Everyone in this photo is now gone, and it hurts me to think how much time has passed.

Good God, man! Pull yourself together.

R1 I've tried, several times. I can't do it. Now would someone please say something about Richard Mulligan or SOAP!

Oh the humanity of it all.

Then again, I think we'll just manage to pull ourselves together.

Richard Mulligan married a younger porn star late in life. Sadly, the marriage didn't last long.

It is surreal when you think about how the world keeps spinning no matter who you are.

You must be ancient to consider 1977 “not that long ago”. Are you kidding me? Almost 44 years is a very long time. Stop living in the past and learn to enjoy the present.

I know how you feel, OP. Sorry I never watched SOAP. But I'm a child of the 70s. I was a teen in the 80s. And it makes me feel very nostalgic watching my favorite shows of the time. And to see me heroes then young and attractive. Now they are old people. There's nothing wrong with that. It's better to age than to die young. But it's still odd to realize how much time has passed and it went so quickly.

If it makes you feel any better, I though the show was boring garbage back then and I still do. Who cares here they are now, 6 feet under, there is you answer.

I love the show and still think Jessica Tate is one of the best written characters in TV history. Just so lovable. It is the only show in which a female lead who “all the men fall for” actually seems to make sense.

Take notes, SJP.

I always assumed handsome Robert Guillaume was gay because his character always seemed rather light in the loafers and a tension like a gay guy. Marrried twice and 5 kids.

OP the year 1977 was 44 years ago.

Based on the average US lifespan of 79 years that 44 number represents 55% of a US lifespan.

It would be a shock that all 5 would still be alive today (or even a majority of the 5 actors).

The 3 guys all have grey hair in that 44 year old photo. The 2 gals were probably coloring their hair at the time.

R11 You mean I'm going to die soon?

These two make me wonder what the rest of the family was like.

How old are you OP? A show that aired 44 years is not a blink of an eye. Memories are funny things, some seem like just yesterday.

Don't count me out just yet, bitches!

Jennifer Salt and I do so persevere!

Have Richard Milligan and Sam the Eagle from the muppets ever been seen together?

R14 I'm not comfortable revealing my age, but for me 44 years was a blink of an eye. Or at least it has felt that way, looking back.

Jessica with Rosemary, her escort to Heaven.

Girls, girls, have no fear I'm still here...

OP- None of the men in that photo seemed straight- especially the moose on the right.

It's called Chronoception. Our sense of time explained.

I didn't realize it at the time but Robert Mandan was one hot daddy, with classic BDF. At his age in the picture, he's now the kind of person I would lust after, yesterday I would have viewed as an authority figure.

But OP, don't worry. Everyone in the picture all lived good, long lives, and were highly celebrated people in their day.

I loved Soap, still do and Jessica.

R22-Cathryn Damon only lived to 56 years old when she died in 1987. I would not call that a LONG life.

We're talking 44 years ago, OP. Of course they're dead, Mary.

I was watching the Company album doc again on YouTube Wednesday night and thought it sad that most of the people were dead. I saw the show in '70 and it gave me a certain amount of comfort Sondheim was still alive.

R17- To get an idea of how long ago 1977 is- In 1977 forty four years ago was 1933.

FFS, not that long ago?

It's 45 years ago. More than one-third of the U.S. population wasn't alive then.

This isn't about a bunch of dead actors from an old (and shitty) TV series, it's about your awareness that time has passed you by.

The first couple of seasons of SOAP were better than 99% of the shit streamed today, and the gay/trans characters were way ahead of its time. Richard Mulligan always seemed lie a big dumb puppy dog.

We are all going to die one day, the end of our lifelong suffering, the Lord Buddha proclaimed.

I don’t mind getting older but the thing I never thought about was that my friends would die before me. I’m 58 and my friends from my 20s and 30s are dead. I spend more time alone than I ever planned — very difficult to make friends when you’re older. I don’t know why that is.

Mary! (And I don't mean Campbell!)

Ted Wass was both the hottest man on TV at the time and a brilliant physical comedian.

R31 Because we all lose our charms in the end.

It is shocking when so many of your friends die but live life as if you are living for them too. They would want that !

OP, a broken arm hurts. An airliner crashing into the 79th floor of 2 World Trade Center REALLY hurts. Man the fuck up, already.

OP, here's a nice thread on Soap.

Life passes quickly for those with interesting lives. Congrats, OP.

Ok, let's talk a little about "Soap." It was a funny show with an incredibly talented cast. It was considered quite controversial. There was Billy Crystal's character Jodie, who was transitioning into a woman but halted the procedure after his closeted football player lover leaves him. Later he turns straight and asks a woman to marry him. I wonder how all that would go down today? And then there was the storyline where the teenage Billy starts sleeping with his teacher. And the one where the uber slut Corinne is in love with a priest and tries to seduce him (eventually he leaves the priesthood to marry her). It was pretty hot stuff for the time. The show went off abruptly without a proper finale. I wish there had been one. It probably would have been really something.

These people were born between 1927 and 1932, meaning that had they lived they would be between 90 and 95. Enough with the weepy shit.

Here are their ages when they died:

Robert Guillaume - 89

Katherine Helmond - 89

Robert Mandan - 86

Richard Mulligan - 67

Cathryn Damon - 56

Waited on RG and wifey in Hawaii. Tipped well.

Nearly 45 years ago isn’t a long time ago ?? LOL

45 years before 1977 was 1932 lol

Mulligan was tiresome here and in the unwatchable "Empty Nest". The other men in show were more worthy of a crush. Guillaume had a gay son whom I believe died of AIDS. The relationship between his character and Helmond's was one of the real anchors of the show. And yes, this was a million years ago.

I had a big shock about the passing of time when I realised that I finished university more than half my lifetime ago. I graduated at 21 and suddenly I’m in my mid-forties (but look 22). How can that have happened?

If I die at the same age as my dad did, I’ll be gone in 16 years. That really doesn’t seem like a long time.

I loved Katherine Helmond in ANYTHING: Her looks, her voice, her sublime acting style, her hair. She seemed like she'd have been fun to work with and to know. She had that great touch of whimsy to her personality and acting ability that lent itself so well to afield projects she was also in, such as 1975's ABC TV-movie "Lizze Borden" where she played sister Emma to Elizabeth Montgomery's Lizzy.

Yes, middle-aged now, I'm becoming very aware of how the people and memory fabrics of my younger years' pop-culture reality are dying off. I think that for our early 21st century generations it's a bit harder, because 75-100 years back I don't think that famous actors and media realized or thought that there'd be an entertainment industry future with fave starts and programs preserved so long, well and constantly in reruns forever--so that we see our faves and their situations enacted over and over through each year in reruns, where they and things remain the same as we all continue to grow older and move on, not living in some constantly revolving cycle. :(

[quote] 1977 isn't that long ago. I still have a huge crush on Richard Mulligan. I think he's unbelievably sexy in SOAP and just adorable.

If that isn't some dumb troll trying to get people in a lather over his stupidity I don't know what is.

Don't want to upset anyone, but everyone associated with "I Love Lucy" is gone now except for Little Ricky... Oh, and Cher's mom

3-hour tour they said.

I outlived all of those motherfuckers on the island!

That Soap episode with Ted Wass and Richard Mulligan in bed together dressed in women's lingerie ... my dick still hasn't recovered.

Is anyone here watching the Soap marathon on Antenna TV.?

Why are people on DL so fixated on the past?

The past is like comfort food.

Wow, can you believe all the people in this portrait of the Burger Court in 1977 are also dead now, 45 years later?

According to the gnostics , life is a prison for the soul.

Every time I see Nancy Pelosi on television, I think of Katherine Helmond - they look alike and talk alike. The two of them could be sisters.

R56 or what about Nancy Pelosi playing Mona on Who’s the Boss?

I think Nancy could nail the role.

Yes - Pelosi playing 'Mona' if they ever do the reboot.

R45 is a good reminder that even though our religious lunatic Supreme Court is fucking us over today, in 45 years they’ll all be dead. Even Amazing Amy. We just need a little patience.

Now they belong to the ages.

I was 13 when Soap debuted. I thought it funny then and I still think its funny. Time has flown by. I getcha, OP.

I always adored Katherine Helmond, including for the eccentrically whimsical, ironic and dry wit that she brought to her characters and lines. Especially I enjoyed her in the sitcom "Who's The Boss" as well as the 1975 Elizabeth Montgomery "Lizzie Borden" television film as Lizzie's overwrought sister.

Katherine was great and Ted Wass was so sexy.

We all have to go home to be with the Lord sometime. Life on this earth is only temporary for all of us.

I’m still here, OP. I was 50 years old back in 1977.

I really enjoy the show and I just watched a good chunk of the every episode marathon that they just ran on antenna TV.

Cheers to you R66