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yes to all of this! though it does seem that the show is committed to the clunky format and we may just have to live with it.

so what, exactly, was the emergency that caused nicole to leave the cotillion in such a rush that she missed seeing samantha crowned?

this! given the budget for these two episodes, you’d think they could have set aside a few $$ to hire a day player to play miss imogen.

well, irna certainly showed them, didn’t she! two years in, atwt was at the top of the ratings, where it remained for 20 years — and forever changed the face of daytime soaps. there are a handful of those early episodes floating around youtube and in the paley center’s collection. but, they’re random — absolutely no context. what i really wish is that they would have saved 10-20 consecutive episodes, which would allow people to get some sense of how a story was unfolding.

nothing amazing about it. soaps have always had to plan carefully to set aside the budget for big events like the cotillion.

don’t know if this has been noted previously a 1978 episode of love boat was on in the background and noticed donna mills and david birney — laura donnelly elliott and mark elliott from liamst. a very soapy plot: there’s a possibility they were half-siblings, and birney’s character was a former soap actor. also found up that they had both been in a 1976 episode of hawaii-50.

as i said, i don’t know the backstory and i’ve never watched days… but, what gotten old is mentioning it every.single.time. we get it!

it’s getting old… don’t know their backstory, don’t care.

one truly effective use of a location shoot was atwt frannie/sabrina reveal in london and venice.

good for abc — free link: ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment

both herskovitz and zwick got their start writing for family (abc 1976), a show with deep roots in soaps — as the world turns, in particular. beyond serality

elements of soap opera have found their way into a lot of shows not necessarily thought of as a primetime soaps: friday night lights, for example (prime video and paramount+). also: men of a certain age (hbo max).

anita’s outfit wasn’t much better. and when vernon let martin in, his jacket was buttoned. do men really walk around their home with a buttoned jacket? of course, as i watch sitcoms from to 50s, 60s, and 70s, men never unbuttoned their jackets much less took them off and loosened their tie. crazy!

any idea why they stopped providing that info? it’s the one metric that really gives a sense of how shows are faring — particularly beyond the gates — what is their total viewership compared to a year ago?

and don’t forget the epstein files!