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I watched the clips of where Jill hired Drew Pillsbury as David before they were deleted off YT earlier this year and it was hilarious.....I highly doubt Jill’s hiring process was legal at all but it was also funny to know she personally handpicked David to be her secretary knowing what lies down the road.

He later was absolutely dreadful on Dallas as that art museum owner Lucy fell head over heels for, he obviously fell far from the tree as far as talent was concerned. I agree those 1986 GL eps are very unfocused and seem to be a mishmash of everything. Was this Ryder’s tenure? Something I wanted to touch base on with a 1990 episode @Soapsuds had shared was while it was interesting to see some of the fallout from the Dana Jones & Looney Rae Rooney story, I kind of hated the show had styled Sherry Stingfield’s Blake look like she was 35 years old or something. Just awful.

RE: On Alan & Alex’s history I believe Alex was supposed to be the older of the two but I could see it being easily flipped-flopped, here’s what I could find on Spaulding family history in my notes: Who is Susan Piper and why is Donald [R. Schwartz, PhD] waiting for her return? She was Tony and Annabelle Reardon's chain-smoking real estate agent. (I remember Donald posting a rather intriguing description of her once; perhaps he saved it?) [SA] [Here's a note from Donald.] Susan was played by Carrie Nye, who is Dick Cavett's real-life wife. Susan was ugly and lecherous -- long stringy dirty grey/blond hair, she SMOKED -- always taking LONG drags on the cigarette, had an old southern accent, not pretty at all -- and she was EVIL! all of these being WONDERFULLY portrayed -- and making a FABULOUS character who I miss very much... she met her demise by falling into into a lava pit in Barbados (but since they NEVER FOUND THE BODY, there's still hope!). [And from Dale, a summary of Susan Piper's plot.] The characters involved in this heinous story were: Tony and Annabelle Reardon, Jim Reardon and Hillary Bauer, Fletcher Reade and Claire Ramsey,Susan Piper and her sidekick John Young, and Piper's mysterious "boss", whose face we never saw. Tony and Annabelle bought a cottage through Piper Realty, but it was mistakenly sold by a realtor employed there. In reality, Piper was being paid by a mysterious man to take care of the cottage and to make sure that no one went near it. So Piper set out to terrorize Tony and Annabelle at every turn to get the cottage back. Meanwhile, Annabelle was having psychic visions and feeling cold spots in the house. There was lots of weird stuff going on, like secret rooms hidden behind the paneling, strange Caribbean voodoo artifacts, and a painting that cried real tears. Finally, Annabelle realized that sometime in the past, a murder had taken place in the cottage. She had dreams about a black man and a little black girl who was screaming. (I'm not making this up!!) Jim, Hillary, Fletcher, and Claire gradually got drawn into the mystery because of Piper's wicked dealings. Piper, who didn't know who her boss" was, was also trying to find out the cottage's secret so she could blackmail him.She tried to frighten Tony and Annabelle out of the cottage by sending them a bomb in a music box, but Hillary wound up dead after she toyed with the box. The key to the whole mystery was some papers hidden inside an old doll,which proved who Piper's "boss" was. Eventually, everyone ended up in Barbados, where Piper tried to kill them all. Jim fell in love with Annabelle and Tony was jealous. Fletcher and Claire were set adrift in a boat in a storm, but they survived. Piper kidnapped Jim and Annabelle and Tony came to their rescue. Piper met her presumed demise when she fell into a pit of lava (or something like that.) After Piper's "death", everyone gathered at a sugar plantation where they met Victoria Tamerlaine and her aged mother Sharina, who lived with (surprise!!) Piper's mysterious boss. Fletcher, ace reporter that he is, guessed the truth and brought Alex to Barbados, where she immediately recognized Piper's boss as her dead father Brandon, and she promptly fainted dead away on the spot. The story: 40 years before, Brandon had an affair with Sharina, and they had a child, Victoria. Knowing that society would never accept their mixed-race marriage, Brandon planned to move Sharina and Victoria from the cottage to Barbados. But Brandon's wife found out about the affair,and came to the cottage with a gun. She had just given birth to Alan (so Alex IS older!!), and she was very weak. She tried to shoot Sharina, but Sharina's brother Conrad took the bullet as little Victoria screamed. Conrad died on the floor of the cottage, while Brandon's wife (I think Penelope was her name) collapsed after the shooting and died shortly thereafter. Brandon whisked Sharina and Victoria away to Barbados, promising to join them when he could. Later he faked his death (Ha!) and hired Piper to look after the cottage. After this story was told, Brandon and Sharina died on the same day, and Alex and Victoria vowed to be sisters forever. Alex left and we have not heard Victoria's name since. This story was lame because it cheated: Brandon died on camera in a nursing home a few years earlier, as Lucille Wexler watched. First they made us think Amanda was Brandon's daughter, then they revealed that she was Alan's daughter, and now they're saying she's Brandon's daughter again? What's the deal? Let me tell you, it's not pretty. Amanda was raised by crazy Lucille Wexler, who was Brandon Spaulding's one-time mistress. Lucille always believed that Amanda was Brandon's child by another liaison, but on his deathbed, he revealed to her that Amanda was really Alan's daughter, by a woman named Jane Marie Stafford. Jane Marie had worked in the Spaulding home as a teen, and she & the teen-age Alan had a love affair. But Jane Marie never told Alan she was pregnant, and Brandon took care of everything. Jane Marie left town and changed her name to Jennifer. She later married a man named Walter Richards, who died in a car accident in 1980, as they were driving through Springfield. Jennifer & daughter Morgan stayed in town. Lucille, who had been been searching for Jane Marie, finally recognized her in Jennifer. The truth came out, shocking Amanda to the core, and she miscarried the baby she was carrying. Fast-forward to 1997. Roger learns that Alexandra has secret papers that could bring down the Spauldings. He teams up with Amanda to track them down. The "papers" turn out to be Amanda's birth certificate, which shows her parents to be Brandon Spaulding and Jennifer Richards. Amanda is once again shocked to the core & drives Alexandra out of town for keeping this secret for so many years. This latest development raises several questions. How could the teen-age Jane Marie have slept with yucky old Brandon when she had the virile young Alan? If she was sleeping with both of them, how can anyone be sure who the father is without a DNA test? And, most important, why is the mother's name on the birth certificate "Jennifer Richards" when this was a name that Jane Marie Stafford took years after giving birth? A writer's slip, apparently, since if it was deliberate, Alan should have caught the error immediately and pronounced the birth certificate a fake. But maybe he prefers to keep the truth to himself, and Amanda's paternity will be switched once again somewhere down the road.

Awesome thanks! Haha I thinking along the lines of EB, MTS and PB all sharing the same stage in the 1990 one would’ve never happened by ‘93, that’s about the Y&R cast I would’ve expected for ‘93. That early 1990 Is a rare gem for sure!

Wow thanks so much @YRfan23!! I’m so glad Donahue was able to interview the cast and Bill himself plus it seemed like everyone was having fun. Lol I can’t imagine how such an interview would’ve gone down by 1993.

Wow to the news about Tanya Roberts passing, that's sad to hear. Lack of acting ability aside(see Sheena and/or A View to a Kill or that weird soft porn movie she did with the dead Hemingway sister), she did have a bit of warm charm to her and was visually stunning at her career height in the mid-80s.

Thanks @JAS0N47!!! I’m amazed she has never hit #1 before. Don’t know if you had seen it but the official Days Facebook page posted a lot of closeups of Horton ornaments including the elusive Spencer.

Thanks to whoever added Christmas 1987 and 1988 i remember it was such a real treat when CBS reran them in the late 90s I’m really glad they made their way to the Vault finally after disappearing off YT almost a decade ago.

Disgusting indeed but not surprising from a show that had tumultuous backstage problems from the get go, de-gaying characters and all. Few shows have ever tanked as quickly as Heroes did.

Holy moly, from KMVT 11 Twin Falls Idaho 12-9-1994: 5:00 Off The Air 5:30 Headline News 6:30 CBS Morning News 7:00 This Morning 9:00 The Price is Right 10:00 Family Feud 11:00 Susan Powter 11:30 Bold and the Beautiful 12:00 Regis & Kathie Lee 1:00 Guiding Light 2:00 Young and the Restless 3:00 As The World Turns 4:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation 5:00 Jeopardy 5:30 CBS Evening News 6:00 News 6:30 Wheel of Fortune 7:00 Diagnosis Murder 8:00 MOVIE: In the Heat of the Night "Who Was Geli Bendi?" 10:00 News 10:35 Cheers 11:05 Late Show 12:05 Off the Air And then, from KGGM 13 Albuquerque 11-27-1991: 6:00 CBS This Morning 8:00 Sally Jessy Raphael 9:00 Donahue 10:00 As The World Turns 11:00 Designing Women 11:30 Family Feud 12:00 News 12:30 The Price is Right 1:30 Bold and the Beautiful 2:00 Guiding Light 3:00 Young and the Restless 4:00 Candid Camera 4:30 Family Feud 5:00 Jeopardy 5:30 CBS Evening News 6:00 News 6:30 Now It Can Be Told 7:00 Brooklyn Bridge 7:30 The Royal Family 8:00 Movie: "The Wizard of Oz"(1939) 10:00 News 10:30 College Basketball: Texas Tech vs. New Mexico 12:30 Then and Now 1:00 Cheers 1:30 Apollo Hair Systems 2:00 The $100,000 Pyramid 2:30 Off the Air 4:30 CBS Morning News 5:00 This Morning

Seeing the scenes between Stefano and Julie in early 1982 always have fascinated me, I wonder if the show should have kept Stefano's focus on Julie, at least for the early 80s to give her some juicy story at least. (I can't imagine seeing SSH agreeing to the later Queen of the Night or levitating above her bed stuff lol) I definitely can see being entwined with Victor as she was in the early 90s had Doug & Julie stayed on in the late 80s. No idea what Doug would have done though unless they brought his son to Salem.

Interesting to hear them as I felt the two were so wasted and their story was either appearing at various parties as the token couple or being some D-plot angle in the Santos mess. David & Ruth wasn’t too bad but it also was very forgettable. Platt came on as Vicky right after Vicky’s involvement ended in the clone story right? I believe the original actress was still in the role when it was revealed she was a Spaulding, I remember her work more than I do of Platt oddly but that fall 1999-summer 2001 period I was turning out a lot. I remember David returned after Charles had a heart attack at the Bauer BBQ stressed over buying faulty medical equipment he purchased from Santos family(!) David found Vivian crying in Griffin’s arms. It was weird because they were are all barely on at the point David came back as I think Marcus & Dahlia were just about out the door...it was said Marcus randomly ran off with another woman or something.

Still having trouble with this lol Idk why @Faulkner’s picture gets displayed like that...

At the very least special DVD releases should have been seriously considered. The only short run soap I could even seen succeeding in a syndication would be Sunset Beach but that has longgggg past it’s time. I remember Sci-Fi tried to rerun Passions but it flopped badly.

After Dark Shadows got its own PlutoTV channel, why not Y&R? Doesn’t need to be every episode but maybe something more like a memorable moments channel.

Lol I saw that after I found clips of it on YT, it was lousy as I remembered. One saving grace from the clips I watched was Phillip was rather repulsed when he found out that Buzz was married to Reva lol although weirdly for all the talk of how long Phillip and Reva knew each other not once did Phillip even acknowledge Reva’s return from the dead.

I remember it was Dietz’s A-M who exposed Amanda as infamous Malibu Madam and his announcement was so underwhelming. Didn’t Phillip come back for A-M & Lucy’s wedding? I remember thinking him and a lonely Rick were going to dance together at the time lol.

Wow had no idea she was pushing 70 when she took over, what a strange choice. I wonder how she felt to see her creations quickly get destroyed so fast.

Whatever happened to Laemmle in the end? Did anyone get a chance to interview her after she was fired?

It’s so weird to think that back then Paul & Nikki were the show’s C-story at the time yet they both ended up lasting more than 40 years on the show.

So I keep having the strangest issue when ever I try to log in on my iPad as I keep getting the below screen which it utterly bizarre to me. Anyone else have this issue?

It wouldn’t surprise me if this becomes his claim to fame, sort of like a modern day Ashley Hamilton or something lol.

Max Ehrich drama strikes the tabloids again: https://www.tvshowsace.com/2020/11/20/max-ehrich-still-thinks-demi-lovato-is-using-him-for-publicity/?fbclid=IwAR13U6pLLqEQtNQp4tD9sAP_wWCe20tpjdhyiuRyzS57lpAOXY7GTsRozyE and this mess on top of it all: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a34728031/max-ehrich-mariah-angeliq-beach-paps/

Still no answers what Larry & Linda’s story was though lol? Only mention I can find in my notes was “she had feelings for perpetual loser in love Greg Foster”. 🙈 Edit: Nevermind just saw @FrenchFan’s post, thanks! I suppose the Larkins faced the same fate the Laurence family did just a few years later.

Lol one example being as being a schoolteacher myself I know our school district definitely pays Disney licensing fees to show anything Disney in class unauthorized(if caught lol) can result in a bit of a hefty fine. I think Disney finally backed off schools a bit right before Covid when the CEO intervened in one case, but I’ve heard of movie companies going after assisted living & nursing home facilities too for showing movies without licensing fees. My problem with the soaps is their is no outlet for them at all. Same with a lot of shows...I mean LA Law’s all 8 seasons finally showed up on Amazon Prime yet such a legacy show was completely absent during the DVD era. Yikes