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I saw that this was uploaded. Sorry if it was already around and I missed it. Not sure of the date. It's a Celeste Holm episode.

Wendy going viral again. A fascinating clip. Watch to the end.

That's true. I also think that the Reginald story just didn't work (although I guess it helped the ratings...?), which didn't help his long term prospects. I do think he and Cheryl were a harmless, likeable couple - and I still wonder where they were going with John and Cheryl - but I'm not surprised they only lasted a few years.

Other than token stories for Lucas, GH has never and will never care. It's telling that the most airtime a "gay" storyline ever had on this show was months of comic relief about a gay man desperately trying to rape a straight man.

I know soap characters are often forgotten, but it's a bit odd at how forgotten Diana Taylor is when you consider she was a main star of the show for much of the '70s. I suppose the irritating turn from Brooke Bundy (sorry to any fans) and her winding her run down as a plot device for Heathermania is a big reason why. I like all I've seen from Valerie Starrett.

Thanks for the extra details. I wish some of that period was available. I remember reading about mentions of Audrey having a gun in her toilet lid, or something. When Rick returned there was a brief Monica/Rick/Lesley/Alan revisit, I think, but not much happened (I remember Rick giving Lesley flowers, or something, although who knows, it's been too long).

For any Suzi Quatroo fans out there, here she is game-hunting, as well as demonstrating a gun while decked out in leather, for a weird "celebrities do sports" show on the BBC.

AKA Little Miss Seattle.

Thanks! I really need to try to remember this one.

Chris Schmering (not wholly reliable) claimed the Pollocks wrote a lot of the quad, saying it was a forerunner to their Dynasty material. He also panned all of their material, citing dialogue along the lines of, "You're my heaven and my hell," and, "I've got a fever in my blood for you."

At the time Scott was on the canvas, Marley was still with Jake - if Scott had stayed to when she started dating Jamie or Dennis, he would have been about 3-4 years older. This does point out what a questionable decision it was to keep Jamie the same age for a decade, as they never did acknowledge the age difference between Vicky and Jamie.

A part of me has wished they had tried the story, just because the Loves needed expanding and it would have given Donna more story down the line, but most likely he would have been forgotten in a year anyway.

Good for her.

Sorry if I seemed brusque. We all do it - I just didn't want you to feel confused if no one had replied to your post.

It was posted a week or so ago, yes. Then they also both ended up struggling at P&G before finally returning to ABC to struggle some more (FMB pretty much torpedoing herself from the getgo on that front, although I appreciated her honesty...). McTavish sounds like hell to work with, but I don't think AMC really ever did improve a great deal even when she was gone, as in some twisted way I do think she understood the show's core. I wish she had not been such a pain and also let someone curb her worst excesses, because I agree with those who said she and Broderick would have been a good team.

I think the idea is that the show was in good form until the early '70s, where it slowly began to decline (peaking with Audrey's passing Tom Hardy off as someone else's baby, or being on trial, or something), then really began going into freefall around 1974 or so when they began dumping actors en masse.

You may already know about those but there are about 4 or 5 episodes from 1975 on Youtube (I think someone once said they came from an Australian station), all in B&W.

This episode (February 1975, apparently) was already on Youtube, but this version seems to have better audio quality.

The scenes with Chris getting hooked on Drag Race, even putting drag makeup on, because it's a happy family atmosphere unlike what he has, were so nicely done. I don't really connect to Chris, but for a character who has been on the show almost all the way through its 30 years, they have managed to make him feel much more rounded and relevant than, say, EE have done with Ian Beale. Curtis seems so likeable - I can see why the show is reluctant to fully let him go, even though it means Esther is left in limbo. I wonder if they are killing him off. Is that why the actor came back to make those few appearances? I wonder if the actor who played Eddie left abruptly. The Eddie/Esther tension had been bubbling along for a good while, and then he's left so instead the tension involves whether Esther will sleep with some rich guy viewers had known for about a week before this. And Curtis says hey, no biggie, rather than the more complex reaction he might have had if she was getting further involved with the father of her child.

This makes me furious.

Logically, Philece could have passed as the mother to Vicky and Marley, yes, but I think it was more difficult with replacing Anna, who was more believable as their mother. If the writing had leaned more into how Donna was actually not a mother to either girl in any way but biology, then Philece could have made more of this, but they didn't want to do that because it was easier to just have her wringing her hands. The audio on this clip is low, and the writing is not great (it's fine, but not great), but here's an aftermath which Philece's Donna probably could have played - when Marley confronted her over sleeping with Jake (Donna had not actually shot Jake, but she had lied about it to get Marley out of prison). (as a side note, people don't ever really talk enough about what an excellent job Anne Heche had done to make Marley a real character again in her last year and a half or so on the canvas - sadly Jensen Buchanan did not have anywhere near as much interest)