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Thank you once again for sharing these! So this was the first full year on TV, right? Was the show still going in parallel on the radio or did radio stop as soon the move to TV was complete? I feel like the focus was already moved from Meta (and I guess also slightly from the Bauers) to Kathy, no? Most of the storylines were about her. With Ray and Charlotte leaving the show at this point, I suppose that makes it everyone from the radio era is gone now? Were they actually in the show still by this point or were they just mentioned to be leaving? I am asking because in the records that I have from earlier, I had both Ray and Charlotte on the show by 1951, which is clearly wrong :D

I am once again shocked at the drastic SORAS case so early! I had no idea, I thought SORAS arrived later. Here, Chuckie, who was born last year, is now already boxing and what not. But very interesting storylines with Meta and Ted's discussion on how to raise Chuckie and Bert being so materialistic and spending so much above their means. I knew Bert used to be a vixen, but I had no idea how much. Mary was not a good doctor, wasn't she? She revealed Julie not being blind earlier and now she is hiding from Michael that he has TB? Wow...

So Bert only first appeared in December? Wow, I thought all the earlier mentions were her also appearing (like Bert leaving Bill and finding a new boyfriend). Julie seems to be completely put on the side here already, which I guess makes sense since even the little mentions she got was again for the Julie/Ray/Charlotte storyline, which I guess by that point was played out and Irna had nothing else for Julie.

I actually never knew that Meta was the first Bauer to be introduced. How interesting! Very cool to see this transition from everyone else to Bauers. Is Betty Ann the first case of SORAS? She was born and then few months later, she was already playing with matches, burning down the house. Interesting to see the storyline of what people thought of a woman doctor.

I always love when big stars talk fondly of their soap beginnings. This was so nice of him. I love MBJ even more now

Thank you both! I find the character of Julie fascinating. For a female character in 1947, to have a story where she decides to just leave her husband AND children to be with another man. Wow, seems very radical for that time. That's why I like reading these old soap stories, because soaps used to be so brave. Today's soaps are so safe and boring.

This was really an interesting read. I think it is the first time I read something about the 40s Guiding Light (or at least in so much detail). (I apologize for so many questions, but I am asking just in case someone knows the answers :) And I read this last night before bed, so excuse me if I ask something that might be answered in the text). So I assume that Ned Holden served here as a transition between the characters from before the cancellation to the new characters? Or were Ray and Julie and Martin and other characters already existing characters that were also there before the cancellation? Was Ray really innocent and Martin did frame him to send him to prison? Who was Tim Lawrence? Did Frank just slide off? No one pushed him? He really is the most tragic character. And usually so much tragedy happens to female characters, I don't remember seeing so much tragic stuff happen to a male character.

I also enjoy these summaries immensely! Thank you so much for sharing. I know very little about the golden days of soaps, so I am always happy to see something like pop up and I always find myself enjoying this so much more than an of the soaps nowadays (in fact, I don't even watch any soaps today lol).

Thank you @BoldRestless 😀

Many thanks for a quick answer! :) I will check these out! I already have my own list based on Jason47's ratings lists, but still missing a lot of dates, so grateful for these contributions, DRW50! ;)

Does anyone maybe have a list of pre-emptations throughout the history of Y&R and are willing to share? Or if it exists somewhere online already? I am interested in other soaps too in case you know where to find this info. Thank you :)

There is going to be another FF episode? :o

This interview is so sad on so many levels.

I haven't watched Y&R in years, but Matt Clark's death is one of my all time favorite soap moments, the way he tried to frame Nick by killing himself. Now him suddenly being alive is gross and I am glad I am not watching.

Wow! Thank you so much @Reverend Ruthledge! This is great!!

Ooh, both this and Corie are also available in rest of the Europe (or at least in my country) as of June 30th episodes, from what I can see Interesting. I stopped watching EastEnders.. maybe I should go back to Emmerdale??

Oh my.. this would be around the timeframe of the episodes that aired in my country. Wow, seeing Burke Moses... I think he was one of my first crushes lol And wow, Alexandra Wilson was indeed horrible. I didnt remember her that way, but I was a kid, so I probably didnt notice. Luke Perry on the other hand was quite good, I thought.

Thank you so much!

Thanks a lot as always for the summaries! Always look forward to them!

Thank you so much, Jason!!

Greatly appreciated, Jason!!

Ah okay, thats what I thought. I was hoping I missed the announcement somewhere. Thanks for the clarification.

Oh absolutely! I agree. It's sad that Penny has been sidelined so much. Kitty is such a great actress and she really got nothing outside of that stupid crush storyline that only brought this horrible Lauren's addiction storyline. I forgot about Jean's money scam, but I figured that it would lead to nothing. Sigh. Kathy has really been dragged through the mud. With her being revealed as Cindy's attacker and then being with Harvey.. I keep up with the show by reading what's happening, but none of it makes me want to tune back in. The nuMitchells crap with Shireen and Zack being Barney's dad is such a mess. But I am considering tuning in the returns, because Max is one of my favorite characters and if Tanya and Shirley come back, I would look forward to that. But I just don't think Jo Joyner would ever come back full time.

Wait, what?? Tanya and Shirley are coming back?? I didn't see this news so far. Wow! I might have to go back to watching with Max, Tanya and Shirley coming back. I don't really care about Zoe, didnt watch the show back when she was on. Also, I did have a feeling at one point during Clenshaw when we were return heavy that some of those returns were just style over substance. Just so that the show can claim that so and so came back and die hard fans were joyful, even though the actual stuff on the screen was [!@#$%^&*]. I am kind of over these guest returns. I hope if Max and others return, it's on contract and not guest.

Yeah, it probably really is one of the most watched. Maybe season 3 this January had even better figures, because what was reported here was season 2 from January 2024. I did a calculation based on the data provided in the report... And out of the 10 shows, DAYS would be the least watched. Calculation explained: With that said, again I agree that Day of the Jackal, which had a reported budget of 120 million USD for the season is still a loser for the streamer. There is no way they would ever get that money back. And yes, Days maybe still brings in the money for Peacock because of the year-round subscription. But that's not what the report published by this company was talking about, which was my point about reporting something as "most watched" based on total "minutes watched" as a metric.