D aytime serial Ryan’s Hope ran from 1975 to 1989 on ABC, telling the tales of the Irish-Catholic Ryan clan, overseen by matriarch Maeve Colleary Ryan (Helen Gallagher) and patriarch Johnny Ryan ...

Helen Gallagher in 1983, on the set of “Ryan’s Hope.” “I’ve done things on the show that I would be proud to put up against anything I’ve ever done onstage,” she said.