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I wish "Dick and Liz" had stayed together forever. To me, they were such a beautiful couple.

I literally laughed out loud when I heard he'd been cast as Dillon, because I had just seen him on an episode of Lifetime's awful "My Crazy Ex."

No doubt, that cat was just hiding out from their idiot of an owner. It's always galling to me how people expect public figures like Kamala Harris to be so damn erudite when the average man today can't put together a simple sentence to save his own neck. You don't elect leaders who are well-spoken; you elect leaders who can keep us all from ending up on the streets!

My thoughts pretty much echo @soapfan770's: it's always a treat to see Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury together, given their history. After his first couple of appearances, however, Michael Haggerty does start to wear out his welcome a bit. Also, in his last appearance on the show, "Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice" (S9, episode 7), they pretty much acknowledge that, with the real-life Cold War coming to a close, a character like Haggerty isn't as relevant anymore - and indeed, that is the last time we see or hear from him (books notwithstanding). Of course, I'd take another appearance from Haggerty over one from Grady any day, lol! My favorite recurring character - hands down - is Seth Hazlitt, followed by Harry McGraw and Lt. Artie Gelber. To me, Harry is one of the best TV gumshoes I've come across - a modern-day Sam Spade, if you will, with a dash of Jim Rockford's propensity for getting himself into the most comically absurd messes; and IMO, they couldn't have found a better actor to portray him than Jerry Orbach. EP/Showrunner Tom Sawyer tried to replicate Harry in the later seasons (after Orbach's "Law & Order" gig ruled out further appearances) with the more Mike Hammer-like Charlie Garrett, played by Wayne Rogers, but Charlie was such a pale imitation. Overall, I loved Dennis Stanton, too, but his last appearance (in "Ship of Thieves," S9, episode 20) was a total letdown. Not only was he not featured as much - I could've used more of him and less of Mary Wickes' klepto and her wimpy son - but a lot of his panache was gone as well. It's clear that Peter S. Fischer was the only one who could write for that particular character.

Apparently, Lisa Brown worked HARD with that girl BTS as her (and GL's) acting coach, pushing her to improve.

Yet, I have friends on FB who say that everything that Kamala Harris says is a "word salad." Personally, I don't have trouble parsing through her statements. I just think most people today are too country-ass dumb to understand anything above a "Dick and Jane" level.

She ain't the only one.

In a way, it works perfectly for where Jessica is supposed to be at that point in her life. Being a well-regarded mystery writer was still relatively new to her, so she hadn't developed a sense of sophistication about it all. If she had remained that way after S1, there's a good chance that her "eccentric New Englander" persona would've worn thin with the audience.

It's a lot of both, lol.

Let's say the fans' efforts pay off and TPTB reverse their decision to let KeMo go. Does anyone believe this will light a proverbial fire under her ass and get her to actually act for once, instead of just sleepwalking her way through scenes? Will TPTB try to give her better material, or any material at all? WHAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF KELLY MONACO ACTUALLY STAYED? (Spoiler alert: Nothing would be different).

The last time Maze featuring Frankie Beverly put out a new album, Bill Clinton had been president for only eight months. Yet, to the African-American community, they were relevant right up to the very end. That's the ultimate testament to their musicianship. RIP.

I can't believe some shut-ins out there actually took the time to dream up and post online fake SOD previews. Like, seriously, dudes, get another hobby, lol.

I'd love to know which other P&G show offered him a part. Something tells me it could've been for Lloyd Kendall on SFT, but maybe not, lol.

I still hope they keep in mind that it's not 1994 anymore and that having those characters behave as they did 30+ years ago will look foolish and sad and actually ruin viewers' memories of the original show.

"Diagnosis: Murder" did get better after Scott Baio left. However, even by Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman's already low standards, I thought DM was an embarrassment to everyone involved, including Dick Van Dyke. One factor that probably helped was all those endless cast reunions that they did in order to attract more viewers. I remember one episode reunited cast members from "Happy Days," "Laverne & Shirley" and other Garry Marshall-produced sitcoms, while another reunited members from the film and TV versions of "M*A*S*H." And then there was the time GH's Leslie Charleson and Stuart Damon made a cameo in an episode that, I think, centered around famous TV doctors like Quincy, Joe Gannon from "Medical Center" and the like. Ugh, lol. I just remember hating the whole exercise and thinking, "If y'all would put more time into developing better scripts, and instructing your actors not to act as if they're guest-starring on 'Batman,' and less time on THIS [!@#$%^&*], imagine how decent y'all actually would be!"

Actually, @Paul Raven, I think Tom O'Rourke was fired or let go. I remember reading an interview with Grant Aleksander where he said he was livid about the news but that O'Rourke calmed him down and said, in effect, "That's just the way the business works."

Believe me, I know exactly how you feel, lol.

Now that's the kind of soap opera I love. No evil twins, no back-from-the-dead tripe or supervillains out to control the world through weather machines. Just family members reuniting for a big occasion, catching each other up on everything and having normal, everyday conversations about things that we all can relate to. Sigh. I miss that so much.

For me, the bottom dropped out after Peggy O'Shea quit, in '87. For the next four years, OLTL still had its' moments, but I just remember the show getting sillier and sillier, with its' grasp on reality slipping. Then, in 1991, Linda Gottlieb arrives, followed by Michael Malone, and for me, OLTL becomes an entirely different show.

I guess the networks and advertisers made the same assumptions about "Matlock" that they had made about "Murder, She Wrote." In both cases, they assumed the show skewed older in terms of demographics; and in both cases, they were wrong. Of course, I don't think "Matlock" was as well written or produced as MSW - none of Dean Hargrove's shows were, IMO - but it's possible Andy Griffith had the same kind of broad appeal as Angela Lansbury, even if Ben Matlock wasn't as endearing as J.B. Fletcher.

And even after it's been debunked many times over, people insist it's happening. That's how it goes in Trumplandia.

I'm actually surprised "Matlock" did as well as it did in the ratings, lol!

One thing I never agreed with was giving J.R. a long-lost son. If he was going to have a long-lost child turn up, it should've been a daughter.

From a creative standpoint, leaning harder into the J.R. vs. Pam conflict after Bobby's "death" would have been fantastic, giving the show a jolt in the arm at just the right moment. CBS and Lorimar, however, would have needed to be realistic: the days of DALLAS being a ratings juggernaut and pop culture phenomenon had to come to an end sooner or later.

I agree.