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At least this might give a chance to see more of Lucy in a maternal mode, which could be interesting. I hope they at least mention Scott, if not bring him back. This is another casting of an actor with prior soap experience. How about some new blood, or is that only for characters in their 20s and under?

This show has gotten really cartoonish, especially with Sidwell and gang. Why would Cullum brutally murder Sidwell's son? Why would Sidwell turn to the police to get justice? Why would Sidwell think his mousy timid butler did it? Why would Sidwell keep blackmail only as film negatives and paper prints? Why would this all powerful criminal have no video surveillance covering his tiny safe with all this blackmail material and other valuables in it, or have high-tech fingerprint access to it? Is he stuck in the 1970s or something? It's all pretty silly. The writers aren't thinking through the motivations or the little details.

This Youtube channel has the full support of Sony? Sony does seem to be behind the Classic TV Rewind Youtube channel, featuring complete episodes of old Sony game shows and primetime TV series. They have spun off from this main channel other Youtube channels, one for each of their primetime shows like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. They have also spun off one for their game shows, Game Show Rewind. I guess they are finally getting around to doing a Youtube channel for their old soap operas? Hope we finally get 70s episodes of DAYS and YR. Maybe they will spin off Youtube channels from this main one, one for classic DAYS and another for classic YR.

I've been watching episodes from mid-March 1985. It's nice to see Mason finally come alive as a character. All it took was CC cutting him off and getting him fired and blacklisted all over town. Great scene at the end of the 3/12/85 episode where Mason confronts CC when he is in bed with Gina with a sword! Also a fun scene in the 3/15/85 episode with Lionel and Augusta having a food fight! Clever the way they had CC finally see Sophia, via Augusta and the fake mirror in the presidential hotel suite. I thought Charles Bateman was really good in those scenes, much better than he is when he acts with Mason. Unfortunately, I didn't think he has much chemistry with Sophia though. Sophia doesn't have much chemistry with Lionel either, which takes away a bit from the story.

I wonder how many people this promo gets to sign up to peacock..

Ariana Munker's clips are still up.

I wish someone would have told the new Michael that Michael and Curtis were never really friends. The new Michael playing it like they are besties is a little over the top. The show this week is going through a boring lull period. Britt and Rocco was not the way to go. With the sound off, it just looks like a teen having an infatuation with an attractive older teacher. And now to have them run off together? It's not entertaining.

Is this show going to enter JFP territory and have fake Nathan kill off Joss? I don't like Joss at all, but they should just have her leave town to find herself, not kill her off. This show has killed off too many young female legacy characters in its history; do they really need to add another?

Why would Joss tell Brennan that her mom is cheating on him? If there was some sort of smart subtle reason, the Joss actress could not have conveyed it. She is not suited for this material at all. Just compare her performance to the actor playing Ethan. He can pull off smart, charming and manipulative. She can not. It should be Emma getting Joss's material. It would make more sense for the Emma character, and the actress would probably pull it off better. Joss is probably a lost cause at this point. It might be best to ship her out and have her come back in a few years recast, when they have a better handle on the character.

When was the last time Laura felt like Laura, and the last time Luke and Laura felt like Luke and Laura? I'd have to say December 1996. Up until that terrible prime time episode where it was revealed Luke and Lucky had faked her death. In hindsight, given what happened over the next 3 years, I wonder if they would have liked to have that back, if they would have made different choices to wrap up December 1996. Laura faking her death then felt so selfish, something she wouldn't do. Maybe they should have put her in a coma from 1996-1998. It would have made Luke and Lucky blowing up their family more believable, especially if they never thought she'd wake up.

Here's a promo for NBC's new daytime line-up of game shows starting in January 1975. This is Lin Bolen's vision. Gone is Jeopardy and long gone is Concentration. The only winners from the promo are Wheel of Fortune (making its debut!) and Hollywood Squares. Celebrity Sweepstakes and High Rollers did have their moments though.

It was jarring to go from scenes shot on location in NYC, with bad lighting and acoustics, to regular scenes shot at the GH studio, with controlled lighting, etc. I'm thankful they still have a studio to go to and aren't forced to shoot everything on location, like GL did at the end of its run.

Denise Alexander as a celebrity guest on a 1976 episode of the NBC gameshow The Magnificent Marble Machine!

The Gio/Emma NYC scenes were giving me flashbacks of Guiding Light 2009. Thank goodness GH still has a studio with sets and studio lighting. I don't know what they were thinking lighting that scene on the stage all in blue light and going in for close ups. The actors looked awful! They were supposed to be at Aladdin, not reenacting Phantom of the Opera.

I saw an episode of Perry Mason from 1960 with Charles Bateman (CC #3) and he was good! I wonder what happened on Santa Barbara. What was it about the role of CC that caused otherwise solid actors to forget how to act? Peter Mark Richman (the best CC at projecting menace, but he still had some rough moments), Paul Burke (the overall worst CC), Charles Bateman..