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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

5 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Jeanne was 55 during the facelift storyline. The scene where Liz comments "the doctor took off 10 years" was shown during the 2003 Daytime Emmy broadcast.

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.

3 hours ago, ltm1997 said:

I really wish they’d show episodes from 1979...I’ve said a thousand times that I think it’s the best year of the show. Oh how I’d love to be able to see the Kay/Derek/Jill/Suzanne saga play out in a two-episode back-to-back showing. I honestly believe they should do a best of the 70’s week and let the fans pick what episodes they want to see by doing a poll. I’d LOVE to see the full episodes also of Kay driving Phillip over the cliff, Jill attempting to attack Kay with a letter opener, Jill falling down the Brooks’ staircase, Jill performing the tracheotomy on Stuart, Nikki killing her father, Suzanne gaslighting Kay, and Kay revealing herself to Derek and Jill in her bedroom after their wedding. There’s so much more but that’s some of the good stuff. 

 

Do you think if ALL of us contact them individually on some sort of platform, they’ll cave and show them?

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

1 hour ago, All My Shadows said:

I have a very teeny tiny but strange observation - they couldn't clear that short piece of background music that opens the very first shot of the truck!? They replaced it with a sound-alike version.

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.

4 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

 

Wow! Those sound like treasures even if they aren't full episodes. There's so little from that period. Do you still have a player that plays them?

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

43 minutes ago, ltm1997 said:

 

Do you think you have episodes from 1983 as well?

 

SO EXCITED FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY’S EPISODES!!!

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

17 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

Do you still have any of the 1982 episodes on tape? 

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!

3 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

Yep, it says episodes number one and two, from March of 1973, will be broadcast again this Monday, July 20, 2020.

 

Please record them, people, particularly the second episode. We may never get the chance to see and save this episode again. (The debut ep is already available among collectors.)

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

52 minutes ago, Soap-princess said:

I’m convinced some random intern picked these episodes. 
The last two episodes are a pass. 

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.

8 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

Today’s episode was awful. I hated it when it aired and I hate it more now.

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.

19 minutes ago, YRBB said:

 

They were friends with benefits.

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.

On 7/1/2020 at 9:00 PM, BoldRestless said:

 

@mikelyons I uploaded the last 4 classics in the vault https://bit.ly/2A3Bnhv created by @ChickenNuggetz92 along with a bunch of episodes from 1999 (the "I Will Crush You" week). Hoping more people will post stuff there. You don't need an account to do so and you can open the link in incognito mode.

 

The B&B vault seems to be far more active than the Y&R. Sadly I just noticed BobTV who was posting a ton of soaps on YT (used to be genoacityguy) got his account terminated. I wish I knew how to get in touch with him. This is the worst YT has been in a while and the vault provides a good backup.

EDIT...  Nevermind.

7 hours ago, FrenchFan said:

Thanks !! I had never seen Vanessa’s fall before ! 

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

21 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

LOL Mary Williams

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.

6 minutes ago, janea4old said:

from Global:
US Tuesday June 30, 2020 (CDN Mon June 30, 2020)

#5509, original US airdate Wed Dec 14, 1994.

 

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).

1 hour ago, BoldRestless said:

 

These kinds of choices will probably turn people off from the really classic episodes. 

 

At this point in the show they had just gotten through John and Jill's divorce with the pictures of her and Jack, Jill getting shot, Jack getting arrested and sentenced. All amazing stuff. But oh noooo can't show that because of Terry Lester and Brenda Dickson. Nina and Phillip have been introduced, but not yet met. Nikki is about to find out she has soap opera disease and Ashley will learn she's pregnant. But we get this random episode instead. Really strange choices when they couldn't go into the 1980s vault for Katherine week or Abbot week (even if they had to have Jess Walton and Peter Bergman in the roles, they still could have picked things from late 1989). 

 

And if Bergman is the reason they didn't show anything from the 1980s when the Abbots were established, which I really think it is, then it's really not fair that they picked an episode with Brenda Epperson for Abbot week. I loved Brenda, but Terry is even better. Eileen Davidson is the original and current Ashley so it would make more sense to show an early 1980s with her and a different Jack, than it would be to cast aside the first years of history for the sake of Bergman, who isn't even the original actor.

 

And then, you had Lester in a 1987 episode anyway (another fairly boring one with Nikki's dream), so it's not like they're opposed to ever showing him, but just opposed to showing him in an episode where the focus is on Jack.

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.