titan1978

I miss John Beradino!

Me too. He really brought a lot to the show, his scenes, and the hospital.

Jessie really was a suffering heroine. And from what I have seen and read about the early years, it was a real miss to not pair them. But like life that way too. I remember that GH anniversary special where Ames stated they were the couple that should have been together but never was.

Amazing clip! I miss those characters. And Wendy Riche and Labine.

Awesome episodes! Makes me miss the real Victoria Newman and especially Nina.

She looks great, I wish they would bring her back for a few episodes

I would love to hear her say Monica that way she always did. Kind of loving and annoyed at the same time. And Lee is one of my favorites

Awesome clip! Love seeing Felicia and Mariah, not to mention Ruby.

I was a kid watching when Sean arrived, was bad news, and had his affair with Monica. I would kind of be okay with him someday being revealed as a bad guy again. I think he worked better as darker than Anna and Robert, and had been made too much a good guy when he left in the 1990's.

I thought the original Passions cast was mostly awful and miscast, james being a pretty good example. I think they did a better job with the casting at Sunset Beach, they just had writing with no clear point of view. Aside from a few key people Reilly had some of the worst actors when Passions began.

I cannot imagine Finola Hughes on Passions. She met an alien on GH and I still can't imagine her with later years Reilly writing.

I didn't even like Cricket back then, but Michael was scary, and I've never enjoyed him outside of his initial psycho storyline.

Frisco was hot back then wasn't he? Frisco and Felicia were my GH gateway back when I was a little kid. My whole family watched ABC soaps, but the first time I wanted to watch for myself was when Felicia showed up.

The first part of that video is such a perfect time capsule to how good Y&R was then, and a clear example of Bill Bell's style at a peak time for the show. If you watch that, then anything from the last 15 years, you can't help but see how far the show is from his formula. And not for the better.

Is it dated? Slow? Maybe. Or maybe it's classic and methodical.

And this is coming from a GH fan. The shows could not be more different at their peaks, and I love them for how they are not like each other!

I didn't realize they still used this background music up to 1988.

More tense than anything I've seen on GH in years (aside from Maurice trying to remember his lines...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cu2_Z5TLJg

It's a pretty fantastic storyline. Sets up the Jerome family and Duke too. I re watched the whole thing on YouTube a year ago.

Happy Birthday Titan... ITA

Thanks!

Who thinks that? A Broadway actor that has been Tony nominated trumps daytime emmy IMO. The theater has always been considered more legitimate than a soap opera.

To each their own I guess. I think he looks pretty cute.

He quit because he wasn't comfirtable acting the Luke is gay story if I remember correctly.

good actress, terrible character. They didn't know what to do with her.

She came in right as Guza left for Sunset Beach. The character fell apart. But the actress wasn't great. But Soaps are not for everyone!

Is it true that Alexis got some of Miranda's backstory?

Does anyone remember when Guza came back but wasn't listed in the credits yet? He ended Felicia almost having an Aztec revisit, and Luke gave us the history of Alexis in one episode on the docks. He wanted those decks cleared!

And we all miss her right

Was she the first terrible actress cast during Riche? I know there were several after Miranda but up to that point I cannot think of another poor casting choice.

Culliton took over in Oct-Nov '96. I believe Miranda was all him.

Guza outlines though. And his Miranda was going to be a Cassadine. They kept her ties to Jax and downplayed the Mac part of the story that he was building. I wonder if he was going to have Mac take a dark turn?

Tony gets all the acting accolades, the Emmys, and is clearly favored by TPTB. I'm not saying at his peak he didn't desrve it. But the magic of Genie with him is that it kind of grounds his performances, not to mention gives Luke a heart.

The longer she is away, the worse his instincts are. He goes bigger, and darker, and it lacks depth and meaning without the Laura character. My opinion of course.

I think she is overlooked. I would rather have Laura onscreen without Luke than Luke without her.

Yes. It was dropped rather quickly. I can't remember if it was towards the end of Labine or early Guza.

That period of the show was very exciting to watch. I still think even if it was rushed, Stefan and Bobbie should have stayed together for longer.

Laura Wright plays the Carly that became with TB in the part. She is a competent actress, I enjoy her fine in the part.

But Sarah was so excellent. You could root for her at times, and other times you were against her. But the other characters had a point of view, so people like Bobbie and Robin and Jason and the Quartermaines had valid reasons for being against her.

But once she was paired with Sonny a lot of that went away. It got worse when Riche left and JFP got there.

Jeff Webber!

The first and better Rick Webber!

In the 1970s, Jeff, Rick, and Scotty Baldwin were all on my "to marry" wishlist!

How long did the OG version of Rick last into Monty? I've seen him in lots of clips but the show is so boring until Marland arrived. I've never seen what he can do with more meaty material.

It's so strange to see the other Rick Webber. Not to mention the other Monica.

I think her vision was fine, for this show. It gave it s strong identity. It was when everyone else tried to do it on their shows that we had problems.

But I do agree those first few years of her run were the best. I would argue that it's pretty solid until just after Luke&Laura get married. The first year after Genie left is pretty awful in nearly every story except maybe Alan/Monica, and I think it truly took until the introduction of Anna and Robin to right the ship. But I think Pat Falken Smith had returned. When Monty has good, strong writing the show was fantastic.

I love OG Edward. He was such an entertaining bastard.