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Dame Joan Plowright has died. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/17/joan-plowright-dies-after-long-stage-and-screen-career

It's funny to me that they label these as: Actress name "Character name" Soap, as if the figure depicts the actress in her personal life. Although I don't really picture Marlena in that polka-dot dress either.

I found this post in an archived thread quoting a few stories: Two murders, though.

Do I have room to do it? I assumed since the board restrictions had been changed I had exceeded my limit. Looks like it worked though.

A lot of my earliest memories are just of the freeze frame and therefore the moment of the highest drama, and I don't picture Pat in any of those situations. But watching eps that are available online, Pat was certainly familiar although John is not. Beverly Penberthy's voice strikes me as very warm and appealing.

Can't put a screen cap in the post but here's the episode. Penberthy appears about 35 minutes in.

It may have been paced badly as well, possibly due to the strike. I had forgotten that first Vicky claimed to be pregnant before she was really pregnant. But I had expected the triangle to go on for longer and was surprised that Lisa was written out. If I recall correctly the audience did not know that Vicky had slept with Jake until she started worrying that he could be the father. If that's the case I don't feel that was fair play.

The whole improbable backstory of amnesia and Paraguay wasn't treated as meaningful within the story. Mary pretty quickly dropped the name Marissa and adapted to being Mary McKinnon. Maybe if the writing had treated that disconnection from her "real" life in a more grounded way it could have been better, but I tend to agree with the suggestions that Denise Alexander should just have been cast as a different character. But any of those more grounded options would have depended on different writing.

I remember discussing it in this thread at the time.

And trying to comfort his SO.

They were children together (offscreen) and have a long history. But knowing to watch for him I recognized him. I hope that he and everyone affected remain safe.

Jake was Victoria's boyfriend when they first came to Bay City. And there are a whole lot of details that lead to Jake falling in love with her twin instead.

Thanks. The way the visual images don't seem to have any relationship to the commentary and the randomness of the commentary (not to mention pronunciations like "Jack I Courtney") gives me the impression that it was cobbled together using AI or something. It's a very weird experience trying to listen and watch at the same time!

The AWHP synopses for January 1989 refer to him as Stefan but I don't see any Stefan in the DP list.

Is Donna aware at this point that Iris knew Michael on the Riviera, or that they had a romantic relationship? I feel like I remember her being absolutely cordial to Iris until she had that info. Thinking about Donna and Iris in this period makes me a little bit wistful for the days when Donna was chummy with Cecile in order to try to break up Peter and Sally.

I believe it had to do with the fact that the US broadcast allowed more time for commercials and so the Canadian network had a little bit of time to fill, at least in the 1980s. If I recall correctly they weren't doing it by the time the show ended in 1999 but I am not sure exactly when it stopped.

One thing to be aware of with the Canadian broadcasts is that they typically included a couple of scenes from the previous day's episode before the opening theme. I believe that's the case here because Mitch/Cass and Vicky/Lisa/Adam who are in those first two scenes don't appear to be in the rest of the episode at all. So those scenes alone would not be evidence that the Soapnet broadcast was trimmed.

Thanks! I think this means that the current outstanding unconfirmed references in Eddie's list are: Biography: Ray Liotta -- presumably a straightforward mention, possibly with a clip. However I have not found the episode online. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442729 Valerie's Home Cooking. According to Wikipedia it had 172 episodes over 14 seasons. I skimmed the list of guests on IMDB and noticed that Faith Ford was on 3 episodes. Is the most likely thing that Another World came up when Ford was on? Difficult to say and I don't see any of those episodes freely available to check. Looks like they are on Discovery+ for the Food Network.

For reference the episode originally aired December 8, 1987 and Hunter was set in Los Angeles. I found this listing for NBC Bakersfield for example that shows AW at 1 pm. https://tvlistingsarchive.blogspot.com/2024/12/fresno-fri-dec-25-1987.html?m=1

I think Donna was replying to me -- we were trying to locate an episode of Hunter (an NBC cop series) that mentioned Another World. I had identified the episode and it looks like Eddie Drueding found it on Youtube. A witness to a crime confirms that she knew when something happened because she had just turned on Another World. Thanks, @Contessa Donatella.

Thanks for the suggestion but they do not appear to be pdf files. I tried using the site: search via Google and found this in s4e10, although I have not turned up any video online. https://subslikescript.com/series/Hunter-86734/season-4/episode-10-Hot_Prowl

I feel as if I would have appreciated Amanda more if they had leaned into how privileged and spoiled she was. As far as I could tell Sandra Ferguson's Amanda was just a nice well-meaning girl who occasionally got into scrapes because she happened to look like someone's dead wife. They were inconsistent with the presentation of Sam's art. If I recall correctly they started as pretty abstract and then he had his realistic baby Alli portraits eventually followed by a perhaps slightly impressionistic scene involving the Red Swan. The baby Alli portraits struck me as a bad choice.

I did a little bit of searching to see if I could get a bead on the Hunter reference in Eddie's list and didn't find anything specific. However I did find this site which appears to have transcripts of dialogue from episodes of the show. I did not see any way to search inside the transcripts without opening each episode up individually and that is not something I am about to undertake in the foreseeable future, especially without knowing whether the actual phrase "Another World" is the string to search for. https://subslikescript.com/series/Hunter-86734#google_vignette

I may have found the ALF reference, although it is just a mention of the title, no characters or storyline referenced and no clip or anything. The neighbour played by Helen Sheridan caught a glimpse of ALF in the backyard and has come over in a panic saying she saw a monster. When she says it looked like something from another world, her skeptical and unhelpful husband says "the soap opera?" S2E3, about 5 minutes in here.

This is an interesting take that I had not considered. Admittedly I have seen very little of George Reinholt in order to make the comparison. Do you have a sense of whether this Steve-Frame-like interpretation was natural and present from Lau's introduction, or was more likely influenced by the triangle with Vicky after Lemay took the reins?