Molly Ringwald Played A Blind Woman On AMC's First Scripted Original Series

Molly Ringwald Played A Blind Woman On AMC's First Scripted Original Series

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In 1996, Molly Ringwald guest-starred on the AMC sitcom "Remember WENN." The show was about a fictional Pittsburgh radio station in the late 1930s, and it ran for four seasons and 56 episodes. Ringwald, who had recently returned to the world of TV with the 1994 ABC miniseries "The Stand," starred in the show's fifth episode, "Sight Unseen," in which she played a blind woman named Angela Colton.

Ringwald's favorite part of the role was that she got to base it off her own vision-impaired father. As she told Knight-Ridder Newspapers at the time, "When [my father] was a young man, no one knew he was blind ... He didn't really have all the mannerisms of a blind person, so if he was without his cane or his guide dog, no one could tell." Ringwald's character was the same way, and the episode mined a lot of comedy out of other characters not instantly picking up on her disability.

"I can't wait for him to see it," Ringwald said about her father. She noted that while her mother would have to explain "certain sight gags" to him, she still thought her father wo...