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I think the door was opened for that when he let the guy on his show. I hope this is a cautionary tale for the media and for the talk show hosts that has so much media sway now, but based on the wet kiss Sean Spicer got, I shouldn't hold my breath.

I wonder if even this will make the media care - if this passes. They are still so obsessed with inside baseball and who has won or lost. I hope that this has taught Jimmy Kimmel a lesson about schmoozing with Republicans just because it gets headlines and positive attention. You can't trust a Republican. You just can't. Bill Cassidy used him and then walked away without even leaving any money on the bedside table. No wonder Kimmel is so heated.

Thanks. @Nothin'ButAttitude you probably enjoyed the lengthy Trucker shirtless scene. I did... I still can't quite process all this high drama with them or with Jack and Dinah Lee and Shana. It's such a sea change from earlier in the year. I can't say I'm all that fond of it. Susan Keith seems to be playing Cecile here. Certainly fascinating to watch though. The scene with Stacey and Trisha was pretty good. This is also the first time I've ever seen Rose Donovan. This is so early for Ally. The earliest I've seen. They were definitely trying to make her look like Carly and Ava here. At first I actually thought it was Carly. That Matt guy was cute. It's too bad he was written out. I don't think the actor went on to much. Loving had a much better younger, more natural younger cast, even as they cycle in and out so fast, than most of the soaps at this time.

I'd be surprised if NJ is around much longer.

Most stuff from April 1976 on is available. I was hoping they would show older material. It is available. Maybe this stuff won't be edited down as the Granada Plus repeats were - not holding my breath.

I loved that too. She's very bitchy and sly here - even that outfit, which is so '50s chic/glam/ordinary.

That's the earliest I've seen of Dinah Lee. She's fun as a vixen. And seeing Stacey so bitchy is also surprisingly fun. Had there already been a HW change from the April and May episodes? Trisha seems much more petulant here, having a meltdown over Trucker "ruining" her dinner party. Cringeworthy. The Paul and Ava material is markedly different from what they had only 3-4 months earlier. It's interesting to watch though. I guess Flynn is yet another character who amounted to nothing in spite of being promising. Given that Paul was only on the show for about two years it's astonishing how many different storylines he cycled through.

There was talk pages ago and over the years about Andy Cohen and a disdain for women - I thought of that again today when I saw this clip where he dismissively refers to Jessica Savitch as a "cokehead" (not that Gumbel or Alexandra Wentworth seem to mind) and he brings her name up mostly just so they can make fun of her. Given that he seems to love being on TV so much I might have thought he'd be more respectful about someone who lived a sad life and died so young and was a pioneer in TV, but clearly not.

I wish people had interviewed her about her LOL work. I mostly just know her from her brief appearances on Ryan's Hope.

That IS crass. It seems like the show had producer issues in these years (although they had so many producers). I remember reading that Savage left the show on bad terms so I wonder if she was also poorly treated.

No problem. I should also say if you ever want to change files (like from AVI to mp4), I'd recommend Handbrake, which is free.

I remember clips mostly. I don't think I ever watched most of it...

I doubt it was deliberate timing but whoever pushed this latest repeal was clever to do so when so much media attention is going yet again to Hillary and Bernie, as it means the press won't care (other than praising the GOP for their persistence and desperately trying to frame this as a big win for Trump).

@vetsoapfan the program I bought was 123CopyDVDGold. I should warn that it's not really that great - it does at least download off Youtube and I don't have to worry about viruses, but I don't use it for larger files and it doesn't really do formats outside of Youtube for me these days. If anyone has a better thing let me know.

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Yes, I like that touch, although it is always odd when an opening has characters who left years before the current episodes... I see that second one also has a lovely Liza/Travis montage. If @amybrickwallace is still around she may enjoy that.

Someone's put up some dubbed versions of early '80s episodes. The second one has the Italian version of the theme - I'd never seen it before. There was a better quality version put on another channel several months ago but this is the full version.

I tend to wonder if she just wants to get to be on the show in a way that doesn't involve being Luke's wife.

What do you think of Christopher Cass as Jack? I guess I get the idea of recasting him to be more snappy and different from the other men on the show, but he's just a world away from Perry Stephens. He also looks just like Robert Preston, which isn't a bad thing, but is distracting for what Jack was supposed to be. Lisa Peluso is the unsung hero in a lot of the episodes of this time period. Not that they're good only because of her - they're decent enough - but the way she goes between fantasies, romance, comedy, drama, sibling rivalry - she can play anything and give it such depth. And in such a soap opera way. Colleen Quinn is also very good - she was thrown into the deep end with all this drama but she makes it work. I guess these episodes were also the last of Elizabeth Savage. So did Wally have a twin brother (the one in prison with him)? I wish they'd given Ilene Kristen something a bit better to do... The way they have Rocky keeping all these secrets and also trying to keep Monty at bay means she has a lot of important scenes, but it's odd how rarely we see her with Rio, who was supposed to be her husband. I was glad to finally see them having a real talk in the episode where Abril was missing. I'm always so impressed with James Horan in these episodes as well. I guess I can see why they recast, as his Clay doesn't have the strong edge the character probably needs, but he works very well with everyone and gives the character a lot of layers.

I bought a program, but if you want to use a free one I use this sometimes: http://keepvid.com/ It's tougher for Dailymotion as the one I use has virus and pop-up issues.