From: evelyn@cadreor.cadre.com (Evelyn Mast)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: AMC: Article about Tad
Summary: Article about Tad's return to Pine Valley
Keywords: Tad Ted
Date: 24 Dec 92 06:56:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cadreor.1992Dec24.065632.14544
Organization: Cadre Technologies, Inc., Portland Operation


I read the following in the TV section of the 12/20 Sunday
Oregonian.  Most of it we already know, but I thought I'd type
it in anyway.  You know, Tad never tired of hearing about himself...

My apologies if this has been seen by all already.

Anyways, this is retyped totally without permission:

"Tad comes back to Pine Valley"
by John N. Goudas

If you had any doubts about Michael E. Knight's enormous popularity,
you should have seen the turnout for the press conference held recently
to officially announce his return to "All My Children" in the roll of
Tad ... well, he'll be known as Ted for awhile.

Remember the last time we saw Tad in the environs of Pine Valley, he was
hitching a ride to California to get a job in the vineyards.  Oh, yes,
he was thought drowned by all his loved ones and was suffering severe memory
loss.  He didn't even know his name was Tad.

Knight left "All My Children" two years ago and headed to California for
prime time and movie work but there was little of either.  He made a
couple of films ("Date With An Angel" {Evelyn's note:  I thought this flick
was made during a previous hiatus from AMC} and the upcoming "Hexed") and
did some episodic TV ("Murder, She Wrote" and "Grapevine"), but the pickings
were lean.  Although he got a few nibbles from the West Coast soaps, he felt
this was a good time to renew his bonds with "All My Children".  The producers
and writers seem to adore Tad and welcomed Knight back to the fold with
open-ended storylines.

They have come up with a terrific way to get Tad/Ted back to Pine Valley
(he has business dealings with Dimitri whom he never met as Tad), and it
will take some time before he runs into anyone who would recognize him as
Tad.  He is thoroughly convinced he is Ted, a man who was kidnapped when
he was 8 and then miraculously showed up at the vineyards where the boy's
mother (played by Barbara Rush) calls his return an act of God.

This is definitely the type of soap plot that kiips viewers glued to their
set and Knight's popularity in the role will only enhance the highly
charged tear-jerker that will be played out over a few months.

A big change in Knight's life is his recent marriage to actress Catherine
Hickland, who portrayed Jenny/Julie on "Capitol" and Courtney on "Texas",
two soaps which are now defunct.  Catherine accompanied her husband back from
California to New York, where "All My Children" is produced.

When asked if his wife will be appearing on "AMC", Michael said it was a
possibility but he wouldn't know how to react playing love scenes, for
example, with his own wife.

In any case, Tad/Ted will have his hands (and arms) full when he finds out
Brooke and he have a son, old flame Dixie is in a terrible state of mind
and his mothers will become rivals for his affection.  Move over, fellas,
Michael E. Knight is back where he belongs.

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