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It must've been during the late '80's, b/c I think it was a scene with Peter Bergman, who played Dr. Cliff Warner, at Pine Valley Hospital.

Frank Valentini is only too happy to pretend that Molly's relationship with a person of color was just a figment of our collective imagination. Honestly, there are times when I wonder why POC still love the soaps when it's obvious the soaps do not love us back.

IIRC, Erica and Brooke were on a plane that got hijacked. At one point, Erica gets either tipsy or roaring drunk, singing "California, Here I Come" or some mess; and Brooke is like, "Gurl, have a seat," lol.

Speaking of "Jane Eber": https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1997/rt9704/970418/04180088.htm

Apparently, C&L's producer, Barney Rosenzweig, had wanted Sharon Gless for the series from the start, but she was still under contract at Universal. He had to wait for CBS to cancel "House Calls," where Gless had replaced Lynn Redgrave, and for her contractual obligations with Universal to expire before he could offer her the C&L gig.

I don't get it: Josh Griffith has characters on Y&R switching CEO gigs every month and the ratings stay the same or go up; Patrick Mulcahey has characters on GH doing the same thing and what happens? Ratings go down, people complain the show is boring and he gets the sack. Like I said, I don't get it, lol.

ICAM! Yet, there was a time when the Disney and Nickelodeon shows were keeping alive the concept of a half-hour comedy that was filmed/taped in front of a live studio audience, as all the networks had basically abandoned the practice for the kind of one-camera shows that were originally popular in the '60's!

I'm sure there are folks in daytime who still hold grudges from when she was a dayplayer on AMC, lol. IIRC, she didn't. The travel video - which, I agree, shouldn't have been dropped - was a sort of Carlivatian device where characters would look at it on TV, but we ourselves didn't see any of it. At least, that's my recollection. Maybe they showed the actual footage and I just didn't catch it that day, lol.

I agree. Plus, as I think I've mentioned before, Joan and Diahann appeal to two different demographic groups, with gay men possibly being the only overlap. As strong as I thought S1 was, even I know DYNASTY needed that extra something that only someone like Joan Collins could've provided. To me, it's kind of like when Donna Mills (and later, William Devane) join KL: they took an already solid show and just made it better.

I just have to say that @carolineg , @titan1978 and @Vee are all saying exactly what I've been saying about Liz, about her sons and about GH in general for I-don't-know-HOW-long, lol. Frank's MOR approach to EP'ing this show would be so much more palatable, IMO, if he simply would get back to these basics and quit trying to shove dead-end characters like Valentin and Joss down our damn throats.

Whenever I watch the final three seasons of "The Facts of Life," which were taped at Sunset Gower, I'm always amazed by how cheap the show looks even compared to their previous home at Universal, when episodes looked as if they were taped on Betamax.

I think it's also important to remember what kind of show DAYS was when she was on. That was near the peak of their '80's supercouples era, when you saw the Bradys and DiMeras taking more of the focus away from the Hortons, who had been the show's core family, but who didn't always lend themselves well to the kind of action/adventure/sci-fi stories that the show was telling at that point.

Hey, no need to call yourself an idiot! I'm actually glad my post prompted you to post that info, regardless. That was some mighty good tea you spilled, lol. Am I wrong, or didn't you or someone else say that Felicia Minei Behr actually wanted Wisner Washam or Lorraine Broderick to remain with the show, but that Megan McTavish got the job instead, because ABCD loved her ideas and Washam refused to work with her? (IIRC, too, it was Nancy Curlee herself who suggested that P&G hire Broderick because she (Curlee) was on maternity leave).

Extreme budget mode in action, lol! The biggest problem with S9, of course, is that Miss Jane Wyman is absent for most of it, due to health reasons. Without her, the show just feels so lost.

To me, USA is like FOX and HBO: once they decided to be respectable, they got dull, lol.

I feel the same way. Ironically, I think it's the more MOR stuff that has performed better overall in reruns, even though very little of it holds up today. I was born in '79, but I consider myself a Gen-X'er or Xennial, because I absorbed a lot of television in the '80's and '90's. (Not to brag or anything, but I still recall watching "Happy Days" and "Three's Company" as a child - not as reruns on some local station, but on ABC). And I definitely felt the same way as you about WKRP: that it was "modern" for late '80's or early '90's, even though CBS cancelled it when I was about two. That might be why the show performed much better in syndication than it ever did on the network. (Well, that, and because, people actually could find it for once, lol). For me, when it comes to half-hour comedies, there's Before "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and After. Before MTM, I watched a lot of great television - "Cheers," "Cosby," "Roseanne," GG, DW, "Murphy Brown," etc. - and I watched a lot of bad. But MTM was the half-hour show - which I started watching by accident one Sunday morning on a local station, because it was early and I always woke up early on Saturdays and Sundays for some reason - that rearranged how I saw the genre. I realized that you didn't have to place characters in "wacky" situations that stretched credibility in order to tell jokes and make people laugh. Sometimes, all you had to do was just exploit the characters' very real, very common foibles; and in fact, the laughs will be deeper, because the characters and their predicaments will be more relatable. (By the way, the episode I watched was the one where Mary attempted to help her former cellmate, played by Barbara Colby, find a new line of work after spending years on the streets as a prostitute). I often compare that experience of watching MTM for the first time with how John Cusack described seeing "Apocalypse Now" for the first time: it was as if someone had blown off the back of my head with a shotgun. I knew afterward that my life as a TV viewer would not be the same, and it wasn't.

Which results in crap like eye mites.

Yes...and no, lol. On the one hand, with budget-smashing Jeff Freilich out as EP/show runner, FC kind of gets back to basics: no more Special Guest Stars, and no more international cartels either. With Camille Marchetta and the returning Michael Filerman, there appears to be a renewed emphasis on the actual vineyards, with the Channings and the Giobertis (or, what's left of them), along with the addition of a second branch of the Agretti family and the Ortegas for some class/ethnic conflicts. But, on the other hand, those additions to the cast prove to be deathly dull; and unfortunately, that, along with what just about everyone agrees was the show's biggest blunder (I won't say, in case you don't wish to be spoiled), lays the groundwork for what will be the MASSIVE creative overhaul that comes with S9 - more massive, I would say, than the one that came with Freilich - that renders FC totally unrecognizable.

What do they have against Liz/BH anyway? Even before fans forced them to keep her around, it seemed like they resented having to feature her at all. (I, myself, feel rather lukewarm toward her, but I'd still try and find SOME story for her, if only to keep her fans happy).

Please don't remind me. If only there were a "whole new world" where that damn musical didn't exist.

Even Y&R would have had TJ killed in a car accident after having another heated argument with Molly on one of their Winters Wednesdays.

I see Lorraine Broderick is listed in the credits as Script Supervisor. I wonder what that job entailed exactly.

Yep. They were even able to do a four-parter on location in Hawaii, lol!

This [!@#$%^&*] is as messy as the very best of Bill Bell's Y&R, lol.

If you notice, during those two or three seasons when "The Jeffersons" was out of the Top 30, they did a lot of "bottle episodes," where everything took place within the Jeffersons' penthouse apartment. A sure sign that the ratings had affected the show's budget.