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I'm so used to seeing Jess Walton with big ass hair but she looks good here with the Diana hair. Was this Prince Ali arc some type of 1980s Arabian Nights story? Really Capitol, you're trying to pass a White Australian with dark hair and a tan as Middle Eastern? Maybe in the 1980s daytime casting directors could get away with that nonsense.

Jerry Douglas was 54 in 1986 and he didn't look like he needed any work at that time. I think he had some eye work sometime in the 1990s. Somehow I remember an episode with a line about John looking more refreshed.

I got the feeling that the music was changed for the Victor/Ashley dance scene.

Yes. In fact, only four Black actors have ever been nominated for Lead Actor: Al Freeman Jr. (RIP), Darnell Williams, James Reynolds, Kristoff St. John (RIP). It's quite telling that the category with the most Black winners is Younger Actor.

@charholden5 I think Bradley Bell took over some time in 1993.

For whatever reason, Bill Bell didn't expand on the Forrester daughters' relationship. For all we know, they could've ended up like Leslie/Lorie, Ashley/Traci, Donna/Katie and fight over a guy or two.

Only next Monday is worth watching.

Beth Maitland is a treasure. With Y&R having stupidly killed off John Abbott, they need to cement Traci as that family's heart.

I could be totally wrong about this, but maybe someone at Sony/CBS doesn't want to pay royalties to Terry Lester's estate.

These listings cover the area between Buffalo and Toronto. Interesting that the cable providers carry network affiliates from both Buffalo and Erie. CBS Buffalo aired Guiding Light at 10 am but I'm guessing CBS Erie aired GL at 3 pm, even though it's not listed. As for the Canadian networks at the time, Global had Y&R, Days, General Hospital; CTV had B&B and Another World; CHCH had As the World Turns; CBC had All My Children. Of the long-running soaps, Guiding Light and One Life to Live were not broadcast by a Canadian network at the time. I've pierced together this history about Canadian soap broadcasts in the last 20 years. Any Canadians here can correct me if I'm wrong: General Hospital moves from Global to Citytv where it remains to this day. Y&R and Days remain on Global to this day. After NBC cancels Another World and debuts Passions, CTV also picks up Passions. CTV broadcasts Passions for about a year then Passions moves to Global where it remains until its cancelled by NBC. B&B remains on CTV to this day. As the World Turns moves from CHCH to Global where it remains until its cancelled by CBS. CBC drops All My Children and doesn't pick up any more soaps afterward. I'm still curious if viewers in Buffalo could get Global Toronto and watch the day-ahead Y&R.

I had forgotten about the Diego race change recasting. The Keesha race change recasting was worse though. Y&R recently had a South Asian character, Ravi, but he was basically Raj from Big Bang Theory without the accent.

Jake, Margo, Clarke were all gone around Spring 1992. I think their exits were just before Sheila arrived.

Taylor the Desert Princess (B&B) was somewhat offensive and it would not work today. The recasting of Y&R's Keesha from an actress of Puerto Rican heritage to an actress of Italian heritage. Keesha's race was never stated but it was implied that she was African-American.

Prior to the 1991 return, Dina was last seen around 1985 or 1986, so the 1991 return was her first interactions with the recast Jill, Ashley, Jack, Mamie.

I wonder why EB wouldn't submit his name for the Lead Actor Emmy. I don't remember him mentioning much about the Emmys in his book. 1998 was his 5th nomination and I was getting scared that he was approaching Susan Lucci losing streak territory. EB didn't get a People cover story when his streak was over though. You should get a medal 🤗 The 1992 episode has a Nikki/Katherine scene, so MTS must have squashed her beef w/ JC by then. From what I could tell based on what was onscreen and what I've read, the MTS/JC beef was from 1990-1992.

Peter Bergman got his second Lead Actor Emmy for the substance abuse story whereas Melody Thomas Scott didn't even get nominated for Lead Actress. MTS's best scene during the substance abuse story was when Nikki was getting dressed and her hands were shaking when she was putting on her makeup.

Did the Santa Barbara writers throw a bunch of Middle Eastern names at a wall and picked the ones that stuck?

Have you come across any Buffalo/Niagara Falls listings? I'm curious to know if viewers there could get Global Toronto. Thanks in advance

Hunter Tylo was stunning in the 1990s. No wonder she made People's Most Beautiful list twice in the 1990s. Sadly she ruined her looks with all that awful plastic surgery.

When Kimberley Simms was on GL I thought she looked a lot like Christie Brinkley, and she still kind of does.

1998 Daytime Emmy Awards. THE STREAK IS OVER ERIC BRAEDEN!!! If Eric was there I'm sure either Jeanne or Jess would have said that 🤣🥰 10 years later Jeanne's streak would be over.

From @Soapsuds upload, it looks like the week of June 23-27, 1997 has Y&R at 7.2 and Days at 6.9. Thanks @Soapsuds and @Pine Charles for the uploads.

I'm down for this one too. I don't care much for Mark Derwin either but he did act in storylines on Y&R and GL alongside two of my all time favorite daytime actors.

@Soapsuds It was mentioned in the Y&R Classics thread that there was a week in June 1997 where Days was only 0.3 behind Y&R. Do you have the ratings for that month?

Anything 2006 onward are not classics.