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Paramount+ is included in my Walmart+ subscription, so.... Oh, and Vanguard? Shut up.

I would not be surprised if overseas markets had complete episodes of AMC (and other soaps) hidden away in their vaults.

Exactly. The camera work and even the pacing are exactly what you would've seen on Y&R at that time. Just as "Heys of Our Lives" really nailed how DAYS was all about the closeups back then, and "Days of the Week" resembled bits of AW and SFT.

So did I, @janea4old, so did I, lol. I also loved how Susan Lucci's hair looked during that period. Talk about gorgeous!

I would've loved even just a scene where Angela and Melissa came to some sort of understanding. Even if it had been one of those cliched, enemies-trapped-in-the-same-place-type scenarios, like the ones OLTL would trot out every now and then for Viki and Dorian. But something that would have revealed that, on some, deep-seated level, Angela and Melissa actually respected one another, even if they always were at odds.

Barbara Rhoades is dreadful in pretty much everything I've seen her in.

Me neither. I'm being realistic - this IS a blow to the American way of life - but at the same time, I'm refusing to give into fear or negativity. We WILL get through this. I don't know HOW we'll get through this, but we will. We just have to keep the faith. In the meantime, I'm definitely promoting self-care for everyone. Whatever you need to do in order to survive the next several years, do it. As long as it's healthy and hurts no one. Do it. Because, when this new, national nightmare is over - and mark my words, it WILL be over one day - we'll need you like we've never needed you before (because, in a way, that's the truth).

I think what sets SCTV's soap parodies apart from others', aside from SCTV's general level of brilliance, is their pinpoint accuracy. You can tell they actually WATCHED the soaps they're parodying and aren't just going by what they've read in TV Guide or something.

To Angela, the land was all that mattered, nothing else. She sacrificed a lot, including her own happiness, because she truly believed in her grandfather's vision for Falcon Crest. That's what I loved about her, and why I think she was a far more interesting antagonist than Alexis Colby or J.R. Ewing. Because, even though she did some despicable things, WHY she did them was something I could relate to on some level.

At five minutes, all we'd get is the theme song and Sheila calling somebody a b*tch.

I still remember when Jane Wyman said, "I thought it was a little ridiculous [Lana Turner] needed a limo to go to the loo." I think all Liz Taylor wanted when she was on GH was a hamburger (and Tony Geary and Tristan Rogers' d*cks). But seriously. Wyman was a real trouper to wear that hideous-looking coat.

I've long suspected (without evidence) that Bernau left in '84 due to AIDS. He returned two years later, of course, and attempted to keep working, even as he fought the disease privately. By 1988, however, the disease was too far gone, and Bernau was forced to quit the second time.

Guza didn't create Courtney and Kristina, though. They came along during the JFP/Megan McTavish era, when it seemed like everyone on GH suddenly had a long-lost sister, lol. Granted, I wasn't watching GH regularly back then, but the second and third Guza eras just seemed so nihilistic to me. It was as if GH was becoming TV's first daily snuff film. That's that Olive Garden mentality kicking in ("When you're here, you're family!").

Leave it to Miss Lana Turner to be photographed in mink and pearls, while Miss Jane Wyman settles for wearing my old bedroom comforter from Linens 'n' Things, lol.

Or, they could've located it in Missouri, since it seemed to be so easy for characters like Josh and Reva to travel to Tulsa and Cross Creek (which does not exist, by the way).

I forgot about the "Where's Betty?" campaign! Thank you for reminding me, @soapfan770 (...I think, lol).

I agree. In some ways, yes. Biden's shared Clinton's ability to speak to the working class and to bridge the gap between moderates and progressives, who've been fighting over the direction of the Democratic Party pretty much since Carter. Even as Obama's running mate, however, Biden had the baggage of being a longtime D.C. politician. Conversely, when Clinton burst upon the scene, in '92 or so, he was seen largely as a newcomer, and an outsider. Rank-and-file Democrats hated him and Hillary. To generations of disaffected voters in flyover country, however, who had endured 12 years of Reagan-Bush politics, he represented youth, vitality and change. Moreover, Clinton was an Ivy League graduate, but he was savvy enough to downplay that accomplishment to those who otherwise would've been resentful; so that what got put over instead - the saxophone-playin', Big Mac-eatin', JFK hand-shakin', big boobied 'ho-lovin' redneck from Little Rock - was what helped him win over voters in the so-called heartland. More than any other politician in recent times, Bill (and Hillary) Clinton understood that the media, conditioned to seek access rather than just report the news, was the real enemy of government in America; and that if you want to get the country on board with the most progressive policies, you have to thread it through the economy. Most average (white) Americans don't understand things like affirmative action, reproductive rights or gay and transgender rights, because, nine times out of ten, that doesn't affect their lives or the lives of anyone they know. But they DO know their own pocketbooks. So, if you can show them how supporting those broader concepts can impact their finances in positive, meaningful ways, you just might grab them. That's what I mean when I say it's gonna take another Bill Clinton to win back the working class. It's gonna take someone - someone young, male and white, I'm sorry to say; and who comes from the middle of this country, rather than from the east or west coast - who will take the gloves off as far as the GOP and the establishment media are concerned; and who will know exactly how to reach Billy Bob and Karen, because they've been around them their entire lives and they know exactly how Billy Bob and Karen talk and think. BTW, how old is Parker Short?

Now you see why Phylicia Rashad won't talk about him, lol. Brace yourself, because it's only going to get worse, as more and more celebrities decide it's better to appeal to Trump supporters than to continue the resistance. Like I said upthread, the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" mentality has officially taken over.

Seriously, they could've had Linda/Rae just pop up all over the damn network looking for her kid. ("Tonight, on 'The Drew Carey Show'....") I think the only stunt worse than the one for Linda/Rae was the time CBS devoted an entire night's programming to Liz Taylor and her missing jewels.

Interesting how Barnard Hughes and Elizabeth Wilson played LC's parents in the first pilot. A year later, I think, the two would co-star - again, as husband and wife - in "Doc," also on CBS.

I still argue that Jack Scalia and Susan Lucci had chemistry in spades but that Chris Stamp was just too ill-conceived to work.

I wondered that myself. That "look" would have been all wrong for primetime, as viewers would've thought they were watching a sitcom.

LMAO!!

Linda Dano/Rae Cummings' hopscotching across the entire ABCD lineup was such a joke. I'm honestly surprised they didn't have her pop up and looking for her long-lost child on other ABC programs as well.