All My Shadows

You're welcome! I should get most of them posted today - they're all recorded, just have to put the videos together. In some cases, as is the case with OLTL, I think the lyrics were written when the themes were composed for their respective shows. I've come across sheet music for the original OLTL and AMC themes with the lyrics used by NCM included. Some of the recordings don't have lyrics outside of the singers vocalizing the shows' titles, which makes me think they used whatever came with the songs and didn't write their own.

I knew you would My picks: I used to say Larry Wilcox but now I'm too grown to be foolish and will just say that Ponch had it going on. John Schneider bc Tom Wopat looked dirty and not in the good way. Paul Michael Glaser bc of that fiery temper I have to go with Martin Milner's partners in each case. Dark-haired men with prominent chins turn me on. The late Pete Duel still haunts my dreams at night. Jensen bc Jared's face is so bland.

The Erik Estrada vs. Larry Wilcox convo got me thinking. We always hear about Ginger vs. Mary Ann, but whom would y'all pick out of all of the various male duos from TV history? Larry Wilcox or Erik Estrada (CHiPs) Tom Wopat or John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard) Martin Milner or George Maharis (Route 66) Don Johnson or Philip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice) David Soul or Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky & Hutch) Kevin Tighe or Randolph Mantooth (Emergency!) Martin Milner or Kent McCord (Adam-12) Ben Murphy or Pete Duel (Alias Smith and Jones) Gerald McRaney or Jameson Parker (Simon and Simon) Jensen Ackles or Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) Others that I'm forgetting?

The Jeffersons should have replaced the Hogan's Heroes block, period. I can't believe it's doing THAT well for them there. Like damn...can't even put The Beverly Hillbillies there instead??

New schedule starting May 28, and OF COURSE, it's like 98% the same, but at least we get Charlie's Angels on weekday afternoons. I really want them to try and stick with crime/adventure shows in that daypart. The Facts of Life, Diff'rent Strokes, Love Boat, and Touched By an Angel cut to one episode per week to make way for an hour each of Gilligan's Island, The Jeffersons, and The Odd Couple on Sundays. I have the entire series of CA on DVD but I never have time to pull out any of my DVDs anymore, so hopefully I can catch an episode from time to time on Me.

IMO, this article is trash from the very beginning. You can't compare Roseanne, a revival of a show that ran for a massively successful nine-season run when TV was still TV, to a Netflix exclusive or, really, any network series that has debuted in the last 10 years. Roseanne's ratings are not a commentary on politics. They're proof that there's been an audience craving a continuation of these characters for the last 20 years. ODAAT or any of the other series never and will never have that built-in advantage. I was okay with last week's episode but I do agree with everyone who says it seemed like a blatant love letter to the older, more conservative segment of the audience. I do not know what we're supposed to make of Harris. I loved Emma Kenney in the early seasons of Shameless, but I'm not enjoying her too much here. Darlene has never been my favorite, and she's definitely not here, either. Looking forward to watching the latest ep. The beautiful and talented Glenn Quinn is missed.

I found the JW article.

IIRC, the backlash regarding That Couple was never about how their story was written (which was as hollow as most of everything else on the show at the time). I recall a lot of "Nuke hasn't kissed in X number of episodes" complaints on various boards, which was annoying because there were so many things wrong with the show, and this is what people chose to focus on. Then, when those complaints caught wind, and TPTB acknowledged and attempted to remedy them, it was like that segment of the audience collectively told them "Good, now everything is great." But it wasn't. I just was very, very disappointed in how it all played out. I was roughly the same age as the characters as it all aired, and so I was ready to follow this thing through and feel all of the things, but then...I had to remind myself that this was ATWT, as it was then, a show that set a lot of things up and managed to go nowhere with them. I remember those who'd wished there'd been something between Luke and Kevin instead, and I was probably one of them (I vaguely remember spending time writing fan fiction about it because that's just what 16 years old do). Ultimately, my preferred story would have been a triangle between Luke, Noah, and Maddie, in which they acknowledged that Noah really did have feelings for Maddie (which, in the real story, just vanished the second Luke went shaking his tatas in Noah's face) but was conflicted after actually spending a substantial amount of time with Luke and finding something attractive about him. This show had a goldmine of young characters in its last 5 years, characters that were ripe for dynamic stories and development, but they stifled every single one of them.

I think TV in general is too ADHD to do any character-centered storylines justice. The audience, by and large, doesn't have the patience for it, and TPTB don't have the talent for it, or so it seems. Soaps were once the best place for those loooooooong-simmering stories, but you can't even find it in daytime anymore. While I mostly liked Luke's initial coming out story over 2006, they really mucked it up by the instacoupling that I will refrain from mentioning by name. It was an extremely superficial story that was lauded with superficial praise. It's been ten whole years now, and I'm still wondering...did Luke really fall in love with That Dude because he helped him picked up a box of VCR tapes??? IMO, Goutman has it right. I've accepted that ATWT and GL's survival had very little to do with their ratings or any critical praise. P&G and CBS, especially, have expressed time and time again that they just were ready to be rid of the embarrassing old antiques that were costing them too much money to maintain. No one involved with either entity could have given a rat's ass about the quality or integrity of either show. PS - Hasn't Jake Weary gone on record in recent years to dispel the rumor that Kim pulled him off ATWT because his character was going to be gay? I never understood why it was so hard for people to believe that a 15-year-old wanted to do 15-year-old things.

I finally watched the first two episodes and really, really enjoyed them. The whole group, especially Roseanne and John Goodman, just fell right back into the characters, and the writing for Dan and Roseanne is as close to the original show's heyday as you could possibly get. Speaking only from my own experience and what I see with the kids I teach on a daily basis (high school, basically all grade levels, so 14-18 years old), it's silly as hell to say that Mark is "too young" to know to what he is emotionally or sexually attracted. If anything, he's too young to know which of the prefab labels he'll feel most comfortable claiming for himself in adolescence and adulthood. I knew I liked boys before I knew what "gay" meant.

Here is audio from various daytime programs from March 7, 1973, including the opening and closing theme of WTHI just prior to its final airing. Other soaps are included, but I figured WTHI is the one we have the very least information/artifacts from, so I posted here. All of the soaps still using organ music in this clip really highlights how huge and different Y&R was when it debuted at the end of this month. All of the CBS soaps still sounded like they had 20 years earlier, and here comes Y&R with its pop/soft rock score. I also love how rich and full that OLTL theme is at the end - might this be a slight rearrangement from the earlier years of that theme?

So lovely to see some Agim Kaba stuff via his insta! I really enjoyed Aaron, especially in his second run. Like they did with virtually everyone and everything else at the time, of course ATWT ignored any real potential he could have had in favor of retelling the same stories over and over again. I remember really wanting them to pair him with wannabe schemer Jade to help put some conflict in the Snyder/Walsh family circle, but it never happened.

I haven't watched Roseanne yet, but I'm looking forward to it once we're out for spring break. Murphy Brown - I have to wonder who honestly thinks that it's a good idea to bring that back. I agree with all of BF's reasons for why it won't fare well, but for me, the biggest sign of failure is that no one has watched it since it went off the air 20 years ago. It might've been a hot topic at one point, but its characters and style have soooo not become major parts of pop culture in any way. With Roseanne, all you need is a two-second audio clip of Roseanne laughing or that familiar harmonica strain, and a million thoughts and feelings come rushing back. Murphy Brown has...Motown's greatest jukebox hits? I don't think even the people who watched its original run will tune in for this.

I'm currently making my way through the big compilation of episodes/scenes from 1985 centering on Zach Grayson's murder and Erica/Adam working at Tempo, and as much as I'm loving my nightly visits to PV, how awful that they had to tell this story with the terrible Nina recast and, though I know he's done better work elsewhere, poor Hugo Napier as Mike Roy. They just don't fit. Meanwhile, does it really get any better than Palmer and Daisy scenes highlighted with that slow, dopey version of Bicycle Built for Two?

I don't know how or when it started, but Flamingo Road's Constance was never married to Titus Semple. Her full name should be just Constance Weldon Carlyle.

Ellen and Mark married and left Pine Valley in 1989.

I vaguely remember watching The Jimmy Stewart Show in reruns on a channel that I'm sure no longer exists. It wasn't bad if extremely gentle early 70s family fare is your thing.