Khan

And therein lies the difference between Michael Malone and Agnes Nixon. Nixon would have allowed all sides to have their say. Tom was a devout Catholic whose faith was important to him. That was one facet to his character that I always appreciated.

The '90's took that with them.

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."

It is.

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.

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.

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. I think she said "Sydney"?

It's SEARCH FOR TOMORROW meets DARK SHADOWS. 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!

FYI: I borrowed my pen name, Michael, from Dr. Shea. Although I haven't seen one bit of footage of him, there is something about that man's history that has long fascinated me.

I don't think Paul Raven was questioning that fact. I think he was just making note of it here for anyone using these posts for research and/or statistical purposes.

I think the conventional wisdom is that TEXAS improved slightly when it moved to an earlier timeslot, but that that, along with a massive write-in campaign, was not enough for NBC to save the show.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022405463.html

To think, there was a time on OLTL when Victor Lord was written with a bit more respectability.

Perhaps I am just a candleholder (those who frequented the "GL Buzz" board know what I mean), but that is the kind of soap opera that, in my eyes, stands the test of time. You could run that today and it still would hold an audience.

Meredith Brown: "Is it linen?" Chip Lucia (grins): "I'm not sure. Touch it." Why do I feel like that was a come-on?