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8 hours ago, DRW50 said:

The last 17 or 18 minutes of a Neighbours episode - not sure of the Australian airdate.

Episode 866: 28 November, 1988

https://www.neighboursepisodes.com/index.php?year=1988&episode=0866

We have talked extensively about Lesley's first husband and their child so it is finally nice to learn that their child was named Jeremy.

10 hours ago, I Am A Swede said:

Now let me see if I can get this straight....

Brooke Logan Forrester Forrester Chambers Forrester Forrester Jones Forrester Forrester Forrester Marone Forrester Forrester Forrester Spencer Forrester (B&B) 

Granted, a lot of these were annulled or declared invalid, but still....

At one point Brooke was getting married every year (2001 - 2006 IIRC or the Forrester Jones Forrester Forrester Forrester Marone bit lol)

9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Looking on Twitter I see that there was a strike-mandated montage today to the Carly and Olivia friendship. I didn't even know they were friends. Then again, I've watched about a dozen scenes over the last dozen years.

Olivia has basically been Carly's number one apologist for nearly 15 years, even more so than Jason.

Turns out...

And Mark Hamil has arrived as Kent!

Thanks as always @depboy

On 7/12/2023 at 5:33 AM, YRBB said:

Random question, Trek fans:

I'm about to start TNG Season 6... Is it important to "sync" Deep Space Nine with it about halfway through (which is when it debuted) or can I just start it later?

I would tend to favor syncing them as while there are no stories which do "part one on TNG, part two on DS9" common to other shows in shared universes as there are a few cross-references between the two shows that will be more fun if they are synced.

At the very least, I think it is important to watch the DS9 pilot movie "Emissary" directly after the TNG two-parter "Chain of Command" since they are very loosely connected (hopefully that doesn't stray too far into spoiler territory).

Season 7 of TNG and season 2 of DS9 are a little more connected so I would 100% try and sync them even if you don't sync the first season of DS9.

1 hour ago, dc11786 said:

(I think the one he got into a car accident with might be Shannon Sturges, but the actress doesn't seem to be credited). I like all the character work, but it hasn't materialized into a big story yet. 

I think Shannon Sturges would have been well into her role as Molly on Days of Our Lives at this point. Was this character blonde or brunette? Coz Shannon was a brunette during her Days run.

1 hour ago, dc11786 said:

In a further scene, Bobbie states that the book reminds her of someone she use to know who she felt could have been saved but died. I am assuming she is referring to Roy DiLucca, but maybe it was somoene else. 

Yeah sounds like she could have been referring to either Roy or DL Brock, but I don't think she would have been so intrigued if it was DL, so Roy makes sense.

13 hours ago, Joseph said:

Anyone knows if there are Scenes with The Original Justine Available anywhere??? I saw some of the Actress on Home and Away and I Am Super Curious!

Most of the episodes from 2004 - around 2009 were uploaded on Youtube about a decade ago once they had screened in Ireland.

The episodes don't have airdates though but rather episode numbers so you will have to go trawling through the video list I'm afraid.

Laurie Foell's first guest stint in 2005 would be somewhere in the 3300s while her second stint the following year as a regular would've started somewhere in the 3500s. Her last appearance was in the 2006 season finale which I believe was episode 3645 so it may be best to search "Shortland Street episode 3645" and work backwards from there.

Good luck!

On 6/23/2023 at 11:25 AM, AMCOLTLLover said:

I will give Shorty Credit for being a bit more experimental over the last couple of seasons and especially since COVID.. BUT this whole last week where we had like 3 times the same episode just with someone else’s view was just wack. Like seriously wack. 

And they didn't even have an episode from Milo's POV to tie it together a bit more.

But yeah, really unnecessary and done much better last years when Jojo died.

Not sure if you've seen it yet but...

On 6/25/2023 at 7:48 AM, AMCOLTLLover said:

They were divorced and they were even hating each other. They were definitely not on good terms lol 

Yes I know they weren't on good terms but what with Cindy fleeing to Italy for a year, the custody battle when she returned and Cindy finally being arrested for hiring the hitman; I wasn't entirely sure whether they actually managed to find time to actually get officially divorced lol. Now I am pretty certain they were but can't confirm that without looking for a reference to Ian getting his decree absolute.

15 minutes ago, Vee said:

Also, sorry to spam people: What exactly went down with Jake Meyer's exit? It seems like Sam Behrens may have gone for a long stretch of 1988 before he finally exited, but maybe I'm misunderstanding. He's so good with Jackie, it's too bad.

I think after Gloria Monty left he was dissatisfied with the direction of Jake's character so he left, did a brief stint on LA Law and then came back to GH a short while later to wrap up Jake and Bobbie's story before exiting for good.

On 6/23/2023 at 10:23 AM, Vee said:

I don't get it. Is Cindy doing a bigamy thing?

I think she and Ian were officially divorced before she "died" but I'm not entirely sure.

On 6/23/2023 at 10:50 AM, Skylover said:

I feel like it all could have been slowed down a bit and played out way too fast. Great decision to have Lauren and Peter in the location scenes, but we didn't need to be told about the witness protection, for Ian to have a heart attack and for Lauren to find out about Cindy all in the same episode. It was like EastEnders on steroids. 

Not too long ago they would have had this play out over an entire week and probably would have even had the flashbacks too.

1 hour ago, Darn said:

Baby rabies amongst daytime can all be traced back to, in my mind, Bianca's baby switch. Also the baby switch epidemic of the 2000s. It gives you 9 months at least of story. And a baby switch adds at least another year. Is it interesting story? No but it's a whole lot of time. Pregnancies are also easily network approved, as we've discussed

It's almost hard to believe now that GH went nearly 5 years between Michael and Kristina's births with only Carly's miscarriage and Alan and Monica's brief attempt to have another child in between.

1 hour ago, Aragorn said:

Is the Drew actor leaving the show? They could send Drew to jail for a whiile, and then he can come back as a different actor.

I don't think so...at most he'll go to Spring Ridge for a few weeks or months so they have an excuse to use that set again.

5 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Although later it was done to death on most soaps I think the first time a baby's paternity was in question would have been on Days with the Laura/Bill/Mickey triangle.

I can think of one earlier...Robin's paternity on The Guiding Light during it's first year on TV back in 1952 - 1953.

I'm guessing having Robin's mother Kathy Roberts secretly elope to marry Bob Lang, being widowed when Bob died and then marrying Dick Grant (the late James Lipton, later a writer on a number of soaps and host of Inside the Actors Studio) when Bob was barely even cold was the way they got around censorship issues.

And of course while Kathy was busy trying to pass off her child as Dick's, she also had to face a trial over her suspected involvement in Bob's death and the machinations of Dick's mother who suspected the truth.

Eventually Kathy told Dick the truth about Robin but by then he no longer cared as he was having an affair with nurse Janet Johnson (Ruth Warrick).

3 hours ago, Vee said:

Maybe it's me but Chapel and Dr. M'Benga have real chemistry of the specific kind. I know Chapel's future path is fairly mapped out not only with her torch for Spock but for her driving focus on her ex/future? husband from Majel Barrett's original debut episode on TOS - I love the reinvention of the character, but it's still very strange at times connecting this Chapel to the often milksop character of the original show. Perhaps she is beaten down by life and tragedy in the interim. But you wonder if there isn't room for M'Benga to be the one man in Chapel's life we didn't know about.

I definitely noticed that too. It was quite palpable. So much so that in my head canon I'm starting to think of the possibility that maybe she and M'Benga finally hooked up in the 2270s after The Motion Picture, perhaps serving together on the USS Hopeship and that's why Chapel is no longer on the Enterprise in TWOK lol

Speaking of Roger Korby, Chapel's fiancee from What Are Little Girls Made of... (This is more my speculation than spoiler but in tags just in case I'm on to something)

I did like the touch of Spock starting to play the Lute.

And yes, Carol Kane stole the whole thing. I'm not familiar with her (I last saw The Princess Bride nearly 30 years ago so don't remember her role in that), but was very impressed. Loved how her character figured out what was going on so quickly.

17 hours ago, Hunnibunni1025004 said:

I don’t know why I thought that Peter and Diana were already together when she had Tracey.

Well by the time Diana gave birth it is possible that Peter and Diana are already married - I believe Peter quickly married Diana because Phil and Jessie had reunited and Tracy needed a name. They fell in love for real later.

We'll soon find out for certain though

14 hours ago, Hunnibunni1025004 said:

Whew! So, Diana in essence was pregnant by Phil on 3 different occasions, because Tracey and Martha were the results of rape.

Isn't the child Diana is pregnant with now, Tracy? I'm pretty sure - though I could be wrong - that Tracy was the result of Diana and Phil's relationship (that we are seeing playing out now in Depboy's summaries) and then it was when Tracy was ill or had died (not too sure on the order of events there) towards the end of 1972 that Phil raped Diana, resulting in Martha.

13 hours ago, Vee said:

What's crazy to me is how long they tried to keep things going off and on over the years with Audrey being caught between Steve and Tom Baldwin, apparently (and a couple other men?). I don't think she and Steve got properly together til the mid '70s IIRC, and then they brought Tom back around one more time to play spoiler again trying to push her to get back with him by kidnapping Tom Jr. or something? And this was like five years after he raped her.

Audrey has one more bad "marriage" (in quotation marks because it later turned out to be invalidated by Tom's return) to Jim Hobart to get through before she and Steve finally reunite for good in 1976.

And the kidnapping of Tom Jr took place in 1972 I think. It was what led to Tom's presumed death in Mexico. In 1976-77, Tom just tries to guilt Audrey into getting back together with him "for their son's sake". That didn't last long and the show moved towards having Steve and Audrey involved in Jeff and Annie's problems rather than their own.

8 hours ago, Khan said:

Wouldn't Christopher Atkins have been too old to play A.J.?

Same age as Billy Warlock I believe, though Warlock did always looked young for his age

On 5/19/2023 at 2:04 PM, Taoboi said:

Well tbf, like most things with this writing regime, they have been setting Portia as the next spoiler for Sprina for YEARS...since almost the moment they met. So it's not that surprising now that they are FINALLY together. 

Yes, all those chats back in 2021 where Portia listened with genuine concern as Ava would confide in her about the latest stalking incidents weren't for nothing. Even if it has taken so long to get around to it at least they've done quite a good job in giving Portia plausible reasons to dislike Spencer beyond "I don't like him, I think he's bad news."

5 hours ago, Liberty City said:

Joan Collins, on the other hand (in the episode), called her "stupid" and that she made a "big mistake".

That's one of the things I vividly remember from that E! True Hollywood Story - Joan Collins exclaiming "I thought she was stupid!" before giggling away.

That and the prediction that there would never be anything like the Moldavian Massacre on TV ever again because of 9/11, which seems silly in light of the Red Wedding on Game of Thrones. OK, that was over a decade later and on Cable but even the Daytime Soaps were venturing back into that sort of territory within a few years.

2 hours ago, depboy said:

Tuesday, April 28: Diana tries to find out more about Phil’s background; she admits she had a baby and gave it up for adoption.

Diana had another baby! Why do I get the feeling that was forgotten about as time went on...sorta like Lesley's first husband and their child.

Thanks for the summaries as always

10 hours ago, John said:

If GH NS 2  in 2008 hadnt mentioned that Karen was dead, I would think GH would have brought Karen back especially when alluding that the vampire thing on PC was all fake.. 

1 hour ago, Liberty City said:

Well, this can be undone. It's been done before and it can be done again. Especially since it was a simple mention on the spin-off.

IIRC though Karen's death was mentioned on GH at the time it happened on PC...I seem to recall a scene where Scotty told Sonny Karen had died and the two ended up arguing.