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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.

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)

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. 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.

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.

Corrected, thank you 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)

So Monday will be the 3rd Terry Lester episode during these classics. CBS is promoting next week as "OMG Week" 🤣

Had Victor/Lorie become the end game couple, would Bill Bell still have placed Victor in the Abbott's orbit and created the eternal quadrangle and eternal feud? Lorie strikes me as too smart to fall for playboy Jack, but I could see a Lorie/Victor/Ashley triangle unfold. Lorie being threatened by Victor spending time with a young, beautiful business associate.

This was also reflected in the ratings, although I think the huge rise of ABC at that time played a big part as well. If weekly ratings for the early 1980s were easy to find we'd get a clearer picture. Y&R early 1980s annual ratings (I posted these earlier in the thread but reposting to save digging) 1979/1980: 8.8 (3rd). February 4, 1980 expand to 1 hour and time slot change from noon ET to 1 pm ET. The top 2 daytime dramas were General Hospital and All My Children. 1980/1981: 7.8 (6th). June 8, 1981 time slot change from 1 pm ET to 12:30 pm ET. The top 5 daytime dramas were General Hospital, All My Children, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, As the World Turns. 1981/1982: 7.4 (tied with As the World Turns for 5th). March 1982 EP change from John Conboy to H. Wesley Kenney. The top 4 daytime dramas were General Hospital, All My Children, One Life to Live, Guiding Light. 1982/1983: 8.0 (4th). The top 3 daytime dramas were General Hospital, All My Children, One Life to Live. 1980-1982 saw the ratings drop during the transition but by 1983 the transition was pretty much completed, the ratings went back up, and Y&R became CBS's #1 daytime drama. As we all know, during the rest of the 1980s Y&R would topple the ABC big three one-by-one and eventually become the #1 daytime drama. That's clearly the General Hospital action/adventure influence. I noticed H. Wesley Kenney's era had a good number of action/adventure elements. We hold Y&R to a higher standard but even Bill Bell was not immune to the 1980s trends of Dallas/Dynasty influence, action/adventure, supercouples.

The first half of the 1980s we could clearly see the Dallas/Dynasty influence: Victor Newman, billionaire businessman that owns and lives on a horse ranch. The wealthy Abbott family owns and operates a cosmetics company. Dina Abbott abandons her family and years later returns to Genoa City as wealthy widow Madame Dina Mergeron that has inherited her late husband's business which rivals her ex-husband's business. Of course Victor or the Abbotts couldn't own an oil company in Wisconsin and Dina couldn't be a foreign diva that lives in a luxury penthouse as that would be too obvious 😆 I guess Bill Bell went with a cosmetics company for the Abbotts as that was more glamorous than say an artisan dairy or gourmet sausage or craft beer company, you know, things normally associated with Wisconsin 😂

For whatever reason Bill Bell didn't really explore the Forrester daughters' relationship the way he did for the Forrester sons. For all we know, we could've ended up with Kristen and Felicia fighting over Clarke. I remember some flirtation between Felicia and Clarke but that didn't go anywhere. A Bill Bell element was two sisters fighting over a guy. See also Leslie/Lorie, Donna/Katie, Ashley/Traci, Olivia/Dru. Another set of Bill Bell sisters that didn't fight over a guy were Casey/Nikki.

Firstly, thank you to @ChickenNuggetz92 for setting everything up and secondly, thanks to those who added everything. I'm almost done the 1982 segments that are up so far. 1982 was the big transition year and who knows how much of Bill Bell's original plans for that year changed because of everything going on off screen. Case in point, if MTS wasn't pregnant and JLB didn't leave, could Victor and Lorie have ended up as the end game couple instead of Victor and Nikki? The Bayou is clearly no Magic City 😂 (Side note: Magic City is a strip club in Atlanta that was in the headlines recently.) Daytime dramas were alot more scandalous and shocking in the early 1980s. I guess once AIDS happened things changed. It was a treat to see the beginning of the Abbotts. I think the Abbott house was added when John Abbott returned and Bill Bell expanded the family w/ Mamie, Ashley, and Traci. The Abbotts would also be almost all recasts within their first decade but Bill Bell kept the Abbotts instead of replacing them with a new family like he did with the original families. To think that July 2020 should have been Terry Lester's 40th anniversary on Y&R, sadly that wasn't meant to be. Robert Laurence would return as a prosecutor. I think he was part of the George Rawlins murder mystery but I do remember seeing Robert as the prosecutor during Danny's drug trafficking trial. Not long after Peter Brown started on B&B. Like I said before, it's amazing how Y&R survived its first decade then thrived for the most part during its next 15 years.

Global update. Wednesday August 5 Global/Thursday August 6 CBS - 8083, OAD March 1, 2005. Lily's DNA test.

A Katherine and Vanessa meeting? I would love to see that.

How far into 1994 did that channel get? The last episode I watched was Nancy Curlee's last credited episode.

Looking back on everything that went down off screen and on screen during the first 10 years of Y&R, it's amazing that Y&R survived it's first decade and then thrived during it's next 15 years (save for Cricket eating the show summer 1986 to end of 1989, Nick/Sharon eating the show fall 1994 to early 1996, and the lull of fall 1996 to summer 1997).

https://sports.yahoo.com/what-has-been-the-biggest-threat-to-the-nba-bubble-louwill-lemon-pepper-bbq-wings-162237418.html Firstly, how is a strip club even open and secondly, who goes to a strip club for food?

August 1994 would have had Heidi Mark. Vanessa Prentiss stole the show from Victor, and that is no small feat. I was hoping we'd see more of Vanessa during the classics.

Although both Sharon and Amy were mentioned during the episode, their scenes were cut. The boxing lesson was the highlight of this episode. EB rocked those black tank tops in the mid 1990s 😍

In this episode Nick asks Victor to teach him boxing. It's the second father/son boxing lesson we'll see in these classics.

@amybrickwallace That is wonderful news. So glad for you 🤗

The ultimate Newman family week for me would be Victor's first episode, Victor and Nikki's first meeting, Victoria's birth, baby Nicholas first appearance (his birth was off screen), and Victor and Nikki's hospital wedding (as that's the only one of their weddings that hasn't been rebroadcast).