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  1. On 2/20/2019 at 1:41 AM, ironlion said:

    Agree with many of the sentiments here. For me, B&B was never on the level of Y&R, GH, ATWT, but it was fun watchable "smut" up until the early 2000s. The problem was that B&B was heavily dependent on (often near incestuous) romance based drama, occasional fashion business drama, and Brooke being a slut. Not much plot diversity there.

     

    Amazingly it's still #2 in the ratings, and still boasts better production quality than that of DAYS or GH. As for why it's still #2 IDK, the show has been in the gutter for a while now. Stephanie was the Erica Kane/the Viki Lord of the show and now that she's gone the show is suffering. Her antagonistic relationship with Sally, Sheila and of course Brooke played well for years. 

     

    The one thing B&B did right though was sticking to the 30 min format. At least it's easier to produce 19 mins worth of content 5 days a week with a smaller cast,  stretch plots, and maintain decent production values. 

     

     

     

    I honestly think B&B remained #2 largely because of the time slot and following directly after Y&R in most markets. I believe it comes on at 1:30 pm in a lot of places, and that's an odd time to try to pick up another soap. I have relatives that have basically hated the show for years but just keep it on because it follows Y&R. It's unfortunate though that when other soaps had the opportunity to overtake it, they squandered it.

     

    In 2002, after Sheila shot Taylor and they killed Taylor off (in October) and I think Sheila went to jail and then whole stupid Brooke/Ridge kidnap arc, there was a GOLDEN opportunity for other soaps to move into that slot. Here were the ratings:

     

    December 2-6, 2002

    HH

    1. Y&R 4.7 (+.1)

    2. GH 3.6 (same)

    2. DAYS 3.6 (+.1)

    4. B&B 3.5 (-.2)

    5. AMC 3.3 (+.2)

    6. ATWT 3.2 (-.2)

    6. OLTL 3.2 (same)

    8. GL 2.6 (-.2)

    9. PSNS 2.1 (+.1)

    10. PC 1.8 (+.1)

     

     

    It's just unfortunate that DAYS and GH couldn't sustain the numbers because B&B hasn't really deserved to be the #2 soap since the early 00's (frankly, it never really deserved it outside of 1992-1994  but that's another conversation)

  2. 16 minutes ago, Darcy said:

    Cady McClain dated

    Terrell Anthony (substitute Tad Martin, AMC when MEK was injured) 

    James Patrick Stuart (Will Cortlandt, AMC, Valentin Cassidine, GH)

    Hunt Block (Craig Montgomery ATWT)

    Roger Howarth (Paul Ryan ATWT, Franco GH)

    and is now married to

    Jon Lindstrom (Craig Montgomery ATWT, Kevin/Ryan, GH)

     

    Cady also played the fictional love interest of all of the above (as Dixie Cooney on AMC and Rosanna Cabot on ATWT) except for James Patrick Stuart who played her brother on AMC.

     

    Also, Jon Lindstrom was previously married to Eileen Davidson (Ashley, Y&R)

     

     

    When did Cady date Roger Howarth?

  3. On 5/13/2018 at 11:08 PM, SoapDope said:

    In reading old interviews, I always got the impression that William Gray Espy Y&R and AW) was eccentric. In one interview he stated that he really did not get along all that well with Trish Stewart( who played his wife Chris on Y&R) and that he knew it was his fault and that was just the way he was. He would supposedly tape his scenes and hole up in his dressing room. He also said something like when he was on Y&R he felt like he was taken advantage of and his approach to playing Snapper was to be preoccupied with something else while saying his lines.  Linda Dano said the whole time he was on AW he would complain he had to get off the show and he felt like he was being stifled. James Houghton said something along those lines and that Espy just wanted to be on the golf course and that he was the now manager or owner of one. When Espy returned to Y&R in 2003, Houghton said he had been watching the show and saw Houghton's name in the writing credits and called in. 

     

    Melody Thomas Scott has said and done some stuff over the years that makes you do a double take.

     

    All that stuff that came out about Kimberlin Brown & Hunter Tylo and their husbands.

     

     

     

     

  4. 9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

     

    The way I remember it being worded in the soap magazines at the time, she did choose to leave for good, and this was also when her marriage to Michael Tylo first broke up. Then she returned to the show and I think that whole period of time was written off by her as some kind of bad trip (wasn't there something about her being bitten by a snake and being possessed...?).

     

    She was bitten by a snake and then had an affair with the man who sucked the venom out of the bite or something - but said something about the bite caused her not to act like herself. It was a strange story. 

    18 hours ago, Marquise said:

    @Vizionas far as i remember at first Eric did not want to have an affair with Lauren becouse he loved Stephanie. One day Stephanie's maid found Eric's button in Lauren's Bed (Lauren was staying at Stephanie's). Nothing had happend, Eric was drunk and Lauren took him to bed. Stephanie and Lauren had a huge fight and ask her to leave her House. After that Lauren started to persue Eric becouse she was in love with him. Then one evenig as far as i remember Eric and Lauren had one night stand. Lauren had made a video casset and showed it to Sally. Sally wanted revenge on Stephanie and put a photo out of the video record in the minister's bible. Then this was the end of the wedding. 

     

    Thanks so much!!!

  5. 15 minutes ago, kalbir said:

     

    I thought Hunter Tylo's 1994 exit was temporary while she filmed a miniseries overseas. I don't remember if she was removed from the credits while she was gone in 1994. Hunter left in 1996 when her contract was up but then came back after being fired from Melrose Place.

     

    If this channel gets further into 1994, we'll be seeing Taylor the Desert Princess. That story was cheesy and sort of offensive IMO.

     

    I thought it was just a temporary thing too but the way it was paced felt VERY rushed when you look back at the clips. 

     

    It's funny because I was thinking of how the Taylor/Morocco story would play today. I know they were capitalizing off the fact that Hunter had just done some movies in India where I believe she played a princess with Kabir (who played Prince Omar) and Hunter is like half Native American (I think) so I guess they thought that made it ok - but still they really tried it with some of that story and it would never fly today

     

     

     

  6. 3 hours ago, kalbir said:

     

     

    I thought Bradley Bell took over sometime in 1993, or am I remembering wrong.

     

    Technically but I think Bill Bell was still HEAVILY involved in the writing as he was the sole Executive Producer up until 1996. He did an Emmy TV legends interview in 1998 and it seemed pretty obvious he was still involved in both Y&R and B&B pretty heavily then.  Kay Alden said he still oversaw both (read scripts, etc) up until a few years before he passed. 

     

    I do think 2002 was the last tolerable or somewhat good year of the show.

  7. There have been a lot of Taylor and Ridge clips from the 90's uploaded I've found

     

     

     

    And now someone is putting up a ton of old Hunter Tylo as Taylor episodes (hope this channel doesn't get taken down they have a lot of stuff I hadn't seen). It looks like a good portion of her scenes from 1993 and 1994 are being put up by this person:

     

     

    Watching these, did the show know in advance that Hunter was leaving in 1994? I know she took a "hiatus" to do some films in India, but how much notice did the show have? The way they had her trapped in Big Bear with James and almost die there only to then "actually die" in a plane crash a week later was VERY weird pacing.  And did Bill Bell ever plan to have Ridge find out about Taylor and James (I know Bradley Bell had it come out in some stupid nonsensical plot point in 2004)? 

  8. On 1/19/2019 at 12:29 PM, sheilaforever said:

    Most selfless post of the day (LOL): Did you buy any?

     

     

    For 1990-1992 you might check out IMDB.com which is covering about 80% of that timeframe.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092325/episodes?season=1&ref_=tt_eps_sn_1

     

    For 1992-1995 you'll find a lot but not everything on Scott Nick's site which is unfortunately offline. Therefore you have to use one the way-back site to access it.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20160509035124/http://pw1.netcom.com:80/~sdn/bbarcidx.htm

     

    In case you are fluent in German or use Google Chrome with auto-translate, you might check out this site as it is the easiest to navigate and most complete, even if some recaps are pretty short (please note that most air-dates listed here are incorrect but the recaps and the episode number match):

    http://history.soap-reichundschoen.de

     

    This was EXTREMELY helpful!  Thank you so so much!

  9. Here's 2 more new ones from December 1990

    12/7/90

    12/10/90

    The 12/10/90 credits confirm that Heather Tom did indeed debut that month and not 1991 like others say.....She wasn't on contract till a couple months later though (at least Feb/March 1991) Her first episode wasn't included unfortunately....

    Just wanted to say thank you sooooooo much for all of these clips. The late 80's, early 90's is when I really fell in love with Y&R so to see clips from that time period again are such a pleasure! Thank you!

  10. Found these. Better save them before CBS yanks them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAAlvwAuIo0&list=UUMzfXBdkJBnz14rGTDBnVDw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmQVNEsT-Pw&list=UUMzfXBdkJBnz14rGTDBnVDw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MllOwSxMlO0&list=UUMzfXBdkJBnz14rGTDBnVDw

  11. Has this been posted before? It's a two hour conversation with Kay Alden about how she started on Y&R, learning under Bill Bell, the Y&R writing process, etc.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecE4od4nI_A

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ao9SWOUm-o

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI65ZZVhfVQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbxGng_CU34

  12. I have had wayyyy too much fun watching this story again. I loved so much of it! So happy that it's been put up in its entirety

     

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QuZfrWD6x1M?list=PL7FFD7BD6C768D947" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

     

     

  13. I was having a debate with someone the other day about Lynn Herring. I still don't think there is any actress on daytime (or has been since her) that was able to play sensuality/sexuality as well as she did. I found the clip that perfectly describes how great she was at playing the vixen/sexpot and why IMO all others have pretty much paled in comparison.

    FF to 6:58 and watch the rest of the clip. There is not a single person in daytime now that I think could have done that scene as well and as effectively as Lynn:

  14. Pretty much illustrates my point--the ITL eps had self-contained stories that should have been written out over a period of time. I do remember the one about the cabin mainly because I knew Olivia and Frank wouldn't do it. I think the worst one I saw was the Thanksgiving 2007 episode. Or the one about Alan's dream-erasing drug. OR the one with Harley waking up to find it was 1993.

    Hmm, I don't remember the three you mentioned, I'll have to look them up. The "Choices" one surrounding Daisy having an abortion actually was pretty good. I liked the dynamic between Reva and Harley and I did see potential for the character of Daisy that was never fully realized (and then when they had her get involved with Grady, UGH). Brian Gaskill as Dylan wasn't working for me at all though.

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