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Only 40 more years til it actually happens! But uh, maybe we should skip world war III lol

That's good news. Hopefully we'll soon find out more details about who else is coming back

I just wish they'd end the whole Linc thing, it has been going on for over three years now. Ok, granted there was a near two year gap in the middle before they picked it up again, but it just highlights how stuck Chase and Brook Lynn are.

This past week - in reference to the Brightshine couple and their pregnant surrogate cleaner - I've been continually saying "What in the Handmaids Tale is this" lol

Oh yes, that Voyager scene. Superb.

They are getting a helluva lot of use out of the Ten-Foward Los Angeles set, not that I'm complaining. It's a nice set and a logical move to have re-use it by having Picard set it up as a holodeck program on the Titan.

As it happens both father and son were rainbow babies with Audrey and Simone having miscarried earlier pregnancies before their respective Toms were born.

Don't worry, you're not alone. I think most of us here hate her lol! Heather at this point was a great anti-heroine and her character was a good juxtaposition to Laura. Even though there characters don't cross paths very much they did have a brief interaction at Joe's party which I thought was interesting. Yeah it was clear that they wanted to do something with him long-term, otherwise why else have all those endless prison scenes but as you say it didn't work out.

It is supposed to be the 60th anniversary of the hospital. You are absolutely right that it definitely wasn't Steve Hardy's first day back on the job in the first episode back in 1963 but they basically ret-conned that for the 30th anniversary to say that it was and then carried that on for the 50th. Then in 2019 when they wrote in Gail Baldwin's death her will stated that the treasure hunt she had set up was to take place on the 56th anniversary of the hospital, thus making April 1 the anniversary of the hospital itself and they've carried that on this year for the 60th.

While I was excited for the first week or so, I quickly grew a bit bored and haven't watched for over a month now.

I think this is partly why they have decided to end Discovery after five seasons. With both Picard and Discovery ending it frees up space for two more shows.

I think the birthdate they gave her was May 1980

I think I get what you mean. There'd be an establishing shot with a bouquet of flowers or something and sometimes the camera would then slowly pan across the room...

Yeah, my thought is that they likely first got together soon after All Good Things and just so happened to be broken up whenever a movie came along. I also liked that they tied in Picard's work with the Romulan refugees and Beverly's personal losses in a way that makes her absence make sense. Me too!

Wow.

Well I know for sure from viewing the 1981 episodes that the facility Heather was in was called Forest Hills, but I've seen references that say Jeff committed Heather to Pine Circle after the LSD incident. I don't know whether this was meant to be the same sanitarium (perhaps a retcon or a continuity error) or whether Heather was transferred at some point.

I think it was because Kate had found out that Derek Welles was actually Ava's brother, the long presumed dead Julian Jerome with plastic surgery. Quite senseless really, when everyone else found out a few months later anyway.

Yeah she killed Kate...a.k.a Connie, let AJ take the fall and basically got away with it.

in the mid-late '90s a significant part of the cast of GH was made up of actors who had been on DAYS during the same time in the '80s. For example in 1996 you had: Genie Francis (Laura GH/Diana DAYS) Wally Kurth (Ned GH/Justin DAYS) Mary-Beth Evans (Katherine GH/Kayla DAYS) Stephen Nichols (Stefan GH/Steve Days) Matthew Ashford (Tom GH/Jack Days) They were even joined by Jane Eliot (Tracy GH/Anjelica DAYS) for a brief period when she came back for a guest stint prior to her crossover to The City. And shortly after Matthew Ashford left GH in 1997, Billy Warlock (AJ GH/Frankie DAYS) was cast as the recast AJ.

Corriepedia says that for a few years after 1972 Crossroads "regularly outrated" Coronation Street, although this presumably means on an episodic basis and without further clarification could mean as regularly as once a week, once a fortnight or even once a month. What is known is that from 1972 - 1980 no more than a dozen episodes of Coronation Street each year claimed the top spot on the weekly charts and that sometimes episodes were in the teens for the weekly rankings, so there were likely a few opportunities for Crossroads to "outrate" it on a weekly basis but likely not on a yearly basis as you say.

I think Loving did one with Alex Masters posing as Clay Alden, fully knowing he wasn't the real Clay? I'm not fully up on the details of that story. Other soaps have done stories similar to Roman/John like Todd/Victor Jr on OLTL and Jason/Drew on GH where they genuinely believed they were the person they were presented as but with the added wrinkle that they were twins with plastic surgery.

I remember someone on here once saying that BFTD stories were partially inspired by stories of men MIA in wars coming back and indeed both Days and AMC did stories like that with Tommy Horton (though he'd never appeared on screen before) and Phil Brent respectively. GH too actually with Rick Webber but like Tommy Horton it was his introductory story so doesn't really "count" in terms of your question. Phil Brewer was the first BFTD story of a previously established character on GH in 1971, and Tom Baldwin, also in 1976. I'm not sure if there were any others prior to Laura's dramatic return in 1983.

Probably the highlight of 2010 - the rest of the year went downhill after that

Well Kimberly McCullough was still only 14 playing opposite early twenty-something actors as high school seniors. I assume they wanted a teenage storyline straight away but as Robin (and Kimberly) was still a bit too young for what they had in mind, they still placed her at the periphery to give these teen characters some ties to a longer serving character. Perhaps they had an expectation that once the teen characters graduated, Robin would be finally able to come into her own, which is what basically happened with the Stone HIV/AIDS storyline.