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Didn't that show end 4-5 years before Dallas started? I guess he doesn't want to mention the bad revamp or some of the uglier personalities and their legal dramas.

I finished the 1992 episodes on the Facebook page. The Dinah Lee and Clay story is nonsensical, all this expensive, elaborate scheming just to protect Hannah's dreams for her sister (and Hannah is of course as saccharine as possible to justify this writing), but Jessica Collins and Larkin Malloy do have chemistry, and Jessica more than manages to sell Dinah Lee's insecurities and starry-eyed nature. She and Robert Tyler are absolutely wonderful together in their scenes from the April episode,. Thanks to Collins, and some of the writing, Dinah Lee feels very real in moments like that, not as generic as Trisha could sometimes be.I also liked how Stacey (who was so well written in this episode) stuck up for her, in spite of the dislike she felt. Christine Tudor steals the show. As this was soon after her taking the role back from Elizabeth Savage, they tapped into a sexier side of the actress, which she certainly delivered, but the vulnerability is what stands out most. Her scenes with Larkin in that last episode are the standouts - their chemistry is phenomenal. The throughline for Clay and Gwyn through all the years and all the recasts is forever heartbreaking, for reasons best shown here - I love the bit where Clay asks why they have to start fighting any time they get close. It was nice to see so much of Bernard Barrow's Louie, but the wedding seemed like too much for the story to me. Unearned. Well filmed though, and the first dance between Clay and Dinah Lee was perfect. Giff is such a fascinating character in these glimpses. I'm so sorry they made him into a generic psycho. I think @dc11786 had had some criticisms about the Carly story. I can see why now. It's so excessively maudlin and melodramatic. The basic story of Carly using Flynn to avoid her feelings for Paul and Flynn angrily dumping her for this would have been better and easier to connect to than a car accident that felt like something from one of those anti-drunk driving PSAs. All the stuff with her boozing and breakdowns - nah. And while Joe Breen and Colleen Quinn played the material as best they could, Paul seeing her at such a low point and telling her he loved her and pushing kisses on her made them both look awful. Their selfishness helped send a man to his death. I guess they were both leaving so the show didn't care about how they came across, but considering how good some of Paul's previous story was, this left a bad taste in my mouth.

The Dobsons had so many complex, fascinating female characters, I guess her absence wasn't as immediately noticeable. It's a shame they didn't have her on again when Long/Kobe gutted the hospital group in 84-85.

That trailer is bad, especially the awful emo wailing that clashes with the period setting. I love Matthew Rhys and I like seeing a '30s setting. I hope it works out.

I wonder if they brought her back for Roger's rape trial. Did Fran Rogers want to leave?

You're right.

Oh I didn't like the late '90s and onward writing for Jill at all but I've already gone over that too many times... When those clips popped up on YT, I was surprised to see that Brenda did play some layers in the shooting story and the divorce battle with John. The ridiculousness and campery and the ludicrous wardrobe choices seemed to kick into high gear after that point. It's too bad this is what many remember of her.

I remember that original video. I wish I'd saved it. The cuts from Jess to Brenda to Deborah were so precise, and that "tornado watch" was hilarious in the context of what tornadoes both Jill and Brenda were. I guess this was before they officially made her Jill since they keep saying "played today" instead of "now played." I'm not sure I have any mixed feelings over a recast that are stronger than my mixed feelings about Jill. The role wasn't sustainable with Brenda by that point, and I have so many, many wonderful memories of Jess' Jill (she was the first Jill I ever saw, and took me through many stories where I fought Jill's corner against all the hypocrites of Genoa City, and I still love her to this very day), but even in those last scenes there's something about Brenda's Jill that grabs me and reminds me how much the essence of the character will always be with her.

I never could get past the stories about how he would go around trying to convert his DAYS co-stars.

I know Germany has its problems, but what it must be like to live in a country where scientists aren't hated and feared. That doesn't have anything to do with the above, but I saw that Trump is punishing Romney by excluding him from his shambolic "re-opening" committee. Never mind that Romney is, for all his loathsome vulture capitalism, one of the only Republicans in Congress who has actually known how to operate a major business.

Thanks. You find so much great stuff, I never say thanks enough.

Not sure if the whole episode is anywhere, but this has a few glimpses of the episode that aired the day of Reagan's shooting.

Sorry if this was already posted. (boy did I get a good laugh when we heard the part about what happy campers the actors were)

I don't begrudge them this as there were a number of fans who loved the Otalia story - it got the show more press than it had had in years (not that it mattered). It's more Crystal's antics after the show that annoyed me more.

Oh wow. I'd love to see that. I don't think I have Retro so if it is uploaded anywhere can you let me know?

And yet we are still hearing many say that there has been too MUCH money spent and that the only solution is to get people back to work. There's a trend on Twitter today to try to remind people that going back to "normal" is not a good thing, that "normal" was not working. Sadly, many won't listen. Reagan's election taught everyone that if you are not cutting and cutting and suffering and dying, then you are weak. And no one has tried to change this worldview. To think so many were going on about how the GOP was going to have a big populist realignment. I notice that talk has dried up to nothing and instead we're just back to trying to blame WHO, blame Fauci, blame doctors, blame governors, and shame people to kill themselves in unsafe conditions. I knew it would go back here, yet I still feel sick about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/15/nurses-surgeons-janitors-first-us-health-workers-to-die-covid-19

His Mike was never in any episodes that aired on Retro. He appeared in 1967. If they ever release any of the assorted pre-Dec 67 episodes they have hopefully we can see him.

@I Am A Swede this is probably a bit late on Emmerdale for your tastes but someone put up most of an April 1996 episode (I've also put up a few episodes on my Jerry Sugden channel). Meanwhile, Inside Soap mentioned Kathy...mostly to make a dig at Malandra Burrows (the soap press seemed to have issues with her).

Malone was the first Blaine, yes. Nobody could fight like DW and VW. I suppose they trusted each other enough that they could really go there. Their fights feel very, very real, which is rare for soap.