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Not a problem. I get a kick out of playing detective. I wonder if there were any fans of Steve & Trisha (Treve? Stisha?) who were upset about the lack of a happy ending after all those years of buildup.

Tuesday, May 26.

Beyond grateful that this all remains.

Oh, I didn't think you were overly critical. I just feared that I was using too much hyperbole. Let's face it, though. Bad is bad, and that was bad. Wordpress is being annoying with me right now, so this is the perfect chance for me to give a shoutout to @Kane for how much I'm enjoying the Loving blog's continued journey. The recaps brought me there, and the commentary's keeping me.

Oh my, that was painful. I try not to overdo it with the criticism, but that was like watching a recording of someone's failed audition.

Ah, yes, Elizabeth. I was thinking of roles introduced in 1983, like Donna Love.

It makes you wish that Ann would have caught on, and had a second act as a New York soap actress.

Today I learned that former SNL castmember Ann Risley played a character, Hermoine, on The Doctors. Somebody (Ann herself?) appears to have posted her resume on her Wikipedia page. Anyway, I looked up Hermoine, who appeared (apparently not opposite Alec Baldwin's Billy) in the summer of 1982. https://www.tumblr.com/classicsoddoctors/142685194540/the-doctors-soap-opera-digest-synopsis-august-3

Oh, that's right, I forgot Liza returned to the role of Gwen. I would have kept Kay as Tabitha's sidekick, although I suppose the writers might have wanted to limit that and keep the younger woman in more romance/intrigue stories, as opposed to the more camp and comedy stuff. Whoops, couldn't erase that last quote. It makes me wonder how many, if any, of today's school-aged kids are getting into Beyond the Gates.

Good question. Days had Salem Place (the outdoor shopping district set) from 1992-2004. It would be great if Columbia made that episode available, too. Or the Victor/Nikki episodes used in Mr. Mom.

Speaking of soaps and classic films, the script to Taxi Driver has a generic scene written by Paul Schrader rather than the excerpt from The Young and the Restless featured in the final movie.

Love it! I've mentioned before how I get a kick out of finding soaps "in the wild," i.e. random clips during movies. Things like the Capitol intro being seen when Daryl Hannah watches TV for the first time in Splash, etc. Every so often, it happens with books. Off the top of my head, Stephen King namedropped The Secret Storm in 'Salem's Lot and Santa Barbara in Needful Things. There's also Another World, which Guy's a recurring day player on, in Rosemary's Baby.

That Loving promo for Nick's murder is chef's kiss. (But really, most of the material's fascinating.)

Inspired by @MLH mentioning Michael Zaslow and his wife Susan appearing on Tattletales in 1976, here's a (presumably accurate) rundown of all the present or future soap actors who did the show in 1974-78, or 1982-84. Assuming this is true, it also reveals that the fabled "Dick & Fannie" week did happen in 1975. https://markgoodson.fandom.com/wiki/Tattletales/Episode_Guide

YES, PLEASE!

My new topic to obsess over is thinking about the emotional rollercoaster that poor Brian & Olivia went on. Granted, everybody went through the ringer, but it seems so much worse considering kids were involved. I hope that after Abby's kidnapping, she, Gary, and the children all had a nice family dinner, or a weekend at Disneyland, or something lighthearted.

I thought it was fantastic. I'd never actually seen it in full until now, just the scenes included in the Season 5 recap that I used to watch all the time on YouTube. Seeing the complete episode, at the conclusion of a season I've been watching over the last few weeks, gives me a much better appreciation for that cliffhanger and the stakes involved. You really do believe that Mack's thisclose to going full-on insane in those last seconds. I am slightly confused about why there were two assassins at the Belmar, though. We've got Grace Zabriskie, who's intending to shoot Gary in the lobby. And then, waiting behind that outside planter, is the guy who thought he killed Gary. It looks like he's there to get another crack at Gary, but I'm also wondering if he was originally dispatched to take out Mack. Then again, maybe he wasn't dispatched. Maybe he went rogue. I guess only he and/or Mark St. Claire would know that.

Finished Season 5. The closest I have to a fresh insight on those last few episodes is that Gary's funeral had three widows. Cathy's scene with the cowboys feels to me like she was acting like the widow of Westfork.

Thank you!

The first for DAYS was Carl Sawyer, in the last week of November 1965. Tom was on his way to respond to Mrs. Sawyer's urgent call when he and Mickey discovered Marie had attempted suicide. It took time, but Marie was revived (and lives, 60 years later) while Carl died and Tom went on trial for malpractice. Marie revealing in court why Tom was preoccupied saved the day.

Any thoughts on the Gwen and Hank recasts, @LostinHarmony? I'm torn between whether Liza Huber or Natalie Zea was the better Gwen. And I really wish the show had pulled the trigger on Gwen & Hank. I want to say that there was some chem testing between Zea and Ryan McPartlin. It would have been nice to have a rich-middle class couple that didn't have tons of drama. I can't remember, is that what Sam & Ivy were on their way to becoming, a tentpole couple? Slightly veering from recasts, I think that the show's attempts to replicate the Tabitha & Timmy dynamic after Josh Ryan Evans' untimely passing just didn't work. We really didn't need little Endora. We must be roughly the same age, LIH. I turned 11 shortly after the show premiered. And at some point in middle school, I screamed at the TV the day that Hecuba used her magic to split Luis & Sheridan's "love noodle" (not a euphemism).

I'd never seen this until today. A daytime version of the 1990-91 "America's Watching ABC" promo. I'm wondering if this was taped on or around the Daytime Emmys, hence the GH actors being in roughly the same place as the New York crew.

When was the last time we saw Maria? I vaguely remember her popping up in 1994 during the Maxie's heart storyline.

Marvelous!

Oof, that does sound like a lot, even over the course of a year.