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Il Giardino The shelf with the plates - which they always put up - is actually recycled from that Mexican restaurant set I was talking earlier about BTW. B&B has always done a great job at recycling sets. The first production designer Sy Tomashoff really learned his craft at Dark Shadows to make great looking sets, yet operate on a tight budget and hence reuse as much as possible.

Café Russe lasted the longest: from 1987 till 2008 (?) when Ridge and Brooke danced there when they learned that the restaurant was closing due to the bad economy. It was the first set whose fate was ever explained. lol

I think it was not used past 1992/1993 - as soon as they had "Pierre's" and later that Mexican locarna. By 1994 there was "Mannequins" which lasted till around 2000. Then they briefly tried another Latino place during the Tony/Kristen story, LAs Olas (2001-2003). The original Bikini Bar was around from 1992-1996 when Sly torched it up. They brought it back as the Bikini Beach Bar in 2004 (?). Ther also was The Lair (2000-2001) where Deacon was manager at and briefly Ozzy in 2003.

But this was before Naomi Campbell, so it was probably a very fresh take on the issue...

Wasn't Amy in one of YOUR prevous uploads or linked by someone else in this thread ealier??? Thought we already discussed her having a brief comeback. My guess is that Williams indeed got the GH contract and left for goo, so that Y&R went ahead with casting the Barber sisters. PS: for the sake of looking greedy, could you please reupload those 3 or 4 episodes you had on your last shut down YouTube channel??? I totally missed them which is a shame. Keep the uploads coming; this is muc appreciated :-)

I don't think Tracey Bregman appeared later than Mid September 1995 on Y&R...

Thanks for the intel! You're definitely right about Bill Bell single handedly writing this episode. He had not even met Kay Alden around that time, meaning he wrote this episode completly by himself alongside DAYS where he still was headwriter for 1 1/2 + years... But this also proves that despite being very exhausting to write a show alone or with one or two people alongside the road, you can also deliver your idea much more precisely onscreen than today. That's probably one of the perks of those David E. Kelley-shows who is the only one still following this formula. Anyone bother to type up a cast list for this episode? :-) So who played Therese the maid and Hazel???

Add me to the choir: this is unbelievably awesome. never in a million years did I expect this to see... Usually I dont care much for 70s Y&R as the characters I know and care for did not start until 1980... but this is so different: innocent JILL FOSTER and a boozed up KAY CHANCELLOR. Perfect! And Jeanne Cooper was VERY good as the lifeless, desperate, stuck- up alcoholic b*tch. The scenes were pretty long, yet there was A LOT of movement and many characters. This is just great storytelling; if done with an effort I truly think it COULD work today. The realism (actual real life incorporated in the stories!? - OMG!!!) seems to be totally gone from TV, daytime and primetime. No one wants to see this anymore, it seems. Even all those genre shows with their dark tones (e.g,. Breaking Bad) all seem unattached from the present, IMO. The last show which felt like it was truly connected to real life was WEST WING. But I digress and back onto this gem of Y&R. The sets were TINY. But you cann tell the approach: they all look like theatre sets and taht's also were stuff like the peeling of oranges derives from. Plus the lighting is very stage-like. I must say it felt terribly overlit and the camera work has improved a lot in later years but it holds up very well over all. Oh; Julianna McCarthy is VERY old-school theatre as well. So very real. That Greg Foster though (whats his name?) screamed romance novel cover with that drwamy look and that hairdo and I can only dread the thought of the other younger actors at that time in action. I didn't like that Phillip Chancellor II BTW. I only know Donnelly Rhodes from the flashbacks they always show and he always looked much more debonair and patriarchic fitting for the part whereas this Phillip looked like a mexican gigolo of Kays... Back to the writing: I wasn't sold on the "talking thoughts" of nearly every single character in this episode but then I wondered if the self-monologues which were very common in the 80s and 90s were much better. The intent is clearly to present us the characters thoughts. I'd say it worked best and most organic with the minor character as Esther, Miguel and Marissa et al. as more or less stiff sounding boards for certain characters but this could be personal taste. EDIT: considering ths is #205 and life-on-tape I think it either aired just one day later or so; but definitely by the last week of January 1974... Finally: THANKS FOR SHARING this and BLESSINGS TO THE UPLOADER! I can no longer comment on YouTube as I don't want a google+ account but this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for sharing. I always love seeing Dina!

Interesting. I felt exactly the same. The acting was much stronger on the Colbys, maybe that's why I liked it better.

Does anyone know how the actor was called who played the original JT (Jeffred Dudd) for the first month before Thad Luckinbill came onboard?

Don't think so; Macy and Brooke definitely lived in different orbits as by 1990 Thorne and Brooke were wide apart. This used to be different under the first Thorne. Macy and Sally had LOADS of mother-daughter scenes and really greatn relationship during the entire run, especially in 1989-1991

Sally and Darla scenes are GOLD. Never cared for Donna - even then.

B&B May 19, 1995 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJL-s905i0E Can anybody play this vid??? I always receive error messages... Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k9-VeEUfAs Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FSC65GhtVw

Anybody know this actor, the one in scrubs in the middle??? I think I saw him once on DAYS or Y&R as well... On B&B he played Dr. Hughes (he's pictured here with Mike Guthrie and Molly Carter) who was treating Sheila after her suicide attempt in 1997.

LMAO - She said b*tch! And got A SLAP. Thanks for posting. I had forgotten about this one...

Jump to 5.40 and see why 1998 was such a kick ass year for Y&R. The music, the look, the acting, the stories. SIGH!!!

True. But MAB at least produced some good stories (while pluindering the Bill Bell legagcy and gave the show its sounds and look back) whereas LML was a nverending Towering Inferno for me.

The directing and the music was just soooo good back then - apart from the writing of course.

What!? That is ultra-randomn as the caracter was a MEGA-dud.

I had issues with her, too. LOL The Brittany hour in 2004/2005 was REALLY annyoing.

The directing AND the music was very much like the good old days when Ed Scott was still producing. She really loved the classic cues, quite some few were dusted out of library and hadn't been used for 10+ years - and in general she provided viewers with what is considered classic Y&R. Too bad her storytelling abilities were too shortsighted and failed miserably, probably due to Hammner and Sheffer involved but it she was long enough in charge to provide some memorable stories beyond her promising initial 12 months. I appreciate some changes JFP has brought to the show (casting! spot on acting!) but the music is so extremely dreadful it's beyond the meaning of the word. And those crappy sight angle camera shots ruin the visual alongside the musical appeal.

Not to mention that itis TOO FREAKING LOUD. Not even LML got rid of ALL music cues, but JFP has done so apparently. Not a single classic cue is used anymore. And the new ones sound alll sooooo corny. It's like a neverending 90s synthesizer europop revival.

Taylor liked the attention because this was after she came back from the dead and Ridge decided to stay with Brooke. She was lonely. But still pushed Eric in Queen Stephanie's direction.

Taylor & Eric weren't dropped. Taylor told Eric off - for Stephanie's sake. The big party was Lauren's permanent introduction to B&B, I think. The party was great fun although it served no real purpose.It lead to the plot of Sally being faux-romanced by Eric the following year when Eric wanted to stop Sal from shwoing some stolen FC designs.