EricMontreal22

So do I Though I don't miss that whiny Bianca in the 94 clip...

I didn't remember Larry being there for that! Was that like his second last appearance? For AMC it took me honestly to really hit, the Monday AFTER the finale... I expect the same this time (and no, it doesn't get easier, if anything this time, even if AMC was slightly more "my" show, it feels more final with both gone and no real future hope). Wait so there IS a special OLTL magazine?? Did I miss all mention of this?

Right--McTavish/JPF right?

I'm blanking--around what year would this have been? Luke Jackson (who I don't think I've heard of before) looks... odd

I never watched PPRactice but YES it was Alias. Gosh I LOVED her in that--I hope this means we'll get to see more of her. And marceline that was one of the lines I found hysterical--I mean maybe it was a hard line not to do in such a cheezy fashion but... Still, great episode.

My one complaint--when you get pre-nups done, a lawyer witnesses them. If a pregnancy were a reason for it to be invalid due to duress, any decent lawyer would have pointed that out.

Oh it's driving me crazy--what TV show do I know the black, female lawyer representing Conrad in the divorce from?

Agreed with all of that but I admit I didn't worry about Nolan simply because we saw him with all his limbs, perfectly fine (if completely hating Emily) in the first episode flashforward to Labour Day. I was glad Tyler didn't get killed off, but admit was kinda thrown about framing him for Frank's murder--wouldn't she want to keep that as something to blackmail/get real Emily with if things get too extreme? The best part (aside Stowe) is watching Emily really start to unravel while still holding it together--even manipulating Nolan back into being friends she seems to realize she kinda does need real friends.. I have a feeling that may play into the seconde part of the show--Daniel, even all too perfect Jack aren't gonna jump to forvie her even with her reasons.

You know, I actually was a bit disappointed by his acting this episode for some reason I can't pinpoint. Some moments like the ending I thought he was great, others I thought he was a step backwards. Great episode though (and I did appreciate that Ashley was the only one who seemed to point out Tyler actually is sick--). I'd like to see clips of him as Greg on OLTL as well but don't remember the character at all. It says he was 2002-2003 isn't that when we had a few young "hunks" with little to do, maybe he was part of that scene? It looks like he was around the same time as Seth played by the actor who took over from a terrible Brandon Routh and Teddy Sears as Chad Bennett who are both around the same age and likewise had very little to do but seemed hired because Gary Tomlin or someone had a thing for model guys that age (but both have gone on to have, much to my siurprise, a fair amoutn of success now ).

I know, I know. Trust me it's on my list, though I'm not sure they'd allow me to stay long enough...

I think you're right--maybe even more human than 80s Nicki (that was the Rauch era afterall, and Nicki was much more out and out evil than she was in 69 or whenver when her main goal seemed to be just wanting to live her life, not getting in the way of others). I didn't realize your mom watched that far back. I forgot you got to see that one episode with Vicki at the Palye Center or wherever. Jealous. That makes sense though--Vicki was meant to be very much under her father's thumb back then. I can only picture Gillian as Daisy--who was so not reserved--so... There's a lot of 66-67 GL out there, I wonder if any with her is online.

Was Robin's Dorian ever really in Marco's orbit? I know he and Karen were for several years but Dorian by then always seemed to be seperate more or less. Gillian did seem to play Vicki as a bit more timid--which would fit 1960s Vicki anyway. I always wondered if her Nicki was anything like Daisy--just in the way she was played more broadly, earthy, etc--which I get the impression Nicki back then was more like.

Oh when I say that I don't mean any disrespect for Erika who is undoubtedly THE Vicki in my mind, or the only one as I've only seen about 6 pics of Gillian. Though I do know some felt in the mid 70s Vicki was backburnered... But yes, even back then I think I read Gillian left to focus on family or at least not have such a heavy acting schedule. Agnes cast her because she felt she was so good on Guiding Light the last few years Agnes wrote, but I think she took a break after then for a while. She always was interested in writing (and of course was a creative consultant on AMC for much of hte 80s and maybe 90s and even wrote at AW while on AMC), and much of her time on AMC really was more coming back for one or two stories and then leaving--something that was her decision (ditto her 90s role on ATWT). Even at a younger age I doubt she had much interest in playing Vicki at least for more than five years or so on a steady basis.

I was thinking of that photo of Nicki and Vinnie as well! (Though I grant you I'd love to see ANY clip of Gillian Spencer as Vicki--I didn't realize she left on her own but I guess that makes sense as everybody seemed to have nothing but great things to say about her in the role).

LOL I think it's just a punch-warmup gesture, lol... It's really too bad there are so few ties on the show to these 70s characters and families. I guess by the end of its life AMC was no better but the loss of family (despite how decimated they were--inarguably--the last decade) seemed more a gradual progression to me for some reason--I guess because even characters like Jamie had ties to Phoebe as well as Ruth and Joe, etc . On the other hand One Life now is basically ones tied to the Lods via Vicki (but really tied to the Buchanen's who were more an 80s thing) and Dorian.

Ha she does. "if I wear this hideous wig and make sure to smile constantly the way I never would as Dorian, they'll never know..."

I love how the caption under it is about how worried she is... She sure as Hell doesn't look it there.

Probably? LOL It was 20 years ago that I saw it

The funny thing is I've probably seen 6 episodes of Partridge in my life. All I remember was she was a visiting princess or something who was hiding out with whatever the eldest Partridge guy was called so that she could experience "normal" life... (Because their lives were so normal).

Never too much to read---just keeps me up some nights

And thanks Carl for those updates--so great to have a feel for what the show was like an average week at that time. It'll take me a bit to go through them but also nice to see ANY pics from the 70s that aren't the same ones we always see.

Didn't Ponzini last the longest? Agnes hired him because he was such a hit as one of soap opera's first comic characters (and a creation of hers)--Danny Fargo on Another World. That said I've heard he played the role a bit less fully comic as later Vinnie's (which would make sense as he had slightly more dramatic and front burner stories back then--falling in love with Nicki--which I would kill to see clips of--etc). Wasn't one of the Vinnie later used as Benny on AMC? Actually I may just be thinking of how much I felt that Agnes based Benny on Vinnie (who perhaps was based on Danny--Agnes did like re-using character types like nearly all soap writers).

And thank god for that--and yes I think you're right

I have the three book set--it's from the late 70s I believe and is divided into... Erica, one volume for Phile and Tara and I think one is just called The Yougn Lovers or something but--while written at the level of most cheap romance fiction, they are fun reads that give more details that apparently often were based on the scripts--though I doubt too closely. (I have the OLTL ones from the 80s as well) Yes I suspect that was always the end point--Alec was always kinda using Hayley--not the way Will did but it wasn't a very good relationship. So I found that interesting but out of her happy romances the only one I really liked was her and Brian (which as a kid new to AMC was one of THE big stories--I guess the young love thing AMC always did so well but after that didn't handle as well)--I remember my sister got briefly hooked with one of her friends basically just for their story.

No she was a bit ridiculous as a cop. I guess I never bought the recast for some reason, but her stories mainly seemed all obsessed with getting a man (mainly Noah) who was taken yawn. Thanks for the Laura clip--Cecily must have left soon after (did she go on some Miss Home Maker tour or osmething or was that when she left earlier). So I guess Laura was created when Agnes was interim writer between McTavish and Broderick which, while I hated the character often after she left Janet's cabin, isn't too surprising as the concept of the character seems very Agnes. (And random but all these clips remind me of how I hated Charlie as played by Lawford no matter who he was with or what he was doing... I know they played up how he was related to Lawford/the Kennedys but I never got how he lasted as long as he did as I didn't know anyone who liked him. He was the like the very most obnoxious qualities of Tad without any of the charm or well acted drama).