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I say there are episodes in someones basement somewhere. Spotlight is long forgotten short lived channel. There is a few clips on youtube. The late Robert Osborne from TCM was a host for the channel.

I know. I guess a lot of people are afraid of copyright laws etc...or just too lazy to bother.

Thanks for that rare promo. I wish that show would surface on youtube. Somebody out there had to be recording it. Probably some teens who were hoping to see something.....LOL

I never understood why Michael Crawford stopped appearing. The last time I remember him he was helping Skip and Carol with their custody/adoption case and Jill convincing him to be the face of the men's line at Jabot.

I've been watching a lot of 70's stuff on youtube and didn't realize how many times Jess Walton worked with Colby Chester (Michael Crawford) before they were together on Y&R. Jess must have been a contract player with Colby at Universal along with Sharon Gless, Lindsay Wagner, Darlene Carr etc...

It looks like her to me.

Fawne Harriman as oldest daughter Charlotte in the 1972 ABC movie of the week All My Darling Daughter's.

Lara Parker playing one of Robert Young's 4 daughters in My Darling Daughter's Anniversary (1973). MDA is a sequel to the 1972 ABC movie of the week All My Darling Daughters. Fawne Harriman played the role of Charlotte in the first film and was unavailable due to her contract role on Somerset. Colby Chester (Y&R) plays her husband. Anna Lee from GH also appears.

Colby Chester (Michael Crawford)in the ABC Movie Of The Week " All My Darling Daughters (1972) & My Darling Daughter's Anniversary(1973).

After posting the 1976 opening/closing credits it reminded me of an article about the tape wiping process and the reusing of videotape. In the late 60's and early 70's viewers noticed that The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson had a muddy appearance. Years later Johnny went to pull vintage episodes from the vault for an anniversary celebration, he as told there were none and was upset. Did ATWT have a muddy appearance from the constant reuse of videotape ?

LOL.....Imagine a soap today giving a young girl a name like Ruth or maybe Bertha. Bertha Newman, Bertha Forrester etc...

Thanks for the clip. I was a little kid at this time and remember bits and pieces. I noticed Sam Behrens as the young husband in the Joy dishwashing detergent commercial at the end.

I think it would have made more sense to of had Dana Delany (Hayley) play the kid sister of Rita McLaughlin (Carol). They looks like they could be real sisters.

Two trailers I assume fan made for season 1 & 2 of Dallas. They did a good job of editing and going for the dramatic effect.

Thanks for the promos. I liked Tom Tammi as Tom in the classic episodes I have seen uploaded. I guess the show decided to go in another direction by replacing him with Justin Deas.

I liked Finn Carter as Sierra and was sad when she was gone. I am surprised she never returned to soaps at some point. Her IMDB page lists her last role in 2005. I think someone posted that Scott Bryce (Craig) still stays in touch with her. Yes she was so whiny. Andy was always seemed so morose in any pairing he was in. I am surprised they didn't try Andy with Lilly back in the 80's.

I never could stand Courtney. I also hated how she wore her hair like her brother Sean (when Burke Moses played the part). I was glad when she was gone.

It seems like I remember Greg Watkins having some sort of accident in the late 90's that kept him from working for a while. Am I remembering right or was that someone else ?

I don't know if this was intended to be a commercial or what. It's listed as Crazy Curtain Lady. It appears to be filmed late 80's to the mid 90's. I almost expect Fran Drescher to appear and yell " Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaa". She really loves curtains.

I watched TBS back then as a kid too, but never watched the Catlins. I wish I had. Cable/Satellite was so ground breaking in those days to offer cable produced soaps and sitcoms. Now days it's just a common thing for networks to produce their own series. I feel the 80's was probably the highlight for soaps and game shows. By the 90's talk shows began to dominate daytime and by the 2000's it was all about reality TV.

LOL....On Y&R the Brooks sisters Leslie & Lorie slept with both Prentiss brothers. Thanks for those memories. I wish we could see all that now, but P&G deleted all of that beautiful material except for the scant few episodes rotting away in the UCLA archives. Lisa was the show in the 60's and 70's.

No, I hadn't heard about the dead woman. Ole Burt has a colorful past. That Dinah relationship was odd. What did she see in him ? I wish someone would release all of her 70's talk show so we could see it. I remember reading her Dinah and her daughter had a strained relationship during those years. Yes, I had read about another McNichol child and wondered why you never saw him with his siblings. The Mom seemed like a train wreck of what I saw. On that Judge Mathis show she was bragging that celebrity men wanted to be with her and said even Warren Beatty wanted her to be his kept woman. I remember reading she controlled her children's finances long after they were of age. She made some bad investments.

What do you recall of the Phantom Fetus storyline and around what time was that done ? I am guessing 1970-72. Eileen said in her interview that the writers made it a ovarian cyst as kind of a quick way to end it, but it was intended continue as something else. She said she got so sick of running around for months saying she is pregnant and doesn't know how it happened. I am also curious of your memories of the Dr.Shea/Lisa/Claire story and his blackmailing Lisa.

I'm guessing maybe early 70's. 1970-1972

I watched that interview several times too and it's great. I laughed at the phantom fetus story and she said a woman from planned parenthood sent her a brochure and said " This is how it happened and now let's get on with it" I also loved the grandma clause story about how she was in the control room during filming of a scene with Barbara Berjer (Claire) and the guys were talking to each other and said " Do you realize she's now a great grandmother ?, We can't have that. We've just gotta kill her". The following week they hit her with a truck.....LOL. Eileen called up Irna and insisted on the grandma clause to prevent that happening to her.