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The weekend showings are from the past, and not at the same time frame either. At one point, they were showing twelve "new" episodes of The Doctors a week (Mon-Sat). There are some episodes that are missing, which is a disappointment, but I agree about the whole intriguing seeing years of a show thing. Also with the compressed time frame I think there are certain things one can see that the viewers back in the day wouldn't have noticed.

I wish they had played them a little faster, and gotten to other stories. Or else have one run this long and the other end in November... I feel like watching these episodes we're seeing Marland make all the mistakes he tended not to do years later.

This is a link to the podcast. https://radiopublic.com/Mortified/ep/s1!6a041 The AMC themed episode is 154 pt. 2 - 154 pt. 1 is about Guiding Light. Eden Riegel is part of the AMC episode, which is how I heard about it. I've listened to other podcast on radiopublic, but not this one, so I can't vouch for the quality as I haven't listened to them yet (in my queue).

Did you see the Mortified podcast episode about the Bianca story and how it influenced their coming out?

Since Phillip Bosco died, and I know he was in soaps, I was wondering if you could do that for us, Slick.

TimWil, can you share the date of the episode that Geri talked about with Steffy in the hospital? I'm so glad you finally got to see it.

I think ABC had to air PC at the 12:30 ET slot, because they had given the 30 minutes back to the affiliates years earlier in the 90s. Too many local stations probably had news broadcasts in that time frame. Baltimore had an even worse schedule for PC as it didn't always air in the afternoon. They had GH from noon to one (a day behind) for a time, and then aired Rosie O'Donnell in the 3 pm slot.

I listened to the Podcast of Homecoming that pre-dates the show. That was really good. I'm currently trying to finish up the latest season of Better Call Saul.

Yes on the weekend they show older episodes.

Thanks DramatistDreamer, that's how I know him, he's the Pathmark Guy! I never knew his real name, or that he had been in soaps. I remember the Jeffersons episode also, but didn't put that together.

The Doctors didn't show court material, not when Steve "killed" Dan, or Penny "killed" John Morrison. So them not showing it in this case, is not surprising. Marland won one of his writing Daytime Emmys for Guiding Light trial material (saw the video clip of his speech online from the awards and the package had courtroom during the Jennifer Richards trial story). Perhaps they didn't want to pay for a courtroom set. When it comes to the writing of the characters, I see this as an evolutionary process. The Pollocks were very plot-oriented, which in the long run hurt things. Other television shows what I've seen of this era have very underwritten characters in drama - the comedy shows that I've seen reruns from the MTM family and such are much stronger. So I can sort of accept this failing, it isn't like today when the characters are ill-defined, when I know soaps did better. The dream line-up I think most of us wouldn't get any sleep if that happened, as it would be too many hours in the day to keep up with these shows.

I had an issue with the ads, because how can anyone live tweet the program if we're getting interrupted and the UK is not. Also they didn't really show the end credits, in a way that was visible making things even more frustrating.

Have you read any of her books? Are they worth it?

The 67 episodes are there in a playlist, I watched them again over the summer. With Peyton Place, I have the first two sets, but haven't gotten into it solely because The Doctors reruns started so that won...

What is interesting to me is some people I know from game show appearances more than soaps, so finding out they were in daytime or nighttime is interesting.

If anyone wants a link to a channel to watch The Doctors, PM me. (The people who post the episodes don't want to lose their channels, so they don't want people to link videos in public.) Edelstein knew Carolee Campbell, and was the reason her part was expanded, so I even with the weirdness (like the Althea/Nick dream sequences) I can't loathe him.

It is the second time Madison is mentioned. There was a scene years earlier where Mike is bouncing a ball and he says Mike is from Madison.

These videos are larger than normal, thanks for sharing them.

Can someone share some context of the episode?

Didn't they move Ryan's Hope to noon once Loving came to be, and local news pulled it from certain parts of the US? I always wondered how that influenced their drop...

I think one of the reasons streaming is awful when it comes to soaps is this: fast-forwarding. If you have a DVR, you can record your show, and easily only watch the parts you want to see, and skip the advertising. The online platforms at least in my experience can be glitchy and it is a pain to even fast forward the parts of a soap you aren't interested in like flashbacks or scenes with characters you don't care for. You basically are stuck watching the entire show, plus advertising, so it takes as long or longer to watch than your DVR or live. I say longer because of a recent fight I had with watching a legal streaming show on the AMC family of networks. I tried to watch an episode, and well at the 20 minute mark it would start over at the beginning again - even if I didn't try to fast forward the beginning and sat through this portion I saw more than once - this was over a 48 hour period. If something like that happens to you enough times, you're going to probably get annoyed and stop watching.

In the 90s they still had post-season baseball games in the afternoon still and CBS had the rights. You need to check those dates in October 1991. October 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 were the ALCS (Tues, Wed, Friday, Sat,. Sun) and the NLCS were October 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16 - Wed, Thus, Sat, Sun, Mon, Wed. - 12 & 13 were Saturday and Sunday, so soaps weren't pre-empted. But on Wednesday the 9th, they wouldn't have shown two games at the same slot, so one had to be in the afternoon. I can't recall how many days didn't have soaps, but I remember seeing promos about how you won't miss anything due to baseball years ago.

I've watched or rather listened to television soaps on the radio. There used to be receivers with a television band. The radio had three bands, AM, FM, and television, and if you were in an area where you could get over the air reception, you could listen to regular tv. Once the HD conversion happened, this was no longer an option, as these machines no longer got signals as they were airing the analog broadcasts. The last time I used a machine like this was in the 90s, but honestly if someone didn't realize that it was a tv band and thought it was the only way a soap aired they didn't understand the technology (now out-of-date and obsolete) they were using.

I was thinking of the house that Vanessa lived in prior to remarrying Billy while Henry had a room at the Club, he spent some time there. Do you have any idea what home that was?

My GL knowledge doesn't go back as far as some others here, but this is what I believe, if anyone can update or provide additional information that would be great. I don't know when they started calling the part of town where the Spaulding Mansion was the Hill. Basically everyone outside the Coopers on 5th Street, and the Reardons/Boarding House on 7th (I think it was 7th) across the street from Cedars. I'm basing this on later 80s designations solely as I have seen more of that material than earlier. So if anyone can correct me that would be great, or at least show how things morphed. It was a big deal for Reva, when she and Josh moved as a married couple to the Hill --Revabend was somewhat out of town compared to the other houses. Ross's home was on the former Wexler property, though obviously not the main building - as Amanda gifted the Carriage House to Ross and Carrie as a wedding present. I don't know whose mansion Henry and Vanessa lived in over the years, (as by the 90s they never called it the name of Quint and Nola's place...so I didn't think it was the same house just based on location.)