Everything I've read agrees that this show really lost its way in the early seventies, and the ratings seem to bear this out. There is a slight improvement around 1975, which probably corresponds to when Meg returned and the classic good sister-bad sister format was reinstated. I watched the show for a time around 1975-76 and enjoyed it a lot -- Audrey Peters, Tudi Wiggins, Christopher Reeve, Pamela Lincoln, Brigitta Tolksdorf, Jerry Lacy, and John Aniston all portrayed interesting characters, but things didn't last, and by the time Reeve left and was replaced by Chandler Hill Harben I believe there was a headwriter change too. Characters I had liked were written out (the Lamonts and Eddie Aleata) and the new storylines were not very good. The time change to late afternoon was probably the final nail in the coffin, and sadly, there were no internet fans to write the websoap continuation of LoL and tell us what happened after Betsy collapsed in the courtroom.

DJ