Gemini1689

Hello Everyone.

I'm really hoping someone might be able to help me?

I know that Andrew Carpenter had many notable storylines, could anyone please give a kind of 'highlights' with dates if possible?

It would be HUGE help and I'd be really grateful.

On 6/19/2018 at 11:03 PM, vetsoapfan said:

 

I freely admit I was obsessed, LOL. I even maintained scrapbooks of my favorite soaps, with plot synopses, magazine articles, posters, trading cards (for Dark Shadows), etc.

 

It was a great time to be a soap addict.

 

I'll admit I've been the same with some English medical soap/dramas and an old American spy show! 

On 6/11/2018 at 2:42 PM, vetsoapfan said:

 

Back then, there were automatic timers you could buy; little devices used to turn your house lights on when you were out of town, to discourage would-be burglars. You just plugged your lights into the device and they would be on between, say, 8:00 PM and midnight every night.

 

I bought a couple of those timers for my bedroom and plugged both an audio tape recorder and a small, portable TV into them. The television and recorder would both come on at the designated time, and tape the desired shows. I was thrilled when 120-minute tapes became available, because that meant a full hour on each side, and I could get two 30-minute episodes on one cassette.  

 

Pathetically (LOL), I set up another system like that in the living room, with another timer, another audio tape recorder, and my principle TV. This allowed me to record two MORE, 30-minute shows.

 

At the end of the day, I would have four shows to listen to while I made and ate supper, did the housework, had a bath, etc. It was wonderful! The only limitations to my system was that I had to record programs which were back-to-back to each other and on the same network, because obviously I could not use the timers to change channels.

 

A next-door neighbor of mine, also a soap fiend, thought my idea of taping the soaps like this was INGENIOUS. She ran out and bought a timer of her own. We coordinated between ourselves who would record which programs. For example, I would tape CBS soaps on one cassette and NBC titles on my second cassette, and she would record shows from ABC at her house. We could then share our material with each other, and therefore have access to even MORE daily episodes. We usually exchanged tapes on the weekend and listened to them then. We earmarked certain cassettes with important episodes on them, to preserve and not erase.

 

I realize that my going to all this trouble just to keep up with my favorite soaps sounds nuts, but...back then, soaps were actually GOOD, and worth the effort. I don't even bother video recording today's dreck.

Sounds utterly fantastic both in having and doing! 

I know this is going to seem perhaps a bizarre question but I'm hoping soap history buffs might be able to help; does anyone know which number of episodes aired in 1984 i.e. 1-10 type thing? I've tried to find out but I'm kind of baffled. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

I know this has probably been posted before but here is Frank Converse (Harry O' Neill) in one of his earlier guest star spots on 'Police Story', credit to the original uploader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8DzxxOcn_c

7 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

 

Speaking of hilarious, Marco Dane once asked Edwina Lewis, "Are you going to talk to Echo about this?"

 

A distracted Edwina replied, "Echo who...?"

 

A visibly irritated Marco snapped, "HOW MANY ECHOES DO WE KNOW???"

 

 

I swear I nearly fell off my chair from laughing so much, reading that! 

I had a look but 'fraid not. 

Sad news about Jared, remember him as Dusty in Dallas. 

Okay, thank you though. 

This is helpful, could you please give me a quick recap of it. (I'm afraid I was rather young when it was on).

Thank you everyone for your kindnesses, this is really helping. 

Hi

I am from the UK and I was wondering if anyone could help me with a OLTL query?

One of my favourite actors, George Chakiris (West Side Story) was a guest star in this during 1984 but unfortunately that's all I know.

Does anyone know anything about what character he played, his storylines or how many episodes he was in or when in the year they were aired at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated and many thanks.

Have a good day!