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Lauralee Bell has aged really well. She doesn't look over-surgeried or over-injected compared to some other actresses of the same age range.

Marcy Walker joined GL in October 1993, under JFP watch and Nancy Curlee was HW. As we all know, Nancy Curlee left March 1994 and JFP left May 1995. Marcy Walker left sometime in summer 1995 I think, as her return to All My Children was that fall.

Y&R this week Victoria and Cole get married.

Marcy Walker was offered a part on B&B around the time she was offered GL but for whatever reason she chose GL over B&B. I think the part on B&B she was offered was recast Kristen Forrester but B&B in 1993 had too many females in the early 30s age range and not enough storyline to go around plus by the fall Bradley had taken over. Perhaps Marcy Walker dodged a bullet there.

Reilly Days is taking off. Had Kristian Alfonso returned at this point?

March 1994 Y&R big events: April stabs Robert to death. DNA test proves Victor is not Cole's father. GL March 1994 Nancy Curlee leaves the writing team. End of an era.

July 26, 1976 ABC expands One Life to Live and General Hospital to 45 minutes each. The network schedules (ET) starting w/ soaps until the end of the day were CBS: 11:30 am Love of Life, Noon Y&R, 12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow, 1 pm Local programming, 1:30 pm As the World Turns, 2:30 pm Guiding Light, 3 pm All in the Family reruns, 3:30 pm Match Game, 4 pm Tattletales ABC: 12:30 pm All My Children, 1 pm Ryan's Hope, 1:30 pm Family Feud, 2 pm $20000 Pyramid, 2:30 pm One Life to Live, 3:15 pm General Hospital, 4 pm The Edge of Night NBC: 1:30 pm Days, 2:30 pm The Doctors, 3 pm Another World, 4 pm Somerset The soap time slot rivalries were Search for Tomorrow vs. All My Children As the World Turns vs. Days Guiding Light vs. One Life to Live vs. The Doctors One Life to Live/General Hospital vs. Another World The Edge of Night vs. Somerset

Y&R so far ahead. Big events in February 1994 were Ashley and Blade get married, Christine and Danny divorce, Brad and Traci custody fight for Colleen.

Do not give Josh Griffith ideas :shudder I'm not excited about the 30th anniversary of the Frat Party.

Re: Ron Raines, I still can't figure out how a virtual unknown actor to daytime audiences (but not to musical theater fans) was cast in such a pivotal role under JFP's watch. My feeling is JFP wanted to cast one of her friends as Alan but the friend was not interested and turned down the part.

Days three definitive eras. I had no idea there was so much writer turnover in the 1983-1990 supercouple era.

I think this was Y&R highest rated week of the 1990s. The big event this week was Cole learning Victor may be his father and the scene at the ranch in the rain where Cole tells Victoria that they may have the same father.

Y&R in the 9s!

@will81 I was going by the recaps and the earliest mention of Vanessa was June 1976. Thanks for the correct date.

Y&R June 1976 KT Stevens debut as Vanessa Prentiss. I don't know the exact date of her first episode.

Hahaha, you are killing me.

VI return was the same week that JFP was first credited as EP, that's why I count him in the Friend of Jill list. That whole era from the aftermath of Maureen's death to Nancy Curlee leaving the writing team was way too much Buzz, and for me it was a chore to get through. I didn't think much of Mark Derwin's acting when he was on Y&R, so I was surprised that he became so popular on GL. Remember 1993 SOD Awards he got Hottest Male Star over Antonio Sabato Jr. and was nominated for Lead Actor at the 1993 Daytime Emmys.

There were four Friend of Jill incidents: Vincent Irizarry, Justin Deas, Marcy Walker, Marj Dusay. Also Mark Derwin became a Friend of Jill. I've pointed this out before but I was really surprised Alan was not recast w/ a Friend of Jill.

Hahaha I can't believe you're checking for Joshua Morrow. I just can't get past the whole overgrown frat boy persona that's just so ridiculous at his big age. Yeah the story is silly but EB is keeping the show going. I'm not getting the sense that he's phoning it in and riding out his contract just to collect the checks.

@JAS0N47 Thank you for the info re 1976 pre-emptions. Looking back in this thread, that means 1977 was the first year CBS had pre-emptions for US Open tennis. Also from this thread, Christmas 1979 was the first CBS pre-emption for an NBA game. CBS last pre-emption for an NBA game was Memorial Day 1990.

GL's 1980s revolving door of HWs December 1979: Douglas Marland October 1982: Pat Falken Smith November 1982: L. Virginia Browne February 1983: Richard Culliton and Pamela Long September 1983: Pamela Long January 1986: Jeff Ryder February 1986: Jeff Ryder and Mary Ryan Munisteri September 1986: Mary Ryan Munisteri and Ellen Barrett October 1986: Joseph Manetta November 1986: Joseph Manetta and Sheri Anderson July 1987: Pamela Long January 1991: Nancy Curlee As the World Turns also had a revolving door of HWs in the first half of the 1980s December 1979: Jerome and Bridget Dobson April 1981: Paul Roberts August 1981: Tom King and K.C. Collier January 1982: Jerome and Bridget Dobson May 1983: Carolyn Franz and John Saffron December 1983: John Saffron and Tom King April 1984: Tom King and Millee Taggart November 1984: Cynthia Benjamin and Susan Bedsow Horgan February 1985: Susan Bedsow Horgan September 1985-March 1993: Douglas Marland

I was not aware of Dinah Shore talk show. Thank you. So the main 1970s talk shows were Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Donahue, Dinah Shore. Dinah Shore ended in 1980, Mike Douglas ended in 1981, Merv Griffin ended in 1986, and Donahue ended in 1996. Oddly enough, Merv Griffin last episode was Friday September 5, 1986 and the following Monday (September 8, 1986) Oprah went national.

I noticed ABC had no pre-emptions in February for Innsbruck Winter Olympics and CBS had no pre-emptions in April and May for NBA playoffs. We might see ABC pre-emptions in July for Montreal Summer Olympics and CBS pre-emptions in September for US Open tennis.

They all passed relatively close to each other: William Roerick in November 1995. Larry Gates in December 1996. Vince Williams in January 1997.

With Bad Boys: Ride or Die a week away, I was reminded of the first Bad Boys soundtrack