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I used to be so anti-reboot/revival. But these days, I really find myself hankering for a reboot of "Welcome Back, Kotter" (with a completely new cast, of course).

Not to hate on Saundra Quarterman, because I'm sure she gave her all to Angie and to the show, but she is a textbook example of what happens when you have a casting director who thinks "any n***a will do." Just because she was Black and a female, that didn't mean she was right for Dr. Angie Baxter Hubbard.

Thanks, Paul!

I wish William Grey Espy was back at Y&R. Heck, I wish MORE of the show's original cast were still on the show. Y&R NEEDS more Brookses and Fosters.

Is this with the entire cast? I can't tell whether the guy standing behind Robert Colbert is Beau Kayser or one of the Greg Foster recasts. And who are the two standing between Brenda Dickson and John McCook?

In my mind, that trucker was really Brad Eliot.

I forgot about the Charlotte Greer story. Thanks for the reminder. IMO, Ron Hale had better chemistry with Ilene Kristen. Then again, I'm always partial to off-beat pairings.

Same. Cenedella was one of the Pollocks' associate writers, so he might have known how they had intended to play out the stories they left behind.

You know, maybe it's for the best that the post-1981 episodes aren't readily available. Aside from Claire Labine's return in 1987, it seems as if RH's glory days were behind them.

To me, that's the scary part. Stormy makes him look like...less a man, so I wouldn't be surprised if Trump were to nuke some nation JUST to prove how big a man he THINKS he is.

I'm wondering that as well. THE DOCTORS's canvas feels so restricted right now.

Personally, I always felt like the music rights issue was just an excuse, and that there had to be another reason for SN's not running any episodes past 1981. Does anyone know what kind of ratings RH reruns scored on SN? I suspect that maybe the viewership numbers fell off around that point -- which is understandable, since (IMO) that was a rough period for the show -- and that that had something to do with their decision.

Thanks! I guess I had always assumed that Billy was Dan's biological son on account of a statement that Carolee made to Alec Baldwin's Billy, saying he was acting more like Dan than Steve. I'll never understand why the show took such great pains not only to keep Nick and Althea apart, but to make Nick look like an absolute boor as well. Especially because, I don't think ANY of Althea's other love interests ever measured up. Even if Gerald Gordon wouldn't have remained on the show, I don't think he was irreplaceable as Nick, or that Elizabeth Hubbard couldn't have sparked with the right recast. At the very least, if Bill Bell had written for this show and this couple, I've no doubt that he would have introduced a sibling of Nick's for Althea to become involved with, thereby creating one of his classic love triangles.

To most who make their living at covering the news, Stormygate must seem mundane compared to the 1,001 other clusterf**ks swirling around TrumpCo.

Q: Who were Billy Allison Aldrich's biological parents? I've always assumed that he was Carolee's son by Dr. Dan Allison. However, as I rewatched scenes leading up to Dan's suicide, I heard Carolee say that Billy's mother was Barbara Ferra, who was also Toni's mother (IIRC); and I heard Dan say his bio dad was "some musician named Webb." (Also, now that I think about it, it does seem preposterous for Dan and Carolee to have a 12-year-old son at that point in the story, when Richard Higgs -- a good actor, by the way, who should NOT have been disposed of so quickly, as I think Dan could have been a great antagonist for years to come -- had been on the show for only a year.) Side question: how were Toni and Billy related to Dan? Toni called him "Uncle Dan." Was he a paternal uncle, a maternal one, or...?

Too late.

My childhood heard that I was being asked to root for Johnny Lawrence; and it said, "I don't think so."

I just hope H.R. Pufnstuf wasn't on the toilet when they broke the news to him.

In the past, Bill Murray has expressed regret for appearing in a film ("Stripes") where he is handling guns. Ironically, though, it also happens to be my favorite movie of his.

Sean Hayes is the Paul Lynde of our generation: he can't carry a series on his own either.

Wow, for someone who reportedly hated working on soap operas, Bruce Gray sure did appear on a lot of 'em.

Agree. There are four -- count 'em, four -- U.S. soaps left; and by my estimation, none of 'em are what I would call "healthy." Ergo, what do TPTB have to lose by "trying something different"? If bold experimentation, or simply getting back to basics, fails, then nothing really changes since, as I've said before, the remaining soaps are on the proverbial last legs anyway. But, on the slim chance that efforts to draw viewers back in actually succeeds, then maybe they've staved off the death of the genre.

Why does anyone still bother telling that man what (and what not) to say? At this point, they should just skip to the part where they either "clarify" his comments or deny that he ever made them. Oh, and of course he wouldn't take a harder stance with Russia. Would THAT surprise anyone at this point?

To me, it's a testament to Susan Lucci's appeal as an entertainer that Erica could do something as heinous as kidnap a child (even if she were under the mistaken impression that the baby's mother didn't want her) and emerge relatively unscathed from the whole ordeal. But, compulsively watchable or not, I could have done without that illogical story.

I must admit that as much as I deride Drake's skills as an actor, I probably would have liked him better as MacGyver.