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I think I read somewhere that in the end Marlena (and Marlena alone since Roman was presumed dead by this point) offered to change Baby Eric's name but Kim gave her blessing to keep it (I think for her it was a way to reclaim the name from her uncle). This type of story was a recurring theme in Irna's work, possibly because she herself had a stillborn child at the age of 19 after being abandoned by her boyfriend. For example on GL, Kathy Roberts married Bob Lang, he died and Kathy married the respectable doctor Dick Grant and passed off Robin as his for a time.

I think Marlena was the person Lee trusted enough to tell her secret that Renee was her daughter by Stefano. And Marlena was there for Renee during the strangler storyline and became a sort of mother/sister figure after Lee left. When Renee told off the entire town for making her miserable, she specifically pointed out Marlena and Chris as her friends to - i guess - let them and the rest of the town know that her attack wasn't aimed at them.

And like Gary, Garrison also had a drinking problem. IIRC they never actually showed Garrison's death, the episode ended on an upbeat note with Garrison and Miss Ellie taking a walk around the ranch, now fully reconciled as siblings with the terminally ill Garrison planning on spending his last days at Southfork. And then - like most self-contained shows of the era - Garrison was nowhere to be seen in the next episode so it can be assumed that he passed away between episodes.

There's an interview with June Lockhart where she explained some of this. In the interview June says that Mariah is descended from Maxmilian even though Amelia is supposed to be the mother of Mariah's husband rather than Mariah. But given it's "royalty" we're dealing with here it's not much of a stretch to assume that Mariah and her husband were cousins even if it was never stated onscreen.

Yeah they've been amicable for a while but having deep and meaningfuls seems a bit too much. Carly's closest female friend would probably be Olivia - which is somewhat strange in itself because Carly usually tends to feel threatened by Sonny's exes. As far as I remember Carly and Olivia haven't ever really fallen out in the 13 years Olivia has been around. I think their friendship started because of a mutual hatred of Claudia lol.

So I guess it took Felicia to do the job noone else was able to do lol

Oh yes. I automatically read the date on the video as Day Month Year instead of Month Day Year so thought it was from July 4, 1993 lol

That must have been for their 15th anniversary of the first wedding (perhaps in lieu of an onscreen celebration since AJ and Jason had been SORASed?)

I think there was a big update in 1991 that added characters like Olivia, Dru (although they may have been added the year before, i'm not sure), Neil, Victoria, Ryan and Flo. And then I think there wasn't another one until 1993 when they added Blade, Cole and Hope. So there definitely was an opportunity to put Sheila in the open, though for whatever reason they didn't.

I'm still a little skeptical they'll go there but it certainly feels like it's being written that way.

One interesting thing to note about the Ice Princess storyline was that while Luke and Laura, Robert and Tiffany etc were on that Island during the blizzard, pretty much the rest of the show was dedicated to the emergency response centered on the hospital, which I don't know was repeated to such an extent in later years.

Yeah that's called block storytelling and is used in UK soaps (which also have bloated casts and only half-hour episodes). And actually GH does do that to an extent - its but it's just that a small group of characters (Sonny, Carly, Jason before he was "killed off" again) get to be on all the time and are never rotated out. One thing I liked about RC's run around the time of the 50th anniversary was that there seemed to be an attempt to equalise things a bit more. For example, Sonny and Kate/Connie didn't appear for weeks while other storylines were playing out.

Cricket was trying to set them up and I think they went on a few dates but Nina's head was almost immediately turned by Ryan; John Silva briefly entertained the notion of fighting for her but in the end gave up and that was that.

I agree. They've basically been hinting at it with Alexis and Harmony for months now. Whether or not GH will actually go there remains to be seen but with care and taken slowly I could see those two together.

The one when Lauren first came on B&B for one of the fashion shows. Sheila went to her hotel to confront her, seemingly getting into a minor car accident along the way. Sheila and Lauren then had a confrontation; Sheila smashed a glass vase or something over Lauren's head and tied her up - or so it seemed. Then we see Sheila wake up in hospital and it turned out that the car accident was more serious than had been shown and her meeting with Lauren was all just a dream.

Finola Hughes and Michelle Stafford were on Pacific Palisades together back in '97

Is Debra Messing playing a midwife? I don't recall anyone else ever having a midwife on a US soap, only ob-gyns or someone (usually the father) totally inexperienced delivering the baby lol

One of the stories from January said that Maisie Smith was planning on leaving once her contract finished in October (and then obviously add in the filming gap which brings us to this month). https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13755746/eastenders-maisie-smith-quits/ Tiffany finally departed on Tuesday.

That they've apparently changed her first name (supposedly it was Nina but I don't know if it was ever actually said onscreen) to avoid confusion with Nina is quite promising I think. If only they could get Tia Carrere back as her sister Jade for a few episodes to firm up the family connection...

I had that same thought myself actually

No Murphy came along later when Kay and Marge had a car accident and Marge died and then Katherine thought she was Marge for a while. You're thinking of Arthur Hendricks who was supposedly Jill's dad (but was Tucker's dad instead). In the end Kin Shriner turned up as his stepson and accused Arthur of murdering his mother. It was never confirmed one way or the other but Kay didn't trust him so he left Genoa City.

Yeah I believe Mike and April were supposed to be the next leading supercouple after Steve and Kayla - I mean April marrying Nick was the same kind of misguided marital mistake that Days was fond of its supercouples making - but for whatever reason that ultimately didn't pan out but the show had Jack and Jennifer which the show went full steam ahead with in the latter part of 89. I don;t think it was that bizarre as Nick and April's marriage was meant to be a spoiler for both the Mike/April and Nick/Eve pairings. Days loved to have their couples pining away for each other while with the wrong partners.

There was a brief flirtation with Marcus and Carly, and I remember them being at some sort of University Hospital carnival (fundraising for the trauma center I think) where they suddenly decided they were better off as friends. This was roughly the time when Bo was either still on Ernesto's island or had come back and was still grieving for Hope. Then Marcus developed feelings for Kayla once Steve "died" but she ended up with Shane.

Great to see Bobbie, but I'm annoyed they had her just blurt out all the details of the planned Beechers Corners scheme to Chase.

Yeah, although the usage of Te Reo Maori on NZ TV has increased markedly in the past decade or so. That being said it's only recently that Te Reo Maori ceased being grounds of complaint to the BSA. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/437991/bsa-signals-end-to-te-reo-maori-complaints