Interesting Victoria Wyndham Interview

Wow, did AW ever get any respect? Bless Victoria's heart for trying all those years to do something positive for the show. And I have a lot more respect for her now that I know she was an uncredited writer. Yet NBC treats her like trash.

"Wow, did AW ever get any respect?"

Yes, in the late sixties and most of the seventies, when the show drew strong ratings and was at the height of its' creative powers. Of course, most of those episodes have been erased, so maybe it didn't get any respect.

Wyndham is a rare bird. Her work on Another World was phenomenal. The interview was fascinating. NBC must really have stupids execs. The only two shows I ever watched on NBC were Another World and Somerset. They cancelled Somerset when it was averaging a 6.5 Nielsen, a rating soaps would die for today. Another World through the Seventies was one of the best shows on the air. It went downhill as NBC's interference began in the Eighties. I was amazed to learn recently that Irna Phillips originally intended Another World to follow As the World Turns on CBS, but that network would not canel anything to make room for it on their schedule back in 1964. Another dumb move by another network. I wonder if CBS would have done any better by Another World, or would they have trashed it like NBC.

Wow, I know of David Shankbone (who did that piece). Ran into him online a few times when I was a far more active editor of Wikipedia. Very good piece (had no idea he was a soap fan, or at least an AW fan)!

I'm not surprised at anything Wyndham said. The only thing this did was validate that (a) Vicky is a class act and just as intelligent as she seemed on screen, and (b) I now have the answer to that nagging question of, "Wow, since NBC treated AW so shitty, were they TRYING to sabotage it?" That answer is clearly (and sadly) yes.

I'm glad you liked the article Snark. A few days after reading this I was pouring a New Year's cosmo and it suddenly hit me : OH, THAT'S what happened to DAYS the first 5 months of 2007! NBC's tinkering, sabotaging their own show, pressuring Ken Corday & Hogan to back burner Deidre Hall, it finally made sense.

Then I drank my cosmo. Happy new year !