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What a cool curio! I've always adored JA. Thanks for the tag.

Personal slights, betrayal and pain can be overwhelming and painful to deal with, so I can't totally condemn someone for being unable to suppress or hide their feelings completely. If that's the case and it's evident on screen, probably the best solution is to avoid asking the performers involved to be in scenes together.

It is curious, considering that Hasselhoff and Adair were not even the best or most memorable actors in the roles of Snapper and Jill.

Oh, thank you so much. You are an angel!😘 DH seemed somewhat stiff and stilted, but from the way some posters on the internet were talking about the scene, I thought it would be significantly worse than what it was. The public will likely never know how the alleged feud began (and, really, actors' private lives are none of our business), but it is a shame if BTS tension influences what ends up on screen.

That's where I looked first, Twitter and Facebook. Being unable to track it down, I thought I'd ask here. SONers are known to work miracles.😄

Okay, folks on various social media platforms are really buzzing about the awkwardness and tension in the scene featuring SSH, DH and SR. I'm now dying to see for myself. Is this available anywhere?

I thought several of the original cast members had enough charisma and star power to make it outside of soaps, but as we know, it often ends up being a crapshoot as to who garners success and fame and who doesn't. Some mediocre talents break through and land great, attention-spawning jobs, while much more talented individuals struggle in the background. Trish Stewart, Janice Lynde, Jaime Lyn Bauer and William Gray Espy all could have hit it big, had luck shone down upon their heads and careers.

I thought the original casting of the show was perfection. Even though a few actors came across as green in the beginning, they all had a certain "je ne said quoi," a certain star appeal. And they all grew into their roles quite nicely. That has certainly NOT been the case since then, LOL.

So, I've found some stills on Facebook of vintage Y&R eps featuring Bond Gideon as Jill Foster #2 and Patricia Everly as Peggy Brooks #2 (also Charles Gray as Bill Foster, but I can't seem to locate that one again now). I do not suppose they are on Youtube, LOL. I haven't seen these eps since they originally aired.

Riley is available in full on Youtube here in Canada, although its pay-per-view ($3.99 standard definition and $4.99 HD). If you can watch it in the USA on YT for free, go for it. I've seen it, and there's not much that would need to be edited out.

Reading your recaps is more absorbing than sitting through any of the soaps being broadcast today, @Reverend Ruthledge . When I first listened to the radio broadcasts from 1950, I was so pleased and gratified to see how well-written the scripts were, and how strong the actors played their roles. Charita Bauer was a pip even then!

You. Really. Need. To. Compile. All. Your. Soap. Summaries. Into. A. Book. Seriously! All your excellent synopses are so well written, invaluable as historical documentation, and just a joy to read.😊

What TIIC at the time did to Patty is a travesty. Bill Bell must be rolling over in his grave. (Or perhaps "spinning" is more like it.) As the last remaining Williams on the show, giving her a redemption arc would be nice, but probably impossible at this point. What a mess this show is.

@slick jones , I always appreciate the time and work you put in here.😉 That first photo of Maeve McGuire is gorgeous. Jayne Bentzen may have been a model and a lovely woman, but our Maeve was a radiant STAR!😍

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.