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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.

Sometimes I must admit, that I find animals more humane and better companions than people. But we must acknowledge the simple reality, alas. Labine's two best stories on GH were about A) a child needing a heart transplant, and B) a young man succumbing to AIDS. Poignant, devastating stuff. That was the last year on any soap which moved me enough to tears. So you don't have access to Netflix? That's a shame. That's why the episode count for season two of HR must be longer than just six installments, so we can savor all the beats.

Oh, wow, thanks for going to the trouble to find and share a workable link for me. Who was the red-head who played Ron? He looked vaguely familiar.

Many years ago, I met a man who was stunningly attractive, physically. Everybody was ga-ga over him. But during one of our first dates, he laughed about how he and his buddies went to bars, sought out the "homeliest," most nervous-looking girl there, and see who could make her cry and run out of the bar first. It was a competition for them. UGH! He instantly became so repulsive to me, I had to leave. That's what many people are predicting. It's all a nightmare. And the orange felon thinks he's going to take over Canada to acquiesce, LOL. 🙄 Labine did have her flaws at RH. She wrote an idiotic story about a gorilla who fell in love with Delia Ryan and kidnapped her, a la King Kong. It was painfully stupid to those of us who were watching the show because we respected the nuanced characters and slice-of-life realism. Later, Labine introduced a bunch of newbies who were fighting rent increases in their tenement apartment building. They talked about it endlessly. A core principle of soaps, IMHO, is never introduce a bunch of strangers and immediately focus on them...particularly in a plot that is soooooooooo booooooooring. I must say, however, Labine was brilliant and Love of Life, Where the Heart Is and General Hospital. New soaps are fun to explore, when you realize they are so good. I've never been able to warm up to RC's work. Like James Reilly, Charles Pratt, Jean Passanante, Hogan Sheffer and Thom Racina, I avoid him. One teen show that is very good, and which Jacob Tierney applauded enthusiastically, is Royal Royals. It's a gay romance and lasted three seasons. It's still available on Netflix (well, in Canada at least; I don't know about the US). Don't get me wrong. I was able to stitch the pieces together and make the emotional/psychological leap with Scott too. I just wish we had been able to see all the beats.

Thank you for the info!

I agree. Allen was like Mart Hulswit to me, in the sense that their natural affability and charm were their best attributes and needed to shine in the roles they played. I agree. He was a bit too rigid for my tastes, but unless he left on his own, I would not have fired or replaced him. He had become popular to the audience, and even I had come to accept him as Mike.

Now I am curious; the video you posted is blocked in my country (Canada). What was it about?

Every word you wrote in this post is brilliant! Bravo! I think we all "get" why this show has become such a phenomenon.👍

Oh, believe me, I can appreciate a pretty face and body as much as the next guy, but we can all agree that the more you come to appreciate the mind, heart and soul, the attraction to a person deepens significantly. I'd happily take the opportunity to explore all the attributes of Scott Hunter, inside and out, to see what develops!🙃 The tragic, destructive turn to puritanical, heartless and oppressive ideals is a major stain on the heart and soul of the country, that's for sure. A massive, overwhelming blue wave is needed to drain the swamp of its heavily-contaminated elements. Still, it will probably take years to undo all the damage. Ryan's Hope was excellent; very heartfelt, human and humane, when Claire Labine was at the helm. Sadly, she came and went, and ABC suits did great damage to the show during her absences. (Not that she was 100% perfect; she did make missteps, like even the best writers do.) I was thrilled that Lorraine Broderick returned to give AMC the closure it deserved. IMHO, Broderick, Agnes Nixon and Wisner Washam were the best scribes during the show's run. I follow writers whom I respect from soap to soap, as well. I do find it...curious how certain writers produce brilliant material at one show, but much weaker material at another. I suspect network interference is the principle culprit. None of the current soaps have had good writing in decades. I think that's why Heated Rivalry has had such an impact on me (and other viewers who appreciate and long for intimate, well-written, adult drama): we've been mostly starved for it for years. Certainly on daytime TV. Yes, we will see when season two is released. My only quibble about HR's first year is how much the series skipped over Scott's emotional journey and growth. We went from him being highly repressed and closeted in episode three, to ready to come out (loud and proud) in episode five. I wish we had seen more of his transformation. But, of course, with only six measly hours, some elements had to be scaled back. I hope season two will have a higher episode count. I don't realistically expect 22, but 10 hours would be nice. Along with more Scott and Kip, I'd like to see more Hayden too. I find him endearing.

Zaslow was an incredibly charismatic man who exuded depth and emotion. We were so lucky to be blessed with his talent for so long. ARGH! All this talk about vintage TGL makes me long to go back and rewatch every single vintage episode I have access to! When this show was good, it was a class act.