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Thank you! Those are some of the last good storylines for the Newmans! I still have hope you might have some Italian clips or episodes to share as well.

These play fine for me. Try re-downloading them. A big thanks to the gracious uploader ❤️

Great to confirm more US Open Preemptions. I am assuming the event that broke into soaps and preempted Search for Tomorrow was this event from September 1: A South Korean 747 was shot down in the Sea of Japan by a Soviet fighter near a Soviet island off Siberia, the United States announced. There were no known survivors aboard the plane carrying 269 people on a flight from New York to Seoul. American, Soviet and Japanese ships and planes fruitlessly searched the frigid seas north of Japan where the airliner apparently went down. There was an unconfirmed report that the long-missing plane had experienced radio difficulties and thus may have been unable to hear or respond to any Soviet warnings, but there was no clear explanation for the attack. Investigations continued into the next week with the Soviet Union admitting it on September 6, which accounts for the other interruptions (I have to remember that sometimes I need to look at NY Times news from the following day, since it was all in print back then!).

You're on fire! 1983 is just flying by.

Can't thank you enough!!! You rock!

Cool, will check it out

Like if that actually happens that sounds decent but if it's just them going to the coffee shop and telling Sharon about it...

Thanks for typing that all out! That's more along my expectations with sports being high and those kiddie specials being much lower.

That's not bad for B&B! Thanks. Maybe I'm naive but I'm honestly shocked that the soaps do so much better than an almighty sacred sports event! I always thought those events were so popular that they had to preempt our silly soaps so they could get the ratings for sports. Maybe March Madness and Thanksgiving football do better. Or maybe it is just that the network signs a contract for broadcast rights to sports so they preempt the soaps. And as far as I know, most sports have less commercials than scripted series so it seems like they lose money between paying for the rights, less commercials, and lower ratings? It's fascinating to see it all come together.

Great! That tracks with what I thought. If I'm reading correctly, the ratings for US Open are in the 3s and 4s, lower than even Capitol?! Then what is the point of preempting the soaps...

Thanks @JAS0N47 that's a relief! If September 10 hasn't been a preemption it would have messed up all the assumed episode numbers. Totally understandable to make a mistake every once in a while.

Interesting that CBS soaps were only preempted Monday September 6 for US Open. It's long been assumed they were also preempted Friday that week.

I like the headlines. It looks cleaner. I did not like the "latest posts" sidebar because even though the spoiler section had been removed, it often had posts from discussion of that day's show which I had not watched yet.

As they say, God bless Eric Braeden!

Gotta take it one day at a time, hah.

I'm just bumping the last update which was about 3 weeks ago. Guys, don't forget that it's just one person responsible and he uses his own money and time to set it up for us.

Zuleyka Silver posted a clip of her audition tape:

I was laughing a few weeks ago when Sharon was saying they had to have Mariah's expert marketing skills for Cameron Kirsten enterprises. Marketing what?!

In the early 2000s Y&R had some legitimately good storytelling (original Mac and Billy, Kevin revealed as Michael's brother) but I thought they were jumping the shark with spermgate, Brittany getting eletrocuted on the pole, and Jill and Kay being mother and daughter, but all that stuff is very watchable now. They weren't good ideas long term, but they were well executed. Cassie's death and John's death were also major blunders but well executed and acted. Even as late as 2008 I was enjoying Heather and Adam hooking up and Kay thinking she was Marge and falling for Murphy. And the last storyline I honestly liked was Nina reuniting with Ronan in 2010. That era had some horrific stuff though (Cane's ghost, chipmunk, reliquary...). To be fair, I still watch Y&R, B&B, and GH so I guess I have to say they are still "watchable" now. Y&R has some good ideas but they don't play the beats. B&B has some good action scenes but bad storytelling. GH is just... a lot. A lot of stuff happens, but I don't usually care about it because there's too many characters and even after 18 years of viewing I still don't get all the obscure GH universe references, lol.

Unfortunately no. Any updates would be posted in the thread linked. Last update from the owner was on July 21. Since then it seems the vault is not accessible at all (for a while, it still showed the files for download).

It was on August 3 (it's where I'm up to so I just watched it). It was 30 seconds of Adam explaining to Phyllis lol. If you went to the bathroom, you'd have missed it. https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/recaps/2023/230731.php#thu

Week of Aug 21: Chloe encourages Esther. Ah! Will we finally see the outcome of the internet date that Chloe encouraged Esther to make in May of 2022 for Kate's 40th anniversary? 😅

That seems like a terrible contract, IMO. Doesn't it mean that if she gets offered other work, they can prevent her from taking it if they need her to film that one episode per week, because she's technically on contract? I hope she's recurring or has "outs." I also wonder why they can't give a contract or situation like that to someone like Billy Miller. I would take 53 appearances from him in a year over being subjected to Jason Thompson daily.

What shows? Are you looking for daily, weekly, or monthly? Usenet has a lot of early 90s recaps, and there were tumblr accounts featuring Soap Opera Digest scans 70s-early 90s and weekly summaries from the late 70s/early 80s.

And there it is! I would have missed it if you hadn't mentioned it. I wonder if that "special airing" the previous Tuesday was a time shift to a different slot to make sure they didn't lose a day to a preemption and air the wedding late.