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Days is way worse, its like 8-9 months now. Seven at the very least. @alwaysAMC congrats on one year with the GL fandom. I really enjoyed reliving the show via your recaps. That show will always hold a special part in my heart, I was exposed to GL at a young age. I couldn't watch cartoons until 4! The generational viewership is what fueled soaps for generations. My grandma would listen to TGL on the radio while gardening Congrats again!

I'm at June 1994. They are clearly tweaking things to keep Todd around. At what point did they decide that he connected with the audience and they had to pivot to keep him around long term? Spoiler

That would also help crackdown redundancy. The way it is now you can have dallas conversation under either primetime soaps OR cancelled soaps.

JG can't be this bad, can he? Is it possible that he is mandated to keep things as "safe" as possible thus no real stories and an eternal holding pattern while ratings are (sadly) sustained? Either way, Y&R viewers are screwed.

Watching the March 18, 1980 episode on YT, building up to the climax in Santo Domingo. Exciting stuff. Roger was posing as room service when Chrissy called out "Roger!"

Considering Rauch, its a miracle they didn't give Reva D.I.D. to really chew the scenery.

I'd argue that Conboy might have been the worst thing to happen to GL. Taggart/Culliton's breif HW stint in 2002 showed that the show still had potential to be really good again. Cowboy just tore that all down. The show was in much worse shape when Ellen Wheeler took over. I mean I actively dislike Wheeler's run too, but she had even less of a budget to work with than Conboy did. Wheeler had some really terrible ideas like the inside the light wednesdsy bottle episodes and the Community service episodes. Peapeck might have been a necessity due to the miniscule budget, but it was executed in about the worst way possible. Especially the first month or so where they had really shaky camera work to be "edgy," probably made all the grannys still watching sick.

@DRW50 thanks for the tag.

Calling Timms (the first Paulina on another world) would be my fan casting for Beth in the 90s. CT was replaced by Judi Evans on AW. She'd also be a good Mindy but I'd bring her in as Beth. I didn't care for BC's Beth during her first go in 89. Her second stint in the role was better and out of the shadow of BE's portrayal of Beth.

More musings while the thread is dead... GL Pay or Play contracts. After Edge ends, move over Ann Flood to GL as Trudy in 1985 to compensate for the loss of Charita Bauer. My dream re-casting for Mindy in the late 90s would be Karen Witter. Been watching her as Tina on OLTL and I think she's just terrific- can play sexy works well in comic subplots as well as more serious soap fare. She took over from fan favorite Andrea Evans and held her own, physically stunning and can act- the perfect combination. I still would bring over Marcia McCabe as either Hope Bauer or Trish Lewis in 1987, after SFT ended. If Ann Flood doesn't work as Trudy, bring in Mary Stuart in early as Meta. Just thinking about the fake Bauers. Maybe if they cast Mary Stuart as Johnny and Lanie's grandmother it would be easier to accept the Bauer expansion pack-- given the goodwill MS had with longtime soap viewers (or soap geeks) as Jo on SFT. Barbara Crampton (as Mindy) seemed out-of-place on a NYC soap, she should've stayed with Bell. She'd probably fit okay on Santa Barbara as a new character.

TBF, she's playing Paulina pretty similar to her Lily Mason stint on AW.

They namedropped Lucy a couple times. I thought it was late Rauch era, they called her up to do some snooping from her end.

@DRW50 Marvel Comics Superhero, The Guiding Light.

GL should've snapped up Carl Tye Evans to reprise the role of A-M, after his Nick Scudder stint on sibling soap ATWT.

fan casting: Nichiolas Coster (SB) or Jed Allan (SB) as Alan in the 90s.