Daniel Avery
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She's quite the cheerleader for the show. She often says it's the most fun job she ever had as an actress, and she had roles on at least two other higher-profile soaps (One Life to Live and Another World). That era in New York City has always held a certain fascination for me, so I hang on her every word when she starts reminiscing in the comments section of the videos. I had assumed I'd never get to see the Rexford Clinic plot since it was not included in the syndicated package that USA Network aired back in the late-1980s, but the tapes were "found" by Mark Arnold (the actor who played Gavin Wylie) in his personal collection. He gave them to Sharon Gabet, who gave them to someone who uploaded them to YT. Actually, he's still uploading---he's been adding two episodes a week (sometimes three) for a while now. These episodes (now at Oct. 1981) are beginning to overlap with the USA run, but it's been so long that it's like new to me.
There was also a lot of more scattered material (some complete episodes as well as parts of others) in the possession of one of the editors of the series (earlier stuff in the late-1970s) who has remained a friend of Gabet's. She took the stuff someplace (mostly video, some tape) and had it digitized, then did some themed videos, many not even including Raven. Those are also fun to watch when your memories are spotty. They seem to be coming closer to filling up the gaps of the final five years of the series. The current Holy Grail of "missing" episodes is where they revealed the identity of the Clown Puppet Killer (yes, you read that right), since the only known copy on the web is hazy/fuzzy and incomplete. It had me guessing right up to the very end, and though it made perfect sense when I read the synopsis, I want to see a clean, complete copy of that episode and revel in the performances of the killer, the "killed" and the almost-killed.
There was also a lot of more scattered material (some complete episodes as well as parts of others) in the possession of one of the editors of the series (earlier stuff in the late-1970s) who has remained a friend of Gabet's. She took the stuff someplace (mostly video, some tape) and had it digitized, then did some themed videos, many not even including Raven. Those are also fun to watch when your memories are spotty. They seem to be coming closer to filling up the gaps of the final five years of the series. The current Holy Grail of "missing" episodes is where they revealed the identity of the Clown Puppet Killer (yes, you read that right), since the only known copy on the web is hazy/fuzzy and incomplete. It had me guessing right up to the very end, and though it made perfect sense when I read the synopsis, I want to see a clean, complete copy of that episode and revel in the performances of the killer, the "killed" and the almost-killed.