All My Shadows

I believe TERRACES was on Netflix a few years ago, and I watched it. It was pretty enjoyable. Basically Number 96.

No matter how many times I see that Amy/Nick promo, I always think they're in Lucy and Ricky's apartment.

My mom refers to TCTH as "The White Trash Tyler Perry Show."

Never mind, I see that it was posted a page ago. Superb scene between Phoebe and Mona from 1976. Mona was savage af.

This is background noise as I'm writing lesson plans, and holy hell this show is Louisiana af!

I noticed this, too. Funny, because he also has top billing in the 1978 episode that has been around for a few years. I wonder when that was became standard. The next-earliest credits we have are from '66 (the ONLY black-and-white roll I've seen), and he comes after Don MacLaughlin, Helen Wagner, Nat Polen, and Rosemary Prinz. Polen and Prinz were gone by 1968, so maybe then? Assuming he received top billing at the same time EF received the "and" distinction.

*the* best ATWT theme of all time, IMO, but y'all already knew that lol I have seen literally no video footage of Ethel Remey as Lisa's mom. I knew she was on the show until 1977, but I guess seeing her name in the credits here just made me realize how long she was really around for. She just might be my Margo Flax for ATWT.

I love how both articles I've seen on his blindness have used stock photos meant tell you HE. IS. FCKING. BLIND! The one above in the shades and the one Page Six, in which he's tugging at his eyelid.

Yeah, I was about to say, I don't recall the Pollocks having anything to do with SB, considering they were knee-deep in Dynasty at the time. It's actually pretty interesting to me as I'm watching both their Dynasty and their Doctors sorta concurrently.

Adamo Jake Shane Ray and even Jamie That's Jacob Neayem, who played Mo, who was sort of a supporting character in seasons 11 and 12. I think he was friends with Sav.

Thanks for the info. AMC kept a nice little stable of recurring characters around in those days, and it really made Pine Valley feel alive.

Who is VERA, and how come I never heard of this hot mess character until now? How long was she on the show? Also, Dottie has to be one of the most forgotten characters who was actually around for a number of years during some of the show's highest rated years.

This photo of AJ and Miranda always makes me sad because I can't help but think of what could have been, but paired with this lovely, classic soap write-up, it makes me sob. Can't you just hear it? "Loooooove in the afternoooooon! On ALL MY CHILDREN. Is AJ doomed to consoling Miranda when other guys break her heart? Or can he make her see him in a different light? Find out what it takes to blur the line. WEEKDAYS."

I didn't realize the second season was going to be coming out this month. Yay! But wow, that thing that was spoiled in that article is even more relevant now.

I'm gonna need for them to give us more than just 10 episodes a year. A show like this, especially with 30-minute episodes, needs to just follow the Sept-May timeline with 20-25 episodes a season.

US soaps should have cut back to a half-hour in the mid 90s, and UK soaps should currently be in the process of cutting back to two-per-week.

Thanks for sharing that, Carl. His reaction is hilarious. Now that I'm in the midst of watching how Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman told a story with gay characters in spring/summer 1976, it's getting increasingly irritating to see Jodie from "Soap" get so much credit. MHMH is severely underrated in all aspects, but the fact that they get no recognition for the near-perfect way they told this story kills me.

GL's Kane Manera is...a real estate agent? http://www.elliman.com/real-estate-agent/kane-manera/6100

Good for him to have the opportunity to clear the air on that whole thing, even if it hadn't been in an interview about his currently playing a gay character.

I don't have my iPad in front of me, but the way I remember it she claims there were indeed plans in the offing for Luke to be gay and for his airtime to be ramped up as a result. IIRC, Zimmer said she didn't want his whole life to becoming acting at such a young age and pulled him out. Later, of course, Jake Weary went on to a busy career in a ton of movies and TV (including the great It Follows) and I think he's now playing gay on the TNT adaptation of Animal Kingdom. I believe she claims it had nothing to do with the storyline, though I wouldn't be surprised or hold it against her if, in 2005 or whenever, Kim Zimmer did not want her young son to become a target for bigots in the audience. I agree with all of the above. Kim Zimmer the Homophobe never added up to me. I googled pics to see what JW's looking like nowadays, and he's matured quite nicely. I'm not gonna lie, I crushed hard as hell for him when he was on ATWT. Animal Kingdom is another show I have to give a try, especially since it's still early in the run and with those Shameless names on its crew list.

I love SuLu's hair and expression in the thumbnail of the Oprah clip!

I'm still making my way through the complete series, currently in the earliest of the 100s. We've just gotten introduced to Merle and Jimmy Joe Jeeter, Sgt. Foley has had a heart attack and he and Mary slept together in his hospital bed, Tom has moved out, Loretta is becoming super religious and Charlie is getting frustrated, Cathy wants to be a nun, and the new neighbors, Ed and Howard, are on the verge of coming out to their friends and neighbors. Aside from a very slow rough patch in the 40s and early 50s (they held on to the Tom/Mae angle for way too long), the show has continued to be great. We just got through the fun storyline with Muriel, Charlie's first wife, running a scheme to get money from the Haggerses, and now some new life has been breathed into the Mary/Foley stuff. I wish someone on the show would call Foley out for the sociopath he is. It's crazy to see all these women fawning over him while he just plays them all, openly. Ed and Howard are an interesting surprise. I knew they were coming, but I didn't expect the show to spend so much time on them and developing the nuances of their relationship. The show should be praised for writing them as real characters. The closer I get to Mary's breakdown, the more excited I get. I've never actually seen the scene, so I have a lot of high hopes for it. One thing I'm disappointed about re: the complete series set is that most of the episodes seem to be edited a little. You don't lose too much of it, and the scenes are so long that they wouldn't dare edit out more than a line or two, but it's noticeable. Also, they went with 10 episodes of Fernwood 2-Night as the bonus but absolutely nothing from Forever Fernwood.

I thought killing Bryant off was a Hogan decision.

Room for the character of Rick, yes. But room for a snide, smirky, depressing loser who brought with him a shroud of negativity into every scene? I'll pass. Relating him to other characters doesn't make him more entertaining.