Khan

I always thought that is exactly what should have happened, that Reva is found living it up with Kyle on some island somewhere (not San Crud) where he controls his business interests from afar.

That sounds good, Mitch, but unless Kyle were an amnesiac, too, and he had no idea who Reva was or what previous history they had shared, I'd be worried about damaging Kyle's character along with the Kyle/Reva relationship; and Jeva fans be damned, but I would do whatever it took to keep both relationships, or the whole push-and-pull of a Reva/Josh/Kyle triangle, "alive."

The Amish thing was stupid.

Not really. If Megan McTavish had bothered to include flashbacks to when Kyle and Reva spent that time on the other Amish farm, I think viewers would have been more accepting of the story, believing Reva had come to Goshen in the first place because the place and the people reminded her of some vague memories that she otherwise could not have explained.

(remember on soaps when characters had warring motivations and were not good or evil but something in between?)

Those were the days....

Regarding Kyle I understand he didn't die but was shown to be in a coma, one from which I don't believe he ever woke up from.

Honestly, I vaguely recall the scene-in-question, but I'm definitely sure there was a phone call relaying word about the crash.

So Kyle just left town alone?

Pretty much. Although he did remarry...to an unknown woman...off-screen. (Seriously.) Then, Maeve got a call one day and learned Kyle, his wife and (I think) their child had been killed in a plane crash in the Himalayas.

If only Peapack looked like that!!!

It might've, if GUIDING LIGHT had had an EP who knew what they were doing.

Kyle and Reva were my couple, so it grieved me terribly to witness their destruction. Then again, perhaps that was part of their magic? Two star-crossed lovers, never afforded a chance for lasting happiness, no matter how hard they tried.

So many men, so many mullets....

I think it would have been appropriate for Tara to make a final appearence in Pine Valley....but I guess that won't be happening.

If anyone should be coming back from the dead on AMC, it should be Phil Brent. IIRC, Phil, last played by Nicholas Benedict, was killed off in a plane crash while on assignment for the government. But we all know how meaningless that is.

I say, bring back Richard Hatch or Benedict, then facilitate a reunion w/ Phil, Tara, and even Charlie and Kelsey.

I always wonder what it was that took AMC from having genuinely good characters to having the self-righteous, harsh, unforgiving "good" characters, like the latter day Martins.

I blame the network's sudden inability to trust its audience with human nuances and complexities.

And therein lies the difference between Michael Malone and Agnes Nixon. Nixon would have allowed all sides to have their say.

In this story, I think it works that they had Tom, who was pro-life, but not an extremist, like the people in those credits.

Tom was a devout Catholic whose faith was important to him. That was one facet to his character that I always appreciated.

The show had such strong and complex female characters at this time, all of whom could take you from wanting to shake them to breaking your heart within a single sentence. Where did that go?

The '90's took that with them.

I personally didn't care for it, mainly because it degraded both Margo and Jessica so much. I felt the story inexplicably turned Margo into a sex starved bored housewife and at that point in their marriage I don't think Tom and Margo needed another infidelity story, especially not after the mess that was Tom's mid-life crisis and affair with Emily resulting in Daniel. I didn't like the Jessica stuff either--it was sad because Jessica and Ben were trying to have a child together and Jessica had just been raped and lived through all the Marshall stuff so I would have though Jessica to be a lot stronger and smarter.

Same here. Also -- and perhaps, this is just me -- but also, it came off as racist to have Doc, this "big, black, beautiful buck," to quote "Designing Women," become the object of Jessica's and especially Margo's desires. Like all of a sudden, the three were co-starring in a local production of "Mandingo."

I don't know if it's the same Kathleen Tolan who traumatized me on Ryan's Hope (as Mary Ryan #3) or not.

It is.

Max sabotaged her attempts to open a clown school.

GO MAX!

Asking an audience to accept and understand Maggie's dream of opening a clown school was mighty presumptuous on Claire Labine's part. An art gallery or a cosmetics company, fine. But a clown school? Seriously?

Didn't Maggie leave Llanview because her clown school had failed?

And for the "neon lights."

So much hair, Todd, so much hair.

THE DOCTORS was just like other shows before cancellation. With most long-running soaps that were victims of the ax,those who had been with the production and developed strong ties and allegiances and fought until the day it went down to keep it going loved the show. Those who were new kids on the block, mostly younger actors who didn't quite grasp what was being lost, just looked at it as another gig and were just as content to move onto the next one...and if the dark cloud has been hanging over a show, it is easy for those with no real investment to later look back and claim that the production was"Toxic" "Like a noose hanging around our heads" "Unpleasant" "Had the smell of death".

I'm sure the no-name producer and HW's didn't instill confidence either. Of course, it seems like most, if not all, soaps get canceled at a point when no one who's any good will go near 'em, doesn't it? No one with a reputation as large as, say, Agnes Nixon's will step up and say, I might have won X amount of Emmys, put this many shows at or near the top of the ratings, etc.; but I am willing to stake my reputation and everything else on turning this failing show around, because losing just one soap is bad for all of us. If NBC or Colgate-Palmolive had taken a look at the landscape and decided to lure over a writer like Wisner Washam or an EP such as Michael Laibson, who knows what might have been accomplished. Would it have saved THE DOCTORS in the end? Hard to say. But perhaps it would have gone out on a high note.

Unless Delia was at that phase in her life where she had money and wanted to rub it in the Ryans' faces, I don't know whether she would have hesitated showing up at the bar in jeans. Granted, I always recall her wearing the dowdiest of dresses, but I feel as if Delia would've worn whatever the others were wearing in order to fit in with them and be like one of them.

Unfortunately, Sydney's abusive husband found her and their four children and demanded she come back home lest she wanted never to see their kids - Braeden, Ryan, Erin and Jonathan - again.

You know I'm going absolutely nuts over that little taste of 1971 AMC. And in color, too! I'm hoping more and more of that frustrating 1971-1978 gap gets closed.

So do I. It was wonderful to see Judith Barcroft's Ann in something other than what's been posted already online. Thank you, saynotoursoap, if you're reading these comments.

Does Ann mention her name at the start of the scene?

I think she said "Sydney"?

It's SEARCH FOR TOMORROW meets DARK SHADOWS. LOL.

Anyway, Marland's original idea was to have Chuckie really be alive. ([it] would have been interesting, maybe Shea wasn't really dead and he faked Chuckie's death to punish Lisa, so Chuckie could have been trained to hate Lisa all these years...hey thats a good story!!) But Fulton said that it was impossible as Nancy buried him, and anyone who was "buried by Nancy Hughes stayed dead!" LOL.

True, Nancy might have buried a child. But did she know for certain that child was Chuckie?

And that little LSD trip through her mirror wasn't helping.

"Neon lights" must be 1950's code for "crystal meth."

Jo: Do you really like neon lights?

Hazel: Sure! All the gay spots have 'em!

Khan: Indeed!

Also, listen closely and in the background at 7:28 is the familiar DAYS theme.

1) Jo was a soap fan. Just like us.

2) But it's the evening! Did she have a DVR?

3) Wait, it's 1954 and she's watching DAYS???

:)

Love in the afternoon? More like death in the afternoon!