yrfan1983

Now that most of the “Jack works at a homeless shelter” story has been posted in the clips, I’m curious – what are people’s impression of the story? I watched the original airings as a teen and assumed that this story would be used to “humanize” / “redeem” Jack… but that didn’t wind up being the case… he just went back to his scheming dastardly ways in ’87. Do you think this was just one of Bill Bell’s “summer social issue” stories... or maybe it was originally intended to redeem Jack but then later they decided to go another route… or…?

Very cool, thanks @trainman ! Look forward to watching the series. I had seen the first one but didn't know the following segments had been released. I wonder where Doug gets all that rare footage from... Wow, Brett Hadley still has that twinkle in his eye...

Looks like that is 4/17/00 - here is a recap https://www.soapcentral.com/yr/recaps/2000/000417.php Sadly I don't see it online anywhere at this time

You've inspired me to check archive.org occasionally for new goodies There's 3 eps from March 2000 in the vault - https://bit.ly/2A3Bnhv And here's 4/14/00, just uploaded to archive.org - https://archive.org/details/youngandtherestless20000414

Partial ep 11/6/85 was just posted. It's the next ep after 11/5/85, which is in the vault. These eps should coincide timewise with clip 84 in the vault https://archive.org/details/youngandtherestless19851106

In this Beth Maitland podcast from 2013, https://youtu.be/eeQhFmyyZ9g she doesn't have such positive things to say about BD. Beth was unhappy that BD coincidentally (?) released her memoir right around the time of JC's death. BD said some negative things (don't know what) in the book about JC. Beth thought it was a poor move for BD to basically wait until JC has passed before talking crap about JC. Beth also commented that she didn't work much in scenes with BD, only occasionally, but Beth said she did observe some "shenanigans" on BD's part.

JC had positive things to say in her memoir about working with BD. No trash-talking

I saw the Sept 81 ep where Jack fires DA’s Jill from Jabot – the Museum of TV/Paley has it in their collection. The reason he fires her is that bc Patty visits Jabot to see Jack, but Jill intercepts Patty first and impulsively tells Patty that Jill and Jack are having an affair. When Jack finds out about Jill's lie, he fires her. So while it seems that Jill had some strong points as a Jabot employee, her unprofessionalism ultimately got her fired

Latest clip uploaded (80) has Marilyn Alex as Brad Carlton's mom! Who ever knew that a) Brad had an onscreen mom who was soon forgotten and b) the future Molly Carter had a previous YR role!

Around September

Great, thanks for uploading! I see it in the vault, yep that's what I was thinking of. The climax of the Tyrone story where he reveals he is Black to Alana.

Isn't the full ep for Aug 1, 1985 floating around somewhere? The clips are about to reach that timeframe. I saw the ep awhile back, but it's not in the vault.

Confirmed in latest clip 75a that Nikki and Cricket met while modeling at Jabot!

We’re reaching summer ’85 in the clips, when Terry Lester quit the show and then returned 2 months later after re-negotiating his contract. He must have been in a very good position during contract talks.. not only was Jack part of the show’s hot new quadrangle, but Bill Bell was getting ready to finally bring the blackmail photo story to a climax… and that just couldn’t be done without Terry Lester.

this BTS clips synchs up timewise with the latest clip uploaded 68b, with Ashley tied up captive

Per 4/9/85 SOD synopsis: Hank the other truck driver saves Ashley from Vince. Hank drives off with Vince, leaving Ashley at the truck stop. (but Vince vows to later track Ashley down again) Victor meets with Dina and “puts the puzzle pieces together”, correctly guessing that Brent is Ashley’s father.

Yea, I was surprised too! In my YR 25th anniversary book, it says Deidre Hall as Barbara Anderson, 1973-1975. And it doesn't list anyone else playing Barbara. Deidre debuted on Days June '76 so technically she could have filmed YR in May '76

Peggy was a reporter in the summer of 1980 and she investigated the cult Nikki and Paul were at... maybe Nikki and Peggy ran into each other

Nikki dated Cricket's dad Jim in '89... they were all at Scott and Lauren's wedding Dec '89 Also wondering if they had a random scene together circa summer '85 when they were both Jabot models

Yea he is definitely gone by mid-83 because Mark Tapscott is not in the credits. I don't think Earl gets a goodbye mention in the synopses. The last thing I remember is that Earl moved back from Katherine's into Allison's hotel suite for a month as kind of a "last try" before Allison granted the divorce. I'm sure there must have been some dialogue at some point about Earl returning to San Francisco. Bottom line, IMO, Earl was a boring character so he got shipped off.

That’s right where I’m at! Yes, spring ’83 was definitely fun, and it was when all the plots finally “clicked” after a looooong transitional period: Eve targeting Victor, the Abbotts and Dina, Rick seducing Nikki, Lauren coming between Traci and Danny… For me, my favorite scenes from spring ’83 were Stuart and Liz! ❤️❤️ and Katherine trying to help them. The dialogue was so authentic that I felt this was a real couple suffering through marital strife. I was so rooting for them to bridge the space between them. I wanted to tell Stuart to try to meet Liz halfway to make her more comfortable… sell that huge Brooks house, you don’t need all that space! Then Stuart and Liz should pick a new smaller place to live together, where they’re both comfortable. Sigh... only in the fantasy in the head, haha The last scene where they left for the cemetery felt so hopeful, but apparently this was Stuart’s last ep. I think someone commented that Robert Colbert chose to leave at this point…

plus 58a has Robin Eisenman as temp Nikki! Fun for us as the viewer... but from a production standpoint, that is not good to have a temp Jill and a temp Nikki at the same time

I think the dressing room thing is YR-specific... Days for example always has actors doing social media posts of everyone gathered in the makeup room. Yea when he talks about his AMC firing, he still sounds resentful... he says it was a new head writer, new executive producer with no loyalty to previous regimes.

I finally had a chance to check out the Peter Bergman/Alec Baldwin podcast interview https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/heresthething/episodes/peter-bergman-king-soaps It’s definitely a good listen. Peter seems very kind and thoughtful (too bad I’ve loathed his portrayal of Jack Abbott for 30 years and still miss Terry Lester every day, lol!). Alec is engaged as the interviewer and shares tidbits from his stint on The Doctors (1979-82) Highlights: - Peter talks more about his time on AMC than YR. He said the biggest difference btw the 2 soaps is that on AMC, many actors (including Peter) would also star in plays at night. These actors would tape their soap scenes earlier in the day, allowing them time to make it to the theatre to do the evening play. - Another difference btw AMC and YR, he said, is that on AMC, all the actors congregated in the make-up room to socialize. On YR, everyone stayed in their dressing rooms. Peter said even if he would appear in the same episodes (but not the same scenes) as some other actors, it might be months before he met them in person. - His firing from AMC was a huge shock he wasn’t prepared for. His wife was 7 months pregnant and they had just bought a NY apartment. Melody Thomas Scott and Ed Scott were on a flight to Canada and Melody had brought some soap mags to read, and they all had Peter’s face on the cover re: his AMC firing. YR had already unsuccessfully screen-tested 6 well-known actors for the Jack recast. Melody says to Ed “that’s our new Jack”. Ed says “I wonder how tall he is”. The YR casting agent then called Peter’s agent to ask how tall he was, and everything went from there. - Peter hated LA at first and never expected to settle there permanently. In fact, he kept his NY apartment for 7 years after starting at Jack, thinking he would return. Now, he has learned to love LA, and wishes he had embraced the city immediately upon arriving by buying a surfboard and golf clubs. - He says the show used to tape 1 episode in 1 day, but now tapes Tuesdays through Fridays, (Mondays off) and tapes 5-6 episodes during those 4 days. (this interview was pre-covid). He says it is usually only one take, and they receive minimal input from the director, because the director has no time. Because of that, Peter feels it’s his responsibility to properly rehearse ahead of time with his scene partners. - Peter knows he is in a very enviable position as a 30-year lead on YR. He says he knows that there are others “behind him” who wish they were in Peter’s position. (Hmmm who could he be referring to…? Doug Davidson? Christian LeBlanc?) - When asked what he would like happen to Jack whenever Jack’s last episode will be, Peter said he would like Jack to finally triumph over his eternal nemesis Victor Newman… perhaps murder Victor and then the last shot of Jack would be him being proudly marched off to jail.

Yes! It says: Charles De Vries, 1982; Carl Strano 1983 Even this is inaccurate, though... the first Max, Charles De Vries, made an appearance in an early '83 clip, so really it should be 1982-83