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Omg yes, exacly! I have had the same. Seemed like a lot of the characters were having very extreme reactions like that to some situations which were not that bad haha Ah I never did the shrinking storyline haha althought I did have some outlandish stories.. like parents of a newborn baby with a mysterious illness go search for a cure and end up in Siberia looking for some flower needed for a potion that would be the cure. I have to say, I don't watch DOOL anymore, but I read comments still on the forums and I laugh about people complain about Ben being accepted by many after he was a serial killer. And I agree with this criticism. But I do chuckle because I had a character Matt Bergin show up in 1999, as this con-artist who was soon discovered to be a son of a local detective. And then very quickly he was forggiven and he became a changed person and a good guy. Now, I was 16 when I wrote that and my guy was not a serial killer. What is Ron's excuse? Haha I did even try to modify this by finally bringing him to court in 2001 for some jewel theft he did prior to joining my show. And then also in 2005 he got in a relationship with a girl Serena who was a daughter of one of his fraud targets some years before. He seduced the lady and tricked her to get her cash and then left which ended up with her suicide, so her daughter Serena found him, seduced him and falsy accused him of rape to get back at him. So he went through trial again.. I tried to rectify my blunders hahah

Actually I only write episode summaries as well, but mostly because writing dialogue would take forever, and since I have a full time job and dont have so much free time to write, I found summaries to be a perfect solution as at least with the summaries I move the story forward What does Biloxi mean, if you dont mind me asking? Oh thank you so much! Very kind of you. No, I did not publish it anywhere, as I am not very sure anyone would want to read it haha I use the writing as my therapy to take out my frustrations and also express my bursts of creativity haha I did actually have a friend who helped me in the beginning with it and she eventually started posting it online, but that was like 15 years ago lol So it probably does not exist. I just remembered that I used to write Sunset Beach continuation fan fic (called Sunset Beach Forever) once the real show ended. I was publishing it first via email groups and then at the fan fic website for a few months in the year 2000 and It won me an online voted award for a favorite discontinued show in 2001 (I wrote 100 episodes in 2000., and qualified only for the best discontinued show in 2001) I was very pround of that back then Btw it is fun to see so many people writing here

I have one as well. I start writing it in October 1998 when I was 14-15 years old. And I was writing it until 2012, when I stopped. I only recently picked up where I left of and have now reached May 2013 episodes My story is quite similar to you. The episodes were such crap, my God. I re-read all of it recently from the beginning during covid confinement. It was such trash, a lot of it did not have any sense and people would fall in love without any build up or anything, like one date and then oh they are so in love. haha But I too would like to think it got better as I got older. And like you, I was heavily inspired and influenced by two soaps that I watched at the time, which were Sunset Beach and The City, so all of my characters lived in this apartment building (like on The City). Initially, it had this rich family Paige family which owned the building, as well as the Brewster, Shorse (I guess this last name does not really exist, I have no idea how I got this name back in 1998, but well.. it's there lol) and Anderson families. All of these families exist still on the soap (at least in some way). The only difference between you and me is that I started writing in the notebook and then eventually moved onto the computer and since early 2000s everything is in the computer. Back then I was saving it on floppy drives and I even lost some episodes when some floppy drives got broken. But I have rewrote those missing parts eventually. since I had yearly recaps saved up. My soap is simply called "Life".

Oh I just received in mail my order of "As The World Turns Complete Family Scrapbook - Special 40th Anniversary Edition"! Really excited! And since in my real life no one cares about soaps or even know what ATWT is, I thought to share my excitement here Do you guys know other books like that which are worth buying that you would like to recommend?

I think the reason why I liked Passions in the beginning was simply because I was excited to see a soap opera from its beginning. Yes, I have seen Sunset Beach before that and that was also an excited time in my life (lol), but by the time SuBe premiered in my country and I started watching , it was pretty much known it would get cancelled, so I did not hold out too much hope. With Passions, they were doing well in that demo and I just thought that this would be the soap that I watch from the start and it would last and last forever. Stupid kid I was. lol Despite the witch and the living doll (I did love Timmy), I liked it up until the hell in the closet story. I don't know. That was just the worst thing I have ever seen... anywhere... ever. Was that in 2001? Also, am I wrong in saying that the first year (or at least first couple of months) the pace was better/faster than later? But the dialogue was horrible (and it got worse with time) and the stories just went to hell.. literally. So I could not bare to watch literally same scenes repeat for days. You could miss a week and there would Theresa be, still convincing Whitney that Ethan is her destiny and she will get him from Gwen. They'd be wearing same cloths and they would be at the same spot they were a week ago. No movement whatsoever. Horrible. lol

Ha! Awesome! Thanks for sharing (and saving me the typing :))

Thanks to @kalbir for pointing out this thread to me. I couldn't find it. Thanks to everyone who shared their ratings. As I mentioned in another thread, I have some ratings which I have collected all across the internet over the many years. Unfortunately I do not have nice paper clippings like some of you, because all the ratings I find, I input in an excel file, so I wouldn't be able to tell you for most of them what my sources are, but I hope that's not the problem. So I have some partial ratings from 1992, so I can start from there: Week of August 10 1992 (On AW, Lucas died; Shane starts to walk without the crutches on DAYS and Karen invites Jagger for dinner on GH). Y&R 8,7 AMC 6,6 ATWT 5,8 B&B 5,7 GL 5,3 GH 5,2 OLTL 5,1 DAYS 5,0 AW 3,7 SB 3,1 LOV 2,4 Week of August 17 1992 (Sawyer is arrested for Frank's murder on SB, A.J. and Nikki make love on GH and Clay told a devastated Dinah Lee that he cannot marry her on LOV) Y/R 8,6 AMC 6,8 ATWT 5,8 B&B 5,7 GL 5,3 GH 5,2 DAYS 5,1 OLTL 5,0 AW 3,8 SB 3,3 LOV 2,5 Week of August 24 1992 (Ava accepts Leo's proposal on LOV, Jack and Jenn enjoy time in New York on DAYS and Lionel and Gina make love for the first time on SB). Y&R 8,4 AMC 7,0 ATWT 5,9 B&B 5,7 GL 5,6 GH/OLTL 5,2 DAYS 4,9 AW 3,7 SB 3,1 LOV 2,6 Week of August 31 1992 (Bill and Holly search a burial tomb in an attempt to find a statue on GH, andAlly seems to have been possessed by evils spirits on LOV) Y&R 7,9 AMC 6,4 ATWT 5,4 GL 5,3 B&B 5,2 OLTL 5,0 GH 4,9 DAYS 4,6 AW 3,3 SB 2,6 LOV 2,5 Week of September 21 1992 (Jack and Nikki discuss having a child on Y&R, Kevin tricked LeeAnn to get Duke on OLTL, while on AW Paulina and Jake reconciled) Y&R 8,1 AMC 6,6 ATWT/B&B 5,8 GL 5,4 GH 5,0 OLTL 4,8 DAYS 4,5 AW 3,2 SB 2,6 LOV 2,5 Week of September 28 1992 (Olivia and Nathan are happy with their newborn son on Y&R, while on DAYS, Isabella collapsed after attending Jennifer's baby shower) Y&R 8,3 B&B 6,8 AMC 6,6 ATWT 5,9 GL 5,4 GH 4,9 OLTL 4,8 DAYS 4,5 AW 3,1 LOV/SB 2,5 Week of October 12 1992 (Jill admits having feelings for Victor on Y&R, Stacey turned to Clay for comfort on LOV, while Cheryl died on GH) Y&R 7,8 AMC 6,7 B&B 5,5 ATWT 5,4 GH/OLTL 5,1 GL 5,0 DAYS 4,5 AW 3,1 LOV 2,6 SB 2,4 Week of October 19 1992 (Kevin punched a reporter on AW, while news of Isabella's death spreads on DAYS). Y&R 7,9 AMC 6,7 ATWT 5,8 B&B 5,6 GL 5,2 GH 5,1 OLTL 4,9 DAYS 4,8 AW 3,2 LOV 2,7 SB 2,5 Week of October 26 1992 (Grant proposed to Vicky on AW, while Cooper did the same with Hannah on LOV) Y&R 8,3 AMC 6,6 ATWT/B&B 5,9 GL/GH 5,3 OLTL 4,9 DAYS 4,8 AW 3,3 SB 2,7 LOV 2,6 Week of November 2 1992 (on AMC, Jackson doesn't want Erica to have an affair with Dimitri, while a Halloween party goes on at Chamberlain house on GL) Y&R 8,6 AMC 6,9 ATWT 6,2 B&B 6,0 GH 5,7 GL 5,6 OLTL 5,2 DAYS 4,9 AW 3,4 LOV 2,7 SB 2,6 Week of December 14 1992 (Christie Clark returned as Carrie Brady on DAYS, Sophia ends up in a hospital on SB and Lucas' custody hearing happens on GH). Y&R 7,9 AMC 6,6 ATWT 5,8 B&B 5,6 GH 5,4 GL 5,3 OLTL/DAYS 5,1 AW 3,2 SB 2,5 LOV 2,4 Week of December 28 1992 (On GH, A.J. attempts suicide, Stacey pulls a knife on Clay and Aldens talk about having her committed on LOV and Opal enjoys her newborn baby on AMC) Y&R 9,1 AMC 8,0 B&B 6,5 GH 6,3 OLTL/ATWT 6,1 GL 5,9 DAYS 5,3 AW 3,6 LOV 3,2 SB 2,9

You are correct. I just double checked Don't know why I thought it was the Dobsons.. Thanks for letting me know

Oh yes, indeed! I am looking forward to seeing how to goes further (well, at least what I'll be able to find on Youtube. Oh the Dobsons were writing this? Wow, they wrote Eden's rape on SB, haven't they? That was so brutal and looked real... I guess they how to write a chilling rape scene. I remember Eden's rape vividly. I was a kid back then when I watched. Holly's rape did not show much and was not as brutal, obviously, but it was still chilling. As Faulkner said, some of Roger's lines were really cold and scary and the way he looked at Holly.

Thank you all for providing all the rating!! Especially @VanessaReardon!! Wow! It was so great to see all the weekly ones!! In the last couple of days I went through the entire 60s, 70s and 80s threads!!

I watched the rape and the aftermath. Some really good acting by Zaslow and Garrett!! And the rape scene was done very well. I like how at one point the camera was behind the bed, looking from Holly's perspective at Roger. Or how at point before they got to bed, the camera was looking at Roger from Holly's perspective as she was stepping away and Roger was walking towards her, looking directly into the camera. So good! Really good stuff here!!

Oh thank you so much!! I just remembered that I actually have a GL dvd which was issued for German market that I never ever opened. I believe some 70s episodes should be there. Probably those you mention. I will have to check it out. Oh wow!! Now that scene has a whole new level, knowing Jackie's pain. Oh wow!! Thank yoi for the explanation and for sharing the rape episode. I will most certainly watch it!!

Really? I never knew that! I was sure that Philip was Alan's son. I am shocked now lol But wait, does that mean that they don't know at this point in 79? Because during the Alan/Jackie fight scene, Alan makes a comment how Philip is not her son and she should be relieved he's gone to Elizabeth. Oh really? Thanks, I will try and find this episode. Actually I only now started watching these old GL episodes and started with March 19 1979. I didn't see there was an earlier episode available. I will look for it. Thanks for letting me know!

Wait, how did Jackie give Philip for adoption? Wasn't Philip only her stepson when she married Alan? Oh I did not yet get to see so much of Diane. I only saw two episodes of '79. But now I am looking forward to her. But everyone else is really good and interesting. I saw in this episode that Roger is on trial for something. Holly had a black eye and was afraid of Roger, so I guess he beat her?

I am watching now March 20 1979. Elizabeth Spaulding just won custody of Philip and Alan is furious. The moment when Alan gets out of judge's chambers and goes over to Mike, pushing Jackie out of his way in the process.. wow, show some real disrespect and selfishness on Alan's part. And then when Alan was telling Philip how Mike won the case with lies... wow, Alan was really deceitful. But amazing story and great acting by Chris Bernau. And then the fight scene between Jackie and Alan.. wow.. long uninterrupted scene of the two of the arguing and Jackie confronting Alan with his bad ways. Loved it. I also enjoyed the dynamic between Jackie and Elizabeth. Were they friends? Or just respected each other for Philip's sake?

You are so awesome!! Thank you so much!

Oh thank you, @Paul Raven! Are these available anywhere online? I know when I was searching for my usual soap history hunt that I did not run into this before...

OMG yes please!! I love these synopses!! Sorry to ask, but what or who is Bryna? I love episode details too... any soap history details

Does anyone know why Brash and Cwikly never came back to DAYS? I seem to remember their short stint was quite popular with the fans back in 2002. They started that mysterious Stefano storyline with the presents Stefano left to everyone. I like that period. It seemed very refreshing after Langan (even though I like some of Langan stuff), but Brash/Cwikly stuff seemed so much more interesting.

I always thought that for all four soaps (GL, ATWT, AMC and OLTL) before cancelling them, they should have at least tried going down to 30 min. It would slash the budget and maybe make it a tighter show more appealing to viewers with less filler. Shame that either CBS nor ABC even attempted this before just pulling the plug. I think it could have worked, since a lot of people said they don't have as much time to watch soaps (so 30 min is better than 60 min) and with tighter cast and less filler it could make for more interesting and dynamic stories.

Wow, 21 years ago.. like it was yesterday...

Thank you for sharing these. So fun to read these!

Wasnt that the third one? Deanna Wright? I remember reading about it..

Well considering that Luke Perry went on to play a high schooler Dylan McKay three years later on 90210, I guess him playing a high schooler on Loving is fine

Thank you so much!!