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They look like drum majorettes.

I didn't realize Peter was on the show for that long. I wonder how fans felt when they recast him with Danny Albee. Whatever happened to Tony's Place? Did Wanda take it?

Well we need some reason for Edmund's raging insecurities. I always thought Maria was one too... Paul Raven, thanks so much for the recap and cast list. It's so wonderful to get some 70s AMC in the thread with the detailed synopsis. This is not available to watch but thanks to you we can watch anyway.

For some reason I always figured Dimitri was well-endowed and Edmund wasn't...why I don't know.

Soap Opera Weekly did that as a fun photo shoot - they did quite a few of those in the early 90s. That was reprinted in their 10th anniversary issue. I meant to scan all those but never did. The others are Winsor Harmon, Cat Hickland, Erin Torpey.

Was this the adult parody of that storyline?

Ugh those are rough women. I think it's the one on the far left.

My favorite was the sunrise opening. The Gottlieb one was just so forgettable to me.

Whatever happened to the OC Housewife who obsessed over her teenage daughter and saw her son as being stupid? She was one of the reasons I couldn't make it through the first season.

Thanks. I love all this stuff. I saw some promo photos at the Gays of Daytime site - at least they are still trying to make the show a success. What do you think of all this Christian/Olli stuff?

I thought he was only around until Tracy's exit. Thanks for finding that. Here is the story which helped hook me on OLTL (through Daytime to Remember - I think I was always more hooked on the past than the present). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FI5lg3Wvxg&playnext=1&list=PLE55C930AE84998B3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs6YS4F-RQ0&feature=related

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-18/real-housewives-of-miami-why-its-a-flop/#

There are some criticisms of Eastenders for having so many female characters who used to be prostitutes, but at least they have never glamorized this and always show the scars. I just wish we could have seen a bit earlier with Carol and Ronnie or Max and Ronnie. I think they would have sympathized with her since they lost kids, whereas while Jack has lost a son, which is horrible pain, it's not the same situation as what happened with any of those three. I liked the reporter who was with Whitney; I wish they'd brought him in for a larger role.

This was another strong episode. No really weak scenes, although I still cringe when Max does the moping over Tanya. I just can't take it. It's pathetic and it stunts character growth. I also feel like Fatboy and Mercy are too isolated from the other characters, for some reason. I think Fatboy's father is interesting, if they would branch him out more into other stories. I also would like this for Mercy - at least she had some good reactions to the whole baby mess. Too bad she's stuck in a bad Tyra Banks weave. It was great getting to see various groups of characters react to this. I thought it was believable that so few seemed to care that much about Kat, considering she has few friends on the show, but I do wonder if we will see Kim talk to her. I liked the way they set up the relationships in the Slater family. Jean is supportive but that only goes so far (more believable than when she convinced Kat to accept Tommy), Mo is out there running interference, and Charlie is the one who breaks through to Kat. The Kat/Charlie scenes were just wonderful. I do feel sorry for Jack, although it's still tough to care about him. It was nice to see Carol and Max with him. The scenes of Lauren/Abi/Jay watching the TV and Jay and Max reaching a truce, the scene with Whitney and the reporter (moving her story without being obvious about it), even the scene with Heather and Dot, were very good. The show is flowing much better lately.

Thank you for delurking and sharing your memories.

I hope you will post more often - I don't watch that much but I'd love to hear your views.

I wonder what rumors Hillary was squelching. "No I did NOT have a baby with Tad and I did NOT name him Chin BamBam!"

You're right. It's very offputting, and it doesn't help that his backstory is so poorly written and so scared of actually making him edgy. It's all posing. What is the point of bringing in Pete for a revenge tale when it turns into another example of how Brendan suffers (Pete's accident being a result of Brendan's suicide attempt)? Then you have the stuff with Macca that went nowhere, the family we never see, the rivalry with Warren that is mostly for laughs. Anything bad he does is treated as being out of love. He beat Ste out of love. He killed Danny Houston for love. And so on. I would probably care less if they hadn't ruined Ste for all of this.

Yes, that's it. A Ford. No wonder I can't watch them. Everything they've done with the Ste story is so irresponsible and poorly written. The chemistry isn't worth it, and they have so limited Ste that he would probably disappear if he wasn't there to help hype Brendan. I'm still baffled about why they ever planned to make Brendan a monster in the first place. Emmett Scanlan has played him as a loveable, comic character who suffers the most of anyone, and that's where the show went too. It's always disconcerting to see such a violent figure turned into a campy martyr. I read that they are finally showing Charlie. I guess all the Becca/Justin clips I've been watching lately put that into the universe.

I'd never heard of this Murder Game. Wow.

Louise Shaffer was fired in 1984. I think Rae just left town. From what I've read, which isn't much, of 1982, Rae is looking for Kimberly and baby Arley, Kimberly and the baby come back and Kimberly tries to fleece Rae, Rae's old love/Kim's father, Hollis Kirkland, returns. I'm not sure how much interaction Rae had with the others, although she was involved in the story with Pat where Pat had a near-death experience because of an explosion. I think when Labine/Mayer returned, Rae got more involved in Frank's stories again. RH did seem to have a problem keeping outside characters, which hurt the show. I think this hurt more than the recasts, with the exception of the disastrous Mary recasts. I still never understood why Rose Alaio was written out, she was great with Jack and a breath of fresh air on a relatively stale canvas of female characters. I am not a fan of 1981 RH. - A year of storylines about Delia being stupid or a self-defeating schemer. The character continued her path of regression and being nothing more than a plot device. Delia was made irrelevant, and the show took one cheap shot after another at her. Making her Joe's patsy, which is only slightly more tolerable because of the easy chemistry between Randall Edwards and Roscoe Born. Too many scenes of Delia whining and shrieking as various "good" characters treat her like garbage and laugh at her. I especially hated the storyline where Delia schemed to take Faith's share of some mine Roger bought into, and poor dear Roger thought Delia was becoming "good" (ie, his sycophant). When Roger learned the truth, and also learned that the mine was worthless, he manipulated Delia into losing all of her money, which they told us she deserved, because she was so wicked. Then, just as one final sadistic kick, the mine was a big investment after all, and Faith and Roger got a ton of money. Not only was this ugly to watch, but it falsely elevated Roger and Faith to some sort of morally superior people, when they were actually both nasty and self-righteous. The years where Roger became a scolding head-shrinker made his character insufferable. Making this even more bizarre was the baffling decision to have Ron Hale and Karen Morris Gowdy play their scenes like Faith wanted to bone her brother. If they had actually gone there, then this might have been interesting, but I don't think that was the intention. - Endless variations of scenes involving Faith verbally abusing her sister. I don't know if they were trying to act like the sweet little sister finally can't take any more, and that we weren't supposed to agree with her, just to see her pain, but I resented that history was rewritten, very important history, for this storyline. Mrs. Coleridge had never cared for Jill. This is one of the reasons Jill felt alienated from the family and sought love and approval from the Ryans, and later, from Frank. Suddenly, Faith went around claiming that Jill had ruined her happy family and poor Faith had been neglected because Mommy loved Jill best. Jill was a "thing" that had crawled into the family. Jill "stole" Frank from Faith, like Jill had taken everything from her. Never mind that Jill had taken NOTHING from Faith EVER, and that Jill had been involved with Frank for a decade, so if anything Faith "took" Frank from HER. No one bothered to correct this impression, so instead, we were treated to month after month of Faith on a tirade, Faith sitting around feeling sorry for herself, and various men being gaga over Faith as she barely had time for them. The Mari Kara story was presumably supposed to lead to a reconciliation between them but KMG's general lack of warmth and the hypocrisy of this character made me completely unsympathetic to her. The only way I ever bought KMG was as a total bitch, and the show was too scared to go down that road. The only interesting story Faith had in 1981 was her counseling of a teenage punk alcoholic, but this must have been a strike story, as it was dropped very quickly. - More overdoses of the "Kimberly can do what she wants because Rae wasn't a mother to her" storyline, with a lot of Kim hissy fits, whining, crying, rinse and repeat. While I can see where Claire Labine was upset at how the Michael Pavel story ended, I wasn't sorry to see him go - he was a remorseless gigolo and I saw little chemistry between Michael Corbett and Kelli Maroney or Louise Shaffer. His murder was OTT and the investigation was interminable. So was Kimberly's sudden 5 month pregnancy, and the shouting matches with Kim/Seneca/Rae. There were a few good moments in here - like Kim learning to accept her baby - but mostly I remember this for that awful episode where Rae was questioned by the cops and the "Mama help me!" flashback kept playing in her head. - Joe and Siobhan. No chemistry. Degrading. Stupid. Superfluous. Siobhan became a sniveler, and had little purpose beyond men trying to control her life. Nothing in life mattered but Joe, and her police work ended up seeming like a strange joke, as she acted so whiny and entitled. The mob stuff was sleep-inducing and very intrusive to the canvas. - Writing out Barry Ryan when he had all the potential in the world and ties to many characters...they wrote him out about a month before his sister arrived! Great idea there. Writing out Rose when she worked so well with Jack. I actually preferred the strike period, because it was so messy and you didn't know what to expect. The only stories I cared for at this time were Jack's efforts to clear his name after Joe destroyed his life (even if this turned into Joe being a martyr because he had to give up Beach Blanket Siobhan), and then the soap opera story with Barbara Wilde, which was great fun until it turned into the tedious stuff about Barbara faking paralysis and the kooky hijinks of EJ Ryan. This is the best part of 1981.

I think Kat did mention Zoe indirectly, when she said even her parents didn't trust her to raise a child. I liked the episode but once we switched to Kat I felt how rushed everything was. I am happy they didn't have Kat being angry and miserable for weeks but I thought she accepted Tommy too easily. I do think Jessie was great and I was very touched by Alfie's scenes with the baby. I know all that cheeky chappy stuff can be annoying but here it worked. The last scene was also very moving. The Ronnie scenes were a long time coming. It was a bit convenient that she was finally bringing up Archie and Danielle but I'm glad the show finally made this clear instead of just having her go around in a daze. Sam Womack was fantastic.

This has 9 short clips of her. This is the first. Joan was an agent who represented "actress" Kimberly Harris. She appeared in a handful of episodes. She also flirted with Johnny Ryan, much to the consternation of wife Maeve.

A lot of the segments of the Justin/Becca affair that I've never seen are being put on Youtube. This is a good reminder of how brilliant Jessica Fox can be when she plays raw emotion and not the smirky stuff HO so often gives her.