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*In an early 70's episode, a sleepy Mike Karr joined his wife Nancy (Ann Flood) at the breakfast table. Actor Forrest Compton, as Mike, was supposed to say, "Sometimes you just can't get up." Instead, Compton accidentally remarked , "Sometimes you just can't get it up." Still in character, actress Ann Flood ad-libbed, "Yes, I noticed that particularly this morning."
*During a 1960's telecast, announcer Harry Kramer made a Freudian slip by saying, "Join us each weekday afternoon for The Urge of Night."
*At the height of the Keith Whitney story, Keith was supposed to trap Nancy in a garage with a car's exhaust filling the room. The scene was videotaped and dropped into the live broadcast. However, the show didn't check the scene first, and when it aired, stage manager Howard Lenters could be heard barking offscreen, "More smoke...more smoke!".
*When Nicole and Adam were married in September 1973, a prop man smeared old coffee grounds on crackers to make them look like caviar. Actress Maeve McGuire didn't know the difference and popped a whole cracker into her mouth during the live telecast. She had to chew the foul food with a big smile on her face and remain in character.
*In a 1977 scene, Donald May as Adam was speaking his Nicole's unborn child. May was supposed to refer to it as the "baby fetus", but instead, May said the "baby feces", forcing a retake of the scene.
*Val Dufour, playing villain Andre Lazar in the mid-1960's, often referred to Phil Capice as "Ray", because Phil was played by Dufour's good friend Ray MacDonnell.
*Don Hastings (Jack Lane) was once supposed to say to John Larkin, "But you know I love Betty-Jean and Bud". However, during the live telecast, Hastings went up on his lines saying, " But you know I love Betty-Jean in bed."
*In a September 1979 episode, Draper Scott went upstairs at the end of a Friday episode. When actor Tony Craig descended the stairs on Monday, his hair was half-inch shorter.
*When Nicole was arrested for the murder of Stephanie Martin, the actor playing the arresting officer was so nervous about working with Maeve MCGuire and Donald May, that he stumbled over his lines. Instead of saying, "I'm arresting you for homicide", the actor barked, "I'm arresting you for homosexualicide."
*Once during a live broadcast, Teri Keane (Martha Marceau) began to cough violently and used a prop glass of water to soothe her throat. When the scene ended, Keane took the glass off-camera and forgot it. Later, back on camera, Mandel Kramer reached for his own glass of water. Keane, fearing that she might suffer another coughing fit, grabbed the glass from his hand and snapped, "That's mine. Get your own!" Mandel Kramer was so shocked that he forgot his lines.
*Lois Kibbee had a 1970's scene in which she was supposed to telephone a man named Horace and inquire about a criminal investigation. The actor playing Horace was black, and when Kibbee was supposed to say, "Horace, do as you're told and go back where you belong," the actress got tongue-tied and said, "go black where you belong!" After the scene ended, Kibbee rushed to apologize to the actor who had collapsed in laughter.
*During the Andre Lazar story, actor Val Dufour was supposed to tell Anthony Ponzini (Tony Wyatt) that one of their accomplices had died from an obscure illness. On air, Dufour couldn't recall the name of the disease and ad-libbed, "He died of aplacia of the gastronomy." Ponzini, who had to repeat the line, muttered, "What?". Dufour couldn't recall what he'd said and snapped back, "Well go look it up in the medical dictionary, Dummy!"
*Lori Loughlin played a scene in which she accidentally reversed the order of her lines. As the scene faded to black, Loughlin could be heard asking, "I screwed that up, didn't I?"
Stage manager Bud Gowen recalled the time an actor rehearsed a scene in which he was required to speak on the telephone. During rehearsal, the actor simply cupped an imaginary phone to ear and spoke. Later, during the live telecast, the actor forgot to pick up the practical phone and was horrified to learn that he'd played the live show with an imaginary phone.
In a 1974 episode, Adam Drake returned to his hotel room and found his suitcase and clothes in disarray. When the scene was replayed the next day, Drake's clothes and suitcase were amazingly neat and orderly.
Actor Larry Hagman, playing Ed Gibson, insisted on doing all of his own stunt work. But in one episode, Hagman fell over a lamp while performing a stunt, resulting in 20 stitches.
In the January 2, 1975 telecast actress Dixie Carter, playing Asst. DA Brandy Henderson, had a scene with Bernard Barrow. Carter referred to Barrow's character as "Bernie", rather than the actual name Ira.
