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Yeah I would say May 2002 is the actual end of the Silver age for me, as Jack Smith became a co-HW in June 2002, so my end point is only 6 months off yours. @YRfan23 I'd say Cassie's death could end the bronze age and push the show into the dark ages. I think that happened in May 2006, so not too far past LML becoming co-HW which I think was Feb 2006.

True, though I am not aware of that story as I stopped watching entirely in 2005 or 2006. Whenever Cassie died and the Phick affair was happening. Actually I did see Ashley's miscarriage that was caused by Adam, whenever that was, but that was more curiosity, as everyone was talking about how disgusting they thought the whole thing was. 2007 onwards I consider the dark ages of the show, I have only heard people on these boards discuss it. Kay Alden was well and truly gone by then and Ed Scott also was out the door for the second time. Making 2006 the last year anyone in the writing or production team had any real connection to the Bell years. 73-94 (Golden Age) 94-02 (Silver Age) 02-06 (Bronze Age)

Lol, I have watched that ep multiple times and never once recognised her. Thanks for that. I know there was a character named Rebecca, I assume she played her, as Kathy is never mentioned in synopsis during the cult story. Though we could just say it was Kathy and she changed her name. I am fairly certain Rebecca and Paul slept together as part of the cult story, so maybe this is where Doug and Cindy fell in love, awwwwwww. Haha

I didn't actually know she was in the cult, I am guessing she wasn't playing Kathy but a different character, but I am not sure

Yes, she also played Kathy Bruder in 1980, the girl who stole Victor's car and introduced the Newman's to the show. I think her 1980 appearance was when she and Doug first met

Yeah no worries, will upload shortly @BoldRestless Uploaded the clip. Added it to clips 1987 and is labelled as June 25 1987, although it may have been June 26 (most likely was)

No I don't have the full episode, just the 8 minute clip that has been floating around

Yep agreed, the one I put up should be June 16 by the sounds of it. Yeah it is a bit confusing with the guides. Thanks for uploading those eps. Those ep #'s seem accurate, I know 1987 starts with #3510 and ends with #3755 according to the Bill Bell catalogue/script archive I linked to previously. @BoldRestless Yeah the first ep is definitely June 11, as it carries over from the previous day of Nikki's video (We see this in the vault clips uploaded with a much longer sequence with flashbacks and ending with Jack arriving at the ranch) The last few minutes are repeated on Jun 11 with Jack arriving prior to the opening theme. The next has to be Jun 12 since it carries on from Jun 11. The ep you have as Jun 15 seems right, it feels like Brad interrupting Danny and Lauren was probably at the end of Jun 12 (or maybe not since it is the next day) and maybe picked up on June 15 and is part of the first 5 -7 minutes missing from the episode prior to the opening theme. That ep starts after the intro. I think June 10 was also available as part of the GenoaCityGuy clips as I had a 1min clip of Jill welcoming Ashley back to Jabot, but I have since lost it

Jess Walton took over the role of Jill from Brenda Dickson in 1987 and remains in the role to this day. She is semi-retired though and doesn't appear too often Although we don't know exactly what happened. The official word is Bill Bell wasn't happy with the way Brenda was playing the part and fired her.

She had her daughter July 11, 1995

More info on writers for Y&R for those who want it from newspaper article May 22, 1978. So Elizabeth Harrower was with Y&R at least by 1978. I am guessing she left either late 78 or early 79 to HW Days. I am pretty confident Jack Smith joined in 79 as Kay Alden mentions in an interview from that year the only writers of the show are herself, Bell and one other.

The other thing I looked into was head writers post Bill Bell. What I have found so far goes like this Kay Alden: July 1998 - Aug 2000 Kay Alden & Trent Jones: Aug 2000 - June 2002 Kay Alden, Trent Jones & John (Jack) F. Smith: July 2002 - Aug 2004 This isn't listed as such anywhere. But I believe it is correct I believe after this it was Alden and Smith until LML came on in Feb 2006. Alden and Smith were demoted in Dec 2006 and I think Alden was pretty much gone at this point. Also interesting that Smith became co-exec producer in 2003 with David Shaughnessy. By Feb 2004 Bill Bell lost his Senior Exec Producer title and became a co-exec with Smith (Shaugnessy was out) Bell's credit was removed the day after he died. For some reason Jack Smith stepped down as Exec Producer in 2006 and LML stepped in and then in affect fired him and Alden. I hadn't realised after Ed Scott left the show in Dec 2001, he returned as a supervising producer between 2004 - 2007. So 2006/07 really was the end of an era for Y&R. Alden, Smith and Ed Scott all gone. Oh right, cool, thanks. Yeah I doubt she appeared again after this since she had other projects going on. I think for sure her contract status was cooked by Feb 92 and she was recurring after that with probably only that one last apperance

Not sure if I shared this before a newspaper article from May 19, 1990. I checked the 1990 eps we have. Chester last appears in those as Nina's lawyer when she wants to buy the Chancellor mansion. I think he appeared in the June 7, 1990 ep. So June was probably his last appearance. Seems Todd Curtis (Skip Evans) was taken off contract around the same time. I found a Feb 26, 1992 Y&R synopsis on Google groups that mentions Leanna and Jack. I checked the 1992 eps we have, the next credit list is March 6 and Barbara is nowhere to be found. I wonder if Feb 26 was her last date. Barbara made a movie with Lisa Rinna called Robot Wars which began filming in Tex and Los Angeles between Mar - May 1992. So I am betting Feb 92 was her last appearance. I have also looked into Beth Maitland. I know I have listed this before, but this seems to be the most definitive of her contract status and appearances pre Nov 96 (when the soap central daily synopsis start) Jun 82 - June 87 (On Contract) Beth chose to leave this time around and had no plans to return Nov 87 - Nov 89 (On Contract) Beth was asked to come back to wrap up Traci's story. She had agreed to a few weeks, but before she returned she signed a one year contract that extended to two. She made an appearance Dec 22, 1989 but had definitely left the show by this point Sep 90 - Aug 91 (Recurring) Beth returned on a recurring basis initially Sep 91 - Aug 92 (On Contract) Beth signed a three year contract, but was taken off contract a year into it. Don't believe she was ever on contract again, during the Bell years anyway. Aug 92 - Jun 93 (Recurring) Beth made a few appearances during the remainder of 1992, but was back more prominently from Jan 1993. This was when Brad did the whole 30 day reconciliation trial Dec 93 (Recurring) Beth was more like a guest star Feb 94 - Aug 94 (Recurring) This was very off and on. Traci and Steve were back and forth from New York to Genoa City for Ashley and Blade's wedding, Brad wanting Colleen and Brad's heart attack. This really was the end of Traci under Bill Bell (IMO) Feb 95 - Apr 95 (Recurring) Almost a repeat, comes for a wedding (Jack and Luan's) stays for a heart attack (John's) Again Traci wonders if there is hope for her and Brad, but ends up heading off. At this point Traci really only returns to support other characters stories Apr 96 - May 96 (Recurring) Pretty much a guest star appearance when Dina came back. Yeah I did and found it confusing, haha. If need be happy to have the ep removed and re-labelled, or keep as is. Let me know what you come up with

I do have the episode where Phillip is drunk driving after the press party and is arrested. I will upload. I have the other genocityguy eps too, but I was missing stuff so thanks for putting all these up I had the ep as June 15, and the others as June 10, 11 & 12. But happy to follow your dates. I will upload now

Yes true, the styling definitely had a big part to do with it as well. I look at many stars from the 80's and they all seem to look younger now than they did then

Jeanne was born just before the depression and was a heavy smoker and drinker and Eric was born in Germany during WWII, not an easy period for either. Those other actors would have lived a fairly privlleged and I am betting middle or upper middle class life. They also grew up at a time when health and beauty in the film and television industry was more important than skill, so their focus would be on staying young looking. Compare people like Jordi, Donny etc... with people living in poorer social ecomonic circumstances. I bet those people will look much older. Young people today tend to stay home with their parents until they are 25 (I remember most leaving home at 18) and honestly 18 - 25 year olds seem so young mentally these days as well. They seem more like 15 - 18 year olds. I don't mean dumb but just less mature, but I would say the same of many people my age too (late 30's)

Hey everyone here are some notes taken from Variety Archives search engine. I do have access to the archive but it limits the issues I can access and I need those for school. However I am able to do unlimited searches. A big issue is that it often mispells in the search engine, so potentially there are more articles for Search that I could not find. In some cases there were mentions of the show but only a word or two popped up, so I couldn't access the full text. Anyway hopefully some of this information might be interesting. This covers only 1960 - 1969. I will look through the 70's at some point in the future Aug 1, 1962 - Jay Barney in a flock of dramatic assignments in "Search for Tomorrow," "Car 54........ Mar 6, 1963 – “Search for Tomorrow," tv's longest-running daytime serial, will have its 3,000th broadcast on CBS-TV Friday ( 8). It preemed Sept. 3, 1951 Jun 10, 1964 - Davis signed for six episodes of soaper "Search for Tomorrow" (NO IDEA WHO THEY ARE REFERRING TO, SORRY) Aug 26, 1964 - ,Shakespearean actor, into running role In CBS-TV soaper, "Search for Tomorrow” (SORRY THE NAME DIDN’T SHOW UP) Feb 10, 1965 - Legit actress Patricia Harty into running lead on "Search for Tomorrow" Mar 3, 1965 - Marian Hailey, currently in Florida road company production of "Any Wednesday," goes into a running lead in CBS-TV's "Search for Tomorrow” Oct 27, 1965 - Virginia Gilmore cast for running lead in CBS-TV's daytime drama, "Search for Tomorrow" Dec 22, 1965 - Melissa Murphy into CBS-TV soaper, "Search for Tomorrow," replacing Patrician (I ASSUME PAT HARTY???) Mar 15, 1967 - Beverly Todd cast for a running role in CBS-TV's "Search For Tomorrow" soaper May 10, 1967 - Larry Haines written out of the "Search for Tomorrow" soap for 10 weeks to enable him to work summerstock in "The Odd Couple" Jan 10, 1968 - Ken Kercheval, regular on CBS-TV's "Search for Tomorrow," on leave to rehearse for Broadway-bound "Here's Where I Belong" Feb 21, 1968 - Playwright Arthur Miller's sis, Joan Copeland. into the "Search For Tomorrow" serial cast. Sep 18, 1968 - Terry O'Sullivan switches from the same web's (CBS) "Search For Tomorrow" to the "Secret Storm" daytime strip. Nov 27, 1968 - Bob Driscoll, who used to produce the "Love of Life" daytlmer for CBS-TV. taking over as ditto on the web's "Search For Tomorrow" strip Apr 30, 1969 - Kelly Wood into running role in CBS-TV daytime, "Search for Tomorrow." Sep 10, 1969 - Martha Galpfcin, who has a running part in the daytime tv serial, "Search for Tomorrow," will be in "The Penny Wars." (LAST NAME SEEMS TO BE A TYPO)

Thanks for that information Assuming the Watergate pre-emptions and writers strike didn't change plans or potentially Jeanne's availability didn't change plans then I guess the Y&R facebook page was right her start date was Nov 26, 1973 and her next appearance was Jan 28, 1974. Yep here it is though very small. I wish we had the colour version in high quality Also interesting Kay holds up photos of her and Phillip from this shoot in the 1986 episodes when she is thinking about her anniversary

I also love how Brenda is dressed, seeing as she was furious in the beginning that they dressed her in such a dowdy way, on the E! True Hollwyood Story when she said "they taped my bosom down" I can just imagine after that she decided If I can't show my figure on the show, I will do it every other chance I get

Yeah I actually just noticed she isn't even in the 1974 cast photo. You can almost see the gap next to Janice/Jaime and slightly in front of Jeanne where Pam probably should have been, lol

Oh cool, yeah probs be a bit of a double up, haha. Oh well plenty for people to choose from

Couldn't find it, but I will keep looking. So I found the full April 21 1986 episode. Not sure why I only had half of it. Anyway have added this to the vault using the german footage with english audio. I also asked the guy on FB if he could upload the Sep 86 episodes, so hopefully that will happen at some point as well I will also add the April 22 1986 episode as well shortly

I had no idea they re-aired it. Has someone uploaded the re-broadcast as I notice it is not in the vault, I can do it if I can find the re-broadcast

Yeah it should work, I haven't had a single issue with uploading to the vault

You're on the Y&R facebook page right? Did you manage to get the Sep 86 episodes that were uploaded? There are three Sep 15, 16, 17. I have only been able to get Sep 15 & 17 but Sep 16 is just not working for me. Was hoping to get them in the vault too. Otherwise I might try asking the person that uploaded them if they could add them to the vault. Also we got half of the Apr 21 episode, but since we have the Jill/John scene from the divorce saga uploads and the Lauren/Joanna/Paul scenes from the vault uploads which comprise most of the second half of that episode, I am uploading this version to the vault. It means the last Jack/Nikki scene and the Ashley Victor scene in the cabin are in german, but that is only a few minutes total.