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The furthest back was Nina and Cricket from 1988 after Chance was home from the hospital. There were some clips of Danny and Cricket around 1990, but then basically nothing until the 2000s. There were two clips from the other day... I missed that Esther was wearing the same outfit from LA, LOL! That moment should have been an opportunity to show a Cricket/Kay clip. I truly don't know what LLB thought was in this episode that made it different. It was a typical Y&R episode of characters wandering through the park, coffeehouse, and jazz club, plus old clips (thankfully in color). Same format we've been seeing where they run into someone or talk about someone and then show clips of that person. I still think Nikki's episode was by far the best, because it was her alone reflecting, not this formula. You would think Cricket would have reflected on her first day as a lawyer, or the cases she did, her mom dying of AIDS, being raped or sexually harassed, but it was more about setting up a new contrived triangle with Phyllis and Danny.

I didn't know they were originally going to show Reva driving off the bridge! Cool bit of trivia.

That's sad. I didn't see any of the obituaries mention that he had been under conservatorship for a brain injury, and suing his sister for misuse of funds: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/general-hospital-star-mired-in-off-screen-guardianship-drama Whatever happened with the money, and she of course alleges there was no impropriety, Tyler's friends and family must be wondering if he may still be alive had he had still had a guardian to get him help right away.

Thank you! That's what I thought. Wow!

Added to the vault, courtesy of @ustonmi1982 http://bit.ly/44pwzvs (if anyone has any episodes to share and needs help converting to VHS, please PM me or email me! BoldRestless at gmail) Y&R 9/28/92 first segment (we have in full already) Y&R 10/27/92 full (new!) Y&R 10/28/92 first segment (new!) Y&R 10/13/92 full (new!) Y&R 11/11/92 first half (new!) Y&R 12/1/92 intro (4 minutes) (new!) Y&R 12/23/92 most (better quality than what we had) Y&R 1/12/93 full (better quality than what we had) Y&R 2/24/95 first segment (we have in full) Y&R 2/28/95 full (new!) Y&R 4/7/95 full (new!) Y&R 6/9/95 partial (we have the episode) Y&R 10/12/95 partial (we have the episode) Y&R 4/9/1997 clip

This whole conversation reminded me of something! Back in July, @ustonmi1982 generously came forward to offer some Sheila-centric Y&R episodes. They sent me the raw footage from the tapes to edit and date but that was during that time when both vaults were offline for a long while, and then I completely forgot about them. I'm uploading now. Here's a list of B&B that were on those tapes. I will post a list of the Y&R on that thread, which may be of interest since it's a lot of Sheila stuff. That will take longer as there was quite a bit of Y&R. B&B 7/3/98 full (new in English!) B&B 8/5/98 partial (new in English!) B&B 8/7/98 full (new in English!) B&B 9/17/98 clip (new in English!) B&B 12/31/98 (very short clip)

Yes, corrected. I am pretty sure Thanksgiving 1999 wasn't a new episode. Recap for Wed 11/24 ends with Brad kissing Nikki and bringing her into his room and shutting the door, then Monday 11/29 they wake up in bed together, so it's fairly clear there wasn't an episode in between.

Thank you @JAS0N47 this is amazing! GL may have had classics on 12/25/98 and 1/1/99 - can anyone confirm? Soap Central says GL did not air for the holiday on 1/1/99 and has a blank for 12/25/98 Y&R 6/29/94 episode was repeated on 7/11/94 (the only new episode airing in between was a July 4th special). 12/25/98 preempted, rebroadcast of 12/26/1988 11/25/99 Soap Central has as preempted, you have it as a special airing - probably a repeat but I don't know what. @YRfan23 do you know? 12/31/99 preempted, rebroadcast of 12/29/89 I don't have the preemptions for B&B.

No, I don't have edit access, but I have been able to upload as Guest Contributor. I don't understand what you guys are talking about because I see this episode already in the February 1995 folder and also in the numbered folder under #1986.

So many younger stars passing.

Geez, I keep reading it wrong! 😅 I've updated my post.

So then this is actual lowest rated week from the 80s. THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS: Week of May 3 - May 7, 1982 (12:30pm - 60 minutes - CBS) Leslie said she would marry Lance. Lucas agreed that Brooks should know that Lance was his father. Nikki collapsed after her wedding to Kevin. Snapper left for London without Chris. Andy split when Jill stood him up to be with John. Jack told Patty he would marry her. Carl got a vice squad job with Capt. Alex Morgan, who was involved with racket boss Pete Walker. Victor refused one last fling with Nikki before her marriage.

Y&R's highest rated and lowest rated weeks. Not what you would expect. Kay's surgery is an all time classic! The lowest rated week is only two weeks before Nikki & Victor's wedding. MONDAY DECEMBER 26, 1983 - FRIDAY DECEMBER 30, 1983 The Young and the Restless: Sparky and Vinnie kidnapped Traci, dragging Danny along when he tried to rescue her. Unable to kill them as instructed by Vinnie, Sparky gave Traci and Danny enough drugs to knock them out. Vinnie was arrested after he shot Sparky in the back. With help from Sparky, Carl and Frank rescued Traci and Danny. Patty warned Jack to quit stalling their divorce. Believing Danny was cavorting with Traci, Lauren cozied up to Paul. Julia realized that she had wanted to marry Victor so she could have a baby. In Hawaii, Andy checked out Melissa's death with husband-and-wife private investigative team, Kimo and Kathy. Nikki fretted that Victor might marry Julia. Rick nixed showing Nikki a manuscript that he's writing. Y&R's lowest rated week MONDAY MARCH 26, 1984 - FRIDAY MARCH 30, 1984 The Young and the Restless: Jack was floored that Marc thinks Dina and John were never legally divorced. Ashley caught onto Jack's plot to undermine her Jabot teen-aged cosmetic line. Jack plotted to hire teen model Cricket away from Jabot. Kay's surgery was a success, but she feels insecure about her new look. Nikki refused to leave Victor.- who's in the dumps about his impotency. Carol was hurt that Jack talked about his sexual conquests in front of her, then wondered if he'd treat her differently if she weren't crippled. Jack and Jill panicked when Carl realized she wasn't alone during the fateful snow storm that led to her and Jack's indiscretion. Jack refused to let Diane break her Jabot contract to accept a New York modeling offer.

Ohhh, that's very helpful to know. Thanks for confirming, and I may just come back to pick your brain on more GL!

Thanks for typing that out! Yes, those match exactly. Ah, it soothes my brain to confirm things. That reminds me of a funny story when a Y&R/B&B fan wrote into one of the magazines to say the shows had gotten too boring. They noted that these shows NEVER had day by day previews, proving nothing ever happened. The editors of course responded that the Bell shows chose not to submit detailed spoilers.

I was just coming back to reply to you, but see your update. They're not all classics. There are regular/new episodes posted on YouTube. Soap Central is just missing things. Your original premise must be right: I can confirm episodes (via recaps) of GL for 12/24/97 and 1/5/98. There are four episodes in between without recaps. So, they should be 12/26, 12/29, 12/30, and 1/2/98 not 12/29, 12/30, 12/31, and 1/2/98 as labeled. Christmas day and New Year's day are preempted. I noticed too that Soap Central has a recap for 12/26/97 for ATWT, and it's quite unlikely that they would preempt GL in that case and Nielsen confirms it aired. It probably has to do with the fact that GL switched to 10 AM in some markets and started airing a day behind. A couple of times on Soap Central I noticed the recapper was a day behind person and the dates would be off. Very frustrating.

Soap Central says GL did not air on 12/26/97 either. Presumably another classic episode. Tricky! I don't think CBS started the classic airings til the mid-90s though, so the preemptions from Nielsen from the 80s through early 90s should all be good. For GL 12/31/97 I am surprised it's listed as a preemption. There's no Soap Central recap due to some kind of website glitch (there's nothing listed at all) but there is an episode with that date on YouTube (no commercials so can't verify the date is correct) plus an episode dated 1/2/98 that picks up directly from it (but no usenet or Soap Central recaps for either day). And then an episode dated Monday, 1/5/98 that does match the Soap Central recap, implying that the previous dates were also correct (they have the full months of December and January). Bit of a mystery there.

So on 8/17/88 they basically split Y&R into two halves rather than preempt? Never heard of that before! Some newsworthy things that day include a US Ambassador being killed in a plane crash, a nuclear test in Nevada, and George HW Bush being nominated for president. So maybe they cut in to show the Republican National Convention?

Yeah, that's fair. Those last two rounds were awful. It was smart when B&B rehabilitated Sheila a little bit in the 90s. Being married to Eric, she had something to lose and she had to behave for a while and struggle not to relapse. Her and Lauren's interactions then were good and not so cartoonish. That's why I wanted them to lean into Sheila becoming Bill's lover and cleared of the charges, so she could be more into high society again and run into Lauren at crossover events but having to refrain from doing anything crazy.

I'm kind of surprised by this because I thought she loved working with Kimberlin.

He just had to fight to get custody of Adam's son, just so they can never show him. Such high stakes. I know they think it makes Victoria and Nick seem like good parents if they mention Christian and Katie as if they exist, but... it doesn't. They should just have them all in boarding school and not write those cringey lines about getting home to Christian and watching Katie's ballet recital. I appreciate that GH and B&B actually show the kids once in a while so that when they're aged up, I know who they are.

Thanks for this! Also, thank you for separating out the preemptions and special airings for each show - it's so much easier to read! B&B's preemptions have always been a bigger mystery than Y&R's. I'm working off a spreadsheet that someone else sent me a while ago and revising it. The numbers for 1993 were just not adding up since it had 1994 starting at #1704. Taking that 7/1/93 script date, even accounting for an extra preemption, was ending up 5 episodes off. So I decided to restart from the beginning with 1987... and so far, have discovered that year ends at #187, not 188 as previously thought. I think the person who made the spreadsheet had some wrong dates for Iran-Contra, but the overall number of preemptions right, but then that 12/8/87 preemption no one knew about threw everything off! I won't get up to 1993 tonight, but will continue to delve into this!

I think Tucker has supplanted Adam as JG's pet. Tucker is involved in everything. He schemes with everyone. Anytime there's some mystery as to who is behind something, the answer is Tucker. He's the cool rich snarky big bad. Adam has become a dog that's kicked around. They're back to 10+ years ago where haha, Victor put his office in the bathroom! Wild! Nick is very boring and aimless. The only time he worked in a long time was in the Cameron Kirsten story. One really simple scene I liked was when the girls were over at the cottage and Sharon got one of his packages and Nick understood what was going on and there was this whole unspoken communication between them because they didn't want to scare anyone. Nick is kind of a Neanderthal, so his best stories were the action oriented ones when he was put in jail, or fighting with somebody, being a hothead and getting into trouble even when he was right. But with this lack of budget, there's nothing for him to do that suits him.

1994-1995 Official Preemptions! By my count, this means 1994 actually ends with #1946, not 1948 as previously thought Edit: Now I recounted and I think it is 1948 after all, hah.

That makes sense. And then there is also the mystery of why sometimes (at least on CBS) they would re-air the preempted show overnight and not skip a day, and sometimes not. I'm East Coast, so I can recall that if there was a big news happening, then right at the beginning of the show, there would be a chyron telling you today's show would air overnight (so at that point they wouldn't know yet if the show would air in other time zones). Maybe that was generally when it was local news, but I also remember it happening sometimes during OJ, and yet at other times we'd lose a week of shows nationally for OJ.