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With all due respect, @vanguard, I think that song would be too "sleepy" for an opening.

Actually, I'm not a fan of featuring cast members in openings, since we know how cast members can come and go so quickly on soaps. But that's just me.

I just keep hoping that somehow, someway, someone will unearth some episodes of WTHI and LIAMST, lol.

Frankly, @Chris B, I don't think you missed much. From what I remember, it was a'ight. I think if it had premiered about ten years earlier, it might've had a chance. By 1998, however, it probably felt "old hat."

No no no no no...and no. "No" to adapting MSW as a movie; and "no" to JLC portraying Jessica Fletcher. Just. No.

I wanted Cady McClain on GL, but as a recast for Samantha Marler.

I hope so! Granted, what I've seen of THE DOCTORS, I haven't liked. But I do think it's important for this venture to be successful, if only for the small hope that it'll lead to more defunct soaps becoming available for streaming.

Exactly. Bill Bell never wanted Doug and Julie to marry, and I see where he was coming from. But I also believe that if Doug and Julie had to marry, then they should have stayed married. Because all the times they weren't married afterward just felt so contrived to me. They were the rare soap couple whom you had to contrive to break up, not to reunite. (Another couple who, IMO, were like that were AMC's Jesse and Angie).

I shouldn't contribute to this part of the conversation at all, because: 1) I'd only be feeding into your narcissism and 2) anything I say will likely fall onto deaf ears anyway. BUT...if you can't post anything on or from YouTube, and you know Rumble is not an agreeable alternative, then - here's a thought - just don't post anything, period. After all, it's not as if Ernesto Toscano has your lover suspended over a vat of acid and is FORCING you to post on the 'net, so - again - if you can't post on or from YT, then just. Don't. Post.

Except, in Bob and Kim's case, there were a number of years after their initial hook-up (and Sabrina's conception) where they were on the show but not together. Bob's track record after Kim wasn't great, but Kim seemed to be doing okay with Dan until his death. There were times when either Doug/Bill or Julie/Susan (or both) were off DAYS, with the suggestion that Doug and Julie had split up again, but it just never felt right for those two to be apart, even if breakups are par for the course for most soap pairings.

If you watch the soaps for any length of time, you get used to couples breaking up and getting back together. Doug and Julie were one couple, however, you never, ever wanted to see split up, because Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes were just so magical together. DAYS and daytime owe them so much.

He's a modern-day Val Dufour.

It's more than my not caring for Nadine, though. It's like not everyone in Y&R's Genoa City knowing for years that John Abbott wasn't Ashley's biological father. Sometimes, in life, things happen (like a person "disappearing" because they've been murdered) that not everyone in town is privy to. And you have to remember: Nadine was an absentee mom for much of Frank and Harley's lives. They'd be disappointed at the thought of their mom turning tail and running again, but they'd also assume that Nadine had just reverted to her old ways.

I think Evan Hofer has some potential. He just needs to be in the right situation, with the right people guiding him. He didn't get that w/ Frank Valentini, but then again, neither do most these days at GH. The only ones who seem to rise above the mismanagement and lack of guidance are those who've been there for many years, who know their characters well and who know how to work even with the worst producers and directors on the planet.

I'm always amazed at how many awesome writers - Allan Leicht, Sherry Coben, Liz Coe, Jeffrey Lane, etc. - passed through RH over the years. If nothing else, Claire Labine (and Paul Avila Mayer) had a knack for finding real talent.

On the one hand, I definitely agree with you. But the thing is, I'm not talking about just KL. Across the board, on most of the shows that one or both Lechowicks ran - "Homefront," "Second Chances," "Hotel Malibu," "That's Life," "Wild Card," even Y&R - they had a strange knack for making highly questionable casting decisions. It's as if Lynn and Bernie thought their scenes and dialogue were SO good that they were actor-proof. Conversely, look at someone like Jay Tarses. Production values on his shows (including "Buffalo Bill," "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" and others) often were crap, but he knew how to cast the right actor for the right role, and that made his writing all the more brilliant in the process.

If I had a nickel for every time I said as much to Angel and Spike fans.... There was a time when Evan Hofer would have been FORCED to improve as an actor, because, let's be honest: as fantastic as Mark Teschner is, he didn't always hit a home-run casting-wise even BEFORE Frank Valentini entered the building. But Hofer would have had people like Wendy Riche and Shelley Curtis - not to mention, GH's once-elite directing team - working with the s.o.b., getting him to a place where, if he wasn't as good as Jonathan Jackson, he was, at the very least, watchable. But that was then, and this is now; and now we have an EP and directing bunch who simply can't be bothered to work with their [!@#$%^&*] actors, because the only thing that's on their minds is getting everything done and everyone out of the studio before they have to pay the Teamsters overtime.

Yet another, potentially good storyline ruined by the Lechowicks' inability to cast the right actors. In fact, the Lechowicks probably would've had even more success at KL, with far less of their storylines requiring "course correction," but they just couldn't cast for [!@#$%^&*].

Frankly, no. I think NBC is out of the soaps business - and ABC is just waiting for a good time to cancel GH and call it quits on soaps as well - as both networks are convinced 1) the audiences just aren't there anymore and 2) they could pull down similar ratings AND save money by airing yet another hour of infotainment.

I wonder: what if CBS/Lorimar/Filerman & Jacobs had approached Donna Mills with the idea of spinning off Abby onto her own show? Would DM still have chosen to leave both KL and Abby behind?

That's my hunch, too. Otherwise, not only would no one be leaving this show, but Frank would be adding about 20 more actors to the roster as well.

Improvisation is a tricky business. It can go terribly wrong more often than not. And you really need someone there who knows enough about it to keep everyone on track, or else it can become self-indulgent, which a lot of those two episodes was. But I still give David Jacobs props for attempting something different. Even today, I doubt many series would take the risk. IMO, what KL lost when they let Constance McCashin and Julie Harris go was its' groundedness and relatability. Harris and McCashin were the show's last two "natural" actors, as the rest of the cast - including even Kevin Dobson and, to a certain extent, William Devane - had become very stylized in their performances.

TBH, I would've been fine with everyone in Springfield assuming Nadine had left town and only the audience ever knowing the truth.

It's the same where I live, and it has been for much of my life, too. As I've said in the past, the rest of the country is about to learn what it's like to live in Oklahoma, lol.

They likely did. It seems as if that happens whenever any actor from a long-running series exits. Even folks who haven't watched in years or who watched only occasionally will tune in so they can feel like they're part of TV history. (I, myself, tuned in for Mark Harmon's swan song on "NCIS," even though that show bores me to tears).