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Still not sure how this was a "by popular demand" episode, as most of it dealt with Victor the hothead, mad his pecker was malfunctioning... Would Nikki still vow to stay with him if he weren't Mr. rich and powerful? I saw this one when it first aired. It was pretty memorable on the Kay / Liz scenes, but I've never once had a feeling I would want to see it again. Lol Being in my 50's, I'm shocked by this. I thought she was way older than that at the time.

A few ramblings... I miss seeing the poor and middle class sets on Y&R. Everything now has to have either a rich look or super modern, or super trendy, which is a break from reality for me, more like "The Rich and the Famous" if you ask me. Loved how Liz slowly climbed her huge flight of stairs, and then SLAMS her bedroom door. Lol !! It would be nice if CBS All Access would post the unedited show versions, but I know that is asking too much. The old music cues still haunt me, and are nice to hear. While they would never work in modern-day episodes, it would have been nice if they had kept some of the basic themes instead of chucking them, and simply re-orchestrated them into a more modern feel. I don't know how we jump from the first two eps to Kay's facelift (which I would be shocked if it truly were a "most demanded" episode), but hey, whatever. Lol. They should really do a "'70s week", "'80s week", etc.

'79 through '82 or '83 for me. Lots of great stuff in there, and the storytelling really moved along.

I noticed that. Thought I was hearing things, or that they may have found a better version of the original piece of music. It's very similar, yet seems a bit different, with more of a beat. I don't know... There were also a couple of modern cues added that I know were not there there originally, maybe to fill some quiet scenes. The rest of the music seems to be original.

I've seen the first two eps via somebody's Canadian posting. A few impressions... A little rough around the edges (as the show generally was in the early '70s), but was fun to see. I had never seen the Brooks Family kitchen before, and was surprised they spent so much time in it in ep. 2. It was nice seeing the first scenes in both the Brooks and Foster homes. Also nice to hear the classic music cues playing. There weren't many, but still nice. A few of them were variations I may have never heard before. There were many variations that were produced of established music cues which never made it to the early soundtrack record that most of us are familiar with.

It's not in the best of shape. I'll send you a PM.

Just parts of shows I was interested in, not complete episodes. '82 thru '85, then more sporadically beyond '85.

Not sure. Likely in storage if I do, and on Beta.

I probably have the face lift episode on an old beta tape (would have preferred something else earlier than when I started taping in '82), but at least show #1 and #2 are a big plus!

Both heavily edited for time I'm sure, but better than nothing.

The last two or three make no sense at all. If they're going to show some very early stuff, then do a whole week of early stuff. I'll take what I can get though.

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel with that episode. These guys have no clue what people want to see.

If any of my personal favorite episodes make the cut to the "by popular demand" list, I may just keel over backwards, and I highly doubt that will happen.

Who hasn't been "a thing" on this show at this point? You would think the STD's would be running rampant in Genoa City by now.

Most of the repeats have been absolute yawners, as if they have no clue what to show. How about Victor's trek on foot through Kansas? ...and as I've said before, Victor's dungeon with Michael Scott? Nikki & creepy Edward? Kay faking her death with Suzanne Lynch? Vanessa jumping? The Pete Walker mob? Rose DeVille (the earlier story from '79?) Derek Thurston's duel with Douglas? The 1979 through 1981 time frame was particularly interesting. The hour-long eps began about Feb. 3 of 1980.

EDIT... Nevermind.

There are several other old videos of Vanessa in this playlist... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFukuXXHudGghHE5rSrID_sKlkqaYuWYw ...one showing a very brief clip of her spying on Lance (John McCook) and Lorie through a 2-way mirror from the other room. I had forgotten how crazy and diabolical she would be.

Back to the 1981 episode, here's what happened with Vanessa not long afterwards. I've never seen the full sequence before, so it was nice to stumble upon this... https://youtu.be/e5kjCsHx5fE

Loved seeing Paul's parents and the Williams' family home whenever they were on. Much like Jeanne Cooper and K.T. Stevens (Vanessa), Carolyn Conwell (Mary) was an old-school veteran actress of many old episodic TV shows, including TV Westerns (though not nearly as many as the other two named), who brought a great deal of acting experience to the table. They tried to bring her back for the "crazy Patty" story, but she had pretty much retired by that point.

Their reluctance to show early episodes could be based on a number of things... Would need to be more heavily edited due to longer running times, not many ties to current characters, no African American families, sponsors may be afraid of younger demographic viewers not watching, the list goes on. .. ALL piss-poor excuses in my opinion. Show them anyway (good ones only)! Let the viewers decide if they want to watch them. I think there's more of a demand for these to be shown than corporate heads realize.

Always happy to see Mary Williams again. Too bad we haven't really seen anything of Carl.

Would y'all rather see "theme week" episodes, or simply "the best of Y&R", with no rhyme or reason? ...because I clearly could have done without many of the "theme week" episodes, in fact, have had no interest in watching several of them again.

I've also seen the '84 episode. I also saw it back in '84. Lol. To me, it was nothing special, but it did have a couple of classic music cues at the very end. Y&R never really felt the same after they started changing out the classic music cues, starting around spring of '82, though they still used many of them sporadically here and there throughout the '80s and even a little bit into the '90s. The rest of the Abbott clan (besides Jack) was also introduced in '82. I never cared much for them. Other long-time actors were departing at the same time, much of it having to do with the switch from the half-hour format to the hour-long format. I felt the show had kind of lost it's way ever since, but it certainly has had many great stories and moments along the way, even if I didn't care for the show on a whole anymore like I used to.

Anyone know if there are any 1979-81 episodes posted on-line somewhere? ... (aside from the "Victor meets Nikki" and Bond Gideon ones).

I've already seen today's 2001 ep. as well Another big-time yawner for me. So disappointing... I'm sure a few may enjoy it though, and if so, I'm happy for you.