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So many characters on low numbers filling up air time. Phyllis at #1 - no thanks. And the Top 10 full of characters that have been there for years/decades. The only bright spot was Jess Walton.

@BeeLol Thanks for the clarification. Missed that. The conversations I watched didn't mention it. Guess back from the dead isn't such a big thing in GC that it doesn't warrant more than a passing mention. And it's not like he was presumed dead. Nick was right there when he died. The explanation for this will be laughable. Maybe like Phillip and Diane, hospital workers etc were paid off!

Thanks @Maxim Boy, seeing that kitchen and greenhouse set makes you appreciate the budget they had back then. Having Alice, Pat and Marianne there kept some link to the past, but all 3 would soon be history. Linda Borgeson was attractive and not a terrible actress but in no way could she fill Jacquie Courtney's shoes as Alice. And David Canary might as well been playing any character, rather than Steve. The whole plot was misguided. Having two of the most famous characters recast took away any impact.

I'm trying to make sense of the Matt Clark story so far (probably a futile undertaking) Sharon sees him and the whole cliffhanger is based on her being shocked. First issue is that it's not the same actor, so immediately the effect is lessened. Had it been Ric Hearst it would have at least treated viewers from that time with due respect. This was a similar 'shock' as to when Cane was revealed and it was a different actor. The Sharon discusses it with Nick and they wonder why this bad man is back in their lives. ZERO mention of the fact that he is supposed to be dead. Really? So it's off to a rocky start and knowing Josh's track record we will be able to drive several trucks through the holes in this plot.

You have to wonder, is this how they envisioned the character? Is he getting any feedback from directors, producers or even fellow actors as to how to approach a scene?

Oh, that's interesting. A budget decision, right? Did she deliberately cut down her workload?

When you have 3 sets per show, very few sets overall, and a small number of actors per episode it's pretty hard to have a variety of stories and much movement in plot.

So I'm assuming the Milan Film Festival was recreated in LA?

As discussed they needed another eatery/meeting point but I'm not quite sure what this new set is supposed to be. It looks like a hospital cafeteria. Just a mismash of various decor. Hopefully it's temporary and something more permanent is in the works.

At this point we don't need : switched at birth back from the dead evil twins unknown children psychopaths or any of the other plots desperate/hack writers resort to.

Some Knots shots...

Fletcher managed to hang around way longer than any other character introduced in the early 80's. I guess having no real family connections, and an actor willing to stay gave him longevity.

Great post. This board should be about differing takes, opinions and interests. I enjoy BTG but not going to pretend it is w/o fault. The fact that we get to 100 or so pages each month is testament to the overall interest in the show.

That's because it's NOIR!!!

GUIDING LIGHT Len the ice cream shoppe owner ?????? Kurt Knudsen Jan 4-? 2000

I agree that 16 yr old shouldn't be in sexual relationships. My reservations with the story so far is the attitude of her parents whose response and attitudes seem certain to drive her further into that behaviour. We've seen in the past that they have a good enough relationship to be able sit down with her, hear her out and provide support rather than condemnation and punishment.

Nothing has changed today. So many guys are swooned over just because they have a 'good bod'.

Janice Lynde's NBC sitcom pilot 'Roxy Page' finally aired Mon Sept 6 1976. Up against a Rhoda rpt on CBS and Viva Valdez on ABC a short run comedy that was played over Summer. With Janice Lynde, Leslie Ackerman, Jeff Corey. Comedy pilot about an aspiring Broadway star who, in addition to auditions and rehearsals, must cope with a volatile Armenian family which has other plans for her life.

Another report from the Jan 89 affiliate meeting where NBC addresses it's daytime woes and plans to remedy the situation. New daytime drama, talk and magazine shows on NBC's horizon In a meeting with representatives of affiliated stations, NBC executives pushed the network's upcoming Generations serial drama and spoke extensively about other programming in 1989. Among the announcements were that the network plans a March test of a daytime talk show starring Rona Barrett, and that it is developing, for a summer debut, a magazine show to be supervised by the news division that would probably include "dramatic re-creations." Additionally, NBC -TV Network President Pier Mapes reviewed the network's continued strong ratings performance, but he balanced his positive appraisal against inroads made by broadcast and cable competitors into the three major networks' share. Mapes also announced what he said would be a first step in improved communications between the network and its affiliates, the videocassette distribution of a speech made by NBC President Bob Wright. Generations, the half hour daytime drama debuting March 27, was the major subject of programming at the meeting. Mapes, who started the meeting with a warning that competitors to the three major networks "are nibbling away at us," told the affiliates: "We have to have clearances on Generations." Vice president, daytime programs, Brian Frons presented the show, which features black and white "core" families, as a way for the network to gain a bigger black audience in daytime, which he said represents a disproportionately large segment of that daypart's audience. If NBC had "parity" with the other networks in black audience, he said, NBC would win the daytime daypart. If Generations performs well, Frons said, it is possible the show will be expanded from its half hour length (double fed at noon and 12:30 pm) to one hour. However, he said, NBC has no "foreseeable" plans to recapture the half hour in daytime that affiliates are scheduled to gain when the program premieres. To help launch the show, Frons said, NBC has budgeted $1 million for print promotion. To promote the show at NATPE, the show's creator, Sally Sussman, made an appearance, along with four of the show's stars. Another daytime show appearing in March will be a test run of a half -hour strip featuring Rona Barrett chatting with three guests a day over a morning meal at her home. Scheduled to preempt Sale of the Century for the weeks of March 6 and March 13, the show will be brought back in the third quarter of 1989. if successful, Frons said. In another move to improve NBC's daytime performance, Frons said the company is adding $1 million to the annual casting budget of Santa Barbara.

There had been so many BTS dramas with Moonlighting that lead to a lack of new episodes and consequently falling ratings that ABC jettisoned it to Sunday to wither away.

I think 'starring' might be a stretch! Is this the first gig he's done since joining Y&R ? Wonder how it came about? Must be a nice change of pace to be working in a big budget streaming series. Good for him.

Billy Flynn and now Roger Howarth. The chance to provide some fresh characters to interact with the vets and Josh saddles them with a recast and back from the dead.

Bringing in Hearst would have at least allowed for flashbacks. Every time Josh has used 'history' as the basis for a story it's been trash. But it's fertile ground. For 2026 Rick Daros returns to terrorise Nikki Shawn Garrett kidnaps Lauren Mari Jo Mason plots revenge on Jack And the dude with the treehouse who kidnapped Victoria-they could refashion the maze set.

I'm buying that Nick would have held onto the tube as it all happened so fast and he would have been in shock. However, it would have been more effective if just as the policeman returned Nick became aware of the tube and dropped it, with the policeman witnessing that. As for another back from the dead, that tired trope has gone to another level. In the past it was used when a body was never found and we could possibly believe the character survived. Now we see deaths onscreen and are expected to believe that the character is still alive. Y&R has done this with Phillip, Diane, baby Eve and now Matt. Am I missing anyone? Along with twins for Cassie and Hilary. And yet they still kill off characters for short term shock, or in the case of Damien, Chance and Cole-no reason at all.