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It wasn't just GL that was ignored in the early years of the Daytime Emmys, it was a good chunk of the CBS lineup. I've seen lists of Daytime Emmy nominees and winners over the years, and GL didn't get any acting nominations until 1984. Even Y&R didn't get acting nominations until 1984 and As the World Turns got their first acting nominations in 1981. CBS's only acting Daytime Emmy wins from 1974-1981 were from Search for Tomorrow.

Thanks for the correction

I believe YRfan23 posted some episodes from late June/early July 1989 a while back. The main storyline in those episodes was Cricket's rape.

You mean 3J, who was played by Orlando Brown. He is better known for That's So Raven.

I loved Family Matters BITD but a revival wouldn't be the same without Estelle and Myra. As we all know, Rosetta Lenoire and Michelle Thomas are no longer with us.

Thanks YRfan23 You got the episode with Chloe's birth. I remember you posted another Summer 1990 episode with her as a newborn.

GL got a few acting Emmys from 1991-1993: Rick Hearst, Maeve Kinkead, Ellen Parker, Monti Sharp. I agree, there were some glaring omissions though as far as nominees and winners go. It is criminal that Beverlee McKinsey was never nominated for her work on GL. The 1991-1993 lead actress races were rather weak IMO and she could've easily won at least one Emmy in that period. Even the lead actor races from 1991-1993 were rather weak IMO. Another GL Emmy robbery was Maureen Garrett but the years she was nominated in supporting actress (1991, 1992, 1994) the competition was tough and for whatever reason she wasn't nominated in 1993.

Michael Zaslow should've had more lead actor Emmys than the one he got. He was nominated four consecutive years (1992-1995) and won once (1994). His 1992 nomination and 1994 win were GL's firsts in the lead actor category. Some comments on YT clips of the 1994 Daytime Emmys said GL submitted not very good reels for Michael Zaslow in 1992 and 1993 but they got the 1994 submission right. The Acapulco episodes should've gotten him a nomination and maybe win in 1991, and the post-country club confrontation with Alexandra should've gotten him a win in 1992.

From rewatching the beginning of JFP's run, we can see Mark Derwin being added to the Friend of Jill list; I believe she brought him to One Life to Live when she was there in the late 1990s. I didn't think that much of Mark Derwin's acting when he was on Y&R, but on GL he ended up becoming a lead actor Emmy nominee as well as winning a Soap Opera Digest award for hottest male star (and he beat Antonio Sabato Jr. for that particular award IIRC). JFP must have known something we didn't when she set up Nick/Mindy and Mallet/Harley as VI/KS and MD/BE were together eventually in real life. The ratings went up during the 1991/92 season, but as we all know the movement upward didn't last.

Maybe it's me, but I've always gotten the feeling that it was H. Wesley Kenney that laid all the groundwork for Y&R's rise to #1 but Ed Scott ended up getting all the credit.

I think a good chunk of the 1990s weren't very kind to Jeanne/Katherine, I'd say from the end of Kay/Marge until the estate battle. Jeanne even ranted to the soap press some time in the mid-1990s, when Nick/Sharon became the focus. Considering that, I wasn't surprised to read that she almost left in 1993. Had Jeanne gone to As the World Turns, I'm pretty sure she would've been connected to Terry Lester's Royce somehow. Between Jeanne's and EB's memoirs, and VR's "novels", we can compile a chart of who's had beef with whom LOL.

MTS was the queen of game shows in the 1980s and 1990s. She was on $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid, Tattletales, Body Language, Family Feud, Now You See It, The Price is Right, Jeopardy. The one game show I don't remember her appearing on is Wheel of Fortune.

In the early days of YT (2006-2010 or so) there was a good amount of 1980s/1990s Y&R and B&B. You might get lucky and find some dubbed/subtitled episodes that were posted then and have managed to still stay online.

Bill Bell used elements of the Katherine/Phillip/Jill and Liz/Stuart/Jill storylines for the Eric and Brooke storyline. From what I remember, Eric and Brooke decide to start their relationship during their dinner (that's what's being set up in the episode above) and the actual affair begins at Big Bear sometime in March, resulting in Brooke becoming pregnant with Rick. I wonder if Bill Bell's original intention was for Eric and Brooke to be involved, or was the story changed to accommodate KKL's pregnancy.

DRW50, thank you for posting the 1990 episodes. The first five years are such a rare treat. By 1990 Bill Bell had figured out which characters were working and which weren't. The Spectra gang became more prominent, while the Logans were phased out by early 1991. Kristen and Mick were gone not long after these episodes, I think in March sometime. I remember Teri Ann Linn returning for a few episodes in 1992, 1993, 1994 and that was it. Do you think Kristen could have been a viable character in the 1990s had a stronger actress played her? There was a SOD headline in 1996 that B&B was attempting to recast Kristen with Melissa Reeves but as we all know, nothing came of it.

So Italy skipped most of 1986, all of 1987 and 1988, most of 1989, all of 1994 through 1997, and most of 1998? You were spared the focus on Cricket in the late 1980s, the focus on Nick/Sharon in the mid-1990s, and that lull period of Fall 1996 through the first half of 1997, but you missed a few good storylines as well.

What was the last storyline that aired before cancellation? If the ending was 2005 or earlier episodes, then you were spared LML, MAB, JFP, Pratt. Maybe it's me but I always got the impression that B&B is a bigger draw in most of Europe than Y&R.

Are you enjoying the 2014 episodes FrenchFan? If any international Y&R viewers are posting here, what's happening on Y&R in your country?

YRfan23, thank you for the link. I remember the 2008 Paris remote was done to coincide w/ the 20th anniversary of Y&R first being broadcast in France. So if they started w/ 1986 episodes in 1989 as per the episode guide, France would be watching 2014 episodes now. One of the French language channels in Canada airs Y&R but the episodes are from 2009.

YRfan23, do you have an episode guide saved somewhere? You're really good w/ original air dates Ugh, tying Cricket to the Abbotts allowed her to eat the show even more. I remember Soap Opera Digest named Cricket as Most Overexposed Character in one of the best/worst issues in the late 1980s. I believe Chase was gone sometime in spring 1990 but I don't recall how he was written off.

I always thought it was hilarious that little Victoria's real name was Ashley Nicole. She would be about 35 now.

Did anyone like Victor and Cassandra as a couple? It wasn't long after the 1990 episode yrfan1983 recapped that Victor would take little Victoria to Switzerland, and was gone for a few weeks. I pinpoint this departure to coincide with Eric Braeden taking time off for his role in the miniseries Lucky Chances (based on the Jackie Collins novels).

yrfan1983, your recaps are really detailed. Thanks for posting them.

Is this the first documented Friend of Jill incident?

So it was July 1991 that Robert Calhoun left and Jill Farren Phelps came on. I'm glad I was able to experience Robert Calhoun's run both when it originally aired (as much as I could, given I was school-aged at the time) and rewatching again online.