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RIP Gil Gerard. Gil Gerard Dead: Star Of 'Buck Rogers In The 25th Century' Was 82

Emma and Tony have a good chemistry here (more than they often did as Luke/Bill and Holly - funnily enough Tony seems a bit defensive about those complains here). I never knew Emma had her own talk show. Not sure if this was common knowledge but Tony and Emma say that they insisted Bill and Holly go for AIDS tests before they made love for the first time.

Thanks @Planet Soap Interesting to hear the PR response Genie has to say (that she's wanted to return for a long time) with what she later said (ABC gave her no real choice). Another PR line from Tony ("there is no Luke without Laura") compared to his actual feelings. I like getting to see their stunt people. As you said, the money is just flowing here.

Looking on AWHP she doesn't even seem to have been there a month, so you're right. I suppose the 90 minute runtime means they had already exhausted story possibilities for the mother-daughter triangle in that month. Jamie was so important to Cecile's formative years. I wish he hadn't been replaced by Sandy and then Cass...but the same happened with Jamie in Vicky's life. I'd like to think if AW had gone on, Jamie would have returned, but that's probably naive.

Thanks @Maxim As said above, nice to see your mini-reviews again. I wonder if Josh Griffith had started by this point as the idiot plotting seems to have increased. Like you I refuse to believe Dorian would leave 100K in her home to steal. I've never seen Mia's final episode as Blair and to be honest now I'm not too sure I want to see it. Anna Holbrook was just wonderful and deserved more work than she got. Sadly, this OLTL role will be cut short. Erika is very entertaining in those library scenes. Sloan is a smooth operator but at heart Viki is still repressed and acting as if she's a teenager. I'm not criticizing the acting choice - it makes sense for Viki. Marty has some good scenes with Viki (and Jessica) in this period.

Thanks for sharing @SoapDope78 I was nervous on how long this will stay up but hopefully people can save it in time. I know this footage is available in archives but we'll never likely see it, so this is a real treat for fans in the show's 60th anniversary year.

I think that's what Soapnet would have been best served for. I know how important he was to GH but unless they dig up 5 never seen episodes from 1978 or 1979 I'm good with just one tribute episode for Tony/Luke.

I never notice that it looks like they were in separate shots.

Thanks so much @MissPalmer ! So close to getting an era I actually want to see (Lemay), but any lost AW is worth finding. Glad that this has a bit more of Lionel Johnston's Michael. I would have had so many story plans for that character if I had been writing AW at that time (admittedly they never would have gotten through anyway as I would have made him bisexual and in a relationship with an older male lawyer). @Maxim Yes it's always good to see more of Iris. How I love Beverlee. I enjoy seeing an early, tougher Blaine too...and Vivien as bodyguard. I love that arm grab from Iris. In another life she was a bouncer. This is also some of the earliest Cecile I've seen. I am not sure if she had already gone "bad" by this point and was hiding it or if she was still sweet at this time. Susan Keith's Cecile always fascinates me. @vetsoapfan You may enjoy seeing this too, especially the vintage DAYS. @slick jones @Paul Raven @dc11786 @Vee @Xanthe @Melroser @watson71 @Efulton @chrisml @Tisy-Lish @denzo30 @Khan @cody_1990 @Soaplovers @j swift @AbcNbc247 @anthonymolchan @SFK @All My Shadows @FrenchFan @jam6242

Seeing this reminds me we lost Denise not too long ago. I don't even think Lesley was appearing on GH at this time - I have a feeling they just put her in because Genie wasn't there.

The show had spent years demonizing AJ and Sonny has always had fans, so probably. Oddly they were kinder to him than the coming regimes were, IIRC.

That's a good idea. I'd think JJ would come back, and they can easily just recast Nathan again if they have to acknowledge him. A fight to the death with Helena would have been a good way (although wasn't she dead by then). Heroics probably wouldn't have worked as Luke was not a hero in his last decades. They probably should have had him pass away in a brothel.

Guza did let the whole Sonny as Michael's true father angle go on and on so I guess this is just the Britt version. I could see Britt in the Katherine role of mostly just hanging around for years being vaguely disliked by much of the populace (other than that year or so where they tried to make her Kayla).

@Vee There was a Britt and Emma scene today I think you'd enjoy.

I don't think Vincent had much overlap with Kim (the main person she criticized).

This sums it up for me. I'd be a hypocrite to act like Luke or Geary meant anything to me as a soap fan. "My" soaps were CBS, and by the time I started watching GH in the mid '90s, I felt no connection to Luke. That only hardened as time passed and Geary's clear disdain for the character and the character's foundations also hardened. I don't blame Monty for everything soaps became, any more than I blame JER, but there's such a dividing line, made worse because the better soap years are almost entirely lost to us. That Geary himself seemed to have such disgust for the L&L years informed much of his later work. I think his deconstruction of Luke, and the Luke mythos, would be much more compelling to read about in a paper than what we got onscreen, but that's true of Tony in general. He seemed to have a fascinating life, and even though I disliked Luke and what Luke ultimately did to those around him, I can appreciate his passion for reinvention and wanting to take Luke on his own journey. He never stopped wanting something more, rather than just cashing checks.

Thanks @JAS0N47

Thanks for sharing her quote @FlyRightOrchestraGuy

About the same as usual to me - Kim Medcalf doing most of the heavy lifting. Some lovely work from Paul Bradley and Karen Henthorn though.

This is just horrifying.

The more I listen to the last remix of the EON theme, the more it grows on me...the biggest downside is the really cheap graphics, especially the end with the car and then with Raven and Sky kissing in front of Chromakey.

They did reveal Austin's shooter...about a year and a half later.