All My Shadows

Yes, and I am utterly obsessed. It very quickly went from “I’ll put it on while I’m cooking just to see if I like it” to “okay let me pause it so I can watch later and give it my full attention” within the first ten minutes. My ADD brain wants to word vomit so much all at once, but so many of you have already hit all the major points. What I will add is that as someone who needs things to make sense and for beats to play out naturally, I typically don’t invest very much into shows that want us to care so much so soon, but these people paced everything perfectly and sucked me in immediately. Plus Connor and Hudson?! Fire.

Yep, it’s definitely still available through Roku and I think Pluto. I see ads for it all the time. Just turned it on, and yepppp, still showing episodes from “Season 58,” which is what…2020-2021? Who is begging to watch those again.

Thanks for the tag, @DRW50 ! It came across my feed earlier today, but I’ve only watched the DAYS ep so far. Definitely planning to watch the rest within a day or two!

At the very least, put the damn wedding online to stream. There’s also a General Hospital FAST channel that cycles through the same episodes from like 7 years ago that nobody cared about then or now. There’s literally no way to slot classic episodes in there for a just a week or weekend? These people act like classic soaps are poison.

I’ve never been a GH watcher (though I’ve oddly been watching some 60s episodes this past weekend), but it’s very sad to think of how many big stars from the show have passed in recent times. I remember knowing who Luke and Laura were before I ever got into soaps. I think what will annoy me greatly is how many outlets, ABC included, will write about how iconic he was and they were, but there is still literally no legal means of watching the wedding or their best work together or literally any of Tony’s work at all. It’s almost like…if you don’t see the value in providing access to this stuff, you shouldn’t get to talk about how great it was.

I honestly thought I was misreading it when I saw it on my Instagram feed.

Thanks! I feel like one or two of the segments that were originally posted forever ago has been missing for quite some time, so it's great to have it in its entirety. Things that always stand out to me when I watch this one: that plucky little number they play at the very end of the prologue as Ginny contemplates taking the money is one of my favorite pieces of ATWT music of all time, mannnnn they aged the heck out of Nancy in just a matter of five years because she looks and acts much younger in the 1973 episode, and it's so very hard for me to look at Barbara/CZ as a your typical 70s P&G soap heroine. Oh, and this is definitely Michael Nader at his hottest.

Twenty years ago, I had my VCR set for AMC and ATWT on a daily basis while in high school and usually watched them nightly at around 6pm or right before bed. I usually watched the Friday episodes on Saturday morning. During the summer, I'd let my dial-up connection take the 2-3 hours it needed to take to stream one 6-minute scene of a classic soap on WoST (which is pure insanity to even think about because it really would take an entire week to watch one episode). Today, I watch no current soaps. If I'm home and in the mood during the weekday, I'll put on CBS via Paramount+ to check in on their daytime lineup. Otherwise, my soap-watching exclusively consists of streaming classics on TV via YouTube.

Yes, I agree with all of that. Ridings really was hard to watch, especially because his JR was so angry through his entire run. I think of him, and all I can see are scrunched eyes and his lower lip jutted out to overcompensate for an almost non-existent upper lip. Let me just have my moment and say that I wore an AMC shirt to the last show Jesse played near me, and he just about died when I referred to him as "Adam Chandler Jr" when I went to take a photo with him after.

When was Joni's last appearance? I thought that would be easy enough to look up and find, but it's not. I feel as though she was written out in McTavish's general overhaul of the cast. The "original" grown-up JR and Jamie were Jonathan Bennett and Micah Alberti, respectively, with Andrew Ridings taking over as JR in 2002. I can't find how long he was on, either, nor can I remember when he last appeared, but I do recall that JY first debuted in the role in October 2003. It seems like out of the whole set of younger cast in the two or so years before McTavish returned, only Alberti and Ridings haven't gone on to some level of lasting success.

Just finished “The Mothers-in-Law.” Very pleasant and worth some good 60s chuckles. The next short-lived but still remembered sitcom I’m going for is “Angie,” which I’ve owned on DVD for years but have never completely watched from beginning to end. As for long-runners, I’m planning to complete “Leave It to Beaver,” the second half of which somehow became a big comfort watch for me over the summer. I have plenty of the first three seasons to watch. Drama-wise, I am already obsessing on a constant basis over “Heated Rivalry” while still making my way through “Knots Landing” and “Falcon Crest.”

I swear, as I thought something, each one of y’all said it lol I remember back when TV Guide was celebrating their 50th anniversary, they had contemporary TV stars recreating classic covers. Reba recreated a Lucy cover with her squashing the grapes, and I’m sure at that time, many probably disdained the idea of dolling Reba up as Lucy, but she is definitely the redhead who rules syndication in the 21st century.

Roku Channel as well now! It's my preferred streamer between it, Tubi, and Plex, so I'm excited. Well, the ultimate excitement would be if they quit being dummies and just put it back on Prime.

Sharon Gless also recurred in the last two or three seasons of "Marcus Welby, MD," another show that brings up some folks that fit the thread. Robert Young hit it big with "Father Knows Best" (1949-1954 on radio and 1954-1960 on television), followed it up with the "Peyton Place"-adjacent one-season wonder "Window on Main Street" in the 1961-1962 season, basically took most of the 60s off, and then hit it even bigger with Welby at the very end of the decade and into the 70s. Since Welby ended in 1976, James Brolin has had three hit series: "Hotel," "Pensacola: Wings of Gold," and "Life in Pieces." He's only ever starred in one TV flop, 1995's "Extreme," which might've done better had it been made for Saturday afternoon syndication. Elena Verdugo played the doctors' secretary, and her only other regular TV role was as the star of "Meet Millie," which was a hit on both radio and TV for five years but is almost completely forgotten today. Pamela Hensley joined the cast in the final season as Dr. Kiley's love interest. She then did "Kingston: Confidential," which was Raymond Burr's short-lived follow-up to "Ironside," before having a three-season hit with "Matt Houston." When it ended in 1985, she retired from acting.

I can also see her as one of the recurring semi-regulars on Murder She Wrote, but her ego probably would have been too big for that. Aaron was right to be regretful, but who can blame him? He was HUGE at the time, but getting a chance to produce for Lucy still had to be nerve-wracking, especially when you consider that she had produced her last two shows herself. Plus, Aaron guest started on ILL early in his career! His producer instincts might’ve known better, but his instincts as a Lucy admirer probably told him to just shut up and let her do what she wanted to do. Had LWL never happened, her last big shots on TV would have been hosting the “Three’s Company” clip show (which was a big get for them and something she was glad to be a part of) and the TV movie where she played a homeless woman. That would’ve been a fine end to her career.