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I wonder if that man might have been considered as a love interest for her if they hadn't brought Michael in.

Thanks so much @Franko for finding the episodes and also for your dating the episodes, which is so important. I always appreciate seeing more of '80s Loving, even as the stories are rarely that good. It's the little details per episode which interest me. For instance, this: No recap can fully tell viewers just what a dissolute and disorienting place Gwyn was in at this time as much as these images of Gwyn in her best late '80s Aphrodite Island jewelry, arguing with her lover/her daughter's lover in front of a sex tape of the two of them about when her daughter will find out that she had also slept with her daughter's other boyfriend.

Thanks @safe Nancy was beautiful but she was not passing as late twenties (especially as this was before so many women that age started looking 40 at a young age due to fillers and other bad plastic surgery). I wonder if she may have been lying about Jill being intended as older due to the age lie. I could see Jill originally planned as a few years older just because the age gap with Jack and Frank would not have been so noticeable. I remember Nancy wearing a lot of her own pieces on air around this time.

All My Children - January 13th, 1989 (Incomplete) - YouTube The date is wrong as Jeremy is planning to cut down a Christmas tree. Must be before Christmas 1988. There's a funny moment where Lonnie Quinn can't get a door open.

This channel has a number of game show pilots. The Amateur's Guide to Love (Mar 27 1972)

They were a very popular couple on there, yes. I think he looks good both ways, but that type of hair doesn't look great as you age so he was smart to cut it. Did they mean Kit was Stanley's second wife? Barbara was his first. I didn't know Kit had a brother. I wonder where his story ended. I'd love to see some of this story, even if I have a feeling it was dull to watch day-to-day. Holly would go on to be so key to GL, likely more than anyone at the time could have known.

I'll always miss AW and will always think with proper care it would have run much longer - I don't think it would have survived the NBC soap purge, but maybe a decade at least. Eddie Drueding posted this 1985 clip which hadn't really been around (it had been part of a larger soap bloc recently put online).

I can see why they did it live as it's not as fun seeing people go down the stairs in a pre-tape. The show is just very rusty and Lorne Michaels is an old man who has said he's more interested in the UK version these days. Still I liked that they tried something different. I just hope eventually they can find competence again.

It would have, and would have made more sense of just why Will was obsessed with him. I would have added the ONS angle because Josh was, beyond sanctimony, such a passive character, even in a story where three people were obsessed with him. I would have appreciated seeing more exploration of his own actions driving people to extremes.

That was even worse than usual, maybe due to the special effect for the stairs that they were using. I did enjoy the sketch more than some of their soap parodies (I can't sit through Californians).

I remember reading that DAM was briefly on Loving. Thanks. To me he was one of the more attractive men GL ever cast. I would have been happy with more Danny/Cassie. The death threats Laura Wright allegedly got from some fans probably helped end that pairing.

Josh for most of the '80s and onward was so dull it was hard for me to imagine him being with anyone, although I could have seen the Marland version as a scheming bisexual, complete with shades, LA connections, and coke addiction. They never would have done the story but it would have added a much more interesting angle to the Will Jeffries character if he'd had a drunken one-night stand with Josh which Josh mostly wanted to forget about but had driven Will around the bend.

Yes.

She just showed up as a disapproving mother. You didn't miss anything.

I'm happy too, although I see she is not being paid as promised, from what she's claimed.

So he was asked. A shame he couldn't return, even if he wouldn't have lasted very long either, logically. I know Dark Shadows had had an enduring appeal but I don't know. He'd also been on GH in the late '70s - maybe some casting people remembered him.

I can barely get on here a few minutes a day, so I can't help with a screenshot, but basically, I sign in, then soon after I am signed out when I try to reply or go to another page. If I go to the sign in page, usually it will just stay on that page no matter how many times I try to sign in. If I try to clear my cache, then it will work (for a few minutes, if I'm lucky) on Chrome, but not Edge. I'm on a desktop so it's not a mobile issue for me.

1985 Entertainment This Week Report on General Hospital

Julianna McCarthy on Divorce Court. I don't think this is on Julianna's IMDB. @slick jones you may be interested. (if they aren't posting here anymore I hope someone can tell him)

Thanks @Franko It took me about 10 times to even post this but I appreciate you finding the link. Those old blog posts for obscure TV are a lost art. The movie sounds much more interesting than the promo suggested (the promo also seems to give too much focus to Jonathan Banks - maybe that person went on to cast him in Wiseguy). It's strange seeing Jeffrey DeMunn as I just know him as perpetually bug-eyed Dale on Walking Dead. He seems the same here but if the reviewer thinks he is a strong romantic lead I'll go with their judgment.

There had been a partial episode of May 26, 1988 up for about a decade, and today the rest is available. The first video has about ten minutes the second doesn't have. Very glad to have another full strike-era episode. @DramatistDreamer @MarlandFan @Soapsuds @P.J. @Vee @Mitch64 @Khan Most of this episode is about Sierra's "death," although we still get a bonus of Holden being cold and unpleasant and pining over Lily, as we can never have enough of that. And Meg's embarrassing fawning over Tonio, which is in its last months. I'm glad the first ten minutes were already available as there's some fun Liz Hubbard moments, like saying Lisa is "long in the tooth" to be a bridesmaid. Some nice early Kirk and Iva here too. Kirk hating on Craig even as his wife is "dead" is more amusing than it should be (I think at this time Kirk wasn't much of a Lily fan either). Iva saying that Craig has something childlike about him sums up Scott Bryce's appeal in the role and is something no other actor in the part ever understood. I feel bad for that friend of Sierra's who was gunned down protecting Craig and Bryant. In the end, not really worth it... That Who is Julia? TV movie at the end looks so strange. I miss those days of experimental TV-movies. Or anything with a TV movie.

Billy Lambert, Julie's ex-husband, who was working for the Harpers, I think. I think there were other minor characters in the story named Bill or William.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/eastenders-paul-bradley-nigel-bates-final-scenes-dementia-storyline

Which is how we got her singing, "I Can't Make You Love Me," 500 times. The days for business dealings had already passed their best when she returned, but Lily also wasn't that interesting just sitting around a house. I guess that's how she eventually ended up at WOAK, for however long that lasted.

Thanks @safe you may want to add this to the They Almost Became thread. My guess is she wouldn't have lasted that long as Faith either. It was just not a good part.