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But that house is not the Powers' house, either. Not to be contrary, LOL.

Thank you! I watched most of The Doctors' run, and I can guarantee that a family named Parker, who were allegedly "central" on the show for "many years," did not even exist.

Speaking of Valiant Lady actor James Kirkwood, Jr (mentioned above), when he later became a playwright and novelist, he turned out some stellar work. Aside from collaborating on A Chorus Line, his novels P.S.: Your Cat is Dead and Good Times, Bad Times are well worth a read. Both are mesmerizing and impossible to put down.

Of course, I cannot make definitive evaluations about any potential BH90210 sets which are being sold today. Without my personally being aware of it, perhaps another manufacturer took over the DVD rights to the show and produced a different, superior product to the discs I bought. That happened with Little House and WKRP, two series that were first made available in highly butchered and edited versions. Their later re-releases received wide viewer acclaim for how superior they were. I just have a feeling that if improved sets of BH90210 had been produced, I would have heard about it. On the original LHOTP, some DVD episodes clocked in at 37 minutes. They were supposed to run for 47. And scenes were cut right in the middle of characters' dialogue! The opening and closing credits of many eps were cut out, and the film was sped up (God knows why), making Michael Landon sound like Mickey Mouse. Good luck in your search for good copies. If I hear about anything, I'll let you know.

There are more than just "some" music changes, alas. And scenes and chunks of episodes got hacked away too. I'm not sure if any full eps are missing; I've blocked the entire experience from my mind, LO L.

Dear God in heaven!!!! Please read the disclaimers on the box(es) before you spend a penny on the BH90210 DVD sets. I had the entire series on home-recorded VHS, uncut and with all the music intact from the original primetime broadcasts. STOOPIDLY, I traded them away when the DVDs came out, because I wanted to upgrade the quality for future viewing. BIIIIIIIIIG mistake! To my horror, the episodes were badly butchered, with elevator musak and general junk replacing most of the original soundtrack. This was particularly egregious during an episode where the girls had a slumber party and were supposedly lip-syncing to some songs of the day. Unfortunately, with the songs being cut out, the entire scene looked idiotic. I could go on and on about the defects of these DVDs, but suffice to say, they and the first releases of Little House on the Prairie discs from ImaVision were the THE most badly hacked up and poorly-produced boxsets I have ever encountered. Eventually, Lions Gate re-released LHOTP in full-length, lovely transfers, but as far as I know, BH90210 never has been done over and fixed.

I haven't been this excited since Bradley Cole was rehired after being let go by The Guiding Light!!!🙃

Thanks for the tag, @slick jones!🙃

Thanks for the tag, @DRW50! This is a treat treat to enjoy on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Thanks @slick jones for bring this SFT episode here, and for @GymnastGuy for originally sharing so much vintage and rare material on YT. @DRW50, I'm so grateful to you for always taking the time to tag me, specifically, when interesting videos pop up. I'd miss a lot of them if it weren't for you!

Speaking as one viewer who had been watching since 1968, the yee-haw invasion was too much, too fast, and really ended up altering the foundation and tone of the show over the next few years. Of course, when the OLTL added science-fiction idiocy into the mix during the 1980s, the class and integrity disintegrated. I couldn't make it beyond 1983 as a regular viewer. At least I had had 15 great years! I agree. The role was not flashy or attention-getting like some of the others, but Snyder's quiet and poignant delivery always hit the mark. Light and Anthony were just so charismatic and mesmerizing, and had a likeability factor that shone through, regardless of what their characters were doing. OLTL had a stellar cast back then.

Alas, no. I've never heard of anyone else even mentioning these great scenes, let alone finding them available on the internet.

I want to say yes, because I remember stumbling across it out of the blue in recent years. I think some Maggie material was in the string of Viki and Clint-centric playlist on Youtube. I was surprised to find Carla Hall's wedding to Jack Scott too. All sorts of stuff is hidden in the nooks and crannies of YT! I would have signed on as a customer! (I jest, I jest!) Sort of.😝🙃

Thanks to @EricMontreal22 or notifying the board about this, and to @DRW50 for tagging me. I adored Jacquie Courtney and had the hots for Luke Perry, so this video is a real treat for me! I've always thought JC was an excellent actress, and moreover, she had an indefinable "je ne sais quoi," a strong star appeal. The only time I felt she was out of her depth was playing Maggie Ashley on OLTL. The role was a caricature, and it was made worse by the gratuitous "British" accent, the fabulously fake wig, and a hideous pair of glasses which kept slipping down her nose. UGH! When the actress was given a role with depth, however, she was top-notch. The scene on AW, when John Randolph presented Alice with her divorce papers from Steve, and the one on OLTL, with Pat visiting her son Brian's grave, were mesmerizing. IMHO, these were two of JC's finest performances.

David Bailey was indeed very attractive, but--alas--it wasn't enough to make his Russ compelling. He was certainly serviceable enough, acting-wise, but the show needed someone really strong and magnetic in the role, and Bailey just never rose to the challenge AW needed to keep Russ viable and on-screen. I loved when we had Virginia Dwyer as Mary, Sheppard Strudwick as Jim, Beverly Penberthy as Pat, Sam Groom as Russ, Jacquie Courtney as Alice, and Audra Lindley as Aunt Liz. The Matthews family was on fire, with the best and most memorable performers (IMHO) bringing the clan to life. Ahhh, the good old days! Had Groom stayed on as Russ, I'd like to believe AW would have featured him prominently on a permanent basis, but considering how TIIC fired Dwyer, Courtney, Reinholt, Penberthy, etc., I'd look at P&G and NBC with distrust. The "suits" never fail to live down to my expectations, LOL.

There's no doubt that Agnes Nixon's great writing and her deft handling of the Alice/Steve/Rachel saga had a huge impact on the ratings. I'd say, personally, that her stints on TGL and AW represented Nixon's very best work. I enjoyed her early AMC material, and loved her on OLTL, but TGL and AW were mesmerizing under her pen. To me, Rachel (under Strasser) started out as an immature young woman, stunted by her emotional problems (abandonment issues, low self esteem, misdirected anger, desperation to attain social status and respect), who simply did not understand how to fix her own issues or control her anger. She was infuriating, but I could understand where she was coming from. When Wyndham came aboard, Rachel became...demonic. She was filled with unbridled fury and venom, and behaved like a sociopath. To me, the delicate balance between human being and villainess was lost. I was never able to accept when Lemay turned Rachel into an insta-heroine later on. Harding Lemay made this assertion in his book (and he would have his own reasons for making such a claim), but certainly in the fan magazines, the rooting factor was overwhelmingly in favor of Steve and Alice. I'm sure there must have been viewers who rooted for Rachel, but I never saw any evidence of that. David Bailey was not bad, per se, but he was just rather bland and limited. While handsome, he did not have much spark or charisma, and was such a let down after the depth, nobility and quiet strength Sam Groom had shown as Russ.

Oh dear, what have I started?😝 Well, of course, the time Rachel cornered Alice in the Matthews home and triumphantly told her that she, Rachel, was carrying Steve's baby almost made my head explode. When a money-strapped Russ saw how much Rachel coveted all the nice things Lenore Curtin had, he went out and spent a huge chunk of his meager funds on starting a crystal-goblet set for Rachel, just like the one Lenore had. He was all proud and sweet when he presented her with the very first one, and assured her he was going to keep adding the others as he could afford them. Rachel became enraged and bitterly complained that gifting her with just one goblet at a time was stupid ("What am I going to do with just one?"), and hurled it against the wall, smashing it. Seeing the obvious cracks in their marriage, Russ told Rachel they need to have a serious talk about where they were headed, and told her to be ready for it when he came home from work. Rachel--being Rachel--took a dose of sleeping pills shortly before his arrival, and so when he returned to the apartment, she dismissively told Russ that she could not stay awake and therefore there would be no discussion. Russ, impotent with rage, was left to watch as Rachel just rolled over and went to sleep for the rest of the night. After Alice had had a miscarriage and divorced Steve, he married Rachel and moved her into the country house which he had specifically built for Alice. Rachel found the baby bunting which Alice had originally bought for her lost child. She immediately shipped the bundle to Alice, with a note that said (something like), "I thought you might want these." After Steve divorced Rachel, he and Alice wed for the second time, but they were soon separated when Steven went to prison. Alice had a nervous breakdown and was in a very precarious emotional state, living without him in their country home. (Aunt Liz, at least, moved in to care for her.) Even knowing how unwell Alice was at the time, Rachel marched into the house to torment her, announced that Steve never loved Alice the way he loved Rachel ("We had the kind of love you'll never know!"), and really drove the knife into Alice by demanding, "Where's the son YOU'VE ever given him?" AAAAUUGH!!! I realize now, that are many more instances which precipitated my fury than I thought. The Aunt Liz Audra Lindley played would have ripped Rachel to shreds; I was disappointed when Harding Lemay had Irene Dailey's version of Liz simply sit meekly by, teary-eyed, as Rachel was abusing her niece. I had been ready to open up a fresh can of whup-ass on Rachel for six long years!

I sheepishly admit, I yelled and/or swore at my TV a lot more than "once or twice."🥺😬 I had the likes of Lisa Miller, Rachel Davis, Lorie Brooks and Dorian Cramer to contend with for YEARS!😡

This is giving me lots of memory flashbacks. When Jim told Mary the truth, that Steve was actually the father of Rachel's baby, she went berserk. It was actually chilling to see the usually staid, warm matriarch fly off the handle and shriek, "I hate her! I...HATE...her!" Jim and Mary, knowing that Russ was not the son of Rachel's baby, decided to take the funds they had saved, and donate the money towards Russ launching his medical practice, instead of allowing Rachel to have any access to it. When Steve and Alice visited Russ and Rachel in the hospital after Jamie was born, Rachel was vile enough to smile sweetly at Steven and purr, "Steve, meet our son James Gerald!" Right in front of Russ. What a bitch. There has never been a television character whom I loathed more than Rachel. There were four specific times when I got so mad, I actually swore at her through the screen, LOL. (Yes, I needed to get a life!!!) It's all flooding back to me now.🙃 While I always love when soaps reference the past, it does vex me when they don't do enough research to get the facts right.

Actually, IIRC, Russ did not find out about Jamie until after the child was born.

Wow, this is a cool document to read, even if 1991's ATWT did not end up being Marland's best work (the Carolyn Crawford business was tedious, IMHO, and in my mind, Julianne Moore was the real/only Frannie.)

What fun footage! Thanks for the tag, @DRW50!

I'm sorry I missed that. I had probably given up on the show doing anything with Meta by that point. Do you recall if Meta said anything about specific characters or storylines that she had been involved with on the show?

Yes, I remember that too: Meta acknowledged that she had "made every mistake a woman can make," in a vague reference to her past. That's the only mention of it I personally ever caught, aside from her recalling listening to Rev. Ruthledge recite the Destiny poem when she was a girl. I specifically forced myself to record and watch TGL when Meta returned, just to see what TBTB did with her. I was sorely disappointed, of course, which didn't surprise me but did annoy me. As you say, it was such a waste to bring back a beloved legacy character and then fail to mine her rich history. The sad fact was, after 1982 or so, the fans cared more about the essence and integrity of show than any of the TIIC ever did (other than Nancy Curlee).

When Meta returned to the show, there was no mention whatsoever about Bruce Banning or his and Meta's marriage. The oft-unreliable SoapCentral asserts they were divorced, but as is so often the case with that website, its contributors engage in a lot of fantasy fiction.