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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.

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.🙄

ROTF! Gotta love the man for promoting HR, even with a probable tongue planted firmly in his cheek. No doubt, his suggestion is going to result in a meltdown among some easily-triggered. snowflakes in a certain demographic.

If angels exist, they have four paws, I'm sure of it. We have to purge its flying monkeys too. The episodes surrounding Bobbie's death were indeed highly effective, but for me, the most devastating and sob-inducing scenes of all time on GH were written by Claire Labine during the heart-transplant and AIDS storylines in the mid 1990s. I catch your drift quite well, my friend. I have "other means" which I rely upon as well. The internet is a wonderful world to explore, with many nooks and crannies holding treasure troves for persistent surfers to uncover.🤫😉 Many, many years ago, I borrowed the first season of Chicago Fire on DVD from the local library. I forget the exact number now, but I think there were 24, hour-long episodes in the set. The loan period at the time for DVDs (even multi-disc boxsets) was two freakin' days. It was insane. I can see a 48-hour time limit for movie rentals, not a 24-hour season. I greatly appreciate what Heated Rivalry did in its initial six eps and on such a miniscule budget. It shocks me that they filmed the entire series in a mere 36 days. Now just think of what Jacob Tierney and the cast and crew could offer us in 10 hours. Woohoo!😍

Actually, Tom Hallick and Rod Arrants are both viable contenders for Mike and Ed. Arrants may have been a tad too young, but we've lived with that situation before. Michael O'Leary was never the greatest choice for Rick, IMHO, but he only got worse as he aged and his mugging increased.