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How sad is it that a re-airing of an episode from the first Reagan administration has us more excited about Y&R than anything going on in the present day?

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Ed Scott and Melody Thomas Scott had no business working on the same show. When it was clear that the two were going to marry, either Ed or Melody should have been let go.

Well. That's the last time I make a politically tinged remark in a non-political thread.

I don't, lol. If people are stupid enough to follow Trump's advice, then they deserve what's coming to them. It's just as well. No one deserves to have any of Andy Cohen flowing through their bodies.

At this point, I'd rather pre-empt Y&R (and every other soap) if it meant getting to listen to Cuomo and not Mr. "Let Them Drink Bleach!".

I'm not sure, but I do recall when Reva visited Annie at a mental institution when she suspected Annie of being her stalker.

What on earth does Jon Lindstrom have to do with Cady McClain (besides being her husband), Michael E. Knight or AMC?

I think she was always meant to be Annie, but the show just botched the whole reveal.

Same. No offense to Signy Coleman or her fans, but I don't believe she was the best fit for recast Annie. They would have been much better off bringing her on as a new and altogether different character. And maybe have Holly's brother, Ken, empathize with her and form some sort of father/daughter-type bond with her as she faced the consequences of her actions.

Thanks (again) for that clip, @j swift! Henry Slesar's work on EON and CAPITOL remains a masterclass in dramatic writing. And anyone who believes soaps can't be good if produced on small to no budgets need only to watch EON to see how wrong they are. Next to Y&R, EON was the most atmospheric show on daytime.

That would have made more sense.

Agree! And God help us if the 90 minute shows had somehow been successful. Because, before you'd know it, NBC would have expanded AW to 120 minutes, then 150, then who knows how long. It could have been like watching TODAY, but with one long-ass, all-day soap opera.

The Gap DESERVES to "die." Don't get me wrong: I'd feel bad for all the employees, who would now be unemployed. But, man, do their stores sell such terrible merchandise -- and at such over-inflated prices, too!

"Tune in every weekday for SEARCH FOR TOMORROW, and achieve your soapgasm a half-hour earlier!"

If that's true, then P&G and/or NBC should have realized right away that the expansion was a mistake and cut AW back to sixty minutes as soon as possible. The fact that they didn't proves just how grossly incompetent and indifferent TPTB were.

Yup. That's when she made Groucho Marx-like exit through the courthouse window. Regardless of my personal feelings about Colleen Zenk Pinter, I still believe this show ruined Barbara.

Well said, @Juliajms!

That is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo not Joan Lunden, lol.

Oh. My bad. LOL. But, if you notice, Meryl appears to be leaning AWAY from Maeve. The only two options were to 1) ignore it or 2) reveal that someone (most likely, Alexandra) faked the proof that Amanda was really Brandon's daughter. Otherwise, the retcon was just...unnecessary.

Excellent point, lol. It wouldn't have been enough just to transplant Erica to SoHo. The story needed to be there as well.

Claire Labine once suggested that when she and Paul Avila Mayer had sold RYAN'S HOPE to ABC, they should have asked the network to let them have a year off to recharge their creative batteries. Maybe a similar solution could have done wonders for AW and Lemay? He could've taken a sabbatical of sorts and let Tom King, who might not have been as good of a writer but who definitely knew the show, head-write for a year or so; and in the meantime, he could have remained in an unofficial consulting capacity, offering guidance whenever needed.

True, lol. I just think it's a shame we've never seen the two (Maeve and Meryl) together in the same production...or in general.

Well, if Harding Lemay felt angry or jealous about Douglas Marland's success at GH, he certainly didn't let his emotions keep him from working later as one of Marland's script writers at GL, lol. But seriously. Given how much pressure he was under (from NBC as well as from P&G) to keep the ratings up, Lemay was bound to burn out at AW. By his own admission, he resorted to the kind of sensational plots (murder, kidnapping, fires, etc.) he had fought to avoid earlier in his tenure. Plus, Lemay was writing most, if not all, of the daily scripts; and while I do think smaller writing staffs are better all-around, writing up to five 60-minute scripts per week had to have been the ultimate strain. Under those circumstances, it's no wonder Lemay bailed soon after Rauch had expanded AW to 90 minutes per day.

IIRC, Victoria Wyndham was supposed to appear on DAYS as some sort of quasi-European nobility for Greta Von Amburg's coronation. Sheraton Kalouria, who was then in charge of NBC Daytime, made a big to-do in the soap press about getting a bunch of soap vets to appear as a favor to his mother, a lifelong soap fan. However, as others have stated, VW dropped out once she realized the role was little more than a cameo. I'm not sure, but I THINK they replaced her with Dorothy Lyman (as the "Countess DiLyman," or some such ridiculousness). Ah, okay. Thanks, @DRW50! Like I said, I wasn't sure. Maybe Dorothy Lyman was there from the beginning? Frankly, I wasn't watching DAYS anymore at that point, so I don't know how it all played out on-screen.

As someone who was born in 1979, the tail end of disco and Gen-X, I still carry fond memories of being at the local shopping malls when going to the malls -- not always to shop for something in particular, but just to browse -- was still a real experience, especially for those who lived in the midwest. Nothing defined that time better than shopping malls and John Hughes films. It's sad that those who are coming along now will never enjoy malls the way my generation did.