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This is over a year old so the "now" part may not qualify, but it's an interview with Shannon Sturges (DAYS, Savannah, Passions, etc.).

Thanks @skylark I'm not a moderator but I'd say maybe the individual threads. Either way, this looks great.

This Broadcasting & Cable issue from November 24, 1997 mentions a proposed Barbara Taylor Bradford soap via Columbia TriStar. They don't give any more details. Broadcasting & Cable (November 24, 1997) : Future US-Next TV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

That's very true. I can't think of many either. All we have to do is compare to the mass exits around 75-76 and the new people, who got a much more negative response.

No problem. While looking to see if this was up elsewhere I saw a few promos, some in better quality than others (Sam, Teresa, Miguel). I also have this one up for early in the show (and a few from a year or two later): Passions promo (1999)

All Laurelton? You have my sympathy... Oh good, another MAD fan. Sadly, you are probably right about Celia, although who ever would have expected them to bring in a son for Charity and Jimmy Lee. I guess Jeff must just be a plot point for Mike angst with Rick and Ginny, but I'd still consider bringing the character back (maybe with a name change if he's paired with Liz). Glad Bryan is still getting a bit on by this late stage. I do wonder what contemporary fan opinion was on so many OG figures being sidelined. I read a Daytime TV complaint from 1985 or 1986 but not much is available. I'd imagine many longtime fans were unhappy, but maybe so many new fans had started in the late '70s and early '80s, the complaints were muted. Interesting to compare to the very real fan disgust at how Anna Lee was treated, even though that was a situation where you might be able to understand the show's decisions more (having the soap press swoop in to run interference for them probably didn't help). GH in those later Monty years seemed to have some real flop castings and then others who would end up lingering for decades. I do think Finola and Kristina Wagner both had such sheer presence and charisma to help them win viewers over. I'm glad Kristina has been able to recover from the place she was put in during the late '90s and '00s, even if she's obviously never going to be a lead character again (and Felicia may never have worked at her best as a lead anyway). GH likely benefited from having so far to fall in 1982, but most of the other soaps weren't in a position to be a threat. I can't remember which other soaps even had strong 1982s...AMC, I suppose, and some might say GL's first half... Do you think Anne Howard Bailey deserves the credit for GH turning around later in 1982?

Thanks for the info. I knew basically nothing. I forgot Eileen even had a brother. I wonder what Lemay would have done with them.

Camilla Carr Dead: ‘Keep My Grave Open,’ ‘Designing Women’ Actor Was 83 RIP Camilla Carr, who was on AW in 79-80 as Rita Connelly, aunt to Joey's soon-to-be-late wife Eileen Simpson and the estranged wife of Rose Perrini's beau Paul Connelly. ANOTHER WORLD: MINOR CHARACTERS Camilla may be best known for being on the receiving end for one of Julia Sugarbaker's righteous rants - one of those caricatures I used to think was heavy-handed...until recent years. Killing All The Right People best part of the show

That's so embarrassing for Alex and sums up just how degraded the character became. You're right - that would never happen with Beverlee.

You can see that in that ludicrous scene of Roger and Alex bitch slapping each other and Roger throwing Dylan off the balcony, "Billy" walking across the table, etc.

I second @vetsoapfan 's praise @Reverend Ruthledge . If I don't say as much it's partly because my eyes aren't great so it takes me a bit longer to go through the walls of text, but I greatly appreciate what you are doing for us, and hopefully, for new fans of the show in the future, however many there may or may not be. These years of the show need to be more documented while the material is still available.

That's it. There was clearly no real interest in Jackie. Pickett gave her a lot of life but there was still something on the paper. Marland seemed disinterested in wide swathes of the canvas...oddly, including some characters he introduced like Trish.

Raines was cast in 1994. She likely had some input but JFP seems like she just did whatever she wanted on all her soaps, until Frons/Guza brought the hammer down on GH. Nothing against Mowery, but I never really looked at her as Jackie and thought, "What a looker." She was pretty, but the styling for the show, with a few exceptions, was extremely drab during that period. Cindy Pickett had more of an inner light which Mowery never had. My issue with Pinter is for someone who was meant to have such female attention, I thought he just had little sex appeal. I know there's an episode where he's in a towel...he has a nice body, points for not shaving his chest, but I feel nothing when I see him.

I don't know if the story was appropriate for the show, but I agree that Georgie's responses made sense and the episode, while extremely dark, was well-executed. If that had been the end of that tone, then the show would have been in a better place.

I think as @Khan said, the main appeal was the cast - the four sisters and their chemistry and ability to elevate material (Julianne Phillips wasn't the greatest actress but she clicked with her co-stars and was a good fit for the show), and also the men who played their early love interests. The whimsical tone and sense of melancholy were also important and why I think those first 3 or maybe 4 seasons hold up (I haven't rewatched in a number of years). It's tough for me to say about becoming a real memorable classic, because I still, after all these years, have more of an emotional connection to the best of the show than I do of any primetime soap bar Knots. I know that doesn't mean it was good, per se, but the show meant a lot to me in those moments. That's also why I watched the finale when I heard the show was ending, in spite of being incredibly betrayed and mad over where the show had gone. I wanted to say goodbye. (and I'm glad I did as the finale was respectful, which is more than I can say for many soap finales) Sisters is a real "you had to be there" show. A product of the time, and also a show that only survived as long as it did due to loyal fans and to the strange transition period NBC was in. Yet it may be the most or only successful primetime soap NBC ever had...whether they called themselves a soap or not. (I am probably forgetting something)

@Franko No need to be concise. I enjoyed reading all of your posts. I had no idea Rick and Ginny took in another child before leaving Port Charles. That was something of a throughline for Rick and Lesley - I'm sorry it rarely continued (and when the show tried, like Monica and Alan taking in Emily, the story ended up being marred by Guza). Connecting Celia and what she felt she had to do as part of a family code with current story is a good spot. I could see Celia fitting in better with the more recent Qs than her era of them. She was more low-key. It's hard to remember sometimes that Anna hadn't even been on the show all that long by this point but was already very important to fans. It seemed like the show was so hollowed out by the late '70s that fans were more willing to embrace new characters. Sometimes I wish the show still remembered today. Laurelton is a struggle to read about. I can't imagine watching it every day. I've always liked Lynne Moody. I wish they'd kept her around. I wonder why Monty decided to bring in a Cassadine at this late stage. Nostalgia for the peak of her success? Was it Pat Falken Smith's idea? The actor who played him only has one other credit. He was also married to the odious Mary Matalin, who later became "famous" because of the road show she did with James Carville about how party labels can't stop two narcissistic vipers from finding love. The Alan and Monica material seems very poignant - Leslie always did well with any opportunity to explore Monica's loneliness and loss of identity. I guess there was nothing for Bryan and Claudia or the oldest vets...

@alwaysAMC @Jonathan Just saw this pop up on Youtube. Sorry if it was already around. At around an hour and a half Susan Lucci has an interview on the Late Late Show. I think this was an interim period before Craig Ferguson was hired. Michael Ian Black, of The State and Wet Hot American Summer, interviews her. He's very awkward, which means Susan has to carry the interview, complete with quite a few fake laughs. He makes a thing of how attracted he is to her, and she does some flirting, but it also gets awkward (the most interesting part is when he asks her how she deals with men who hit on her). She gives the stock answer about the grizzly bear story. She also repeatedly pokes at him (not literally) for not knowing how to pronounce entrepreneur. By the end she is just plugging her infomercial product, some buzzing skin exfoliator...ending with her head in her hands as he pretends to use it for self-pleasure. A fascinating interview in what a pro she was in such a messy situation. LATE LATE SHOW:GUEST HOST TOM DREESEN WITH DENNIS FRANZ OCT 2004 MICHAEL IAN BLACKWITH SUSAN LUCCI

Melrose Place promo (1995)

A generic promo from before the show debuted. Passions promo (1999)

This was the story that made me tune out. All these years later I still find the story sickening.

Days of Our Lives promo (2000) A promo for some of the DAYS scenes that make me laugh the most.

I don't think they'll ever go back to Ric/Liz, which is probably for the best as the relationship is more interesting with him pining for her. I wish they'd do more with Ric, but I do like seeing him in a good place with his family. There wasn't much left to play in him constantly being at odds with them.

A shame. IIRC, Crampton never did audition, which was a real mistake.

You guys almost make me want to go back and watch early 1993 again but that whole period, along with a good portion of the back half of 1992, broke my heart at the time. I'm not sure how far I'd get going through it all again. Looking back, I do think Ann Hamilton should have had a little more time in the role. A part of me wonders if she was cast to fail so that viewers would support Barbara Crampton. This...did not work.

That "tense" moment with Alex was the epitome of smell-the-fart acting. Joey Tribianni would be proud. Is there anything RWS can do beyond take off his shirt? As always, it's nice to see Julie. Are they trying to give some Traitors vibes in all the Dimera meeting scenes? (just missing the cloaks)