Khan

Wasn't Lucy Deakins' Lily involved with Dusty? If so, then maybe Marland might have continued on that course.

I do, too -- but only under certain conditions. IOW, I don't want a "return to Peapack." Nor do I want a set-up similar to the PP revivals of AMC and OLTL, quite frankly. (Their production values weren't that impressive to me.)

For me, GUIDING LIGHT ended LONG before the final episode...but I definitely understand how you feel, Julia, in regards to feelings of withdrawal. Four years later, and people STILL can't wrap their minds around the fact that the show is gone.

LOL!

IIRC, Constance McCashin or Lisa Hartman Black said in an interview how they joked about Ciji and Laura being lovers. Even to the point of turning their backs to the camera during one scene and then turning back around to reveal mustaches.

I almost feel as if the writers had intended to make Ciji and Laura a lesbian couple BECAUSE Richard made such a deal about it. (And really, who could blame him? I felt the overtones between the two women were strong and undeniable.) But CBS and/or Lorimar were just too skittish to let them go ahead with it.

Another fascinating moment from "Celebration":

Here's the beginning: And here's the end:

Mann Rubin, who was the credited writer for my all-time favorite KNOTS episode ("Celebration" -- the one where Ciji Dunne was murdered), has passed away: http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/r-i-p-tv-writer-mann-rubin/

Easy, girls. "Gay" doesn't automatically mean "available."

If we ever have a "I will fight you!" thread for actors on this board, I am definitely adding Justin Deas to the list.

Imagine if FC were done in this day and age, with someone like Ryan Murphy or Marc Cherry at the helm....

I miss the '80's. In the '80's, TV shows weren't about anything other than entertaining the snot out of people.

No way would these scenes have occurred under Chris Goutman's or MADD's watch. Chances are, it would have been more Grant manhandling Lisa, John browbeating Kim and Kim taking it, Lisa being absolutely stupid about Bennett and calling him her "true love," and Lisa and Kim calling each other "bitch" while Tom looks on and Nancy is away at the retirement home.

It was. I recognize the doors.

Yep.

Lynn's exit had been planned from the start. AMC had Donna Pescow for a limited amount of time.

Might an expansion to 60 minutes have saved THE DOCTORS, or would it have only made everything worse?

I liked Justin Deas' Tom, if only because he shared great chemistry with Margaret Colin and Hillary B. Smith I also rather enjoyed the pacing of those scenes. For one thing, a major character, beloved by many in Oakdale, as well as by the folks watching at home, had passed away, so the writers probably felt it wasn't appropriate for everything to be bright and peppy, no matter how much or how little each character was connected to Dan and Kim. For another, although several actors were wooden, yes, it was nice to see again actual scenes, with clear beginnings, middles and ends, and characters actually feeling and communicating, rather than just standing there, spouting clumsy exposition and bitchy, immature dialogue at each other. And scoff if you must, Mitch, at the sets, lighting and so forth, but I STILL think the P&G soaps overall had the finest production values in daytime, lol. It's only when they openly copied the ABC soaps in those respects that I felt cheated.

Re: Ghost Reva -- I can't remember, but was JFP still EP when this story began? I've heard someone say that JFP always resisted bringing back Reva, because she felt GUIDING LIGHT had become an entirely different show in KZ's absence.

You'll have to bring me up to speed on what "torrents" are, Chris. I've heard the term before, but I don't think I know anything about 'em.

They did, didn't they? I wonder why it went nowhere. At the very least, you could have had a very interesting triangle with Jack, Carly, and Molly.

Mama Khan cares to know if episodes of this and "Love Thy Neighbor" are available online yet. (At the moment, we don't have OWN on our cable.) Any suggestions?

I agree. That isn't to say I would have objected to the idea of Buzz and Nola pairing up. But I don't think the writers took all the necessary steps to get me to root for that particular couple.

The Cryer family and their "help" reside in the fabulous, gay man's wet dream that is Tyler Perry's imagination.