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Thank you for the link, @victoria foxton. My mind is reeling with risque comments that would make the faint of heart clutch their pearls and swoon, so I will just say....woof!!!😍

Does anyone know who this hunk is?

@DRW50, you are correct. That is definitely NOT Christopher Reeve is the commercial with Terry Davis.

@DRW50, thank you much. I am looking forward to watching these.

That is indeed our Justin Marler!

Yes, it would be easy to fall down the rabbit hole and spend hours pointing out the weaknesses and flaws in RC's writing. Unfortunately, DAYS (and the other soaps today) are not written or designed for critical thinkers, so nothing will ever change as long as TPTB are convinced that modern audiences will just sit back and passively accept any drivel they are given. Right. For younger viewers, that's all they know. One of my fellow veteran soap friends once said, "People who grew up on a diet of hamburger helper don't know what they are missing by never having eaten filet mignon." Caustic, yes, and bitchy, but there's truth in the sentiment. A person can't miss what he's never experienced.

Ron is but one of many "writers" whose repeated employment on soaps is a mystery.

Younger viewers now scoff when I tell them that DAYS was once a mature, subtle, sophisticated and literate drama aimed at a thinking adults. They cannot wrap their heads around the fact that a formerly classy series could end up like...what it has collapsed into since the Reilly years. I find the show's shocking fall from grace hard to fathom as well, and I SAW it happen. In my most cynical moments, I snipe that DAYS is now written and produced for gum-chewing, 12-year-old high school drop-outs, who move their lips when they read, and still can't figure out the two syllable words. There is a market for easy-on-the-mind camp programming. If folks like that sort of entertainment, great. To each his own and it makes sense to offer material that targets all sorts of audience taste and demographics. If TPTB at NBC or Corday productions wanted to present a low-brow, camp-fest aimed at teens, why not start a new series from scratch and have it be as outlandish as they want from the get-go? Why bastardize and decimate a classic, respected daytime institution?

DAYS was a masterpiece, really on fire, from 1966 to 1976 under William J. Bell and Pat Falken Smith. And that cast!

No, in RTPP, Allison remained alive and semi-well, despite being put on trial for murder and being target by her first husband's psycho brother. In fact, the final scene of RTPP had Rodney and Allison on the pier, sharing a romantic moment and planning their future together. It was a sweet way to say goodbye to the series. Of the two reunion movies, 1985's PP: The Next Generation was much better, with more of the original cast and an original PP writer involved, and if they had to kill off Allison AGAIN, after she had already perished in 1977's Murder in PP, at least her death in PP: TNG was handled in a gentler way, with the implication that Rod and Allison were finally reunited, if only in death.

Sometimes, new days would start in the middle of a scene. In the mid-1970s on OLTL, Viki was in Jim Craig's office to confirm a medical appoint for the next day. As she was leaving, she told Carla and Jim she would, "see you tomorrow!" There was a jump cut, and suddenly Viki was coming back into the office, wearing different clothes, and thanking Carla for getting her an appointment in less than 24 hours. It was awkward and uncomfortable. Soaps generally don't warp time like that.

This commercial was broadcast well into the show's run, not for the pilot. Originally, there were other actors playing Allison and Rodney. Pamela Shoop and Yake Summers (in the clip) were replacements. The commercials for the debut of the new series featured Constance McKenzie getting a surprise phone call from her long-missing daughter Allison, who had disappeared during the run of the primetime version. Viewers had always longed for Allison to return, and the promos for the opening of RTPP capitalized on that.

Thank you, @slick jones

Thanks @victoria foxton

I used to trade videotapes and DVDs all the time, and you'd be surprised at how indignant some people would get when I asked them to reimburse me for the cost of shipping (which was very expensive to the USA from Canada). I had a large box of tapes ready to go, one time, and the post office told me it would cost $40.00+ dollars (including air-mail postage and insurance, which the receiver wanted.) When I asked if he could reimburse me via Paypal, he accused me of "ripping him off," regardless of the fact that I had not even asked him to pay for the blank tapes or any labor. There were 59 episodes there, culled from Beta and VHS, which took forever to dub. All I wanted was the cost of shipping. I told the guy that he'd SEE the postage stamp for himself when the package arrived, and he could verify the exact cost, but he threw a fit, anyway. I told him to forget the whole transaction; that I was sure I'd eventually find someone else willing to take the cassettes. And I did.

The collector posting these screen shots on Facebook sells soap episodes, but he has answered questions in the Facebook group claiming that these particular eps are NOT for sale. Since he's not going to share them with the community, I have to wonder why he even posts the pictures on-line. He should know it's likely to cause bad feelings.🤔

Thanks, @DRW50!

Thanks, @victoria foxton.

Robin Mattson grew a lot as an actress after her first stint on TGL, and was popular paying characters with an edge, some bite. If she returned as Hope and the character was no longer the passive, bland good girl Mattson had originally portrayed, Mattson might have been effective in the part. Still, my first choice would have been for Roussel (and Stewart and Hulswit!) to return. I loathed Buzz with every ounce of my being and (personally) would never have wanted to see him involved with the Bauer family in any way. I couldn't stand Reva, either, and kind of figured they deserved each other, LOL.

Corrie also had the memorable name Ena Sharples, which was one of the best soap character names of all time, LOL!

Thanks!

Read what, from 1995 to 2022? Scripts of The Archers?

I'd be thrilled if TPTB managed to bring in more actual blood Sugdens. Having offspring sired by Jack or Joe would be ideal, and not totally outside the realm of possibility.

Are any "offshoots" of the Sugden family even left alive out there, to bring in? (I'm not being sarcastic; I'm genuinely curious because as far as I can tell, the vast majority of the family has been killed off over the decades.) I'll never stop scratching my head over the idiotic and gratuitously destructive decision to kill off the twins. I suppose the writers could weave an elaborate story to reveal that the children had actually survived, and been kidnapped way back when, by someone who was desperate to raise them. I hate this sort of revisionist plot, but the Finding Sabrina saga on ATWT was ultimately successful. And since Joe died off-screen, they could twist that around to bring him and/or some previously-unknown offspring back to town. I'd be willing to forgive creaky revisionist history to expand the family. Are there any Sugdens, whom you can think of, who are SUPPOSED to still be alive and who could be woven into the current version of the show?

Gail Kobe and Pamela Long did not understand TGL, and had no interest in preserving its long, rich legacy. Long's announcing that she worked very hard, when she took over the writing reigns, to "eliminate all the dead wood" from the cast of characters has always made me cringe. (To be fair, if P&G had wanted to, they could have stepped in and put a stop to the mass slaughter.) I firmly believe that those who criticized Roussel's version of Hope had never had to endure the previous actresses' take on the role, LOL. I don't really know much more about Justice. The fan mags at the time didn't reveal much (that I ever saw, anyway) about her departure. I found the other actresses' interpretation of Hope hard to deal with, but mainly because they were all so bland and colorless. Tepid writing of Hope as "the good girl" admittedly had a lot to do with it. I would acknowledge that the actresses were not horrendously bad, per se, just non-descript. That's perhaps why I view Roussel so favorably. I thought she had nice chemistry with Charita Bauer, Don Stewart and Chris Bernau. Meg Bennett was excellent as Liza on SFT!