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I can't either but it's one of those what if moments. Duke was such a huge part of Anna's character in the late '80s and never really again (unless you count that half-hearted return). @Franko I'd never seen Lynn on that show (admittedly I haven't watched a great deal of Mike Hammer). She seems to be styled a bit older. I enjoyed your writeup about the Quartermaine unraveling too. I wish they'd done more with Sean and Monica in later years.

SNL's recent parody of The Pitt, which is more about some jabs at RFK Jr and his cult. Nothing that original, but with the thread bumped, may as well post it. Two cast members were asked to participate (Langdon and Isa Briones) but couldn't participate due to their filming schedule. They did watch the sketch at SNL as it aired. Someone at the Daily Show claimed this was ripped off from them. Not a new thing from SNL, but I hate the Daily Show and everything it stands for, so...eh.

Thanks @Franko You certainly took a great deal of care with the week, making it seem packed (maybe more packed than it would have been watching live). I knew nothing about the Anna/Buzz relationship, so I appreciate all these details. I wonder what a world would have been like where they'd been a popular pairing and Duke hadn't existed. Would she still just end up back with Robert in 1991 and nothing about the character changed? Ruby line aside, the Mike story continues to sound exhausting and we aren't even at a custody battle yet. I am surprised at this Jeff character and how long he lasted. If Frank cared about the Webbers he probably would have been played by Howarth. I too am looking forward to Lucy. With the entrance she had, I wonder if they already knew what Lynn Herring was going to bring and how viewers would react. How appropriate this is being written around Lynn's 40th anniversary. I'll be curious to how much of an exit Bryan and Claudia even get when we get there. I wasn't expecting them to have even this level of storyline in 1986.

Thank you again @slick jones Nice to see Shirley Knight's name on there.

Thanks to @YTG for finding this. A short film starring MaryJean Feton (Another Life).

Jessica Collins (Loving, Y&R) will be on Locher Room April 16th. Jessica Collins (Y&R) & Lisa Melamed on Where’s Big Dog?—A Story of Love, Loss & Healing

Michael Nouri on Musical Chairs. Musical Chairs Ep. 85 (~Oct. 13, 1975)

That was so sweet. Thank you for sharing. She always seems like such a warm person onscreen and clearly is offcamera too. I had to laugh at the end of that being "eat some weed gummies."

Welcome back @YTG I think we all lose interest in a show from time to time. I never knew about this Tab man and his being in the missing episodes. The "where are they now" thread may enjoy this update on Mary Jean. If you don't post there I will post it. @dc11786 I forgot to say thanks for your latest summaries.

I had totally forgotten this period...by this point you could already tell they had no idea what to do with Blake. At least Jerry and Maureen got to have fun. That was Selena at Company.

Thanks for so many articles @jam6242 The show itself doesn't sound very interesting, but I still wish an episode or two was around so we could judge. I felt so sorry for that writer, Paul Wayne, who talked about his increasing migraines and how his pills weren't working anymore. I hope he got through...

Julie is going to be replaced by Parappa the Rapper.

I have a vague memory of an SOD photo, one of those wacky/cute/outtake photos they did, and Chris McKenna is maybe at a locker and holding a Valentine of Dorian. This was probably Valentine's 1994. Realistically there was no way they could have done that story with Chris' Joey and Dorian, but I wonder if they were thinking of it. I wish they'd brought him back as Joey for the end of the show and had him end up with Dorian, rather than the odd choice to keep Joey the same age for 10 years and cast immature looking actors in the part which somehow led us to a world where Dorian had had a passionate affair with a Nickelodeon host.

Dark Shadows comic strip stories

I read through the 71-72 comic strip book. I'm very grateful to Katherine Leigh Scott for putting this together at a time when Pomegranate Press had the power to do so (this was about 1995, 1996 and there were various Dark Shadows books, VHS tapes, the show was running on the Sci-Fi Channel). There is a foreword from Kenneth Bruce Bald, including some photos of him modeling as Barnabas for the strip, and photos of his wife as an original character. Bald mentions that when the strip was canceled, he was told they'd never gotten so many complaints. My only real disappointment is that we don't get the Sunday strips in color, but I can't complain as I know including them would have been much more expensive. Aside from Barnabas, and one cameo, the only show characters are Elizabeth and Carolyn. This is an odd choice, but I suppose it makes sense in that Barnabas can just immediately take over the household dynamics (this is not the early show Elizabeth). It also adds an unintended air of despair to Collinwood when you only see the three of them and guest characters - not even a mention of a servant. Maybe we can say this is similar to the film universe (the Dan Curtis films) with the more downcast Collinwood and Collinsport. Bald doesn't make any effort to draw Carolyn and Elizabeth resembling Nancy Barrett and Joan Bennett, although Elizabeth does at times (at times she looks like Courtney Simon). Bald not sticking to the show very much means Barnabas is more of a straightforward hero, without the pity parties he so often inflicted on viewers. I'm not going to go into great detail about each story arc as I want you to enjoy those for yourself if you buy the book, but I will give a summary and moments I enjoyed. I will be sharing the most details about the last story as I thought it was the best. I just need to remember how to use spoilers on here now...

I think it's also an example of the show's poor treatment of their black cast.

Waiting for a Boys in the Band revival...

@dc11786 @vetsoapfan @Vee @soapfan770 @slick jones @Franko @Paul Raven @Khan @Soaplovers @I Am A Swede @SoapDope78 @All My Shadows @te. @kalbir @janea4old @Chris B @jam6242 @Soapsuds Another Beacon Hill promo at the end of this episode of Musical Chairs. CBS variety gameshow Musical Chairs, episode 80 (~Oct. 6, 1975) - YouTube

Leah Laiman wrote several books (and I think was interviewed in SOD back in the '90s about this). Leah Laiman (Author of Lingua Terra)

I Don't Want to be Born, mentioned in here, is indeed a crazy-ass film.

JOAN COLLINS: QUEEN OF THE HORROR FILMS (2026) TRAILER I Don't Want to be Born, mentioned in here, is indeed a crazy-ass film.

Joe Barbara (AW, AMC) has a role in Dan Levy's new Netflix Show, Big Mistakes.

Rachel and Libby are back, but otherwise, yes. I would be very happy if Esther goes as I find the character to be a huge drain and treated as a saint - even worse, they keep giving her dead babies to add even more misery to the canvas. Sadly, I doubt she is going. If you want to see Drew's last scene, it may be available somewhere. He goes off to New Zealand with Boyd for a holiday. I don't know if there was even any mention of them both having a number of kids. I guess Drew is just dumping his kids off on offcamera relatives, I don't know. I will miss Drew more than some other longtime characters who were written out, like Nicole, as I thought he still had something to offer, a spark with comedy and drama. So many of the current characters are just dour. I'm sorry that the point where I started regularly watching the show was after you were done so I never really got to properly engage with your posts.

Thanks so much @slick jones

Thanks @slick jones I know it must have taken a great deal of time, especially for Lloyd Bridges. I'd never seen the photo with Patricia Kalember.