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The lone success story would be Robin Mattson. Such awful puns.

Daytime Dilemma! Give me a second and I'll post one of those. (I consider myself an equal opportunity soap fan, but ABC's promo game was on point.) Play along at home (or work).

I forgot to explain my asterisk -- ABC's daytime announcer isn't Ernie because Ernie had a much deeper voice. A unique promo campaign and classy as hell. From the classy to the unabashedly trashy.

I'm casting my vote for "Love in the Afternoon" 2.0. Or is it 3.0, counting NBC's promo? Anyway, the one from 1983 or so to 1985 or so. "Loooove in the Afternoon" as opposed to "Fall in love/in the afternoon." I never get tired of watching these promos. The announcer (not Ernie Anderson, @j swift, but iconic in his own way*), the music, the soap hierarchy (not too surprising that AMC and GH would often share promos) and the charmingly odd occasional interjection from a non-soap.

That accent! It gives me life.

I'm not ready to lose her, too.

Kelly was 15-years-old and madly in love with Joe in the summer of 1979? Those Capwell women, I tell you.

Six episodes? A little return to the anthology style of storytelling, I see. C.C. and Sophia's first marriage lasted from 1961-69, but they weren't legally divorced until 1985. http://santabarbara-online.com/SophiaCC2.htm

The first day of the Old West storyline has been posted:

I've always loved Knots, but you could make an argument it was past its sell-by date.

I'm such a dork. I always thought the first Perfect Strangers intro was sweet. Calculated as hell to be touching? Oh, absolutely. "America or Burst," indeed. But it worked for me. Michelle Lee even took a pay cut just to be in every episode that season. If Knots stuck around for 1993-94, who knows what would have happened?

I was *this close* to posting Too Many Cooks. My favorite part of Turn and Smile was when they all turned, but Ashley Marketable was a second or two behind on smiling. It could have been genuine or a dead-on parody of how the Olson Twins weren't that good of actresses.

This was a pretty good spoof of the Miller/Boyett style of opening credits:

Thank you for answering that question. It was driving me up the wall.

Be still my heart, the old NBC "In Stereo" graphic. Interesting that Christine was enough of a name to have the "as" credit and Josh Taylor is enough of a name to have the "and ... as ..." credit.

Her future husband: "I just always had my head in the clouds ..." (That is a fine scene, BTW.)

I just had a little Back to the Future moment there, imagining if GH *had* been cancelled in 1977 and Marland's career possibly ended as a non-memorable headwriter for The Doctors. With him alone, the ripple effect is staggering -- no GH revitalization, no Nola-era GL, no A New Day in Eden, no Loving and no ATWT renaissance.

Thanks @robbwolff. I wondered because I know Kathryn became pretty active on the TV-movie and guest star circuits beginning in '78, so I figured her time on The Doctors was nearing its end.

How much longer does Kathryn Harrold have left?

I wish I did. I was hoping to find that, too. It sounds like it was/is a site to rival Jason47's site, the EON Homepage and, of course, the Another World Homepage.

Information about Elena (and a host of additional characters I was unaware of) can be found here: http://www.geocities.ws/oltlx2/ I was especially fascinated to learn the likes of Cathy Burns and Joanne Dorian came back, albeit in much smaller roles the second time around.

Maybe go one step further and have it turn out that Scott Eldridge was Charles "Chuckie" Shea all along. That way you have the option of either having Scott Eldridge be genuine down the line, or just a plausible trick.

Ellen's great. I just wanna know what's up with her character.

That's Ellen Foley, who's playing an apparently shady girlfriend of Pete O'Neill's. Alas, the role's not on Ellen's IMDB page. And the girl would be Julie Ann Johnson as Joy O'Neill.

Oh, Sable and Connie were on a whole different level. I'd go so far as to say Connie was the best overall rival for Sable, followed by Alexis and then finally Frankie (a lot of that has to do with Katherine Ross). I definitely agree with you about Krystle. Linda Evans had a nice balance of authoritative and elegant. There used to be a clip on YouTube from the Krystle in the attic storyline. George Hamilton and Rita are going over footage of how Krystle carries herself, how Rita's going to have to get it just right. It's a little kooky, but also 100 percent correct.