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I loved Shelly Burch and Delila, especially in the beginning when the character had a purpose. She did leave from November 1987 to June 1988. Here are two 8X10 pictures that she generously sent to me when I wrote to her way back when. She was and is a beautiful woman!

Those look really nice, thanks for sharing.

She mustve had the longest disappearance on a soap.

I know Tina and I think Viki had on fur coats in a scene that around sometime during Eterna. They were at Viki's cabin which had been ransacked by a gold hunter. Itso n YouTube somewhere.

Those are great. That cover must be one of the very few with all black characters.

I was thinking the same thing. Its sad how rare that is in daytime when their supposed to reflect the real world.

I don't think so. I remember another Gabrielle fan on a LONG defunct board saying years ago that their final scene in 1991 may have been one with KW's Tina slapping Gabby in the face, either after the stuff with Carlo came out, or after the prison sentence was delivered (maybe even after her infidelity in her marriage to Max was revealed, too).

Max was never referred to as mourning Gabrielle's death, either. Bastards. At least it was revealed he had moved to Argentina at Asa's funeral, after having moved to North Carolina in 2003. Take THAT, Luna!

Thanks! Tina and Gabrielle are dynamite to me, I can't help but wonder how the different the show would've been if Fiona and Andrea had never had to leave.

I don't know much about Max and Luna (I prefer he and Gabrielle as well) but was it because of her he moved to NC?

You mentioned that Viki, Dorian, Tina, Blair, Renee, and Alex all wore furs. The character that I especially remember wearing furs was Delila Garretson. Later, after she had left the show for the second time, I read an interview with Shelley Burch in which she said that she had an eating disorder which caused her to leave the show the first time. The large furs were used to conceal her lack of size.

I didn't realize she ever left the show. Was that her months-long absence from 1987 to 1988, before she returned in the Faux Bo story?

Yeah, he didn't even try to act those last several years he was on. Granted, Carlivati didn't do him any favors in the writing department.

Does anyone know if Gabrielle ever mentioned Tina after returning in 2001? I was wondering if they ever kept in touch, although I doubt they did given what Gabrielle did after getting caught up with Carlo. I really wish they had brought her back, to see Tina and Gabrielle going at it again would've been amazing.

Thanks for sharing that story. A jewel robbery story seems out of place at the time.

These are great! I'd never seen most of these. The Eileen Fulton perfume ad is a stunner. The Dan/Susan is great. I had never known about that fancy dress photo of Kim. Was that during the jewel robbery story?

What was the jewel robbery story?

I heard he wrote the very end of the Willows storyline, which aired I believe at the end of November to early December. The story originally started around April or May. I would love to see the entire story, Eileen seems to love it.

Thanks for sharing that! I've always wanted to see that entire storyline.

I wonder how different her stint would have been if they had paired Melinda with Bo, I loved he and Sarah though!

Thanks for sharing that! Its always nice to see more Carla and those wonderful classic promos.

That's so sad! I had always wanted Ed and Carla to be reunited and I can't believe, though its not surprising, that they were completely forgotten by the end. He was a great actor and definitely helped pave the way for future diversity on soaps, though that's all gone to hell now.

Thanks for posting those! They were so much fun to read!

Thanks for posting that! I love those all recaps. Its nice to dig back into the lives of Pat, Carla, Larry, Karen, Viki and Tina for a little while as SOD used to do their summaries so well.

Thanks anyway Cheap. Its so hard to find 90s B&B on online, especially in English.

Are those scenes of Sheila holding the family hostage on YouTUbe? I have been wanting to see them.

Didn't Taylor also have some sort of stalker story around the time that she left Eric? I think I remember reading some old recaps about that, but there are so many dropped stories on this show I can't keep up.

I am too! And it's a plus to be able to see classic characters like Carla, Karen, Larry and Ed. I had just given up on being able to see Karen and Larry in South America and the Pat/Maggie storyline and then I finally got to see glimpses of each story!

Thanks for posting that article! There always fun to read. Its nice to see the actress who played Grace too, I would love to see some of that actual storyline. Ellen Holly looks beautiful. And its nice to see that everyone appeared to get along then too.

I was just giving up more classic OLTL being posted! And thrilled to see more 70s, thanks for posting that here Carl, I probably would never have found it.

I would have loved to have seen it reach 44, hell 45 years, just as GH may still reach its 50th. But I guess it wasn't meant to be .

They deserved to reach that 45 way more than GH deserves to reach its 50th. Sadly we won't be able to see it.

Zanereed, I love that fanfic! Its a shame it didn't happen. From an Alex-Mike-Lillian triangle to Alan interrupting Alex and Mike's wedding, I loved it!

I didn't watch then, but I am obsessed with that era of the show. It just sounds terrific. But I would've liked for Sara and Mike to have settled down together. They had both been there for over a decade at that point and had many stories connected. They could've become the background of the show.

Thanks for posting those Carl! I especially enjoyed the Blacklash article. SOD had such good articles back in the day. I don't even bother to buy anymore.