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Ditto!

My eyes might be deceiving me, but in the screengrab, Barbara looks a little like Lesley Ann Warren (who did a couple Rudolph movies).

In your honor, @Maxim.

Yes, we're well aware. 😀

Those are very good questions. I had actually considered asking a similar one about which of the legacy soaps (debuted in the '50s and '60s) handled modernization (specifically the '70s and '80s) the best. For the first question, I think of two shows that debuted in the '70s, All My Children and Ryan's Hope. The problem is, their matriarch was never that far away from either show, so you can't necessarily appraise their independence the way you could, say, One Life to Live after Agnes Nixon or As the World Turns after Irna Phillips. (Just to name one show from either lady.) I'm afraid I don't have a clear answer for the second question.

Rewatching the two 1984 episodes, it looks like they're actually from approximately a week apart. Ernie Anderson's voiceover promo over the beauty shot of Lorna and Jonathan mentions the premiere of Who's the Boss? (Thursday, Sept. 20). Sorry for any confusion.

Certainly. The second video comes from the week of April 1, 1985.

Great stuff! And you know me, always trying to pinpoint dates. Assuming these are consecutive episodes, the National Enquirer ad in the first video places them as airing during the week of Sept. 10, 1984.

Your wish is my command, AMS.

It might be a fool's errand, but I thought we could utilize this thread for talking about more than one series (especially when the discussion might be about three-five soaps at a time), and use the individual threads for show-specific discussion. I'm certainly not going to nag or insist about it, and if the thread dies, so be it, but here we go.

Besides Dennis Parlato, were there other Loving actors who were going to leave in 1995 no matter what? I think we've talked about the oddity of Ava, a department store executive, not going to New York.

Oh, if this is what I think it is, we're in for a treat. I remember reading @saynotoursoap's description of it back in the day and marveling.

Thanks again! As you can tell by my avatar, I've greatly enjoyed the uploads.

A Mary Sue is a character who can never lose. In some cases, they are someone who appears to have no flaws and/or are universally beloved. This makes it even more frustrating when a character like Leo gets such treatment.

For heaven's sake, the episode literally begins with Nancy offering Chris and Grandpa some coffee. How much more quintessential can it be?

If Richard's talking about Douglas Chapin, I can't say I blame him for ogling.

We've got another upload. Dorian and Matt bantering about why he's never married clinched it for me -- I've just got to immortalize him as a avatar, at least for a while.

THANK YOU! That's who he was reminding me of.

Oh, good lord! Kent Bogard.

No, it is 1980. (JL wore black in '81.)

All this, and early Karen!

Yowza! Thanks for the tag!

They could also have ripped off ATWT and had Reva's long-lost twin be "Treva" from Teaneck.

Geneva, president of Marah and Shayne's PTA.

Thinking about their 1992 wedding and his previous divorces has me wondering, did Livia & Tom remain married even when one or both were off the canvas?