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2018 will also have two other sad GL-related anniversaries: May 2 will be 10 years since Beverlee McKinsey passed away, and December 6 will be 20 years since Michael Zaslow passed away.

Canadian media broke the news earlier today. https://globalnews.ca/news/3953303/donnelly-rhodes-dies-at-80/

Agree with all of this. If P&G were the ones behind replacing Robert Calhoun w/ JFP, then that was one of the worst decisions they ever made. Yes, JFP's first year saw a ratings increase, but as we all know she did long term damage that GL never really recovered from.

Sadly so many of them were overlooked when the Daytime Emmy Awards rolled around.

So we've almost reached the first 6 months of JFP's run. January-August 1992 have some good stuff, but sadly we know the momentum doesn't last. From what I could find online, JFP's run was a little less than 4 years, July 1991 to May 1995.

Taye Diggs was on The Talk this past Friday and Sheryl Underwood brought up his time on GL; she mentioned his character's name was Damian Sugar Hill. I thought Taye Diggs's GL character was named Adrian. I never saw Taye Diggs's GL episodes when they originally aired (1997 I think), only bits and pieces online.

Thank you @ltm1997 and @YRfan23 :bighug A lot more action/adventure than usual. Then again it was the mid-1980s and pretty much every show jumped on the action/adventure/supercouple bandwagon to some degree.

Full season ahead http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/dynasty-full-season-order-the-cw-1202610466/

So in 2006 the B&B cast boasted the likes of Jack Wagner, Lorenzo Lamas, Antonio Sabato Jr., and Mario Lopez all at the same time

I watched last night to see what the new Dynasty would be like, and it's like a white version of Empire crossed w/ Maria Arena Bell's version of Y&R's Newman family.

Bill Bell's most notable are Jill and Brooke, and to a lesser extent Nina and Sharon. Bradley Bell used that element for Amber and MAB used that element for Chloe.

Bill Bell took qualities from the Foster and Prentiss sons and used them on B&B for the Forrester sons: Ridge, a Snapper/Lance hybrid, and Thorne, a Greg/Lucas hybrid. Funny that John McCook played one of the Prentiss sons and then the father of the Forrester sons.

Not just the cast purge, but the EP change as well. John Conboy left for Capitol and H. Wesley Kenney took over, having previously worked with Bill Bell at Days. 1983 was also a bit of transition, as there were some major cast changes that year too: Andrea Evans replaced Lilibet Stern as Patty, Tracey Bregman arrived as Lauren, Brenda Dickson returned as Jill. I know Deborah Adair joined the cast of Dynasty in 1983, but did she leave Y&R by her own choice or was she terminated in order for Brenda Dickson to return? The 1982-1987 period really set in motion a lot of what is still felt today, mainly the eternal triangle (quadrangle really) and the eternal feud. I don't know if anyone else agrees with me, but I feel that it was H. Wesley Kenney that laid all the groundwork for Y&R's rise to #1 but Ed Scott that ended up getting all the credit. Granted, I didn't see a lot of the 1980s live as my Y&R watching then was limited to school breaks so I'm going by what I remember live, what I saw years later online, and from recap archives/books/soap magazines.

Haha, Mr. Mom. I haven't thought of that movie for years. I totally remember the Y&R segments from it.

@Nothin'ButAttitude Thanks for the reply

Peter Brown must have been a favorite actor of Bill Bell, as Bill Bell worked with him on Days then brought him to Y&R and later B&B. Bill Bell brought to Y&R/B&B a good number of actors he worked with on Days: Margaret Mason, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Susan Flannery just to name a few more.

Thank you YRfan23 and ltm1997 for gifting us rare 1980s Y&R :bighug Loved seeing the beginning of Victor/Nikki and the Abbotts. So Victoria's birth was on-screen then? I know MTS was pregnant in real life when Nikki was pregnant with Victoria, but I couldn't remember if MTS was written off for maternity leave before Nikki gave birth to Victoria.

I remember the Stephanie mercury poisoning storyline. I was not expecting Sally to become Stephanie's defender. Bill Bell casting Darlene Conley as Sally and building a family/business around her breathed new life into the early years of B&B.

Before Neil and Malcolm, there was Tyrone and Jazz Jackson. Bill Bell took a few elements from the Jackson brothers and used them for the Winters brothers.

What a treat it is to rewatch Shemar Moore's first episodes Thanks YRfan23 :bighug

The Italian Y&R episodes kept the original background music. From what I've seen of Italian B&B, the background music was changed.

Heads up for those who have GSN, Catherine Hickland will be on Monday and Tuesday's episodes of $25,000 Pyramid. She was on one of the episodes from this past Friday and was really good at playing the game.

I know. So much of the 1980s I would love to see in its entirety but it looks like it won't happen unless CBS/Sony decides to launch a streaming service or release some DVD compilations.

Well 1989 is when the Spectra gang arrived, maybe that's what drew you to B&B LOL The early years do resemble 1970s Y&R a lot. I used to equate pre-Sheila B&B as being practically identical to pre-Victor Y&R; the character and storyline similarities are numerous. But B&B does come into it's own around 1990, as by then Bill Bell figured out which characters were working and which weren't.

Thanks YRfan23