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Yikes, I guess Another World's 90 minute experiment thankfully put the idea of DAYS going to 90 mins to rest. The show was already going through creative issues at the time, so I can't imagine how disasterous a 90 minute show would've been. I guess The Doctors absolutely crashing in 1980 put any plans on expanding it to rest.

I think that has to do with saving money - last season I think only Fallon, Blake and Sam appeared in every episode. While I actually enjoy the approach of not forcing themselves to write for each character to make an appearance in each episode (and in all honesty, mostly don't notice it), I thought both Liam and Alexis's absence this episode seemed pretty blatant. Since they're not writing Alexis as a sociopathic monster in this version anyway, I would've liked to see her feel guilty about Kirby's situation. I also thought it was silly how they had to make the "coke" into flour at the end - it took away from the gravity of the situation Sam / Culhane has gotten themselves into and wasn't even funny enough to make it worth it (we didn't even see Sam in the dumpster).

Austin Peck looks like he's overdone the botox a bit tbh.

Just saw that B&B will start uploading from season 1 starting September 1st - they also have seasons 19-31 (2005-2018) uploaded on YouTube and it's available for all to view. Now, imagine if DAYS could open their vaults?

The way they've shot the pictures of the cast on set worries me that all Peacock money went to trying to get people get and nothing went into improving the sets for this.

lol at "DAYS performer". She wasn't the worst, but she wasn't terribly exciting either. I wonder if she could give more spark if she used her Aussie accent.

I think JER working out all his issues with catholicism was a great building block for NBC as an identity.

lol, I had no idea Dobson wore a toupe, but it's pretty obvious when you look at pictures from Kojak and Knots pictures. I also think Thomas Calabro started wearing a hair piece on Melrose Place during the later seasons. He definitively did on the reboot. Larry Hagman's hairpieces on Dallas of course deserve their own Hall of Shame.

Well, Maljardin literally means garden of evil / evil garden, but I do prefer Strange Paradise as a title tbh.

I've actually never seen Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story, but I do enjoy the description of it that IMDB provides: I really hope this is the description of Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story that ABC put out in their press releases.

The comment section to the TvLine article is a mess - honestly, I can separate actors and the characters, so I don't mind Missy returning; she is Jennifer Horton for better or worse even if I wouldn't mind Cady stepping into the role permanently too. With that said, the one good comment in the TvLine article was someone suggesting DAYS implementing a social media policy - not looking at any people specifically (cough cough, Missy and Camilla, cough cough).

100% this. Marlena really just seemed to have nothing to do on DAYS before The Affair and JER moving her into the main heroine slot. I have no doubt she would've bolted if it wasn't for the promise of her own soap where she could be the exec producer, especially with having the Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story in the pipeline at the time.

This is pretty much why I've said that they should've made Jordan the real killer after the time jump (something-something Jordan's psycho something-something Rolf yadda-yadda) if they were so hell-bent on keeping Ben as a romantic lead and I usually hate dodgy ret-cons. But there's really no way around it. I'm sure RSW is a nice guy, but maybe it's time for him to explore other career options.

Honestly, I think the reason Manhattan Lives continued to linger was because it was a good negotiation tactic to have it on the backburner. If the producers of Another World knew that NBC had something to replace it with, they might've been more willing to cut costs to keep it on the air. I doubt the Manhattan Lives show would've worked, but I do wonder what would've happened if Bradley and Bill Bell Jr had jumped ship to create their own soap for NBC. Then again, it would've been an hour and B&B really seemed to succeed by being the half hour show of the bunch.

I get the impression that she might've thought that the Hallmark movies were put on the shelf for the foreseeable future and made a loose commitment to doing "a year" on DAYS and they went ahead and early on announced her doing the show for a year. Of course, Hallmark ended up changing those plans and since Ali didn't actually sign a contract with them (probably due to having a contract with Hallmark), they ended up working around her schedule. Ah well, at least she'll be back and not left in limbo like Sarah.

Honestly, it sounds like Manhattan Lives / Body and Soul was initially slated to replace Santa Barbara (which ended January 1993) - they might've kept the concept going for a while longer, especially if they wanted something to use when they negotiated with the Another World producers. But pretty much once JER started moving Marlena in front-and-center I think it was unofficially done. I could see Marlena easily spinning off before that especially in late 1992 / early 1993, but once they went with the affair / pregnancy / Sami drama I feel like she became to solidified on DAYS to really make sense in spinning off to her own show.

They were arrested by the police who arrived just after the computer went boom.

To be honest, Marlena leaving in fall 1992/early 1993 wouldn't have been a huge issue since she just returned after a four/five year absence in 1991; it wasn't until Carly was written off and Sami being reintroduced that she show really shifted focus towards her again as the lead heroine under JER. But I think the spin-off was dead and buried by the time that happened, as I said I wonder how much of that was done to placate Deidre at the time.

The way I see it, they probably sent Sami / Eric away as a preparation for the spin-off initially (probably would've been recast on Manhattan Lives), but I feel once JER took over the show and started essentially centering DOOL around Marlena the spin-off idea was dead. I don't think the affair itself would've happened and they probably would've set it up as Marlena needing to leave Salem to clear her head. Clearly they were initially hoping for it to get going fall 1992, but it looks like by 1993 it was DOA. Had Body and Soul / Manhattan Lives happened I assume Roman would've either been quietly written off in the summer / fall 1992 or moved over. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if part of the reason why the show got so Marlena focused was to placate Deidre Hall after Manhattan Lives got nixed.

That's interesting! I didn't even catch the Oz-references to be honest, but when I look at it I guess the emerald necklace is pretty blatant. LOL, I never thought about the Jeff in Space plot potentially leading to Fallon being taken away in a space ship. Hell, maybe that's the season cliffhanger? Fallon somehow ends up inside the shuttle and goes into space for a bit lol.

I guess it would've made sense as Sami and Eric were sent away to Colorado in the summer of 1992 to live with their grandparents. I assume that once Sami returned SORAS'd in 1993 the spin-off idea was dead.

The action at the park bench set would be riveting!

Imagine Days trying to do an island adventure with the current budget.