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Bits but never the whole thing.

Now this is the oral history I want, not stuff like that one for Christmas is Connecticut where all I learned is the people who worked on that still hate Dyan Cannon.

I don't think Alice works outside of the book. The book has not only the unsettling illustrations but also a genuine sense of strangeness and anger which doesn't translate onscreen. The best adaptation I've seen of in live action is that Tom Petty video. This is likely why I got into FOX on Sunday nights. Sunday otherwise felt dead.

For a genre that is known for being about sex, I've never seen a soap that has made a threesome seem sexy. The closest may be the glimpses of Loving Friends and Perfect Couples, and that's a little disconcerting because the man having the threesome is the ex-husband from Kate & Allie.

Sally Struthers is channeling her anger toward Betty White.

I forgot they had a health club. Again, I just end up remembering GH (they seemed to be in on all the trends). Whenever I think of health club revamps on soaps I think of Acorn Antiques, which made fun of Crossroads doing this. (it's at about 42 minutes) Acorn Antiques - Omibus Edition

It is. That was one of the worst promos I've ever seen. Do you think we could have a story about Mark and Sarah learning they go to the same stylist?

Oh I know - Janice was doing a lot more than dancing with him. I just found the idea of that club of Mitch's driving her insane amusing. (I didn't even know Mitch and Alice had any involvement - they really did make a mess of her character) The Hostage could have been their Enough is Enough! A disco does suit Lisa more than a bookstore. A shame that by the time she opened up her own place it was mostly a more sedate affair - can't even remember if we got Lisa in a feather boa very often. Geez, Brad would have been there, wouldn't he? No wonder the disco shut down by the time he arrived. If there was ever a man in Oakdale ladies would be warned not to leave their drinks around...

I'll have to look for that. All I've seen of that disco/club is Tracy singing, and singing, and singing, which, nothing against Janice Lynde, probably helped drive Janice Frame into madness. I do understand why the soaps wanted to try to change with the times - which they should probably be doing more of these days - but there could have been so many other ways to do it.

True. If DAYS can afford her, why not. I think Kristina was best left to just showing up a few times a year and Lexi Ainsworth fans could get their best 2011 on.

Thanks. I can see why. Brook and Donn Swaby got to have much more fun than they ever did the rest of the time.

I wonder if DAYS would want Abby back while Cat is around. I could see her just going to recurring or popping up occasionally on GH and moving more into directing.

Michael and his ex (?) hooker girlfriend nearly !@#$%^&*]ed on Nina's desk.

I always forget about Erica's disco, although I shouldn't due to the iconic shot of her posing in the shower curtain dress. And of course there's GH, sadly famous for one reason only, beyond Richard Simmons.

I think Wired for Sound worked a little better, because by that point GL had a lot of characters I could see going to a disco/supper club, and the set didn't seem as claustrophobic. It's difficult for me to imagine ATWT characters in 1978 going to a disco. Melinda maybe...and Lisa if she was in the right mood, but who else? I suppose Jay might go to get some ass, but that's a whole other version of Oakdale we were not going to be seeing. Annie and Dee by this era would be more likely to drink some milk and tuck in at 8 PM than live their best life to Donna Summer and Sylvester.

Frank Valentini, 2024-2025.

Maybe you can reboot it now. The market seems to be there.

Apparently, this happens for approximately 25 million other Americans too!

Elizabeth getting eyelid mites, complete with Bill Bell-esque PSA dialogue, feels like the writers trolling fans who wanted her to have a storyline. At least it isn't as bad as Corrie years ago where they gave an actress that they were about to fire a nits storyline and she then had to go around with a shaved head that made her look like a Mad Max character.

Not always a bad thing - it is a soap after all - but I'm not too sure about that scene. Sorry if the earlier reference didn't make any sense, but here's Randy: Slim Jim ad with Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Thanks @Maxim That Todd and Marty scene is one I remember being mentioned quite a bit. I forgot Leanne is still there. A character who was surplus to requirements by this point. Ellen Bethea is a treasure. That scene with Asa and Blair is a great example of melodrama for the sake of melodrama. I shouldn't laugh, but Phil Carey sounds just like Macho Man Randy Savage. I kept expecting him to yell for Blair to "snap into a Slim Jim."

@Huntress Thanks for sharing all these channels. UU is geoblocked for me but the rest are available. A shame as I wanted to see what they were doing with Ringo and Easy.

@janea4old Thanks so much for sharing that here. In such a dark world I do hope it helps people, even for a moment.

Thanks for the extra details @Maxim Being ashamed of poverty and her mother and sister is a very old school melodramatic choice but one that is still more common today than you'd think. Something that soaps should tap into instead of the fantasy world of everyone looking perfect. The show has very polished visuals - it looks much better than a lot of stuff on now with their cheap, flat HD and/or being filmed like someone is peeking out from a closet.

A partial 1978 episode came up a few days ago, although that one has been around off and on, I think.