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Exactly agreed--they had one moment early on where she struggled to remember something and covered, but...

As am I, not to sound catty or self congratulatory but it was one of the more clearly set up surprises--for at least a few episodes now, if not more... OK I admit it did kinda bug me that Jack realized he should loosen up. Obviously they're showing that he and "Amanda" aren't ideal matches and he's kinda catching on--but, while I know for many girls it's "cool" to drunkenly make out with other girls while having a bf, I'd be kinda annoyed, especially if she was meant to be working...

(that all said, I really do miss the old school style of AMC shown in the 1980 episode I linked But I don't think by 1990 any soap had that anymore)

Ah did you mean the primetime special or one of the episodes from the Anniversary week? (Sorry for all the questions). I think that's fair evebn if, being a big fan of early 90s AMC I don't fully agree, but I know some on here do. At the same time I've read some online people who felt the same about 80s AMC in editorials of the time compared to 70s, etc--I'm not sure if it coulde have been avoided if that makes sense (AMC did shoot steadily right to a very strong 2nd ratings point with the changes, although ratings don't always mean much). It did still have a good sense of community I felt, and I think characters like Kendall, the Marricks, etc, were strong and memorable for the most part--even to a lesser degree the Dhillons, the Kiefers, etc etc (I was going to say the Santos but they got annoying fas, it's true). Certainly I think to list 1989 or 90 as the beginning of the end is overly simplistic and dramatic, but that's IMHO. I also think a number of characters (like Maria) should have had shorter shelf lives but that doesn't make me think the initial conception of their character was flawed--I think sometimes that's true of a lot of soaps, and as I believe Noone said, she felt they had done everything they could with Ellen and didn't feel like hanging around being a tentpole style character--fair enough.

I don't remember any of that stuff it seems--though I watched back then. I assume Julia's AIDS patient friend was very short term, when she was worried she got AIDS, but don't remember the Cecily stuff (though she should have gone for Del over Charlie--I didn't know Del was even on that late).

How do you mean? Frankly, while I think letting some characters leave was a mistake, the show was overpopulated--I'm not sure a void really felt needed to be filled in many cases. You did later get the whole Marricks, etc, but I assume you mean more around 89-90. (I have a random question about that clip from '89--the infamous Eric the Clown story. I know and have seen much of it, but have no idea how it ended. Did he reconcile with Eerica and then move away? I know the whole clown thing was never brought up later with the Richard Fields story or Eric's death--prob for the best)

You know I don't remember Louis Edmonds being on AMC as late as 1993--I can't say I remember seeing him at all and I started watching very late '91... Weird! (I don't think Which special do you mean? The first one is from 1990--before the new house... Dixie's accent faded from what I've seen, though fairly quickly You know I watched from late '91 on, and the ONLY time I remember seeing Langley on the show was in '95 for the 25th Anniversary week when he told Myrtle that Verla was his daughter--nothing from '93

After MANY attempts and creating a new youtube channel, I uploaded from video tapes I traded for as a teen, the Feb 15 1980 AMC, the first episode of Palmer's infamous Masquerade Ball. It's a great episode--they rented out and shot it mainly in some East Coast manor. Anyway this is my first time trying to upload anything, and it took about 7 hours on my crappy computer once I found out how to make it work, so I haven't checked the full episode but it seems to have worked. I tried to upload it in a higher quality setting but 480 was the best I could find. This party is often talked about and seems virtually non existant out there so I felt it should be the first thing to try. I also have the next two episodes in the party from Feb 18-19, as well as a May 28th episode from the same year that I've digitized from video. If there's interest in this I'll work on uploading those three as well but it may not be till the weekend.

Didn't many guess that?

Which ABC pooped on

Right, I guess the Corringtons were the following year--Schemering does "credit" them with the mob mess. Though i guess Henry SlesarWAS co HW this stuff. The Corringtons lasted only 8 or 9 months--then Sam Hall and Peggy O'Shea came back (I am not sure if Peggy O'Shea quit the team when Slesar was there or was still on the writing staff...)

I think you're right. Obviously with the adventure stuff, Dr Kipling and his robotic arm and remote control mind control (or was this later), etc it was a muddled era and I assume an attempt to be more GH... Didn't the Corringtons shortly come on for their odd tenure?

Solaramite?

How I HATED Brian Green as the recast Brian back at the time. He actually doesn't grate on me as much now, but... I didn't remember that they briefly flirted with Edmund/Dixie--odd. (When did SoapNet air this pop up video style episode?) I forgot about this ad campaign http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRRjeVcapY&feature=g-all-u&context=G2566c5bFAAAAAAAAAAA

HAHAH I love it,so ridiculous! Didn't he join in the early 90s? it must have been '92 or so because I remember him, vaguely. Though that photo does NOT look 1990s...

HAHA a friend of mine worked with himon his one man show two years back, and he seems to be kinda losing it lately--apparently he was filled with self doubt and lack of confidence and was hard to work with because of it (I know his memoirs is filled with weird things, like where he mentioned having contemplated suicide and then immediately brushes the comment off). I don't remember him on The City, I must have missed it too. Ha no idea Chita Rivera was with Asa lol... And finallya photo of Uta from the show lol.

Didn't the actor say it was originally a Mr Ripley situation (the vastly different movie not the books). He wanted Daniel's life if he couldn't have him.

Around that era AMC used a lot of movie music--I don't know if the other soaps did as well or if ABC somehow had the rights to a mvie library--in one of the Paley Center Agnes Nixon interview someone in the audience mentions the movie themes, obviously the most obvious example was Halloween for Erica trying to break Jeremy out of prison.

I actually mostly agree. I think how sympathetic Nolan has come across helps to off set it--but I actually thought GLAAD would be on their tails after the drugging episoe. Which is unfair--I want gay villains as much as I want gay heroes--but in a nework TV landscape with so few of either it is troubling.

I actually kinda agree there. Myrtle and Palmer were really the last straws but it was nice that for both we got appropriate send offs--and not the way many funerals are done now on other soaps where the actual funeral is hardly focused and the emphasis instead is on using it for some random other story. I guess that's one reason I disagree with those who have said repeatedly how unrecognizable AMC became. EVen with the awful Rylee overload, etc, I always still felt SOME connection to the past and history even going back to 1970 (obviously having Susan Lucci there was a main reason for this)--something I feel less of on other soaps.

Absolutely--when I watched AMC starting in '91 I used to wonder continuously whose mantel and photo album it was--and even with One Life to Live would try to imagine who was meant to be represented by all the random romance novel imagery in the satin sheets opening. But even as a smaller kid I wondered about the old AMC album (AMC used to air right after Canadian Sesame Stree on CBC--we were forbidden to watch soaps--but I'd catch as much as I could before mom would realize the tv was still on. She thought soaps would be too adult, and never watched them herself--except for a time she fondly remembers being hooked on Edge of Night both while pregnant and then home from work nursing my brother in the late 70s and then again 2 years later with myself and my twin sister--and she did eventually get hooked on AMC, and during the Gottlieb era OLTL because I watched my tapes every day after school).

Thank God she came back--that just doesn't look like Wanda to me

That looks like abrilliant show. Was it one of the early shortlived Fox sitcoms?

I'll hunt it down, hope it's made it to Canada. What happened to Wanda in that photo !

My mom once said how looks wise Susan Lucci has everything going for her, except she has thin hair... Why was the first Skye replaced? She's not bad. Love that '94 episode as well, though yuck to Charlie naked in bed with Hayley.