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Not feelings, at least not those romantic feelings. Jack was fun and wild and she had a lot of fun with him and they thought it could be a thing, but Jack was on a low after John fired him and kicked him out of the house for his fling with Jill, he was looking for some hope and Nikki gave that to him. Then Jill gets shot and Jack confesses to save his father (who he intially thought did it) and things with Nikki cooled off. ETA: In terms of Bergman and Lester. Lester's Jack hadn't quite grown up yet. If anything the marriage to Nikki was what should have done it and to some degree it did, but Bergman shifted Jack too quickly because he didn't know how to play Lester's Jack. Peter was definitely more serious and more a romantic lead type, I am happy that the character grew up, but again it happened too fast. Lester's Jack was still an arrogant but lovable scoundrel. The marriage to Nikki would have been great for Lester's Jack, because he could have moved Jack in a different direction, but maintained that smilin' Jack part of him too.

Did Tim Sullivan get killed off? I never knew that Victor did feel some guilt about cheating on Nikki, even though he had always believed (correctly) that Jack and Nikki were involved. By 1986 Victor was ready to end things with Nikki. At first he was unsure about what he wanted, then Ashley broke up with him due to Victoria calling her a witch and begging her not to take her father away, Victor eventually realised Nikki had manipulated this response from Victoria and he was ready to end things. He felt she would be less likely to fight a divorce if she was with another man. So he openly encouraged Matt and Nikki. Nikki was more involved with Jack, but that ended when it looked like he would be going to jail for shooting Jill, she seemed to move on to Matt until the mystery illness struck her and she and Victor reconciled.

I really liked that Bell kept you guessing with Brad. You could never be sure if he really loved Traci or not. I felt like he could be a gold digger and f*ck boy. Then again there were moments between Brad and Traci that seemed genuine and sincere. @Antoyne Brad and Traci divorced the first time because of Lisa (can't remember her last name) She and Brad had been married before he become the Abbott gardener and she was obssessed with him. She came to town and kidnapped him and held him in a cage. Traci was pregnant at the time and lost the baby. Brad was freed (by Jack and Lauren) and tried to save his marriage, but Traci could not get over his lies about his past. Brad used Ashley to make Traci jealous, but Traci divorced him and left town with Tim Sullivan. This is when Ashley and Brad began.

Jerry Douglas definitely had work done, they wrote it into the show in Summer 1986. You can see in the German episodes when he comes back to work and is showing off his newer face

Here are some newspaper articles for 'The Secret Storm' from 1973. The second two focus on Gillian Houghton a.k.a Gabrielle Upton as headwriter and Texas setting for Storm Philadelphia Daily News - Mar 29, 1973 The Province - Apr 5, 1973 Waco Tribune Herald - Apr 8, 1973

Yeah feel free to use them however you want : )

Thanks for sharing all that @FrenchFan I have Sep - Dec 1973. Wasn't sure if I had ever shared these before. Either way be good to re-upload. I can't write them out so here are the scans starting with September 1973. There are some cases where letters are cut off, but that was just how I got it. I will try to get October done tomorrow.

And according to a Jon-Michael Reed column, they depart as headwriters along with the Chandlers around Feb/Mar 76.

Thank you @YRfan23 for all the recent uploads from 1991 and now this new 1990 ep

Your memory sounds very vivid, thanks for sharing. Whether fantasy or not that scene sounds pretty crazy and something I really want to see.

Oh wow, but she must have explained it away as an accident right? What I had always read was Jennifer, Bruce and Stuart and maybe Peggy were arguing, Leslie came running back to see what was going on just as Lorie slammed the door shut to avoid the arguement being heard. Is it possible Lorie smashing her sisters fingers in the piano was a fantasy followed by it actually happening with the door? Lorie was having multiple fantasies about things in the Aug 75 episode that was posted. Which would have been right after Leslie's hands were hurt.

Gwen came back just as she was about to take her vows, but she began having feelings for Greg and planned to leave the convent. Then she felt a miracle happened with a young boy and decided the church was for her after all. This story was pretty much the end for Jim Houghton as Greg as well. Brian Kerwin would be in about six months later

Wow, how do you get all these great gems? Was this also the period where Bell was using recurring actors like contract players and vice versa. I seem to remember a letter you posted on your site about this being an issue, maybe it was 1968 or something. Wasn't Susan Flannery was on recurring for ages.

No need to apologise. I was more sharing the playlist so you can watch the 70's eps that are available. Didn't mean to make it sound like you did something wrong.

I remember seeing a video she did about this ages ago. She was pretty adamant it was real. I mean MK Ultra was real and pretty horrific so who knows. RIP Melinda Fee.

Wow thanks for sharing that. I wonder if the character introductions were still the same when it aired. Jill in the second ep, Greg in the 7th. Pierre was Frenchy??? Okay What a kick if they had gotten Bette Davis, haha. Imagine if Bette Davis and Jeanne Cooper were ever in the same show. I would die Looking at all those titles I am glad they chose The Young and the Restless, just flows more I do think Y&R did have a bible, because in one of the posted interviews with Bill Bell he mentions being really proud of the bible he created for it. He went deep into the characters background up to the moment before they first appear on screen. @Taoboi That whole 1974 episode has been shared on here before. Here is @YRfan23 70's playlist (Hopefully it is okay to share this)

Yeah reading the 74 synopsis it seems Gwen and Jill had met before. From putting the bits together, Jill met Gwen at the salon. Gwen at that point worked at a brothel 'on the edge of town' she told Jill about her fabulous job but left out some pertinent details. Jill wanted in until she went to visit Gwen 'at work' and realised it was a brothel. There was another brief story in 76 where Jill went to work at a beauty parlour that was a brothel and Snapper realised and pulled her out of it.

Mark was still on the show, his last appearance was Jan 76. No mention of Regina, don't think she was around. Bruce left town around the same month Lance was first seen. But Lance was either never or rarely in Genoa City. Leslie and Lance would meet up, as he would attend her concerts in Europe. I don't think he visited Genoa City until maybe early 76. Could be wrong about that

Lance first appeared Oct 30, 1975. He was a fan of Leslie's. She would eventually introduce him to Lorie after the whole Mark story had ended.

Yeah I was quite surprised by it too. I am betting Janice was her usual outspoken self, haha. I can't imagine her keeping quiet about something like that

This interview with the Hollands from Feb2, 1976 states they have been writing GH for about 6 months

This article is from Oct 29, 1975. According to this Margaret DePriest was Headwriter for LOL since late 1974. She took over for Claire Labine And Paul Avila Mayer who had moved to LOL after Where the Heart is was cancelled.

Chicago Tribune interview with Bill Bell - Oct 14, 1973 @Paul Raven Bell very briefly mentions the writers strike. It is a longish interview

Speaking of the Dobsons. Here are some articles I found on General Hospital and some other things from 1975 1st - Jan 7, 1975 2nd - Mar 18, 1975 (San Francisco Examiner) 3rd - Apr 18, 1975 (Los Angeles Times) 4th - Apr 20, 1975 (San Francisco Examiner)

Here is a quick recap of the events from the time Kay and Derek married until Jill left the triangle Kay got Derek drunk and married him in order to stop him from marrying Jill in early 1978. Kay told him if he were to stay married to her for one year, and he still wanted a divorce, she would grant it to him and give Phillip his rightful inheritance and Derek his own Salon outright. But he couldn't tell Jill of the deal. Jill was so upset she decided she had to take what she needed in life to support herself and her son, too many times she had lost out in life. That is how she rationalised Stuart, which began just as Derek entered into his unholy alliance with Kay. Jill really felt she and Phillip needed Stuart more than Liz did. Kay wanted to keep Derek long after the year was up, so she decided that tracking down Derek's son Jaime would be the best way to give him the family he wanted, but when she found out from Jaime's mother, Suzanne, that he was in a mental institution, she backed off, worried Derek would leave her to go to his son and back to his wife. Suzanne figured out who Kay was and began blackmailing her and eventually moved into the house. Just as the year of marriage was about to come up, Jill and Stuart planned to marry after she lied that she was pregnant with his child. Derek asked Kay for the divorce and told Jill they could be together. Jill didn't trust Kay, so she told Derek to meet her at the chapel, where she would be marrying Stuart. If he turns up, they can be together, if he doesn't, she will marry Stuart. Kay and Suzanne worked together to keep Derek from Jill, eventually confessing Jaime was in a hospital. Derek was so distraught that they left to see him the night he was to see Jill. Derek returned to the news that Jill and Stuart were married. Stuart discovered Jill wasn't pregnant and demanded a divorce. At the same time, Derek was adamant about leaving Kay. Before Jill and Derek could reunite, Kay was shot by some thugs looking for Derek (can't remember the exact story) and Derek stayed with Kay out of guilt when it seemed Kay would be confined to a wheelchair. She recovered but kept this from Derek, at the same time Kay demanded Suzanne leave, but Suzanne discovered Kay was faking her paralyses and continued to blackmail her. Kay, tired of Suzanne, eventually confessed everyting to Derek. He immediately rushed to Jill, but after having saved Stuart's life when he almost died, Jill decided to give her marriage a chance and rejected him. Suzanne realised she had to keep her meal ticket. She slowly began poisioning Kay with her favourite chocolates. Kay lost her mind and was sent to a mental institution. Suzanne kept giving her the chocolates and making plans with Derek. Kay befriended a woman in the hospital (I think someone she knew as a child???) and either gave her some jewlery or the woman stole it. Then the woman started a fire after eating Kay's chocolates and going over the edge, she was badly burned to death. Kay managed to escape the hospital and the woman was identified as Kay. Kay hid out at Liz's place, she eventually told Brock she was alive. Derek mourned Kay's death, and Jill, now on the outs with Stuart, who still wanted a divorce, attempted a reconciliation with Derek, but he found her behaviour detestable and rejected her. Meanwhile Suzanne began manipulating Derek's fragile psyche and talked him into leaving for Europe with her. To stop this, Kay started gaslighting Suzanne. Kay appreciated Liz's help in hiding her out, to return the favour she decided to extracate Jill from Stuart's life. Jill was demanding a large cash settlement in exchange for a divorce. Stuart refused, but was slowly giving in. Meanwhile, Brock and Lorie conspired to reunite Derek and Jill. Jill headged her bets by keeping her reconciliation with Derek a secret from Stuart, he agreed to pay her the settlement and she signed the divorce papers. Lorie then told Stuart that Jill and Derek were reunited and he stopped the cheque and told Jill she won't get a thing from him now that she and Derek have resumed their romance. Jill was sure her mother was behind it all and raged at her to stay out of her life. She then cut her losses and married Derek. On their honeymoon night, Kay revealed to the newlyweds she was alive. Jill was stunned and screamed at Kay for ruining her life yet again. Derek managed to convince Kay he grieved for her death and really loved her. Jill blamed her mother yet again. Derek and Jill continued to see each other, she wanted to forget their scheme to have Derek take everything he could from Kay, but by this point Derek had grown accustomed to the lifestyle Kay could give him and begged Jill to hang on a little longer. Brock, suspicious that Derek and Jill were having an affair, had them followed by a P.I who took photos and recorded audio of them together. He gave it all to Kay. Kay confronted Derek but said she trusted him and wouldn't listen to the tape. She went back on her word and held a listening party, but Derek had hired cat burglar Douglas Austin to swipe the tape and replace it with one he had made professing his love for Kay and rejecting Jill. Eventually Jill grew tired of waiting for Derek and after a few parting shots at Kay, she moved on with her life.