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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.

That was seen as an example of block voting which JFP excelled at, I think. I can't say the show was all that good for me in 1993 so I don't know how much was about quality. I imagine the clone story did make the show look bad, but by that time the Emmys were already becoming irrelevant and a joke anyway. I guess at least they did get a few awards here and there in the last years, like Jordan Clarke.

Apparently she still has a site (not sure how old it is). The FAQ includes a question asking if she still makes the same product she made in the infomercials, which cracks me up. I wonder if she and Cher ever speak as Cher felt those damaged her career a great deal (I'm not sure what she expected - maybe she didn't realize just how much infomercials were run into the ground, especially in the '90s). I didn't realize that Larry Hagman and Ted Danson were in them too (they are in another one of her infomercials). I always thought they both wore rugs by this point. All those were wiped from YT for several years but they are back now for some reason. I didn't realize that Georgianne was even spoofed on SNL (mostly by Melanie Hutsell making her usual goofy faces). I guess that's making it...

The infamous Lori Davis/Cher infomercials are back on Youtube, and I didn't know one of them had her sister Georgianne Lapierre.

I would say yes, in part because I wouldn't be surprised if this type of thing eventually becomes illegal at some point. It also adds to the bogus "voter fraud" narratives.