Robin Strasser (best known as Dorian on One Life to Life) played over-the-top evil witch Hecuba and won a Soap Opera Award for best Scene-stealer.Īctress Marla Gibbs (best known for her roles as sassy Florence on The Jeffersons and as level-headed Mary Jenkins on the sitcom, 227) had a guest turn as Eve Russell's bitter and spiteful Aunt Irma.
She was also revealed to be an old friend of Tabitha. The late Georgia Engel (best known from The Mary Tyler Moore Show) played Esmeralda, the good witch and head of a good witches school where Endora attended. Kim Johnston Ulrich (Ivy Crane) was also known from her earlier role as Kim McColl on As The World Turns. The show starred veteran actress Juliet Mills (a member of the Mills acting dynasty, her sister is well-known Disney actress Hayley Mills), and known for her role on the seventies sitcom, Nanny and the Professor) as Tabitha Lenox, a conniving and evil witch who gave the residents of Harmony quite a number of headaches (ironically, Juliet Mills' daughter, Melissa Caulfield, played a character named Phoebe Figalilly, which happened to be the name of her mother's character on Nanny and the Professor). Weekend marathon encores of the show are played on DirecTV, and it is also available via online paid subscription from NBC within the United States and on the paid cable SuperChannel in Canada. After the move to DirecTV, the schedule was shortened to four days a week (Monday through Thursday), then later whittled down further to three days a week (Monday through Wednesday) starting January 2008. Many noteworthy stories was shown over the show's run, but the most constant ones were the triangle between Ethan Winthrop (Travis Schuldt Eric Martsolf), his true love, Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald (Lindsay Korman) and Gwen Hotchkiss (Liza Huber Natalie Zea) which was resolved in the finale, when Gwen and her conniving mother, Rebecca (Maureen McCormick Andrea Evans) were exposed for their villainy (not to mention the fact that Ethan's marriage to Gwen was not even valid, as she was already married to another man after her first engagement to Ethan was broken) the constant machinations of evil Alistair Crane the star-crossed love between Sheridan Crane (McKenzie Westmore) and Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald (Galen Gering) the supernatural misadventures of Tabitha (Juliet Mills), who began as an evil witch, until the end when she relinquished her powers and became a Christian to save the town Tabitha's daughter, Endora, who went against her mother's evil bent and was a good witch Ivy Crane's (Kim Johnston Ulrich) discovery that Ethan was her former lover Sam Bennett's (James Hyde) son Julian Crane's (Ben Masters) continual woes in love, until he reconnects with his first love, Eve Russell (Tracey Ross) the fighting between Pilar (Eva Tamargo) and Rebecca over their daughters and Kay Bennett's magical misadventures.ĭuring its NBC run, Passions ran for 60 minutes (including commercials, about 40 minutes without) every weekday (excluding some holidays). Storylines center around the interactions among members of its multi-racial core families - the African American Russells, Caucasian Cranes and Bennetts, and half-Mexican half-Irish Lopez-Fitzgeralds - as well as the supernatural including town witch Tabitha Lenox. Passions follows the various romantic and paranormal adventures of the residents of Harmony, a fictional New England hamlet. The final DirecTV episode aired on August 7, 2008.
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However, DirecTV has decided to not renew its contract for the series with NBC, and NBC was unable to find a new home for the show. DirecTV then picked up the series with new episodes airing on DirecTV-exclusive channel The 101 starting September 17, 2007.
The show taped its final scenes for NBC on August 15, 2007, and its final episode on the network aired on September 7, 2007.
In January 2007, NBC announced that it canceled Passions after eight years but later handed it over to DirecTV. The series directed by Jim Sayegh, debuted on NBC J(replacing Another World). Passions is an award-winning American television soap opera created by veteran writer James E.
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