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Katherine played it so wrong attacking Jill and making Jill sympathetic lol. Would have been smarter to let Jill prance around as people slowly find out she had slept with Phillip and had his child, and then they would all think poor Kay having to endure that. But Kay couldn't help herself!

Does anyone know who the actresses were playing Katherine's friends at her December 1982 Christmas party in the vault?

Kevin is adorable and a good singer too. Interesting that they seemed to have chem tested him with Ashley. And there was Allison's line about John Abbot having "two marriageable daughters." I thought they should have kept him around. I really love the whole Bancroft family storyline.

Honestly, the amazing person uploading 1982 videos to the vault is making this a lot easier for me to accept. I got into a groove of watching classics in the evening, and I'll still be able to do that thanks to the vault.

Meh, but it's been a good run.

The uploads are up to December 1982! I hope that @FrenchFan has the summaries for the rest of the year. I really enjoy reading them. I found some others they posted years ago but they're not as detailed. I love the bits of dialogue. Makes me feel like I watched it, except I picture Brenda Dickson instead of Deborah Adair. These are the other summaries from 1982

If ever they were to bring closure to the Williams parents they would have done it during the Patty storyline or when Paul killed Ricky. Another missed opportunity.

Really? It's so interesting when the soap stars have "real" jobs on the side like Kate Linder being a flight attendant and Beth Ehlers working for the state of New Jersey (although not while she was acting). I wonder what he did there and if people recognized him. It would have been a fairly new agency at the time. I haven't seen a lot from that era but I assume Carl's job made it easy for the writers to just say he was away on an assignment or undercover, and then, I guess they just eventually stopped bothering to mention him at all, same as they did when Carolyn Cromwell got sick and they didn't even give Mary an onscreen funeral or anything.

I haven't seen anyone else bring this up, but if Bruce Henderson is Liz Foster's brother, that makes her maiden name Liz Henderson. That's the same name given as Beth Logan's maiden name on B&B. When Beth is in the hospital for breast cancer, Stephanie sees that she has a Henderson family Bible and she is "Liz Henderson" from college. There are already so many similarities between the Logans and the Fosters. I wonder if Bill Bell knew a woman named Liz Henderson who was abandoned by her spouse? Since Bruce turns out to be Lorie's father, this also makes Lorie a cousin of Greg, Snapper, and Jill (before the Jill adoption retcon), which I don't believe has ever been addressed on the show.

As a child watching with my grandma, that was the most evil thing Sheila had done... SHE SHOT THE TV! 🤣

Sometimes I wonder why they didn't just cancel the show after losing so many actors and just create a spin-off with selected characters like Lorie, Kay, Jill, etc. That would have given them a fresh start while leaving things open for original cast members from the core families to pop in.

It was funny how we skipped from Patty whining that Jack wouldn't marry her to Mary planning the wedding in the church. And we missed Traci and Ashley's very first appearances. Still, these are such a treasure. I'm glad this person taped pretty much all of Nikki/Victor and Katherine's storylines. That's what I most wanted to see. As much as I'd want to see even earlier than this, I feel like this is the seminal version of Y&R... this is really where it becomes the show that we still watch today. It's really exciting to finally see good solid chunks from this era. It's so artfully done.

Why is Malcolm working at the coffee house?

Lauren's not in the Soap Central recap for April 16, 2004. Maybe "shocking moments"?

Cool, I have three May 2002 videos coming up that I need to edit to complement this. I looked through all the 2004 I had and didn't see those, but I did upload today and yesterday's classics to the vault.

Maybe he was only married so that Jill would be with a married man yet again.

Was Andy married when he came on the show? I don't get the point of the Karen character and the marriage.

It took some vision on the part of Y&R's casting director to think of her for Mary Williams after she first played a prostitute, and yet, it worked out perfectly.

Carolyn Cromwell is talented as heck because I buy her in that role just as much as the prude role.

I will keep an eye out for them. There's a lot of humor in the writing. Any scene with Col. Douglas is delightful. I laughed out loud when he wanted to offer Nikki his hand. I'm always wondering what he's going to say to make Victor yell at him. At one point, Victor yells at him for agreeing too much! And obviously anything with Kay and the Bancrofts. I love the subtle little motif where Allison is badgering Earl about drinking too much coffee and then days later when he tells her they will support the marriage, he defiantly takes an extra sip of coffee! That type of attention to detail is what made the show so brilliant. It's filling in the blanks on a lot of the Victor/Nikki/Kevin stuff. I couldn't understand, based on what we'd seen before, why she'd be living with Victor, having already had a sexual relationship, while he's encouraging her to marry Kevin. Now I get it. The story is silly but now I see it's more intentionally so, a comedy of errors where Victor & Nikki are both overthinking the other's reaction, especially with the bad advice they're getting from Katherine and Douglas, culminating in the morning of Nikki's marriage where they both have voiceovers wishing they could tell each other everything and their own stubbornness prevents them from speaking up. I must say I do understand Allison! Your son is engaged to a nice girl, suddenly he's with this other girl, and you slowly come to find out she's living with another man, and was a stripper, and is pregnant... she saw the red flags correctly actually! I hope we get to the part where she learns the truth.

The "R" channel that was deleted was uploading stuff from 2004. I grabbed a lot of it, but the videos were named by titles, not dates, so it will take some time to sort through and rename the files. Is there any date in particular you're looking for?

It's so funny I had never even heard of Barbara/Dorothy/Wayne until that 1981 classic that just popped up and now I actually get to see the outcome!

Those clips are awesome... a HUGE thank you to whoever is our mysterious benefactor! It looks like it has Jerry Douglas' debut, Paul & Kay's first scenes together, and the scene where Allison Bancroft brings out a life size cut out of Nikki stripping... I've wanted to see that forever! 😅 @ltm1997 check it out!

I actually had that feeling in this thread when I found out Anthony Herrera played Jack Curtis!

Today's intro features Eric Braeden doing the intro from the exterior of the studio, so it's almost time. I was waiting to hear if he'd say "and we'll be back with new episodes next week" but the sound quality wasn't good. I'm hoping for at least another week. Guess we'll see on the Global site soon.