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That would make sense when you say it. Puzzled me in the article.

I think there was a thread but if so it is locked. Thanks for the article. I'm confused about the Pat reference. She'd had her twins over a decade before 1978. Michael M Ryan was a handsome man but he did NOT look the same age as his kids.

They put up a few others too but those are from 1993 so may already be available.

Surprised to see the start of this Loving episode and Ally is watching AMC...at a time when the show regularly crossed over with AMC. LOVING SOAP OPERA Random Episodes Part Thirteen!

Thanks for sharing all these articles @Paul Raven

Thanks @vote4llama

I would love that. She was a brilliant writer back when the show was still willing to challenge viewers. They haven't really had slice-of-life sketches along those lines since the early '90s (still mostly written by her) and they were rare even by then.

I would have to look for my scans, which isn't likely (maybe if that tumblr account is still around we can find an SOD review of OLTL in that period). Soap Opera Weekly tended to have more open criticism. Other than Marlena de la Croix's "Dirty Dancing" dig at Gottlieb I'm not sure how much they said. I think, as mentioned before, the Eber abuse story was criticized.

This is the type of snobbishness which came back to bite his run. It's also impossible to do on a soap, which you can see by the surviving 1979 episodes, which, yes, have some strong actors, but also have some very dodgy work.

Many of them were forgettable. One of the only other writers of note was Marilyn Suzanne Miller, who had written for the show in its first four seasons. She did again in 1981-1982 and wrote two of my favorite sketches - one where Robin Duke has a one-night stand she regrets with Tim Kazurinsky, only for this to get much worse when she gets a call that her father has died and he is still there (in a second part of the sketch post-commercial break, we see the funeral...which he has followed her to), and another when Elizabeth Ashley hosted where we see her and the female cast as teenagers, then jump forward 20 years. They have the same dialogue in both parts of the sketch, it's just the different parts of their lives, along with their deliveries, shift the meaning.

I was surprised too because...they never really stopped. In Eddie's last season, there were three (two of those were pre-taped in the summer or early fall because Eddie was not in the building for a good portion of the season). When Eddie returned to host in December 1984, there was another. There was a few earlier seasons where he only appeared a few times, so maybe they paused, but never stopped. Maybe he remembered the situation as tenser than it was. Fred did go to the studio and met Eddie, taking a photo with him. Either way, I agree the sketches with Eddie were so important to SNL in those very lean times, and have held up well for such a wild era. And the whole "Buckwheat's Dead" arc was one of the best the show has ever had.

GENERAL HOSPITAL MAY 11 1983 W/original ABC commercials Luke's return from the dead.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/barry-blaustein-dead-eddie-murphy-snl-coming-to-america-1236593594/ Blaustein helped create Mr. Robinson, Gumby, among many others.

@slick jones I couldn't find this in Krista Allen's IMDB. She is in a pilot for the short-lived show 3 lbs. She pops up in several scenes. Her first is around 7 minutes. Untitled Peter Ocko Pilot - Unaired 2006 Pilot - YouTube

RIP Donald Gibb, who was in two 2003 episodes as Worm. https://deadline.com/2026/05/donald-gibb-dead-revenge-of-the-nerds-actor-1236900431/

I guess you could also throw in the "I slept with you because I thought you were my wife even though you aren't built like her/don't really look like her" stories (or the "I had sex with you when you were high on cold meds because I thought you wanted it").

1984 WLS promo AM Chicago

I guess it's free publicity for them, which doesn't hurt if they are still in the business. I suppose it tells you just how much Trump has still trashed our already dicey reputation for Canadians that we get such a lengthy, begging display.

Thanks @Paul Raven I had no idea Tall Boys was that old.

I guess she knew that Kelly was like family to them. I remember an episode like that too. Maybe the one I saw was right before he married Morgan. It was a fun scene. It never would have happened, obviously, but some type of secret affair story with Ed and Kelly would have interested me, with Hulswit's Ed, when he was rock bottom after the Rita/Alan affair.

How pathetic. And not surprising.

@dc11786 Such great insights, as always with these scripts and synopses. I too thought we'd be getting more with Alex investigating Bill. Maybe that plays out in 1962? I agree that Nixon seemed to fix what didn't work with Dick and Marie. They (especially Dick) felt superfluous and draining in past years. I do wish he had more involvement in Robin's story. Maybe Nixon wanted to streamline her narrative. Otherwise both he and Paul should be more involved. (we know Paul will later on)

Thanks. She looks great. I read that she'd been trying to get this film made for decades. I'm glad she finally did.

I'd say end of an era, but the era ended long ago. This is very nicely written. https://observer.com/2026/05/rex-reed-obituary-a-personal-remembrance-of-the-legendary-film-critic/

Reading this beautifully put together profile of Rex Reed and for the first time I learned what close friends he and Angela Lansbury were. I mean super close, especially after how she helped him with his dying/ailing parents. https://observer.com/2026/05/rex-reed-obituary-a-personal-remembrance-of-the-legendary-film-critic/