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Susan is in retirement mode.

Vincent Irizarry has one of the best reputations.

Ellabelle, Vincent put up your clip of them and Joan on his FB page.

I thought Tom and Brooke were great as friends, but I didn't care for how Tom wanted Brooke to sacrifice her career. I thought Brooke was too domestic and dull with Tom. When Brooke got involved with Adam, the writers wrote her as smart and driven. Adam and Brooke's sexual chemistry stemmed from their intelligence, Brooke always sought the unconditional love that she missed out on as a child. Adam loved Brooke the way she needed to be loved. Brooke loved the tenderness that Adam only displayed with her, but her inner bad girl was also attracted to Adam's dastardly ways despite her moral compass telling her she shouldn't. Adam vs. Tom Adam is the winner. Edmund is second. Tom is at best third place.

Yes, I think the Valley Inn was around in the late 80's - I'm think the first time the outdoor terrace was shown was the Summer of 1991 although the interior might have been shown prior.

I think the Valley Inn became prominent in the early 1990's after the demise of the Chateau.

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Is this your channel?

The plane crash:

Wow... 20 years ago... I remember moments from it like yesterday. Although 10 years ago, a news channel showed footage from the earthquake, which I was only seeing for the first time since most of what was going on around me was via radio reports

I wanted Laura and JR and/or Colby and Jamie - either would work for me - to get together, have a baby girl, giving a grandchild to Brooke and Adam, and I wanted her named Charlotte after Lottie.

Pretty much anything from 1987 and/or 1988... just really hard years it seems for finding material, much less full episodes. As for the strike material, I believe they also held off some on Cindy's storyline. Joanna was crazy, and not Skye's mother. She was married to Stuart for a time, but they were not romantic.

Those are some of the best scenes between Brooke and Adam... what Lorraine Broderick wanted to get back to when they reunited... which I think she did. PPs hinted at the emotions that existed, but more unspoken given DC's limitation on set. Is this the earliest material you have?

Maybe one day we will get a lot of BTS footage that was shot by Larson, Willey and Young.

Totally agree, plus the timing would have worked out for the characters to all be under the roof of Wildwind... and then had Maria return. It could have then caused a great quint-angle with emotions twirling all over the place among the group... instead of Maureen Gorman (while I thought had potential) turned into one of the worst returns in history.

I don't disagree that Maria and Edmund were popular, but the writers seemed to forget so were Brooke and Edmund... and since Brooke lost Edmund the first time to Maria, it wasn't going to sit well that she would lose him again to Maria. I think one of the big reasons that Edmund and Maria worked the first time was because all three characters were played simply as good people who found themselves in a triangle, and tough (but never easy) choices had to be made so they could all move on with their lives. Finally, the story was written to make Brooke a villain, but JB played it so well that the audience felt sorry for Brooke, and Edmund came off as an ass.

You might be correct about Megan's material tapering off in the Spring of 1995 - I believe that the Brooke/Adam redux of 1995 was a sticking point for MM, she wanted to keep them at each other's throats - Wisner Washam I think initially stepped in and started their romance prior to LB officially coming back to the show.

I always felt that Brooke/Edmund were going to have the infertility storyline (which made sense given Brooke's history topped with the ectopic pregnancy), but when they finally decided to go with Maria/Edmund, they just made it that Maria couldn't conceive, and came up with the Del/self-abortion lame backstory. Lorraine was gone by 1992, and she wasn't back until 1995, so anything involving Maria/Edmund until summer of 1995 was Megan.

I think that is one of the main problems with McTavish - she may tell a great story once, but her replications usually don't work. The original Wildwind saga (great), which started with Angelique, I think had a lot of MM in it... but then shortly afterward, she had no real story for Edmund/Maria, and the addition of Kelsey into the baby saga felt like a poor man's version of Brooke/Adam/Dixie, and Covina felt like a complete crap version of Edmund's struggle to prove he was a Marick.

I actually think interviews with HWs on stories that they wanted to happen, but didn't or had to be changed because of X,Y and Z would be very interesting for one of the magazines to tackle - it would actually make me purchase the magazine.

I'm not sure about Dottie and Jesse, but it was Jesse and Jenny who spent the summer together in the low rent apartment with Mrs. Gonzalez as their landlord.

Off camera, Nico had supposedly cheated on Cecily.

She was getting a divorce from Nico, and was going to stay with Aunt Phoebe, but Pheebs wouldn't let Cecily stay if she wasn't willing to ask Nico for alimony.

That Kit Fisher Person

Ageism was definitely prevalent starting with the Disney invasion and Frons. I don't think it was quite 40 plus, more like 50 and over as the targets.