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Wow. Never knew that. Fascinating. I always just picture Risley fading away after her unfortunate SNL stint. The Doctors and SNL taped in the same building. I used to have a scan somewhere of Burt Reynolds posing with James Pritchett on the SNL stage during Burt's (terrible) hosting gig - Burt's mother was a big Doctors fan.

The end of this promo is chilling, all the more so as it was not intended.

Kassie DePaiva Reflects on 'One Life to Live's Cancellation & Todd and Blair’s Ending (Exclusive) Kassie mentions that she auditioned for Amanda on Another World in 1993.

Has Lucas ever been a gangster? I do think Carnes' Lucas would have been more stoic. They can't help writing for Van's weaker moments. Rosemary Sinclair, played by Linda Thorson, who was supposedly a handful backstage.

Thanks for the Kassie interview @dragonflies. I didn't know she had auditioned for Amanda Cory. She would have been a good choice. @Marco Dane Hard to believe it's 57 years as the show still seems more modern. Then again that's the OLTL of my mind more than what the actual show often was. I still wish it was around. Thanks @Maxim. Andrew and Cassie do seem sudden. They have their moments, although they were never a favorite pairing of mine. I think Andrew would have been more compelling with someone very different to him. I had no idea of Herb throttling Alex, or I just watched those clips a very long time ago. A sad end to an underrated character. The Blair clip is great. You can feel the chemistry with Mia and JDP, even if I think Blair was better off without Max. I did laugh at Max, who clearly wanted to bone Blair, taking his chance to do so after she expressed some sympathy over his friend dying.

You're right, although at least they haven't gone as far as Emmerdale did, where producers allegedly disliked a recently written out actress so much that they had one of the characters dig up her coffin and send it to the crusher.

AMC starting from 57 minutes to an hour and 3 minutes. @slick jones this has another cast crawl. An hour and 7 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes. 59 minutes to an hour and six minutes (this also has a cast crawl)

Breen was at ATWT at that time.

The year is off (this is 1987 or 1988). This is interesting to watch for how deftly Tristan Rogers goes through all the responses of the devoted Robert and Anna fans. And always fun to hear from passionate fans (even if as always soap fans are a little too passionate at times).

I love that at the start of this Emma makes sure to clarify that Holly and Luke are not together now. She was already thinking of Twitter fan reactions before there was a Twitter. She also talks more than I expected about that gross old story with Tony Geary doing bed scenes nude. I'm glad to know he at least asked permission first. There were claims of one actress, I think on AMC, who may or may not have liked to "surprise" co-stars with this. Don't really love the line at the start that the only people who care about soaps are homemakers or out of work actors, but that's typical of the soap awards shows to trash themselves. Some nice interviews with the cast about Gloria Monty. This may also be the most de-glammed I've seen Judith Chapman.

Thanks @Maxim I hate those arm-grabbing moments with men and women on soaps. There are so many, especially with characters we are meant to find "good." Way too many on AMC... I am very impressed with the writing for Viki in that scene with Blair. The way she shuts Cain down. The way she clearly has no use for the woman, but she can see said woman is in clear pain. This just makes the choice even more damning for Blair - viewers can see that she is willingly walking into hell. What a performance from Mia Korf. Even just in that mournful sax portion (the days of the little bird music cue dead and buried). Regarding Alex...unfortunately this is going to be the norm in writing for her, although some stories work better than others. This one is a road to nowhere. Wanda is a dear. One of the best of this type of character ever on soaps.

@alwaysAMC I listened to some of that, and both laughed and felt disturbed all over again at the prevalence of AI in everything now. The male voice actually says "slight pause" at 21 minutes. The female voice seems to just be there to flame the hell out of McTavish, entertaining as that may be. I've seen a lot of these videos cropping up and hadn't clicked on them. I wonder if they are all AI. Can't wait to see them take on Golden Windows! (and AI voice, McTavish's 1999 firing was not her third) I know that is a thing now because of tiktok bans and maybe Youtube bans now but I hate hearing "unalive."

Sad to think this would be a very controversial ad now.

I preferred the first Vicky as she was colder and more suited to a Spaulding temperament. Platt was OK but they never did anything with her. Through Rauch's whole run he would give token stories to black characters and nothing more - the most painfully token material imaginable on GL. I am never sure whether he wanted more and P&G stopped him, but ATWT and even AW had more in those years. It bothered me a lot with Vicky as the "black Spaulding" story should have been much more than it was. The scenes with Alex and Brandon were around November 1984, I think. I think Platt divorced Tilford a few years ago.

I think Ruth said she had played Phoebe as a bubblehead when it came to her comments about the Vietnam War. It was Phoebe's views on Vietnam that Ruth did not feel comfortable playing.

It might have been somewhere along the lines of Four Corners, that Ann Margret show which ran for two weeks.

@alwaysAMC I remember those Roger and Holly elevator scenes. Another example of some of the quality from the interim headwriters, even if it wasn't evident elsewhere. The scenes surrounding the Blake paternity reveal are very powerful and yet also understated. A wonderful reminder of just how good Jerry ver Dorn was and a real kick in the seat the show needed.

It helps H&A that it has been more popular than Neighbours in Australia for a long time.

I've only seen drips and drabs too. I always mean to watch more. Yes. Skye was even Australian before Robin. Soap viewers were asked to accept a lot back then.

I agree. I do miss the "very special episodes" period compared to what a terrified blob TV is now. I just didn't ever vibe with these stories when they involved Karen, all the way up to that horrible season 12/13 story with the paintball road rage. Stories like Val teaching the young woman to read, even if it may have seemed dated in presentation by 1991, I appreciated more.

A very short Loving fragment at about an hour and 25 minutes.

P&G didn't start saving until late 1979 and even that may be spotty. There is a good chunk of 1979 available, through old tape trading it seems, but not much before that time. I think Michael Zaslow or Maureen Garrett had the material they gave for the Roger Scandal Years tape - I wonder if any of that is still around in full. Probably not.

About 20 minutes of material in this starting at 14 minutes, the highlight of which might be a location shoot with Erica, Barbara and Travis that starts with a basketball team and ends with Erica being in danger and running around a building! I can't remember if this was ever up before. I know some of the race car stuff references would be in a Soapnet repeat. They definitely had a lot of confidence in Travis/Larkin for this amount of location material. There's a good amount of location footage in these in general (just a reminder of how much bigger the budgets used to be) as they also herald the arrival in Pine Valley of Mitch Beck, on a motorbike. @slick jones There are several credits crawls in this (the one at 33 minutes has a full cast list). Linda Cook also appears in the "tape 3" material below, so that means she was on AMC through 1987 rather than 1986. More scenes from about 42 to 51 minutes. Some of Jesse undercover, and some of Skye. These two sets of clips must be some of Robin Christopher's very first material. She seems so green (and she was indeed just 22 around this time) it's jarring with this Playboy Channel-ass material where she meets and [!@#$%^&*] a stranger who then abandons her the next morning after taking her car (he does leave it somewhere for her and gives her a call). I wonder how differently Antoinette Byron would have played it. How long was Mitch Beck around for anyway? Brian Fitzpatrick is hot (even if we don't get to see any skin), but this is mostly just another reminder of how sad Skye's life was, no matter what year or town she was in. It's also an unintended contrast with the AIDS crisis as there is no mention of condoms so she, for all we know, has unsafe sex with some pickup. I wonder if this may have been one of the reasons the show started an AIDS story months later. (based on Skye's role in that story I'm not sure she cared much about learning safe sex practices) Not really trying to tag everyone as it's just fragments but @Maxim you might be interested in the Skye material and @Jonathan the Erica material. @marceline You might enjoy the Jesse/Angie material. It did, yes. Lisa was on ATWT from 1985-1993 (with a few later guest appearances). An often very heavy role. I just posted a few more as I saw your reply so this is good timing. I'm always fascinated by 1987 for AMC as the show was all over the place in story yet also successfully rebuilding itself from some rocky years (until the writers' strike and other issues would once again topple the cart).

@Vee They were the bright spot for me in the first year. Unfortunately, the second year made some mistakes with them, but still, they are ending the show intact (I hope). Nothing compared to the decimation of Wendy Rodwell. The show's final cast photo, which...is very unique.