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Let's be honest: Tom Eplin's entire life is just one big OMG. I think Stephen Schnetzer is/was the most embarrassed to be there, followed by Matt Crane. (Mark Pinter might've been embarrassed, too, but then again, his midlife crisis probably enjoyed hanging out with the younger crowd, lol).

I think "Diagnosis: Murder" suffered from the same problem as did "Murder, She Wrote." In both cases, the network underestimated the type of demographic that the show drew, simply because the lead actor was of a certain age. It's like CBS totally forgot that, thanks to Nick at Nite and "Mary Poppins," even younger viewers knew and enjoyed watching Dick Van Dyke, just as younger people liked watching Angela Lansbury on MSW because they might have known her from "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" and, later, "Beauty and the Beast." IIRC - and it's been eons, so forgive me - they actually were in the middle of taping the pilot/first episode (in front of a studio audience?) when either Craig T. Nelson or Barry Kemp stopped taping, realized it wasn't going to work and called off the rest of the series, lol. God, when I think about the number of mediocre-to-awful shows that passed through NBC's Must-See TV lineup over the years....

And even that didn't excite me, lol! I will say this much for JFP: when P&G or NBC wanted to DAYS-ify AW by including vampires and whatnot, she balked. In fact, it's almost refreshing how she did her best to avoid that kind of storytelling on all her shows.

Because, he's got the moves like him? Or, maybe it's because, when he was growing up, he reminded everyone of DEAN Jagger.

Poor Peggy McCay, lol.

It seems like whenever AW attempted to copy trends, or make itself look more "hip!" and "now!," it always wound up embarrassing itself instead. IOW, AW was just one soap opera that never could keep up successfully with the times.

Yep, lol!

AFAIC, now that you-know-who is back, Drew/CM is as good as gone.

Me, whenever I try and untangle the mess that is John Black's history:

To this day, I don't understand why "Coach" appealed to so many. Neither the cast nor the writing was ever funny.

LOL!! "This 'Medical Minute' has been brought to you by your good friends at Procter & Gamble, who remind you to join us tomorrow and every weekday for the continuing story of 'ANOTHER WORLD'."

I agree. Fortunately, I thought she played off David O'Brien (Steve) rather well, so that helped me make the transition. I mean, I hate to imagine how much worse it might've been had she and DOB had no chemistry whatsoever.

I won't argue with you there, lol!

It's just that John and whoever else never digs up anything that is new and surprising and different about him. It's always, "John Black was once a very bad person," as if we hadn't learned that already! Why not dig up a long-forgotten wife and kids, or a sibling or half-sibling, who remembers him before he turned into Robo Cyborg Killer? Hell, at this point, I'll even take a secret past as one of the Von Trapp kids in the original stage production of "The Sound of Music"!

Knowing Frank, he probably hired Patrick J. Gibbons to do it, lol.

Yeah, that story's becoming a real struggle for me, too, lol. Then again, I'm just tired of this show rehashing John's past whenever they don't know what else to do with him. At this point, he could be unmasked as the Zodiac Killer and I would not care.

Exactly! Patrick Mulcahey can't arrive not a moment too soon.

Thank you. I mean, if I really wanted to get serious about the photo, I could, for example, go on about how all the POC have been shoved to the background (or, in Tabyana Ali's case, to the outskirts of L.A.).

That's why it's so difficult for me to take him seriously on B&B. It's one thing when, say, Erika Slezak pitches for Sunsweet Prunes, but Tanner's literally saying, "Emu Beebu" on television!

The same thing everyone else wins when they spend more than 30 seconds talking about this bland ass show: nothing. Patrick Mulcahey, come on down, you're the next HW to try and spin gold on FRANK VALENTINI'S GENERAL HOSPITAL! At the very least, GF should be in the center of the photo w/ JE and FH. But I guess Genie should be used to this sort of treatment by the higher-ups by now. Of course, if Donnell Turner had had his druthers, he'd been snuggling next to Genie in the photo, instead of toiling away in the fields back there with the other "field negroes."

Well, bibberty my liberty!

They look like the co-stars in a remake of "The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant."

They're probably laughing at Maurice, who's grimacing like a middle-aged man with serious hemorrhoidal issues.

It's like looking at "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Soap Opera," isn't it?

She must be in the Federal Witness Protection Program or something. Meanwhile, Cameron Mathison looks ready to introduce the next contestant. And Kelly Monaco looks...distracted...? Please, I don't want to see her on the show, much less in that photo! Seriously, this is Frank Valentini's GH in a nutshell: not the greatest of efforts, but the best they could do in a pinch. LOL!! You just know Jane Elliot told them to [!@#$%^&*] off with that drugstore champagne right before the photo was taken. ("If you want me to hold up a glass of champagne to the camera, it better be Dom Perignon in that glass or don't even bother with me!")