Y&R Original Cast Member Pam Peters, Who Played Peggy Brooks, Passes Away at 75

One of the original cast members of The Young and the Restless and representing one of the core first families of the iconic soap opera has passed away. Pam Peters Solow, who played Peggy Brooks, the youngest of the Brooks sisters, died at the age of 75 back on June 4th. News of her death came from her longtime friend Todd Hirsch via Facebook.

In his tribute, Hirsch wrote: “Received news last night that my friend Pam Levy (one of the COOLEST damn ladies I have ever had the good fortune to know) has passed. If you know me IRL, you _definitely_ know my sense of humor and that I have no filter whatsoever. Well, Pam was my female counterpart, for SURE.”

Todd continued, “I met Pam and her husband Marty in 2017 when I moved my office next to theirs in North Hollywood. The friendship with the two of them was INSTANT. Besides their business, they both were actors. Pam was the original ‘Peggy Brooks’ character on the soap, The Young and the Restless and in the 1970’s, and she was in LOTS of commercials and basically every cool 70s tv show, like  Happy Days, The Partridge Family, Emergency and Butch Cassidy.”

Hirsch concluded his tribute to Pam: “I love you, Second Mom. I hope we meet again someday…cuz whatever possible afterlife there is would definitely suck without being able to hang out with you again to talk lots of “

On The Young and the Restless, Pam played the part of Peggy for a few runs throughout her time on the CBS soap, first in 1973-77, then in 1980-81, and again in 1984. In story, Peggy was the daughter of Jennifer Brooks (Dorothy Green) and Stuart Brooks (Robert Colbert), and the sister to Lorie (Jaime Lyn Bauer), Leslie (Janice Lynde, then Victoria Mallory) and Chris Brooks (Trish Stewart).

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Throughout Pam’s time as Peggy on the CBS soap opera, she was always landing in a heap of trouble layered in with bad decisions including: getting involved with a married professor, Jack Curtis, played by the late, great Anthony Herrera, almost losing her life while trying to expose a cult, and sadly, being raped by Ron Becker (Dick DeCoit).

A few years back, Michael Fairman TV spoke with Pam’s original TV sisters, Janice Lynde and Jaime Lyn Bauer alongside John McCook (ex-Lance, Y&R, now Eric, B&B) on the red carpet at Y&R’s 50th anniversary party. You can check out that out below.

We send our condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Pamela Peters Solow.

Now, share your remembrances for Pam as Peggy Brooks on The Young and the Restless via the comment section.