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I just watched that hospital confrontation! 5/24/96. Nikki says to her "what are YOU doing here?!" and I was totally on Nikki's side😂 Christine feels completely shoehorned into the shooting story. It doesn't really track that she would work for Newman Enterprises, much less appear to Victor as a viable romantic option 🙄 Granville Van Dusen... not the most charismatic actor! Keith always felt like an afterthought.

Great summary! I'm at May '96 in my chronological viewing and everything you said tracks to what I've seen. I will only add that the slow diminishment of the character of Traci Abbott didn't help matters. I see the character in two phases: 80s Traci and 90s Traci. 80s Traci was a well-written, well-rounded full character that propelled Beth Maitland to YR's first acting Emmy. 90s Traci was a one-note drag, singularly obsessed with winning back Brad's love and haranguing her sister Ashley, who she used to be so close to. Starting around Traci and Brad's second marriage, it became such a chore to watch Traci's scenes, which really pained me as a BethM fan. Traci IMO was at a real nadir by her '95 return, when she ostensibly comes home to support John's recovery, but proceeds to sniff after Brad and berate Ashley... never mind that Traci has a studly husband Steve waiting at home for her! I'm not saying there weren't some great moments, like Traci and Lauren's 94 catfight. But it wasn't until her 2001 return, when Traci took on more of a parental role, that I started to enjoy the character again.

The first trans character I’m aware of was Azure on The City (Loving spin-off) circa ‘96 https://abc-daytime.fandom.com/wiki/The_City Later was Maya on BnB

Nooooo 😢😢

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Seems to me like MTS' real-life pregnancy shifted a lot of things. The writers had to move her away from stripping at the Bayou, and came up with this insta-story of "who's the daddy", and bringing on Kevin, Caroline, Allison and Earl. So then there's much less reason for Cash to be around from a storyline perspective. Personally, I think they should have stuck with the Katherine-Cash romance, which was trashy and filled with chemistry, instead of pivoting to Katherine-Earl, which was Dead on Arrival.

I'm watching the '96 "Who Shot Victor" story and I recognized the priest at Nikki and Brad's wedding as the same one from Nikki and Kevin's '82 wedding and Nikki and Victor's '84 wedding. The '96 credits listed his name: Reverend Bob Bock. I found this bio of the Reverend http://www.fccnh.org/who-we-are/staff/bob-bock/ It says he "served for over twenty-five years as the resident pastor for “Young and Restless,” a role they named after him." I wonder if he performed any of the on-screen marriages prior to '82... Sadly, he just passed away a few months ago https://www.dsf.edu/single-post/tribute-to-the-late-rev-dr-robert-m-bock

Perfect song, Why can't I be you, by the Cure! I'm sure Donna was thinking "why can't I be you" when Katie left for her date w/Rocco

Jeanne Cooper said in her memoir that she helped to defuse the situation. She told Bill Bell that if he fired EB and PB, that’d he had have to fire her too.

I loved her in HBO's 2005 series "Unscripted" where she played a heightened version of herself. She seems very humble and down-to-earth, which I always love in a person I just tried to find Unscripted but it's not on HBOMax or any other streaming service I subscribe to. I could barely find anything on YT even. Here's one short scene with Krista that gives a good look into her "character"

I’m pretty sure it was January ‘77 when VictoriaM took over…?

Thanks as always FrenchFan! I am exhausted by the Ron Becker story at this point. But am delighted to read of the beginnings of Stuart and Liz ❤️

The scene you mention is in the vault under '81 Clips - 12-24 Victor Nikki Christmas

9/30 and 10/16 1987 are on archive! I think these have only previously been available in German https://archive.org/details/the-young-the-restless-september-30-1987 https://archive.org/details/the-young-the-restless-october-16-1987-most

Just saw this, thanks for the tip. Just checked Paramount+ and seems like they added all eps starting 9/23/13 to present.

That’s Michael Damian, the dad of the Graz

What a sad, pathetic tale that Eric tells Stephanie in 1316, about how Brooke drunkenly had sex with him but fantasized that he was Ridge. Did this "lovemaking" occur onscreen or is this a retcon?

Does everyone on this thread also follow the "YR Old Articles" thread? We just discovered that extremely rare '91 eps have been added to the vault... 2/27, 2/28, 3/1 and 5/22. 2/27 and 2/28 feature Sheila right before she does the baby switch! We're extremely excited over on the YR Old Articles thread

You beat me to it, I just saw that! The kind vault uploader even edited out commercials! Thank you uploader! These are prime eps... goodbye to Cassandra... Lauren's about to give birth and Sheila's making her plan for the switch... woohoo... Christmas came early!

A rare partial ep from 1991! March 1. One of Nina Arvesen's final eps. https://archive.org/details/young-and-restless-nws-9-partial-september-1994 It's labeled as 1994 but looks like that's when it aired in Australia. A kind soul has already uploaded it to the Vault.

American Top 40 for week of 12/18/76 https://www.mixcloud.com/MossMusic70s/that-70s-show-december-eighteenth-nineteen-seventy-six/ Nadia’s Theme (aka the Young and the Restless theme) is #8 on the chart at 1hr57m: Casey Kasem talks about how the songwriter, Perry Botkin Jr, credits his agent with lobbying the record company to release the song as a single, after his agent heard it during the ’76 Olympics. Why doesn’t Casey mention that Nadia’s theme is also the YR theme? 😕

So cool to see Lane Davies as Ridge! And what a surprise in the 1308 credits to see Lane listed in the contract section, and Ronn Moss not listed at all. That's not usually the case if an actor is out sick and there's a replacement actor... the original actor would retain their listing in the contract cast credits, and the replacement would be listed under recurring/guest cast. Anyone know the story here? Was Ronn in a salary dispute or something?

Hi, is anyone able to successfully view 1306 which was uploaded today? I'm using VCL player to view the latest eps as BoldRestless suggested, which has worked great up through 1305. 1306 plays for 40 seconds and then freezes... A million thanks to the uploaders for these precious eps!

Amazing! Our hero ❤️

God bless you! As a Sheila fan, I’m on the edge of my seat 😃