All My Shadows

I wholeheartedly agree. I just can't say enough about how great the show was at being a parody of soaps while sucking the viewer in and very much being a real soap at the same time. It's easy to see why it was a huge success -- the comedy attracted non-soap fans, but it was a huge manipulation to make them care about the characters enough so that when things got dramatic, the non-soap fans were still extremely invested in the storylines. Just superb. In the 35 episodes I've seen, there's nary an off moment of comedy or drama. And that cast...man. That cast! I could go on and on about the cast. The main crew were all sublime, but so were the recurring stars like Samantha Harper, Michael Lembeck, Sudie Bond in her far too few appearances, REVA ROSE!!! who was adorable as Blanche. Will Seltzer played the hell out of Davey Jessup. I found Tom more attractive, but Sgt. Foley definitely had a sexiness to him. I could never get past the nose, but that voice... I'm up to the episode where he and Mary kiss in his apartment, and the whole thing is very hot. Tom and Mae were hot together, too. It's criminal that episodes 36-325 haven't seen any air time at all in at least 20-25 years. I'm so obsessed with the first thirty-five, I'm sometimes forget that that's only a small fraction of the whole run. I have seen, though, the pilot of Forever Fernwood, which was the continuation series after Lasser and Solomon left in 1977. It was very good, but since the story continued on from the last episode of MHMH, it was hard to know what all was going on, and there aren't any comprehensive synopses online.

LOVE THIS SHOW!!! AAAAH!! I will forever be indebted to TVLand for bringing it to me all those years ago. And now I'm getting towards the end of the DVD set...so unfortunate that we'll probably never see a volume two.

On Golden Pond

Don't Ask My Neighbors - The Emotions

My Cousin Vinny

Cale

Nellie Oleson - Little House on the Prairie

Seems LaGuardia and Schemering can't agree on what happened with Liz. Schemering makes it seem like she lived a drama-free life out of town (kinda like Kathleen on RH), but LaGuardia says she was in the nuthouse. LaGuardia's got some things wrong, though. Sandra and Grayling's upcoming wedding was a focal point of the 1955 episode Carl posted, so she had to be introduced several years before what LaGuardia has.

Google is on crack sometimes. Pennington comes up, but all of the results say Penniston (which isn't right either because of the spelling). Gap Band

Kenan Rockmore - Kenan and Kel

Kids

Adlai

Blood Red and Going Down - Tanya Tucker

Alli is unbearable! Why in the hell did she think faking an essay for Drew would be a good thing?

I never even thought about international broadcasts being saved...wow. After years and years of obsessing over periods that have been almost universally declared gone forever, it kinda gets me excited to think of how much is really out there. I guess the next step would be for these production companies to realize that we'll take them any way we could possibly get them. DVDs, streaming online, or (gasp) on television. It's just ridiculous that decades of great television is in limbo. Guys like you are our only hope, and it's much appreciated.

ITA about Brothers and Sisters. It went to pot for me when the politics took center stage. Kitty and Robert, the two most boring characters on the show, becoming the focal point (which, Kitty always was, but the show became even more centered around here) did it no favors. I could do without both of the sisters, really. I mainly watched for Nora, Justin, Kevin, and Holly, and especially the Holly/Nora relationship which was so soapy you could wash dishes by holding them up to the TV during their scenes.

CeCe Peniston! Donna Fargo

Harry Orwell - Harry O

Xavier

LOL I'm still cracking up over your Baltimore pictures. Hud

WOW, that does sound like some good soap. I had no idea TBD was ever the top soap on the air. It's been off the air for so long and has faded into obscurity, it's hard to believe it was once the most watched soap on TV. The set up sounds similar to TSS, with the widowed father raising his troubled kids, so I guess they worked well off of each other. I wish some reeeeeal..."experienced" posters would materialize who remember watching this back in the day. It's always creeped me out a little bit, with the churchy organ music, the wrought-iron gates, the steeple, the religious theme, etc. I don't think I've sat down and watched a whole TV episode yet, but I have listened to the radio show's first episode and enjoyed it.

I wonder how many Edge episodes are really out there. It's unique premise might have made it more worthy of salvation in P&G and CBS's eyes, so who know. Maybe this is a mistake, but whenever someone posts opening/closing titles of a soap on YouTube, I assume the full episode exists, so based just on that, there should be some good video quality eps from 1958, 1966, and 1972 (in addition to episodes that are clipped on YT already). Episodes from several of the other 50s/60s soaps are on various public domain sites, but none for Edge. I wonder why.

Wow, what a lovely article and pictures. I don't think I've ever seen anything with the original Carolee before. I really, really wish I could watch the stuff with her, Steve, and Nancy Barrett's character. Those ratings are interesting. Most of the soaps got roughly a third or so of the audience at a time when there were three networks ruling the ratings. Y&R currently has a bigger audience than Secret Storm had then.

So far, I like the first season a lot more than the second. Maybe having S1 in my mind will make S2 better, who knows. These early episodes remind me a lot of the early episodes of Dallas in which they spend a good 45 minutes weaving together this big plot and then everything is resolved in a matter of seconds at the end of the show. Dallas and Falcon Crest did it more abruptly, but Knots still does it too. But I'm loving the general atmosphere of the show, the suburban feel and what-not. The kid actors on this show are way underrated, especially the Fairgate boys (as for Lonow...I think she gets better later on when she and Chip went on the run). "The Lie" was a really good episode, but it amazes me how easy it was for Laura (and Karen in the previous episode) to just go out and think about cheating on her husband. I don't like to put the blame on the woman in rape cases at all, but it can't be ignored that Laura's choice to follow this strange man to his apartment while there is a rapist on the loose was incredibly stupid. And Val! Val kept dropping the ball! The second she realized Laura lied to the police, she should have opened her mouth. All in all, though, I'm loving this season. WB needs to get off it and put out at least 3-5 and at least another season or two of Falcon Crest. *cough* and Flamingo Road would be nice, too.

Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For? - Crystal Gayle