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I agree that a romance shouldn't be a priority for Carly, but I have no idea what they should do with Carly...I know this has been talked over to death but there just is so little left for her with her children, or rivals (Carly can't even have a proper rival as she is on her own mountain). If a strong love interest could change that I'd say they should try but there aren't any good romances on the show.

Thanks @Jdee43 ! I'd seen those up but hadn't gotten to Mary's yet.

Thanks. A shame about her last run, although that seemed like a mess even just reading about it, and I guess Frank doesn't forget.

To be fair, it's still not as bad to me as that Genie Francis joins Y&R promo. What confuses me is where Tamara and Roger previously worked together. Was it on GH? I was not watching the show for her stint. She'd be better in the role of Carly today than she was at the time as she has more of a weathered (in a good way) look that I think fits Carly more than the aggressive PTA parent look. I tend to agree. As soon as I hear the name I think of Lauren Bacall, and nothing on Y&R for a long time now compares to Lauren Bacall.

Carole pretty much confirms the leaks for the finale. Sorry, wrong link, although the above is a nice interview too. https://cultbox.co.uk/general/carole-ann-ford-describes-unused-doctor-who-finale-scene

Thanks again for your recaps @alwaysAMC . So are you enjoying the clone story more or less now that the two Revas are together? I'd forgotten about the painting of Brandon. I wonder if they used an image of one of the actors to play Brandon or if they just threw anything on the wall. Once again, we see the ignorance of history on GL by this point - reintroducing Brandon's legacy when Alexandra and Amanda had both been written out. I remember enjoying the bond between Selena and Abby, and Selena's presence on the canvas. I'd forgotten Abby stayed to help catch a crooked guard. On some soaps she would have likely been stabbed to death for "irony." By this point Hart truly is just a meat puppet. You could have just put a cutout in his scenes, and no difference would be made. I guess you are now pas the point of the hilarious scene of Hart and Rob grappling on the bed (I think Rob may have been shirtless). The Carl hallucination/tea party scenes are what I remember most from that story. I thought they were effective.

Thanks again @Maxim I do enjoy the faceoffs between Erika Slezak and Robin Strasser, but this very icy take with Elaine Princi, with dialogue that is not as surface level as she had when involved with Viki before Gottlieb's arrival, is enthralling to watch. I love the way Dorian says she would be upset if a moral person was calling her names, but not Viki. The scene with Clint is just as good, and once again, that music is perfection. Never overbearing, always enhancing.

I think Kevin Dobson had a lot of fire mixed with warmth early on, even if I was never very attracted to him (by the late '80s I think most of that is long gone). I don't actually remember ever finding any of the men on the show to be extremely attractive, but James Houghton and especially Doug Sheehan were classically beautiful to me. I think John Pleshette may have been the most charismatic man on the show, even if no one should have ever gone near Richard. I think Eric was the heart of Karen's family. He was the ideal combination of Karen and Sid - their earnestness and their integrity above all else. Once he's gone, they're never really the same for me.

Thanks @Paul Raven Thorson isn't even listed in IMDB but then they get so much wrong (if this is January 29th there are a number of actors listed who aren't in the episode). I can see Thorson more in the part than Thorn as Thorn seems a little more comedic, but then I have barely seen him so who am I to say.

@Paul Raven @slick jones @FrenchFan @VelekaCarruthers @vetsoapfan @jam6242 @Khan @NothinButAttitude @soapfan770 @Soaplovers @dc11786 @All My Shadows @Tisy-Lish @Vee @Franko @Joseph @Reverend Ruthledge @Researching... @te. @chrisml @beebs @Mona Kane Croft I wasn't sure we'd get another but the channel that has posted several old Love of Life classics shared one more glimpse in 1953! We are building up a number of 1953 episodes - three from January alone. I've read of Ellie and Alex and seen photos, but this is the first time I've seen so much of them. Interesting how the material with Ellie and Vanessa about Alex is serious and then the confrontation with Ellie and Alex feels so lighthearted in comparison. Maybe the actors made it that way to contrast him manhandling her. I don't know a ton about the tone of their relationship or history (isn't Vanessa trying to get money for Ellie in a later 1953 episode) I like the contrast between Vanessa being bemused and wanting to distance herself from all the Alex and Ellie drama, then being thrown into the usual very heavy drama with sister Meg at the end. Only four characters and 15 minutes yet it draws me in more than many large cast hour long soaps of recent decades.

Thanks @Paul Raven I really appreciate the extra information. I didn't know they both ran as long as they did. I wonder how much else is out there for them in terms of episodes.

Doctor Who actor, writer, and disability rights advocate Nabil Shaban dies at 72

@slick jones @Reverend Ruthledge @Paul Raven @wonderwoman1951 @dc11786@Bright Eyes @jam6242 @Tisy-Lish @vetsoapfan Not sure how much of this show is around (I looked and couldn't find any but I'm not great at it), but someone put up 5 episodes of Stepmother from 1940-1941, including a Thanksgiving episode and a Christmas episode. Ron Bowser-John Dunning Project - Kay Fairchild, Stepmother : Ron Bowser-John Dunning Project : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive They also shared three 1939 episodes of a serial called Kitty Keene. Ron Bowser-John Dunning Project - Kitty Keene : Ron Bowser-John Dunning Project : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

There's so much they could do with him. He's not quite as Prince Charming as Stuart Damon was but there's a physical resemblance and it makes me think of how much he could be a force for the Quartermaines in years to come, if he and the show are still there. As has been said many times already they're wasting the moment not giving him a proper love interest and a foothold of his own (maybe one of those 500 businesses on Y&R could move to Port Charles), but at least he isn't as minimized as Chad's Michael often was. This would be even dumber if we could believe he actually loves Carly.

Richard Bekins screentest for the Hardy Boys.

I am curious as to how many Ava fans were Carly fans. I loved Carly's first few years on ATWT and I can see some of Maura's grit still, but it's so tough for me to have a response to Ava. I think in the time I've been watching again semi-regularly her best work was Ava's "breakup" with Nina.

@Maxim Thanks again. Great clip. Such layered work from Clint Ritchie, Erika too. Both are in the wrong and in the right. Your description of the Luna story cracks me up.

That would be a great story, especially if he genuinely likes the younger man and realizes he has no choice, sees in the younger what so many have said about him over the years, finally has that crystalizing moment there's no going back from.

I loved her work as Maria - she was just a very underrated actress in general, typecast for sympathetic mom roles when I think she had a little more range. I always think she appeared more than she did as Maria. Clearly, we aren't going to get a Maria memorial episode, and we shouldn't, but hopefully Felicia will at least mention Maria as passing away.

I envy that mentality as it certainly would have made it easier to slog through the last 10-15 years of ATWT, just not caring. Of course, if viewers hadn't cared, ATWT wouldn't have lasted to that point, or much further than Golden Windows.

Thanks @Paul Raven I wonder if anything the Corringtons did there stuck. Did that "unfortunate accident" excuse actually make it to air? Interesting to see Liz Taylor's cameo derided as I think time has looked back on it kindly. I guess it didn't help that so much around then involved silly press speculation about Liz and Tony Geary being a couple.

Any implication on my part about Helen wanting Nancy to live with a man outside of marriage was unintended. All I questioned was how Helen felt about Nancy remarrying and the rest was my speculation on what could have been an interesting storyline. The bed part would be another interesting part of a potential story, as a number of older couples choose not to share a room and are together for other reasons like loneliness or comfort (or financial, although that wouldn't have been a factor in Nancy's case).

This channel has a number of episodes of a game show I'd never heard of called Musical Chairs. This one features Larry Kert, Sister Sledge, and a very animated Shari Lewis.

Thanks. I'd never heard of this.

Did they claim he was accosting Kristina? I can't remember either.