April 1977 Soap Opera Digest: VW on Mac and Rachel
"I think everybody loves to watch a relationship that is a positive one, where the two people really love each other, and on soaps those are rare. .... It was obvious that Mac and Rachel were really in love, and I think what the viewers objected to was that it was the only really solid relationship on the show, and it was really evident and really clear the audience objected to that being messed up. We objected to it too. We had no objection to Rachel's newfound career [sculpting in 1976] interfering with their relationship, but the thought of infidelity of Mac going off and immediately going to bed with the new character, Gwen, we found hard to take and hard to believe. "Article from Carolyn Williams