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I'm not sure if it's true or just a rumor, but I remember hearing that leaving wasn't her choice, but a punishment for her speaking out about Michael Zaslow's firing.

Yes, near New Year's 1993, Alan-Michael asked her what her resolution was and she told him that her resolution was to marry him. This freaked him out a little and led to him sort of ghosting her on NYE, but by the time it hit midnight they had made up and rang in the new year by making out. @alwaysAMC Like you, I got drawn into the show in 1995 (except in real time). I enjoyed the Lucy/AM story and when it was over I stumbled across someone who was selling edits focused on their storyline from 1993 through to Rick Heart's departure (back in the days when you'd get the edits on VHS). I think you'll enjoy the first go-round of their relationship in 93-94. There's some cute, romantic comedy type stuff in there.

You weren't lying; it's like Ann is coming to visit her at summer camp. Not often that prison takes the edges off a person. Thanks for the tag!

Cheers to you and everyone else at SON!

She was a gem when it came to promoting soaps. Out of curiosity I looked up the guests from her first season and in addition to Susan Lucci (3 times!), she also interviewed Erika Slezak, Deidre Hall, Genie Francis, Robin Mattson, Darnell Williams & Debbi Morgan (who were on The City at the time), Anthony Geary, Linda Dano, Peter Bergman, Robert S. Woods, Vanessa Marcil, Ruth Warrick, Michael Knight (twice), James Mitchell, Peter Reckell, and Maxwell Caulfield.

As I recall, Susan Lucci was also one of the guests in the show's premiere episode. I have no idea what season it aired in, but I remember an episode where Peter Bergman was a guest and he told a story about going to the theater in New York sometime after he had transitioned over to Y&R. People in the audience kept recognizing him and calling him "Jack" and Rosie, who was a few rows back, stood up and irately announced, "His name is Dr. Cliff Warner."

I think his last scene was him meeting up with Trina at Kelly's and then after she left, he took a flask out of his pocket and took a swig.

Some Loving material in the latest round of mixtape uploads: At around the 51 minute mark of the above there's some footage from Jim & Shana's second wedding, following which there's a short scene with Michael Maguire's short-lived Jeff. This one features clips from early in Lisa Peluso's run as Ava:

Their FAQ says it's because ABC owns the viewing rights in the US. I gather this means that ABC doesn't own the international rights.

I feel like they brought her back just long enough to establish/re-establish who the character was for viewers so that afterwards anytime Ross and Blake or Holly and Fletcher were busy doing things on screen they could have a throw away line of dialogue explaining that she was looking after the twins or Meg off screen.

Parts of that set also turn up in the remodeled version of The Tides.

Shana miscarries this baby after a patented soap opera fall down a flight of stairs, which leads to her and Jim divorcing (pointlessly, IMO, since they end up getting remarried less than a year later). Jimmy is born off screen, between Shana's two runs on the show. This really struck me as well. I thought that the conversation she and Jack have when she's considering whether to pursue the modeling contract was particularly strong, with her articulating that her trauma (both her abuse by her father and the more recent incident where a date beats her up) makes her afraid of being objectified or doing anything that could invite attention to herself. I wonder if Jack ever expresses any insight regarding how he's pushing her into this in order to give her a consolation prize to make himself feel less guilty about cutting her loose.

Absolutely, lots of interesting stuff in these videos. I recall that a few years ago that channel had some similar videos with mixes of different shows that included footage from the short story where Trisha and Trucker are taken hostage by an escaped convict. That story is from the summer of '91, so they potentially have a treasure trove of years' worth of material that hasn't been seen in decades.

Thanks! I live in optimism that more episodes will find their way online, but until then I'm happy cataloguing various other aspects of the show. I think Cecelia had more mileage left as a character, particularly considering her relationship with Rick, who was on the verge of being revealed to be an Alden. Instead of breaking them up, the show could have built them up as a couple and then when the Aldens find out about Rick, he could have felt pressure to break it off, partially because of Cecelia's past with Trisha, and partially because his desire to "fit in" with the family drives him to seek out a woman from an upper class family. The conflict between them could have also created conflict between Alex and Ava (not that they necessarily needed extra conflict since Egypt was on her way to Corinth).

My first soap memory is from Y&R, when Victoria was hiding in a closet and saw Ryan having sex with Nina. I was waaaaay too young to be seeing that, but Grandma wasn't about to turn off the TV just because she was babysitting.