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I doubt they'll pick up any story threads from the past incarnations. They'll pretty much have to make this viable for people who've never watched AMC in the past or have any pre-knowledge of the show to get into; there might be slight nods to past storylines, but that'll be it. ABC Signature is a production studio owned by ABC, not the actual network itself. I assume they're producing the pilot.

Santa Barbara was Dobson Productions / New World Television. It was last aired in a few places in Europe in the mid-00s, so I don't think it's impossible to license, but RetroTV might only want half hour shows?

Just watching that scene I assume she's supposed to have fallen on the knife on the floor while holding it in her hands and then rolled over.

I suspect the reason Tommy was so sidelined originally was because they already had two Horton males having big stories in the 70s (Bill and Mickey), so I suppose they felt Tommy wasn't needed. But yeah, once Bill started having less of a presence, they could've started writing for Tommy again but by then they had lost interest in the Hortons.

I'd assume most (if not all) of DAYS have been kept since it started airing in Australia in 1968. On the Days of Days page they showed parts of the 1965 (?) Christmas episode and that was also well-preserved.

Yeah, I was mostly talking about when Mad Men was at its height. But a modern Peyton Place could be what ABC needs - it's on brand for them and maybe it could revive their Sunday line-up, or they could put it at Wednesday at 10PM.

I was surprised it was never even brought up during the Mad Men craze - instead of ABC doing Pan Am, they could've done Peyton Place set in the 50s/60s and had it on after Desperate Housewives. ETA: now that the mouse owns 20th Century, maybe it would be an opportunity to bring it up since they now own Peyton Place?

So, I've been watching this since early this summer and finally reached the point where a lot of characters leave (Martin, Eddie, Connie, Elliot and Leslie leave within a short period of time), supposedly due to budget cuts and a bunch of new characters get introduced (Joe Rossi, Jill Smith, the Russells and Susan and Rev. Winter). I'll admit that the show is losing me a bit after being completely hooked for the first 400 or so episodes, so I can see why the show was struggling because it is a rather jarring rehaul of the canvas. It was nice to see Julie back for the wedding and Hannah Cord reappearing, but they had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance. Dorothy and Tim are still appearing in the opening credits and had a very brief telephone conversation in the last episode I watch (440), so maybe they were trying to trick viewers into believing they weren't permanently gone in order to ease viewers into the new characters? Susan Winter is a bit of a disappointment to me tbh. When she was first introduced I had almost hopes of a proto-Sue Ellen type of disgruntled wife mess, but I guess that's not the game Peyton Place plays. I wonder if Jill Smith's baby Kelly was originally supposed to be Allison (apparently Kelly appears in the reunion movie?) - I kind of got the implication that there was potentially going to be a paternity issue with Allison being raped by Jack Chandler, even if they never would've said it out loud, but it was changed midway through when they realised they had to give Connie and Elliot a reason to leave Peyton Place.

I can get Tommy getting sidelined with other writers taking over, but it's sort of odd that Bill Bell choose to sideline him as early as 1970 considering the big story he was introduced with along with a wife and kid. I wonder why.

Wait, they literally sent Margo to the farm to die?

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if they just didn't realise it happened - the big story was the breakdown and then Laura appears for like two episodes where they claim she's well and she just disappears. It's such a small detail that it would probably be easy to miss, especially in the days pre-internet.

The full opening sequence was posted in the Primetime Soap thread:

Can I say that I really hate it when characters "talk" in their opening credit shots? I always end up being distracted and trying to read their lips...

Did they also de-SORAS David at this point? I know Marx is five years younger than Guthrie, but it does seem like he's more appropriate as Julie's son at that point. (And again, it also just shows what a mess the early rapid SORAS of both David and Mike was)

I agree - I've always been fascinated with the cast purge that happened around this era because I can't imagine what loyal viewers thought about it at the time, especially basically eradicating the Andersons that had been a part of DAYS for a decade. I mean some characters people were probably glad to see go (HAI POOR ETERNALLY DYING MARGO!) but others not so much.

Ah, yes, it looks like the wiping out of the Andersons is about to begin. It's been so odd to read about these characters that were obviously important to the show for a long period of time that'll just disappear and be dropped within a short period of time.

https://dayofdays2020.com/#Evening-6 How both lovely and frustrating to see parts of the first ever Christmas episode in such crisp cristal clear quality and the same time knowing they have these episodes in the vaults in such great quality and does absolutely nothing with it. For once not Corday's fault.

Watching the videos posted so far on https://dayofdays2020.com/ I will say that Isabel Durant comes across as far more charismatic as a person than she does as Claire (I also had no idea she was Australian!); too bad they can't translate that into her portrayal. Maybe if they got her to relax a little more and not worry about doing an American accent she'd work better. Hell, they could write a storyline about Claire dissociating and changing her voice as I think that's a symptom of DID?

IIRC, Marie became a nun because of what happened with Tommy.

Thanks! Lord knows I need some decent Christian values to keep Satan's arse away so I might just end up watching it.

Is the entire thing online? If so, I might add it to my daily watch list once I've finished Peyton Place, Ocean Ave. and Strange Paradise (my current daily watch is Dark Shadows / Peyton Place - I plan to slot in Strange Paradise into that once I'm done with PP; Ocean Ave. is something I have on as background noise and in all honestly I'll probably finish it in a day or two ).

The biggest issue with Laura's story is obvious - she's acting so nuts at this point that it requires most of the cast to play stupid. Only Jordan and Marie seem to be acting with a sense of logic; at least they are trying with Marlena still reeling from being stuck in Bayview herself. As has been said, if it actually was playing out like a black comedy it might've worked, but it's obviously meant to be taken seriously but the writing of the other characters reactions to Laura's actions doesn't reflect that.

I liked her on both Peyton Place and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, but I was wondering more about her daytime stints since her time on DAYS seem mostly like a train wreck.

It's funny because having recently watching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and currently watching Peyton Place I sort of recognize the pacing from those shows - of course, Mary Hartman was a satire so they didn't need to go too much into the ramifications of characters actions and Peyton Place aired 2-3 times a week in prime time so they needed to pace it up a bit. For a daytime soap, here tempo makes little sense though. Was she actually successful on shows like General Hospital, Search for Tomorrow and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and this break-neck speed is something she picked up from doing Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman or was she always such an erratic fast-paced writer?

Ron has posted the original Halloween episode that got cancelled this year: