Dion

Those bring back memories, I read all of them in my High School library a year or so after they were released. Now in other news, I have no idea if it is geoblocked outside of Aotearoa New Zealand or not...I really hope not...but all 159 episodes of 1992 were released onto the official Shortland Street Youtube page last night, from Episode 1 (Monday, May 25, 1992) until Episode 159 (Thursday December 31, 1992) Here is the playlist below: (I am a bit surprised they are using Rene Naufahu in the thumbnail for episode 1 though)

Nearly three years ago when they revealed that Cyrus and Martin were Gordon and Florence's children, I pointed out (I think in this thread) that the writers got it wrong when they had Cyrus say that Gordon was behind switching Laura at birth. And this confirms that Gordon didn't know. It was Lesley's father who arranged for Laura to be switched with the Vining's deceased baby. Ah well its a minor quibble on a show where they expect us to believe Heather got pregnant by Scotty and gave birth in the short time between when Scotty left Laura and Heather started being released from the mental institution. And of course that later Heather helped Susan give birth to twins and took one of them even though she was actually trapped in the ice princess blizzard in Port Charles with everyone else while Susan was in New York lol!

Charles Mesure, born in England, raised in Australia but much of his early career was actually in New Zealand. Was also Vanessa Williams' love interest in the final season of Desperate Housewives.

They were actually going to let her go but Tracy (surprise surprise!) actually demanded that Sasha stay.

Yeah they've even given TJ a motive. I actually like that it was the kidnapping from over three years ago

Teenage pregnancy rates in the UK are amongst the highest in the developed world but the rate has actually fallen by more than half in the 2010s so these days its increasingly becoming more of a soap exaggeration thing just like the number of murders, divorces or people returning from the dead lol. That said, Walford is supposed to be a socially deprived area so teenage pregnancy rates would be higher than the UK norms. Sarah Platt's pregnancy on Coronation Street (back in 2000 when she was 13, she's 36 in the soap now!) seems to have kicked off the trend of really young teenagers and even pre-teens having babies on soaps though. And EastEnders ended up writing in a surprise baby (Bex Fowler) for Martin and Sonia (who were 15 at the time) as a response to Sarah's pregnancy.

Also CC: @Joseph @Marco Dane I'm a couple of days late to this but isn't the image you posted from the south side? In the plaza area between the old and new buildings? They used the north side ( N State Street & Zonal Ave) for the iconic Autumn Breeze opening and the establishing shot that Joseph posted. (And yeah even though I've never been to LA, I'm such a google maps and soap nerd that I familiarized myself with the layout of that complex years ago lol) Still looks mostly the same from Streetview (admittedly June 2022)

As you may have already noticed, part of the way they juggle all the characters is to use block storytelling - that is, a particular set of storylines and characters might be featured in each episode for a few weeks before being rested for a while and picking up later. When well written it is usually quite effective and goes unnoticed with the storyline blocks overlapping with others and being rested when they reach a natural pause. However in periods of weaker writing it can be quite noticeable with characters just up and vanishing for weeks in the middle of a huge storyline There are also definite tiers of characters with some of the more high-profile characters being rotated through at more regular rates than others who may end up being merely background characters most of the time with a token storyline once or twice a year. I wasn't actually watching at the time either but wasn't it the other way round? That it was actually Eve (whose remaining family are homophobes) who needed a stable address in order to be released on probation so she and Stacey married in order to make it seem plausible that she would live long term with the Slaters?

After months of suffering from fugue states - during which she would commit acts of vandalism such as torching Franco's studio, attacking Chase and moving a portrait around the house. After a short stretch in Shadybrook, Liz returned to work and began to remember seeing a woman who'd been pushed down a flight of stairs. The fugue states and memory flashes had apparently been triggered by the sight of Peter August at the bottom of a stairwell at GH (after being pushed down by Finn) the year before as Liz would continue to have flashbacks of both incidents - eg she'd have a flashback of Peter which would then trigger the older flashback of the woman. The mystery deepened when Liz drew a portrait of the woman she kept seeing in her flashbacks, and then saw pictures of Finn's late wife Reiko on his phone, who looked exactly like the woman in the portrait 🙄 (I mean you'd think she would've already seen pictures of her 🙄). Finn revealed to Liz that he and Reiko had been working in the Mariana Islands during the 90s and Liz remembered that she'd gone with her family there just prior to her arrival in Port Charles 🙄. Liz began to suspect that her father Jeff Webber had pushed Reiko down the stairs. Having been estranged from her parents for 25 years, she broke into their house only to be confronted by them. Jeff (now being played by William R Moses) and Carolyn (Denise Crosby) eventually admitted that Liz had pushed Reiko down the stairs after finding Jeff and Reiko in bed together 🙄. Reiko survived the fall, but needed a blood transfusion that led to her contracting the fatal disease that eventually killed her years later 🙄 (this retconed the earlier explanation that Finn had unwittingly exposed her to the disease while looking for a cure). Jeff and Carolyn then sedated and brainwashed their daughter to forget all about the incident 🙄. Liz eventually told Finn about what happened and he was shocked as while he knew that Reiko had fallen down some stairs he didn't know she'd been having an affair and had never heard of Jeff Webber prior to coming to Port Charles.

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.

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

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

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.

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. 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.

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!

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...

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.

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.

I think she and Ian were officially divorced before she "died" but I'm not entirely sure. Not too long ago they would have had this play out over an entire week and probably would have even had the flashbacks too.

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.

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.