)
    Sandy Masters
    Jacob Zelik Penn
    Hannah Mayberry
    Rebecca Gayheart
    Tess Wilder
    Catherine Hickland
    Dr Angie Hubbard
    Debbi Morgan
    Frankie Hubbard
    Alimi Ballard
    Armand Rosario
    Michael Galardi
    Charles Harrison
    Geoffrey Ewing
    Arthur Davis
    Keith Grumet
    Paul Slavinsky
    Joseph Breen
    Flynn Reilly
    Keith Pruitt
    Dante Partou
    Thom Christopher
    Staige Prince
    Eden Atwood
    Egypt Jones Masters
    Linda Cook
    Lenox
    Simon Prebble
    Harry Sowolsky
    Ed Moore
    Matthew Ford
    Eric Woodall
    Janey Sinclair
    Elise Neal
    Father Jim Vochek
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