vetsoapfan

I want this T-shirt!

Tuesday's shot makes me dizzy.

'Twas nothing. Charlie INSISTED.

Charlie Hunnam has a birthday message for YRBB: He's waiting outside to rev up your engine. The end of the date will include a special nightcap. Don't be late! He's smokin' hot, waiting for you.

It just shows how clueless TPTB have always been. The coveted "kids" in the audience have always loved characters of all ages, and adored watching Alice Horton, Edward and Lila Quartermaine, Aunt Liz Matthews, Nancy Hughes, Bert Bauer, etc. Just because a viewer was 15 years old did NOT mean that she only wanted to watch horny, half-naked teenagers running around. Agnes Nixon did retain some control over AMC at that time, so I imagine the preservation of the show's core, veteran characters was thanks, at least in part, to her influence. Ditto Bill Bell at Y&R, who never stopped writing for the likes of Katherine Chancellor. We DID see Steve Hardy on GH in the 1980s, but more as a supporting character rather than a lead.

McLaughglin's daughter, Mary Ann Anderson, once told me in a phone conversation that it was TPTB from ABC who were determined to axe the vets, and that Monty had "tried to protect" them. The men at the network were wary of McLaughlin's spotty ability to work (thanks to her health woes), and were critical of Ames' appearance (her old lady throat, for example, whatever that means). TPTB did not care about the actresses or their history with the show, or even about the veteran viewers who comprised their fan base. At that time it was all about Luke Spencer and his co-horts. We saw even less of Jesse Brewer during the mid-1980s than we did of Audrey Hardy, alas.

Yes, the problem definitely is "the people"...the people like Sydney Evans whose delusional rant proves she simply does not have the intellectual, moral, or social resources necessary to understand reality.

James O'Sullivan (Jeff Martin in this promo) was a hunk and a half. I wonder whatever happen ed to him?

I'm afraid so. While (rarely) an episode or individual scenes from the early 1970s pop up, almost all of those vintage years are gone.

I loathed that weird opening of RH, with shots of generic, unknown models running around instead of featuring the regular cast members.

The long-running shows that have all (or most) of episodes saved: The Doctors, Dark Shadows, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, Ryan's Hope, and The Bold and the Beautiful. I imagine that more recent offerings like Passions, Santa Barbara, and Sunset Beach would as well. Most long-running series like As the World Turns, The Guiding Light, Another World, etc., only starting preserving their episodes in the late 1970s. Sadly for veteran soap viewers, this means that the best decades of many soaps (1950s-70s) are lost forever.

And therein lies the problem.

Me too. Ahhh, the good old days.

I was just keeping the couch warm while you were away. Glad you approve.

Just to tide the thread through the weekend until YRBB returns....some weekend hotness.

Did Bob Hughes ever buy colored toilet paper? After all, he lived in Oakdale in the 1970s.

That use of history thrilled me.