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@FrenchFan Thanks so much for continuing this. I have one issue of Soap Bubble magazine from May which has synopsis from late Feb - mid March. My scanner is broken but I should be getting it fixed today. Being in lockdown doesn't make this stuff easy. We are in stage 4 so pretty much nothing is open. I will try to get it up as soon as I can, good compliment to the DSN. Plus the Daily TV Serials Magazines I have waiting too. In the meantime here is a newspaper article about the P&G soaps from May 1976 Also for Y&R fans. Janice Lynde did a pilot for Norman Lear called Roxy. It wasn't picked up, though if it had been Janice would have left the show, though she did talk of doing both initally. This article talks about the dates of production and gives a bit of detail, I assume Janice was probably absent from the show during March or Apr. From Feb 26, 1976

Lorie blamed Stuart and Jen for doting on Leslie and ignoring her as they were growing up. She was more jealous of the attention, support and fame Leslie got that Lorie felt she never had, plus add the fact that she now knew Stuart wasn't her father and she probably felt more on the outside.

It's the last mention of him in synopsis, he may have appeared again, but it seems doubtful

Yeah I wish we had seen more about Kay's motives in that scene. She spends the whole time admitting she was a drunk who slept with stable boys and makes Jill seem saintly. Then attacks her, of course everyone is on Jill's side. Seems so out of character for Kay. She never took responsibility for things with Phillip Also she seems almost scared to see Jill in that later scene when Jill comes to visit her

Julia mentions Jack coming to see her later on in a conversation. She says Jack was the one who lured her back to Genoa City though a job at Jabot. Jack did know her during her modelling days. He and Jill worked on Michael Scott and Julia Newman's ad campaign. There was some slight cross over with Jill getting very briefly involved with the Newman story, partly through work and partly through Eve.

I liked that they reused sets. Having Nikki and Kevin in her house she shared with Casey and Julia in Lorie's Penthouse. It also gave a connection to the past, no doubt Summer 82 was the end of the original Y&R and the transition to the new one. Does anyone know if the Abbott residence was first seen in Mar/Apr when Jack and Mamie are first together. I think it was Apr 1, 1982 or near there. Synopsis mentions Jack has an apartment in 1981 and I think most scenes pre-1982 took place there or at Jabot or Jill's place or other locations. I assume the scene of John finding Jack and Jill together in 1981 was just a hallway set. Like the recreation with Jerry Douglas in 1982. Also Jerry Douglas and Terry Lester's first and I think second scenes together are so good, like they've been working together for a while, rather than they just started, just such a natural flow. A little more uptight than later years, but still the chemistry and flow between them is solid. Was that a production goof during the scene between Nikki and Kevin when they are fighting after she comes home from The Bayou. Looks like the camera went too high and we saw above the set

Yeah she's too nice, but the scene where she comes back in the green outfit, I have another snippet (literally a few seconds) from that scene where she says something like "I have everything I want and you have nothing" just that snippet showed me she could still do the more wicked part of Jill as well. Too bad we didn't get that whole scene. Allison at the Bayou is hilarious.

They were mentioned in pre-press info as the other family in town, so this article probably got the info from there, they probably are mentioned early on but I don't think anyone is seen until June 1973. Robert Clarke who played Bruce Henderson didn't join until June 1973. Presumably when Liz is in hospital for surgery. It seems this kicks off the Jennifer/Bruce affair storyline as Bryna Laub's DSN mentions this in the Jan 74 synopsis.

Bruce doesn't even seem to be involved in finding out Lorie is his daughter either. He takes off after Jennifer rejects him and is never seen again.

@SoapDope That's awesome, thanks for sharing, Ron Becker seems so nasty almost evil in the show, which makes his ending so horrifying. 1976 seems like such a dark and often morbid period of the show, slowly moving towards the gothic style Bell went for shortly after As a side note: I found this article. The reviewer seems to hate the show, but actually gives a synopsis for the Thursday March 29, 1973 episode, even though they hate it. So we have synopsis for at least 3 episode from week one, haha

The bigger issues was 1980. We start with a really silly story. Lance has become a compulsive gambler after being kicked out of Prentiss. Lorie is so concerned for him that she agrees to Vanessa's demands to divorce him, and Vanessa will give him back his position at Prentiss back. Lucas has decided he no longer wants to be with Prentiss and hands it over to Lance, but Vanessa tells Lorie it was her doing and convinces her (somehow) to go through with the divorce. Lance is stunned by the divorce and plans to fight, but instead decides Lorie is better off without him and leaves. This takes place over a month and a half. Lorie gave up everything she had been fighting for so easily. They brought in Michael Scott, but it went nowhere and he was shifted to Julia and Victor. Lorie and Victor become friends, but by this point JLB's pregnancy was showing and the show could do little with her. I said it before, but I really think John McCook may have left suddenly. Maybe he agreed to stay then changed his mind. Apparently they left the door open until the last minute when they were planning to bring Lance back the next year, but McCook had well and truly moved on and Dennis Cole was hired. I believe Troy Donohue may have been in contention too, or maybe it was someone else. When the show went to an hour, All My Children pulled out all the stops to challenge Y&R and won, Y&R dipped to 5th place that month. Leslie's amnesia story also seems like it fell flat, especially with how Lucas finds her and the whole Santa Leandro stuff. There seems to be no tension or build up. Lucas comes back to GC tells Lorie, she visits her sister, realises she has no memory of her past life and that's it until Leslie comes back to GC. Lance returns briefly, dates Lorie and then leaves again. No mention if he and Leslie even saw each other. I know Jon-Michael Reed didn't like the cult story. It does seem a bit weak, by August 1980 the show had dropped to about 12th overall in daytime and around 7th in soaps. This was as the cult story was rolling ahead and abouto climax in early september, August was also when JLB was already on maternity leave. Brenda Dickson was gone, Bond, even though she was good and Conboy and Bell liked her and Jon-Michael Reed liked her too didn't last long. Audiences didn't seem to warm to her. But as I stated before Bond said her agent was to blame, I am guessing Conboy had no time for any of it and was just being ruthless, since they had a show bleeding ratings. Bell barely got Jill up and running again before Bond was let go for Deborah and whatever happened with Brett Halsey, pushing back the John/Jill/Jack story to Fall. Then Halsey was apparently a dud in the role and was let go six months later, before the story had even gotten off the ground Lyn Topping was pregnant with twins and is MIA from about mid Feb to late April on maternity leave, then appears a handful of times through to Aug and then is gone until Mar 81. The Hoff is around every two months for a brief appearance only. Jaime Lyn Bauer was also pregnant and it was her second pregnancy and just as difficult on her as the first. Again she had to be wheeled to set each day and she left the show early as a result. Wesley Ann Pfenning stepped in for two weeks then Lorie was gone for a month and didn't really come back full time until Nov 80. Basically JLB was sidelined for in total half the year. Kay/Derek seems to have been pretty boring. After Brenda left the story morphed into Derek trying to take over Chancellor. Jeanne was out with an injury for several weeks, the story picked up more in the summer and got a bit stronger once Kay jumped overboard and was rescued by Felipe All this plus Bell was trying to adapt to a format (1hr) that he didn't like. Characters were coming and going and he didn't have the established cast to fall back on so much. I guess Bell really needed to recover from 1980 and I feel he did start to get back to things in 1981, but it just took another year or so to get really back on track.

Many people remember Brett Halsey as John Abbott when Jill was hired. Then John is absent for several weeks and Sean Garrison pops up for a couple weeks before Brett Halsey is officially announced as John Abbott. None of this is confirmed, I have tried to research this as much as possible, but none of the soap press that I have found mentions it.

Yeah the 80's was all about blond hair, blue eyes and olive skin. The All American boy and girl next door look and was followed with the drive for status and wealth. Same with movies and primetime too. I think this was when the Boomers/Hippies sold out and became yuppies, haha. I definitely think Bond would have been around at least until 1983. Brenda did a Falcon's Crest guest shot in 1983 and I am certain Y&R put out the feelers about a return. In a Jan 83 SOD interview (probably done in late 82) Deborah Adair stated she had just renewed her contract with more money and an agreement for better story. I am guessing Bell probably enquired with Brenda if she would be willing to return, then waited out Deborah's contract. Look at Jill in 1983, she had little to do, then Brenda comes back and boom, 4 years of pretty solid story and the character is once again front and centre, instead of being a featured ensemble player. Makes me wonder, if Bond had been Jill would Jerry Douglas have still been cast as John?

This would explain why Bell didn't just marry off Lance and Leslie and have them ride off into the sunset with Brooks. It seems Leslie was supposed to stick around with Robert, Angela and Claire. I guess Bell felt there was not strong enough story potential or that Leslie didn't fit into the new show, so he cut everyone connected to her loose. I am betting if Victoria had been kept, that Robert Colbert may have stayed on recurring as well (if he had wanted to). 80 - 82 was a crazy time, a lot of turn over and too many different characters and stories, the show just wasn't focused, so anyone could be gone, I'd say once JLB decided to leave, all bets were off. As a side note I spoke to Bond Gideon through message on the Y&R FB group. She stated that Conboy and Bell were happy with her, until her agent apparently played hardball and Conboy dismissed her. So it seems likely Bond would have been Jill, at least until Brenda decided to return, because I have no doubt Bell wanted Brenda back and would have made it happen. ETA: Angela left with her mother and father once Robert and Claire reunited. Seems to have happened very quickly, then Leslie took off a week or two later

I noticed that too, I hope we can see that some day. At least we finally got Kay and Lorie together, although they barely speak and Kay made no mention of the fact Lorie dated Phillip. Janice Lynde also wanted desperately to have Leslie and Kay interact and was trying to come up with ways to make it happen before she left.

Yeah it was in synopsis that Stuart met with Liz on Memorial Day but it didn't mention if they reconciled, and then Stuart was never mentioned again. Robert Colbert was let go from the show shortly after, I think it was announced around Sep/Oct 83. So he may have appeared again but I doubt he did or at least t was probably very brief When Brenda Dickson returned in Sep 83, Liz was still living in the Foster home and Stuart was nowhere to be seen, and didn't seem to be mentioned.

Yeah I was thinking the same. Mary seemed like someone who could have played a similar role in Paul's life later, but written more like a mentor to Paul, wise and learned instead of a busybody who judges all the time.

Just watched Nikki and Kevin's wedding. A very pregnant Nikki is light headed due to not eating all day - Victor: "Let's get you some champagne" nutrition advice from 1982, haha More thoughts on 1982 Lyn Topping is good as Chris, better than I expected, Howard McGillan seems more like Jim Houghton more stoic and uptight instead of the manic Wings "crazy eyes" Hauser. Probably was a bit late in the day to be trying to revert Greg to a previous incarnation. Love seeing Stuart and Liz, too bad they have such little to do. Deborah is good, but way too warm and grounded for Jill. Always felt Victoria's Leslie was too regal and born of money for the almost tomboyish (at least initially) Leslie who had to be pushed out of her shell. When Leslie did glam up more Janice played her as more a modern woman of the 70's. I actually think the Brooks were to be upper-middle class when the show started and maybe were seen to be richer as the show went on. The Hoff is too laid back Californian for Snapper, almost the complete opposite of the character. I like Tom Ligon, but once Vanessa was gone and Lance knew Brooks was his son, Lucas wasn't needed. Karen is okay, but I probably wouldn't have invested much time in them as a viewer. Yeah when I first read about this I pictured Brooks on a boat on water in a soundstage at night with it all being dark, and lots of close ups to avoid showing and scenery or just fake trees and stuff. Glad they went on location. Wasn't rare on Y&R back then.

As a side note: I had found an article (now lost) that stated Andre stepped in as Brooks for the episodes where Leslie takes Brooks to the circus, I think in 1981. The boy who had been in the role broke his arm or something and Gower stepped in and I guess continued in the role. I wish I could find this. Does anyone have the SOD issue that had an article on the circus BTS. Just to confirm if Gower was in the role? Most of my 1981 issues are gone and it doesn't seem to be posted on the tumblr site that I could see

From what I understand Barbara either trafficked drugs or stole money from people who did or something like that. Hence the nose job in that 1981 ep, she was on the run. Pretty sure it was a dropped plot point. Bell kinda fumbled through this family and then shipped them off. Despite Y&R being a bit of a mess 80 - 82, still loving these episodes

Also the first episode in there from early March (I think around March 1 - 5)!!!! the end of April/Barb/Dorothy and Wayne Poor Cash, I actually felt so bad for him. The first episode posted is a full one too Howard McGillan took over for Wings Hauser who was the Greg married to Nikki ETA: Lol at Liz "Setting to be married" Kay "Is that a bad thing?" Liz "You've been married three times already"

Hey everyone, someone is uploading a bunch of partial episodes and clips from 1982. Check out the soap vault (I don't know how to link it, sorry but link is in @ChickenNuggetz92signature) in Y&R - clips - 1982. So far full of stuff I haven't seen from early 1982. Sorry for some reason every time I try to link to it, it never works.

To be honest, maybe? So I read the synopsis you posted for July. I have another file that is listed as July 1974, but has details that seem to come after what you posted. Here it is below, maybe it was really August and was mislabelled? The only thing repeated is Sally giving birth, but Bryna Laub often recapped previous plot points.

I assume so. Beau didn't join until Nov, so I guess Rolf was Kay's son's name intially

Someone did once say Peggy was present when Jennifer died in Sep 77, but the next episode which picked up from the last scene of all the Brooks girls together opened without her in the scene. They had to give some excuse like Peggy couldn't handle it and is in her room or something. I know someone on this board recalled this. I think she wasn't seen again until Pat Everly took over in 79 and Pam didn't return until Apr 80. @FrenchFan Hi, not sure if you posted May & Jun 1974. For some reason I have Y&R for those months and I have no idea where I got them and why I don't have the other shows. If anyone recognises these and has the other shows, would be great to get them. Anyway for Y&R fans here you go. These means we should have Jan - Aug 74 and Dec 74 missing only Sep - Nov 74