MichaelGL

R.I.P. Geraldine Ferraro.

Hmmm Max, that hasn't stopped the economy from growing, and from looks of it, at a reasonable rate considering the economic downturn that happened when Obama took office. All charts and graphs alike say pretty much the same thing, there is job growth, and amongst the private sector as well.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/25/news/economy/gdp_revision/index.htm

R.I.P. James Pritchett My condolences to his family.

The BBC received 125 complaints about the mini-episode, which was watched by an audience of 12million when it aired at 7pm.

They argued that the material shown was "inappropriate for a family audience".

They really need to STFU. I hope Kirkwood doesn't cave into those complaints and lets Whitney's story continue on its course planned by the writers.

A slower version of "Born This Way".....which I like

Thanks for posting these Carl. I particularly read the first scan, since I've grown quite fond of reading that era of The Doctors, late 1980-early 1981. It's quite interesting to say the least, seeing as how OLTL's former EP Doris Quinlan was producing the show at the time.

Rob is believable in the softer moments, which is what makes his malice so much more threatening. It's something most soap villains don't have now.

MichaelGL did you see the Doctors recaps I put in that thread a few days ago?

Agreed Carl.

Re TD: No I haven't, though I shall make my way over to the thread as we speak.

Here's my response to this week on EastEnders, which I posted on another board, so excuse the laziness!

I adored Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday's episodes. Very good stuff involving the Lauren/Janine/Whitney, with the Brannings thrown in.

The Brannings are pure gold these days, I love the dysfunction between them.

I don't find Jay and Abi that bad, actually I find it kind of cute. Which by the way, can't be said about the stuff with Tiffany, the cutesy kid stuff is just about getting on my nerves now. That kid is given too much airtime for my taste.

Janine is awesome, especially in Thursday's episode. I love the fact that she didn't back down from Rob!

I hope we get to see more of that other girl who was at the party. I cared about her instantly. She reminds me of Nicola Stapleton (Mandy on EE years and years ago - most recently on Hollyoaks Later) and Tina O'Brien, Sarah on Corrie, before they made Sarah into a stupid bimbo and Tina O'Brien gave up any attempt at acting.

I agree, there's potential there, and I think the show needs to add onto it's female cast.

The actor that plays Rob is incredibly convincing playing this menacing character, I'm glad the show casted him in the role. Every scene he was in, I was in utter puzzlement as to what dastardly deed he'd do next.

Kind of fits McTavish's forte, she was quite obsessed with making GL as trashy and outrageous as possible. Twins with different fathers, Quint and his mistress. Was it also her that brought back Dinah as this new trashy 20-something?

Carl, I do believe this is the scene you're referring to, the one where Roger takes compromising pictures of Reva. It was a miracle I found it, thanks to jenniferec2003 who chronicles much of the Reva postpartum depression storyline. I do kind of get a slight sick feeling watching the scenes, seeing how a manipulative Roger preys on Reva's illness and lets her strip for him. I can see how the photos that were shown to the audience were pretty risqué to some.

The scene between Reva and Roger starts at 2:57 after Reva has tried to seduce Hamp, she goes over to Roger's place to rant about Vanessa.

Would you say Wilmore or Kobe were better?

That’s a tough question Carl, considering both did considerable damage to the show, and perhaps Kobe more so than Wilmore. However I can’t deny the significant good Kobe did for GL, which far outweighs the good Wilmore did for the show, such as casting, production values, and simply injecting the show with much needed energy. Most importantly, Kobe was an EP with focus, an EP who set the overall tone of GL during her years. This differs from Wilmore, who simply didn’t appear to have a clear and overall tone for the show, and let the revolving door of writers set it.

Whether the good Kobe did for the show outweighs the bad, is debatable, but you can’t ignore that she did help the show in some way after the Marland era.

Carl, I haven't gotten around to 88, I'm trying to avoid some of Joe Willmore's tenure as EP, because to me, the show didn't really gain any true focus until Calhoun became EP.

You asked about the storyline involving Roger taking photos of Reva, so far I haven't seen much of the storyline on the episodes posted.

I'm thinking the decision was more of the EP at the time, Robert Calhoun, rather than Long's, just a guess. Long seemed to find a comfortable mix between the GL of yore and the GL of that decade by bringing back characters such as Holly, Roger, and Blake during her time on the show. When Long left in 1990, the show seemed to have just a significant amount of past characters from before 1983 when Long took over.

For why they never bought back CP, I guess we'll never know, it'll be one of daytimes unsolved mysteries. Is it certain that maybe CP didn't want to return? I would think that around this time, his guest appearance on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, that maybe he was looking to explore primetime or other venues of Hollywood.

Did Vanessa have post-partum depression after Little Billy?

I believe you might be correct there Carl, I'm not sure though. Soap Opera Central says she started "Obsessing over her new baby", I'm not sure if that's some polictially correct term for postpartum depression or not.

Finished with watching most of the stuff from GL in 1989, and now I'm moving onto 1990. Watching some of the stuff from Reva's postpartum depression storyline, and it's really intriguing. Was GL the first soap to tackle such an issue after a pregnancy?

I know KZ gets criticized as being such a ham, especially when playing Reva, but seeing her play an unbalanced Reva is top notch. Seeing KZ play out the many ups and downs of Reva's personality around this time is must see tv.

Here's a part of the episode, where Reva is starting to suspect that Vanessa and Josh are carrying an affair (in reality they're not), and Reva gets quite snippy with Harley.

There's not enough praise I can give this girl. She always seems to come out with an album that sings to my soul.....as cliche as that sounds. Her music really gets to me, and her voice is pure perfection. Never have I adored such a new artist like her, as I have for Adele.

Congrats on her breathtaking showing on the Billboards.

Favorite songs include "Don't You Remember" "Turning Tables" and "Set Fire to the Rain"

Getting caught up with EastEnders, and the whole Masood/Zanib/Yousef/Denise quad has so much potential, it's practically a powder keg. I really hope the writers don't disappoint, because I'm loving what I'm seeing so far.

But can I say how presumptuous, or ego driven that some artists have to make their videos almost 7 minutes long, or longer. That has irked me ever since the "Telephone" video.

I don't find the "Born This Way" video all that bad, compared to "Alejandro" and "Telephone" it's pretty good. I always thought she had a difficult time finding a video worthy enough to follow up "Bad Romance".

Thanks so much for the scans again Carl, you really help keep this thread alive and I appreciate it with all the information you give.

Thanks for these Carl. They're an interesting read.

I've been hooked on these recent uploads of GL from 1989. Much of what intrigues me about much of these episodes is the fact that the show was going through a transition that year; from the well intentioned, but sometimes misguided EP Joe Willmore to the EP who would set in motion GL's next golden age, Robert Calhoun. Everything from the tone/direction in the writing to the simple aesthetics of the show seemed to shift into what viewers saw during much of Curlee’s tenure, like more emphasis on family and the characters themselves, rather than the trends in storytelling at the time, which pretty much defined GL for much of the mid to late 80s.

One thing I am curious about is the Holly/Frank flirtation, or better yet Frank's infatuation with her. In the video below Frank seems to take it pretty hard that Holly is seemingly not interested in him. Does anyone know, how far did this story go? Or was it simply dropped entirely? I wonder if writers at the time had planned a May-December romance/pairing for Holly, involving Frank. How would GL fans have taken such a story? I wonder if Long had serious plans for the two before exiting the show in 1990, would we had gotten a Holly/Frank story instead of the Daniel St. John.

Perhaps, but from the sound of it, Janine and Ricky's grandmother is going to be a "b!tch" in some ways(compared to Pat who is pretty much the matriarch of the square). Sounds like it might give Pat a rival, being that Pat loved Frank, and this lady never did. They might have an exchange or two over their differing views of the man. I can mostly see her playing the devil to Pat's angel, in Janine's ear.

Janine's grandmother has just been cast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/eastenders/2011/02/margaret-tyzack.shtml

This. is. awesome!!!!!!

Yes, more focus on Janine please.

IMDB has become a mess in recent years, because it's so tough to correct.

I thought Bradley was killed off in 1984, I keep forgetting he was still alive. Was he also on ATWT then as Angel's father?

Yes, I think it might have been around 87/88, a year before his return to GL in the "Beth is alive" story.

Thats Nancy Pinkerton the original Dorian from OLTL

I figured much. That's the last time I ever look up Pinkerton's IMDb profile ever again. It said she was on GL in 1985

Does anyone know who's playing Beth's doctor in this episode from 1989 starting at the 5:30 mark? She seems familiar.