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I was trying to remember - did Tad and Jesse still have a close friendship at the end of AMC?

I'd love to know why Angie wasn't in the anniversary episodes (aside from clips) - I wonder if they just didn't see a point, or if she still wasn't returning to AMC at that point because of the circumstances in which she left (and they still had the same producer at that time).

I remember reading in one of the soap magazines that she was scheduled to appear but at the last minute there were some scheduling conflicts so they had to tinker with the scenes.

At least Cosgrove was (IMHO) Hot, Lowry never was, but I get your point. Like I said, I did like his initial romance with Liza before they knew who each was.

I think Liza did recover somewhat--but as a backburnered character (I'm speaking of Marcy's Liza), but I do agree with your point in general.

This is the Monday, (the 18th) following the last episode I uploaded, still at Palmer's Masqeurade, 1980. Lots of great stuff. I really wish I could see AMC 1976-1981 or so. I know Babbin (?) shook things up as EP and 1983-84 anyway is seen as classic, but a lot of that is online--and I think this is the era that most interests me (aside from more from the very very early couple of years). Sorry I have NO idea how to edit out commercials or any other form of video editing--but I kinda enjoy the commercials, and they're easily skipped.

*Will Palmer discover who the masked lady is?* *Is Phil back from the dead?* Will poor Brooke ever fall in love with someone who doesn't seem like an attractive--and in love with Erica--gay man?*

So funny hearing Ruth talk about baby Joey. It was also funny seeing a teenage Tad (not played by MEK) and Charlie Brent.

What was the budget for these episodes? It was shot liked a movie.

Daisy's hair reminds me of Opal's 2011 hair.

Great seeing Lorraine Broderick in the credits as script supervisor.

After MANY attempts and creating a new youtube channel, I uploaded from video tapes I traded for as a teen, the Feb 15 1980 AMC, the first episode of Palmer's infamous Masquerade Ball. It's a great episode--they rented out and shot it mainly in some East Coast manor.

Anyway this is my first time trying to upload anything, and it took about 7 hours on my crappy computer once I found out how to make it work, so I haven't checked the full episode but it seems to have worked. I tried to upload it in a higher quality setting but 480 was the best I could find.

This party is often talked about and seems virtually non existant out there so I felt it should be the first thing to try. I also have the next two episodes in the party from Feb 18-19, as well as a May 28th episode from the same year that I've digitized from video. If there's interest in this I'll work on uploading those three as well but it may not be till the weekend.

Thanks Eric! I want to see the doberman scene.

"Kane-dayl... it's thay laypore. Documaynts inside thay laypore."

You totally nailed her accent. She annoyed me so much. She couldn't get her words out 95 percent of the time.

"It's more than a storyline, it's a legacy."

This is one episode I actually remember watching live. Nice seeing Hunter Tylo.

That was very nice of Agnes to write that (although I thought AMC was a mess at that point). She seemed to have a little more of a relationship with SPW than she had with SOD - they printed several of her letters in that era.

In 2000? I thought the show was great.

In real life, I agree, most things have to go. On a soap, I just have this image of Erica having storage lockers with Mona's things and every once in a while going to see them when she needs to get away from the people in her life.

I have to admit I didn't have a big emotional reaction at the time to Linden House burning down because, well, for one thing, the name always kind of annoyed me, and for another, I never got to see Mona (aside from one or two clips). I was more used to the Erica of the late 90's, who had been in and out of Wildwind, and was more of a loner, as Bianca was only a recurring character. It wasn't until the whole Bianca rape story that I started to understand more of the Kane legacy.

Wasn't this when she had the phantom mask and contemplated suicide? Or was that something else? I always imagine the people who owned the house wandering in and seeing THE Erica Kane in their bath.

It wasn't Linden House that burned down. In 1998/1999 or so, Erica sold Linden and bought an ornate Victorian mansion in the center of town. It was supposedly a house she'd passed walking home from school as a child, and she thought it was lovely and that it was the sort of house she wanted to have someday when she was rich and famous, so when it came up for sale, she bought it. This was after Mike Roy came back, and she had to choose between them - she chose Jack but slept with Mike one last time, and when Jack realized that, he dumped her. Then Jack's sister returned from the dead and claimed that she'd been raped by Ryan Lavery, and Erica and Jack were butting heads because she wanted him back but was insistent that Kit was lying about Ryan raping her because Ryan wouldn't do that. Ryan's brother, Braden, was the guilty one.

Erica moved into the Victorian, and she lived there during her relationship with David Hayward, the start of her relationship with Chris Stamp, and during Bianca's coming out. Leo also lived there with her. It was that house that Trey burned down.

I *think* so, but I'm not sure. I haven't seen that particular scene online.

Different story. The mask was when she was disfigured in a car accident with David.

There is an episode on YT where Jack helps Erica clean out Mona's house. It's really quite sad. Erica wants to hold onto every single thing, even though it's painfully obvious that she'll never use 99% of it (I think she tells him that she can make throw pillows out of her mother's silly flannel Christmas-themed nightgowns).

I remember this episode. I thought Susan Lucci was great in it, very haunting performance. I remember there was a scene where she took a bubble bath in Mona's bathroom. Can you provide a link to the youtube video?

Was I the only one who could not get through last night's show? The black and white portion dragged on forever. I don't know if I should blame Matthew Morrison since it was his directorial debut on Glee.

I think Susan is particularly beautiful here, look at some of the closeups:

Concur. Flawless. But all the women look great in this scene including Jill Larson and Marj Dusay. The makeup looked particularly crisp.

This season is just not good. Too contrived, like for example the way Sam came back. The character of Quinn is just a big bitch has no redeeming qualities.

Watching all these classic episodes I didn't realize that even in the mid 90s soaps, without commercials, were around 39 mins... I wonder when they were cut down to 33 or however they are now.

They're just as long now or was . It was never as short as 33.

^ Off topic. I didn't know that LOVING licensed the use of a character to a South African soap. Interesting.

No way. I loved Edmund. It was St. Maria of Wildwind I never liked. I always thought TPTB missed out on an opportunity for comic gold when they married Edmund off to Maria instead of Brooke. Erica and Brooke married to two brothers, sharing the same palatial estate would have been fabulous.

Concur! Edmund and Brooke was where it was at.

Now if only we can get some of that freaking "Destinyon the Danube" story online...

That was one of my favorite soap marketing campaigns. I remember that pic of Erica sleeping with Dimitri looking over her. "Good night, Erica."

^ 1992. What a great year for this show!

Laurel and Marissa are related somehow.

The biggest problem with Glee will always be the character development. These characters don't act realistically at all which wouldn't be a problem if their actions made sense or there was some kind of arc, reason attached to their development. Even the catalyst for most of their problems and the way the resolve them don't really make sense either. It's like they are in some bizarro world or something.

I remember in the first season where everyone in the club kept the fact that the father of Quinn's child was not Finn but Puck. Finn believed he was the father of the child because Quinn tricked him into it. Everyone in the club went along with it because "it was Quinn's choice" and they didn't want to "blow nationals" by telling Finn the truth WTF? How can there be 13 characters and not one of them has an ounce of morality in them to see that what Quinn was doing was wrong? And worse yet both Rachel and Puck were said to be in the wrong for exposing Quinn's lies! Ridiculous especially considering Quinn was on the side having dates with Puck even while she was Finn's girlfriend.

Fast forward to season two, Quinn and Rachel are friends, Finn wants to get back together with Quinn because they "have firework chemistry" and Finn has completely forgotten the fact that Quinn cheated on him and lied about her child's fraternity. Quinn has completely forgotten she had a child at all and now is all about becoming Prom Queen and achieving something in high school because she knows she won't amount to anything after high school is over. She just accepts this line of thinking, doesn't try to change it make herself better. She doesn't aim for college, doesn't aim to work a trader, anything, she just wants to be Prom Queen and be popular.

Fast forward again to season three Quinn is a delinquent and supposedly everything bad that happened to her is a result of the fact that she lost her baby since she put her up for adoption two seasons ago, after she went an entire year not giving a second thought to her baby!

The character work is just unbelievably messy. I am sure you could find horrible development for most of the side characters.

I like Rachel a lot. She is probably the cornerstone character for the series and she seems to be the only character who consistently grows and who's characterization is deep enough that it doesn't change by the episode. Finn, Quinn, Puck, Mercedes, Tina, etc. all of them change so frequently and so ridiculously that there isn't a point in investing in them. They are all so shallow. The only characters I like are Santana, Artie, Brittany and Rachel. The rest are useless.

It's like Charles Pratt wrote this. No character development whatsoever.

^ Wow, I miss Erica.

^ Wow, I never new she did a Diet Dr. Pepper commercial.

^ Awesome.

Faux Silver Kane = Ugly Betty

^ That girl hated Barbara like Emma hated Greenlee.

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