Soapsuds

And that's been the problem with all soaps. They haven't been able to develop the next generation to take over the older set of actors. That's why soaps died. Look at Victoria and Nick....horrible horrible....writing has been part of it but so have the actors that infected the roles.

There is a lot of dead weight right now on Y&R that they could get rid of to bring back some of Brooks and Fosters.

I personally wouldn't mind seeing the Fosters and Brooks back. Also, they should get Joanna back to be there for Lauren's story.

It debut at #13 but went up the following year to the #9 soap with an 8.4 rating. By its 3rd year it was the #3 soap and dropped slighty its 4th year to #4 behind GL.

The funny thing is that Y&R didn't become number 1 until the Brooks family was phased out. I thought the Brooks era was fantastic but it never reached #1 in the ratings.

In the 84 show they are hard to recognize except for Lorie and one of the other sisters. Now did the previous sisters leave the roles or were they fired? I personally loved the Brooks family.

Didn't William J. Bell get rid of the Brooks because they weren't popular with the fans and not catching on ratings wise thus he created the Abbots and then eventually wrote off the Brooks? I remember there was backlash when the Abbots became the new prominent citizens of GC.

My apologies to Vee for this post but Carl brought him up....LOL Bubba now at old age....LOL

Iola and Bubba's fine looks and body plus Mama is what made the syndicated episodes must see tv. I hated the first season with Vint's awful kids.

They aired that episode just the other day on Me-TV

He's cute!

They all look great except for JVA who unfortunately looks like hell.

Ana's career minus the surprising French Open title was pretty shitty. Success came too early for her and she never did fix that awful serve of hers. She had so much talent minus that serve. Its too bad she didn't give 100% to fix that serve.

The return of Holden was nicely done and so was the Diego ending but after that the show went downhill. She fired ART and it just got worse from there.

When I saw MBE version of Sierra.....I finally saw how Craig would have fallen for her. It is too bad that MBE and SB never worked together on ATWT.

I didn't care for Sierra and Craig together. FC Sierra was a very boring character. I always hoped they would have paired Craig with either Betsy or Lucinda.

love me some DT!! Sloane must be in one of her funks. She must not be in the mood to play tennis. She is just wasting away her career. Ana is either retiring or is pregnant.

Didn't SB leave at the time during the whole Craig is missing story?