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Another 1979 clip. My favorite part is Kim snapping at agony aunt John, as Barbara looks on awkwardly. Lisa not wanting to go but feeling like she can't admit her doubt is also a great scene. Her touching the globe (which is, essentially, ATWT) is a nice moment.

That was Scott Hamner. I stopped watching PC because of the DV story. Rape is not romantic.

The country is too polarized to fully blame one side or the other, but more is going to the GOP than the Democrats right now. The media is doing their best to change that, with breathless coverage of WWII vets not being able to get into a memorial, and now shock and horror over the WSJ (far right organ) claiming a White House person said they were "winning" the shutdown war. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/10/white-house-pushes-back-on-winning-quote-174317.html With huge media fawning over Ted Cruz and his fellow America-haters, and the general eagerness of many in the public to side with their flashy stunts, this should be 100% for the far right. It's only mixed because they do things like have an old white man go and verbally abuse and shame a female park ranger.

Partial 1992 episode, the night Holden was mugged.

1991 clips.

A five or six minute clip of the early days of the odious DV Bordisso story.

Thanks for reading. I'm going to try to put up some more soon. Big Sister seems to be one of those shows that went on and went off, etc. depending on sponsor availability. I guess a lot of radio soaps did that.

I think she got good money (it must have started when she married and divorced the Eldridge guy) and then invested well. It's interesting that neither she nor Lucinda - to the best of my memory - ever had the "lol they lost their money" stories that wealthy people on ABC soaps or on AW got. Perhaps they knew ATWT viewers wouldn't enjoy that type of farce.

That's true. I just like that they used this to keep her involve in various parts of the show.

When Penny came back in 1985, I wish they'd had her say, "Of course Lisa would burn down my bookstore." A newspaper too. She had a lot of savvy.

Thanks. That article is upsetting to read. And frankly, in daytime, little has changed. DAYS could have done so much with Valerie.

Another clip. Lots of good stuff in this. I, surprisingly, loved the Nancy and Ralph conversation - so rare to see this complex side of Nancy interacting with people who aren't overly close to her, and Keith Charles brings so much depth to Ralph's motivations. The large group at the bookstore is a fascinating moment. You have the people who are trying to be friendly and peppy (Valerie and her foster daughter), Betsy struggling to get through the conversation because of her grief, Sheila being nice but seeming shady, and Melinda immediately being on to her. How many people worked at that bookstore anyway? Kim, Betsy, Lisa, Sheila, Melinda...are we sure Lisa didn't burn it down for insurance money? And look at Don making the move on Mary! No time wasted. I think there was even tongue. If that awful rouge didn't scare him off, it must have been love. Kelly Wood would have made a good Alice recast on AW.

I never knew that either. Thanks for finding it.

Kieron is lucky to even be there at this point. Ste has no interesting relationships with anyone, no depth, no purpose. He is basically a love letter to domestic violence. And Kirkwood's stories for him have been ludicrous. Wow how hot and wild, he almost has sex with his creepy, weird father.

I imagine a lot of jokes about the wig Jane Wyman wore in the pilot.

There were some shows that tried to educate, but the ones that tried to entertain generally did. The actors did it seriously. One of the reasons I can't stomach most of what is called "primetime soap" today is because it is such very hollow, stale camp (Marc Cherry).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKvMOJ8bdu8

Not sure if this is already online. Good promo. I love Natalie in this era. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HInUZt8L9AY

Inappropriate behavior is one of the reasons Eccleston left the show, supposedly (he felt like the extras were being mistreated by a director). I barely tolerated and generally hated almost all of Eccleston's run until the last two or three episodes. And this special mostly reminded me why. Overwrought, manipulative, hollow, false, plastic, overacted, the works.

More of the usual Post hackery. A glib, haha look at the shutdown, just to reinforce the Fox News talking point that this is no big deal. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/10/02/21-surprising-effects-of-the-government-shutdown-you-havent-heard-about/

Do you think she's too different from most of the women on the show currently? I saw some of season 4 and I wondered if that was one of the reasons she wasn't asked back. They seem to be a little more...aggressive for TV, whereas she was very direct in a more real way.

Beltway media in action. A treatise on how laws or rulings will never be accepted by the public if they aren't passed by a wide margin...and then at the end they sneak in one that was passed by a narrow margin and was popular. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-barack-obama-obamacare-aca-97687.html?hp=t1_3

I think the truth came out because of Duncan - I think Shannon figured it out from Duncan, or Duncan finally told her. There is an episode munecojim uploaded where Brian tears into Barbara (as he has begun to suspect the truth), but I don't think there are any episodes on Youtube that show the actual reveal.

Joyce was apparently popular with viewers and she seemed to be a very complex character. It seems like ATWT in the 70s shied away from writing most of their female antagonists as just scheming bitches, which is what her Dobsons material sounds like. I do wonder if Marland ever thought of bringing her back, since he did bring Susan back. She probably would have ended up being a mix of Susan and Lucinda. I wonder if she might have been a little too difficult for him to write.