i'm glad to see that i'm not the only aficionado of room twenty four.

they at least had the good sense to reconfigure/refurnish the set with each use although the window treatment is usually the same:loose weave taupe drapes backed by venetian blinds.

sadly it is only during burke's residency that we see the functioning kitchenette.

perhaps to hieghten the character's sense of desperation it is under paul stoddard that the set is at it's most bleak with this dumpy sink inexplicably mounted to the wall.

it's generally bachelor lodgings so i believe that olivia correy/a.k.a.amanda harris is it's only female occupant.the set is pretty austere so they try to "femenize" it with ferns and drapes and perhaps in a nod to the character's vanity several framed photographs of ms.correy herself!

i had forgotten that maude browning and ned stuart resided there as well.is there anyone else?

other posts in this thread indicate(#3 and #11)that certain actors who wanted to be involved were told that there "services were not needed".

i don't know any of the participants i'm just basing my observation on what i've read here.

vicki is old-fashioned but...

having grown up in an orphanage she probably felt that she lacked what it took to make a "respectable" wife in those days.family name,pedigree,some financial security.still there was a certain snobbishness about her that made it hard to see her ever marrying "down".

gaining employment with a wealthy family elevated her social status somewhat but she must have been resigned to her "lot" in life as a domestic servant.a lifetime of squat shoes and shapeless dresses.her "modesty" made her perhaps oblivious to the fact that she was impossibly beautiful and would have attracted the attention of numerous eligable men.

but yes her thinking by 1967 standards was at least a decade behind the times.

john karlen not "invited" with jonathan frid on board?

i find this development to be quite shocking.

do the organizers of this event not understand that it's the actors from the show that are the primary draw for fans?we don't come for the mpi table.

for the actors from a forty year old soap opera willing to attend it's fan gathering to be told that their "services were not needed" is the crudest slap in the face i think i've ever heard of.

i received the festival mailing yesterday.

as i suspected the two day "celebration" is really more of a one day event.friday's activities don't start until 6pm.what with hotel check-in and all of the registration fuss that really only leaves saturday as a full day of scheduled events.

thus far only kathryn leigh scott,lara parker and marie wallace are on board in addition of course to jonathan frid(no diana millay?!).i can't believe karlen would pass up the opportunity to reunite with frid.

i don't get the fest this year.why when they get the show's biggest draw(frid)in attendence did they decide to scale back the whole thing and relegate it to an out of the way location?has anyone spoken to any of the organizers for the reasoning behind this?

i'm not sure how joe would have fared at wyndcliff.

it seemed to be a pretty ineffectual facility.did anyone ever receive beneficial treatment there?did anyone get "better"?

after the initial set-up during the time that julia was treating maggie there the hospital seems to serve more as a depository for characters leaving the show(either temporarily or permanently)whom the writers don't want to "kill off".

doing summer stock?taking a trip to paris?how about a nice rest at wyndcliff?

willie and elizabeth both seem just as bonkers when they walk out of there as when they walked in.
and for a supposedly "secure" facility it might as well have had a revolving door with the ease with which one could escape.once julia establishes permanent residency at collinwood who the heck runs the place anyways?nurse jackson?

so it's hard to say how joe came out of the experience.as for being a fan of joe the part of the story where he's courting maggie is really sweet.i don't particularly care for what the writers did with the character later on.he was definitely one of the hunkiest actors who ever appeared on the show.

i believe the set was used as barnabas' bedroom.

also as someone pointed out it was sort of an antechamber outside of vicki's goal cell.i can't recall a third use during 1795.

in the present the set also appears without explanation as the office of collins family lawer frank garner.


here's my personal favorite...

when burke devlin returns to collinsport in 1966 he takes a suite of rooms at the inn(which maggie sarcastically refers to as the "presedential suite".)

what number room is this?who else resides in this space over the years?