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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.