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@JAS0N47 Thank you for finding all this information and honoring the memory of the various soap writers who would probably not be remembered otherwise. I never even thought of how difficult it must be to find info on various writers, especially those who used pseuds. Was Katherine Penders a sister to Maura Penders?

Vincent Irizarry and Robin Mattson on Donahue (along with former SB star Robert Newman).

Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer on Donahue (and also former/future GL stars Robin Mattson and Vincent Irizarry).

Peter Bergman and Taylor Miller on Donahue, also featuring Vincent Irizarry and Robin Mattson (when they were on Santa Barbara).

Gloria is another AMC heroine who seemed to lose a lot of her personality after the "redeemed by rape" story, but Teresa Blake was such a unique presence that she still managed to keep the character interesting for me (maybe other than when she was paired with Tad).

I remember some people saying her work on Where the Heart Is was her best work. And like you mentioned I've heard some praise of her AMC run. I also thought she'd already passed away. Well, she's still talked about frequently on here by AW fans, so she will always have a legacy. Thank you for always keeping us in the know @JAS0N47

Mary as Lacey's mother would have been a stretch... I do wonder what they would have done with Mary at that time but she was probably better off waiting to play Meta.

@Maxim Thanks as always. Never saw just what a mess Nora was early on. Valerie Pettiford is divine. She deserved a much better career. And better than whatever Y&R is doing with her now. The little old lady was Dr. Ruth, a longtime sex therapist who was a pop culture storm in the '80s and '90s. She was a very kind woman, reportedly. Mary Gross once mentioned doing an impression of her on Saturday Night Live, with a long speech about her relationship with her mother - she was mortified to learn Dr. Ruth was in the audience that night, as the real Ruth's mother had died in the Holocaust. She sought Ruth out to apologize, but Ruth had nothing but kind words for her. She passed away last year. Here are a few clips of her near the start and end of her peak of fame.

That site was hilarious. I wish it was archived. In the "choose your own adventure" story, the homeless shelter had her name up in neon lights, she was barely ever there and when she was she treated everyone like peasants, she thought Laura was a dull frump, and she was a drunk, enjoying the bar at the Valley Inn with Marian. In one scene, she threw herself at Michael's boyfriend Brad, who politely got the hell out of there. I don't know who got her best. I might say Washam or Agnes. It's tough to tell what to blame writers for and what to blame network for. I thought a lot of her material under Broderick in the mid '90s was uninspired, but she's better served in her '80s run, and when Broderick brings her back near the end of the show. I think Brooke just lost her spark from being on so long, the parade of men, and being a heroine. Heroines were not usually all that well-served on AMC.

I do kind of like that theme, but this made me laugh because it really does ramble on. At one point as it gets so rushed I expect this guy to pop in:

They also teased her with Dimitri before they decided to write Michael Nader out, which would be teased again on PP AMC.

I just saw that. I wonder too. I'd say maybe Cora but I can't see her dressing that way...and she hadn't been on the show for a decade. I love the Mamie plate. I don't know if that was intended as something they hoped black fans would buy, but it shows how smart the show was to put her between two worlds. It's a shame they just wrote her out in 1995 after they took her too far into a story they weren't comfortable with.

By that point he was on Valerie or Valerie's Family or whatever it was called by then.

I still think this was a test run for OLTL. I think it works for Loving because Loving had no set identity, and I think the visuals are better. My only complaint is it looks and sounds like Lifetime ads. @Maxim As you enjoy the similar OLTL open you might like this too.

Given what characters like Luke Spencer or Todd Manning had gotten away with, I can see where Julia might have wanted to redeem Jim, but there was NO redeeming him. The choices made with him after Born quit were so OTT I think it makes some forget just how sick he was from long before that point.

Never knew about all this. He must have really been great at golfing with Ken Corday to get past such a response.

It's interesting that ATWT succeeded where GL failed, with Jack Snyder. I think it might be down to Michael Park feeling like a more natural part of ATWT, whereas James Goodwin seems grafted on (the best I can say about him is he provided much more eye candy than I ever knew in those earlier years - most of what I'd seen later on had him in billowy shirts). I suppose it also helps that the Snyders were in a different place - the two most popular Snyders were likely Emma and Holden, and they were still on the canvas.

@Skylover Thank you for posting those, and all your posts on Neighbours over the years. Very glad to see Felix in the opening - forever my favorite of the revival's newbies. I hope he survives to the end and gets some kind of happy ending (and not with Holly!). Damn, he really looks so much like JJ. Some of the best physical casting ever on a soap. The doomed romance with Colton and Aaron was a revival highlight, in large part because they were allowed to wear Speedos and have a believable desire for each other. That's something almost no other soap has with men now - EE in particular can get painful with actors forcing themselves to awkwardly meet mouths. The theme music this time around has bothered me from the first day. To me Neighbours is a fun, bouncy theme. I don't understand that awful emo woe music that sounds like something off Myspace.

Thank you @janea4old . For all the years off and on that I've watched DAYS there's been a certain tension to Maggie, even when she was just a '90s talk-to - there's a real sense of peace and freedom in this clip that I appreciate. '70s soaps loved their singing at events. When it's sincere, it works.

This uploader wanted to know if anyone out there has a specific date for this partial episode, beyond just 1978. I assume someone here might if this is one of the Retro TV episodes.

@Maxim thought you might like this. Absolutely chilling how timely this is. Instagram

I'd forgotten he was still around. Nothing against Brandon, but they really missed the boat on finding a more definitive performer for the role when Bo and Hope were around.