All My Shadows

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.

I enjoyed the ball itself and all of the interactions. Like you said, they were all having a great time, and the banter here and there added dimension to the characters' relationships. They wrote and produced this as a ball where David plans to kill people. Today, or in the last 20 years, it would have been David planning to kill people at a ball. It would have been a day or two, and the fun conversations with everyone else would have been cut out or replaced with filler filler filler scenes of David staring at people through crosshairs.

My neck of the woods just really misses when one CBS affiliate would air it in the morning (half-hour before most of you) and the other would air it in the afternoon at 4pm. KSJ, yes, absolutely delicious, but the wig is ruining it for me this time. Dru was so mean in her early years, damn. Poor Liv. The David stuff is low-key cheesy. Michael Corbett's line delivery is too action movie for me. It's like something out of DAYS. Scott and Sheila begging Paul and Lauren to play with them is hilarious.

I forget that most of you get the show on the half-hour. Was wondering why no one else was posting lol Bruh, Esther is cutting up on this stage. Katherine loves her friend but is sitting there like "Look at this bitch..."

"Holly Hollywood and the Wolf" clearly being Marilyn Monroe and the Beast from the Beauty of the Beast is cracking me up. So is Esther trying to be a sexy French maid and then just scurrying to follow Katherine's coattails. The costumes are so cute and fun. This is great. Katherine, Rex, and that damn necklace I'm suddenly back in my grandma's kitchen. Jeanne Cooper, man. What a great woman who could just do it all.

The Adam stuff was too much (though I did love Matthew Cavanaugh), but I was totally here for Casey Hughes being a sht. Some of the biggest assholes come from a good home, especially one like the Hughes home, where the illusion was that was they were always on the "right" side of the an issue. The problem is, of course, as always, ATWT had some great, domestic storylines just within reach and refused to jump up and grab them, especially with the teens. The Maddie/Noah/Luke triangle that could have been revolutionary was steamrolled because we needed Luke and Noah to be together Right Away God Dammit. Jade's interloping with Gwen and Will should have been played much better, and Casey as the [!@#$%^&*] Hughes who had a past with Gwen could have finally wiped the slate clean and worked with them to get Jade in check. The problem is that ATWT stories last for all of a month, maybe a month and a half, back then, unless it was some ridiculous, long, drawn-out, depressing Paul/Emily bullshit.

That does look good! It's like a mix between SBTB and Welcome Back Kotter. I'm in.

I like this group. If it's going to be a regular for the time being, it's a good idea to reach out to different cast members from different eras to get different perspectives.