i'm surprised it's not shown as a fest oddity and is not a fest offering from MPI. the well is pretty dry and they certainly have a captive audience always looking for new material. 

present and accounted for after a two day lock out!

Did KLS give away merchandise at her book signings for Return to Collinwood?

now that you mention it that does sound familiar. before the film was even released i attended one of her signings in New York. there was some sort of "goodie bag" that came with the purchase of the book. i got a poster at that event. maybe this was part of the swag? i really can't imagine where else it came from.

such memories...

remember different houses often tuned into a specific network's soap lineup? ours was an "ABC house". from 'Ryan's Hope' at 12:30 through 'Edge of Night' at 4 o'clock you could soap out all afternoon.

those were the days. 

like i said i think a big part of Harry's introduction was just so Vicki would register "shock" when she first saw him. being that she wasted his 1795 counterpart. beyond that i don't know if there was ever some larger story outline...

and like with Tony Peterson, who similarly ran afoul with the new tempo in 68, the character quickly outlived their usefulness. aside from the immediate Collins family an ever changing cast of monsters became the name of the game.

via the trusty Almanac David appeared in 225 episodes and Karlen in 180. not sure about the individual character breakdown.

it's worth noting David had a fair episode count as Matthew Morgan before Karlen joined the series in 1967. thus during the time the two actors overlapped it would seem they appeared in roughly the same number of episodes.

suffice to say Jonathan and Grayson hit the highest totals in the 5-600 episode range. the rest of the "main" cast (Joan. Nancy. Alexandra. Louis. Kathryn. David) are all in the 3-400 counts.

given Angelique's importance in the story Parker appears in a surprisingly low 269. but that's accounted for via the character's habit of "disappearing" for extended periods of time only to "pop up" later in some different guise. she was never an ordinary day-to-day character.

not clearly recalling something you watched almost 50 years ago is one thing. it's be be expected. he simply could have written a fond "remembrance"...

but then publishing a series synopsis that insanely innaccurate is just stupid. did he falsely "remember" all those innaccurate plot details? or did he skim wikis and other questionable sources to summarize?

those details don't even square with the 1991 or 2013 iterations of the story which could cloud one's recollections. it's just gibberish.