Sunday, February 19, 2012

PREVIEW: ABC Sunday Night Soaps ONCE UPON A TIME, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES & PAN AM

ABC's Sunday night soaps air all new episodes on Sunday, February 19 as The Year of the Soap continues.

ONCE UPON A TIME kicks off the night at 8 p.m. ET/PT with "Whatever Happened to Frederick."

With their love for each other growing stronger, David finally agrees to tell Kathryn about his relationship with Mary Margaret and put an end to his loveless marriage.

Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, while runaway groom Prince Charming searches for Snow White, he agrees to aid Abigail on a dangerous mission to recover something precious that was lost to her.

Watch a sneak peak video from the episode below:



ONCE UPON A TIME stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold, Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina, Jared Gilmore as Henry Mills, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/John Doe and Raphael Sbarge as Jiminy Cricket/Archie Hopper.

Guest starring are Anastasia Griffith as Kathryn/Abigail, Meghan Ory as Ruby/Red Riding Hood, Alan Dale as King George, Beverley Elliott as Granny, Eion Bailey as stranger/August W. Booth, Aria Pullman as Siren and Greyston Holt as gym teacher/Frederick.

"What Happened to Frederick" was written by David H. Goodman and directed by Dean White.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES follows at 9 p.m. ET with "Get Out of My Life."

Susan discovers the identity of the father of Julie’s baby.

Orson makes it his duty to nurse Bree back to health.

When Mrs. McCluskey throws Roy out of the house, Gaby takes him in and is reluctant to help get them back together when he proves to be an invaluable disciplinarian to her kids.

After getting used to her alone time, Lynette is furious when Porter and Preston are evicted from their apartment and try to move back home.

Mike informs Renee of Ben’s dire circumstances with a loan shark.



DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES stars Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Hodge, Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis, Vanessa Williams as Renee Perry, Ricardo Antonio Chavira as Carlos Solis, Doug Savant as Tom Scavo, Jonathan Cake as Det. Chuck Vance, Charles Mesure as Ben Faulkner and Madison de la Garza as Juanita Solis, with Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young and James Denton as Mike Delfino.

Guest starring are Kathryn Joosten as Mrs. McCluskey, Daniella Baltodano as Celia Solis, Andrea Bowen as Julie Mayer, Kyle MacLachlan as Orson Hodge, Charlie Carver as Porter Scavo, Max Carver as Preston Scavo, Orson Bean as Roy Bender, Sal Landi as Donny, Robert Pine as Dr. Delson and Mike Foy as skeevy guy.

"Get Out of My Life" was written by Cindy Appel and directed by Jim Hayman.

ABC's retro Sunday night soap, PAN AM, finishes the night and closes out its first season at 10:01 p.m. ET with "1964."

Life has changed on a dime for the crew of Pan Am. Since President Kennedy’s assassination and as New Year’s Eve approaches for the start of 1964, everyone’s lives are hurtling towards new starts: Colette is caught up in a whirlwind courtship with a foreign prince, and Dean is still kicking himself over losing her; Amanda and Ted’s wedding plans are racing forward, thrilling his family, but making him more nervous by the day; Kate’s spy supervisor, Richard, is shot and she tries to figure out whether he or someone else is a double agent — He warns her that the first person to ask her how he is doing will be the double agent, but the first person who does is the one person she never imagined; and Amanda makes Laura a startling offer.

Meanwhile, Broyles puts Maggie in a life-threatening position-which sparks a major attraction to him — Laura forges on, still loving the man she can’t have, and Dean is put on trial for the decisions he made during the Haiti landing.



PAN AM stars Christina Ricci as Maggie, Margot Robbie as Laura, Michael Mosley as Ted, Mike Vogel as Dean, Karine Vanasse as Colette and Kelli Garner as Kate.

Guest starring are Ashley Greene as Amanda Mason and Darren Pettie as George Broyles, Mark Blum as Captain Jackson, Pedro Carmo as Roberto, Jeremy Davidson as Richard, David Harbour as Roger Anderson, Marek Piter as Omar, Haythem Noor as Andre, Kal Parekh as Sanjeev, David Pittu as Base Manager, Jonathan Raviv as Josefo and Jay O. Sanders as Douglas Vanderway.

"1964" was written by Nick Thiel and directed by Andrew Bernstein.

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