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28 minutes ago, Darn said:

I'm somewhere in 85, Jill has just been shot (and Brenda's acting is alL OVer THe plACe) and I can't remember, who shot her? I think it was Kay (she's the only viable suspect so far), how'd she get away with it?

4 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

Working on getting more of my 80s stuff online.  Here's the first half of what I have from 1988. The quality isn't the greatest.

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)...

5 hours ago, Vee said:

There were rumors about Carla being cast in '11. Not sure how legit they were.

 

Still making my way through LM. As much as I love LLC, any time Lisa Peluso enters the scene her force of presence and chemistry with the delightful (and DILF) Randolph Mantooth dwarfs Lo Cicero's decent chemistry with him.

 

Unpopular? opinion: I think Steffi and cute little Richard have real chemistry too.

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 (?)...

Watching through the first few episodes of The City, never having watched it previously...

2 hours ago, slick jones said:

LISBY LARSON

 

SEARCH FOR TOMORROW       Victoria Parker    1979

TEXAS              Paige Marshall (Carrington) Wheeler  1980-82

ANOTHER  WORLD     Paige Marshall   1980

THE CATLINS   Vanessa Mahoney Crane Lockwood   1983

ONE LIFE TO LIVE    Annabelle (interviewed Tina)   1984 or 1985

GUIDING LIGHT      Calla Tyler Matthews       1985-87

ANOTHER WORLD       Pippa Palmer      1990

AS THE WORLD TURNS       Mary Hopkins Campbell   1993-94

LOVING     Bonnie ___ Rescott Davis          1994

ONE LIFE TO LIVE    Leigh Malone          2000

                                    Eve McBain     2006

 

Larson bounced around.

Wow she did get around. Thank you @slick jones

I just watched the 1992 episode that was on the Facebook page. It took me a while to recognise the lady playing Bonnie Rescott (Ally’s mother), and then it clicked - she also played Calla Matthews (Lillian’s sister) on Guiding Light in the mid 80s. What other stuff has she done daytime wise?

Thanks for the vid @will81. That was so weird seeing those scenes together. And one thing that surprised me - David Kimble! I didn’t realise Michael Corbett had started that early on Y&R (I thought that was more 1989). What was he doing for the first couple of years before Phillip died and then he swooped in on Nina?

Some more EON episodes have just emerged. No dates, but they appear to be from 1979. Not sure if these have been uploaded previously. I did like that the first one has Margaret Colin (pre-ATWT) and Vasili Bogazianos (pre-AMC).

God damn, Darnell Williams could have a scene with a box of hair and it would still be more captivating than anything we see on daytime TV today!

A whole heap of these clips only recently got uploaded in the last few days.

This one contains Jess Walton’s first ever appearance as Jill Abbott (complete with “the role of Jill Abbott is now played by Jess Walton”).

31 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

I'm only up to episode 21. JJ's mourning his mom is heartbreaking.  Lorraine was a great character. Richard was so pushy and annoying. I forgot he liked Steffi. This murder mystery reminds me of the awesome mysteries Henry Slesar did on EON. It's all so suspenseful and well planned out.

10 minutes ago, Vee said:

I've loved Lisa Lo Cicero since first watching in this era, when she had the bright red hair and I think she still has a lot of charm including with Randy Mantooth. But Peluso is very, very good, esp with Mantooth, so it's hard for even LLC to compete. I was not overly fond of what little I saw of her popular AW role (Lila), in which Michael Malone partly refurbished Luna Moody from OLTL. I'd forgotten they allegedly tried to woo her to GL to play Amanda Spaulding..

There is a nice little “triangle” slow burning with these three throughout the whole murder mystery that I’m also enjoying to an extent. Incidentally I watched an episode of The City earlier today where Sydney (Morgan Fairchild) had been pushed down a lift shaft. By this point, Alex and Jocelyn looked like they were together,  and LLC by this point had quite a *unique* hairstyle which I personally thought didn’t really suit her. But that’s for another time...

4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

dc will have more detail, but I think Danny saved Tyler when he was stuck somewhere. Ally then set Danny up on false rape charges, but changed her mind. 

 

I feel like B&E wanted to pair Ally and Danny as a couple, as this was teased on both shows, and if The City had run longer there was a clear Tony/Ally/Carla/Danny quad in full swing, but they likely faced negative audience reaction. 

 

If memory serves Danny was supposed to be a short term sleaze, but Ted King was so charismatic that the show decided to keep him around. 

 

This is one of the main stories going on when I started watching Loving. Laura Wright had a real edge to her work that made what could have been a very generic long-suffering heroine role seem more real. It's the same she'd end up doing on GL for years, successfully, until she started to become a little too cold in her last years there. 

Seeing these again reminds me of how I first got into Loving in the midst of the murder mystery story, after reading about it in my first soap magazines. Pretty much everything interested me, but more than anything I was hooked on Ava - Lisa Peluso was just fabulous and had so much screen presence. She was the type of character I was not getting on my old CBS soaps by this point. The soap magazines at the time panned Ava's writing and exit - they said she never would have been so weak or afraid - but I think Peluso plays it believably. 

Laura Wright hasn’t aged a day in all the roles I’ve seen her (Ally on Loving, Cassie on GL, and Carly on GH). She does has that certain edge about her that just draws you in. And her chemistry with Ted King is off the charts (no wonder they kept him on as Danny). Did their characters on GH ever get together?

I agree about Ava as well - I pick up on her being absolutely scared out of her brains, and it is totally believable and well-written. And even now in this storyline the neuroses are still there, if not even more amplified.

So there have been so many more vids uploaded today (part 41 is being uploaded as we speak). This is the kind of binge watching I love.

6 minutes ago, Vee said:

Since we've all done pretty well not mentioning the identity of the killer for first time viewers' sake, I suggest we consider spoiler-tagging it for awhile.

 

I will ask: Were there any interviews indicating when during taping the performer was told they were the culprit? I am watching them closely.

I’m curious myself actually...

4 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

 

When Tricia started showing signs of the crazy, Victor offered her to live in his penthouse so he could keep an eye on her and keep Victoria safe. Tricia drugged Victor with sleeping pills and viagra, had sex with him, and then claimed he raped her.  He got out of jail in time for Victoria and Ryan's wedding, but it was too late, Tricia had put on a wedding dress, walked down the aisle, and shot Ryan.

I was following Y&R quite heavily at the time, and I must have blanked that particular detail out. God that is insane

4 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

I've been crushing on Curtis and Buck as well. Here's a clip from Chris's first run as Curtis. He appears 2 mins in.

 

Oh wow, I had seen this clip before but it had never clicked that it was him. He looks like he hadn’t aged a bit between 1984 and 1995. Thanks heaps for reminding me of this!

1 hour ago, soapfan770 said:

He was definitely sexy on Knots and enjoyed him on Loving, it’s a shame him as Ben Warren on GL just didn’t work out for at all.

He played Ben Warren? When did this happen?

15 hours ago, Aback said:

 

I see what you mean - her raping Victor and accusing him of rape was especially insulting to women - but I think psychos are part of the winning Y&R formula, also right before her we did have Matt Clark who could balance her out.

Woah hang on WHAT?! When did this happen??

Those of you wondering what Lisa Peluso is doing nowadays...

4 minutes ago, AdelaideCate007 said:

I loved Lisa Peluso on the last few years of Another World and when she was randomly on OLTL for a hot minute. What ever happened to her? 

From a few months ago...