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The musical episode of Loving.

Scott was gone. My recollection is that shortly before Karen and Jagger's wedding, Rhonda made a call to him to tell him that he was Karen's father and then at the reception she took Karen aside and gave her a letter from Scott (I think there was a check from him in there, too). Karen wanted to go back inside and tell Lee and Gail the news, but Rhonda was like "No, it should be up to Scott whether or not they ever find out about it." So not only did Karen not get any kind of family moment with Scott, she didn't get it with Lee and Gail, either. When the reception ended, she and Jagger rode off on his motorcycle and out of Port Charles, so it was a very weird detail to tack on in the final hours of their time on the show.

My favorite Gwyneth pairing was Christine Tudor's Gwyneth with Dennis Parlato's Clay. They had great chemistry and even though they were only on the show together for a relatively short amount of time, they managed to convey a sense of the characters' lengthy history together and complicated feelings for each other. Conversely, my least favorite Gwyneth pairing was Christine Tudor's Gwyneth with Larkin Malloy's Clay. Not really Malloy's fault, but the writing was so weighted in favor of Clay/Dinah Lee that the triangle played out as Gwyneth just being rejected and humiliated over and over. Both Tudor and Elizabeth Savage played well with Anthony Herrera, although the Gwyneth of the '90s was softened considerably from Gwyneth and Dane's first go round in the '80s. If Gwyneth had maintained the sharp edges from Tudor's original run, I do wonder if Dane's second run could have been extended by having Gwyneth and Dane be a scheming power couple.

IIRC, Stefan jumped into the bog to rescue him and then Luke came along (having possibly been brought there by Foster, as I recall that Lucky brought the dog along on the adventure) at the end of the rescue to pull them both out. I think the video game was part of some elaborate spying plot of Stefan's against the Spencers. I remember a scene where the Spencers find bugs in their living room and have a fake fight for Stefan's benefit - but that may have been part of a completely different plot, as a lot of the Spencer v. Cassadine stuff blends together in my mind.

Yes. Brad Collins was Dan Hollister's boss when he first came to Corinth and was around in early 88 for the double agent storyline.

Thanks for the tag! Hope this trend of '80s episodes seeing the light of day continues.

Roya was around until the fall of 88. Off the top of my head, I believe the transition happened around the time when Ava gave birth to Sandy and was involved in a weird kidnapping plot by a Middle Eastern prince. I'm not sure if Rick interacted with Burke Moses' Curtis, but he had a storyline with Chip Albers' Curtis. When Curtis and Todd were creating TJ's, Rick was the contractor doing the renos and Curtis thought Rick might be up to no good. I remember seeing a scene where Rick got all pissy and jealous about the fact that Curtis had a trust fund, so I think they were more rivals than friends.

Thanks for the tag! It's always a treat to get to see an episode from the 80s.

@DRW50 The other two women are Susan Keith and Linda Cook. One of the men is Ron Nummi. Not sure about the other - maybe Perry Stephens?

Tangie's stolen money plot ended with her and Bill trapped in the burning lighthouse, so I'm not sure she's the person to ask for tips - although, on the other hand, at least her money wasn't marked, judging by how liberally Bill was able to throw it around after he found it. Deas and Carol had chemistry, but I find it hard to root for them because Buzz always treats Nadine so shabbily.

Not drag, but for part of the story Buzz is hiding out in an abandoned house and in disguise as a homeless person. The story was that Paulie Hardman had just been released from prison after doing time for a robbery and some of the money was never recovered because he had buried it in the park. Since the police were keeping an eye on him, Paulie convinced Buzz to dig the money up and Buzz took a cut and started spending it, not realizing that the money had been marked. When she realized that the police were onto Buzz, Nadine tried to help him by finding the money and flushing it before the police could find it, but that just left Buzz in the position of not being able to return the money when he was finally caught and he ended up having to enter into a repayment plan with the government in order to avoid jail. This eventually leads to him and Nadine going on Soul Mates because he wants to win enough money to pay off the debt. Ross was involved in the story because he had been the DA who put Paulie in jail and Paulie was out to get even with him.

Yeah, I'm currently making my way through August '94 and there's been a ton of Matt/Lucy scenes as the show chem tests them (spoiler: I don't see it, but I'm also in general not a fan of the trope where potential love interests start out by spending every scene passionately arguing about trivial things). Kind of seems like they're toying with the idea of trying Vanessa with Josh.

GL: Buzz and Lillian. Buzz and Alex. GH: Maxie and Austin - they were a couple for about a year and I'm not sure that they kissed more than once.

Spaulding also had a pharmaceuticals division and apparently a cosmetics division, as when Jenna and Eleni were trying to launch a face cream Alan-Michael's involvement had to be kept secret because he had just left Spaulding and had a non-compete clause. It may also have had a technologies division - I think that's where Brent Lawrence worked, but could be wrong about that.

His wife was named Teresa and his son was named David.

She hypnotized Charles into forgetting about the circumstances of the deaths of Jacob's wife and son. Casey's death was unrelated - he was killed by Pat Graham.

I think the Hart to Hart comparison was referring to Jack and Stacey's role in the two Clays story. When Alex realizes that he was brainwashed when he was a POW, it's Jack and Stacey who end up doing the investigating and Stacey figures out what Alex's trigger is. I'm not sure how it played, but on paper it reads like busywork to keep the two characters busy in between stories of their own.

SOD's comings & goings blurb characterizes Nummi's exit as a show decision: "Ron Nummi (Rick Alden) - Nummi, who joined the cast in 1987 as the Aldens' black sheep son, Rick, emerged as a central character when Rick became involved in a steamy illicit relationship with Stacey Forbes (Lauren-Marie Taylor). Now, however, the writers have opted to reconcile Stacey and her husband, Jack (Perry Stephens), and turn them into an amateur detective team, a la Hart to Hart, thus making Rick expendable." However, when Fitzpatrick joined, SOD also made a point of the fact that Nummi was supposedly let go for lack of story and yet the character was brought back within a couple of months. Although I haven't seen much of his time on the show, I've always liked Nummi in what I have seen and thought it was a shame that the show didn't try to take him in another direction after breaking up Rick and Stacey.

Those character confessional style promos are from 1989. I recall seeing other ones of Rocky, Trisha, and Trucker. Nummi left in December 1989. In 1990 Rick was briefly played by Brian Fitzpatrick before the character was killed off.

Thanks for the tag; always nice to see an 80s episode, even if it isn't in English. I think it's from late September/early October of 1987. That's her. She becomes Amourelle's resident photographer not long before she and April are written out.

It's a different show. Image folds as a result of the dual scandals of Egypt's pregnancy and Jeff going crazy and kidnapping Trisha. Afterwards Trisha and Stacey launch their own show called Helptalk, which mainly exists to propel the "Who Killed Rick" story, as Trisha and Stacey buy a gun as part of an episode about gun control and Stacey ends up taking that same gun to confront Rick after finding out that he kidnapped Heather. Aside from the initial story where she writes a romance novel and that gets used against her as she and Jack battle for custody of JJ, I felt like the show never really did as much as it could with the premise of Stacey being a writer. She could have written a Peyton Place-esque novel that exposed all the secrets of people in town, becoming a best selling novelist but alienating her friends and family in the process, for example. Or they could have actually followed through with having her teach a creative writing class at AU and gotten her involved in that scene, which is discussed at the end of 92/beginning of 93 but just ends up getting dropped.

I'd be more sympathetic if Gwyn hadn't made the tape to begin with. The dual lesson of that plot is 1) lock down your blackmail material lest it get turned around on you, and 2) don't try to blackmail someone with something that could ruin your own life if it came out. I'd like to add Paul to the list of unlikely hosts via his radio show, where he tells short, opaque stories about himself and Ava that are apparently all the rage with tweens and air live at random times through the day and night depending on what else Paul has going on that day.

Sticking with AMC, Charlie Brent. The show could never settle on who it wanted him to be and finally just gave up and wrote him out for good. Tad's arrival probably threw a bit of a wrench on Charlie's development, as a teenage/young adult Charlie might have had some of the stories that Tad had if Tad had never existed. Charles Van Eman's version of Charlie seemed like an attempt to fill the void left by Tad during MEK's absence.

Although I'm sure that Gwyneth was always the intended killer, I'm not sure if Gwyneth dressing as Trisha was always intended as part of the story. Because of where the Killer POV shows up, Gwyneth couldn't have been disguised as Trisha in some of those scenes because she was around people who would have noticed. I was surprised on rewatch by the detail that Gwyneth had bought the wig long before the family even received Trisha's letter. What was she doing with the wig before she started killing people? Playing both herself and Trisha and rehearsing their reunion? The steam definitely runs out. I feel like the penultimate episode does a lot of stretching for time and that what happens in the last two episodes could easily have taken just one. Another problem, as far as The City goes, is that if the point of spinning something off rather than starting from scratch is to carry over some of the existing audience, then they chose the wrong characters to make that happen. I mean, Debbi and Darnell would obviously generate interest with or without Loving, and Alex was Loving's leading man during both Randolph Mantooth's tenures, but Tony, Jocelyn, Danny, and Richard were all characters new characters, and Buck, Tess, and Frankie had only been around for 2-2.5 years and from what I recall of The City, it struggled to find stories for them. Did Buck and Tess even have a story of their own before her cancer story? An exception is Ally, who had deep roots in Loving and had a solid jumping off point as a character trying to start anew after tragedy, but the fact that they were still trying to make Ally/Danny happen was a problem after everything the two had done to each other. Ewing did have the advantage of playing a major part in the show's two big stories during its last months.

I don't know quite what to say in the face of that much praise, so I'll just leave it at thank you. I'm glad you've enjoyed reading along as I make my way through what I have of the show. @Franko The final count on Geoffrey Ewing/Debbi Morgan/Alimi Ballard is 135 for Ewing (+29 from 93/94 combined and #1 for 95), 129 for Morgan (+4 from 93/94 combined and #2 for 95), and 79 for Ballard (+4 from 93/94 combined and #8 for 95). Darnell Williams has 118 and is #4 on the year (behind Randolph Mantooth).