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Laura was the heart and candor of the group. She kept everyone in check and would not hesitate to call anyone out on their nonsense and put them on blast.

Knots Landing went off the rails in the aftermath of Laura's departure and was effectively over when Abby left. I love that Constance McCashin has always kept it real by saying she was salary dumped. Constance was also smart enough to realize that good roles for females were few and far between after a certain age and that's probably why she changed her career into one outside of the entertainment business where there was no pressure on her to maintain a certain look. As for Donna Mills, she was smart to walk away when she did.

Yeah, she dodged a bullet. It bears repeating, Marcus Jordan is a waste of space of an NBA nepo baby.

They missed each other by a year. Terry Lester departure November 1990 and Eileen Davidson arrival November 1991.

@Khan How can anyone not love a trashy miniseries based on a best-selling novel? Sadly those are all relegated to Lifetime now, and it's just not the same as the ones on the broadcast networks in the 1980s.

Alan-Michael was born onscreen in 1981 and was SORASed in 1987 to I think 17 or 18, so he would be 25 or 26 in 1995. Going by the ages of the Alan-Michael actors in the years they were cast, Carl Tye Evans was 19 in 1987 and Rick Hearst was 25 in 1990.

Maureen/Fletcher was probably fueled by Maureen being jealous and insecure about Holly's return into Ed's life, but I could be wrong about that.

Keith D. Robinson born January 17, 1976. Maurice Johnson born February 10, 1979. Only three years difference.

This jumped out at me in that article: From the 1980s Ratings thread, One Life to Live rebounded in 1985 with Andrea Evans return, so that impacted Capitol. Remember Capitol was head-to-head with the second half of One Life to Live. It's new to me that CBS used Claire Labine proposed soap as leverage for Bill Bell to create a second show. I still believe that CBS wanted a second Bill Bell show to replace Search for Tomorrow in 1982 but with Y&R being in its post-expansion slump during the first half of 1982, Bill Bell had to fix Y&R first before he could even think about a second show. Capitol purpose was to be a placeholder/time filler until Bill Bell was ready for a second show.

B&B is stuck with Bradley until the show ends. As we all know, Bradley did not inherit his father's talent.

So do I. Andre the hotness of the show (I know, he's too young for me to check for like that). Andre/Dani off the charts heat generating romantic chemistry. The love scenes set to R&B slow jams. They are the soap couple I didn't know I needed.

Marcus Jordan admits to having substance abuse issues. Marcus Jordan Admits to Substance Abuse Problems Following DUI Arrest

B&B is up for renewal in September then? We're two years away from the 40th anniversary.

@Chris 2 In her own way, Miss Ellie was a messy matriarch.

The Jeffersons in 1981 and The Simpsons in 1995 payed homage to Who Shot JR.

Ashley is the weak link of the main female cast members. I can't think of any major soap actresses in the 25-35 age range. That just shows how far the talent pool in daytime has dropped.

Don't put that out there in the universe.

Agree. Derek is the weak link of the main male cast members.

I had forgotten that this month would have Amelia Heinle 20th anniversary.

@Khan Firstly, Josh Griffith probably has no idea who Brooks Prentiss is, and secondly, if Josh Griffith digs into Y&R's past, he'd most likely fumble the execution.

Tank job!

I'm a 1990s teen as well. It was being a redhead that set MG apart from the sea of blondes that permeated CBS Daytime back then, especially Y&R/B&B.

I think most of the longtime B&B viewers are either watching out of habit or hate watching at this point.

With all the garbage time this month, I'm looking forward to the March Madness break.