BoldRestless

Oh no, I had saved some of his videos, but I was a week or so behind.  Does anyone have all of them?

50 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

If a playlist is private , it's private for a reason, you shouldn't share the link on a PUBLIC forum

I was actually the person who helped the uploader set it up as a private playlist and I invited her to this forum. Besides it has been posted in here several times. 

@FrenchFan the playlist is private. Here it is: 

11 hours ago, Chris B said:

I'm so confused about how that is available, but I'm going to start watching! This will nicely compliment my Y&R re-watch with the 89-95 episodes in the Y&R thread. My one question is, was B&B even good in the beginning? I've only seen the first two weeks previously. Also, how far is the show right now with these uploads?

The first two weeks are really exruciatingly slow. I wouldn't judge the whole season by that.  It's not until almost episode 40 that Brooke actually meets the Forresters. I wouldn't skip it, but just keep it in mind. What's interesting to me is seeing a B&B with better acting, directing, and music, with a similar feel to Y&R but definitely not as great. However, the show is very... straight. There's really no subtext like there is on Y&R. The characters express their thoughts through talking to themselves and long speeches. It's sort of cheesy that way. Nothing going on beneath the surface, and the storylines are very simplistic (maybe that's why it was popular abroad). I personally did enjoy the rape story. I would say watch everything, because it's fun to catch little details here and there, like how long Eric and Stephanie were married, how Bill Spencer had no other children and no son (lol), and stuff like that. I would get the thought of "oh why don't I just fast forward to the Stephanie scenes" but the show is so short, it's honestly easier to just watch it, it goes by fast and you'll never get this opportunity again to see it for the first time.

It worked in 720p! Thanks @sheilaforever

I use jdownloader and it almost always works. I have #397 and 398 in 720p. For some reason I couldn't download ep 392, but it does work on the site from Marquise (thank you!), only in 360p for some reason. Up to ep 330 they were downloading in 1080p but something changed. These are still decent quality though.  (If someone happens to have ep 392 in better quality, please do share!)

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kbe93tdpatc18ul/B%26B_Classics_S2_E397_(1988)_(720p_30fps_H264-192kbit_AAC).mp4/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/n5udmxtdn11j0ur/B%26B_Classics_S2_E398_(1988)_(720p_30fps_H264-192kbit_AAC).mp4/file 

I'm still only in the 230s in my viewing... it's certainly nice having all this to look forward to! 

JMW's acting on Friday was embarrassingly bad. 

The Variety article is now updated to say it's not official: "The org is discussing the possibility that the Daytime Emmy Awards will combine its outstanding younger actor and actress categories into one. (An earlier version of this story had said the decision had already been made.)"

I don't mind it in the sense that we've been lucky this extra random category even exists. I'd rather have a combined gender category than for them to eliminate the award. I don't like the idea of adding digital into it because IMO, that's a completely different genre (why is it even considered Daytime instead of Primetime? Am I supposed to watch Digital Dramas during the day?). And it would be easy for them to say that with only 4 soaps, they're going to add Digital Dramas into the major categories.

I just glanced at the wikipedia list of winners and IMO there's a huge drop in quality in the Younger categories over the years. I barely recognize the names of some recent winners. But going back a few years, it gets difficult to pick between the male and female winners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Daytime_Emmy_Award_winners

Just found this from September 1993.  The page says September 24, but the download link to the file says September 22?  What do you think, @YRfan23?

https://archive.org/details/201969142350september221993yr

Discuss!!!

Katherine and Victor were both billionaires, but I don't think that it was ever specified whohad more. I'd guess Victor too. John Abbott was clearly a notch below, "only" a multi-millionaire.

When they finally showed those photos of Jack and Jill in the cabin on Y&R, I was surprised how racy they were.

I don't have the app but it could be fun if someone put in some old pictures of the stars and see how it compares to what they look like now!

This is amazing, thank you!

I have found a work around for the small text, at least in the Chrome browser. I right-click the image and hit "open in new tab."  Then I go to the tab and click the image and it is very big.  You can adjust even more by hitting CTRL+ to make it bigger or CTRL- to make it smaller.  The quality is VERY good.

Lol their heels on that slippery floor.

3 hours ago, will81 said:

This is why Traci annoyed the hell out of me during this period of time. She seemed to be so entitled about Brad, if any woman even looked at him, she was on the enemies list, which included her own sister. Traci not wanting Ashley as the Godmother was just a spiteful decision on Traci's part. Ashley did nothing wrong except date Brad after Traci had dumped him, divorced him and moved out of town. Her behaviour from her return in 1990 through the rest of Brenda's run as Ashley was ridiculous.

 

What made even less sense was that Ashley always supported and backed Brad and Traci's relationship, while Jack actively tried to destroy it. Yet Traci had no issue with Jack. She held a grudge against Ash for years but forgave Jack almost every time. 

 

I can understand how Traci would feel that way. She was always in Ashley's shadow and hearing her sister called "my beauty" while she was teased for her weight. Brad was the hot guy who actually fell for her, and Ashley dating him hit a sore spot.

2 hours ago, ironlion said:

Watching the 2007 episodes recenly posted. I finally got to see how the whole Pheila fiasco played out....God have mercy,  who allowed this to air? Michelle Stafford---love her as Phyliss, pre overacting---was cringeworthy as "Sheila". At the very least Brad Bell basically erased that trash when Kimberlin returned to B&B in 2017 (that storyline within itself was another problem, but at least we got real Sheila back). 

 Overall, Sheila had decent storyline up to 2002, and her 2005 plot was decent. 

I don't blame Brad Bell for just hitting reset. The story was too convoluted by that point. We saw Sheila in jail, locked up in chains and heavily medicated, only to hear that was really Sugar whom Sheila forced to have plastic surgery to look like her. No one wants to see Kimberlin Brown as "Sugar" and Michelle Stafford as "Sheila." At that point it made absolutely no sense for Sheila to just be walking around LA free, but I'd rather that than having them go through more cringe-worthy re-writes. At least now the door is open whenever she wants to come back.

It's so funny how a couple of 1 minute clips provide more entertainment and subtext than an entire week's worth of the show today. Not that I wouldn't love seeing the whole episode though.

I wish videoland would upload more than one episode a day.  I'm only still up to episode 195, so I don't mind Amy Silence being behind, but it seems crazy that they can't drop them in bigger batches for people who are actually watching along with videoland. I wonder why they've released them only in the Netherlands. Now that the episodes are ready, why can't they license them to Netflix or Amazon Prime?  They must have already addressed music rights, because there are some scenes where you hear cheesy music and you can only see the characters lips moving and it's obviously been dubbed over.

August 26, 1988

August 29, 1988

Wow, thanks so much! 

1 minute ago, YRfan23 said:

Haha I literally went from being super excited, to groaning when I realized it was an episode we  already had!  but I don't think I saw the B&B from that date though.

My reaction was exactly the same! I checked your Y&R playlist and when it was there, I was bummed but like "at least B&B is new."

Someone uploaded March 6, 1992 (Y&R as well but that was already on YT)

https://archive.org/details/WLYHShowsAndCartoons3692

 @Y&R21395 do you have any playlists prior to 2010?

5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@BoldRestless thank you for those classic episodes. I haven't watched 1995 as of yet, as I already sat through that stuff at the time and have no great need to look back at present, but the 1986 episode was a wonderful watch. Other than the ridiculous spectacle of Lauren spelling out her entire plan so that Shawn would learn the truth and plot her demise, the entire episode was absolutely flawless - you can see why Y&R was barreling toward #1. The scenes with Nikki and Casey and Nikki reading to Victoria were the standouts. Melody Thomas Scott at her best. Nikki at her insecure worst, but really, she was right - could you blame her? Roberta Leighton and Melody are so perfect as sisters I still can't believe they weren't originally cast together. 

 

 

 

MTS' facial expression when she finds out Ashley helped pick the horse was priceless. And Y&R used to be filled with little moments like that in every episode. I've always liked Victor and Ashley's relationship, but seriously - who collaborates with their mistress to buy a gift for their young child? I love the way Bill Bell played it, with the affair being an open secret. So much better than having everyone look dumb as if they never had a clue. This is psychological drama and it's so much more interesting. I can just imagine how cringey this would be today, with two different factions of "Niktor" and "Vashley" fans battling out who was Victor's twue wuv. Y&R had romance, of course, but the relationships weren't so much about making you swoon (a la Calgon take me away) as the way those relationships fit into the canvas, and the reactions of the various characters to them. Nikki going and telling her daughter that story about the wicked witch was terrible parenting, but you couldn't help but feel for her, and it demonstrated how delusional she was thinking that if you just take Ashley out of the equation there's no problem with the marriage. Other than her hair and the way she's dressed, this could have been any wife in America trying to work out her feelings.

I was very impressed with Shawn's acting. I don't know a lot about this storyline - who was this Tamara woman and what was the deal with Turk?  

4 hours ago, ironlion said:

Might be in the  minority here, but are there any classic viewers who preferred Michelle Stafford over Gina T? Much like I cannot accept Amelia H as Victoria, Gina just dosen't click with me as Phyliss (though she is far more compotent than Amelia). Even if Michelle S has acting quirks, its hard to imagin anyone else playing that role. If anyone had to play Phyliss again, Sanda Nelson was very solid in the late 90s.

 

Unpopular opinion, but I greatly, greatly preferred MS and never liked GT. I certainly concede that MS was overacting by the end and I was very much over her... I just never thought GT did any better. I just think of her as always snarling and angry. I think this is represented well in the clip @ChickenNuggetz92 posted.There's no lightness to her character, it's one note.  Sandra Nelson was much better than GT.

This user "Jesse Jesse" is uploading B&B episodes with Finnish subtitles under the title Kauniit ja rohkeat.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCclLCB-TiUoL-h5QorFZlUg