Smith: It's been so long since Bob and I have been to bed on the show that right now I'd be saying, "So, what've you been doing for the last year and a half?." Probably we would just be catching up, talking about our kids.
Woods: Our conversations are no different than those we would have standing in the hallway.
Woods: My first love scene was with Judy Norton-Taylor, Mary Ellen on The Waltons. We were making out and all of her brothers drove by and said (he affect a Virginian accent), “Hey, isn’t that David Spencer (Woods’character)?” I was just nervous and excited about being on The Waltons.
Smith: I think my first love scene was with Stephen Burleigh (Dr. Mike Powers) on The Doctors (where Smith played Kit McCormick). It was a fantasy kiss, and he sweeps her up and takes her to bed. It was very funny because he laid me down on the bed and kissed me, and he kind of wedged his knee between my legs. The director went, “Cut! You can’t do that.” And Steve goes, “I’ve been married for 15 years. It’s what I do with my wife. It’s a little habit.”
Woods: I used to work with someone who I would do love scenes with and, during a break in the scene, I would apologize for having a “chubby.” Now your readers will be wondering, “Who was it that he had to apologize to?”
Smith: When I was on Something Wilder (a prime-time series starring Gene Wilder) we were doing a bed scene on time where (the characters’) kids were supposed to jump up and get in the bed with us. The stand-ins for children are “little people” and we had these two wonderful guys. So, suddenly, I’m in bed with three men. I looked up and went, “This is odd, I like it, but it’s odd.”—IRENE S. KEENE
(Soap Opera Weekly October 1, 1996)