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Hold up, MZ was being checked for BITD? I remember SOD Best of 1989 Most Intriguing Couple Roger/Holly write up described MZ as "dashing" but I never gave his looks much thought when I watched in real time. Then again, I was in middle school and high school when I watched in real time (Calhoun/Long/Curlee and first year of JFP/Curlee). From watching online I admit MZ looked better 1989-1994 than from what I've seen of his original 1971-1980 run, but if there was glow up I somehow didn't recognize it.

We can blame the decline of GL on many factors: Douglas Marland departure. Gail Kobe/Pamela Long chasing all the 1980s trends. Writer turnover during Joe Willmore run. Killing off Maureen Bauer. Nancy Curlee departure. To me killing off Maureen Bauer felt like the beginning of the end and Nancy Curlee departure felt like the end. GL was not in a good place creatively in June 1994 (Nancy Curlee departure was three months earlier) when OJ began and I feel it was effectively over in the aftermath of OJ.

Did her run total 30+ years?

Like I've said before, if there was any character that defined GL's final 25 years, it was Reva. Gail Kobe/Pamela Long Spring 1983-Summer 1984 saw the ratings go up from the post-Marland slump and set in motion characters and storylines that carried GL through its final 25 years, but it was too much chasing 1980s trends which wasn't sustainable and caused long-term damage. The ratings from Fall 1984 onward reflected this, and some may say GL never really recovered from it.

Eileen Fulton Dies: 'As The World Turns' Star Was 91 Daytime Icon Eileen Fulton (Lisa, As the World Turns) Dies at the Age of 91 - Soap Opera Digest

My school years (elementary through college) overlapped w/ supercouple Days and Reilly Days. That's what the soap fans among my classmates were mostly watching, not the CBS line up that their grandmothers watched.

I'm a 1980s kid/1990s teen and I went to school with plenty of Lisas. I recognize As the World Turns place in US daytime television history, but to a lot of soap fans of my generation it had a reputation of being a grandma show.

Noted. Thank you @DRW50

I pointed this out in the As the World Turns thread. Lisa ran so Rachel, Erica, Jill, and Brooke could walk.

Of the long-time (as in 30+ years) As the World Turns cast members that are past age 80, I believe Don Hastings, Larry Bryggman, and Marie Masters are the last ones left of that generation. If I'm missing any please add.

Eileen Fulton and Gregg Marx on The Price is Right (OAD February 5, 1985).

You're welcome.

RIP Eileen Fulton and thank you for your contributions to daytime television.

Eileen Fulton receives the Editor's Award. Segment begins 1:08:07

Lisa was the OG vixen. She ran so Agnes Nixon creations Rachel and Erica and Bill Bell creations Jill and Brooke could walk. RIP Eileen Fulton and thank you for your contributions to daytime television. The Daytime Emmys better give her the memoriam that she deserves.

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Joe Willmore. His run was January 1986 to June 1989, so that overlaps with the 1988 writer's strike.

I think the biggest shift in the qualifying system was the creation of the younger categories and their eventual age limit. I feel the younger categories were created so that newcomers wouldn't overshadow long-tenured veterans and with the age limit, it made the supporting categories a holding tank for those who aged out of the younger categories but were not at long-tenured veteran level or at superstar level to be nominated for the lead categories. No other awards have a category with an age limit and that in a way detracts from the legitimacy of the awards. IMO the results of the younger categories from the mid-1990s to the end showed how much the talent pool in daytime dropped during that era.

I think there was some controversy over Laurie Heineman win in 1978 and that lead to the creation of the supporting categories the following year.

Thank you.

You're welcome @chrisml

There's a reason why no 2007 episodes were shown during the classics. Halfway through the month and 90% has been "what is this mess?"

Another World at the Daytime Emmys Wins Laurie Heineman: Lead Actress 1978 Irene Dailey: Lead Actress 1979 Douglass Watson: Lead Actor 1980, 1981 Ellen Wheeler: Younger Actress 1986 Anne Heche: Younger Actress 1991 Linda Dano: Lead Actress 1993 Charles Keating: Lead Actor 1996 Anna Holbrook: Supporting Actress 1996 Nominations Beverlee McKinsey: Lead Actress 1977-1980 Victoria Wyndham: Lead Actress 1978, 1979 Julius LaRosa: Supporting Actor 1980 Howard E. Rollins, Jr.: Supporting Actor 1983 Paul Stevens: Supporting Actor 1984 Don Scardino: Younger Actor 1986 Douglass Watson: Lead Actor 1989 David Forsyth: Supporting Actor 1989, 1996 Anne Heche: Younger Actress 1989 Stephen Schnetzer: Lead Actor 1990 Charles Keating: Supporting Actor 1992, 1993; Lead Actor 1994 Linda Dano: Supporting Actress 1992; Lead Actress 1994, 1996 Alla Korot: Younger Actress 1992 Jensen Buchanan: Lead Actress 1996, 1997 Amy Carlson: Supporting Actress 1998 Rhonda Ross Kendrick: Younger Actress 1998 Two things stand out to me: No win for Beverlee McKinsey. 1996 the most successful year. We know by then JFP had the block voting game on lock.

@MLH Thank you for the link.

Yet Frank Dicopolous was employed for 22 years.