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We get used to certain actors in certain roles. I use to watch John on reruns of his 60's tv series Bachelor Father. A lot of people think of Linda as Audra Barkley of Big Valley. Back in the 80's there was a network called CBN (before it was renamed Family Channel) and they would show both of those shows. They also use to show a lot of other retro shows like Hazel and The Farmers Daughter (when was the last time you saw that show in reruns ?)

I like Love Boat too. I have been watching that on TVGuide network. I saw one a few weeks ago with Tori Spelling as a kid, and she was not cute then either......LOL

I agree. I ordred second part of season 3 of Dynasty set and the Hotel season 1 set. Pure 80's campy fun.

Thanks for the posts. The Jill/Dina scene is priceless. I wonder if Jerry Douglas and Brenda were getting along behind the scenes at this point ?

Trish Stewart who played Chris Brooks Foster on Y&R might have been a good Alice recast.

Joan was 24 years older than JEH. Michael Nader was 12 years older than JEH. MN pops in a lot of the old 60's beach movies and had a recurring role on Gidget with Sally Field. I have been watching S3 on DVD. Joseph always gave me the creeps. He looks like a back from the dead corpse lurking around and also looks like he's about to burst out laughing in a lot of scenes. I guess it would be hard to keep a straight face for some of those plot lines. I watched the episode yesterday where Claudia is giving her farewell to everyone in the Carrington mansion and puts on her mink stole carrying the stuffed dog down the stairs. I was howling with laughter at how campy.

I don't know if that's true about the memo, but he was always in bed with someone. Look how many women he slept or flirted with and the women who were obsessed with him. Lindsey Wells obsessed over him and Carol had a crush on him.

That would have been surprising and out of character Chris, but being married to a dillweed like David Hasselhoff's Snapper, she probably needed some excitement in her life. If Jack had succeded, he would have bedded two Brooks sisters. When JLB came back in 2002, Jack claimed to have asked Lorie to the prom in high school. I feel that was a rewrite, since I don't remember if Jack & Lorie had that backstory when Terry Lester came on in 1980.

I agree that Steven was annoying after JC assumed the role. As has been said before, Jon Erik Hexum was made for a Spelling show. I wonder how Jon Erik would have transistioned into the 90's as an actor ? He has such a classic clean cut preppy 80's look that would have seen backlash in the grungy 90's.

LOL...That's true. Jack also flirted with Julia Newman and slept with Peggy Brooks. He knew Nikki early on, but I don't know when and how they met. I was just a kid then and they were already hanging out as early as 1982.

When Chris was working at Jabot, didn't Jack start sniffing around in hopes of bedding her ?

I just watched the episode leading up to Christmas. Matt smoking the pipe was a 60's throwback. I liked the playful scene of Matt & Maggie wrapping presents and the tricycle.

The blonde chic with Cindy & Paul was Pam. She wound up dead. I remember her for some reason and the scene where they looked at her body in the morgue. I don't know why Chris was crying, she could have been happy modeling for Jabot, or maybe this is when Snapper left for London without her. Lynn Topping was a pretty woman, but Trish Stewart was gorgeous. I wonder if Katherine was weeping because she failed at stopping John from marrying Jill ? I remember seeing the scene where she tried to make Jill look bad in front of John and her party guests by bringing up Phillip. Her boy toy Cash was killed in 82, but this looks to be all from late in the year around the John/Jill marriage. Bill Bell lost interest in Leslie after Lorie was gone. He wrote her out along with Robert and his family quickly. Liz Keifer said in an interview that she was thrilled to be on Y&R at this time and assumed a 3 year contract, meant a 3 year contract. Reality soon hit when dropped from the show. Always great see Lilibet Stern.I consider her the true Patty Williams. Andrea Evans and that crazy cat freak don't even register with me. Danny was always so sissy to me.

LOL......This day and time PETA would go nuts if they saw fur on TV.

Yes they were.

I know. 1982-85 she had several short lived romances that went nowhere till she was paired up with ole Prune Puss. I wonder if Eileen even remembers Jay Kerr ot his character Brian Forbes ?

I thought he was off the show since he is never seen or talked about. I wonder if he is semi-retired or maybe he is having health issues.

It is sad that we will never see it again. The 80's was the last great decade in my opinion.

I laugh so hard at Carol Burnett's spoof of the show. Vicki as Loretta is priceless.

I agree. That was an excellent storyline for Donna Mills. Is Ted Shackelford still on Y&R ?

I'm surprised he hasn't been back on a soap for years. When Ashley was on B&B, they should have brought him on as a love interest for her. Maybe he could have played Eric's brother, which would be funny since Barbara Crampton (Leanna Y&R) played Eric's brothers ex wife Maggie. This could have reunited all 3 actors in a storyline.

LOL.....I know. Dynasty just screams 80's camp. Boy do I miss those days. I don't think we will see a return to that glamour,preppy style. People have devolved and aspire to look like Duck Dynasty, than Dynasty.

I would like to see Rod and Eileen together again. They could pull out the old soap ploy and say Steven Lassiter had a twin or bring him back as a new character like they did Grant Cramer and Quinn Redeker. Which reminds me, Rod was on Y&R in the early 70's as Jeff the stable boy that Katherine was screwing. So if he came back, that would make 3 times he has been on Y&R.

It makes me sick to think of the tons of lost film and TV. Nearly all of the programming from the now defunct Dumont network was dumped in the east river in the 70's. Daytime TV has suffered the most when it comes to destroyed,wiped or lost footage. I read NBC kept wiping programming till the early 80's. A lot of people have speculated that most of Sale Of The Century's run has been lost except what episodes are airing on GSN. These same episodes are the ones USA reran in the 90's. I don't even have to mention all the lost soap footage. Another World is a prime example of tape wiping.

I remember when Rod was on Y&R in the late 80's as Ashley's first husband Dr. Steven Lassiter. I was shocked when they killed him off. A few years ago I read an interview with Eileen Davidson and she was asked who in the past had she worked with that she missed and would like to work with again and she said "Rod Arrants". She and Rod stay in touch.