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Alison Bancroft has got to be up there as one of Y&R nastiest antagonists(especially after her later crimes), her back and forth between Katherine about her marriages and sexual relations is epic! Especially when Katherine implies Alison might have only had sex once in her life LMAO! Didn’t she and Earl end up separating?

Thanks @feuxdelamour! I looked up at your list of repeated episodes on CBS and that list looks very accurate minus a week in 2010 when Y&R reaired eps from 2005, 2008, and 2009 again but I can provide those dates for you if you’d like. I know Episode #8279 aired 12/09/2005( or 09/12/2005 depending on your dating system🙂) has aired an additional 4 or 5 times!

In late 2003/early 2004 Danny came back to town and the show actually trying out a retro Paul/Lauren/Danny/Christine quad before having Lauren moving on with Michael while Paul and Christine reconciled again for awhile there. Danny left town with his tail between his legs. The reason why Paul & Christine had separated was they finally addressed the 2002 rape and decided to take a break.

Watching today’s episode from 2004, the opening credits made me a bit sad seeing both TLW and VR looking so beautiful and then even sadder to see names like Alden, Houghton, Birn and Jones in the writing credits with Kathryn Foster directing.

Thanks so much @YRfan23!!! I have saved your 1989-1995 links but figured there was a lot more you’d previously shared floating out there 😀

Now this really makes me want to see Jill’s fantasy of electrocuting Katherine in the bath tub again lol.

Going back to those 1988 episodes @YRfan23 posted a few pages back here’s your footnote of the day: One of the eps made mention of the elusive Jason Monroe, who was portrayed by Capitol vet and soap hopper Nicholas Walker.

I’ve seen Olivia’s first scenes online years ago before, she visits Mamie and meet & befriends Ashley right from the start as they learned they belong to the same sorority lol.

Completely agreed Not to mention Bell loved writing his femme fatales. A few years later Mari Jo would be on the scene filling that role as well. Always interesting to know that Amy came back briefly in early 1990. I wonder if it was to simply close out her era or if they even attempted to offer Williams a permanent gig since Dru shows up next month.

TBH for a really great fashion week they show show the full week of Lake Como from 1997 or the Portofino episodes from 2002. I remember B&B even aired a special BTS episode hosted by McCook about the 1997 for Thanksgiving that year; that whole week in late October brought in big ratings.

Not sure, although I know Northcross was well criticized in the soap press. As for Trachta there were actually organized protests for his firing in 1996 in front of Television City LOL.

My five picks for a Stephanie week? 1. Stephanie’s Homeless story in 1991 2. Stephanie fighting with Brooke over BELief 1993 3. At least one face off with Sheila from either 1996 or 1998. 4. Stephanie’s “haircut” in 2003 5. Stephanie kicking Eric in the groin 2005

Bobbie Eakes said she had to refilm Macy meeting Thorne with Trachta on the fly the recast happened so fast.

I find it fascinating that the particular background score in the closing scenes with Deirdre Hall in them was used all the way through the mid-90’s. There’s something to be that, but I can’t remember the specifics at the moment.

That’s a good question. He might have been his first couple months and then got bumped off. On the flip side I did some digging around and found that by fall of ‘97 LeBlanc(as was Van Duden) was listed as recurring yet Gordon Thomson was on contract playing his lawyer character.

Interesting point. I’ve wondered if SSH regretted her 1990-93 tenure at Days from his disparaging remarks about working with Charlotte Ross to Julie playing matchmaking for the Scofield’s, a family who tanked Days ratings while over on Y&R Joanna Manning’s daughter was getting her biggest story ever during these years.

So I’m curious about something on the Horton family tree: “In 1991, Julie mentioned that Steve was still living in Europe and had a son named Spencer from an affair. Not much else is known about Steve's current whereabouts.” Did the show ever have plans to introduce Spencer? Even more of a long lost Horton relative than Scotty Banning lol.

I wonder if people counted the opening credits? That 1993 Nikki opening was the first to get updated in June way ahead of the others. Sad Leanna probably didn’t a farewell ep unless someone mentioned it later on at all but I don’t think Carole got one either that year.

This is beautiful, thank you! I always found it funny Jill pretty much had a lot of disdain for Jack & Patty during that 1981-84 timeframe.

Lol going back to that 1996-97 period, was there any reason Bell & Davidson made it into all four of the opening sequences being used at that time?

Thank you!! I was looking through your February episodes to see if I could find it as I thinking it was Feb. Did she even make any return visits later on in 92 or 93? Always been curious why most places cite 1993 lol. Agreed! The best thing that the show did as the story reached its denouement was throw Jill into the mix. Walton and Diana Barton’s Mari Jo stole the show from that point on.

Does anyone by chance when Leanna Love’s final episode aired during her original run? Trying to track a concrete date down.

Leo Deschanel? I don’t even remember that character at all had to google him up LOL. Off-topic but @DRW50 who on earth was the Living Legend-Not at that point in time? I know the Time one is Y&R.

Interestingly the first go around of John/Jill/Jack occurred in 1981 but I believe Halsey’s John was gone by this point.

Indeed. Y&R would still pull off in 7’s into 1999 actually while all the other soaps slipped into the 4’s and 3’s.