Khan

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?

That is just trifling. NBC could have pressured affiliates to switch THE DOCTORS to a late-afternoon timeslot. If it had aired at 3:30 or 4:00 PM EST, it would have been a hit with younger audiences. Guaranteed.

That...? Seems appropriate, oddly enough.

Knowing BM, too, she'd let him prattle, wait a beat, then smile and say, "Well, thank you, Mr. Jerome, I'll certainly keep what you said in mind," all while giving him that look that was known to cut people dead.

My personal knowledge of THE DOCTORS is limited. In fact, I have no memories of any soap before 1981/1982. So, as far as THE DOCTORS are concerned, that amounts to bits and pieces of Alec Baldwin, Lydia Bruce, Elizabeth Hubbard, Meg Mundy, David O'Brien, Jada Rowland, and Kim Zimmer. Based on what I do know from before that time period, though, from reading various story synopses and what-not, I think NBC gave up on this one too soon. Granted, it wasn't in the best of shape when it ended, but I feel like enough was there at the core - with Matt, Maggie, Mike and Kit; with Althea and Penny (it wouldn't be the first time a character came back from the dead); with Steve and Carolee and a sprinkling of new and returning Dancys and Aldriches (would Billy, Mona and Nola have even been written off for good if not for the quick ratings?); and maybe a new family headed by an African-American patriarch who comes to work at the hospital - to keep trying. A hospital can be a great community setting for a soap, I think, allowing characters from various walks of life to interact on all levels.

"So You Want to Be a Soap Star!"... Looks like SoapNet weren't the first to think of the concept.

I'm sorry, Carl, I thought it was SOD's mistake, not yours.