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I love MEK as much as the next guy, but I do think it's a little ridiculous for the show to go to such fuss over a recurring actor/character.

Hey, as long as I never see the pastel jumpsuit again, I'm good, lol.

William Mickley's set designs for AMC throughout the '80's might have been on the cheap side, but they still managed to evoke the feeling of being in a small town on the Philadelphia Main Line.

Pretty much.

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I'm devastated over the news about Naomi Judd. She and her daughters were all such beautiful, strong women; and the Judds were part of a really great era in country music, too, when it was still country music and not just pop/rock with twangy guitars.

And then there was Jennifer Jones, whose poor character (Fred Astaire's love interest) was killed trying to protect some children from falling out of the glass elevator after another explosion. That one traumatized me as well.

Now, the question becomes, which long-ago "memorable plot" would tie in with Harris' unexpected (to say the least) return and new relationship with Hope? Will Harris turn out to be connected somehow to Larry Welch, Maxwell and Megan Hathaway and the three prisms? OMG, that's it. Bo is alive thanks to those damn prisms, and Harris (who's somehow connected in a way only Ron Carlivati could dream up) is getting close to Hope in order to locate Bo and/or the prisms.

Chances are, he's going to be Hope's new Bo - er, beau.

CAPITOL might not have been the best-written or best-cast soap ever, but I definitely think it was the best-looking.

I'm tempted to think he would have convinced Susan Bedsow Horgan to return, if only temporarily, in order to keep the show moving steadily while he (and P&G) searched for a permanent replacement. Another possibility: Harding Lemay, who had served already as a Creative Consultant pre-Marland. Again, Lemay would helped stabilize the show while, at the same time, streamlining some of the cast and storylines.

TBH, I hated how Susan Flannery's character in "The Towering Inferno" was killed off. She basically burned to death in just her shirt and panties after an assignation with her married lover. Even JER would have objected, lol.

I feel like the "big romantic wink" will consist of Esther imagining what it'd be like to live as the mistress of the Chancellor mansion (with Katherine's jewels and fingernails) rather than as just the maid.

If anything, I think he looks better having filled out some. Again, though, that goatee is just a little too Harlan Sanders for me.

Exactly. From a writing standpoint, most classic soap opera, including '70's ATWT, never feels outdated, because the emphasis is on the human condition, which never changes. Of course, there are some exceptions, but those are usually due to the fact that you have a HW or HW'ing team that manipulates the characters too frequently in order to service the plot. (The Pollocks and the tired messes they wrote for THE DOCTORS come to mind, lol.)

Agree. (By the way, @Patrick D, hello and welcome to the board!) And I agree with the comments on the lighting and wardrobe during the Rauch era. He had those same issues throughout his tenure on OLTL, too. Especially toward the end, when it seemed to be a race between the set designers, the costume designers and the lighting designers as to who could be the most garish in their choices. Of course, Rauch was replaced by John Conboy, who tried to remake GL into Y&R or CAPITOL and blew the budget to smithereens in the process. Personally, I don't feel Conboy's aesthetic would have worked for GL, not even if he had had a better HW working with him.

In retrospect, I appreciate how Doug Marland made Barbara less of a victim and a doormat WITHOUT turning her into a total loon (like Goutman and Sheffer did). Robert Soderberg, who, with Edith Sommer, head-wrote ATWT for much of the '70's, is listed as Story Consultant in the credits for the 4/2 episode. I wonder if P&G was considering having him resume HW'ing duties. (And it looks like Ralph Ellis & Eugenie Hunt were back with the show as well. If only Soderberg, the Hunts and the DiZenzos had all stayed on when Marland took over. That would have been one amazing writing staff.) Breck Jamison still looks pretty good (in his most recent photos) but I could do without the goatee, lol.

I'm just glad that, barring any changes to our constitution, Elon Musk can never run for president.

Classic Ron Carlivati: bring up a character practically no one remembers.

James Corden: "I never saw it as my final destination." Translation: "They wouldn't pay me more money."

I've got news for you, Stone Cold: you STILL can't act!

God, I loved the music in that clip. It's not just someone fiddling at the piano; it's underscoring and illuminating the emotions going on between Stuart and Liz. And I truly miss the days when characters on soaps had normal conversations that revealed a little something about themselves and didn't just rattle off exposition mixed with pseudo-clever one-liners.

Wow, Michael Laibson looks so different!

Well, given that GH currently employs half of L.A.’s population, I can appreciate that B&B likes to play it small by comparison.

It's scary to think that COVID has forced these actors to start doing their own hair, makeup and/or wardrobe.