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The Athletic Club rooftop pool/hot tub seems to have replaced those.

Bill Bell wrote Stephanie as a hybrid of Jennifer Brooks, Vanessa Prentiss, and Katherine. Bradley Bell wrote Stephanie more like a female Victor.

Susanne Zenor was on Days before being cast on Y&R. As we all know, Bill Bell brought a good number of former Days actors over to Y&R in the 1980s.

More thoughts that I forgot earlier: I forgot how eerie the back to back scenes of Lauren's "son" dying and Sheila singing Hush Little Baby to her "son" were. I remember Dina got exposed for lying about an illness when she was really broke but I can't recall what lead to Dina losing her money. Marla Adams's 1991 return was about 5 or 6 years after her last appearance so this was the first time she interacted w/ the Abbott recasts.

@ltm1997 and @YRfan23 Thank you for the 1991 and 1993 episodes. I was watching daily for a good chunk of the 1990s so I remember the storylines from these episodes quite well. The 1991 scene where Jack confronts Nikki about her drinking is probably what got Peter Bergman his 2nd Lead Actor Emmy. I remember that scene was shown during the Lead Actor presentations on the 1992 Daytime Emmy broadcast. I have no idea what his other submitted episode was. So Christine was not yet a lawyer in these 1991 episodes as she was still writing law exams. I remember Michael Baldwin arrived in late 1991 so it must have been either at the end of November or beginning of December. On to the 1993 episodes, we got to see the return of the Nikki/Katherine friendship which had been missing for a few years; I don't remember Nikki/Katherine interacting during Nikki's substance abuse and Katherine's cancer scare (Katherine turned to Jill during her cancer scare). We know now that there was friction in real life between MTS and JC and that could be why Nikki and Katherine didn't interact for a few years but I guess whatever issues they had must have been resolved by 1993. Two new pairings were starting up, Paul/Christine and Victor/Hope, and also the buildup to the Nikki/Victoria/Cole triangle. I wonder if Bill Bell was originally going to have Danny become involved with his costar but instead he created Phyllis the following year. The whole mystery of if Cole was Victor's son added a bit of an ick factor to the triangle.

@MichaelGL Roberta Flack's segment was posted before.

@ltm1997 Whomever finds and posts episodes from the 1982-1987 era should be knighted by the Queen

@Nothin'ButAttitude Did you see Jocelyn Seagrave on that 1997 Aaron Spelling Fox show Pacific Palisades? That was the only post-GL role of hers I can recall offhand.

Thank you both What a great episode! The eternal feud is slowly starting here.

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.