MichaelGL

So much to comment on with this episode!

An awesome cliffhanger with Max/Ryan/Janine.

Ryan's such a douche bag, I found it amusing when Janine played that trick on him.

I like how Max is Stacey's protector. Vanessa is slowly growing on me, and I agree, it seems like Max is falling for her.

Loved how Kat/Alfie/Leon/Fat Boy stories all tied together in the end of the episode. Loving Kat and Alfie as usual.

LMAO at Alfie mistakingly using Mo's underwear as a towel! The Slater family bonding was really a heartwarming scene, I loved it.

Fat Boy and Jim are quite the team, I enjoyed the little scenes they got today.

Very good episode today, can't wait to see how the rest of the week plays out!

Forgot to add: I'm liking the new Lauren as well, the actress didn't seem all that bad today, and seeing her slip back into the flow of the square is something I could like seeing play out.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s3/coronation-street/news/a278769/corrie-producer-reveals-storyline-plans.html

That downright sounds depressing.

I tuned into CNN last night to catch the airing of this. Anderson Cooper is accused of being "anti-religion" by the Republican candidate Renee Ellmers.

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/09/25/ac.mosque.ad.cnn

Out simple curiousity, what was it that made 2006 such a bad year for EE?

Such an excellent promo. My goodness, we are so deprived here in the states.

LOL at the look on Pat and Janine's faces.

The funny thing is, compared to Victoria, I always thought the show centered around Julia. I think Victoria was gone around the time I started watching the reruns on Sci-Fi, and I found myself enamored with Grayson Hall's acting. I think, still to this day, I have not seen episodes of DS that have this Victoria character.

Billy is Phil's/Grant's/Sam's/Ronnie's/Roxy's distant cousin.

In the fire episodes, she's off her bipolar medication, and revealed to Peggy that she killed her husband Archie, Pat think she wants to steal Ryan from Janine (Pat think of Janine like her daughter), and she wants to talk to Ryan privately at his wedding reception to tell him that he's the father of her daughter Lily, which of course is revealed after Ryan rescues Stacey and Lily.

Outside of Pat, Ryan, and Ricky, no one likes Janine.

She's a villian/bitch-type character that has at one time or another caused something for many of them to hate her.

Thanks so much for helping me fill in the blanks.

So I'm getting caught up with EE a little bit, I haven't watched it often, in fact I think I can say I haven't watched it on a day to day basis since around 2000/2001, but at the moment I'm liking what I'm seeing after the Queen Vic fire.

A few questions though:

What's Billy's relation to the Mitchells and Peggy?

I know what Stacy did to Bradley was pretty low for her, letting him take the fall for Archie's murder(no pun intended), but what else has she done to have nearly all the residents of Albert Square act to combative with her, most notably Ryan?

Watching the episode with the fire, I take that some of the guests weren't too fond of Janine? What's the story with that?

The thing is, unlike Goutman, if the show needed a particular character to return, Wheeler was willing to go the extra mile to bring that person on, be it Peter Simon, Grant Aleksander, Lisa Brown, etc. Goutman seemingly didn't give two sh!ts because he indeed did burn plenty of bridges.

Wheeler despite her many faults, did give the show an extra year or two after 2007.

Today really made me think about GL and how much I miss it, of course it would be expected.

It's insane how it's been a year since it went off the air, yet feels as if it happened only yesterday.

How was the 30th Anniversary of AW? Was it well received?

Thanks saynotoursoap for all the info in this thread.

I was wondering if someone could help me with the introduction of Ann Larimer? I know she was involved with Nick and Althea early on in her run, and then became an interloper for Steve and Carolee's marriage. Did Ann and Nick know each other before Ann arrived in town and that was how she was able to come between Nick and Althea?

Also what was the name of Dr. Terri Foster's mother on the show? I know she worked for Viveca Strand as a maid.

Linda Grover's tenure also intrigues me in regards to how it was accepted by viewers, because from the many synopsis Frenchfan has posted, it seemed as if she included some class warfare in her writing with Nola trying to fit into the wealthy world of the Aldrich family.

As for Levin and Cherrill, for two writers are basically unknown today, their material does seem fairly good.

^It's not like the story would have affected Matt's "masculinity" as Execs assumed, I mean it's been said here multiple times that the men on The Doctors had more balls than most of the men on daytime, so what's a simple story about male menopause going to hurt?

Thank you so much for these Bojangles. This thread is literally a fountain of information for this little known soap The Doctors. I really appreciate all the information everyone has contributed to this thread.

^About Matt/Maggie, so between the time Maggie had an affair with Kyle and the end of the show, the two had not been apart until the finale? There was a reunion, and another break up I assume, somewhere between 77-82?

Who penned the Jennifer-kills-Eunice storyline?

Erich was later played by Ian Ziering wasn't he?

To answer for saynotoursoap, yes Ian Ziering did play Erich in the early 80s.

Oh my God, that Erich/Karen story sounds great. Very heartbreaking. Poor Karen.

Again...why is General Hospital on air and The Doctors is not?

Of course I'm joking, but it's stories like those that prove that The Doctors was the medical drama that was far superior than it's rival GH in the 70s.

I would like to clear up some confusion and misinformation regarding the mid-70's era of The Doctors, as much of what has been written about it in the history books is inaccurate.

First off, Douglas Marland did NOT create the Dancy family. The date of the first appearance for the Dancys is given as 1976, but it is not correct. Joan and Jerry debuted in December 1975. They were created by Margaret Depriest. In the storyline, Penny worked for the paramedical unit at Hope Memorial. Joan was a junkie who had overdosed during the holidays. Penny saved her, but Joan went into a coma. We did not know that she was a Dancy at first. Her name was given as Joan Peterson, and Jerry pretended to be an unrelated neighbor instead of her brother. Nola and Virginia started in July 1976, then Sarah arrived in early August, and finally Luke in mid-August. Barney did not appear until January 1977.

Virginia died in March 1978. Luke owned a supper club called Andre's that was across street from Hope Memorial (shades of Ryan's Bar on RH). The club needed electrical renovation. I think Luke tried to bribe a city inspector and then paid a shady electrician to do the rewiring. Sara Dancy and Mike Powers were having an engagement party for the club's opening. The wiring system shorted out and started a fire that raced through club. The ceiling collapsed on Tom Carroll, killing him. Virginia died later from smoke inhalation.

Margaret DePriest's work on the show was very good, I thought. It was superior to what the Pollocks had done at the end of their tenure. Ratings for The Doctors held just fine until ATWT expanded to an hour, and the Dobsons took over Guiding Light. The time changes at CBS and NBC caused the ratings for all of NBC's soaps to fall, with Days and The Doctors taking the hardest hit initially. The drop in ratings really wasn't reflective of the writing. In 1976, I vastly preferred The Doctors over Guiding Light. It should also be pointed out that under Doug Marland, ratings for The Doctors fell even further, and his tenure was not popular with the older audience, particularly when he turned Matt into an alcoholic and let Maggie have an affair with Kyle.

Thanks so much saynotoursoap for this information, it was very well needed by me.

Interesting I dind't know Luke owned a club across from the hospital named Andre's. I just learned of this today from FrenchFan's recaps from the 70s(Thank you so much for those!).

In regards to Marland's tenure, I can see where having Maggie physically cheat on Matt was a little too much to take for older viewers. Emotional affair; okay, but to sleep with Kyle, who was also married was quite a leap of faith for fans.

A few questions:

What about the Medicine Man, what was it?

What happened to Barney, did he die as well?

What happened to Nick? Was he still alive when the show went off the air?

What was the story of Erich's bio mom, Karen? How did she exit the show?

I don't think any other soap really celebrated the 4th of July like GL did. The Bauer BBQ was a staple on the show for years, and often used as a event to heighten the stakes in a story, unlike other soaps.

That is very saddening.

Peluso as Amanda would have been epic...however it's interesting that Toby's Amanda still on GL around the time Peluso took the role of Lila on AW.

Interesting to see that Paul Michael Valley auditioned for the role of Mallet, I imagine that PMV would have had excellent chemistry with Beth Ehlers.

That promo has me quite hyped for the new season.