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Yup! The three women in this picture were the most beautiful on the show at the time. Honorable mention to early 90s Lauren & Tracy. Cassaundra was an old school Hollywood type beauty. She had this mysteriousness and glamor about her. Nina Arvesen reminds me of Brenda Epperson in the face. I love the gas lighting scenes during the George Rollins murder storyline. Peak Y&R. 1989-92 was a particularly strong time for the show. She should have lasted longer. Mary Jo Mason had a similar mystery about her.

Indeed he was. I stand corrected.

Hopefully someone didn't do this already... What was a character who's storyline impact far outlasted their run on the show? GH Frank Smith was only on the show for brief stints in 1979-80; 93-94; 2015 and drove years of story for Luke, Laura and Sonny. Y&R Phillip Chancellor II died in 1975 after a 2 year run yet moved stories well until Katherine's death in 2013 and beyond. OLTL Victor Lord Sr and Irene Clayton Manning. Both characters were on the show for a short time, and "died" in the 70s. But Victor's death and Vicki's subsequent DID from his abusive were stories for the show's entire run. Irene's diary and the paternity of Tina, Todd and Victor Jr would drive story up to 2011!

Thanks! GH has such a fatty canvas I feel like they could have trimmed it by cutting a newer performer than a veteran character. Agreed.

Yes soap should have romance. I think it's so done to the death however, on B&B and Y&R that interesting to see how GH doesnt centralize it. The way how Jason and Sam barely interacted leading up to what I suspect will be her fatal surgery. Hard to think these two were a super couple 12 years ago. Even Sonny had more of a heart-to-heart with Sam.

Perhaps this qualifies as classic GH because it happened 9 years ago... Why was Duke killed off again in 2015? He was a popular old school character brought back and then they just got rid of him. This is something very JFP and Guza but it happened on Frank's watch.

Did anyone record the Michelle Stafford anniversary episode. It should hopefully be filled with classic clips.

I totally agree. And what bolstered the business story lines back in the day was the camera angles and background music because presentation elevates substance. Y&R and B&B we're the only two soaps with interesting business stories.

I want to believe that Ed can help improve the show drastically. We didn't get much when Kay Alden returned however, so I won't get too excited. I always said Y&R was pretty good from 1989-2001, and I now realize that roughly corresponds with Ed Scott's tenure. Hopefully he can bring some of that magic back. CBS has gotten complacent with Y&R and B&B's #1 & #2 status. It's good to see CBS somewhat trying with its soaps, even launching a new one.

Exactly. Is Monaco not cognizant that she has been phoning in her scenes for the last few years. She always sounds disinterested and bored. And I agree that Sam rarely had an identity outside of Jason/Sonny's woman. How popular was Sam when she first came and was messing with Jax? I get it. After 20 years on a job, salary cuts are offensive. But ratings/soap budgets are declining and she hasn't acted well in years. My question is, was Kelly the only person asked to take a salary cut?

Elizabeth and Ric were a random pairing to me. For her to end up with that guy after Jason and Lucky, and then Zander got into the mix somehow. Someone said Ric and Ava should get together. I would love to see that! It would be Ric and Faith all over again, two messy toxic souls!

IMO, Jill's lack of support is her own fault, especially after what she did to John two years prior. I will say the beginning of the Kay vs Jill feud is Katherine's fault. She drove her husband away, and literally drove him off the cliff.

Finally Phillip III's "death" scene has been posted in English (1989).

Yup! I likened his performances to Ron Moss on B&B. Even if they weren't the strongest actors they were their characters and the fans loved them! I never followed DOOL too much growing up. After watching 80s/90s episodes available on YouTube a few years ago, I fully understood John Marlena's impact. This was playing in my head after finding out the awful news.

Oh noooooo! This is huge.

There was a YouTube page that had GH clips from 1963 to 76 but it was taken down. Shame. In 2024, the search for Lucky so he can be a liver donor for Lulu reminds me of 1996. It was a creative tool then to use Lulu's aplastic anemia to introduce Carly and Nicholas simultaneously. I'm surprised the writers didn't think it was redundant to make both Bobbie and Laura reveal secret children concurrently. When did Bobby first express she didn't know who Carly's father was, and when did Carly start asking? When I looked up the history of Carly's dad John Durant, it was interesting to learn he was yet another casualty of Manny Ruiz. Did you all think Ruiz was a good villain? So many deaths between 2005 & 2007 involved either Manny or Diego Alcazar!

The post below from @titan1978 sums up Kristina perfectly. Exactly, Kristina is a spoiled self absorbed mess and Alexis is protecting her. Kristina's apology isn't sincere because she admits having no regrets for trying to take custody of TJ's baby. Of course no surrogate can predict how their emotions are going to change during the pregnancy, but thats too bad🤷‍♀️ You volunteered to do something so see it through. Kristina is not a victim in this at all.

From watching this episode from 2 weeks ago I don't feel like Alexis is hammering down to Kristina that she is wring for trying to take her sister's baby, then picking a fight with Ava while pregnant. Alexis has just been trying to keep the peace between both siblings but his is not a two-sided situation. Kristina's completely in the wrong and Molly should not be pressured by Alexis to make peace with her sister. Kristina should be pressured to apologize for what she did.

Catching up... Kristina is sick in the head and Alexis is enabling her trying to play both sides. That is all.

Watch fast before they're copyright stricken. New classic clips account is up. Lauren vs Lynne Lori & Julia

Lifetime has put out some ridiculous content, they've also occasionally put out some good content. But, whatever Lifetime has done recently is far more interesting to sit through than anything any soap scribe has put on the air in the last decade. If any soap would be prime fodder for Lifetime that's B&B with its trashy salaciousness. I too would prefer a daily serial, but I'm curious to see where this goes. Totally agree. It's sad that a lot of the P&G soaps such as those two are barely mentioned in pop culture nowadays. ABC soaps seem to have more of a cultural staying power with layman audiences.

And just to be clear, I love Maura. I was knocking Kelly's latest performances.

Exactly. Y&R gets 3 to 4 million viewers whereas critically acclaimed cable shows like Mad Men were getting below 1 million viewers yet paid actors handsomely with higher production values. The problem with actors today is that they lack that dramatic flair. Many of them deliver lines in a conversational tone lacking theatrics. An example would be the campy Maura West versus the subdued Kelly Monaco. We've also lost dramatic production values. Dim lighting, extreme close up shots and grand background music are all absent in today's soaps. Finally today's writers don't know how to stretch plot in an interesting way. B&B literally copies and pastes dialogue between episodes. Meanwhile Bell era Y&R had endless twists during the Sheila baby switch story such as the miscarriage doctor getting hired at Sheila's lab, Lauren claiming to offer Sheila company insurance as a ruse to blood test for paternity etc ..

When GH Shifted from JFP to Frank in 2012-13, there's change in the lighting of the show. I think it was better lit under Phelps and when Frank took over around the 50th anniversary we got this very harshly lit bright show. 2012 2013 I think today GH has the best sets in soaps, but the harshly bright lighting cheapens the look of the show. HD is more complimentary to the Bold and the Beautiful than GH.

GH: 2/3rds of the cast with no story Y&R: Phyllis, Chelsea, Billy, Devon, Abby, Lilly, Sally B&B Katie, Wyatt, Liam, Hope, Finn, Carter, Zende, Paris