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Erica Hope's Nikki looks like another version of Trish Clayton. Interesting that DD didn't pick any Lauren scenes. Nina Arvensen. Such a beautiful lady. Am I crazy to think that Bill Bell planned to kill off Kay and have Jill arrested, but decided to give this story to a different group of characters. Same with Victor Newman's death that was given to George Rawlings?

Didn't Joseph Bottoms (Kirk) replace Joel Crothers (Jack) in a story with Eden on Santa Barbara? The Sheila (?) girl on AMC wasn't more or less a Jenny recast?

Y&R Tucker McCall as Victor Newman (there was some kind of EB drama during that time) Gloria replaced Jill in the Abbott stories Genie Francis felt like a "threat" to MTS as far as I am concerned Cally as nu-Dru? GH Laura Templeton?

Someone obsessed with him sounds much worse.

Alan?

How about Sharon Gabet joining AW as Blaine? Do you think it would have worked out?

Was Victoria Wyndham involved with someone from NBC? The show was handed to her, the heroine/star was fired so that she could take her, place, they gave her star billing, she claims to have made "suggestions" to TPTB and secretly written for the show. Isn't this too much? And for what? Lousy ratings since 1980?

Is the bible available online?

Thank you so much! I haven't watched the first episode in decades. I have said before that I find the Jack-Lily story almost identical to early Phillip-Beth. Could it be that Marland had all this planned for GL? The show was stupid to lose original Ann and Rita Mae. I never cared for Meryl.

I feel that ES wanted MTS to be the first lady of Y&R. That and BD was probably involved with someone very powerful on set, who wanted her out of the way.

Thank you! Do you think that the show should have recast Alan and Blake once again at some point ? RR and LK never worked out for me. RR's Alan was more like Stefano Dimera and LK's Blake was... boring. Who could have played them?

Were the Bauers originally named Baum? I always thought that ED's Blake would end up being Beth. So the Bauers and the Spauldings lived next to each other till the end of the show? Alan's bought a house for his family. Was this where he and Hope were staying? Ross's house was Ben McFarren and Amanda Spaulding's old place?

I thought that WDJ's Santana was far better and a lot more interesting than GG and Margaret Michaels. The show never got Santana right after losing Ava Lazar.

Jennifer Brooks was far more interesting than I expected. I loved the Brooks family scenes. It is sad that they lost Brenda Dickson. I wanted to see her Jill through the years. BTW Brenda still looks amazing today. All she needs is a make up artist, a stylist and some normal-looking brunette wigs. We will never find out what really happened there. I have my theories. The show looked amazing.

Roger and Ann left for New York prior to Gwyneth and Trisha showing up. Roger was eventually killed in a car crash and a new Ann showed up. I liked the original actress much better, she was so regal. Peter Brown took over as Roger at some point. I could be wrong, but I also remember Cabot and Isabelle leaving town for a while in 1984. Clay and his family were in Europe. The original Alden/Forbes family structure always seemed weird to me.

The 1981 episode was AMAZING. Didn't really care for Victor & Nikki, but Vanessa Prentiss was perfection. She was fascinating and so scary! I also loved the Barbara story. It's so sad that the show lost Lori, it is rather obvious that Y&R (and Edward Scott) were more interested in making Nikki the leading lady. Can you imagine Lori instead of Nikki as Mrs. Newman? Having an affair with Jack, hating Ashley, giving birth to Victor's children?

Back then I used to watch Loving and Another World via satelite every day on RaiDue. Too bad I didn't understand a word of Italian, but I couldn't care less.

When did we see Towers for the first time? Who owned it? Who was the previous owner of Ross Marler's house? Have the Spauldings stayed in the same house since their arrival to Springfield? Have the Spauldings and the Bauers been neighbors eversince?

I knew they were sleeping together from the first scene I watched them. My sister knew him from Days and we said: "He is not that good of an actor. They are involved in real life."

She once said that she wanted a dark-haired Reva from what I remember.

I know, but it seemed weird to me that both shows did the same story. Prince Charming finds out he is adopted, falls for a sweet blonde girl sexually abused by her father.

The adopted Prince Charming who falls for the incest victim story was told on LOVING and GL in 1983. I wonder whether Marland had planned the story the Jack Forbes/Lily Slater story for Phillip, had he stayed. The Donovans remind me of a Marland family. Doug was kind of a Seth Snyder type. The Bristows were all Agnes. Early Ava was more like a Nola Reardon type. She later transformed into mini-Erica. Stacey reminded me of Hilary Bauer. Who has the heart and soul / the moral compass of early Loving? Cabot and Isabelle? Not really, though Dabney reminded me of an aristocratic Alice Horton at times. Patrick and Rose were never important characters. Meryl was sleeping with a married man from day one. I loved the early years. Things got weird with the Alex/Clay mess and I never truly accepted Lisa Peluso's Ava (although I love the actress).

NEW YORK: I missed my crazy NY friends! Luann is gorgeous, she has never looked better. Her entrance at the party, her chat with the new girl, her hair, her body. For some reason I have a soft spot for Ramona (who also looks amazing and whom I see as a real-life Lisa from ATWT). Sonja is always so much fun. Did Dorinda cut her hair on her own? Is that why she was so mad at her party? Once again she acts like a pig when she is drunk. Is this what Kay Chancellor acted like in the 70s? Leah seems cool and gorgeous Tins would benefit from a new stylist. She is trapped in the early 00s. A fortysomething-year-old spoiled princess can drive the other girls crazy, but she is 100 better than Bethanny who thought that she owned the show and felt the need to humiliate the other women all the time.

Do I remember the blue set from GL? Did it also serve as the Lewis mansion?

I remember that. Such an interesting choice for a soap title, especially in the late 90s.