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Okay, that is the last time I knew of the lamp's whereabouts too. I'm going to continue daydreaming about ways it could have ended up with Papa Bauer!

Thank you for sharing; a wonderful synopsis, as always. You are invaluable when it comes to clarifying and preserving vintage soap history. If I were ever blessed with getting my hands on any artifacts/memorabilia from film and television history, I'd want to possess (okay, I'd kill to possess) Reverend Ruthledge's Friendship Lamp, Dorothy Gale's Ruby Slippers, and Mary Richards' "M" that hung on the wall in her apartment. As far as we know, where was the last place the Friendship Lamp ended up? Since its ultimate fate was never concretely established (as far as I remember/know), I've always daydreamed about it somehow winding up with Papa Bauer. That thought is curiously comforting.

Awww! Don't get stressed; you were doing your best to be heroic! And even on my 15-inch laptop monitor, the video image was blurry; on your phone, it must have been significantly worse! I never got over Christina/Blake boinking Freddie/Rick. Like Dani Andropolous and Craig Montgomery hooking up, the very thought made me livid and nauseous.🤮 Vomit ad nauseum!

To be honest, while TGL was my favorite soap of all-time, there were other shows which tied for the top spot in my heart during their stellar years. Y&R and AW were at their peak in the early 1970s. Actually, TEON was too. OLTL and GH were excellent in the late 1970s. ATWT was wonderful in the 1960s and most of the 1970s. But in the end, Springfield just felt most like home. I, too, hope BTG is a success, for many reasons. P&G seeing great gains in a new soap might give them an incentive to look into doing something with their still-existing archives. I know its doubtful, but hope springs eternal.

It thrills me that of all the cancelled soaps we watched and loved over the decades, the good folks here at SON keep on remembering, celebrating, and sharing the love (mostly, LOL) for TGL This my all-time favorite serial, and I feel that it had the longest, continuous stretches of quality in daytime. The enduring war-horse gave us 72 (!!!) years of soap. What an accomplishment, indeed. Let its ardent fans always keep The Light burning!

Agreed. Sadly, this is not an ideal world. But all sorts of long-lost video/kinescope material has turned up in private collections and obscure places all over the world, so my hope never completely dies.

Thanks for the tag, @slick jones I agree that it's highly doubtful any video footage of this series survives, but kinescopes of a few, rare performances have occasionally popped up before, so there's always a sliver of hope, I suppose!

I just acquired all six volumes of the Heated Rivalry novels on audiobooks. Complete and unabridged. Each one runs 9-13 hours or so. I'll have listening fodder to last me until summer!

WORD! Mart is cute as a button here. IMHO, he always has been.

Thank you so very much for sharing. I love this picture. They all look smashingly good.

Jennifer just...never worked. She had no spark with Mike. I didn't miss her when she was written out. Kristen Vigard had a certain quirky appeal, I think, and chemistry with John Wesley Shipp, but her replacement was dull as dishwater. The weak writing for the character after Jennifer Cooke took over the role didn't help matters. I didn't miss Faux Morgan when she departed, either. I recall Geraldine Court saying in the press that Vigard's replacement was "a very cynical choice." She must not have felt Cooke was right for the part either. I don't believe Ben and Evie remarried before Eve left town, although online fan sites have claimed they did. Maybe they got married in a blink-of-an-eye sequence and I just missed it. I do remember that after Janet Grey was let go, Helena Manzini was talking to Justin Marler and asked him about Eve. He said that she had decided to leave town and visit Ben, to see if they could "work things out." That suggests to me that they had either gotten remarried, or perhaps Eve just wanted to see if they could rekindle their relationship. So many characters were dropping like flies during those few years, it was hard to keep track of how they all were dispatched.

Oh Lord, I'm actually wondering about where I would choose to sit.🤔 I need to get a life.🙄