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Exactly. Similar to Florida’s situation Myrtle Beach has become a Petri dish really between already ill locals and tourists coming from all over. McMaster is too spineless and ineffective to do anything about it as long as he pushes it off onto others.

@Soapsuds Holden first saw that painting in the famed 5/5/93 Marland tribute episode, this must have been very shortly after that, maybe 5/7/93? Anytime I see Glynnis Margo I just grimace. How I remember some these details and not some of my own passwords is a great question really....

I remember that too later on but there was an episode of where Holden discovered Caleb had anger management issues and Julie had devolved into a constant party girl or something so he convinced Caleb to let Aaron stay in Oakdale which happened before he met Lucy during Abigail’s trial. It was pretty unflattering to both Caleb & Julie,

If I recall right I think Aleksander started around in June 1982 around the same time as Phil McGregor started as Freddy/Rick. Edit: Oh I see someone posted it above! 😁

@kalbir I had read once that was the rumor but it seems Bonneville Broadcasting was always pick & choose over what offended them so who knows. You're definitely right on the money about KIRO not wanting to give up that noon hour, even today: 9AM: LMAD 10AM: TPIR 11AM: Y&R 12PM: News 1PM: The Talk 2PM: B&B KOMO and KING were powerhouses in Seattle for the longest, I imagine that still is true but I'm not sure. BTW when KSTW was CBS from 1995-97 they ran Y&R at 3PM after GL from a September 1996 schedule I found.

We are doomed here in South Carolina: https://www.cbs17.com/news/6-states-issue-warning-about-myrtle-beach-as-coronavirus-cases-spike/?fbclid=IwAR3SXcOJCcJLWR4w7ovupsXre6rcKm9Ek4t-d-Bm70lZGhlfjkWojWg8lNU

I don’t remember her appearing at all during those years, she might have popped up in ‘03 but if she did I missed it. Colleen left in the spring of ‘04 but came back to visit for Christmas. The first time I remember seeing Traci again since her 01/02 appearances was definitely in early 06 when John left to go to jail.

Did B&B ever air on KIRO before 1995? KIRO and KSL were both CBS affiliates owned by a Mormon broadcasting company, and that B&B didn’t air those markets until they flopped affiliations to different stations (KUTV in Salt Lake and and for a few years KSTW was the CBS station for Seattle). KSL, still Mormon owned moved Days to overnights because of the Will & Sonny storyline and still do today. They use to be the dominant station in the market but their lead has completely unraveled the past decade from what I understand.

I had forgot about the Lyla/Katie stuff, interesting someone tried at the helm tried to walk it back in that Christmas ep yet ironically her grandson was busted for theft. Sheesh. But yeah, other soaps have used it as well. Around the same time Aaron came back GL was doing a story of where Marina came back because Eleni was trapped in an abusive relationship. The less said about Fletcher dumping Ben off in a boarding school to fend for his own the better. Sheffer later also used elements of the issue for Ricky and very strangely Fenmore on Y&R to disastrous results.

Definitely agree about Julie, at the time I was interested in seeing where the stuff with Carly and Julie was headed until I got the word Julie was out like the week before. Ugh. When Aaron came to town in '02 he came in as a runaway with the Snyders finding out Caleb & Julie had been reckless/irresponsible/neglectful of him, something of course Sheffer pulled later on Days (Jeremy Horton being neglected, possible abused by Mike). His 2005 departure was because he found out Julie was terminally ill with cancer and was on hospice. Sheesh! I think in his 07-08 return he mentioned briefly she had recovered in a throwaway line and weren't even mentioned when Aaron came back for Holden's "funeral" in '09.

He came back for a couple episodes to see Tammy after Sandy's death and visited Lizzie(Rylan had just taken over) for like an ep. In the transition period from Weston to Kriezman a lot of old references came popping up. It was just a relief after Weston's GL had completely twisted and ruined all GL canon that existed prior to 2003.

@kalbir That move to a 4PM timeslot was wild and obscene for Love of Life, it had to be a show killing move on purpose. It didn’t help the show at the time was heavily panned due it having bizarre stories not seen since the days of radio and early TV soaps. I’ve read some stations aired it a day behind at 3:30 after GL or in the mornings, even airing the final episode on 2/4/80 since they were a day behind(!).

Thanks for sharing! I dug around some old schedules and here’s what I found: This was for KMOX(now KMOV) St Louis, a CBS O&O dated 2/2/1981: 11:30 SFT 12:00 Y&R 1:00 ATWT 2:00 GL But then I came across this, here’s what the lineup looked like for both KCMO(now KCTV) in Kansas City dated 2/26/1980: 11AM: Y&R 12:30 SFT 1PM: ATWT 2PM: GL So it’s entirely possible they started that 12ET/11CT feed at that time.

I would for someone to interview Purdee in this day and age! I wish someone would find Randy Brooks as well, I don’t know why for sure he left Y&R but he was horribly mistreated by the writers on AW. So of course when Olivia went to heaven in 2000 she met ALW Nathan instead.

Thanks @DRW50 for sharing those late 94/early 95 eps I certainly enjoyed watching them! The Hal/Margo scene did feel off-putting to me and was strange...during these years I did actually enjoy the Hal & Dolan Margo’s friendship and close working partnership with the angsty undercurrent almost always coming from Tom. But Hal of this era was too blunt for his own good. Still Hal vs. Tom was enjoyable to watch, even if their arguments boiled down to Jeremy Wheeler being good or bad to be around Adam and taking cheap shots at each other. At the time I was annoyed by Julie’s kids but in retrospect they’re much more refreshing to watch now especially to see how talented Biggs(glad he had his time, no idea what he’s done lately) was in the role. I hated they got rid of Caleb & Julie to this day and later came up with some really crappy off-screen stories for the two when Aaron was on in the 00’s. Sheesh. Getting an old school movie star like Claire Bloom as Orlena was quite a coup for ATWT it’s a shame the show wasn’t able to keep her all the way to the end of Orlena’s reign. Re: Andy up in Mike & Rosanna’s business—this was a Marland era hangover from the cliche of Oakdale folks gossiping too much while out on the town lol. Would NEVER had happened in Genoa City. 😁

I know right. Haha do flame wars and board wars even exist in 2020 anymore? Just for the fun of it, [S.W.S.N.B.N.] !

🤣🤣😂 You don’t even want to know.

Melissa Reeves? Not surprised, her and Scott can hightail it back to Nashville. I guess Scott will put Missy back in her panic room?

I didn't realize they had set it with the Feb 80 timeslot change thanks @kalbir!! The 1980-81 lineup had proved disastrous except for GL, the 1981-82 schedule seemed to correct itself just fine had there not been a dispute over SFT. It makes sense as for Central Time stations they had already been airing Y&R at 11AM while a growing number of Eastern Time stations had already simply programmed Y&R into that 1PM Eastern Time slot to which CBS had never programmed before until Y&R expanded to a full hour.

A lot of ABC stations of course desired a noon news cast, and for some reason ABC only offered a 1PM ET/12PM CT feed for AMC, thus when the stations decided to air AMC at 11AM CT they had to air it a day behind, similar to how stations who aired GL in the mid-morning were a day behind until CBS offered up an actual 10AM feed in 2004. If I recall right ABC followed suit at some point after that for AMC. Contrast this to Y&R to which when they moved to 12:30PM ET/11:30 AMCT in June 1981 CBS also offered up a 12PM ET/11AM CT feed to which most CT CBS stations took advantage of, hence the Central Time Zone(as well as any MT stations that air Y&R at 10AM) sees Y&R live thirty minutes ahead of Eastern Time Zone. Other than WJMN in Marquette Michigan, I don't know if any other CBS stations on ET have ever run Y&R at 12PM since CBS began offering that feed in 1981.

Well, I haven't talked about Albuquerque's off beat schedules over the years. When I first moved there in June 1997 the Daytime schedules looked like looked like this: KOB: 10AM Leeza 11AM Days 12PM AW 1PM Beach KOAT: 11AM: AMC 1PM: OLTL 2PM: GH *Both the View and PC aired overnight. The station always carried PC for its entirety at a 1:05 AM timeslot as it ran a full hour news at noon. KRQE: 9AM: TPIR 10AM: ATWT 1:30PM B&B 2PM: GL 3PM: Y&R Then in September KRQE's schedule became this: 10AM ATWT 11AM TPIR 12:30 B&B 1PM: Y&R 2PM: GL By September 1999, KOAT finally aired The View at 10AM, while KOB pushed Beach off to an overnight slot for its last three months and debuted a noon newscast, so then it was: 11AM: Days 1PM: Passions By September 2000, it became: 1PM: Days 2PM: Passions(until cancellation) In September 2007 KOAT bizarrely cancelled their noon newshour newscast quite abruptly, so their schedule then became: 12PM AMC 1PM OLTL 2PM GH Finally in September 2009 two months before I moved out of Albuquerque, after GL ended KRQE's schedule was: 10AM LMAD 11AM TPIR 12:30 B&B 1PM Y&R 2PM ATWT

Some stations out west (KUSA & later KMGH Denver, KVIA ABC, KIVI Boise) would flip flop GH and OLTL and I know many CT stations would air AMC a day behind but other than there was nothing quite as dramatic as some of the schedules of CBS stations in the Mountain Time Zone.

I know this topic has been done before but thought it would be interesting to see people share items of interest that is on their bookshelves. In addition to the Waggett and Schemering books these are a few notable highlights on mine: Days of Our Lives: The Complete Family Album: a 30th Anniversary Celebration by Lorraine Zenka(1995) The Young and the Restless, Special Silver Anniversary Collector's Edition by Barbara Irwin and Mary Cassata(1998) Y&R Most Memorable Moments by Irwin and Cassata (1996) From Mary Noble to Mary Hartman : The Complete Soap Opera Book by Madeline Edmondson and David Rounds (1977) Serial Monogramy by Christine Scodari (2004) The Q Guide to Soap Operas by Daniel Coleridge (2006). Please forgive me on this on! 😅

How old is Brown anyways? I know he's been doing breakdowns for Y&R recently and was in The Story of Soaps special last month but I had to wonder as I knew Estensten was well into her 70's when she passed several years ago.

Is it possible that Phillips’ The Road Ahead was a possible working title for adapting The Road of Life from radio, which CBS did eventually a year later? Interestingly The Brighter Day premiered first in January 1954.