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Some recurring questions I have: --Why did the show end up blowing Jacqueline Courtney's return so badly in 1984 even after gaining a good amount of viewers back? --Why did so many pivotal characters end up dead(Julia, Sally, Frankie etc.) --What was the Alice and Rachel interaction like during the Harney years? I remember reading Rachel played a small role in the Beatrice Gordon story trying to tarnish Alice as a person while Rachel was off with that art sculptor teacher who was supposedly a very boring character.

Marland and at least some of his successors in the 90s knew how to keep true to ATWT's history and how to keep it vibrant. Characters past connections were not forgotten. Unfortunately that all got tossed out and burned under Sheffer with stuff like Molly getting pushed into the Snyder pond by Dusty(Eh, I could buy the stretch of her being all pre-Lily and forgotten but really!!) or the great moment Dani had sex with Craig and called him Daddy. I suppose if Duke came back under Sheffer he'd be some serial rapist anti-hero in love with Katie.

They should keep Revenge where it is at. Grey's use to be on Sunday nights back in the day but did fine on its own when they moved it Thursdays. I don't see why ABC's Wednesday night line-up wouldn't work, I mean for a good twenty years(1984-2004) NBC's Thursday night line-up of comedies and then a heavy drama worked quite well. I absolutely love the high stakes drama of the show. I've gone back and re-watched every episode now as the plot reaches its mid-season climax(going back to the shooting in the pilot). I loved how the divorce lawyer Victoria hired was also in Emily/Amanda's plot.

The second half of 1997 was pretty good with Grant's theft and jumping ship to Spectra, the Lake Como fashion showdown, Taylor baby drama, and of course Sheila's meltdown. It wasn't til 1999 I first could tell the show was really wearing thin especially trying to make Amber and Kimberly into the new Taylor and Brooke. That and the character of Pierce Peterson

It's actually the Canadian version of TV Guide, from July 20 1991 to July 26th 1991.

Sadly I do agree. I enjoyed Harley there 1991-1993 and then again 1997-2003 but Ehlers lost it along the way, not to mention under both Weston and then Kriezman Harley became an increasing intolerable shrew until her character was totally ruined there in 2007. Pitiful really to go from fav favorite to one of the most loathed characters on the show as well as tarnishing and throwing away her entire career.

Wow. I knew Ehlers seemed to have a lived a strange life the last few years including turning into a nutjob by 2008/2009 but I'd forgotten that Ehlers fling with Derwin lead to some pretty serious consequences there. No wonder Derwin never came back as Mallet in 2005 or period. I guess all those years of troubles finally lead to her to those meltdowns she had that lead to her exit for GL. Though I never watched AMC, I did read about how she completely trashed JR Martinez who is now probably more famous in the mainstream than Ehlers ever was and how her final airdate on AMC was ironically 9//18/09. Even though I became completely sick of Harley there 2006-2008 and my love for her turned into hatred, I kinda wish Ehlers had held out to the bitter end to resolve Harley as a character.

Duke looks weird with that mustache. I remember liking John's mustache I thought it looked pretty good on Bryggman. Ah yes, the infamous meeting when Molly insults Rosanna! I'm happy this is finally up as well:

Perhaps, perhaps not. Groom's presence on the show even predated Wyndham's and his Russ was married to Strasser's Rachel. Then again if GL brought back Robert Gentry(although his soap career was bigger than Groom's ever was) I suppose it would have been a nice touch. My guess is they didn't think fast enough and it ended up being a nice gesture to Groom or something. I was happy that Keating and Carl did come back alive.

I thought Kathleen/Cass/Frankie was fascinating but I was disappointed by the end of it with Kathleen leaving like that. The whole Frankie miscarriage thing was obviously for Kathleen to look very bad. It never made much sense that Jake and Paulina just drifted apart like that. They brought back Jake from his presumed death to have him do nothing for the longest time. Was Anne going to turn out to be Frankie in the long run? I thought it was going to happen that last week but then was sorely disappointed by Anne's "big" secret(She was Fax Newman's lawyer before killing Frankie.) Felicia/John/Sharlene/Michael might possibly be one of the worst quads in daytime history.

I enjoyed the fall of 2005 for the most part. The baby switch umbrella story was indeed pretty intriguing as well as Gwen/Carly drama. Still as much as I liked Dusty and Jennifer together, I thought the whole Jen is a crystal meth addict to cope was a bit of a stretch. The whole BJ Green caper was fun but ridiculously unnecessary. Still it beat anything we saw 2006-2010, aside from some moments there in 2009. Passanate screwed up everything she had going good for her, namely the total destruction of Maddie and Gwen. Anyone else remember those Tyson Chicken commercials there in 2004 with Barbara? They were hilarious although I can't believe Tyson used a fictional psycho at the time to sell their products.

Thanks for clearing that up for me PJ! I was in college at the time and whole show was unraveling pretty fast. Craig sleeping with Jennifer was probably the worst but Block as Craig was already out the door by that point. I hated that Ben's pill addiction went nowhere and I also later hated James terrorizing Rosanna and taking the fall for Emily being gaslight-ed. The whole thing was a mess.

They did, it was in the spring of '04 before Lucy's kidnapping. Lucy got a job working for Carly at BRO and fell head over heels for Paul who was grieving the losses of Rose and Rosanna(who had vanished at that moment thanks to Paul instigating Cabot being taken away). Anyways they got trapped in a cabin during some snowstorm and well it was disgusting enough to get a backlash. Still intent of pairing her with an older they gave her Dusty, which worked for better or for worse. That actress playing Nikki should have really been cast as Molly. Christina Chambers was a horrible miscast who tortured for months. It was speculated that Sarah Brown was going to play Molly but she of course ended up as the dreadful Julia 2.0. It didn't help Brown was bad in the role. I had forgotten that Sierra had remarried that summer. The guy ended up dead and well Craig conveniently framed him for Lucy's kidnapping. Does anyone remember if Craig had anything to do with his death? I liked Jessica Dunphy back then, she reminded me more of Alison Sweeney than anything else.

This was the summer that I really truly did stop watching ATWT for the first time, and I had thought about up to that point I had seen the worst of it all. The whole Doc Reese stuff, Cabot, Molly recast, Jack's dying and then being held by Julia but not that Julia, wasting Walker Daniels, and stuff with Lucy and the boxer made me tune out for a breather. Yes there was some fun stuff like Barbara jumpng out the window, Alison/Chris wedding fiasco with his affair with Emily, and Will and Barbara in the asylum couldn't keep me tuning in for crap day in and day out. I will admit I even liked Dusty and Lucy a little bit, it wasn't as bad as Paul and Lucy was. 2003 for me was a very good year for ATWT, 2004 was a gigantic mess it was time for Sheffer to go. I liked the blue 2003-2007 opening, it wasn't too bad, just didn't have the globe in space. That gold colored opening used 2002-2003 didn't jive at all. I go could go either way on the 1999-2002 opening. I wanted to like the 2007-09 opening, but something was bad about it that I didn't embrace it fully.

I seem to recall Janet the housekeeper was somewhat indirectly responsible for Faren's disappearance. Funny Lauren mentioned Neil's funeral--I heard Neil was actually alive and well living as Bill Spencer Sr. in LA

Haley destroyed herself when she almost fumbled a deal to get Amazon in the state by lining up a deal bring more Wal-Mart stores to the state of SC. Romney's own political history(ie health care) will be his Achilles' Heel. The candidates brought in from the GOP this year have been all quite odd. Gingrich is past his prime and resigned from office in disgrace. Santorum, who's seen some growth lost his own Senate re-election. Romeny himself didn't bother to run for re-election out of fear of his party's weak condition at time.

It'll be interesting to see who turns out to be the GOP nomination. I suppose it could be Romney. In any case, the whole affair seems to be unraveling fast and with Obama's approval numbers on the rise again I will say it'll be a long election year or go by fast. Romney is a bit of an odd candidate as he isn't too well liked by some conservatives and unlike John McCain I don't see him backtracking on a number of issues. Then there is this: http://www.realclear...12480-full.html In the mean time the once Tea Party favorite Nikki Haley isn't doing so well in SC. She's lost her Tea Party support I've read after several fiascos and it seems recently her approval numbers were only at 35% as she's now embroiled in an e-mail scandal.

I'd been meaning to upload these in my increasingly desperate search for my own personal photos on Brenda Epperson...too many photo boxes!

I've actually already seen this particular episode on the old WOST website before. The crazy woman was the housekeeper for Evan and Faren who was obsessed with Evan. Michelle was Faren's real name.

That's truly a fantastic find Carl! Thanks for sharing. I always forget Lauren was a blonde in the 80s. When CBS did all those reruns of 80s eps in the late 90s I use to get Carol confused for Lauren due to Templeton having similar dark hair to what Bregman would later sport.

It's sometimes surprising to me that Kirk did manage to stay on the show for ten years leaving in a completely different spot than he came on in. I think Kirk was ruined for me when he knowingly let Lily and Margo take the fall for Diego's murder when he did it himself. Never knew about the Alexander/Wiggin affair or that Sherri Alexander was Michael Crichton's widow. Wiggin was on GL a year after he left ATWT as a farmer involved with Holly and Annie. ATWT's final year brought out a scandalous affair between Austin Peck and Terri Colombino allegedly resulting in Peck's firing. Also I remember Hunt Block and Cady McClain were involved at some point.

Has this been posted already? I apologize if it has been, but I absolutely love Damian's strange flashback montage which includes crazy Janice. I had completely forgotten she had any involvement in this: Also there's some other clip I just watched where Rosanna corrects Carly for making fun of rich people, calling it a form of prejudice and wow GMAFB That's probably why I didn't like Rosanna much to begin with. Another thing of note is Jeff saying he got tested to make sure he's clean. Earlier Evan blasted Rosanna for sleeping around and possibly passing on STDs from Mike. You never, EVER hear or see this on TV anymore, especially daytime. I actually have a couple episodes for the following week (I've dated them May 24th and May 26th 1995 respectively) which I believe I posted the synopsis for oh about what thirty pages back