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My favorite was always the abusive relationship where she kneed Woody Brown in the balls. I guess that isn't on Youtube.

him. Looking back over his young life, I remembered the time when I opened my apartment door in New York to find his forlorn little figure, tense with fear and antagonism, waiting anxiously to see if he could find shelter with me. Hearing and seeing what he wasn't supposed to, and not comprehending what he did hear and see, were at the root of the fear-ridden trip he had just made to me from Barrowsville. Beanie had a fear, common to many children - the fear of being an unwanted child whose mother consequently doesn't love him. The basis for this fear was very real in Beanie's mind, for he had heard Charlie, his father, his father, and Meg, his mother, quarreling about the way he was being brought up. Charlie was blaming Beanie's faults on Meg, forgetting in the heat of anger that, as Beanie's father, he was as responsible as Meg. Meg, lashing back at Charlie in unbridled emotion, had screamed that she had never wanted a child anyway. In the white heat of temper, Meg had, with her own lips, voiced the fears which Beanie secretly harbored. No wonder he had taken his mother at her word (words which she really didn't mean) and had come running to me for comfort! While Meg was on her way to get Beanie, I tried to make Beanie see that he was not the cause of the discord between his parents. I discovered that he heard them arguing frequently, often mentioning his name, and he had begun to believe he must be doing something very wrong which made them both unhappy and angry. Then, hard on the heels of this experience, Beanie found himself the object of scorn both at home and at the school, through no fault of his own. Meg became the defendant in a murder trial because of an indiscreet meeting with attractive Miles Pardee when Charlie was away. Meg had witnessed the killing of Pardee. Because she was the last person to see him alive she was accused, tried and convicted on circumstantial evidence. The fact of her complete exoneration and legal acquittal later could not erase altogether the wounds of the whole tragedy - the scars of which Beanie will probably always carry on his soul. In my ignorance and innocence I thought the best place for Beanie would be with my father and mother. What I didn't know, and probably wouldn't have admitted if I had thought about it, was that my father does not approve of Meg. To Dad, a human being is either all good or wholly bad and he could only see bad in his daughter Meg. To Beanie, he transferred all his pent-up anger at the situation Meg now found herself in. It was the same situation I had seen so many times in so many homes where the child is left defenseless because one of the parents takes out anger, really felt toward the partner, on the child. At school, indignities were heaped upon a child who already, at home, had almost more than any little human should be asked to take. The other children, hearing scraps of conversations about the sensational Dales through their parents, began to taunt Beanie, ridicule him. Beanie struck back the only way he knew - with his fists. With all the strength of an eight-year-old, Beanie fought the bullies who had taunted him the most. He had to defend his mother for, in attacking her, they were also attacking him. At this point, what Beanie needed from his grandfather was understanding. What he got was punishment for having torn his clothes and dirtied his face. Dad in his stern and righteous code of ethics had no patience, no tolerance for wrong-doing and he felt it was right for his grandson to bear the burden of Meg's mistakes and, if bearing up under his classmates' taunts was part of that burden, then so be it. All of this, coming to a head, was what was speeding me on my way from New York to Barrowsville. The school principal had thought it might be a good thing to remove Beanie from the school for his own sake. Dad was willing for him to leave, too. I think everyone concerned felt that if Beanie were put in another school, far, far away from the scandal of the past few months, he would automatically be all right. In my heart of hearts, I could not feel this was so. To me, one of life's principles is that, if you fight through and win, you will be a better person for having stood your ground. When I arrived at Dad's home and saw the draw, haunted look upon Beanie's face, I almost weakened. For a few minutes I felt the cruelty foisted upon Beanie was something he should not be asked to take, but then I talked to him. Beanie told me that, until this time, this school had been the one place where he had been happy, and that among the children he had some friends whom he liked a lot. Knowing this, I explained how I felt about his standing his ground and fighting it out, not necessarily with his fists, but with his whole spirit. Dad and the principal at last agreed to try, for Beanie's sake, once more. I almost regretted interfering within a week. One of the boys taunted Beanie by drawing a picture on the ground with his pocket knife, showing a woman shooting a man. Beanie knew the boy meant his mother and Miles Pardee. With coolness which would have done justice to an older man, Beanie took the knife from the boy and threw it away. That night the boy and his father came to my dad and said Beanie had tried to kill the boy by threatening him with the knife. It was at this point, I was proven right. For once, Dad stood firmly on Beanie's side. Unceremoniously, he put the boy and his father out of the house. In that moment, Dad and Beanie had learned their first lesson in living together. My father had learned simply to trust Beanie. Beanie had learned that, instead of running away as he had once run to me in New York, he had the power within him to stand up for what is right and solve his problem. I wish I could say that Beanie's difficulties were over. But isn't the process of growing up actually the meeting of difficulties and overcoming them in ever more efficient ways? We Dales seem born to get ourselves out of one dilemma and into another - especially my sister Meg, who in this case also happens to be Beanie's mother. I only know that Beanie will never lack for love and understand - will never lack for love and understanding and it will come from his mother ultimately. Every child needs at least one person who stands solid as a rock to protect him and give him the unwavering love and comfort he must have. It should be his mother, and eventually Beanie will find that it will be. In the meantime, I shall do everything in my power to establish a fine relationship between Beanie and Meg. It's a job I'm proud to accept. I have always known that Beanie is not a problem child - only a child with a problem - which is always a heartbreak child.

Watching the opening credits for the June 27, 1995 episode, I realize that by the end of the year they'd changed the photos for Erica, Brooke, Laurel, Gloria, Trevor, Dixie, Joe, Palmer, Opal, Jack, Derek, and Taylor. It's strange as Phoebe seems to be the only one they didn't change. I guess some were based on haircuts, but clearly others weren't. I really wonder how the one of Erica even got through - she looks dead.

August 1952 Radio TV Mirror

August 1952 Radio TV Mirror

Thanks for this. Surprised Life took a photo of them. Two of the photos didn't work for me. Love those print ads! Did SOD ever recap this?

I used to think stories about date rape were passe, but in recent years, as there seems to be more and more of a blame-the-victim mentality for any woman who is raped, I start to realize just how important they are. I do wonder if some impact was lost on Cricket, since she was drowning in PSA stories (Phillip's drinking, Jessica's AIDS, the concerts).

August 1989 Digest

8/8/89 Digest

August 89 Digest

August 89 Digest.

August 89 Digest

I do remember that episode. I liked Jef a lot. He was a good match with Emily and he was also very cute. Unfortunately "normal" type guys, like Jef and Larry, were dumped in favor of generic pieces of ass. I liked Jeremy a lot too. I thought he had great potential. Boring Nikki and annoying Dani were left behind. I guess they may have just been saying it but at the time the magazines said Dauer chose to leave, to focus on his education. Andrew Kavitovit was last seen in the 1992 Christmas episodes.

Thanks so much for sharing this with us. This is a real treasure. It sounds a little scattered - I wonder if that's one of the reasons the ratings weren't great. Which character did Jaime Lyn Bauer play in these scripts?

The magazine is from January 1949.

That was the peak of Danny's story for those years. Jeanne Cooper had very little to do in these years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwZlf_13XzA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI4XCpi4UrA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9qFXqX3Lk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkvL1pGo66w

A January 1992 Digest speculates on whether Lar Park Lincoln (Linda Fairgate) would return as a double to Linda. Lincoln doesn't mention anything about that, but implies there's a possibly she will return. Too bad it never happened. For me Linda's murder was a huge and very ugly mistake and violated so much of what Knots Landing represented.

January 1949 Radio TV Mirror

I'm sorry you haven't received it yet. I think you'll enjoy it. I was lucky in that my DVDs don't seem to have any problems, although they did mix up delivery. I think Rattray was just seen as not being Martha Byrne. I can see why many would not care for that. She was my first Lily, and for me, the best. If I hadn't wanted someone to slap MB's Lily for most of her run, I might feel differently.

1992 Christmas party