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Just now, DRW50 said:

 

Welcome. We'd love hearing your thoughts. 

Thanks!  I'm sure you'll get an ear full.  Close to sleep now but the basics are that I love it.  Everything I heard about early Ryan's Hope being some of the best soaps on TV are completely true, imo.  Helen (who I've had the pleasure of spending the evening with several times here in NYC) is the acting powerhouse glue that holds the show together - even with the ever changing cast of her children.  Kate Mulgrew is, of course, the best Mary Ryan but the others all grew on me (to an extent) in time.  I never really enjoyed Frank until.....crap, I can't think of his name - Hardcastle and McCormick.  FRANK - as far as I'm concerned.  I miss the original Pat like crazy.  Rae Woodard is one of the best non-Ryan characters to grace the series (not sure about her new, out of nowhere, "hashish" brownie baking daughter, Kimberly).  I can't believe I'm going to say this but I think I have, ultimately, enjoyed Delia #2 better than Ilene.  And, although Catherine Hicks was a fave of mine, KMG (KGM?) has totally taken over the role of Faith in a way that I've enjoyed.  More thoughts to come.  I'm very opinionated.

On 11/19/2016 at 10:00 AM, safe said:

This person has some of Soapnet's 1980 episodes up. They are slightly out of order -- they start with June of 1980 (#1278).

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/shessosweet88/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0

Thank you so much for posting this!  This is my first post here - I've been reading the board for a month or so.  I had to finally get an account to thank you.  I never watched Ryan's Hope but became a fan during its final run on SoapNet.  Of course, I just got far enough to get totally hooked and then SoapNet went off the air.  I've been watching videos from the user on YouTube who has everything posted up to the early 1200s.  I'm at 1145 so I knew I'd get to the end soon.  Thanks to your post, I'll have more to watch afterward - minus a month or two.  So excited.  (More excited than I should probably be.)