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Dynasty reruns were part of FX's first programming. Thank you all for the discussion about the syndication trends. Fascinating stuff.

I don't know if it was successful, but yes, the nightime soaps did enter the syndication market. I've heard that in some cases, episodes were split into two, which just sounds horrible.

I'm not sure how long the daytime promos were meant to run, but the primetime ones are for stuff that aired Sunday, July 29-Thursday, Aug. 2, 1979.

Jake sleeping with Lucy seems to be plot-driven rather than character-motivated, but luckily, it did kind of pay off. Most significantly, it and Lucy's short-lived pregnancy continued the Bobbie-Lucy rivalry. Lucy being entangled with Bobbie & Jake (and later, recent widower Tony) also gave her a reason to hang around when she could have easily faded away, like so many '80s GH characters did after their initial stories or two. And I suppose having Bobbie & Jake barely get a moment of peace after finally being married followed the precedent set and continued by other GH newlyweds. Scott's involvement didn't help matters, but really, life went to hell for Bobbie and Jake not too long after they got married. At least when she was with Tony, they had a second chance (1991-94).

Loss of federal funding, loss of maintenance of infrastructure, impacted interstate commerce ... the consequences far outweight anything that would be "gained" in service to moronic posturing. That said, I think we're going to see red states become even more red. I live in North Dakota, where all but 16 of the 141 state legislators are Republicans. We have an especially low population, and regions like my own are creating campaigns to lure people to move here. I want to believe it's innocent, at least on the local level, but if you told me that someone, somewhere also figured there's an unspoken "Deplorables Welcome!" attitude, I'd believe you.

Yeah, it brained Mary Duvall. I'm not so sure I want it anymore.

Since @titan1978 snagged the round nurses station, I'll take a set of GH's elevator doors. I'd also bid on the C from the Capwell Hotel roof, an Aremid bible if one exists and Nola & Vanessa's dueling Scarlett O'Hara dresses (with fans, of course).

What happened to Olin, anyway? Did she fade out in the 1990-91 exodus of characters?

I don't know if she was necessarily an eccentric, but Amy Vining?

It's an excellent scene, greatly improved by the length. I like that they took the time to really let us savor the range of emotions Lucy was feeling there: anxiousness, curiosity, pride, gentle annoyance, despair, love. Nice acting showcase for Lynn Herring, and Jon Lindstrom did well, too.

Was it part of Scotty's apartment when he and Lucy were roommates? After she was done with Tony and before Alan? ETA: Never mind, earlier posters say it was part of the Katherine Delafield cottage set from 1988-89. I guess they just photographed Lynn and Kin there because it was available. It's better than my first thought, which was that this was Lucy's apartment from 1986, which presumably had already been scrapped as a set.

Curly. Harold Hill. Billy Flynn. Coulda played 'em all. YouTube commenters say it's Mary-Margaret Humes (Dawson's Creek).

Ultimately, NBC opted for John Tesh & Leeza Gibbons in the fall of 1993, and then Leeza by herself from 1994-2000 (the last season was syndicated). Star did host her own show, Jones & Jury, in syndication for 1994-1995.

Two more from LOVING, both boys: Sandy and Christopher.

We'll have to do a separate thread on gay parenting on soaps.

Three more: Amanda, AW Tom Jr., GH Marah, GL

Up until recently, I'd never heard of this term. A rainbow baby is the first healthy child after a miscarriage, infant loss, stillbirth or neonatal death. Naturally, I've been trying to think of soap examples. Sami and Eric Brady -- DOOL Serena Baldwin -- GH/PC Patti Burnell (presumably) -- LOV

Thank you for the tag, Carl! It's always great to see new Loving episodes.

CBS tried twice between 1993-95. The first, "Dixie's Fixins," would have had Dolly playing a cooking show hostess. Once that one bit the dust, it was "Heavens to Betsy," which had six episodes filmed but apparently never aired. It appears to have been partially reworked into the 1996 TV movie "Unlikely Angel." Variety, March 30, 1994: HOLD THE COOKING SHOW: Dolly Parton’s plan to play a cooking show hostess in the fall CBS sitcom “Dixie’s Fixin’s” has been sent back to the kitchen. Parton is now fixing to star in “Heavens to Betsy,” created by David Babcock (“Herman’s Head”) and inspired by a song Parton wrote. Stuart Sheslow, the Sandollar TV prexy who has reshaped the series with partner Gail Berman in conjunction with Disney TV’s Dean Valentine, said that Parton will now play a singer whose big chance to open for Siegfried & Roy is spoiled when she gets killed instead. Up in heaven, she’s given a choice: Go to hell, or go back to her old hometown, where she was a troublemaker named Hurricane Betsy, and redeem herself. “She can go to hell or make amends, and she chooses to run this local choir of misfits,” said Sheslow, who maintained that “Dixie’s Fixins” was unfixable. A script was turned in by “Married … With Children” vet Ellen Fogel, but rejected. “She worked hard, but missed,” he said. “David went to work on this thing and hit a home run. She gets to play an angel with a dirty face, and she gets to sing.” Ironically, the plot line is similar to a pilot idea that didn’t fly, in which Parton would have played a gospel singer. “This is a concept she’s been trying to develop for four or five years, but that other script was more dramatic, and nothing like this one,” Sheslow said.

Uh ... no. The boink on the plane's anniversary was way back on Feb. 4. And I'm not sure of the exact date when J&M learned they Sami watched them on the conference table (but I'll find that out). ETA: Sami spilling the beans to Marlena concluded the Friday, Sept. 10, 1993 episode. I guess John found out shortly after.

Wednesday marks the 30th anniversary of it being revealed that Sami caught John & Marlena fooling around on that conference table. The 30th anniversary, alas, isn't the conference table anniversary, but the pearls one.

I'm not sure what her exact episode counts were, but it feels like Ruby/Norma Connelly dodged a bullet by no longer working at GH and instead becoming proprietor at Kelly's.

"He Knows You're Alone's going to make me a star! Everything's coming up Arlt!" No, but seriously, thank you for that extra insight.

Well, now I'm curious. ETA: Found it. Renata, pregnant from a rape, considered suicide. She found new happiness with David (Lewis Arlt). It all ended when the "fireproof" Henderson Towers caught fire. Martin, drunk, passed out. His cigarette caused a couch to catch fire, causing a chain reaction (a subsequent summary reveals that the disaster spread due to substandard electrical equipment). Renata and David attempted to flee the Towers and she, of course, went into labor during this crisis. The baby, Mia, was delivered in a storage room and survived. Renata demanded that David flee with Mia to safety. "With the baby in his arms, David climbs through an air duct to the roof." (!) Renata couldn't manage that. Firefighters warned David that she's doomed, stuck with a bunch of soon-to-explode chemicals. Renata wasn't directly killed in the explosion, but as a result of it. David found her bloody body buried under rubble. She lived long enough to have a tender farewell. Wow. Yeah, I can see why this would upset viewers. And if you didn't care about Mia, there's the elements that seem to be ripping off The Towering Inferno.