Sean

Some of the folks who have collections of the post 1981 episodes say that there's not a whole lot of music so that reason seems to be called into question.

Yeah, there isn't much compared to other soaps of the time, but, in the later years, there was usually music playing in the scenes set at Ryan's, which I suppose could be enough to make further airings cost prohibitive (One use of music I particularly remember involved Ryan Fenelli listening to Madonna's "Like a Virgin" as she considered losing her virginity to D.J. LaSalle).

Did Labine write the Greer story line? I've always heard what a brilliant story that was.

Yep, the Greer saga was the focus of Labine & Mayer's brief stint in 1983, which won the show's sixth and final Emmy for Outstanding Writing. There are tons of clips of it on YouTube (for reference, the story ran from April 1983 to August 1983).

Pan's Labyrinth

Holy crap. It was an absolute masterpiece. The movie itself looked beautiful, and the script was really well-done - I can't think of a single thing I'd change about the entire film. It was easily the best movie of 2006 that I've seen and hopefully it'll get some Oscar love on Tuesday.