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On 5/22/2023 at 11:27 AM, Khan said:

I think the 2012 series was a good idea, but I agree with David Jacobs that they relied too much on the original cast members, who should have made limited or recurring appearances, and that the younger generation should have taken over more.  I think the fact that they didn't was a sign that TPTB weren't too sure about the younger generation carrying the show on their own.

I also agree with DJ that John Ross should have been more like Bobby and Christopher should have been more like J.R.  If nothing else, "flipping the script" like that would've given Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman more challenging stuff to play with, rather than a retread of familiar dynamics.

A John Ross & Christopher swap would have been amazing.

On 4/15/2023 at 5:09 PM, Soapsuds said:

Scenes that never aired in season 10.

 

I remember these when I was a kid.  Weren't these in the Enquirer?  It was a fake out for folks trying to spoil how Bobby comes back?

On 4/26/2019 at 7:06 PM, DAMfan said:

Any ever see "Lamb to the Slaughter" an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone. Originally broadcast on April 13, 1958, this was one of only 17 AHP episodes directed by Hitchcock himself. 

That was a wild ep to see.  BBG was amazing in it and the resolution was da bomb!

On 5/23/2014 at 10:11 PM, Paul Raven said:

From Broadcasting magazine

 

NBC's success in prime time has tended to cloud its performance in daytime, where it lags behind the other two networks. But here, too, NBC executives said there are signs of improvement, albeit not as fast as perhaps they would hope.

 

All three networks are down in daytime ratings compared to a year ago. NBC has averaged a 4.9/18 rating for the first 10 months of this year (January- October), 4% off the 5.1/18 it averaged for the first 10 months of 1984; ABC averaged a 6.2/22 compared to a 6.4/22 last year, off 3%; CBS averaged a 6.3/23 compared to a 7.1/25, off 11 %. The stability of the prime time schedule now affords Tartikoff more time to spend on daytime problems -he says he spends twice as much time on daytime programming as he did a year ago when prime time was his main preoccupation. And daytime, according to NBC group vice president Robert Butler, is the principal reason NBC has not yet reached the operating profit levels of either ABC or CBS.

 

NBC's principal daytime effort has been the new soap Santa Barbara, which it intro- duced 15 months ago. Between July 30 -Oct. 26, 1984, the soap opera averaged a 3.2/10. But between July 29 -Oct. 25, 1985, Santa Barbara averaged a 3.6/12, a 13% gain.

Seems like it would have made more sense to put SB on at 2 pm and do AW at 3.  Same with Texas.  AW was getting bad but it still had more to fight with against GH and GL at 3 pm and being sandwiched between DOOL and AW may have helped get more viewers.  Even putting DOOL at 12:30 and airing SFT at 1:30 could have helped Texas & SB.

On 6/24/2014 at 9:04 PM, Dale said:

From the November 1981 issue of Daytime TV - these ratings are from August 1981:

 

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Looks like SFT was holding it's own pretty well before going over to NBC.  Did Capitol do better or worse for CBS after NBC took SFT?

On 7/22/2019 at 9:50 AM, robbwolff said:

I recall a Daytime TV article about the spinoff early in 1980. The series was then called Another World: Houston. There was no talk at all of Iris moving over to the new soap. Rather, Russ Matthews was going to be a core character. I believe Texas was originally supposed to debut in June.

 

 

Russ would have been a better choice to go to Texas.  He goes to Houston and meets Kevin and Rena and the show can have him commute back and forth for a case, he interacts w/ the folks and stays there eventually.  Iris stays on AW. 

But DB's Russ isn't that charismatic, so who knows?

On 10/8/2022 at 4:49 PM, JoeCool said:

You should watch the interviews with Fred Silverman when he was at ABC on the EMMYs website and also on Youtube.  Fred was a fan of Agnes Nixon's All My Children and of Agnes. When Fred came to ABC, GH was a mess and Fred was the one who said either you improve this or it is gone. When things got better at GH and OLTL he expanded them to 45 then to an 1 hour. It was All My Children that was the leader when Fred took over and remained ABC's top soap until 1980.

I remember this interview.  He then talked about what he walked into when he defected over to NBC, including their show development and how their daytime was a mess.

On 10/5/2022 at 4:42 PM, carolineg said:

Don't bless his heart.  He's a sex offender.  You can google it.  Gross.  

I just found the story and it involved a minor.  Such a pig...ugh.

On 2/8/2015 at 6:07 AM, DRW50 said:

November 1983 Daytime Digest

 

 

 

 

 

Loved the irony of him talking about being single and about how dating had changed considering that he remarried Loyita like 4 years later.  Meant to be.

On 5/14/2011 at 10:24 PM, DRW50 said:

 

 

Next is a bit of a side story in this - Austin knew about the baby switch and hit Gabrielle up for big money.

 

 

Damn Austin was a nasty SOB.  He was so evil and scary when he was on the show.

On 5/14/2011 at 10:28 PM, DRW50 said:

Austin was pretty scary. I don't care for some of the brutality against women on the show in the late 80's but at least they were honest about these men. Today Austin would be painted as a noble hero.

 

 

Austin is soooo creepy.  David Gautreaux was so good in this role.  This should have been a one note role but even through his evil, you could feel how much he "loved" Sarah.  A true villain that thankfully was never "redeemed".

Today, he would have been redeemed and made the town mayor.

On 12/19/2021 at 8:58 PM, Khan said:

I know that LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING, LOVE OF LIFE, THE SECRET STORM and WHERE THE HEART IS are all pretty much gone (save for kinescopes that have been uploaded online, or that are gathering dust in someone's closet).

You're right, @DramatistDreamer, I totally forgot about the Bell shows (and DAYS).

If the folks at Pluto TV were smart, they'd start streaming episodes of GENERATIONS.  It wasn't a perfect show, by ANY means, but it was a groundbreaking show that had its' moments.

If Pluto had a soap channel with old episodes of different shows, that would be awesome.

On 10/1/2021 at 7:43 PM, Nicholas Blair said:

Nothing could be more truly 1970s than that video of Dennis Parker. It would be really sexy if I weren't laughing so much.

In his book EIGHT YEARS IN ANOTHER WORLD (1981) Harding Lemay says that after the firing of George Reinholt (1975), other producers were also willing to fire their (these aren't the exact words, but the right idea) "temperamental, high-priced" stars. I always guessed that Donald May was one of these. I don't know who else Lemay had in mind. Don Stewart remained on GL until 1984.

Thanks to everyone for all these great pieces of information.

 

Wasn't it DM who wouldn't agree to go along with ABC's idea of EON becoming a late night show?  I would think if most of the cast and crew were good w/ it, he would have to put up or shut up.

On 4/23/2019 at 9:56 PM, j swift said:

According to Soap Central, it was an even dozen

Morgan K. Melis (1976 to 1982), Chris Cunningham (1982), Jonathan Brandis (1982), Ryan Janis (1983 to 1990), Matthew Vipond (1990), Joey Thrower (1990 to 1992), Kirk Geiger (1992 to October 17, 1994), Jack Armstrong (1994 to 1995), Ken Kenitzer (1995), Kevin Stapleton (January 1996 to April 1998), Timothy Gibbs (April 1998 to March 2001), and Dan Gauthier (June 27, 2003 to November 2010)

 

Unless you consider the genetic likelihood of fraternal twins where one is blonde and one is ginger, but given their nontraditional gestation and insemination, I'll let them get away it 

Fraternal twins can have different hair and skin coloring.  My mom's cousins were fraternal twins where one was a tall brunette with brown eyes and the other was a short blond with blue eyes.  It happens.

On 5/7/2019 at 10:09 PM, Franko said:

Can we confirm? Is this Marcia McCabe? If so, she's the second P&G actress appearing in this commercial break. CZP (or else a great lookalike) shows up at 25:11.

That's Anna Holbrook before she was Sharlene on Another World.

On 7/22/2019 at 7:49 PM, victoria foxton said:

Interesting long before the Asian Quarter story. GH had a Asian story. Was it any good? I would kill to see this era of GH.

It was really good.  Frisco, Felicia, Scorpio, Anna, Robin....great times.

23 hours ago, j swift said:

1. Certain unnamed podcasts created an unfounded idea that plots and pairings were personal, as if a single actress or writer could create a storyline without going through the vast infrastructure of production and network executives it takes to get a soap on air.  Jokes about stealing a parking space became conjecture about disliking a costar being a reason for certain storylines.  One is willing to bet that producers who have worked on multiple soap sets over the years don't care about the rumblings of some ingenue who can be replaced and forgotten within a few weeks.

2.  It doesn't make you an "insider" when you speculate on how an actor's social media profile (that is probably managed by a PR source) effects their storyline.  It just means that you are naive enough to believe everything you read without question.

And 3., far too often we accept the exit interview of an actor who is mad about being fired as gospel.  Actors are notoriously narcissistic, and just because their egos were bruised by their dismissal, doesn't make their rationalizations true.

I would love to find these podcasts if anything to chuckle along.  As for #3, I've seen multiple exit interviews and think, "Bulls****".

On 8/27/2021 at 11:22 PM, Liberty City said:

The fact is Ingo Rademacher should've been fired long before his recent social media ignorant rants. The moment he exposed himself as a bigoted terrorist is when he should've been cut. And now name-calling, mental health shaming and accusing? Stick to being in Hawaii. I have a feeling he's been cut already and is lashing out because he's been cut.

Honestly, something with him is coming up for Sweeps involving him either getting killed or leaving.  He's setting it up to look like he was fired d/t his views instead of the fact he hasn't been essential for years.  However, he just comes off as a whiner, though.

On 8/1/2021 at 3:14 PM, AlexElizabeth said:

Since we don't have a show to talk about, here's some "wisdom" from Camila Banus.

 

I tried finding this on Instagram but she just has pics of herself.  Must have gotten some bad reactions to this ignorant post.

On 7/30/2021 at 6:56 PM, Wendy said:

I preferred Mason and Julia by a mile, too. But I didn't hate Mary. I think she and Michael Donnelly may have been interesting to try, especially since they both had the religious backgrounds, with Mary being a former nun and Michael being a former priest.

And the fact that both were involved with the respective halves of Mason and Julia, it could have been a jumping off point into their own stories.

And Michael, while a good guy, did seem to have a darker streak (see his involvement with Flame, his career as a cop), so there was the possibility of conflict, etc.

A long time lurker, finally a poster.  My thoughts on Mary is that she is what Mason needed to be ready to be in a relationship with Julia.  Julia and Mason have flaws and warts, like most realistic couples.  He needed someone like Mary to show him what love was.  He did lose it, but now that he'd experienced it, he would be more open to it and the fulfillment it would bring him.  Julia showed him it was more than star crossed lovers but also maturity, children, and yes, sometimes struggles.  In the long run, Mary was needed to help Mason successfully move on with Julia.

On 8/1/2021 at 8:34 PM, j swift said:

Clearly the Residence 1.0 was visually superior to 2.0.  However, Senior Executive Producer John Conboy (thanks @Chris 2) had a penchant for shooting through a set, as if the audience was spying in on a conversation.  If you watch episodes of Y&R, Capitol, or Santa Barbara, there are always these shots from between columns or through an open staircase to start an episode.  It was very effective in demonstrating the grandiosity of the setting.  He used fewer establishing shots of the exteriors of the buildings, favoring a tracking shot through a set to start the action.  The newer version of the set allowed for those types of shots. 

Also, of note, time slot competition GH had recently renovated the Quatermaine mansion, so there was a trend between shows. 

Lastly, the newer set seems more functional, Residence 1.0 didn't have a large dining room, and frequently characters were forced to stand around during scenes because there were very few places to sit.  The open courtyard was lovely, but lighting it proved to be a nuisance, the fake sunlight from the center caused shadows on the entry way, and it had be adjusted to suit the time of day in the other scenes.  If you look at other sets developed during the same time period, like the house that Mason bought Pamela in the episode that was uploaded to YT today, you can see that they were trying to give a peachy/pink pastel look to all of the spaces which reflected light nicely on the actors and seemed more modern that the classic dark wood and deep red casita look of the Residence 1.0.  All of which is why Conboy was often criticized for valuing style over substance.

On 8/1/2021 at 8:34 PM, j swift said:

Clearly the Residence 1.0 was visually superior to 2.0.  However, Senior Executive Producer John Conboy (thanks @Chris 2) had a penchant for shooting through a set, as if the audience was spying in on a conversation.  If you watch episodes of Y&R, Capitol, or Santa Barbara, there are always these shots from between columns or through an open staircase to start an episode.  It was very effective in demonstrating the grandiosity of the setting.  He used fewer establishing shots of the exteriors of the buildings, favoring a tracking shot through a set to start the action.  The newer version of the set allowed for those types of shots. 

Also, of note, time slot competition GH had recently renovated the Quatermaine mansion, so there was a trend between shows. 

Lastly, the newer set seems more functional, Residence 1.0 didn't have a large dining room, and frequently characters were forced to stand around during scenes because there were very few places to sit.  The open courtyard was lovely, but lighting it proved to be a nuisance, the fake sunlight from the center caused shadows on the entry way, and it had be adjusted to suit the time of day in the other scenes.  If you look at other sets developed during the same time period, like the house that Mason bought Pamela in the episode that was uploaded to YT today, you can see that they were trying to give a peachy/pink pastel look to all of the spaces which reflected light nicely on the actors and seemed more modern that the classic dark wood and deep red casita look of the Residence 1.0.  All of which is why Conboy was often criticized for valuing style over substance.

The remodel of the Q mansion was all Gloria Monty because she decided an earthquake in NY was the way to go to remodel several sets.

On 6/10/2021 at 6:58 PM, Liberty City said:

Knowing what we know now about Richard Eden, the role would have to be recast, in my opinion.

Why?  What happened to Richard Eden?

Ignore my last post.  I got my answer but I'm unable to delete it.