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Wow, you got the episode w/ Colleen's birth. Those February preemptions must have been for CBS sports coverage of the Albertville Olympics.

Victor and Jack initially got in each other's orbit due to Victor taking over Mergeron Enterprises from Dina. I think the feud really began when Victor got involved with Ashley, leading to Jack becoming involved with Nikki. "Ruthless" and the Jabot takeover came afterwards. I'm going by what I've pierced together from recaps and clips over the years. Something I've always wondered was how Eric Braeden and Terry Lester got along with each other. Eric never really commented to the soap press after Terry passed away, and Eric also never mentioned Terry in his book.

From the People cover story of Susan Lucci's streak being over: "In 1982 she pounded her fist on a table when OLTL’s Robin Strasser took the best actress honors and reportedly cried a year later, after AMC castmate Dorothy Lyman garnered the gold." Full article: http://people.com/archive/cover-story-they-love-lucci-vol-51-no-21/

@slick jones Thank you for this thread. What a great look back to daytime drama history

Haha, The Nanny, I haven't thought of that show for years. There were some Y&R/Nanny connections come to think of it: series stars Charles Shaughnessy (brother of Y&R producer David Shaughnessy) and Nicholle Tom (sister of Heather Tom and David Tom); Eric Braeden guest starred on one episode as a theater critic; Peter Bergman, Jeanne Cooper, Shemar Moore, Joshua Morrow, and Melody Thomas Scott appeared as themselves on one episode. Perhaps Fran Drescher was a fan of Y&R.

@slick jones Please add to your list: Darlene Conley Terry Lester Michael Zaslow

Firstly, thanks to @YRfan23 for the uploads and @ltm1997 for the episodes From watching these episodes, you can tell that Y&R was very much in transition w/ the expansion to 1 hour and the new characters. It took a couple years for Bill Bell to figure out which characters were working and which weren't. From that Victor scene, I think he knew Casey so he must have heard about her sister Nikki, but Victor and Nikki didn't actually meet until about a year and a half later. Interesting to see the start of the cult storyline that was retconned to result in Paul and Nikki having Dylan. During the original cult storyline (summer 1980), Paul was already a father to baby Heather so that means Dylan's birth would've been between Heather and Victoria, so in real time that would be spring 1981 (Heather's birth was 1979 and Victoria's birth was fall 1982). Whomever retconned the cult storyline didn't do the research properly.

Sheryl Underwood knew Taye Diggs was on GL so we knew she was watching in the late 1990s.

Nia Long was on The Talk today. Her segment was about 10 minutes and she talked about her new Netflix movie and her role on NCIS: Los Angeles. No mention of GL at all.

@YRfan23 @ltm1997 Can't wait to see the 1980 episodes. Thank you both :bighug

Nia Long will be on The Talk on Thursday, and I'm sure Sheryl Underwood will bring up her time on GL.

I've seen GL clips from Germany, Italy, and Iceland. There were some Italian dubbed episodes posted earlier in the thread. I mentioned before that I didn't think P&G exported their shows globally the way Y&R/B&B were. I know As the World Turns aired in Netherlands, and Another World might have aired in Australia, but I don't know if P&G's other long running shows like Search for Tomorrow or The Edge of Night aired internationally.

The episode I linked to earlier wasn't Samantha's last appearance. She's in this episode but it looks like her story is winding down.

Whenever that starting playing, you knew some sexy time was about to take place

Anyone remember the Y&R soundtrack album from the mid 1990s?

Was this Suzy Cote's last episode? She would've been the first long time (as in 3 or more years) cast member to depart under JFP's watch if I'm not mistaken. I remember Samantha Marler was gone after the Daniel St. John storyline ended. I'm thinking the character might have gotten a mention of leaving town to attend law school but not a full exit storyline.

Many B&B viewers (myself included at one time) point to the crossovers as the turning point but it really was the arrival of Sally Spectra. Building a business and family around her breathed new life into a show that started out as pretty much a clone of 1970s Y&R.

David Tom looks better than he did when he returned to Y&R. He turns 40 next month.

Some collector out there might have Eric Braeden's first episode. The original airdate we now know was Friday February 8, 1980.

Yeah it was. I haven't seen the full episode, only a clip from a promo that was on YT. I remember there were rumors about Bill Bell and Aaron Spelling having beef in the late 1990s, around the time of the Hunter Tylo lawsuit. There was also actor swapping between Y&R/B&B and Spelling's shows of the time.

Not sure if it's been mentioned here yet, but Melina Kanakaredes is part of the cast of the new Fox medical drama, The Resident.

Interesting that you brought up Alexis Carrington, because when I watched the 1984 episodes I got the impression Bill Bell was attempting to create his own Alexis in Dina. Think about it. Dina walks away from her husband and children and lives a jet set life, then remarries a wealthy man, eventually becomes widowed, and inherits a corporation.

The beginning of the eternal quadrangle and the eternal feud...

Phillip Chancellor II was part of the canvas for only 2 years. John Considine originated the role in 1973. Donnelly Rhodes took over in 1974 and remained until the character was killed off in 1975.

It was posted in the "They Almost Became" thread that GL offered the role of Buzz Cooper to Terry Lester but he turned it down and instead took Royce on ATWT. Perhaps Justin Deas wasn't GL's original choice but his casting was another Friend of Jill incident.