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Monday, Feb. 17, 1986, on GH -- Terry's wedding stroll-serenade.

Not sure about lost viewers, but the 1988 writers strike lasted from March 7-August 7, 1988. I'd love to know when the first post-strike material was being written or started airing. Speaking of the '88 strike and GH, it's pretty clear that someone rented Fatal Attraction, because entire plot elements from that movie were repeated for Olivia/Duke/Anna.

This one's more soap-adjacent, but Lonette McKee once came to my family's Christmas. She was friends with my great-aunt and they reconnected during my college years. I think this was the early days (or continuation?) of Lonette's actors workshop, which was apparently going to be Michigan based. At one point, my great-aunt was going to be among the acting coaches. By the following summer, the friendship had ended, apparently for good. What I got out of the experience was my picture with Lonette and later, one bit of secondhand gossip from my bitter great-aunt. It has to do with a male movie star supposedly being gay. Here's a hopefully pretty big hint: my reaction was "Whoa." I'm not going to lie, my conversation with my great-aunt went something like this: "Oh, auntie, that's just awful. I'm so sorry for you. ... Did Lonette spill anymore tea?"

I want to say that Monday, Dec. 26, was the day that Greg stopped Jenny and Tony's wedding. Sometime that week, Liza spilled the beans to Jenny about Tad having slept with her and Marian. Luke & Laura left Port Charles together on Tuesday, Dec. 27.

Jessica's a real class act.

It doesn't get much bigger when you click on it, but I can tell that the ATWT portion has to do with the Doug Cummings storyline, so this narrows it down to early 1986. Found it, the Feb. 8, 1986, issue of TV Guide. https://vintagetoledotv.com/journal/2010/4/18/april-18-2010-i-pity-the-fool.html

The cancellations were made official during the week of Monday, Nov. 15, 1982, when NBC announced (ETA: most of) its daytime schedule effective Monday, Jan. 3, 1983. Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date for the schedule announcement, but I found Win Fanning (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) columns pinpointing the news to the week of the 15th (he teased the announcement during the week of the 8th, and ran it it in his Monday, Nov. 22 column). ETA: Oddly enough, Just Men! (Betty White's game show) wasn't announced along with Sale of the Century and Hit Man (and the soaps cancellations). Just Men! was made official on Monday, Nov. 22. John Carmody, Washington Post, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 1982 NBC filled out the last blank space in its revised daytime schedule yesterday with the announcement it will launch something called "Just Men!" in the noon time slot starting Jan. 3 . Earlier the network had announced that "Sale of the Century," hosted by Jim Perry, will start at 10:30 a.m. that same date . . . along with "Hit Man" hosted by Pete Tomarken at 11:30 a.m. The three game shows will replace "The Doctors" and "Texas," two of the soap operas that have kept NBC at the bottom of the daytime ratings race for so very, very long . Earlier, the network had announced that "Facts of Life" reruns join the schedule Dec. 13 and that "Wheel of Fortune" was being moved to the morning* schedule . *Odd choice of words: Wheel was on at 10:30 a.m.. It just moved up a half-hour (and kept that slot for the rest of its original NBC run).

Speaking of Dorian, she's been rather quiet as of late. I think her last memorable scene to date (so to speak) was when Viki told her to go to hell. But hey, as long as we're watching every beat of Dan & Laura ...

Even in late 1990, when she's destroying Tina & Cord 3.0 (or 2.75, I guess) so she and Max can claim more security among the Buchanan clan, there's something so compelling. Talk about rooting for the anti-heroine!

Yup, that's Hasselhoff's butt.

It's not my favorite title, but I'll concede that a title isn't always the best way to judge a show. Not a CBS show, but All My Children wasn't built around a singular matriarch, for example. I think my four '90s soap Holy Grails are finding bibles (if any exist) for Coming of Age, The Soul Survivors, Aremid and Manhattan Lives.

Several times. I can't post the clips, but off the top of my head, there was when Pam had it out with J.R. and Jock over the reveal that Cliff's old girlfriend died from a botched abortion, Miss Ellie signing the papers to agree to allow drilling on Southfork, Sue Ellen signing the papers to initiate the countersuit against Cliff when he sued while still believing he was John Ross' father, in the aftermath of the news about the Asian oil wells being worthless to their new owners (when Jordan Lee lets them know Seth Stone killed himself) and one of several moments when Leslie Stewart realizes that J.R.'s really small short-sighted in terms of being a p.r. client. I'm goin to assume that J.R.'s office was the one belonging to Jock when he was president. Jock did resume some responsibilities in 1979-80, after the J.R. mortaged Southfork and they nearly lost the joint fiasco, but it was temporary until the more or less permanent solution of J.R. vs. Bobby at work. The only Ewing Oil secretary we ever saw Jock have a relationship with was Julie Grey (Tina Louise). "Julie's Return" involves Jock and Julie's non-physical affair. Sly (Deborah Rennard) joined the cast after Jim Davis' death.

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Okay, I'm going to be mean, but HBS in full mug gives me a Scott Thompson vibe.

If I remember right, NBC was willing to put Search back at 12:30 p.m. EST, which P&G wanted and CBS refused. I'm now wondering what would have happened if NBC/P&G dared to try DOOL directly against Y&R, AW directly against ATWT and Search directly against Capitol.

Not a bad idea. I wonder if P&G would have cared if Somerset went up against Search for Tomorrow?

Revisiting Sue Ellen's first drunk scene and I'm struck by how easily it could have been played for cringe comedy. It comes awfully close. I'd actually say that the reactions from these ladies that we'll never see again helps ground the moment. The lady in yellow feels so sad for Sue Ellen.

At this point in 1995, Loving had less than 70 episodes left. With thanks as always to @Kane, let's check in on Frankie, Charles and Angie's episode counts! Frankie -- 75 confirmed episodes in 1993-94; 54 confirmed to date in 1995 Charles -- 106 confirmed episodes in 1993-94; 80 confirmed to date in 1995 Angie -- 125 confirmed episodes in 1993-94; 77 confirmed to date in 1995

Eloquent words, indeed. Thank you for the tag.

In hindsight, it is a little odd that the show had Jeremy not around for Stacey's funeral. It took place off-camera, they couldn't just pretend that he was there?

Exciting! I hope you'll also consider doing a recap of the introduction TV movie. Celeste Holm may have been a pill -- at least, according to Sam Staggs, who spent a lot of All About 'All About Eve' trashing her for being dismissive or condescending -- but she was a pill with integrity.

It's all so Fosse/Verdon! And while I doubt it was intentional, Bob *and* Clay both died of heart attacks. (Of course, Gwen Verdon wasn't going around killing people in her circle ... that we know of.)

An excellent point. Let's put it this way: it would be like if everybody moved into Melrose Place on the first episode.

Ally's parents are Kate's son John and his ex-wife Bonnie. The Rescott children also include Ava, Carly and Sherrie, and Louise, who I don't immediately recall at the moment. That leaves three others who somehow never made it to the show over an 11-year period.

No matter how many times I see it, the cliffhanger of Buck finding Stacey unresponsive on her bed is a nail-biter.