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Rituals was an American soap opera that ran in syndication from September 1984 to September 1985 in 260 25 minutes episodes. It was created by Gene Palumbo, Ken Corday and Charlene Keel. It aired in the New York area on WNEW/Channel 5. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television...
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Cast - Dennis Patrick: Patrick Chapin
- Jo Ann Pflug: Taylor Chapin Field Von Platen (1984)
- Tina Louise: Taylor Chapin Field von Platen (1984-1985)
- Andrea Moar: Julia Field
- Marc Poppel: Brady Chapin (1984)
- Jon Lindstrom: Brady Chapin (1984-1985)
- Assemble Markham: Robertson casing
- Christine Jones: Christina Robertson
- Tim Maier: Jeff Robertson
- Greg Mullavy: Eddie Gallagher
- Kevin Spirtas: Tom Gallagher
- Kin Shriner: Mike Gallagher
- Mary Beth Evans: Dakota Lane (1984-1985)
- Claire Yarlett: Dakota Lane (1984)
Dennis Patrick (born Dennis Harrison March 14, 1918-October 13, 2002) was an well respected American character actor best known for his works in television shows like Dark Shadows and Dallas and movies like Joe. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 14, 1918, his birth name was Dennis...
Jo Ann Pflug (born May 2, 1947 in Atlanta, Georgia)and raised in Winter Park, Florida is an American motion picture and television actress. ...
Tina Louise Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American model, singer, and film and television actress, best known for her portrayal of Ginger Grant on Gilligans Island. ...
Kevin Spirtas (b. ...
Kin Shriner (born December 6, 1953 in New York, New York, USA) is an actor, best known for playing Scott Baldwin on both daytime soap operas General Hospital (1977-1980, 1981-1984, 1988-1993, 2000-2004) and Port Charles (1997-2000, 2001). ...
Mary Beth Evans, on Days of Our Lives; 1990. ...
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About Rituals Much as Santa Barbara would try to do but in a tongue-in-cheek way, Rituals sought to be overly serious, not too campy, but it just couldn't find anything original, a problem that plagues numerous soaps. Shortcut: WP:CU Marking articles for cleanup This page is undergoing a transition to an easier-to-maintain format. ...
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Santa Barbara was an American soap opera which ran on NBC for 2137 episodes from July 30, 1984 to January 15, 1993. ...
The show sought to ride on the names it could get on the show (again, much like Santa Barbara) with the likes of Tina Louise, Joann Pflug (they played the same character), George Lazenby, Greg Mullavey and then soap icons like Kin Shriner. George Robert Lazenby (born September 5, 1939) is an Australian actor best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 James Bond film, On Her Majestys Secret Service. ...
Monte Markham was a 1970s staple (perhaps best known as a kidnapper in Airport '77), but the show had soap actress Christina Jones at the center of the show. She was Markham's wife, Christina Robertson. Markham was Carter Robinson.
Then there was the rich Chapin family, with grown kids named Brady and Taylor. Carter was at odds with the Chapin family.
Sharon Farrell was good for laughs and was put to much better use on the Young and the Restless as Tricia Cast's mother.
But by far the strangest thing was the casting with young actresses with piercing eyes, in the case of Brady Chapin, a young moppet haired fellow, whose gaze was clearly supposed to overwhelm the viewers.
When none of these worked, characters would be recast with livelier specimens.
The show would actually do a contest.
"There will be a murder. If you can solve the victim, the motive and the killer, you will win a prize!" Now how on Earth was someone supposed to solve that? I guess the characters went around yelling at each other.
In the end, Greg Mullavey, who was the working class dad, was offed.
Toward the end, Carter Robinson would learn he was actually the illegitimate son of Poppa Chapin, making himself a Chapin, half-brother to Taylor and Brady.
And so the show tanked.
It actually had a conclusion. Characters would marry and run away, Kin Shriner rode off on his motorbike, someone was shot. The shooter was Christina. She in turn would become a nun and tend to a wheelchair-bound Carter.
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