Darn

I've NEVER noticed this on ABC soaps and I grew up on them. GL is the only soap I've been utterly distracted by the ridiculous lighting. The outdoor scenes always had as much lighting as the indoor ones.

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Lord this is so bad. And the garish lighting. I always felt GL overcompensating for filming in NY by having the most brightly lit soundstages in daytime. And it's still crazy to me 20 years later that they fired Laura Bell Bundy when she was clearly the best Maura.

They couldn't because they're not that good, don't have any rehearsal time and their mentors/co-stars are lazy/stuck in their ways/also without rehearsal time to nurture a good performance out of their younger co-stars.

Watching that January 18th 1993 episode it's so fascinating hearing the show talk so frankly about sex (and Victoria's seeming asexuality?). Kudos to Heather Tom handling this type of material at such a young age.

That is without question Victoria Rowell.

NVM

God she is so f*cking pretty! And Keesha was definitely meant to be biracial/black. What white woman does anyone know named Keesha? 😂

This is RICH coming from you! I love it!

Seeing Blake again in the 90s reminds me how badly cast I always thought Elizabeth Keifer were. I started watching the show years after she was on it and I refused to believe she was meant to be Holly's daughter. They looked the same age! And Maureen Garrett acted more youthful!

But would anyone have been able to tell the difference? (Catherine Oxenberg is...an actress)

I just read up on her leaving the show after @amybrickwallace's comment and apparently she was fired over a salary dispute. I don't understand why they didn't just kill off the character. The recast looked more than Elisabeth Shue than some European heiress.

I've been watching a lot of Dynasty clips with the passing of Diahann Carroll and oh boy is she GOOD. The delight in her voice as she says "Our daddy" is something to behold. Also the show hit number one the season she joined. Coincidence? I think not!

@DRW50 this is a young Martha Byrne in a commercial for...Salt Sense at the very beginning of that episode you posted, isn't it?

Thanks @robbwolff and @Khan! I’m just glad my question was able to be addressed while the crazy lady in the corner was screaming into her megaphone about 40 year old memoirs!

So it sounds like it was not a case of GL doing better but GH losing viewers? Can anyone corroborate @Khan’s theory?

What story was it that pushed GL to #1 against GH?

She doesn't know.

Robert Newman was/is such an attractive man. Kim Zimmer is also in those pictures.

This is the funniest damn thread on the whole board. I am LIVING!

You are. That's why she never made another one. I don't recall her singing at all when I started watching in the 2000s. It seems totally out of character for Lily. Ugh she sang on GL too? Yeah Blair was singing all the time on OLTL, it never made any sense and was never any good.

I'm shocked by how much Martha Byrne sang on this show before I started watching because she is not very good. Was this a Kassie DePaiva situation where she had it written into her contract that she got to sing (and we had to hear her struggle vocals) a certain number of times per year?

If you're black you were at Tyler Perry Studios' opening. Pretty sure I was there. I don't remember anything but I'm 99% sure.

Yes. Making this deplorable psychotic rapist the lead of the show was just...how were they okay with this? Todd paid a lot of lip service to being so sowwy for what he did because he kept doing horrible things. Just over and over. And he was on every goddamn day. I couldn't take it. Then we got two of that [!@#$%^&*] running around like fcuking clowns. Besides that Trevor St. John stopped trying after a few years and Roger Howarth stopped before he left the second time. Then when he came back he was slightly better but the character was in such a stupid storyline it didn't matter.