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It sounds like she has an outside friendship with one of the actors, how interesting.

I enjoyed Liz on the ledge, actually I really enjoyed Liz Liz (trademark Jody Lee Bronson) even if not all the stories were too my liking. Monika you heard from CC Courtney that's fun, hope he is doing well.

TimWil thanks for posting all of that here. Did your friend Geri ever share how she came to get on Guiding Light? I'm asking as Allen Potter hired her for TD and then years later she ended up as Amanda's mother on GL. I'm hoping they had a good relationship or else that wouldn't have happened. Is the Adams Chronicles available anywhere? I'm wondering because it would be fun to see.

DRW50, wow you have some avarice towards Tim Gibbs. (No idea what he did, so please explain since off topic can you share at least when it happened.) Individual episodes of Santa Barbara were extremely well written it was just the stories on whole that were offensive. I agree that soaps shouldn't focus on one person or else they can get screwed. With Santa Barbara, they did have other people with story that weren't Marcy, but those actors ended up getting bogged down with recasts, making things not as strong.

I wonder if that episode is at Paley from 1976 as Gerald Gordon was listed as cast. Does anyone know? If they skip or edit it at least then there would be a possibility to see it. When it comes to the 1982 episodes that were shared from watching it sounded like LeeAnn was brought to Steve for a medical appointment and the girl's behavior alarmed him. (OFC Steve seeing Billy's child as a doctor is a bit weird, though Matt or Maggie would have been even worse, was there no one else other than Althea? There was a line about Billy, so she may be afraid of men in general.) When we saw her, she wasn't talking or interacting like a child of that age normally would. I hope my guess is correct and if not someone will correct me.

This isn't a real spoiler, but I was amused by the credits from those episodes in early 1982. Why because only Althea is listed with her medical title? Was this the norm or just a strange fluke? Also what was interesting was that these episodes were done by Harding Lemay.

I find it dull when everyone finds their true love at 15 or 16 years old. While I know it is a fictional story, I like the idea of characters being friends for years, and later realizing that they could date. That's what I'd prefer for Ben and Piper, as it would be different than what they did for Piper's twin siblings, who pretty much were both stuck on the idea of one person.

For me the thing with Ben and Piper, is I could see them being together when they are older. I like the idea of a younger character being in a relationship that isn't toxic, and isn't fated forever.

Thanks for the photo and the year, it is a bit sad I watch the old episodes from 1973 and there are so few people I recognize in the picture half of them are kids. I love that Lydia and Jim are in the center as they should be, but am not fan of the mustache. How long did Jim have it?

I like them well enough, do I think they should be together for decades like Karl and Susan, certainly not, but they are a bit of fluff and conflict.

Angus is the guy in Edward Skylover's avatar, yes he is gone. He was on an Aussie talent show as a singer. Yes Nate was Aaron's boyfriend. I would like it if they went there with Dee. I like Terese, but not this story with Piper.

They gave GL the award later on, they wrote about it in the New York Times.

The death of Rachel was planned from the start, so that didn't bother me. With Nathan I wonder if it was the he's been on a year, and that's it. James tried to tell Nathan, and he didn't believe it. Too bad people still don't know. I actually found Mac and Lisa entertaining and loved the part with Cameron. The problem was that they should have had Lisa discover everything that Mac has done wrong, and then destroy him. That would have returned her to HBIC instead of just weak.

I'm not surprised that Peter Capaldi is leaving. I am glad though they allowed him to announce it before rumours of a successor began.

NBA did you see the Ed and Anna story? When it comes to stories on TD I wish they would all be deeper, but perhaps that's just me.

No you aren't dreaming, it was a scene with Mike. He was bouncing a ball, and said how he was from Madison.

I was okay with Jade dying because of how she died. It wasn't a silly car crash or something of that nature. Celine's death was horrid, Cameron is an awful human being and needs to be stopped already. Yes Nico is finally toast, but Cameron needs to go too. Joanne is also away, and considering the corner she was written into there was nowhere else to go. Made me happy to see OB in the credits for a guest visit.

Trudy, would have been the only Bauer that they could have brought back and created new family etc around her, as she disappeared decades earlier. Some imaginary Bauer would be annoying.

I'd like to read that article you referenced vetsoapfan with Peter Simon about the chaos at GL under Kobe.

Sherry Stringfield's departure in 1992 was announced in SOD, before the Blake and Ross story really started. They just felt it was going so swimmingly that they kept her on longer and delayed her leaving town. Totally agree that Maureen Garrett is underrated or at least someone that isn't as known to people who didn't watch GL. What everyone has said about Bert's death being a year after Charita passed. It did feel like they had to do it, and that episode felt strange. Rick being all I'm going to kick drugs because of Grandma, or whatever, what? That said at least MOL had a legitimate on screen relationship with Charita.

Bit of a spoiler, they didn't know what to do with Althea after Penny left again. Marland was rearranging the show based on the two major families: the Powers and the Aldriches, and Althea didn't have a spot in that reorganization according to this one magazine I have from that era. (One of the few I have pre-1980.)

Thanks robbwolff BTW do we know what Potter was doing from the time he was gone from TD and before he was executive producer at GL? I could find sympathy with Mona even if she thinks Steve is way too perfect. Carolee's behavior from the outside looking in, would be questionable. Would you really trust a woman who left your child for someone else especially if you aren't comprehending that he wasn't always faithful to her.

I can understand why Channel 4 did that, but the fact the show was available in the US and then cut off made up some of the viewers YT was getting. The other streaming option disappeared due to someone stealing videos from one site and putting it on another. The amount of ads if you can watch it live from the UK isn't bad, when I had the chance to do that a couple of times. Jade's death was spoiled on twitter, in a video promoing Stand Up to Cancer. I think more is to come with Dirk's nephew, it is just how they cycle with this show.

I agree with you about him as a producer and feel it is part of why I became a fan of the reruns of "The Doctors" so quickly. It reminds me of "Guiding Light" in some weird ways, but I digress. (Wish you would watch it Khan, from his producing time frame, so we could get into a discussion on the topic, if that makes any sense. Anyway Potter having worked with Irna Phillips back on the radio show Woman in White is that the title says a lot about things. For example what year did the Bauer Power thing start, and was it a dig at TD and the Powers family?) It was the first time a soap won any sort of award of this nature so I get it. I do wish we knew exactly what he submitted, as there is nothing on the list of episodes in the Paley Center from the season they got this Emmy. With "The Doctors" the only showed the honor once, and there is maybe one surviving cast/BTS people photo that still exists. It wasn't like what they did at GL, which I thought was a bit crazy.

That video made me very happy thank you for posting it. I don't want them to off him though as that would be so frustrating.