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Over 10 years since I first saw the episode and I still can't believe that Al Bundy shot Mac Cory lol I liked their relationship too. Cecile does scheme a little, but actually it's Jamie who messes up his and Sandy's friendship the most.

Sorry. Didn't mean to spoil it for you.

That's just what I think. When I watched the 1981 episodes on YT, overall I enjoyed them. I didn't like that Rachel suddenly had feelings for Mitch and left Mac for him, especially after everything they went through the previous year, but there were a lot of good stories at that time. But I always felt like after the hostage crisis was when everything just got so boring and the stories just got stupid. Restarting Rachel/Steve/Alice with a fake Steve and a fake Alice, Clarice getting raped by Jerry, Jamie's book. I wasn't a fan of any of that. L. Virginia Browne was headwriter in the first half of 1981, but sometime during the year, it might have been during the strike was when Corinne Jacker came in and just ruined everything. She was a playwright, not a soap writer and it could have been Rauch's attempt to find a new Lemay for the show. I'd love to find what was going on behind the scenes during this time. I know CJ was quoted in saying that she hated working on the show, but my question is why? Was there behind the scenes turmoil or was she just an egomaniac that thought she was better than soaps?

The last great moments of 1981. After this, the show just fell apart.

I always thought it was rape too. Maybe they were under the belief that controversy means higher ratings, which is some cases was probably true. I'm glad they revisited it years later and at least tried to provide closure. I think the one of the subwriters at the time was a rape victim herself, and admitted that she was never comfortable with the way GH handled Laura's rape. And though I do give props to Leslie Charleson for calling out how irresponsible it is for someone who commits a terrible crime to get away with it, I find a little funny considering the turn the show took when the mob was brought in. If only she knew what was to come lol

Yeah, I guess. I know NYC, especially the outer boroughs were not very safe in the 70's and the 80's. But the neighborhood that the studio was located, to my best of my knowledge, was always a safe one. It definitely is now.

Did Gloria Monty or Pat Falken Smith ever say in an interview or something why they chose to make it a rape instead of just having Luke and Laura have consensual sex at the disco that night?

Great interview! Thanks for posting! Btw, I love how all these actors complain about the commute to the AW studio (from Manhattan to Brooklyn and vice versa), like its so far and takes so long. Depending on where you are, what time you leave, it could take a half an hour maybe even less. As someone who does commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan to Queens everyday, I can honestly say its really not that bad, especially in the early morning. It can be bad, but it's not all bad all the time.

It's on my "to read" list. Just have a few more books to get through.

I think I may have said this before, but it's like the character of Brittany underwent a complete change under every writer. It was like they didn't know what to do with her. Thanks for posting! Always great to see rediscovered episodes.

I think she tried to electrocute Hope, but Larry killed her by accident

Yes, Megan was the other daughter. She was also Bo’s ex-girlfriend

Tbh, I think it was just writers not doing their homework, not studying the history of the show. How many people working on the show probably didn't even know that Stefano had not one but two daughters in the early 80's. Some regimes were more concerned with creating new characters who turn out to be Stefano's long lost children. I always felt like EJ should have been Renee's long lost son. Instead of SORAS-ing the hell out of Susan's son with Stefano, he could have been Stefano's grandson and they could have had EJ torn between his loyalty to Stefano and his love for the mother that he never knew, whose murder was the result of Stefano's schemes. Plus, that would have put him roughly around the same age as Sami

I've heard about for years. I'm so glad somebody finally posted it. You're welcome. And yes, it was Margaret DePriest, co-writing with Sheri Anderson. It seemed MD was a big fan of serial killer storylines. Well, I'm pretty sure Days was the first to do a mask storyline, so you did got to give a shout out to Ron for mining that history. But yeah, the whole idea is pretty stupid lol. I know all soaps insult viewers intelligence but a mask storyline definitely takes it too far. I wish more of Renee and the triangle were available to see.

Here it is, everybody. Renee's Swan Song! I can't tall you how long I've wanted to see this scene.

Thanks! I was recently watching the episodes on YT and I thought they flowed through perfectly. I didn't even know I was up to the post-strike episodes until I noticed Bill Bell's name in the credits again. The only other soap where I've seen a large chunk of strike episodes was Another World, and with them the decline was very noticeable.

Who was writing the show during the 1988 Writer's Strike? It didn't seem like there was a decline in the quality of the writing at all?

My family did too. Days and AW were my first soaps. I was only 3-4 years old at the time but I have so many clear memories of both of them. I actually lived not too far away from the studio that AW was shot at when I was little.

You can thank YouTube and the AWHP for my pre-1995 memories of AW lol. The first time was when he held her hostage to get Mac and he ended up shooting her. That episode is posted on YT. The second time was when she inhaled the poison dust. Carl didn't want any harm to come to her then and was only intending to kill Mac, but from what I've heard and read, the situation just got out of hand.

Yes. He almost killed her three times. You could say the first two times were accidents and that Rachel was just collateral damage, but the third and final time in 1991 he hired someone to kill her because he was worried that she could implicate him in Grant's shooting.

Carl, the villain had to be redeemed. Just like today, the bad guys get propped up while the good guys are destroyed. AW took it to the extreme though. Instead of a woman falling in her love with her rapist, they had a woman fall in love with the guy who tried to kill her lol. Luckily both actors and characters were talented and popular.

Nothing really efficient, especially for the not really well known actors like Rhonda Lewin. Your best bet, I think, are the plot synopses on AWHP.

Here's the link to the 1986 playlist

Practically her entire run is available on Youtube

Felicia and Wally didn't crash into Tops. They crashed into Tallboys.