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Funny you should mention that: 8/31/81-9/4/81: "Mary conceded defeat to Marie for Alex and teased Neil about rekindling old sparks." At the time of the shooting, Liz & Neil had been on-and-off for nearly three years. Marie & Neil had been together for about six months (minus early flirting and her doing the Florence Nightingale thing when he had pneumonia). On the whole, I'm glad they didn't pair the spares and have Marie get with Don.

Thank you for the tag. "Is this from the Daniel Reubens benefit?" DUDE, WHAT DOES THE HEADLINE SAY?

Aside from the hair, and Richard Steinmetz looking hot, the highlight was the Clay-Stacey interaction. It's interesting to watch in light of what's playing out between those two in @Kane's recaps.

I love it! Thanks so much, @JAS0N47. Over the years, we've talked about how Days lost something when the older, lived-loved-lost crowd got pushed to the side. Even these glances say so much.

Thank you! I'm guessing that the fight started on Monday, May 2, and wrapped Tuesday, May 3.

I've narrowed it down to the first week of May. According to the Jon-Michael Reed recaps, "Don broke up a hair-pulling, name-calling cat fight between Liz and Marie." By the end of the week, Liz had shot Marie after mistaking her for a prowler (and after having shtupped Neil).

Gosh, I hope Jeanie was around to throw Marie out.

According to @JAS0N47's site, Jeanie was a housekeeper. I'm assuming she was Liz's. I'm thinking Imelda was involved with the abuse clinic and later, the emergency center. Gwen might be best remembered for The Brady Bunch.

Cosigned. The one positive thing I'll say is that it helped me understand why my mother never missed an episode of Dr. Quinn.

I could be wrong, but I think Jennifer's only option in January 1989 was Emilio. Frankie left in October 1988. I'm not sure if Billy Warlock had already filmed the Baywatch pilot or was about to. Jack became majority owner of the Spectator in January 1989, and his and Jennifer's story began in February.

Is that what's going on? They're wearing Calvins inside out? Surely there must be a no-name brand that they can wear correctly. It's not like it's that big of a deal (the guys are still hot), but that does explain the off feeling I get whenever I watch a DOOL underwear scene.

DOOL: Lynn Herring as Lisanne Gardner Santa Barbara: Kim Zimmer as Jodie Walker

They look nothing alike, but somehow, young Franko got it into his head that Stephen Kay (Reginald) was Dave Koz (FOTH composer). I was not the brightest of children.

Yeah, it's not technically AMC-related, but, c'mon, like we wouldn't celebrate a National Erica Day?

Add me to the list of FOTH fans. My favorite part was always the overlapping opening notes and dissolve to the graphics, too.

I guess my responsibility for 2025 will be curating all these bibles of soaps that weren't, since I thought of another: Paul Rauch's Grosse Pointe. My point(e) is that these would be fascinating reads, if nothing else to see how they would carry on what writers/producers had been doing before, or see what would have happened at a later time. On a non-bible topic, and piggybacking on the idea of The Doctors' last years, I'd especially like to see when it was apparent that Adrienne (Nancy Stafford) was actually her mother, Felicia.

YES! If nothing else, just to see Louie & Kate sing "Married" from Cabaret, which is such a perfect song for them.

If they exist, the bibles to Manhattan Lives, The Soul Survivors, and Aremid.

Today I learned that Jan. 2 is "National Erica Day." CELEBRATE ACCORDINGLY!

This talk about Tony made me reread the summaries for when he arrived in April 1984. I was under the impression that Tony & Tania was something thrown together once Frisco & Felicia took off, but it was a slow burning possibility from the get-go. Kudos to the writers for opting not to go with a brother vs. brother situation. Also, I still say that Tony and Ginny had some chem testing.

I'm picking on low-hanging fruit, but you just know that Dallas or Dynasty wouldn't have had the guts to be so realistic if they were still on the air at that time.

I can't remember who said it (most likely JamesFromLondon from Telly Talk), but Season 14 is the year where Gary, Karen, and Mack's second winds wear off. They're not as rich as they used to be. They're not as skillful as they used to be. And they're not as young as they used to be.

As it turns out, one of my favorite bits of folklore is false. I'd always assumed that Larkin Malloy started appearing on Guiding Light the Monday after The Edge of Night ended. While it's true that GL aired on Friday, Dec. 28, 1984, the show actually didn't return until Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1985. There were two straight days of preemptions for football.

I remember watching both PC and GH in the summer of 1998 and having no clue why the GH characters weren't freaking out about this serial killer.

The scene in "All's Well" where a gruff as hell Gary teaches a reluctant Abby how to use a gun is so interesting to me. It feels like Gary was possessed by Jock for a moment there.