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Thanks @JAS0N47! The October 6, 1981 preemption is the assassination of Anwar Sadat. This one was unconfirmed for a very long time!

Gotta give credit to these actors. That's so hard to do in a void.

Yep, New Year's 2001. These were the days!

LOL! 😅

I agree. I am pretty sure Bell originally was contemplating making Traci the daughter of Brent Davis (when he was running around with just a generic baby picture) and I'm so glad they didn't go that way. She already didn't look like the rest of the family and wasn't involved in the family business, and it would have been so easy to have her fade away if that happened. It made more sense to have that happen to beautiful, strong, Ashley. Traci was always treated as the ugly duckling with Lauren in her ear telling her Danny would never love her and getting used by her professor. Brad was the hot guy who actually liked her. I always thought Brad had only used her for money, but now that so much 80s footage has come out, I can see that was not how it played out on screen. There's some subtext nodding to that but he also appears to have genuine feelings. And then they played so many scenes, including on her own Honeymoon, where women flirt with Brad and then realize he's with Traci and act disgusted and shocked (unpopular opinion: I don't think DD is that hot... the remarks were as OTT as the ones about Cricket!). Given that, I thought it was terrible for Ashley to get together with her sister's big love, when Ashley had the pick of so many men. And of course the Olivia thing was so gross and a step even beyond that.

Wow, thanks for typing that all out. It's crazy how detailed that is to the minute.

One thing I wonder about is when the Nielsen report says X number of minutes aired, how does that work with time zones. @JAS0N47 has told us that sometimes the shows reserved a few minutes for political ads, and intentionally produced a shorter show, so that makes sense. But for a news interruption like this, I wonder if sometimes it's possible the shows did air in full in some time zones? According to this article the shooting happened at 5:19 PM in St. Peter's Square https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-05/may-13th-1981-remembering-that-fateful-day.html which is 11:19 AM US Eastern time and 8:19 AM Pacific time. So that happened early enough that I guess it broke into Y&R and then the rest of the shows on CBS got preempted cause they stayed on the story all day. Same for ABC breaking into AMC and preempting the rest. So then the 20 minutes that aired of Y&R were East coast and the West Coast, I presume, had no show? But then how come NBC aired partial episodes of all their shows? Did they dip in and out of coverage all day? That information probably isn't available in Jason's report, so I'm just musing really. I guess it comes from the desire that since Sony isn't going to ever open up their vaults, that somewhere, the show aired in full and some fan recorded it. Hm! The first week of June actually looks LIT with several storylines climaxing. The dungeon storyline is #1 on my list of things I want to see someday! THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS: Week of May 18 - May 22, 1981 (1:00pm - 60 minutes - CBS) Jonas suspected that Cash was Casey’s admirer. Carl investigated the mystery man who tormented Casey with phone calls. Cash made Nikki believe that Casey had come on to him. Michael imprisoned Victor in the basement shelter and talked of leaving town with Julia. Jill decided to seek employment with Victor after an unsuccessful return to hairdressing. Lucas doubted that Simone had left Lance on Leslie’s account. Lorie nixed Leslie’s suggestion that they raise Brooks together. April defended her date with Paul to Greg. THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS: Week of May 25 - May 29, 1981 (1:00pm - 60 minutes - CBS) Jeff, Patty’s new boyfriend, failed to score points with Paul. April fumed at Paul for borrowing money from Greg to smooth over Wayne’s theft. Casey halted Cash’s advances by knocking him cold. Casey’s tormentor called while Cash was with Casey, disproving Jonas’ theory that Cash was the mystery man. A psychologist recommended that Brooks remain with Lorie. Vanessa sided with Leslie in the custody battle. Eve and Jill learned that Michael was at Victor’s ranch. Victor remained Michael’s captive. THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS: Week of June 1 - June 5, 1981 (1:00pm - 60 minutes - CBS) Lorie won custody of Brooks, but agreed to raise him jointly with Leslie. Leslie promised not to tell Brooks she’s his mother. Paul discovered Michael at Victor’s ranch, felled him with karate, then freed Victor from his basement digs. Victor promised to divorce Julia, who collapsed. Casey, thinking a male patient was her tormentor, gave him a near-fatal stress test.

What stunning photos! Thank you.

I always enjoyed her and it's too bad they never pursued the story of Nina's father. Rest in peace.

And it would have continued to go on had someone not leaked the story to deadline, because all the report suggested was more training!

That's fantastic!

Yeah a few days later the B&B one stopped accepting uploads. We just have to be patient. Our fearless leader @ChickenNuggetz92 always finds a way. I'm very curious to see your work!

The report says the preemption was for the Presidential Inauguration. The Presidential Inaugration is considered a "planned preemption" like Christmas or sports events. It is well known ahead of time because it takes place every four years on January 20. It goes on all day and there are no soaps at all, so it's not like an unplanned special report that only breaks into part of the show. It's very safe to assume that a soap is always preempted on Inauguration Day.

Yes! And some people were saying "she needs to get used to being on a soap" but that is really dark and goes further than I would expect on a modern soap, so I totally get her point now.

It's too bad they didn't at least give a breakdown of men vs women. You'd have to think it was virtually every woman.

I feel like Y&R is the only other one that would make anyone say "finally!" but with Griffith being fi-core, it seems so unlikely...

That spoiler is actually interesting!

Ah, sorry to hear that, RIP

Not yet. Episodes can't be added to the current one.

That is utterly disgusting.

The Special Report for 10/2/79 is Pope John Paul II speaking at the UN General Assembly, for those who like to keep track of preemptions.

And as far as characters go, I believe the only ones left that debuted in the 70s are Jill, Nikki, and Heather (!) (showed up as baby in December 1979).

Oh nice! She really does look fantastic!

Lol yes JG can save money on the budget by just hiring ex-Y&R actors to do cameo. Maybe he could get one from DD.

That's cool but Zoom doesn't really count.