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I do recall a SOD article from summer 1997 that was discussing the renewed popularity of swim shorts on soaps (they'd gone in and out of fashion throughout the years) and (amongst other soap characters) the article mentioned Thorne (then played by Winsor Harmon of course) wearing shorts then specifically added the line "Ridge will never change" lol

I thought the leap forward was in 2004?

Oh that's interesting. Y&R did often take breaks during the summer for Cricket coverage on Nine but that wouldn't account for the discrepancy as Days would have had the same breaks and yet didn't fall that much further behind (Days started in Australia in 1968 and by the mid 90s was still roughly about three years behind).

Yeah that would be about correct. New Zealand was always roughly four years behind, but the Aussie soap magazines always had articles and later summaries for Y&R that suggested Australia was about six months ahead of us.

I think, but I'm not sure, that the black book wouldn't actually have been used as evidence in court. Rather - as the book had the names and numbers of people involved in the Smith Organization in addition to the location of the gold - once Luke had mailed the decoded portions of the book to Joe Kelly, Joe and Burt Ramsey would have been able to track down witnesses who - provided they agreed to testify voluntarily i.e they couldn't be compelled to testify - would have had enough "attenuation" for their testimony to be admissible. I also believe that finding the gold bouillon was just a way of signalling to the rest of the organization that Frank Smith had been skimming extra amounts that they had not agreed to, thereby convincing enough witnesses to throw Frank Smith under the bus. Disclaimer - I pieced the above speculation together from the scant recaps of that time (curlyqgrl) and a quick wiki search of articles such as "Exclusionary rule" and "Fruit of the poisonous tree" so have no idea whether I am truly correct lol

It is! Here are the scenes First part from 2:42 - Peter Hansen does some great facial acting here, showing Lee's contempt for the Webbers and Laura. Second part of the dinner party starts at the beginning of the clip. As an added bonus, Rick and Lesley later have an intimate conversation at Kelly's - with Monica seated at a nearby table!

@j swift yes it's what Franko says above and also there was the incident where Lee fell off the wagon and burned the divorce papers, which Lee was very apologetic for. One thing that is also interesting is that Lee and Gail weren't on speaking terms with Rick and Lesley for the best part of a year and at one point Steve and Audrey tried to intervene by luring both couples (well Rick and Lesley weren't actually back together yet) to a dinner party that didn;t go down to well lol.

Delta Goodrem is interesting because there was that whole period where Neighbours devoted itself to promoting Delta's debut album. I'm not complaining though, it worked for Delta and Neighbours and the songs were good

Oh definitely. I think, in particular, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was Dante having known Brenda years before. That was a bit too much. But up until then, I liked the show's focus on him.

I believe it was. Lee was drugged with the LSD in January 1968; the ramifications played out for the rest of the year, then carried well into the following year even after Nixon left. And then as has been mentioned Lee was killed off in May 1969. Oh I loved reading about the Danny Fargo saga.

Heck, in such a scenario they all probably just talked about Jo for 15 minutes.

Rachel and Ted were married on July 6, 1971 (according to AWHP) so Rachel actually married Ted during Robin Strasser's first run. And yes it was an impulsive marriage, their courtship literally played out over the course of just two weeks!

Oh thanks for this! You know, this is probably the first time I've seen what the Pre-Monty GH set looks like in color.

And we're back to the Sonny Show...

I thought this was funny, appears to be a new TikTok dance surrounding the EastEnders theme song EDIT and this appears to be the original...

Oh yes, it's the Horton cabin on Smith Island, my mistake.

"I SAW YOU!" September 10, 1993 & September 13, 1993 Begins at roughly 40:39 in the first clip and carries on through the second. WARNING: both clips are interspersed with barf inducing clips of John and Kristen 🤮 but the Marlena and Sami drama is lit 🔥 First clip: Second clip:

I don't know if you are ok with spoilers (I kinda assume you are from your post but it's always good to check) so I'll just put some key dates to give you an idea how long it lasted. If you want I can give you a more detailed timeline with lots of spoilers in another post. November 16, 1994 - the beginning of the "Queen of the night" storyline, the prologue for the possession storyline. December 2, 1994 - the beginning of the Desecrator storyline, a major subplot of the possesion storyline. December 23, 1994 - The possession fully kicks off May 30, 1995 - The exorcism begins. July 5, 1995 - clip show of the possession lol July 18, 1995 - The possession ends. so from November (or December, depending on your preference) right through until July. It was very long lol. EDIT: should add that I got these dates from Bethsdayspage which still exists via the internet archive wayback machine. I much preferred the scenes where the MarDevil is out and about (once we get to the exorcism it's just weeks and weeks of Marlena's penthouse bedroom lol). My favourite mini arc from the possession is the one that starts on Horton Island (EDIT: Horton cabin on Smith island) and goes on from there for several episodes.

I was hoping Scotty would mention what Sonny did to Karen, but of course the writers would never go there again.

A friend of Eric's had been raped back in Colorado and both Eric and another friend of Eric's - Jed - were both suspected of the crime. It was Jed who followed Eric around Salem and when confronted, Jed tried to make out Eric was the rapist. But Eric managed to finally get Jed to admit that he'd done it and return to Colorado to face the music. I actually noticed some of those things happening as early as the acid storyline with Carrie and Austin in '93 (when JER first kept them apart for a year and it was Lucas rather than Sami that was the main villian in their storyline). But it was fairly limited to just Carrie and Austin at first (and those in their circle, such as Sami and Lucas). All of the other storylines didn't seem to have that problem. By the end of possession it had spread to everyone.

Here's an interview with JER, not the one Vee mentions, but he does talk about "The affair", why Victor was put on the backburner and suffered a stroke, why it took so long to give Mike a story and why it took so long for Eric to be introduced. Also talks about the then unnamed Passions. https://www.serialscoop.com/2016/04/flashback-days-of-our-lives-head-writer.html

https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/28-09-2021/shortland-street-is-in-a-race-against-time/ Definitely cutting it a bit fine this time; during the last level 4 lockdown (March - April 2020) - when production was also suspended - the show was trimmed down to three episodes a week. The other Auckland lockdowns (August 2020, February 2020 and March 2020) were all only Level three so production was able to continue.

Here's a couple of scenes with mostly background music and little dialogue from when Bo chases The Dragon across London (like the actual real London, not a set lol) Since this thread is about background music, discussion should be limited to the music in the scene here but I've also posted this in DAYS behind the scenes, articles/photos for people who may want to discuss the scene itself.

I just found this and I absolutely adore it lol

Here you go 15 minutes in.