All My Shadows

That was my first thought. They're flitting around just like young DJ, Darlene, and Becky in the very first opening sequence. These people have always felt like a real family, and they still do.

I LOVE the 90s Y&R soundtrack album. My older cousin had it on CD way back when and would play it while she cleaned around the house whenever she was babysitting elementary school-aged AMS. I ripped a good bit of them from YouTube and play them when I want to give my students some quiet time to work in class. In watching 90s episodes online, I was disappointed to see that some of the tunes I've gotten so close to ("Aloneness," "Peaceful," "Look at Me," "Sueno," etc) were never really in heavy rotation. It's very soapy music, fit for daytime.

Making my way through the latter end of S2, and "Hello, Penelope" is fantastic. Schneider receives some much-needed humanization, and Justina Machado proves that she's a classic Norman Lear star. I'm willing to bet that she would have been wonderful in soaps. Oh, and Max is a lovely romantic interest! He's handsome, sexy, funny, romantic, and just a good man. The only weak spot this season, and I hate to say it, is Alex. The actor seems checked out 90% of the time.

Embarrassing!

Amy Locane is out here thinking, "And yall bitches thought it was just me!"

OK, all this time, I knew in the back of my mind that the Reggie who held Anna hostage was not MBJ. It's nice to see it in living color again to confirm it. This wasn't terrible - it got much worse as the winter/spring of 2003 went on, but arguably, AMC got a shot in the arm that summer.

No one ever answered my question about the damned Valley Inn!

Antonio Sabato Jr. is 45 and looks great, still could get it, would have to keep his mouth shut during, etc. Meanwhile, Josh Duhamel is selling nacho fries for Taco Bell now!?

I've loved JT ever since he went solo, and Justified and FutureSex/LoveSounds are two of the definitive albums of 2000-2009. I still get all tingly inside when I hear "My Love." I still don't know what to make of this one, yet. I feel like it's his Lemonade - less about making a hit album that pleases everyone and more about making something personal. It's hard to have a real opinion on things like that. According to Sheila E, it was NOT Justin's idea to do the hologram, and he wasn't crazy about it when it was suggested.

It was BJ's before Krystal bought it. Wasn't it just Krystal's after she took over? Was The Valley Inn always a thing? If not, when did it first pop up? It was sorely missed in the show's last years.

I always said that Josh should have been revealed as a son of Mark's from a fling he had just prior to arriving in PV. Mark La Mura was already making the odd guest appearance at the time, so I'm sure he would have been available to play the story out long enough to get Josh settled into town and his role as an opportunistic young Erica wannabe that the rest of the family always kept at arm's length.

I've only watched the first two episodes so far, but I'm sold on it again. Everything I enjoyed about the first season is back - the long scenes that build and build, the easy chemistry between the cast, the ability to take serious issues seriously while still providing the comedy, etc. It's just classic Norman Lear, and it's fantastic. What worked in 1975 is still working in 2018. Looking forward to seeing the episode y'all have mentioned.

Two fantastic episodes of early Corrie!!! And of course, the Blackpool ep opens with a nice shot of Ivan Cheveski's ass. We appreciate the finer things.

Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada were definitely a hot pair. I can't believe I forgot my absolute number-one favorite, Grant Goodeve.

Ted Wass was pretty hot on SOAP, but I can not name one man as the hottest 70s TV hottie because the decade was filled with them. I'll always be partial to early TC John Ritter.

I couldn't agree with you more in regards to Andie and Jack. They needed characters who were not tied into the quad drama to keep it fresh and also get the main four a chance to breathe. Jack is one of my favorite TV characters of all time. Despite any missteps that the show might have made with him, his love, etc., I truly believe they created a good, well-rounded, gay teenage boy who perfectly fit the warm and easy pace of Capeside. Say what you want about what Kerr Smith said about the character ages ago - he played him well. ETA: I just reread posts from this thread and saw that I said almost the exact same thing about Andie and Jack's addition nearly seven years ago

I didn't even know what that was until I looked it up just now, and I really really really dislike most of that show's fanbase.

Exactly, and that seems to be how TPTB is playing it, too. No great loss in the least.

I was going to post this same thing a few days ago but didn't know how to really word it. So much emphasis on Dan being alive and "brought back from the dead" when that's not really the rewrite here at all. If this show is to be set in Roseanne Conner's fictional world, then the only real rewrite is the lottery win. Everything else existed in her "real" world.

Thanks!! I figured that was Jerry Lacy next to John, but I never knew he was on ATWT between his Dark Shadows and Love of Life stints. This must be Tom's hippie phase.

Have we ever had an accurate, complete caption of who all is in the photo? Obvious ones are Grandpa, Nancy, Chris, and Judge Lowell across the front. Lisa above Grandpa and Nancy, Carol above Judge Lowell, David Stewart giving that tragic look at top-center-right, John above him, Lisa's mom Alma on the far-left facing right. Who is everyone else?

It would have to be summer or autumn of 1981, with the "For more than a quarter-century..." caption. It's odd, because everything I've read has said that Barbara Rucker left the show in 1979. I will always adore that original title card in Lydian font. It paired perfectly with the starry sky background.

Most of my original ODAAT watching centers on the first five seasons. I've seen good chunks of episodes from the latter half of the series, but yeah, the "us against the world" theme was lost with Julie popping in and out so much and the husbands becoming such large parts of the show. IDK...I feel like it was the same show, and the characters just evolved, but I think they made a huge mistake in tying both girls down to husbands so young. They did a good job of developing a stable of semi-regular characters like Francine, Kate, and Bob who could come in from time to time and stay fresh. Nanette Fabray is easily the most underrated member of the cast. I like to believe that Abuelita on the new series was purposely created to help fill the Kate role.

I decided to go back to 1967 this morning and watch it all in order, with whatever sense of regularity that I can come up with, and I'm excited. It's good to see Dr. Rice and Liz again, nice to see Bethel Leslie as Maggie again, and more than anything, Nick is so much more bearable than he was in the episodes I'd watch here and there from 1973-1974.

As always, Me's new schedule isn't exciting in the least. The only thing I'm truly looking forward to is Gomer Pyle in primetime. I love Diff'rent Strokes, and I might tune in here and there, but it's not something that I've really felt deprived of for a long time. Why, oh why, does Hogan's Heroes continue to hog that gorgeous hour-long block in primetime, I'll never know. There are so many higher-profile shows from the same era that could go there instead. The Beverly Hillbillies, I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, even Petticoat Junction. Hell, whenever they were doing the black and white Gunsmoke episodes, they could have put one at night, paired with an Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I love westerns, but I'm annoyed at 6 hours of westerns during the week and 11 hours of them on Saturday when you got Cannon, Mannix, and 77 Sunset Strip languishing in late night. I say keep it to three hours during the week and then you can go all out on Saturdays. I don't think Gunsmoke or Bonanza will ever leave weekdays, so keep those heavy-hitters and rotate Rifleman, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Big Valley, Wanted Dead or Alive etc, in the third hour. They can even swap between having the "third" hour come after Bonanza and having it come before Gunsmoke. Sticking only with what they already have, this is something I'd do for daytime: 8am: Perry Mason 9am: Matlock 10am: Diagnosis Murder 11am: The Rifleman 11:30: Wanted Dead or Alive 12pm: Gunsmoke 1pm: Bonanza 2pm: Mannix 3pm: Cannon 4pm: Hawaii Five-O 5pm: The Love Boat I like the mornings for the less action-oriented mystery series that can sometimes be swapped out for a medical drama and then the afternoons for car crashes. The Love Boat could always give way to an Eight is Enough, Family, or even a primetime soap.