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22 minutes ago, Legacy said:

I loved seeing Julia say that, and to see what victor was gonna say next but i assume victor by this time has heard of jack but not enough to discourage her away from him lol.

One would think Victor would know of Jack's playboy reputation but for whatever reason it wasn't mentioned. 1980-1983 Victor knew of Jabot and the Abbotts but he wasn't placed in their orbit until 1984 and the rest is history.

 

Jill and Katherine were also out of each other's orbit for a while too, I think from BD's first departure until DA's Jill married John.

11 minutes ago, Soap-princess said:

Is DG coming back for another round of Billy vs Cane?

Oh good god I hope not. The fact that he was employed for nearly 13 years still boggles my mind.

From what I've seen of the weekly ratings from the end of the 1988 writer's strike to the start of OJ, Y&R dominated all daytime dramas. Y&R saw it's dominance threatened in 1994-1997 with the aftermath of OJ and the huge rise of Reilly's Days. Oddly enough, Reilly's Days featured a good number of 1980s Y&R actors in major storylines: Deborah Adair, Eileen Davidson, Nick Benedict, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Lauren Koslow are the main ones that come to mind. Perhaps payback for Y&R bringing over 1970s Days actors in the first half of the 1980s.

3 hours ago, SoapDope said:

Eve showed up in Genoa City in 1980 claiming her son "Cole" was fathered by Victor. 

In the 1982 episodes Charles was in boarding school. Was Charles on screen in 1980?

 

I wonder why Bill Bell changed the name from Charles to Cole in 1993? Maybe he felt Charles was not a 1990s soap opera name 

 

What a way to end the 1990s classics. I think this was one of the episodes that got Y&R the 1993 Best Drama Series Daytime Emmy.

Is it me or does The Bayou look more like a honky tonk dive bar than a strip club? I guess I have this image of strip clubs through a 2020 lens, you know, the pole, dollar bills on the stage, VIP section with bottle service 

 

Come to think of it, Bill Bell writing Victor and Nikki's story starting at a strip club may be responsible for an entire generation of hip hop artists and NBA players that love strip clubs 

 

 

Taylor Swift is the 10th female solo artist to reach 6 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100. The top 10 female solo artists in terms of #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 are Mariah Carey (19), Rihanna (14), Madonna (12), Whitney Houston (11), Janet Jackson (10), Katy Perry (9), Beyoncé (7), Diana Ross (6), Paula Abdul (6), Taylor Swift (6).

I don't think anything further happened with Kevin and Ashley other than those scenes at the Newman Towers construction site and the Jabot lab. Not long after Ashley was paired with that chemist Brian but was another pairing that didn't last.

 

There was also a scene with Jack bringing flowers to Julia but I don't think anything came of that either. I wonder if Jack knew during Julia's Jabot modelling days that Julia was married to Victor. There was a scene where Victor mentioned Jabot and John Abbott so Victor knew of the Abbotts but Victor wasn't placed in the Abbotts orbit until 1984.

I got through all the 1982 clips/episodes and now 1983 clips are up. That year had some big cast changes too: Andrea Evans as recast Patty, Tracey Bregman arrives as Lauren, Marla Adams arrives as Dina, Brenda Dickson returns as Jill. Hopefully there will be more of 1983 showing up.

The first half of 1986 was the peak of the Bill Bell/H. Wesley Kenney years. The second half of 1986 saw Cricket become a full time cast member and Ed Scott take over as EP. 1985/1986 Y&R moved past All My Children to become #2 and it would remain at #2 for 1986/1987.

@RavenWhitney December 5, 1986

It wasn't long after this episode that Doug Davidson appeared in the miniseries I'll Take Manhattan where he played a model. Perhaps the centerfold storyline was practice for that role.

4 hours ago, SoapDope said:

Then came the changes of the core cast, lighting, and some light hearted (comedy) elements were added to bring the show into another phase. 

There were also more action/adventure elements added, starting with the police corruption/mob storyline. That was the General Hospital influence, as they started the whole action/adventure/supercouple craze in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Even Y&R was not immune to 1980s trends but at least they didn't go ham with the whole action/adventure/supercouple craze like Days did from 1983-1990.

 

4 hours ago, titan1978 said:

I love Kenney’s Y&R, so much of what I know the show to be happened during his tenure.

Agree. H. Wesley Kenney's era laid the groundwork for Y&R as we know it today.

Oh well, the classics were fun while they lasted. The 1980s and 1990s episodes were the best.

14 hours ago, trainman said:

Lilibet Stern was very likable as Patty.  Andrea Evans, not so much.  

Do you think Andrea Evans was cast as Patty due to her being a big ABC name at the time?

 

In the first half of the 1980s, Y&R cast alot of former Days actors: Margaret Mason, Peter Brown, Suzanne Zenor, Mark Tapscott, Patty Weaver, Tracey Bregman, Susan Seaforth Hayes. I'm sure there were more but those are the main ones that come to mind as most of them worked with either Bill Bell or H. Wesley Kenney on Days. 

2 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

He should be fined AND suspended. What a moron.

Lou Williams got 10 day quarantined, thus missed the Clippers first two games https://www.nba.com/article/2020/07/26/lou-williams-10-day-quarantine

 

IMO strip clubs are going to be the downfall of NBA players.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-31/inside-a-strip-club-in-a-pandemic-how-does-social-distancing-work

 

I knew it, Lou Williams didn't go to Magic City just for the food. He could've caused the entire NBA bubble to burst.

The Williams family was the replacement for the Foster family and the Abbott family was the replacement for the Brooks family. By the early 1990s, the Williams family was almost all gone and the Abbott family was almost all recasts, yet Bill Bell didn't eliminate the Williams and Abbott families entirely and start over with two new families. 

1 hour ago, YRfan23 said:

they also aired June 2, and August 8 for 2014 and March 23 for 2017 

 

Added to the list. Thank you

I broke down the classic episodes that aired by decade and year.

 

1980s: 1 episode

1987 - 1 (March 23)

 

1990s: 12 episodes

1991 - 2 (January 8, January 9)

1992 - 1 (February 19)

1993 - 1 (November 3)

1994 - 1 (September 30)

1995 - 1 (June 7)

1997 - 1 (October 29)

1998 - 3 (June 11, December 11, December 24)

1999 - 2 (January 29, August 3)

 

2000s: 11 episodes

2002 - 3 (May 13, June 14, June 28)

2003 - 2 (January 6, September 16)

2005 - 1 (November 1)

2006 - 1 (July 7)

2007 - 3 (February 16, February 27, September 26)

2009 - 1 (November 13)

 

2010s: 35 episodes

2010 - 2 (June 4, September 1)

2011 - 2 (August 5, December 28)

2012 - 4 (January 3, April 27, June 26, August 12)

2013 - 3 (July 5, August 12, December 19)

2014 - 5 (January 24, June 2, August 8, August 13, August 28)

2015 - 2 (August 12, September 14)

2016 - 6 (April 8, July 27, July 28, September 12, September 26, November 11)

2017 - 7 (March 21, March 22, March 23, March 24, April 14, June 22, July 31)

2018 - 3 (January 2, July 4, August 22)

2019 - 1 (August 5)

 

2020s: 2 episodes

2020: 2 (March 12, March 13)

On 7/29/2020 at 6:30 PM, SoapDope said:

Tracey Bregman said she originally was offered to the role of Patty when Lilibet decide to depart, but Bell created the part of Lauren for her. She said originally she was supposed to be a good friend to Tracy, but Bill Bell saw something she did in a scene and realized he wanted to make her the bitch. Bregman said she loved playing the role as the mean girl, but it hurt her to say awful mean things to Beth Maitland and fretted over it. Beth told her it was just acting and don't worry about. She and Beth are still close after all these years. 

Aww, it warms my heart that TB and BM became friends IRL and have stayed friends all these years. It says alot about both of them as people.

 

2 hours ago, yrfan1983 said:

Beth Maitland is immediately BRINGING IT in these ‘82 clips. My heart aches for Traci and I am instantly invested in her journey. What a talent.

No wonder BM was Y&R's first acting Emmy winner. BM is a treasure and Traci really should be cemented as the heart of the Abbott family.

 

On 7/30/2020 at 10:08 PM, will81 said:

When the show went to an hour, All My Children pulled out all the stops to challenge Y&R and won, Y&R dipped to 5th place that month.

That's right, Y&R was head-to-head w/ then-#2 All My Children in the Eastern time zone and in some areas in the Central/Mountain/Pacific time zones from February 4, 1980 to June 5, 1981. In that time period, Y&R had CBS's then-lowest rated daytime drama Search for Tomorrow as it's lead-in in the Eastern time zone and in some areas in the Central/Mountain/Pacific time zones so I think that also affected the 1980/1981 ratings. ABC's huge rise in the late 1970s/early 1980s really seemed to shake up CBS, thus the daytime drama schedule was rearranged again on June 8, 1981.

 

 

5 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

May 13, 05 is actually May 16! totally forgot to let you know! LOL 

Corrected, thank you

 

4 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

I wish we had seen more of ‘98 Y&R was definitely can’t miss that year. 

1998 was the last excellent year. 

I broke down the classic episodes that have aired/will be airing by decade and year.

 

1970s: 2 episodes

1973 - 2 (March 26, March 27)

 

1980s: 7 episodes

1981 - 1 (November 2)

1984 - 3 (March 28, April 13, June 27)

1986 - 2 (July 18, December 5)

1987 - 1 (September 18)

 

1990s: 28 episodes

1990 - 3 (March 1, July 9, November 16)

1991 - 5 (February 14, October 2, October 7, November 7, November 15)

1992 - 1 (May 15)

1993 - 3 (March 12, March 23, October 1)

1994 - 5 (May 9, August 30, September 21, December 14, December 29)

1996 - 3 (February 19, August 7, August 21)

1997 - 2 (March 19, July 11)

1998 - 2 (April 14, June 30)

1999 - 4 (June 21, July 19, July 27, September 17)

 

2000s: 31 episodes

2000 - 1 (August 3)

2001 - 2 (June 7, September 10)

2002 - 1 (September 5)

2003 - 5 (August 14, August 15, October 10, November 21, November 26)

2004 - 4 (April 2, April 16, July 5, July 6)

2005 - 8 (February 9, March 1, March 31, May 16, May 24, June 29, July 4, December 15)

2006 - 5 (April 12, August 24, October 16, October 24, December 7)

2008 - 3 (February 7, June 2, August 18)

2009 - 2 (April 3, May 4)

 

2010s: 11 episodes

2010 - 2 (April 27, December 30)

2012 - 2 (February 13, June 15)

2013 - 1 (March 18)

2014 - 1 (May 22)

2015 - 1 (August 14)

2016 - 2 (September 1, December 21)

2019 - 2 (July 3, December 27)