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Thanks so much @JAS0N47

Thank you! Very good to finally get these confirmed! April 19, 1995 was the Oklahoma City Bombing. The June and July 1994 stuff is crazy. My understanding from a French guide and Usenet posts is some areas rebroadcast the June 28 episode of Y&R on June 29 (#5399) while others played a new episode (#5400) on June 29. Then, between July 29th and July 11th, there was only one episode aired on July 4 (makes sense, I guess court was not in session for OJ!). On July 11, some markets rebroadcast the June 29th episode, so Nielsen is picking up both June 29 and July 11 as airing, which they did, but for purposes of episode counting, there's only one new episode between the two days. I've never seen the July 4 episode, but the recap of it is a special pool party holiday episode, so they didn't bother reairing that outside the holiday. The June 29/July 11 episode features a location shoot to "Vietnam" (really Hawaii) so it makes sense that they wanted to be sure that one aired in addition to continuity purposes.

Oh, duh! I read it wrong. I thought it was preempted for 59 minutes.

Thank you! Well, this explains why there are so many GL January 1995 episodes floating around with inconsistent dates. I haven't found any recaps for that month either so that will be tricky to reconcile. I've got to imagine that 1/30/95 is counting as a full preemption and was reaired the next day. According to Usenet, the Y&R special that aired 1/23/95 was Danny and Cricket's wedding from 1990, but some users got that on 1/24. The new episode of Y&R for 1/23/95 was preempted.

Your grammar is right but a lot of Americans would say "he's doing good/he's not good" even though it's technically not correct.

Woohoo! I can be patient and wait til the end of the alphabet.

That's awesome news! Finally, the OJ Simpson preemptions!

Amazing @JAS0N47 been wishing there was a resource like this for years! Hopefully eventually we have preemptions for all the shows through 1996 when Soap Central's recaps start up. It's very hit or miss before that.

This sounds like a great use of AI. Y&R, with no overnight crew, could absolutely use something like this so they could put up a courthouse or hospital set and film scenes out of order in advance. Now that's a little weird, but it sounds like they did it ethically (they even hired the temp actor for another role). Didn't GH do something like this to insert Laura Wright into a Carly flashback?

Almost 70 years worth of ratings 🥳

That's what I figure will happen eventually but as of the information that is known right now, Li's response is really dumb because she's only bringing attention to her family not getting along and making herself look like a jerk. If she weren't making a big deal everyone would be like "oh, Luna is related to Li and Finn? That's nice."

So what exactly is Li's problem? That her sister had sex/a child out of wedlock? That's supposed to scandalize the Forresters? If it's to protect Finn, he seemed perfectly happy about Luna being an intern.

Has to be Days or GH cause y'all have like every episode from the mid-80s to now floating around.

I haven't watched the last couple of episodes but I think it would have been more natural had Mamie been lunching with Nate and mentioning she had some money to invest and he suggested buying out Victor, orchestrating it through Victoria. Mamie would perhaps know that Nate left Chancellor-Winters on bad terms, but without knowing the full extent of his betrayal. Then Lily and Devon could still be blindsided, and always worry that Mamie's decisions are influenced by Nate, while Nate would claim he's just trying to help his great-aunt.

You're the best!

I know a number of people here were trying to keep up spreadsheets of the B&B episode numbers and dates. Even the official B&B Channel had 1987 completely wrong! For those who don't know, @JAS0N47 is posting official Nielsen Ratings information in the 1980s Ratings Thread in the Cancelled Soaps forum, so now, we finally have accurate preemption information! I am only going to post the full preemptions, not partials (we have the full episodes digitized anyway), just to track the dates. They will eventually be posted on his site here https://www.jason47.com/days/nielsensweekly.html Iran-Contra Preemptions: July 7, 8, 9, 10 July 14, 15, 17 July 23 July 29 August 3 US Open September 7, 11 Thanksgiving November 26, 27 Reagan/Gorbachev Summit: December 8 Christmas: December 25 New Year's December 31 January 1 (1988)

This is great! I've been saving jpg of all your posts, but this will be so much more convenient!

I mean... I'm not even sure what Sheila is supposed to be on Y&R. She's supposed to have had Phyllis' face and been killed, which is why when they wanted to bring her back with Lauren's face (lmao) she had to be "Sheila's sister." But the Sheila that was in jail prior to Pheila wasn't really Sheila, but Sugar with plastic surgery to look like Sheila (lmao). So then doesn't that mean that on Y&R there does in fact exist a woman that looks like Kimberlin Brown, but it's Sugar? So I guess they could bring "Sheila" back to Y&R and have it to be in doubt who it is? But what would Sheila even do on Y&R, lurk in the balcony of the coffeehouse? Send threatening texts? Wear a wig and glasses at GCAC until she gets to her room which is the same room where everyone else lives? Get a job at Newman which we never see and then have Victor fire her before she does anything?

They played that song in the 80s when Jack's wife, Patty Williams, walked in on them doing it in Jack's office, haha. It resulted in Patty stumbling on a plant on her way to the elevator and suffering a miscarriage.

Think I'm more excited about Esther than Marie...

Honestly Diane is Jack's true love... even the womanizing Terry Lester version was completely hung up on her and not just using her like all the others.

Wonderful! Good work figuring that one out.

I am not up to date on this week's show (but really looking forward to it!), but I did find that episode in the vault, it's 11/24/2003. Thanks @soapfan770 those scenes were really good. Great acting from MS. I like how Danny was empathetic to Phyllis but held his boundaries. That dynamic between them still works and see it in her relationship with Daniel too. They both call her on her BS. and of course Phyllis was sobbing that she is a changed woman, as usual.

Thanks!

"You don't want to be his wife, you want to be his widow!" is such an awesome line. Was that 1995 clip one we had already?