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The Rescotts arrived sometime in 1984, apparently, if this is anything to go by... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Loving_cast_and_characters?wprov=sfti1

Oooh look at how young some of those peeps were back then. And a small glimpse of Roya Megnot as Ava with whom I assume was Perry Stephens’ Jack during their “romance”?

Can I just confirm what you were WTFing about exactly? Some of these Love In The Afternoon teasers were damn awesome.

Speaking of the secret room, does anyone know if there are any more 1985 episodes online pertaining to the Tina paternity storyline? I’m interested to see how it all unfolds...

Am I the only one who had to make sure they weren’t seeing Brenda Dickson doing belly dancing?? Sharon Case at her best ❤️

This is epic. Why oh why did Y&R not hang onto Alex Donnelly longer??

Yeah from what I understand and have read in various Y&R histories, she flipped out after Brent Davis told her he was her father. I’m curious as to the exact timeline myself, as I had been keen to see if there had been any Ashley/Dina confrontation that resulted from the reveal. But that initial breakdown certainly did establish frailties in Ashley’s mental health, and was thus used again when she aborted Victor’s baby and completely went off the deep end subsequently.

Darnell Williams and Kim Delaney had such amazing friend chemistry (of course we all know he could have chemistry with a brick wall). I wonder what would have happened if they hadn’t killed off Jenny.

Another historical question for the more knowledgeable peeps in here... When did Jack and Nikki commence their initial 80s affair (while Nikki was married to Victor)? Was it before or after Victor started his affair with Ashley?

YES! Get JWS and Julianne Moore for one! Would be amazing for them to recount their days doing the Doug Cummings storyline. And if they can get Don Hastings and Kathryn Hays for that as well, that would be incredible.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 25 years since the Loving Murders. And LMT is still looking great!

Lucas and Casey were an item??

One of those secrets that went to the grave, so to speak - just like John Abbott never finding out that Brent Davis was Ashley’s father. Speaking of which, I know the episode with Brent revealing himself to Ashley is online. Did Ashley explicitly confront Dina about it after she was told?

Ooooh wow. That episode is not online it seems. Would be interesting to watch that.

Question for the more knowledgeable folks here... Did Ashley ever find out that Leanna was originally one of Steven Lassiter’s patients (and in fact the reason Leanna came to town in the first place)?

I have been lost in this whole 1989 playlist for the last day and a bit, and I am riveted by a lot of the storylines unfolding here. I’m currently up to July 1989 where Christine has just been raped. It’s compelling stuff, and I only wish the soaps today could be as good as 1989 Y&R was (the soap was just firing on all cylinders here).

I loved this, especially how that one episode set the WHOLE PREMISE for the series - the two families of the Brooks and Fosters, their names, their backgrounds. We got to see two plots start straight away (Brad’s escape to Genoa City, and Snapper’s relationship with Chris). I also loved seeing Deidre Hall in something pre-DOOL. This is why Bill Bell was a master at his craft. I hope we discover more episodes from this era. 3 episodes back to back around John Abbott’s wedding to Jessica Blair, including where they tell the family at the wedding lunch about Jessica’s battle with AIDS (or rather HIV as it would be more commonly known today). The thing that impressed me the most about these episodes was the big focus on family - Jessica’s relationship with Cricket, the Abbotts all interacting with each other. There is a scene where the Abbotts are all together in the mansion, and you get to see first-hand just how well all of them blended as a unit. Jerry Douglas, Terry Lester, Eileen Davidson, Beth Maitland - there was something so good about seeing them all happy together. And one thing I’m surprised they included, but really glad they did - Jill’s reaction to the new of the marriage. Her monologue to John was spot on. And it really established Jess Walton in the history of John and Jill. Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it yet.

This was brilliant! Thank you so much! A few observations I had with this episode, some which I will put in spoiler tags for those who don’t want to know what happens: This was the first time I had ever seen Terry Lester and Brenda Epperson together in an episode - my previous exposure to Y&R had only been seeing Peter Bergman with Brenda, and then Peter with Eileen, and then of course through the wonders of Youtube, Terry and Eileen (let’s not mention Shari). I found the chemistry to be somewhat believable and I could imagine it would have been tough for Brenda to step into Eileen’s shoes almost straight away. Terry was wearing glasses A LOT in some of his later years on Y&R. Was he having any health issues at this point? Also on Terry, all I could picture with his glasses and goatee was the striking resemblance to Colonel Sanders and expected him to spring out an ad for KFC at any moment.

Mmmmm.... Latter Days... mmmm 😋

These are amazing. Thanks so much for these. 1988 would have to be one of the best years for Y&R. So much unfolding in just those episodes you posted: Nina giving birth to Phillip’s baby; Cricket being chased by THREE men at once (Phillip, Danny and Scott); Leanna’s Ruthless storyline starting to take shape, and her interactions with Steven, Victor and Jack; The introduction of George Rawlins, with Paul being called upon for his services; Nikki finding out she’s pregnant with Nicholas; Paul digging into Brad’s past (at the request of Jack), and the subsequent reveal of Lisa (who would later kidnap him and lock him in a cage); Jessica Blair’s introduction and courtship with John Abbott. There is a reason why Y&R well and truly claimed the #1 spot that year, and these episodes just demonstrate that. Looking forward to even more stuff from that year.

Been watching some Cass/Frankie and Cass/Lila clips on Youtube, and it reminded me of a question I posed on the old RATSM newsgroup just before the show ended in 1999. I thought it would be a great opportunity to do it again: If Lila, Frankie, *and* Kathleen happened to be in Bay City all at once, and Cass had to choose only one of them, who would he choose and why?

So I’ve been bingeing on any old City episodes that I could get my hands on on YouTube, including the final episode, and I have questions (putting in spoiler tags for people who might not know the storylines)...

God I want to break my screen everytime I see Richard on it. Having watched the first few episode of Tha Cit-eeeeeh, I can understand sorta why he is the way he is, but damn I can only handle him in very minute doses. If you are ever curious, look up some of Corey Page’s work on Heartbreak High (the early 90s Australian drama that he was on before he scored his role on Tha Cit-eeeeeh). He’s actually really good in it.

We’ve been talking about Morgan Fairchild on the Loving/City thread, and this scene of her from SFT was mentioned. There was also a mention of a scene where she apparently crashes through a glass door (?)...