SoapDope

I remember reading that during the Stu/Jill marriage in 1979, Jill decided they would have Greg and Nikki's wedding the Brooks home so she could rub her marriage to Stu in her mother Liz's face. Stu & Liz were in love, but Jill seduced him and faked pregnancy to trap him into marriage so she would have financial security. I wish the complete Greg & Nikki wedding episode would surface. I have seen clips of it and the reception where everyone is drinking champagne. I wonder what everyone thought when Nikki walked down the stairs in that white wedding gown that Chris loaned her ? I bet they could hardly keep a straight face. Nikki wore white again for her Victor's 1984 nuptials.....LOL

Making Jill adopted also took away Jill's sentimental reason for naming Billy (William Foster Abbott) after her late father William Foster. Another huge screw up was forcing viewers to accept Steve Burton by making his character Paul & Nikki's son in a history rewrite. Nikki was married to Greg Foster when she joined the cult and there is no way she could have had a child. They probably think the people watching back then no longer do or are dead/senile.

Julia Newman was a character they wasted. I don't know why they didn't pair her with Matt or Jack at some point. She had a daughter with Eric Garrison. Michael Crawford was another character that dropped off the canvas without explanation.

Nikki and Victor fans would revolt. I'd die of laughter at first b/c it'd mean Victor being brokenhearted, but I'd later cry b/c the writers would have a field day with this and turn Nikki back onto the bottle for the 1000th time, which is so used to death. Plus, EB would probably have a heart attack over this story and wanna fight it tooth and nail. The Nikki/Victor fans and Braeden reactions are really the absolute least important reasons why that would never work, and they're still pretty big reasons why to avoid something like this. I could give several reasons why it would be disastrous but I don't want SoapDope to feel I'm attacking their idea, so I'll leave it at that! I don't feel you are attacking my idea. You have the right to your opinion. I guess I am tired of Victor always getting his way and maybe losing his oldest daughter would destroy him a bit. I can understand the other side of it too. I saw Nikki and Victor unfold over the years and it would mess up history of the show, like they did with Jill not being a Foster and countless other bad writing choices.

That would have been awesome. Imagine Jill going ape crap over her brother Greg sleeping with Nina.

Thanks!! I'm glad I was able to get those scenes.....I gotta tell you as much as I think the late 80's/90's were the most well rounded of Y&R's history, everytime I see this stuff I wanna see more as I think the early 80's had some good stuff too! and I do have some more to post including some more clips of Deborah Adair Jill! Great. I hope to see them. I wish they had kept some of the Fosters/Brooks/Prentiss on after 1982. Jill was kept because she and Katherine's feud was the core of the show. Stuart disappeared in 1984 and Liz only appeared now and then till she was gone. The photo of Roberta Leighton and Melody is nice, but RL has clearly had some bad plastic surgery.

That 1982 upload was awesome to look at. Is there more ? It puts todays Y&R to shame. I was a small kid at that time and remember bits of these storylines. Allison Bancroft was a piece of work. Nikki treated poor Kevin like crap and pined for old prune face. I always wished that Kevin would come back and reveal since DNA test were not around at that time that the blood test performed was botched and he was really the father of Victoria. The scenes with Leslie, Lance, and Brooks was touching. I felt sorry for Lucas having the boy he felt was like his own son being ripped from him and loving Lorie who only had eyes for his brother. Here is a current photo and page for Christopher Holder who played Kevin. He teaches acting. http://christopherholder.net/contact.html

Did it affect other characters they were going to have story with, or was their part in the story given to someone else? I wish I could see more of that era, especially Casey and Lucas. I read that Brock was supposed to of been the one Victor locked in the basement instead of Michael Scott. Julia was going to be the love of Brock's life, but Beau left the show shortly after Y&R expanded to an hour because he had signed on to do a half hour and didn't want to commit. All the actors who had signed on before the expansion had voided contracts. Brenda Dickson and John McCook also left in 1980. THANK YOU YRfan23 for the classic 1982 upload.

I agree. When I saw pictures of Howard McGillian, it looks like they wanted Greg to return to looking like Houghton's version. I wonder if Y&R considered asking Espy back in 1982 or since Hasselhoff was by then so associated with the role they didn't even bother ? Wings said in a blurb that soaps were "Hair Shows" and that actors who talked about how hard the work is was pretty much full of crap. He also said something about he only got to go shirtless a few times on Y&R and figured the producers etc...did not like what they seen......LOL Casey, Brock, Matt, and Peggy seemed to be characters Bill Bell didn't quite know what to do with them and they faded in and out.

I agree about David. He is considered a hammy actor much like Ted McGinley. It would be nice to see Roberta Leighton as Casey again. I saw a Q&A from a few years ago with Melody Thomas Scott and Roberta stood up and asked why doesn't Nikki call her sister surprising her. MTS said she was close to RL like real sisters when they were on the show together. Somewhere I have a photo of them together from around 1979 and they had the Farrah hair going on. Wings Hauser was always creepy in everything he played in. James Houghton and MTS would have made a stunning looking couple if they had worked together. Tom Tammi who played Tom on ATWT briefly 1979-1980 might have been a good recast as Greg or Snapper.

It might just be me, but David doesn't come off well in that interview. He pretty much says he's just sticking with crap like Y&R till something else better comes along he feels is worthy of his talent. He has always been a mediocre actor and should be thanking Bill Bell everyday for giving him a career. His return to the show a few years ago was a joke. I can imagine what that 1979 album sounds like. He and Wings Hauser were miscast as the Foster brothers. Maybe Greg would have had more of a shelf life if James Houghton had stuck around to be paired with Melody Thomas Scott. Wings also speaks ill of Y&R.

I'd agree with Bell on that one, given Danny was pretty unpopular with viewers at the time and apparently throwing him at Christine was the only thing they could think of to sustain him. Phyllis had at least given Danny extra shelf life, but Paul and Christine went back to the summer of '93 and pretty much made their footnote in Y&R history between Paul saving Christine from Michael and them saving Margret and Miles by working together and later saving April. What made it so bad was that Katherine even appeared out of the black hole she was in at the time to advise Danny to reclaim Christine. I can't imagine what kind of "music storyline with Callie" Alden had planned with Callie and Danny except it would have had to have been very boring had it played out. I wonder how well the Callie character would have taken off if Michelle Thomas hadn't passed away and gotten to play the role for a long run ? I was not impressed with Callie # 2.

I agree with DRW50 the show mostly ignored Tom's past before Margo. I also agree that Meg Bennett is an excellent actress. As with Tom on ATWT, Y&R tends to forget Victor's wife/life before Nikki. I mentioned to a woman about Victor's first wife Julia and she was stunned. She had never known she had even existed. The same when you mention to people that Nikki's first husband was Greg Foster and not Victor.

Judith Chapman said that fans would refer to her character as Nasty Natalie. I would love to see some of her run.

They could have let Dennis Cooney play Ellen's brother Jay Lowell instead of "Stallings"

I agree that there should have been a Bob/Kim/Dan triangle. I also wish they had done a storyline where Lisa went after David and had catfights with Ellen.

I was watching as a kid at this time and recall how popular Meg Ryan was becoming as Betsy. I remember when she left the show they did the car accident with the hitchhiker and then her face in bandages for months till they were removed and Lindsay Frost appeared. Betsy then had to find her way back to Steve. I also remember liking Marisa Tomei as Marcy a lot. I also liked Terri VandenBosch ( had to look up her name) as Frannie even though she was short lived.

1960's Ad for LUX soap with Kathryn Hays

I remember seeing TLW in an episode of the fake Divorce Court back in the 80's as a wife with a split personality. I miss the way commercials were back then. They advertised a variety of useful products with clever original jingles, now it's just car insurance, prescription drugs or .com web site ads with some annoying top 40 song blaring. There are at least 4 or 5 commercials recently that have used that annoying "Happy" song.

Another great upload. It brings back memories. Ellen Dolan was a jarring recast for HBS. I never warmed up to her version of Margo. The old commercials are another extra treat. Back when they advertised various products instead of car Insurance and prescription drugs 24/7.

Someone posted on IMDB stating that this soap was reran on one of their local channels as late as 2002-2003 ?

Is Scott DeFreitas (Andy) still acting ? Instead of casting his wife Maura on Y&R, they should have cast him in a role instead. I could see him playing a legacy character like Chucky Roulland (Foster) or Brooks Prentiss.

Robert Horton who played Whit was a big TV star in the 50's/60's on the long running western Wagon Train. He did not age well by the time he was on ATWT.

Late 60's Charmin commercial with Joan Van Ark and Aldo Ray.