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You're welcome. I almost went with Nico & Julie's wedding photo, but it was nice to find a photo where Julie didn't look too demure for words. Seriously, this is the kind of material that daytime (well, TV as a whole) could and should be tackling, but no one has the guts to.

Yup, but I don't think it lasted long. Nico eventually moved on to Cecily, but I guess remained friends with Julie.

Those Josh Swickard photos ... fans self Thanks, @slick jones!

I'm glad the show eventually moved on from the '60s flashbacks. A year or two later, when the writers openly hated Val, we might have gotten "fun" glimpses of her serving eggs to truckers. And Gary in the gutter.

This is the first I've ever heard of David Hamilton originally intended as a golfer. Maybe he would have gotten bludgeoned with a club instead of hitting his head on the fireplace.

I'm a few weeks away from Harold's arrival. Michael York has just shown up. (And we're all going to wish he hadn't.)

And No. 7 is Jenny/Julie (CAP). Thank you, @Paul Raven. So, of the seven "double character" storylines in 1985, five involved one actor playing two physically separate people, and two involved one actor playing a character with two identities.

As crazy as it is, there is something awfully sweet about Abby and Olivia's reactions to realizing each was willing to protect the other for murdering Peter, and even more that they're both innocent. (Well, minus Abby hiding the corpse for six weeks.) "Oh, Mom, we gotta start talking to each other more often."

Yes, of course. And No. 6 is Jack/Jerry (SB). That just leaves RH, GH (Grant/Grant wrapped in 1984), ATWT (I don't think they started Frannie/Sabrina until 1986), CAP, GL, SFT, and DOOL to choose from.

That made me spit out my drink! Off the top of my head, I can name three, although I think we need some clarification about if it's one actor playing two characters, one character with two identities, or both: Viki/Niki (OLTL), Vicky/Marley (AW), and Tyrone/Robert (Y&R).

"Those Mayberry girls!" -- ghost of Isabelle Alden

Seriously, the first thing that came to mind was a quote from an old Buzzfeed article: "Look at you, you f*cking magnificent empress!"

Oh, definitely. I'm just imagining the public trying to make sense of a former U.S. senator, who resigned after less than two months in office, taking for his third wife a woman marrying for the fourth time, whom he previously rescued from a kidnapper that was among his campaign contributors. Not to mention the whole Lotus Point of it all, everything from Greg making a public stink about the arsenic-tainted water to that being where Peter (whom the 1988 public would still believe was Greg's half-brother) died, to Abby's partners including her ex-husband, her ex-sister-in-law (and part of the couple she and Greg are in a custody suit against), and Greg's late wife.

Continuing to make my way through the late '80s -- I'm up to just before it's discovered that Paige killed Peter -- and every so often, I think about the poor AP or UPI writer that would have to somehow write three coherent paragraphs once Greg and Abby marry. They had one complicated as hell relationship over a six-year period.

I continue to be impressed at the scope of new material uploaded. And when I saw this image of Gwyn, I just had to make it my new avatar.

And, of course, the more time passed from when Victor was a character, the easier it was to radically and retroactively change who he was (which did some long-term damage to Viki, too).

It seemed like the Duvall storyline on DOOL was heading that way, until they opted for Sharon to have an attraction to Julie. https://www.tumblr.com/vintagesoaparchives/131381401398/soap-opera-serials-june-1977-days-of-our-lives

The body was great -- Exhibit A at 1:41 -- but the hair didn't do it for me.

If they end up being fairly consistent with the 1998 episodes, I'd consider watching and giving commentary on them. It's an era of Days that was before my time. I started watching the show regularly during the summer of 2000.

If the timeline had worked out, would Matt Ashford have been better as Damian? By the time Matt was done on DOOL, Leigh J. McCloskey had been in the role for two months. Also, here's Judith Chapman in an ad from 1986.

Aw, thank you again. And that's precisely why I'd prefer to see full episodes as opposed to storyline edits, as thorough as they can be. I forgot to mention that Bryan & Claudia get a whopping one minute devoted to their marriage woes on Friday. They're at the Policemen's Ball, and Bryan asks if Claudia can at least be peaceful with him long enough for a dance. I'd love to know that answer, too. I was thinking about how Bond's time on Santa Barbara wrapped around the time of Lucy's marriage to Alan. If they weren't already committed to the storyline of Lucy passing her and Scott's unborn baby off as her and Alan's, they could have did a Ruthless People storyline with Jimmy Lee and (a dying) Charity having kidnapped Lucy. That's nice that Judith had such a positive experience.

Aw, look at how cute and fresh faced Robin looks there.

Yup, Lucy's a published author. What happened was that she was convinced to share her account of the Kevin situation rather than have it be in the hands of unauthorized writers. Lucy was still making nice with Patrick and Terry to an extent at the time, so she claimed the proceeds would go to benefit the Jennifer Talbot Memorial Wing in Laurelton. In reality, the proceeds were going to the Lucy Coe Clothing Closet. The combination of her greed, how sour things became among Lucy, Patrick and Terry over things like Lucy's book triggering Terry and not being kind to the hick, not to mention hostility from the likes of Ted and Sheriff Broder, all added up to make Lucy a key suspect when the Laurelton 2.0 murders happened.

I can say with authority that yes, yes indeed, she is. Perhaps Lucy's tell-all book, Lust for Death, gets a 40th anniversary reprint. It ends up luring Dr. Patrick O'Connor back from wherever he's been since 1988. That is one cheap looking cover! At least three, in fact. Colton Shore and Decker Moss, Aunt Charlene's sons, plus Dr. Eric Simpson.

How exciting! Thanks for the update, Errol.