All My Shadows

I missed the discussion about Finder of Lost Loves, but I enjoyed the several episodes I was able to see approx. 20 years ago on...maybe the Goodlife TV Network? Same cable net that showed Flamingo Road and Homefront reruns. Their schedule was built almost exclusively on rare short-lived series, including The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Down to Earth, Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, etc.

Re: Hotel. Why oh why oh why oh whyyyyy was it lumped in as a primetime soap *and* compared to Love Boat *but* Love Boat wasn't lumped in as a primetime soap? Hotel wasn't serialized.

That one hurts. As a 90s kid and early 2000s preteen, that music was *everywhere* for a couple of years, and it takes me back to a very different time and place. Here’s hoping he RIP.

It’s interesting to me how many comic book/superhero sites credit her as the inspiration for Harley Quinn but include her work on DAYS as merely a “she also” line, showing that they actually have no clue how/why she inspired the character. 

One of my fave instagram accounts said that Bob almost spun a dollar (represented as 100 cents on the big wheel) lol I'm mad I didn't think of that first.

His story is extremely murky, and watching classic TPIR reruns from the early/mid 80s every day will definitely have you looking at him differently, but man, man, man...truly an icon of television and one of the titans of daytime. Just another reminder that the best is behind us.

Wow! I just jumped back into Dallas a few days ago and have been watching it nonstop since then. I will be forever grateful to David Jacobs for essentially creating a genre that grew into an incredible world for an awkward 12-year-old boy in Louisiana to escape to - 20 years after it was in fashion. He truly created an empire.

That remastering job for Knots needs to speed up. It's criminal that it's taken this long to give the entire series this attention.

13 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

OMG! I honestly had no idea. So Brooke is the Queen Bee of Marrying but not got the hang of staying married? 

Moving to Erica, Bing Chat says her 10 marriages were in this order: 

Jeff Martin

Phillip Brent

Nick Davis

Tom Cudahy

Adam Chandler

Travis Montgomery

Jackson Montgomery

Dimitri Marick

Chris Stamp

Jack Montgomery

She never married Nick Davis.

Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Roy Roy Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marrick Marrick Montgomery - some of those weren't valid, though. I know that none of the Mike Roy marriages were legal.

Just now, SFK said:

Things like this are particularly frustrating given the way online character profiles most likely written by fans are presented as gospel. I was reading up on Kate several months ago and somehow wrapped my brain around the evidence that both characters were one and the same but it still felt like a bit of a stretch. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't both Kates connected to Bill which added to the justification/misunderstanding?

Yep. I remember accepting it as gospel nearly 20 years ago. It just felt good to believe that Kate Roberts, as a character, had actually been around that long, but I don't believe there was ever any canon evidence to back that up. If the connection had ever been made when Kate first appeared in 1993, it should be super easy for a clip or two to pop up confirming it. At the very least, fans watching then would be able to point to anything that confirmed it.

49 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

OH! Thank you so much!!! No wonder I didn't tumble to it. Never heard it. Never read any DAYS fanfic. Thanks again. 

Not actual fan fiction. Some DAYS fans speculated as to whether they were the same character, and then some began to present that theory as fact, and many people bit onto it without really questioning it. Like FrenchFan said, it ain't true.

Me: "I've never been a GH fan, never really had any interest in its history or anything, and I definitely have no interest in watching it now."

15 hours ago, Wilsoky said:

Me: 

Is there really no way at all for the app to pick up where you left off? It’s going to get super annoying click-click-clicking through episodes when you’re deep into the summer of any given year. Having each year as its own “show” and then each month as a season was literally the definitive way to organize a long-running soap on streaming.

2 hours ago, Vee said:

I think that was the name. He got busted for either dealing or possession in the early 2010s IIRC, so he would fit both the age range and 'a few issues' comment.

Yep, that’s him, and he’s the first one that came to my mind while reading that. He was 16-17 at the time he was on the show and was later arrested for selling coke out of his parents’ house. Seems he escaped from acting at around the same time. “Escaped” bc I almost said he gave up, and that doesn’t seem to be the appropriate phrase if the blind item is about him.

So NBCUniversal is partnering with Freevee to offer up a ton of new FAST channels:

 https://www.nbcuniversal.com/article/nbcuniversal-launches-entertainment-news-spanish-language-and-sports-fast-channel-offerings

I've been hoping to see a 24/7 Little House channel pop up somewhere. I have the entire series on DVD in a collectable box shaped like the Ingalls home, but it'll be great to just channel surf it on and enjoy an episode whenever I want. Also excited for Murder She Wrote, Alfred Hitchcock, Lassie, and those Universal Action, Crime, and Western channels.

I wanted to go and see when JPL played Philip before, so I went to his Wikipedia page.

He doesn't have one!

I don't know why I find that sorta embarrassing for him and hilarious for me.

I didn't grow up with Sinead O'Connor at all - know absolutely none of her songs outside of Nothing Compares 2 U (and really only the chorus of that one) - but when I saw the headline earlier today, my heart sank. There's just this weird "it's not time for this yet" feeling when a celebrity dies at such a young age. It makes you wonder what that person could have brought to the world had they lived a decade or so longer.

58 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Sorry to hear of his passing. I guess his Y&R role is what he's more likely to be remembered for, given how impactful the story was in the long term. I have never seen his AMC work, but I remember various comments suggesting he wasn't the right fit for the role. Soap magazines at the time seemed much more interested in his up-and-down love life. 

I don’t believe any of his time as Phil has popped up online (except maybe audio clips). He seemed to play a more macho Phil than Richard Hatch did, definitely more brutish, but also it was his Phil who spent more time with Erica. Speaking of, it seems like this marks a point where half of the actors playing her husbands have passed. All we have left are Charles Frank, Richard Shoberg, Nick Surovy, and Walt Willey. I guess gone are the days of those cool reunions of Susan and all of her men.

Nick Benedict (Phil, 1973-1978) has passed away.

"For Pete's sake, I'd fall on a sword for you" is a reference to Palmer's real name (Pete Cooney) and Opal's long-lost son Adrian Sword. "Winner winner chicken dinner" is a reference to Opal's fried chicken recipe that was used at the Chicken Shack.

On 7/10/2023 at 6:08 PM, kalbir said:

Whenever the Daytime Emmys are going to be held, the In Memoriam segment is going to hit hard.

I low-key worry because "death comes in threes," and we've lost marquee actresses from GH and OLTL at relatively young ages this year. I hope all of my AMC ladies are doing well.

NBC needs their ass KICKED!! If they had the tapes of the last two years, I absolutely guarantee they were wiped. It’s insane to think of this still happening as late as 1982, but they were still wiping their daytime game shows as late as 1985-1986, including big hits like Sale of the Century.

I will definitely stream that episode soon! Ketty will, of course, always be Hester Sue to me, and it’s great to see her working again!

That’s awful, and I didn’t know she had cancer (maybe I vaguely remember reading about it). Such a shock and loss.

2 hours ago, Faulkner said:

Is there a great example of Dorothy Lyman’s Opal in a very serious, dramatic scene? I haven’t seen anything of hers where she wasn’t playing comedy. It’s a shame she wasn’t around for Jenny’s death. Did she only submit comedy for her two Emmy wins as Opal?

I can’t go looking on YT at the moment, but I was thinking about Opal’s introduction and first year or so where she was presented more as a menacing, unsympathetic character than comic relief. There used to be a string of episodes out there from late summer 1981, but I believe they’ve been taken down.

As far as I'm concerned, Dorothy Lyman and Darlene Conley are probably the most comedic actresses to ever grace daytime. Then, of course, you consider how easy they were able to turn the tables back to drama.

Throughout the 90s, I spent most weekdays with a cousin at our grandmother’s house, and I will never forget the way she would say “Oh, no, y’all can’t change the channel until 3:00,” which was when the CBS soap lineup ended for the day.

Later on, summer in my tween/teen years meant waking up, waiting an hour or two for a classic 4-minute scene to download on WoST, watching it just before AMC started, tuning in to that, and then channel surfing between the three networks for two hours following, looking to see which soaps were putting out a good episode that day.

“My name is Victoria Winters…” (Dark Shadows)

”I’m gay.” (Bianca, AMC - moreso the delivery rather than the actual line)