Talk:The Young Marrieds/@comment-3418856-20130407053627/@comment-50.138.195.238-20131126160149

I'm one of those YM fans that is still around. I recall that show with fond memories as I was just a teen back then and watched it every afternoon after school. I was heartbroken when the show ended as Ann and Walter Reynolds were my best friends. I never imagined I would lose them as soaps just went on and on forever. YM was unique in so many ways. Score Productions and Bob Cobert composed and recorded the music which was orchestrated, not organ. It was the first soap to use multi room sets where actors could walk from one room into the other with the camera following. It was the first to use a 2-story set (the Garrett's foyer) and the first to have a wife cheating on her husband. Generally only the husbands cheated on their wives. Storylines were very adult and in fact was loosely based on the novel "The Young Marrieds" by Judith Heiman. I never did learn the connection between Jim Elward who created the soap and Judith Heiman who wrote the book. When the show ended, none of the storylines were wrapped up. Walter Reynolds locked himself in his home with a gun and was about to commit suicide. The final words ever recorded were those of Susan Garrett (Peggy McCay) screaming into the phone saying "Operator, give me the police and please hurry." That was it. Fade to black and the sets were torn down (Although a short time later a large portion of the Garrett livingroom ended up as Jesse Brewer's livingroom on GH.  Both shows were shot in the same studio at ABC at Talmadge and Prospect in Hollywood.

After the show ended, I contacted and connected with both Susan Brown (Ann Reynolds) and Mike Mikler (Walter Reynolds). I visited with Susan many times over the course of time that followed and was just with her again only 2 months ago. Mike passed several years ago. Over the years I have collected hundreds of copies of the scripts that were written by John D. Hess as his papers were donated to Dartmouth College by his family after his death. I also received a copy of the very first script that Jim Elward wrote for the show from him before his passing.

Projections for the show had Walter saved from suicide by the devotion of his model Carol who also loved him. It was interesting in that even though Ann and Walter were going through a bitter divorce, neither ever stopped loving one another. We were always waiting for the episode that would result in their reconciliation. It never happened.

I think your projection would be fun and would love to see it happen, but I doubt that anyone but us seniors even remember the show. I can't even imagine that those who work to create GH even remember that YM even existed.