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Every time I catch a piece of 1988's Mystic Pizza on TV, I end up doing a post. I love the 80's romantic comedy and all of it's male co-stars. My last viewing was a few years ago which led to a 2013 post about actor Adam Storke. (HERE:) Storke, along with Vincent D'Onofrio and William R. Moses played the romantic interests of leads Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor and Julia Roberts.

Below: with Annabeth Gish in Mystic Pizza (1988)

This past viewing, my old crush on William (Billy) R. Moses was reignited. I have been watching William on TV since I was a kid on shows like Falcon Crest and Melrose Place through Perry Mason and his speedo wearing days on Battle of the Network Stars. William continues to be a busy actor with recent appearances on Homeland, Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy and a small role in last seasons American Horror Story.

Below:William with Falcon Crest parents Susan Sullivan and Robert Foxworth

I have feature William previous in my Blast From The Past section, (HERE:) and tried to find some new images and new material for this piece. I especially enjoyed looking through the old Battle 'speedo parades', check out the video below.

William with Perry Mason co-stars Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale

Fantasy Island (1981)

With Rue McClanahan and Al Molinaro

Battle of the Network Stars

Speedo parade along with John James, Michael J. Fox. Richard Dean Anderson and more 80's TV hunks

Battle Bros Peter Barton and Scott Baio

Ahhh...

Favorite Blast From The Past: Oct 22nd William R. Moses

William R. Moses (Billy Moses) should be a huge movie star. His biggest movie most likely was Mystic Pizza, an early Julia Roberts Film. He has classic movie star looks, is a great actor and has a strong presence on film. It never took off for Billy, he made an impact on television with roles on Falcon Crest, The Perry Mason Movies, Fame LA and many guest roles, but so far leading man status has not come his way.





Billy with Falcon Crest Co-Stars: Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan and Jamie Rose.


Billy with Falcon Crest Co-Star Lorenzo Lamas



Billy In Battle Of The Network Stars

William R. Moses Website:

Blast From The Past: Rick Moses

William R. Moses

'Were you aware of his HOT older brother Rick?!! He was definitely a junior high lustful crush I had even though I never actually got to watch his show "Young Dan'L Boone"!!'

I've had a crush on William R. (Billy) Moses since seeing him in 1988's Mystic Pizza.  I've also caught some old episodes of Falcon Crest on DVD, especially Billy's shirtless scenes.  I wasn't aware however of his 'hot' older brother, until a FH readers sent me a message with the quote I posted about.

Great genes obviously were passed down from Billy and Rick's father, executive Richard Cantrell Moses, Sr. and their actress mother Marian McCargo.  Billy and Rick also have two other brothers, Graham, a composer and Harry.  Harry, who most closely resembles Billy is also an actor but has also recently become a minister.

Rick, the oldest of the four brothers, got his start on stage in the late 60's.  By the time the 70's came around, Rick was appearing on television on shows including; Room 222,  The F.B.I and Mission Impossible.  Most television watchers at the time, know Rick from his stints on General Hospital, and in the short lived CBS series Young Dan'l Boone.

Young Dan'l Boone

I'm too young to remember ever seeing Rick on TV, but there are a ton of clips form his television appearances on YouTube.  He was obviously big for a short amount of time, as he has many fans, especially from his work in Young Dan'l Boone.  Moses basically left acting after his turn on General Hospital, but has recorded several albums, and one of his songs, If I Could Just Fall in Love, was a huge hit in Germany.

General Hosptial

Archives: Blast From The Past

Peter Barton

When I started FH, one of my goals was to only featured some of today's hottest and most talented hunks, but also feature men who impacted my, and others in the past.  So many sites are all about the men of the moment, the current and hottest bodies and moments.  As we all know however, it's hard to stay front burner for too long, at least not without burning out.

Patrick Duffy

Blast From The Past began as my way of spotlighting some of the models, actors and singers who I grew u with.  It soon became so much more.   Although I had connections with many of the men that I featured, I also included actors who I discovered later in life.  There are many actors, who I either didn't like or didn't notice that I looked at differently when I got older.  

Terry Lester

When I was a kid, I remember thinking that Tom Selleck was sort of 'gross'.  He seemed old, and I hated his moustache, and how hairy he was.  Then... when I hit my thirties, I started looking back on all those shirtless shots of Selleck with a different perspective...   There are also several classic stars from the 40's, 50's and 60's that I never heard of when I was a kid.  Thanks To TCM, I quickly began crushing over actors, many of whom are in their 80's, 90's or no longer with us at all.

Adrian Zmed & Scott Baio

This list includes most of those actors, performers, singers and models that I've blasted back to the past with.  I say most, as there are many former heart throbs who showed up in my birthdays or movie section that I have yet to include.  I hope to add them in once I have time to fully research the blog, but this list is a pretty good beginning.   Looking back at some of the posts, especially those from the site's early days, I realize many need an update.  Some were done before I had the ability to cap and create images on my own, and before learning how enlarge an image.  Hoping to update a few of my favorites soon.

Ted Shackelford

Willie Aames | Bruce Abbott | Jeb Adams | Steve Antin | Richard Dean Anderson | Christopher Atkins | Scott Bakula  | Jimmy Baio | Scott Baio |  Lajos Balázsovits | Christopher Daniel Barnes | Doug Barr | Peter Barton | Steven Bauer | Randall Batinkoff | Warren Beatty | John Beck | Michael Beck | Dirk Benedict | Tom Berenger | Helmut Berger | Kevin Bernhardt | Michael Biehn | Hunt Block | Brian Bloom | Steve Bond | Jesse Borrego |  Joseph Bottoms | Timothy Bottoms | Bruce Boxleitner | Greg Bradford | Brady Boys | Beau Bridges | Woody Brown |  Tom Byrd | 

Billy Hufsey

Bill Cable | Stephen Caffrey | Dean Cain | John David Carson | Maxwell Caulfield | Byron Cherry | Brian Patrick Clarke | Nicolas Clay | Jack Coleman | Christopher Collet | Jeff Conaway | Nicholas Cortland | Christopher Crabb | Brett Cullen | William Kirby Cullen | Rad Daly | Brad Davis | Mac Davis | Brandon De Wilde | Matt Dillon | Troy Donahue | Patrick Duffy | Keir Dullea | Sam Elliott | Greg Evigan | Shea Farrell | Jay R. Ferguson | Jon Finch | Steve Forrest | Sami Frey | Tony Ganios | Leif Garrett | Jonathan Gilbert | Grant Goodeve | Richard Grieco | Steve Guttenberg

John Allen Nelson

Antony Hamilton | Randy Hamilton | Tye Hardin | Mark Harmon | Jim Harris | Gregory Harrison | Rodney Harvey | David Hasselhoff | Richard Hatch | Martin Hewitt | Charlton Heston | Jon-Erik Hexum | Darby Hinton | Tom Hodges | Lee Horsely | Billy Hufsey | John James | Doug Jeffery | Christopher Jones | Sam Jones | Steve Kanaly | William Katt | Omri Katz | Alan Kayser |  Andrew Keegan | Brian Kerwin | Perry King | Wyatt Knight | Martin Kove | Kris Kristofferson | 

Kevin Bernhardt

Matthew Laborteaux | John Lafayette | Burt Lancaster | Lorenzo Lamas | Michael Landon | Perry Lang | Lawrence Lau | Scott Layne | Terry Lester | Tony Lo Bianco | Jason London | Simon MacCorkindale | Fred MacMurray | Ed Marinaro | Steve Mateo | Lee Majors | Paul Mercurio | Leigh McCloskey | Matt McCoy | Ted McGinley | Scott McGinnis | Todd McKee | John McMurray | William McNamara | Jimmy McNicol | Steve McQueen | Robert Mitchum | Lee Montgomery | Rick Moses | William R. Moses | Ben Murphy | Timothy Patrick Murphy |

Jon-Erik Hexum

Michael Nader | James Naughton | John Allen Nelson | Rick Nelson | Anthony Newley | Paul Newman | Tony O'Dell | Michael O'Keefe | Miles O'Keeffe | Ryan O'Neal | Cyril O'Reilly | Ken Olandt | Ken Olin | Jameson Parker | Michael Parks | Michael Paré | Robert Parucha | Alain Patrick | Don Michael Paul | John Payne | Bruce Penhall | George Peppard | Radames Pera | Joe Perry | Pat Peterson | Aidan Quinn | Robert Redford | Christopher Reeve | Burt Reynolds | Christopher Rich | Brian Robbins | Charles Robinson | Cliff Robertson | Rick Rossovich | Kurt Russell |

Greg Evigan

John Savage | Devon Sawa | Jack Scalia | John Schneider | Ricky Schroder | Tom Selleck | Ted Shackelford | Stephen Shellen | Marc Singer | Mark Slade | Rex Smith | Star Trek | Andrew Stevens | Parker Stevenson | John Stockwell | Rob Stone | Adam Storke | David Tiefen | Richard Thomas | Oliver Tobias | Barry Tubb | Robert Urich | Tim Van Patton |  Jan-Michael Vincent | Jesse & Alan Vint | Ralph Waite | Clint Walker | Kelly Ward | Ted Wass | Grant Wilson | Brian Wimmer | Ray Wise | Tom Wopat | Jeff Yagher | Michael York | Jim Youngs | William Zabka | Adrian Zmed |

Scott McGinnis

Past Blast:

I am always on the hunt for new guys to feature on my Blast From The Past section. I have a small list going, but still always come back to some of my favorites. In my research last week, I came across this amazing image. Oh those 80's when actors such as Richard Dean Anderson and William R. Moses hung around in their speedos for the Battle Of The Network Stars shows.

William R. Moses on FH HERE: & HERE:

Richard Dean Anderson on FH HERE: & HERE:

Hot Suits:

After being reminded by the Still The Place Podcast that William (Billy) R. Moses was on Melrose Place,  I checked out a few episodes.  I not only forgotten he'd been on the show, I also forgot his character Keith turned out to be a psychopath.  So many of the male guest stars on the show ended up being stalkers, killers or psychopaths.  In the 1990's, female characters it seems, were often written as victim.  It seemed the 'go to' move for writers on many shows, including Melrose Place.

I've posted about Billy before, but I'd been planning on another one after scrolling into the US magazine cover above.  As many FH know, I've been taking a closer look at those old 'hot suit' issues of the magazine, featuring some of televisions hottest hunks, often in tight speedos.  I didn't realize Billy had been apart of the swimsuit series until noticing his small image next to Suzanne Somers on the cover.

Billy posed with actress Lindsay Bloom, an actress I'd never heard of before. I checked her IMDB and she was busy working on many television shows in the 1980's.  Unfortunately, Moses bucked the trend of the previous hot suit pieces I did, by sadly not donning a speedo.  All of the shots from the shoot I could find featured Billy only in board shorts.

Billy is one of those actors I always thought should have been a bigger star.  After his turn on TV, and in Mystic Pizza, I thought a film career was in front of him.  He was successful for sure, appearing regularly on television and the occasional film throughout his over 40 year career.   Sadly, he never really got that big break or that breakout role.  

I don't think any of the actors who appeared on the big Prime Time Soaps of the 1980's really made it big.  The exception being Alec Baldwin who spent a short time on Knots Landing.  Unlike Billy however, Alec doesn't seem as connected to Knots as Billy and others are to their nighttime soap roles.  Maybe because he wasn't on as long, or maybe it's just about timing and luck.

Hot Suits:

Martin Kove

Bruce Penhall

Ted Shackelford

Ted McGinley

Jon-Erik Hexum

Adrian Zmed

Sadly, Moses also never did an on-screen nude scene.  He's still hot, so maybe there's still a chance, it wouldn't be the first time an actor did their first nude scene after the age of 60.  Although he didn't wear a speedo for US Magazine, he did give us plenty of speedo views during his multiple appearance on Battle of the Network stars.  My series hasn't quite gotten to the point when Billy was on, but still, had to add a few.