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I agree. Plus, "love on the run" stories work only when the stakes are high, but what are the stakes in Tate and Holly running off besides their families losing their collective shits about it?

But the fact that he was there for that long doesn't necessarily mean that's where he made the greatest impact, especially if RH fans appear to agree that his time there was, for the most part, poor. I'd love to know what, if any, positive impact he had on any show he produced, or whether he was just someone who was more suited to working in the theater.

Those ladies are smart to launch a rewatch podcast. To a generation of viewers, MP is like visual comfort food, so they'll likely eat that stuff up. (I should know: I, myself, can't get enough of "Murder, She Wrote" reruns on PlutoTV and wish certain cast members were still alive to do a podcast of that show, lol).

Except, his characters weren't as layered as the ones on "Family," nor were the actors on KNOTS as accomplished. And I say that as one who loved both shows. IMO, it was the addition of Julie Harris (and later, William Devane) that forced the rest of the cast to step up their game. TBH, though, I don't know whether Don/Sid would have fit into the direction that KNOTS itself took when Peter Dunne replaced Joseph B. Wallenstein as producer/showrunner. Even if you got Sid out of Knots Landing Motors, it's hard to determine which, if any, part he might have played in storylines like Wolfbridge or Empire Valley. On the other hand, producers wouldn't have needed to retcon Sid's history in order to bring back Annie and have her fill the "young, sexy ingenue" role that Paige filled. I think both Lorimar and MTM had great production values - better than those of Universal or even Spelling/Goldberg - but when it came to the quality of acting and writing, MTM's shows (both sitcoms and dramas) were hard to beat.

It's good to see that mess debunked, but I always come back to the same conclusion: even a Biden who is (allegedly) afflicted with some degenerative, incurable disease is better for this country than even a Trump who is perfectly healthy (which he is most certainly not).

His tanning lotion? His bottle of Grecian Formula? Yes, lol!

Frankly, I don't blame him. Sid could be such a dope, particularly when it came to the people he cared about the most: his wife, his kids, Abby, Gary, etc.

I agree. Like I said before, in another thread, Sonny doesn't know how to be anything BUT a criminal. If he ever left the mob, he'd just go back to being what he was before - a two-bit strip club owner - but he wouldn't be as successful, because both time and the sex industry have passed him by.

I'd love to know that as well. Didn't he also work on LOL and LIAMST? And then, of course, there was that year he spent as Supervising Producer on KNOTS LANDING.

I'd like to see protesters with signs saying, "You're not rich!" (Trust me, that'll get his proverbial goat more than anything.)

I agree. As a man, and as a parent, John had his foibles. Overall, however, I thought he was a decent, honorable human being. It's just a shame that soaps don't have patriarchs (or matriarchs) like that anymore.

OMG, I just made the same comparison in the In Memoriam thread, lol. I agree about what a special addition he was to KNOTS, and to Val/JVA. To me, he was more of a "regular guy" whom the audience could relate to than even Kevin Dobson, whose Mack seemed to become more irritatingly strident as the seasons passed. That's why - as I said in the other thread - it's so difficult to watch anything from his final storyline on the show. Given everything that we had known up to that point about Ben, it made no sense; and it absolutely did not play to Sheehan's strengths at all.

If ABC tends to dominate the largest markets and CBS the Midwest and South, what area(s) of the country does NBC dominate?

[!@#$%^&*]. Doug Sheehan always reminded me of James Stewart with his boyish good looks, quirky sense of humor and easy-going nature. No matter what kind of vehicle he was in - whether it was a soap (like GH or KL) or a sitcom ("Day by Day") or some cheesy TV movie - he always brought a sense of integrity to his role. (Which is why watching his exit storyline on KL is REALLY hard for me, because you could tell he was struggling with that material, for a number of reasons). I always wanted GH to bring him back (on a recurring basis) as Joe Kelly: still a gumshoe, still funny and charming, but maybe a little more weary on account of age and having seen it all many times over. Ah, well.

WTF is going on with Brenda Dickson's hair in that second clip?

Is that Martha Smith from "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" and "National Lampoon's Animal House" playing Sandy?

"Hey, Mom, what did you do to the french fries?" CUT TO: "Mom arrested in bizarre family murder plot - news at eleven!"

Honestly, I think this storyline, as written, would have been problematic even twenty years ago, when a musical artist still had to be "in the closet" in order to be successful.

I'm just glad they quit before they subjected us to the house/industrial version. You haven't been boring me! I've always felt that MK was one underrated daytime diva who deserves some flowers. Same goes for Maureen Garrett and about a dozen other performers.

I remember a version that aired maybe once or twice during the Laibson era that had an island flavor, replete with steel drums, lol.

Frankly, that's giving me "True Light" vibes, lol.

Ron Carlivati writes the way he does, because he isn't trying to please the audience, only himself.

WOF, like "Jeopardy!," is so durable, because the concept's pretty simple: you spin the wheel, you solve the puzzle. Add in Vanna White (who has had one of the easiest jobs ever, but who is a total fashion plate) and Pat Sajak (who has maintained his quirky sense of humor, even if his politics can be repugnant for some) and you can see why the show blew up so quickly.

That was the show's simplistic writing for you. It never entered Sami's mind that John had been there for her when her actual parents were missing or presumed dead. Nope. Once the real Roman turned up, Sami just shifts her loyalties to him almost immediately (as if Roman had been there all along) and makes it clear she wants John out of their lives forever (even though John wasn't exactly the villain in this situation) with no inner conflict over her actions whatsoever. If anything, I think Sami should have been trying to KEEP John and Marlena together, not tear them apart and essentially guilt Marlena into staying with Roman.

It's true. Ron Carlivati is angry that not every male character on DAYS is gay (and lusting after Leo), and it shows.