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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.

This. is. awesome!!!!!! Yes, more focus on Janine please.

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

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.

He was ineed the EP of OLTL at the time. Didn't Rauch work at Santa Barbara with Pamela K. Long in the early 90s? I wonder if he even contemplated the idea of possibly bringing her back to the show. Under him the show saw an eclectic mix of Head Writers, mostly a bunch of writers that didn't mesh well with the show.

Exactly, the character of Cassie, on paper had the background of someone who was raw, gritty, had street smarts. LW played her as some entitled valley girl, who could often be holier thou.

I was always indifferent towards the character of Cassie Layne. I hated how the show made her some heroine, and at the expense of Dinah Marler. Funny considering that just years before Cassie entered the picture, the character of Bridget Reardon was sacrificed for Dinah. However, if the show had simply written Cassie as a vixen, like a Carly Spencer/GH, Carly Tenney/ATWT, or a Sami Brady/DAYS, I probably would have liked the character more(For a long time the show was lacking a 30s something vixen until Dinah returned in the form of GT). Instead they tried to make her Reva-lite. Imagine Reva having to deal with a half sister who goes around town stirring up trouble, rather than a sister who just happened to find herself in peril every nine months? I did like Cassie's pairing with Danny though, and for me it was the only pairing the character had been in that made sense. How so much potential was squandered on this show after the Taggart/Culliton era is baffling. Towards the end of her run, Nicole Forester wasn't that bad as a slightly unbalanced Cassie. In some ways she was leaps and bounds over Laura Wright.

Great minds think alike Paul. In my post above I too would have had Mona hire a guy to seduce Nola, playing on Nola's fears of the past, like her one night stand with Colin Wakefield all those years ago.

I think it's safe to assume that not only Marland had something to do with Court's casting on GL, but the EP at the time Allen Potter as well. Potter had also worked with Court when he was EP of The Doctors during Court's first stint as Ann.

In one of your recaps from 1981, Nola and Jason were seemingly finding their way to back to each other after Jessica’s custody dispute and were falling in love again. I would have continued that story with them eventually remarrying. However, with Mona up to her old schemes again, I would have split them up, and for much of the early/mid 80s have them work their way back together through some tough obstacles, much like DAYS had done with tortured couple Julie and Doug in the 70s. Sprinkle in Nola’s rivalry with Mona, it would have been a very engrossing tale. For example, along the way I would have had Nola and Mona involved in a triangle with a man, a rich business mogul, in which the business mogul falls for Nola while he’s married to Mona. Such a story would have Mona reeling as she tries to hold together her marriage. Eventually when Nola and the man do end up together, Jason and Nola start to have feelings for one another again; and you have Jason going up against his former father in-law. In a pivotal moment, I would have had a now pregnant Nola (uncertain as to who the father of her baby is), go up against Mona in a heated argument. Nola ends up losing the baby, which is later revealed to be either Jason’s or Nola’s husband. Nola’s hatred of Mona is fueled even further, and she fights tooth and nail to get back at her for the miscarriage. Nola’s marriage to Jason’s former stepfather slowly disintegrates after the miscarriage and the pair eventually go their separate ways, thus reuniting Jason and Nola. However even with Nola and Jason reunited you still have Nola who’s very bitter about Mona causing her miscarriage, which would beg the question, to what lengths would Nola go to get back at her rival, would she sacrifice her relationship with Jason? That’s where Billy would likely come in, where in much of the recaps you’ve posted from early 82, you have Billy and Nola working together to take down Mona. I agree. I think much of those characters, most notably Carolee's mother, Emma could have been brought onto the show in later years.

No problem, finally had a break from school and etc. today lol The Catherine story seemed too inconsistent, too clichéd and drawn out for my taste. Most importantly it resulted in the pointless murder of Jason Aldrich.

Thanks so much for scanning and posting these Carl. I find both the recaps from May 1982 quite an interesting read. Even after the ridiculousness of the Catherine storyline/Jason's death, some of the stories after such a turbulent period seem interesting; most notably Greta's divorce from Billy/determination to reconnect with LeAnn, Katy/Danny/Natalie/Luke seems interesting, as does Jeff vs. Mike with Althea thrown in as well.

If I'm correct Carl, some of the early 1982/late 1981 stuff of The Doctors might be from Harding Lemay's lesser known tenure on the show. So these help alot in shedding some light on what he wrote on the show.

Thanks again Carl for these scans, they help to shed some light on TD's lesser known years. To my knowledge the following months have been posted in this thread (I've copied and pasted much of it and saved it to my computer.): July, Oct. Sept., and Dec. 1982 have all been posted in this thread. So if you have any of the other months, I would greatly appreciate it if you scanned a few of them, and posted them when you're able to. So far, I've read half of the ones you posted yesterday, so I'll let you know when I've been able to read all the ones you've posted.

You're right, Weiss did kill off Sara. Which is puzzling bc Sara had been one of the show's most engrossing characters from the Mike/Sara/Colin triangle. Yes, for GL fans, Sara was in a way the Maureen Reardon to Nola's well...Nola Reardon. Hell, she could have even ended up as a tent pole character like Maureen was if they hadn't killed her off. I have read most of 76 actually, much of the tail end of DePriest's tenure/start of Marland's tenure is saved on my computer. But I appreciate the scans though, the pictures that come along with the synopsis are equally interesting to see, as the recaps I have on my computer were all typed up.

Some points I'd like to make from that very interesting scan Carl. Thanks again. -If I'm correct, much of this stuff is from Doris Quinlan's time on the show as EP(former OLTL EP), with Ralph Ellis and Eugenie Hunt as head scribes, former Head Writers of ATWT when it was #1. With such big hirings, it seems like it was a honest and conscious effort to save the show by NBC. (I can't really figure out when NBC gave up on the show, my guess would be sometime after they briefly hired Harding Lemay to revive the show.) -Having read many recaps from Doris's predecessor, Chuck Weiss, time as EP on the show, I didn't really like the way Quinlan seemingly got rid of various characters and brought on new ones. It was quite abrupt and jarring seemingly. Jason went missing in South America. Kim and Sweeny left town. Luke's romantic interest, Missy died. Colin died. I'm sure a few more characters left as well, and equally, at the same time a variety of new characters came onto the show such as Darcy, Alan, Brad, Jack, etc. However I do have to admit, while the transition was far from pretty, Quinlan did seemingly make the show better than it was before, IMO (Though I'm a avid fan of the kind of show The Doctors was under Weiss; racy, not afraid to tackle social issues.) Seems as if she brought more focus on the inner workings at the hospital, with the introduction of interns like Darcy, Brad, and Jack. I enjoyed reading much of that that SOD recap from 1981. It doesn't surprise me though that even with the good storytelling, the show continued to flounder. Like I had stated earlier, the transition sucked horribly, and this was the last thing a show like The Doctors needed at the time. Viewers had already been through enough jarring transformations with their show. Killing off/writing off certain characters while you introduced your own new batch of characters was not the best idea for an EP to make at the time, as it was something viewers had seen many, many times before.