All My Shadows

Yay, they added episodes that they actually already have uploaded and ready to go on the website (along with the rest of the 70s). I just really need them to get on my smart TV so that I can avoid wiring or casting from my laptop.

What a lovely photo of Erica and Jeff's wedding! I really hope that someone out there has a copy of her weddings to Jeff and Phil to complete the collection.

As a rule, I simply do not fck with Jimmy Fallon or anything he puts out. He is a literal aggravation. Debbi, sweet Debbi! Beautiful and strong.

It actually is (was?) hard for me to be empathetic because there have been better actresses than she who dealt with even greener performers than JR Martinez, and those people didn’t choose to downgrade their scene partners in the press while also trashing their respective shows (which they had been on for longer than a mere year). Identifying “blunt” doesn’t make “blunt” appealing. I can think of several, and none of them featured Beth Ehlers. The character was a flop on an already bloated canvas. Brot ended up actually serving a purpose and was integrated into an established family. Taylor was pointless, and I’m sorry JR Martinez’s first year was stuck opposite such a boring character.

https://daytimeconfidential.com/2009/06/27/beth-ehlers-talks-greasy-about-chuck-pratt-and-jr-martinez I remember the "Shakespeare" line getting lampooned regularly. She basically expected to slide into Pine Valley and set the canvas on fire. It wasn't her show, and there was never going to be space for it to be "her" show.

Santa Barbara was budgeted at $30 million for its first year, making it the most expensive soap on the air at the time.

That cake fight was tacky as hell, right? And completely unneeded? Like, the drama between Katherine and Jill was strong enough but then it was reduced to a joke. Which I know is indicative of so much more...

JEOPARDY! will start rolling out reruns next week. Obviously, game show repeats aren't as exciting as soap repeats (especially for a show like J! that hasn't really had any huge changes over the years), but I'm looking forward to seeing the bookending 2004 episodes. I have noooo interest in watching James Holzhauer be obnoxious all throughout the GOAT tournament again. I really hate the fact that the possibility of TPIR rerunning some Bob episodes is most definitely less than zero.

EJ Bonilla was not much to watch on GL, but god, I'd climb that man like a tree.

Or why Sony won't release at least some "best of" sets. They are literally giving us box sets with these themed weeks, and I would hope they're looking at the ratings in consideration of fan interest in seeing older episodes in clean, pristine condition. Here are five episodes for a Katherine Chancellor set. How ridiculously easy would it be to pull together 15-20 more to make a full set? This show is about to hit its 50th anniversary in a few years, and fans have no access to any official home video of it. Ridiculous.

I get why they chose this episode, but there's sooooo much going on and so many character pairings/groups to jump between, it hardly feels like a showcase for Jeanne Cooper.

In today's intro, Doug Davidson specifically addressed longtime viewers by saying, in regards to Cassandra, "if you remember, she was nothing but trouble." I know that's a tiny, tiny thing, but it kind of backs up an argument that they're focusing more on longtime viewers than newer viewers with episode selection here. ETA: Good God, that Jill/Katherine scene is great, and BD was amazing in it from start to finish.

I think the first episode is fabulous and a true testament to how soaps were written then. Even though Bill used Y&R to usher in many changes to how daytime looked and sounded (just compare this to Papa Bauer's death/funeral on GL from just under two months earlier), he was still a practitioner of slow-moving soap opera that was not at all about jumping up and grabbing a viewer out of his/her seat with the very episode. The idea is that if the viewer had patient and endurance, they would be rewarded beyond measure once a story hit its climax. The writer had to know just when to release the drama - not too soon and not too late. We'll never see anything like it ever again. It's always funny to see the show that would become the polished, elegant Y&R begin literally within the context of the mid-70s trucker obsession. That original premise, though, of a family of four grown-up daughters and the conflicts among them all was excellent. I'd do nearly anything to watch the first 7 years.

It was, this is just a B&W kinescope. It's very hard to come across any copies of soaps from the late 60s and early 70s in their original color format (unless it's Days of Our Lives, Dark Shadows, or The Doctors). It's great to see that episode back on YouTube again.

Ooouuu that 1981 episode will be great to see regardless of what/who all is in it, but my fingers are crossed for Vanessa! Classic Liz Foster would be a nice sight, too. Kudos to whomever decided to pull this one out. I’ll be they had to do some fighting to get it on the air.

All of that Y&R music was on YouTube for soooooooo long, can't believe it was all taken down. The Television Production Music Museum (TVPMM) website has a ton (let me say it again, a TON) of music from game shows, talk shows, sports broadcasts, etc. but their collection of soap music is lacking (of course). There are a bunch of 90s GL and AMC cues, but none from Y&R. I would hope that whomever has their hands on soap music would someday put their work on this site.

Hearing all of this old music is just like seeing old characters again. At the bottom of the show, Lauralee previewed next week’s episodes with another vintage cue playing underneath.

J. Eddie Peck was nearing 40 years old in this episode and looks absolutely flawless. Phyllis used to be such a fun character. Doris Collins! I have very distinct memories of my aunt referring to her as “Sharon’s mama in that wheelchea.” A character like Doris, folding her towels with her little tabletop oscillating fan whirring in the background, wouldn’t have been taken seriously on soaps just five years after this episode aired. Re: pre-emptions. I feel as though Governor JBE here in Louisiana knows that you don’t fck with people’s stories. All of our interruptions have been during The Talk.

I was about to say lol He lives with her, was in soaps, and Alan worked with him. It'd be kinda rude to not extend the invitation to him.

Wasn't it MAB who retconned the Katherine/Jill parentage retcon right around the time they made the dumbass decision to kill off Liz?

Her Stories touches a lot on the stylistic changes in daytime throughout the 1960s and 1970s. One of the major points made is that shows like GH, DAYS, and Y&R could experiment with bigger sets and more cinematic camera work due their benefit of being based in California. The New York soaps were produced in much smaller studios that had much less room for bigger and/or deeper sets. It's why Agnes's shows initially stood out because of their subject matter.

If the oldest show from a week of Katherine-centered episodes is from 1990, it's highly unlikely they'll go as far back as the 70s at any point, I guess. Shame, because everything I've seen concerning her and Phillip's divorce is great and would still be connected enough to the show's modern era. I imagine they could edit two half-hour episodes together and present them as an hour show. Not surprised B&B's focus is on recent stuff. At the end of the day, they view their task as merely filling time, not honoring show history. They'll do it the easiest way they can, which means rolling out recent stuff.

I'm nearly halfway through The Yellow Rose and really enjoying it. I was always of the impression that it was a Dallas clone, and obviously it was inspired by the primetime soap trend of the time, but I would never compare it to any of the others. I would actually say that it's more akin to the classic family westerns of the 60s like The Big Valley and The High Chaparral. I'm sensing a soapier turn coming up, which I'm fine with it, but I hope they manage to blend the two genres well.

I only learned how to pronounce Agim Kaba's name because of Cady McClain's odd but sorta endearing explosion of love for him and Peyton List at the end of her Emmy speech (made even more unintentionally hilarious because of the wrap-it-up music chiming in at just the right time. And yes, because I'm sure it'll be mentioned even though it's irrelevant, Chris Goutman is mentioned and seen during her speech. That's not why I embedded the video. I also feel as though you're not going to get anyone who was done with the show by the late 1990s or early 2000s. He's reuniting with the people he worked with and actually knows.

I've only been watching these once they're done and posted because I despiseeeeeee live streams that are filled with technical difficulties.