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Reading the summaries from earlier that year, it seems like someone on SFT wanted to off Jo that year - having her shot and then paralyzed for a period of time. Unable to do that, the show offed her sister Eunice.

Guiding Light is just so excellent at this point. All the characters are woven together so neatly. And all the new characters have mystery surrounding them; it's all so expertly mapped out. Killing off Leslie, however, seems like such a random and altogether damaging decision. I think ATWT, on the other hand, had almost too much going on. The overlapping triangles makes it hard to keep track. I agree with others Y&R kind of hit a lull after the initial Jill/Kay story wrapped which was a blockbuster of a story. The build up to Jennifer shooting Eunice on SFT has been great.

Thank you so much @FrenchFan. I wonder what others think from reading these monthly summaries were the best soaps of 1975? I would say the top three were Y&R, GL and AMC - with Love of Life and SFT being very intriguing at points too.

Of course B&B gets the first go-ahead. It must help that Brad is married to the Chairwoman of the California Film and Production Commission.

They co-presented the lifetime achievement Emmys to Mary Stuart, Charita Bauer and Larry Haines in 1985 posted in this thread. Already by 1985 they were recognized as the titans of the industry.

Rare to find a scene this old on YouTube.

When GL literally became "The Reva Lewis Show."

Mark's cocaine addiction and subsequent intervention was one of AMC's most notable stories and Noone's Ellen reading Mark the riot act was one of the show's greatest acting performances. So satisfying because Ellen had been such a goody two shoes for so long. It got a lot of attention in the soap press at the time. And then two years later Ellen disappeared and I can't ever recall her being mentioned again.

Kathleen Noone's Emmy win is at 1 hour 36 minutes. (I don't think it had ever been up on youtube). She specifically thanks Agnes Nixon for coming "back to the show" to write this story.

Martha Byrne was nominated in that category for almost a decade. She must've had the longest run as an "Ingenue" in daytime history.

Ellen Wheeler's win at 13:30 in that clip. Thank you @Forever8 That was mighty stiff competition in that category - Debbie Morgan, Martha Byrne, Robin Wright, and Jane Krakowsk. Perhaps the best line-up ever in the Younger Actress/Ingenue category. Compare those names to the actresses that made up the category in the late '00s or in the 2010s. Wheeler was so beautiful but also appeared really awkward and shy.

Yes, the next day's scenes are maybe even better if less iconic and well known than the country club take down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7M4PHwZbvs

Wow I'd never seen Dorothy Lyman's win before. Too bad the following year's ceremony wasn't televised. Thank you for linking to that.

Even worse is the Mike Kasnoff promo for ATWT at 10:25. Victor also makes an appearance in his notorious black tank top at the end.

You could still make a great deal of money writing a soap into the mid-2000s. Even the cheapskates at P&G forked over more than a million dollars annually to Hogan Sheffer by 2002.

Who is the highest paid actor in soaps these days? I assume Lucci probably still held the title in 2010, despite I assume several paycuts over the 2000s.

Wyndham always seemed like a major party pooper.

The memorial day episode, posted earlier, was absolutely fabulous! It rehashed expertly the Jill/Kay backstory with several memorable flashbacks and it closes with Jill asking Kay to bury the hatchet. And it includes some of the great puzzle story. Cooper was at the top of her game then too. (Of course when was she not?). Dickson, meanwhile, could go from excellent to ridiculous in the same line reading. At this point she wasn't the great actress she was starting to become in the 1970s, but she was always entertaining. I always thought it was funny that Phillip was basically buried in the Chancellor backyard.

The premiere episode of Y&R has been uploaded. I don't know if I would call it all that entertaining but it is certainly intriguing and moody. Bill Bell might've agreed as he wrote out all these characters in the space of a decade. (Brad Elliot only lasted 5 years). Among his early characters he only hit the jackpot with Jill and Kay. It's certainly a treat, though, to see the first episode, as few of them exist online except maybe B&B. I'd never seen it. Deidre Hall also closes the episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXAYoelRZNI&list=PLOXwYic1iRo29DQn_Oz4pPUM_7knvS9Vd&index=75

Great tense scene part of a fabulous story.

Does anyone remember for what storylines or episodes Dorothy Lyman won Emmys? I was reading Schemering's entry on AMC in his encyclopedia the other week and he praised Lyman at length which was a little strange because she was only on the show for 3 years or so. But he also said that her performance was so vivid and loud it detracted from the realism AMC was trying to project. Neither of her wins are on YouTube. NBC, which had the rights to the '83 ceremony, refused to air it because of the network was angry at the academy for something to do with the Sports or News Emmys. People magazine reported at the time that when Lyman won, Susan pounded the table and stormed out of the ceremony. Only later would she get a sense of humor about it all and realize how all those losses made her so much richer and more famous.