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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.

Someone was talking about this in the AW thread and it led me to learn that Allie has a son...so I guess there's that.

I saw a tweet that, if this baby lives, it's the first black child born on the show since 1989 (Tommy Hardy). That's crazy, yet somehow not at all surprising.

Thank you for sharing these passings with us that we'd never know of otherwise.

She has an accent, it's just not as all-consuming as I'd expected. She, Lonnie Quinn, and Cady don't really have an Appalachian accent (is that the part of West Virginia Palmer was from - I can't remember), but that's probably too much work. I think Kari was just there through part of 1988. I wonder if they recast because she doesn't fit as the ingenue they molded Dixie into - she's made up like a discount Hee Haw Honey, and she reminds me of Sally Kirkland. I wonder when they decided to get rid of Lonnie Quinn. He's a bit ambitious but clearly not what they made Will under JPS. He seems more like the hot pieces of farm ass Marland collected at ATWT. (he would pop up on ATWT, but long after he'd retired from acting and moved into being a weatherman). That sad Skye/Tom bedroom scene led me to realize Richard Shoberg still had such a great body by this time. So many men on soaps, and in life, overdo the muscles and just look cartoonish - he has the perfect build. I can't remember - did viewers ever see Juanita Ramsey? Wasn't expecting to see her grandson. I guess that doesn't go anywhere. What did Erica fans think of this whole hostage story with Travis? I know some think it ruined his character.

Good spot. I forgot he was on AMC near the end.

That was also 15 years ago...

I think that's always the crux with Gottlieb. She did brilliant work, and I don't think she was inherently dismissive of OLTL in the work she put across onscreen. Yet there was clearly something about her which alienated many in the industry, not just touchy actors or journalists, but also Erika Slezak. So the two co-exist. Her work still mostly holds up well and a good portion of what I personally may not care for I can at least say was well-produced. She's luckier than Lemay as most of his work is gone so we're left with fan memories, audios, a few episodes, and a dishy tell-all that makes him look petty.

I think the writing for the triangle had issues beyond Clint's behavior - it was disrespectful to the Viki/Clint relationship and also very cheap to use homophobia (and the whole idea of "good" and "bad" homophobes) the way they did. There were ways to break Clint and Viki up which weren't taken, while still building up Viki and Sloan. I don't think Gottlieb was wrong if she had a low opinion of the few years of stories proceeding her taking over the show, but that interview where the composer seemed to have such a dismissive opinion of the Megan death story made me wonder if they just did not have much use for the soap format.

@slick jones Not sure if this has anything you need or not, but it was a VintageNoSpintage upload that was blocked in the US but is now unblocked. There are AMC credit crawls at 20 minutes and an hour and 2 minutes and an hour and 18 minutes. I didn't realize they started Cliff/Nina this early, or this soon after Jesse's death. I have never watched Dixie #1 (Kari Gibson). She's not as "country" as I had expected - I was expecting someone from Dogpatch. That blonde is very garish though. Also wasn't expecting to see Cecily and a Speedo-clad Sean making out in the pool. Sometimes I forget how sexual soaps were then compared to now.

I would say this would be a good chance to give Trina something interesting to do but that isn't happening.

Interesting, as Christopher Stone was a few years younger. I always thought Robinson looked older than his age anyway. A few years later he'd be cast as Hunter Tylo's father on B&B (the only soap role I enjoyed him in).

What "substantial" story did she give Ada? Buying into Mary's? @Soaplovers You make valid points. I think my biggest issue with her tenure is the grimy feel and the misogyny. And awful Reginald. Someone uploaded this because of the contrast between the music and the scenes, mainly one at around 48 seconds. It did make me laugh. I miss getting proper closing credits on TV shows.

I guess this wasn't too far after that ill-fated story about Leslie's mother. Thanks @Paul Raven

Thanks @slick jones I know that must have taken a lot of time.

That was the vibe I got from that interview about the music in her OLTL run. Just some thinly veiled contempt.