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Apparently he hasn't. Aaron mentioned him recently. Some Robert fans believe he hasn't mentioned Seb because he's too ashamed and doesn't think he can be a father. Who knows. I've seen some fan speculation that Isabel won't return after she has her baby. I would hate to see Victoria go due to her being the only Sugden who has stayed around, along with them inventing another son of Jack's just to make him a serial killer, but I won't miss Victoria as her own character. I really wish they would bring in more Sugdens while Robert is still there. I saw that the old Emmerdale Farm channel is no longer putting up episodes due to them not being complete years. I respect their choice but I'm sorry for those scattered '80s episodes they had that we'll never get to see.

Stefan Dennis will be on the new series of Strictly Come Dancing.

It's unfortunate to see Stella used that way. They seem to go out of their way to degrade Trina in this relationship.

Given how many came and went on AW in those years, I can't imagine so, especially Donna, who was initially just there to cause problems for Peter. I give credit to the actors but I suppose it was also writers and the viewers who were supportive. There was such a void in the show at the time that once they figured out how to write Cass and Felicia (not sure if it was Culliton or the Pursers), it was easy for them to become important to viewers. I'm glad the show did not get impatient and dump them too as had happened so many times. That also seems to be when humor returned to the show, as so much I've seen of 79-82 is a misery, aside from Cecile being a camp bitch.

Being married to a Quartermaine must be the most thankless role for a partner (aside from being involved with Sonny or Carly). If Chase does sleep with Willow, I wonder if they will have his sterility cured and she gets pregnant. Maybe she passes the kid off as someone else's (if she and Drew hook up again).

Emmerdale has the same problem. They killed one off last year and just barely even show any of the rest and they still have too many.

I do think the show needed and still needs a dark family not tied to the mob. If there was a way to reconfigure the Cassadines it would be worth a try.

Donna, Cass and Felicia arrived at the end of Rauch's run. The Pursers and Richard Culliton seem to be the writers involved (Culliton more for Vicky and Marley), although Corinne Jacker was still headwriter when Cass arrived.

Good catch.

Was the character dynamic or was the performer? Recasting Michael and giving him a bit of agency made him more dynamic, for a while at least, but the many connections Michael has also helped. Spencer has his share of connections, but they are all more fraught for the show. As @Vee said, Sprina is a likely no-go, and then you get to the broken down state of the Cassadines, now mostly Alexis. And you have Laura, who at least got to blast Liesl recently after doing the usual Laura enabling of recent years, but how long before Laura is just used as a reason to bring back Esme and coddle her some more?

Meghan Markle is in the thumbnail and pilot. Oh I see this was written by Chuck Pratt. If it had been picked up he never would have trashed AMC.

The main way I can remember is because of Lemay criticizing Val Dufour for ruining Susan Sullivan's big moment (never mind that it was Dufour's last moment on the show).

Thank you too @jam6242

Thanks @slick jones I never would have known of Raver or Peters passing without your post. I wonder if Raver had any ties to anyone at Y&R - seems like all her soap work was through them.

@Ryanc2 Thanks for the podcast summaries. It definitely sounds very interesting. I never understood why the show didn't do more with having a hot model playing Reese. At least he had fun backstage... This clip didn't go how I had expected. Kathleen Noone truly did play every single scenario possible during her time on soaps.

A pilot Grayson McCouch did while on ATWT - I assume this was why he left the show for a while, or one of the reasons.

Thanks again for finding a bit more Catlins.

@dc11786 Wow. Another completely rare find! So glad you found this while it was still available.

Thanks @dc11786 can't believe someone is posting random Rituals clips on tiktok! Amazing find on your part.

I do wish we'd seen more of the guests, but given that it was her show and she was helping AW with publicity I can't blame her. Knowing how much she loved her husband and her mother it warmed my heart a little seeing them. Thanks @watson71 . I'd never seen any of the party, never saw that clip either.

Thanks for letting us know. That explains some of the rare clips. Very kind of them to do this for Andrea's memory and for fans.

Lucas' reaction was very funny. It was one of those moments that gay indie movies from the '90s or early '00s would have imagined for a soap. So hard to imagine this is the same character Ryan Carnes played. I would say Ron would have had fun with those scenes but Lucas wasn't sexually harassing straight men... I saw someone on Twitter saying they wished this was the Guza era as he would have slapped her back. I wouldn't have wanted that here, but I guess a lot of people will always miss that certain dark energy his '00s run had compared to the show since.

I do hope they upload everything themselves. They always delete the old episodes from Youtube anyway, although I imagine these will not have the pop songs that were often in the earlier episodes, which takes away the flavor. The old theme is exquisite, especially the closing credits. That they've had the current godawful version for 15 years tells you all you need to know about everything in that period of time.