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What a hunk!

I hope this butt shot does not offend of shock y'all. The moderators seem to have disappeared completely from the boards, so I did not known whom I could ask about posting bare behinds! I shall refrain in the future if this makes you clutch your pearls and get palpitations!

Mmmmmm.

Your latest find has a PERFECT physique, Faulkner.

I cannot resist a man with a dog! Instant husband material! I found a few more. (I hope y'all don't hate me for overloading the board.) I will force myself to stop here, but...all these pictures gave me the feelies.

My baby Matthew Camp

Dear God in heaven!

Keep up the good work everyone. Keep those hunks rolling in!

While there were some great series broadcast during the 1980s, I must say that Saturday nights on CBS in the early 1970s remain the gold standard of high-quality, extremely-satisfying programming for me. On that one evening we were treated to All in the Family, MASH, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show. I waited all week for Saturday nights, and not because I could go out and party, but because I could stay in and curl up on the couch with Mary and Rhoda and all my other "friends"! https://www.womansworld.com/posts/cbs-schedule-all-in-the-family-141332

https://www.macleans.ca/uncategorized/the-20th-anniversary-of-the-most-awesomest-tv-contract-dispute-ever/

Cute Weirdos! You made me GASP!

Thank you for the heads up!

I wonder now if the other people who complained about edited PP eps actually purchased LEGIT Shout Factory discs, or if they were fooled into buying knock-offs on-line, thinking they were the real deal. I know that Rhoda, season one, was released by Shout with many syndication-version episodes, however, so who knows? You will see as you make your way through future PP eps, I guess. Please let me know what you find. I recorded the UK version of QAF when it was broadcast on cable, and never ended up buying the studio-released version, simply because I did not want to pay for badly-edited DVDs without the essential, original music. I naively purchased the first few seasons of BH 90210, only to discover to my abject horror that almost all of the music had been hacked away, along with many key scenes. NEVER again. Since then, I always keep my VHS tapes of favorite shows, and will only upgrade to official DVD releases if I am certain they have not been tampered with. Not only did the first releases of LHOTP have major scenes sliced out, but the opening and closing credits were deleted from 75% of the episodes too. It's surreal that the studio, Ima Vision, thought they could get away with offering absolute garbage to the public. (The Time-Life release of China Beach, on the other hand, was WONDERFUL, with almost all the original and essential soundtrack intact.) Endlessly-rotating hack headwriters has been the downfall of many soaps. Marland did not do his best work on TD, but after seeing AHB's dreadful material on HTSAM, I thank heavens she did not take over TD. Ugh. It's too bad the show could not have rehired Rita Lakin again long term, or found ANY solid writer to stick with the program and keep it from sinking into oblivion. After Marland departs, the only other good scribe the show will ever hire is Harding Lemay, and even he did not do his best work here, or last very long on this show. Right, to each his own. Folks have told me that they did not like Irna Phillip's, Bill Bell's and Harding Lemay's work because it was too draggy and "internal," while that is exactly the type of soap I love to watch. On the other hand, when people praise Reilly, Pratt and Sheffer to the sky, I want to gag. We all have our own tastes.

If Shout has some, most, or all of the eps at their original length, GREAT. Of course I trust the information you have provided about the length being 25.5 minutes, but it makes me curious why other people have complained to me about missing scenes. Maybe in later sets? Anyway, nothing could be worse than the Beverly Hills 90210 DVDs and the ones of Little House on the Prairie which were originally put out by a Quebec studio years ago. Soooo many missing scenes. It actually made me angry. Thank heavens I had kept my LHOTP VHS tapes, with eps of 47 min., rather than having to endure the hacked-to-bits DVD versions.

I have not seen all the commercially-released DVDs of PP, but soap friends have warned me that the eps are only 22 minutes long, whereas the show was originally aired with eps of 24 minutes. I cannot verify this, first-hand, I am only relaying what I have been told. I know Shout released terribly edited episodes of Rhoda, season one, which many fans bitched about because the missing scenes could be found on-line.

This beefcake has been tested and approved by Lynda Carter for wholesomeness and high quality.

After releasing the first two DVD boxsets, Shout Factory took FOREVER (literally!) to release any more. They just started again this year, which was an unexpected blessing, and I think they have put out a total of five sets so far. Ironically, I have had some friends tell me that the fan-made versions of the DVDs, recorded from the Romance Network, include more scenes that have been edited out of the commercially-released boxsets. That is sort of...annoying. I know other soap fans who had to resort to buying fan-made DVD sets of Beverly Hills 90210 because the commercial releases of the show were butchered so badly. I know studios often want to pennypinch when they release classic TV on DVD, but if they put out material that is inferior to what fans can get through other fans, the sales of their product will be in jeopardy.

I believe the original working title was From This Day Forth, but Bailey and Bolen wanted a more "with it" title. Most of their decisions were off-base, and I don't think either one of them really understood the soap opera genre or what the audience wanted from the soaps. Julie's (Rosemary Prinz) initially speeches were stilted and unnatural. Her long-winded pontificating came across as lectures, which felt condescending (at least to me). Under Bailey's pen, the characters were not "real people," but rather shallow archetypes spouting unnatural dialogue about women's lib and the need for self-fulfilment and independence. When Edelstein took over, the characters became fascinating, three-dimensional people whose conflicts touched your heart. I wish more episodes were available for soap historians to watch, because as I say, Edelstein's work reminded me of Harding Lemay's style on AW: very adult, intelligent and character-driven. Four decades later, I still have some audiotapes of the series, and a huge (I mean HUGE) scrapbook filled with articles, reviews, pictures and synopses of the show's storylines.) I really did love the show, thanks almost exclusively to Edelstein's time on it. BTW, I am very happy to see you back posting again. One poster had uploaded all 514 of nighttime's Peyton Place, only to see his channel shut down and all the videos deleted. He opened a new channel and uploaded all the episodes AGAIN, only to see the same thing happen. What a nightmare. When he came back and uploaded all 514 eps for the third time, he broke each one of them up into two, 11-minute halves, and that seems to have done the trick. So far, the site has not closed his account or deleted his material. (Fingers crossed, as the complete series is another thing I intend to watch one day.)

When Retro first started airing reruns of TD, I found the episodes streaming on-line somewhere, and I kept meaning to start watching, but somewhere along the line I forget where I saw those 1967 eps uploaded. It's my own fault for procrastinating, but actually, I was "saving" the eps to watch on a rainy day, as they say. Anyway, now that I have that other link to where I can find eps from 1969 and onward, I'll get cracking on my viewing!

Rick Edelstein. And that storyline was beautifully done. Fran Brill won an award for Best Actress in a Single Sequence for her work as David's widow. (Afternoon TV magazine awards)

I would be in heaven if I were surrounded by such beauties!

That's kind of why I liked Dylan. He was gorgeous, IMHO, but still looked like an actual, possible human being...not the plastic cut-outs we so often see today. I'd love to revisit the original series, but I stupidly got rid of all my original VHS tapes to buy the DVDs, not knowing that the commercial release would be unwatchable, thanks to the episodes being butchered beyond belief and almost all the music changed to abrasive muzak.