Franko

1 hour ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Oh, no, way too short! Do we know the date of this? 

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.

18 minutes ago, Khan said:

Take it from me: Badderly deserves every criticism you can lob against it and more. 

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.

4 minutes ago, Kane said:

The musical episode of Loving.

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.

10 minutes ago, Khan said:

I've always looked at that as KNOTS recognizing that the '80's and all their excesses were over, and that their characters, like much of the country, had to readjust to the scaled-down, more down-to-earth '90's.

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.

6 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I think Danielle was killed off in the spring and then Rib (what was his name - Jake?) a few months later, at the Nurses' Ball (starting that weird continuity issue with GH/PC where horrible things would happen on one side of the NB while the other would be fine and dandy).

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.

32 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Charlie always seemed too old for her.

Christopher Lawford was only two years older than Charles Van Eman, but he seemed older than that.

ETA: And it didn't help that Lawford was 15 years older than Kelly Ripa.

Okay, I try not to be judgemental, but Brian Bodine was quite the little boy toy in 1992, wasn't he? Going from An Li to Hayley to Dixie. How did viewers react to this? Not to mention what sounds like a quick ending for Dixie & Craig.

7 minutes ago, Khan said:

I'm just glad KL was gone by the time "Friends" hit it big, or else we would've had to endure scenes with Karen or Val hanging out in coffee shops, lol.

Hanging out, or trying to pick up some extra money?

"I can make the coffee just as well as Karen can!"

7 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

All great ideas. 

Alex/Gwyn would also be interesting due to the Clay factor. 

Thank you. (I actually had to remind myself that Alex and Gwyn weren't a couple while he was posing as Clay.)

11 minutes ago, Vee said:

I've talked about the strange, symbiotic Asa/Max relationship through the years a few posts back, but it is deeply bizarre in this period even when it makes a kind of character sense for them in the larger picture through the decades.

Ah, yes, that's right. I did see that. I think I'm always going to see Max as an honorary Buchanan.