All My Shadows

You're welcome! I just edited my post to share what I do know about the Philip saga. If you haven't watched the two 1977 episodes that are out there that were included on the DVD set, watch those, too! There is early Spaulding drama there, too.

Philip, biologically, is Jackie and Justin's son from a marriage that took place before any of the characters came to Springfield. Someone else who knows more about it than I do might be able to share the details of the rest of that backstory, but I think the gist is that Jackie gave Philip up to a doctor who in turn gave the baby to Alan, who had Elizabeth believe that the baby was theirs to hide the fact that their actual child was stillborn. Roger is on trial for raping Holly. You might've just missed the episode where it actually takes place (March 6, 1979). Definitely go back and watch that one. It sucks that there aren't more consecutive episodes from throughout the time, but it's so easy to follow the stories, even with the large gaps.

I just watched this a few weeks ago, and I agree with everything you said. CP played Jackie's disgust with Alan so well as she watched him feed all of that Mike hatred to Philip, and then you remind yourself of the inner conflict she's facing, knowing that she's pregnant with his child. There are so many interesting characters on the show in this period - I'm currently obsessed with the deliciously shady Diane Ballard. She's that great archetype of the coolly calculating torch-carrier, devoted to dirty dealing in the name of the object of her affection. I don't know if she wants to be with Alan more than she just wants to be Alan.

I took a very long break from the show after getting to 130, and I'm probably around the same place as you are now. I feel like it's losing some of the human drama/comedy in favor of more satirical social commentary, and it's suffering because of it.

I have a very teeny tiny but strange observation - they couldn't clear that short piece of background music that opens the very first shot of the truck!? They replaced it with a sound-alike version.

@DRW50 What utter crap! I never did get the fascination with those types of games with the mean-spirited, self-hating host basically sh!tting on everyone on the set while also humiliating the contestants. It really all comes across like some sick fantasy of an unhappy teenager. Then you have the programmer - "Oh, Freddie Starr is SO outrageous!" Poor thing doesn't realize that so much of late 90s culture had a shelf life of about three months. I do love the concept of this particular show confronting the people responsible for the game show and telling them "This is stupid, when is it going off the air?" Jeopardy! will be rerunning episodes from its first decade next week, including the 1984 premiere. The following week has some Celebrity Jeopardy! repeats, including a Donna Mills sighting!

Oh mannnn, Billy Clyde and Jewell I loved them keeping Adam holed up in their trailer. That episode has both the terrible Nina recast and the terrible Liza recast. Wowzers.

I just really need them to not do the film processing on those 70s episodes. Did they ever do it on any others besides that one 80s ep from a few weeks ago? I can see them thinking "These are old, we have to make them look more modern." No, you're literally ruining the aesthetic.

Nah, I can’t agree with that at all. This is a real tragedy for Ms. Rivera’s family, friends, and coworkers. It has nothing at all to do with LM or the type of person she is or what she did. I doubt any of the people actually personally affected by her nastiness care one way or the other whether or not she posted anything about Naya’s disappearance. If they do, they have enough tact to know better than to make it about that. She’ll reap what she sows when it is about her reaping when she sows.

Has the first episode ever been rebroadcast after its initial airing? I know they've made it officially available online at times, but I can't remember it ever rerunning in the last 20 years (assuming it hasn't mainly bc of the 60-minute time slot). I figured if they did thirty-minute episodes, they'd just air two on a day. I'm excited! Katherine's facelift is also one of those legendary soap storylines that has become embedded in my family's TV-watching culture. The older folks talk about that like they talk about Who Shot JR?

MEK really isn’t that far off, though, I think he was born in 1958 or 1959, so only 4-5 years off of Tad’s established age. I think Tad managed to escape any kind of SORASing or de-SORASing bc he was introduced as a 10-year-old in 1972-73. But god he does look a thousand times better these days, and it sucks that we don’t have him as Tad on our screens regularly anymore. He was so checked out by 2005, probably earlier. I bet he’d be a lot more dynamic now.

Linda Cristal, Who Starred in 'High Chaparral,' Dies at 89 I just heard about her passing. It's been a long time since I really dug deep into the classic westerns, but High Chaparral is a favorite, and Linda's portrayal of Victoria is one of the genre's best.

Wasn't 90210 also supposed to be "Potomac" with the zipcode to reflect Darren Star's actual backstory? I feel like I should know more of these and might have forgotten some over time. Like, something is vaguely telling me that "I Dream of Jeannie" was originally "The Lady in the Bottle" or something like that. "One Tree Hill" was "An Unkindness of Ravens," playing on the unique collective known for the Tree Hill High mascot.

I'm watching the 35th anniversary episode, and I've seen it a million times, but something just occurred to me - when Tad and Erica surprised Joe with his anniversary party at the hospital, it really looks like Ray MacDonnell was actually surprised and wasn't expecting the episode to somewhat be built around him. Was that ever established or discussed in the press at the time?

I mean, Glee was basically a cartoon/fantasy series. That's why I could never really get into it. It was one-note s far as plot and characterization were concerned. You knew the CHEERLEADERS were CHEERLEADERS because they were always in their CHEERLEADER uniforms - that kinda stuff just bugs the hell out of me. Now that we're five years removed from it, I can see its merits. It was/is a very happy place to go to for its fans. Plus, it changed a lot as far as peer acceptance of LGBT youth and brought music education back to prominence, so its place in pop culture history is solidified.

Lea Michele deleted her Twitter because people were harassing her about not tweeting about Naya's disappearance, which is the type of disgusting behavior that only social media can bring out in people. Amber Riley said it best, "No one owes anyone online a performance of grief."

I did notice that everything went away today. I was actually watching your GL ep from 6/01/79 while you were privatizing your videos. I hate it when those people ruin it for everyone because this is content that is so very hard to come across. Everyone should just be appreciative of your willingness to share.

I never a GLEE fan, but I've been following this, and it's so devastating. My heart really goes out to her family and friends. That show's cast has had to grow up in so many ways over the years. I hope for peace and prosperity for the rest of them.

@BillBauer, you're doing GREAT work bringing all of these back to YT!!

These are the three that were uploaded today. The dates are different - the November episodes are labeled as October 8-9, and the April is labeled as being from the 18th. October 9, 1965, is a Saturday, so I’m assuming your dates are correct. Watching the April episode now, and this is a spectacular piece of creepy horror/suspense TV that I never would have expected from this show and definitely unlike anything else in daytime at the time. Might this have been soap opera’s first “one-hander” episode? I would love to even just know what happened before and after this if the actual episodes never turn up. Do we know anything about when the Joy character was recast? The first Joy seems a lot younger, perkier, and less fitting for the dramatic stories they’d end giving the character. I can’t see her carrying an entire episode by herself like Joy #2 did.

I feel as though GH started to completely ignore everything pre-Monty after a while, too.

robwargo has uploaded three more episodes! Two consecutive from October 1965 and one from April.

I always have to remind myself that Hope last appeared in 1983 and wasn't killed off, because it makes no sense whatsoever that she was never brought back. She was easily the strongest link between "old" Guiding Light and "new" Guiding Light. I know Elvera Roussel participated in some events when the show ended - did she ever speak about ever wanting to return or if they'd even asked her about returning? They could have even went after Robin Mattson after SB and signed her before AMC got her.

I'm loving what I've been seeing. I started with the infamous 3/06/79 episode and have just been watching whatever comes next. It's still an era of seemingly simple human emotions that, in actuality, are so complicated. You have Alan Spaulding the big businessman, but his story is still about who he is as a person and what makes him tick and how he makes bad decision after bad decision. The majority of the characters are "normal" people living "normal" lives that are filled with soapy dramas. It might've been getting the same "old-fashioned" criticisms that were heaped on ATWT at the same time, but there's a vibrancy on GL that I don't see in the same era's ATWT. As far as the availability of the Dobsons' GL, is there anything prior to 1979 out there besides the recent '78 posting plus those two DVD episodes from '77?

Yes! Well, MHMH predated Soap and TC by a year, but within that year, you also had Charlie's Angels debuting as a TV movie and then regular series in Fall 1976. These series (plus others, I'm sure, including stuff going on in daytime) prompted Rev. Donald Wildmon to found the American Family Association with the mission of ridding TV of "smut." I remember years ago, Suzanne Somers commented that he wasn't a very "wild man" after all. I dug this thread up to share the pilot episode of FOREVER FERNWOOD, the post-Mary continuation of the series. Much thanks to the uploader bc I don't think FF was ever aired again after 1977-1978 except for this one showing on TV Land back in 2002 for Norman Lear's 80th birthday. I'm still super disappointed that Sony did not put select episodes (or even an episode guide?) in with the complete MHMH boxed set. It seems like there is still so very little known about the stories that played out besides what happens in the premiere.