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I like that idea. I know that some other writers stretched things out (I think someone said India being unconscious/bashed over the head went on for weeks).

That sounds like a wonderful exit for that Marj character. What did you think of her? Is Gerald just back briefly?

I can certainly see why (not sure why they had him make a face like the photographer just took a dump).

Those are nice photos. I'd never seen them before. Erica had a toned tush. While watching a 1990 AMC episode AddieCate posted I saw a little of the Pat/Cal/Angie "triangle," if you can call it that. Pat seemed a lot more vibrant than many women on the show - I wish they'd done more with her. Angie seems nice, but a little bland. I wonder if they would have used her more if Debbi had stayed or if they were not using her much and that's why Debbi left. Cal just seems sleazy - there was an awful line where Angie said, "Come on!" and he said, "That's what I want to do - come on to you." Really??

Not sure why Amanda is so upset about selling to Reginald, as he did nothing to Mac, but then I guess it's natural to hate Reginald... Wasn't expecting Nicole to be Allen's mother! This will certainly make for some drama when Donna learns Allen was spying on her. I wonder if this is heading for Kirkland/Paulina.

Good to see Amanda taking a more active role in her life and in the story. I can't wait to find out more about Allen's mother. Can we also put up some Alicia Coppola Lorna photos too

Is that Michael Lowry in the prison scene near the end of this clip? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFi7GCIiZ3Y

Greg Watkins (Evan Walsh, ATWT) was considered for OLTL's Kevin Buchanan recast, before Kevin Stapleton was hired.

I hope Erika does win again, or a tie with Debbi Morgan. Maggie's first scenes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDq3Y3vTGIU

How long was this police chief around? Not the best actor. I think these short clips are the first I've seen of the writers strike material (if there's more out there I don't know about, my apologies). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrD3UIkp47c&feature=autoplay&list=ULxwvyVz_s9wQ&playnext=1

Thank you for keeping us up to date! I'm surprised they brought Gerald back, as his story always sounds like a mess to me.

I'm only at the last of the second part, but it is good, overall - some of the supporting actors in those scenes aren't the best but the early Nana and her husband are great (weird imagining her becoming Nana though). The scene where Alfie can't accept Nana's dying and you can see him switching from open anguish to putting on a happy show is very good, along with that sad scene where he wakes her up to make sure she's still alive.

Maybe the cops were big fans of Greatest Show on Earth and he told them he'd give them Jimmy Stewart's autograph.

I think Molly's character was involved in a story on muggings or attacks on older people.

So did they just pretend he had never died when they did the Barney the Clown story, or did they say that he faked his death?

That's interesting. Do you remember if Holland Taylor's character had anything to do beyond just be a cop?

Wow, Erica scraping to get a hundred a week. How times would change for her in only a few years. I'm fascinated by the mystical element they mixed with the PSA story about Phil's return.

If anyone wants to see the episode which goes back to when Nana Moon and her husband first met (I guess this was the end of an era for this type of thing and Eastenders - about 10-15 years after 1988's Civvy Street made a number of 40's and 50's flashback episodes for Pat and Dot and Mo). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX3yq78kGBk&feature=channel&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ea_s32c9s&feature=channel&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNpp5V2Lzt8&feature=channel&list=UL

Who did Rowles play?

South Dublin? Is that a hotspot?

I know the death part was good, I just think they could have had that as a different story and kept Billy Clyde more in Donna's story.

I must say watching these scenes make me strangely angry. This seems like such a dark period of AMC, and a bizarre period, but in the midst of Donna's murderous fantasies, they really missed out on a dramatic story. I know they had to give Tad a big exit, but they still could have "killed" him off another way. Imagine the drama of Donna - who had a history of mental instability anyway - killing Billy Clyde and making it look like suicide, and coming unwound, and in the process, wrecking her daughter's mental health as well. Candice Earley was so great in those madness scenes at the start of the clip.

I'll never understand what was going on with that Rebecca Hollen role.

Thanks. I hadn't seen that Update cover before. They had some beautiful covers.

This is fascinating to read. I had no idea Sally had given up a child. It sounds like they had more story planned for Sally - did the actress just suddenly leave? I never knew exactly how Jill started working for Katharine. I also never knew someone tried to rape Leslie in the mental institution. Didn't someone say this sequence was very ugly and basically the stereotypes of asylums? I think one of the soap magazines praised Janice Lynde's work as some of the best of the year.