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@soapfan770 Yikes indeed. I'm like OMG what did I just read?

No worries I didn't like either season 8 or 9, but I agree with you about the cruelty and losing everything being overkill. Unfortunately budget mode prevented that. I don't know what the timeline was for CBS deciding to end the show, but I have a feeling the final four episodes were refilmed to wrap up the storylines. Remember there was that five week break between the last Friday episode and the first Thursday episode. Promo for the first Thursday episode at 0:41

Larsa harvested her eggs, I knew it! She probably has a surrogate lined up already.

Agree. It's criminal that BM was never nominated for Lead Actress for her work on GL. MZ deserved more Lead Actor wins than the one he got. MG got three nominations for Supporting Actress but the competition was tough.

Agree. The only reason Phyllis wants Danny is to stick it to Christine. It's not like Danny was Phyllis's great love or anything like that.

Did Bill Bell write the original Doug/Julie storyline? If so it means Bill Bell created one of the first supercouples yet he wasn't big on supercouples in the 1980s on Y&R.

100% this. The whole show embodied all the 1980s trends.

I remember Victoria and Malcolm interacting in the studio around 2000.

Thanks for confirming Khan.

I didn't think much of Mark Derwin acting when he was on Y&R, so I was surprised that he became so popular on GL, winning SOD 1993 Hottest Male Star over Antonio Sabato Jr. and getting a Lead Actor Daytime Emmy nomination that same year. He also became a Friend of Jill, as I'm pretty sure she brought him over to One Life to Live.

Fall 1995 I think but I don't remember the exact month. It was a dinner and dance at Gina's.

I don't understand what the hold up is for Knots Landing to show up on Freevee. Is it music rights or something else?

RIP Bill Hayes and thank you for your contributions to daytime television.

I'm not sure. Perhaps @Soapsuds knows.

Kelley Menighan joined As the World Turns in 1992, three years before Maura West.

OMG it just hit me that 1984 the peak of the 1980s was 40 years ago. Where has the time gone?

Hahaha, probably not. I'd delegate co-HW to each of the dream team.

January 16, 1978 One Life to Live and General Hospital expand to 1 hr each. The new ET schedules starting w/ the 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, 3:30 pm All in the Family reruns, 4 pm Match Game ABC: 12:30 pm Ryan's Hope, 1 pm All My Children, 2 pm One Life to Live, 3 pm General Hospital, 4 pm The Edge of Night NBC: 1 pm For Richer, For Poorer; 1:30 pm Days, 2:30 pm The Doctors, 3 pm Another World, 4 pm Local programming The soap time slot rivalries were now Search for Tomorrow vs. Ryan's Hope All My Children vs. For Richer, For Poorer As the World Turns vs. All My Children/One Life to Live vs. Days Guiding Light vs. One Life to Live/General Hospital vs. The Doctors/Another World General Hospital vs. Another World

Y&R: Katherine/Jill, Victor/Jack, Lauren/Sheila B&B: Stephanie/Brooke, Stephanie/Sally, Stephanie/Sheila

My dream team: Bill Bell, Douglas Marland, Nancy Curlee.

@Khan I don't know if you saw the Entertainment Tonight Y&R 50th anniversary special, but there was a segment on social issue storylines where Lauralee Bell talked about Cricket's date rape and how Bill Bell wanted to tell that story properly. I got the impression that Lauralee Bell was taking a swipe at how other soaps told rape storylines and I think one of the rape storylines she was swiping was Santa Barbara Eden.

Thank you for the reply. Your mother was loyal to the CBS line up.

Your mother didn't find 1970s Y&R scandalous and shocking?

Thanks for the reply. It's the same for me re Days and the ABC big three. I tried to watch them but I wasn't drawn to them at all.

@Khan I take it you were never a fan of B&B.