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1 hour ago, wonderwoman1951 said:

listening to those conversations between jessica and her father, it was my father’s voice i heard. it was as though doug marland had bugged my italian-american family’s home. 

He could be uncanny when writing about families, for sure.

2 hours ago, Kane said:

If I'm remembering correctly, the outfits Trisha & Jeff are wearing are meant to be recreations of costumes from the Garbo movie Camille.

Yes, they were.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

For sure, if THE DOCTORS had survived past 1982, I could see Toni returning and throwing a wrench into Mike and Kit's relationship...thanks to the now-grown child she had by him while everyone believed she was dead.

Michael Paul would have definitely been superaged had the show gone into 1983.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Way back in the dark ages, when Paul and Christine were freshly on the outs, I thought it would have been fantastic if she'd learned she was pregnant.  So much juicy drama could have sprung from that plot twist: Christine finally becoming a mother, but without the man she loved...Paul, torn between the pregnant Christine and the also pregnant Isabella...a returning Danny pretending to be the father, so that Paul won't feel the need to return to Christine just for the baby's sake (or so Christine reasons to Danny)...and Isabella, Michael and Phyllis all suspicious as hell about the whole thing.

I like those ideas, great job!!

29 minutes ago, Khan said:

I hate to admit it, but I had sorta-high hopes for that otherwise cockamamie story about John's memories and personality being stashed away on some CD-ROM or something.  It was like DAYS itself was admitting they had gone as far as they could with John as Roman-Lite or Dollar Tree Jason Bourne and were now gonna try and evolve him into an antagonist.

I should've known better.

How many millions of John's past lives are out there?

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Because, God knows, the writers weren't gonna do it!

Do they ever?

Just now, Khan said:

Especially when the shows...?  Weren't that good to begin with.

I haven't seen the original HotC in years, so it probably hasn't held up.

How long before they do another all-virtual show???

31 minutes ago, Marissa Gallant said:

No, they did a CC one in 92. Everyone’s life was all messed up. And seeing it shifted CCs attitude. No one knew him. 

I had forgotten that. Thanks.

21 minutes ago, Khan said:

Agree.

Honestly, some shows are best left in the past.

2 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

Wonder why Irene/Liz got a photo shoot?

She was hardly on at that point.

I have no idea, but thought the pictures were nice. 

18 hours ago, Faulkner said:

Already canceled.

Probably just as well.

My Cat From Hell!!

14 minutes ago, Khan said:

Frankly, they could have axed SB (no offense, SB fans) and used that hour to launch GENERATIONS and another, half-hour soap.  SB had its' charms, but I think it was clear by that point that the show was never going to grow beyond its' devoted, cult following.  GENERATIONS, with some more guidance, could have achieved more appeal with the AMC/OLTL/GH crowd who enjoy(ed) a mix of the traditional with the different.

Maybe. It's too bad NBC didn't just try it as a primetime soap.

Was Cruz's dream SB's final Christmas sequence?

On 11/24/2021 at 12:48 AM, Nicholas Blair said:

Ultimately, the show is most remembered for the discovery of Rod Arrants, Christine Jones, and Richard Backus, all very good and probably the reason I kept watching the show.

Thank goodness they all went on to bigger and better things - with Richard Backus later becoming a soap writer after his acting days were over.

1 hour ago, danfling said:

Judith Barcroft was the third actress to play Ann Tyler on All My Children, but following her was a hard job for any actress.   I thought that Gwen Gilliss (possibly misspelled) was an excellent choice to play Ann #4.

Didn't the original Ann actress only last one day?

Here's Peggy Cass as crackerjack hospital receptionist H. Sweeney (1978-79). She was written out before we found out what the "H" stood for.

Ted Capwell, SB

Brick Wallace, SB

Penny Davis, The Doctors 

The cast in 1975, 1977 and 1982:

I'm guessing Chris Noth will not be asked back (if there really were plans to do so in the first place).

Right now, I feel like watching the Christmas episode with Mason as Scrooge. That was 1985, if I'm not mistaken. 

12 minutes ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

There are more Soap Opera Books out there based on AMC!

yes there is a book out there of Search of Tomorrow 

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Tomorrow-Faith-Baldwin/dp/B000CBKVO2
 

i own that myself. I’m a collector. I try to hunt down every book/magazine and soap opera stuff I can find and afford. I bid on that Edge book on eBay but they are already at 103 Dollr.. Like wth?

Cool, thanks for the info.

17 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

De nada...

Now that I'm taking Spanish, I'm gonna totally immerse myself in the culture. From now on, I'm only speaking Spanish. I'm eating Spanish food, I'm wearing Spanish clothes, and I'm re-reading the covers of my Julio Iglesias albums really, really carefully.

Whatever floats your boat!!