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Wow, you remember the week that the frat party started 😆 So instead of the Vietnam rewrite, you would have had Keemo be John's son? Keemo's birth year was established as 1972 and Dina abandoned the family in 1971 so the timeline works. John in his devastation over Dina's abandonment turns to Luan, resulting in Keemo.

No Winter Olympics in 1989. February 20, 1989 was President's Day and CBS aired an NBA Basketball afternoon game.

Bill Bell gave an interview around 1996 where he regretted having wrote the story where Malcolm took advantage of Dru. Well, the frat party started in June 1994.

Thanks @FrenchFan for these recaps. I am loving reading about Vanessa Prentiss.

It feels like Josh Griffith is throwing random crap to a wall and taking whatever sticks.

I've often wondered why P&G didn't export their long-running shows globally to the degree that Y&R/B&B did. From some research I compiled a list of countries that aired the long-running P&G shows. If anyone has any to add, please do. Another World: Australia, Italy As the World Turns: Australia, Netherlands The Edge of Night (CBS years): ? The Edge of Night (ABC years): United Kingdom Guiding Light: Germany, Iceland, Italy Search for Tomorrow (CBS years): Australia Search for Tomorrow (NBC years): Italy I didn't include Canada as I figured most Canadian viewers would watch the P&G shows not carried by the Canadian networks on the CBS/ABC/NBC stations carried by their cable providers.

Something I forgot in my earlier post, Wisconsin does have horse ranches.

The real Genoa City, Wisconsin is just over the Illinois state line. I think the Y&R 25th anniversary book made mention that the Bells took Genoa City, Wisconsin as the setting for Y&R as they passed through the town on their way from Chicago to their vacation home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The real Genoa City is not a bustling metropolis that is home to multinational conglomerates and a cosmetics company in the vein of Elizabeth Arden, Estee Lauder, Clinique.

I once read that Jock Ewing was based on H.L. Hunt and Blake Carrington was based on Marvin Davis.

@YRfan23 I remember JW's 2016 tweet where she said she turned 70, that's what I was going by. I also remember SF's birth year being given as 1943 for years, but then it became 1939. Anyone who acted as a child/teen is probably not going to lie about their age as I would think their ages are verified and documented due to labor laws.

Hahaha. Yeah, Marc was way too Dynasty. That was fine for 1983, 1984 when Dynasty was at the height of it's popularity, but by 1987, 1988 Dynasty was way past it's prime. Another late to the party Dynasty element Y&R used: Victor moving from the ranch to a luxury penthouse that was more befitting of a foreign diva. I see what you did there Ed Scott 😆

This month is a little bittersweet as February 14 would have been Kristoff St. John's 30th anniversary on Y&R. RIP. On a happier note, two cast members will be having milestone birthdays this month. Sharon Case turns 50 on February 9, and Jess Walton turns 75 on February 18.

@Paul Raven I could totally see what you described playing out.

@Paul Raven Agree that Dina should have been made Y&R's grand dame.

@Vizion Who among the 45+ females hasn't had anything done?

@Money What's crazy is that Michelle Stafford is about the same age that Jeanne Cooper was when Jeanne had the facelift. Holy difference.

Sort of OT, but has anyone read MTS's book? I finished it yesterday and it while it was a good read

I can't see Terry Lester playing out any of Jack's 1990s storylines.

Summer teen/social issue storylines didn't really become a thing on Y&R until Cricket arrived.

Hoping 2021 brings less garbage time.

We're going to be seeing "All I Want For Christmas Is You" hit #1 every December.

I think the Christmas 1980 scene was a flashback from Julia's 2002 return but I could be wrong. 1980-1981 Julia was Bill Bell's version of Sue Ellen Ewing.

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From watching the August 1988 episodes featuring the summer social issue AIDS storyline, does anyone else find the dialogue a little too heavy handed? I know the time the story took place was during the height of the AIDS crisis and Bill Bell was trying to educate the audience but still, it came across as very PSA.

@BetterForgotten You forgot Olivia Newton-John in the list of female solo artists w/ multiple Billboard Hot 100 #1s before the Madonna/Whitney dominance during the second half of the 1980s. Madonna's 4th #1 Papa Don't Preach made her only the 5th female solo artist to reach 4 #1s; the four female solo artists that had reached 4 #1s prior to Madonna were Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Olivia Newton-John, Donna Summer.