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Bill Bell created his own JR Ewing with Victor Newman, billionaire businessman that owns and lives on a horse ranch and has a long-suffering younger wife. Y&R had wealthy businessmen before Victor (Phillip Chancellor II and Lance Prentiss) and Wisconsin has horse ranches, but Victor's introduction in February 1980 overlapped with Dallas at the height of it's popularity. In his early storylines, Victor was even dressed more in jeans, button down shirts, vests, cowboy hats than he was in suits. In 1991, B&B introduced Texas oil millionaire Blake Hayes, former husband of Dr. Taylor Hayes. Bill Bell was a decade late to the party there.

1970s Y&R had the Chancellors and the Prentisses. Both pre-dated Dallas.

Victor and Malcolm met in September 1998 at the Chancellor Mansion.

We know Vanessa was obsessed with controlling Lance's love life and she wanted to be the #1 female in his life, but I was not expecting her to entertain a dancing dream sequence with him. SOD was published monthly in 1977, so the June-September issues would cover the summer storylines.

Heather Tom has played Katie for 14 years. That's one year longer than she was Victoria.

Earlier in the thread a June 1988 listing for Seattle had Days at 3 pm. I'm guessing that it moved to 9 am after the supercouple era ended and the kids watching after school lost interest. I wonder if Days went back to 3 pm during the Reilly sci-fi era when the kids were watching again. So Seattle got B&B in 1992? I was so sure that B&B started in Seattle in 1994, or maybe that's when the CBS station started broadcasting it. We know Capitol did not air on the CBS station in Seattle so maybe an independent station broadcast Capitol there.

2006 onward are not classics. Y&R hasn't been the same since John Abbott's death.

Thankfully we were spared 2007 during the classics last year.

More like the 1980s. I say all the backstage drama began when Ed Scott took over as EP. He's always given me s--- disturber vibes.

Yes it did look like Bill Bell was alluding to a Victor/Christine pairing but thankfully we were spared. Nikki was at her mid-1990s snooty lady of the manor peak when she confronted Christine about Christine getting too close to Victor.

@yrfan1983 @BoldRestless @will81 Bill Bell lost interest in Nathan when Shemar Moore blew up in popularity. Today (August 18) marks 15 years since John Abbott's death. That was the end of an era and Y&R hasn't been the same since.

It would be interesting to watch the Bill Bell years, to see actors that would later appear on Y&R/B&B and also to see Bill Bell elements that were reused on Y&R/B&B.

Last year after Y&R aired the 1981 episode, I looked up some info on K.T. Stevens (Vanessa). I didn't know when the 1981 episode aired that Y&R was actually K.T.'s third daytime drama, she was part of the original cast of General Hospital and was also on Days. K.T.'s Days role was from 1966-1967 and 1969, so another actor that Bill Bell worked with on both Days and Y&R. Also K.T. Stevens was on Days the same time as Susan Flannery. Wow, Stephanie and Vanessa, the OG Stephanie; I wonder if their Days characters interacted. This blogger has a good write up on her: K. T. Stevens | Those obscure objects of desire (wordpress.com)

So sad to read about Jess Walton's husband passing away. I'm sure she has lots of support from her family, friends, coworkers, and fans.

You missed Generations in the NBC list. One could also say that ABC did not have much success expanding their lineup beyond their big three General Hospital, All My Children, One Life to Live.

I feel the same way.

Where would it fit in the timeline? Only possibilities I can think of are either Phyllis had a child before Daniel or in the year she was in New York.

Thank you @FrenchFan With the Y&R summaries I'm drawn more to Vanessa/Lorie feud more than Katherine/Jill feud, even though it was the latter feud that drove storylines for 40 years. If the summaries continue, we might get to the introductions of Paul and Nikki, which are about a year away.

If we do not count Elvis Presley's 11 Pre-Billboard Hot 100 #1s, Justin Bieber is the 8th male solo artist to reach 8 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100. The male solo artists with 8 or more #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 are Michael Jackson (13), Stevie Wonder (10), Elton John (9), Usher (9), George Michael (8), Drake (8), Bruno Mars (8), Justin Bieber (8). If we do not count Elvis Presley's 11 Pre-Billboard Hot 100 #1s, Justin Bieber is the 18th artist to reach 8 #1s. Justin Bieber is the 8th artist not from the United States to reach 8 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100. The artists not from the United States with 8 or more #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 are The Beatles (20), Rihanna (14), The Bee Gees (9), Elton John (9), The Rolling Stones (8), George Michael (8), Drake (8), Justin Bieber (8). Drake and Justin Bieber are tied for most #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 by a Canadian artist.

Re JFP/Justin Deas/Cooper family. Pamela Long created Harley, Frank, Nadine, Pops. Nancy Curlee expanded the family with Stavros and Eleni before JFP arrived. It was posted in the They Almost Became thread and in the GL thread that CBS/P&G originally offered the part of Buzz Cooper to Terry Lester but he turned it down to take Royce Keller on As the World Turns and Terry himself even said this in an interview. Were any other actors were considered for Buzz before JFP got her friend Justin Deas hired? Although the Coopers were already on the canvas, JFP wanted them to become the main family as a showcase for Deas, which is pretty much what we saw in the aftermath of Maureen's death until Nancy Curlee left the writing team. Side note, Terry Lester was not a Buzz. Someone in the GL thread suggested him as an Alan recast in 1994, I wonder how he would've done in that role.

Those names bring back so many memories of the excitement of Olympic track and field. Even though he is not American, Usain Bolt was probably the last Olympic track and field superstar. No surprise in men's basketball, USA wins gold. As for the bronze game, I'm not disappointed with Australia getting their first men's basketball medal. Fourth is not a bad showing for Slovenia in their Olympic men's basketball debut.

Men's Basketball gold medal game USA/France and bronze medal game Australia/Slovenia. My predictions were way off LOL. At this point it'll probably go USA gold, France silver, Slovenia bronze.

Men's Basketball Final Four: USA/Australia and Slovenia/France. Predicting USA gold, Slovenia silver, Australia bronze.

Y&R has gone into budget mode.