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Holy cow - Madame Mergeron's debut is on the latest '83 clip! And Andrea Evans has taken over as Patty! (sob) That was always a question... did Lilibet Stern play Patty until right before the shooting... but now we know Andrea took over a month or so before.

Nice summary! I’ll add that BB loved his summer “social issue” stories. Here’s the ones I can recall: 1979: White slavery w/Chris Brooks Foster and Rose Deville 1980: Cult w/Nikki and Paul 1981-5: none…? 1986: teenage pregnancy w/Nina and Molly 1987: teenage alcoholism w/Phillip III 1988: can’t think of a “summer story” but Jessica’s HIV disclosure climaxed in summer and Danny had his “Save the Earth” concert 1989: Cricket’s rape 1990: Dru’s illiteracy 1991: crack baby 1992: Michael’s sexual harassment of Cricket, I guess? That wasn’t limited to summer. 1993: senior citizens 1994: Cricket bringing Keemo from Vietnam was kind of a social story… earlier in the year – spousal abuse w/April Starting w/1995, my memory gets fuzzy – what am I missing?

Now that the classics are over 😭 what were your favorite episodes? #1 for me of course is 11/3/81, with the classic line: “Time’s running out, Lorie… for both of us!!” The July ’90 ep with Nikki's striptease, Mamie visiting Dru in jail, Lauren running around in that ridiculous princess dress, and Sheila making her first moves on Scott was also excellent. And the ’94 Christine bachelorette party was such a blast, having all the ladies together. I was also surprised to find the 2006 eps to be not awful. Seems that Kay Alden was still a co-head-writer in 2006 along with Lynn Latham, so Kay must have kept Lynn from going off the rails. It was only after Kay departed at the end of ’06, leaving Lynn alone to run things, that the writing quality took a serious turn for the worse. 2007: Pheila… Dru dies… need I say more?

The segment in 17b/18a at the Bayou was bizarre and not in a good way... Nikki is so delusional she thinks the patrons want her up on the stage... and when she gets on the stage, they give her the silent treatment because they think she's fat... and then Victor announces she's not fat but pregnant, and then gets a standing applause... just weird... Nikki almost seems to be suffering from a mental illness at this point.

Here's another obscure question - anyone know if little Jennifer Foster (Snapper and Chris' baby) was ever seen? In these '82 clips, she's not even mentioned, and she should have been walking and talking by then...

Agreed - I know to some, DA's Jill can seem to be "too nice" but I see layers to DA's performance, and there is a scrappy fighter underneath the pleasant surface.

Before that, when the nurse pulls away the knife, Eve yells at her "Oh, you crazy woman!!" 🤣

I think so - Eve and Charles were roommates with Jill and Phillip at the Foster house! There was a synopsis mention circa summer 1981 that Jack saw Charles at the Foster house but assumed Charles was Phillip

Does Julia know Vanessa jumped off her balcony 😵

Every time a clip cuts from Lilibet Stern or Deborah Adair, a little part of me dies inside 😭

Heads up everyone - our beloved mystery 1982 uploader has now switched to adding files to the adjacent 1983 folder. Praying for at least a glimpse of Lauren’s debut from 1/25/83! And please please please let us see Madame Mergeron’s dramatic entrance to the Abbott home!

Beth Maitland is immediately BRINGING IT in these ‘82 clips. My heart aches for Traci and I am instantly invested in her journey. What a talent.

^ The show knew to avoid sh*t year 2007 😂

From synopses, I think Charlie was sent on an "extended vacation" in spring '83, never to be seen or heard from again, as Eve was initiating her murder plot.

Yes! Had SUCH a crush on Todd McKee. The incest story is quite disturbing.

I'm really enjoying seeing glimpses of Charlie the Butler at the Newman Ranch. He had been mentioned so much but not seen that I wondered if he was an actual character. I wish the show had let us get to know him better, as they eventually did with Esther. Does anyone know the Charlie actor's name?

Damn, Entura took this down after 2 hours! 😕 argh! I skimmed through it earlier and it had a cute clip of Jill trying to convince Penn Badgley's Phillip IV to spend time with her and Billy.

He gets one more synopsis mention around April, advising Chris on her Jabot contract... that seems to be it for him.

Another rare ep with Penn Badgley as Phillip IV - score! Thank you

In one of the '82 clips, Katherine confirms that she once met Vanessa Prentiss! I know people have always been wondering... Nikki says "have you ever met Lorie Brooks" Katherine replies "yes, once long ago, with her mother-in-law, the late lamented Vanessa Prentiss"

Someone mentioned that they read once in a synopsis that Stuart and Liz met up on Memorial Day 1983 but decided not to reconcile. Sounds like that would have been his last appearance. Stuart must have left w/o Liz because she stayed on the show til winter '85. When the Brooks girls came back for the '84 Victor/Nikki wedding, Stuart was not mentioned. We saw Liz again in May '86 when Jill was shot. I think it was said she was living in England w/Snapper and Chris, but again no mention of Stuart 😕

Why is Storm there, lol

The remote scenes with Lucas searching for Brooks on the lake are super high-budget and very well-produced! though sadly would be Dennis Cole and Andre Gower's last hurrah, with Tom Ligon and Victoria Mallory not far after...

She played a prostitute, Knots Landing Season 1, 1980 At 20:00

Looks like Peggy made it to week of Aug 17, 1981 per weekly synopsis "Greg dated Peggy, then made excuses to April about avoiding her." I wonder if Wings Hauser was still Greg at this point or if Howard McGillin had taken over.