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In 1974, Another World did the experimental one hour episode for its 10th Anniversary when John Randolph disrupted Alice and Steve’s wedding. For the 20th Anniversary in 1984, original cast member Jacqueline Courtney returned to the show as Alice and the David Thatcher murder mystery began. The murder mystery would be the big umbrella story for 1984. The 25th Anniversary coincided with the conclusion of the Jason Frame murder mystery was filled with returning characters and flashbacks. It was well done considering most of the episodes had to quickly be rewritten when Douglass Watson (Mac) passed away suddenly. The 30th Anniversary revolved around the 30th Anniversary of Cory Publishing. The 60s themed party ended with the characters breaking the fourth wall thanking the audience and showing highlights from 30 years of the show. The 35th Anniversary was basically overlooked and nothing was done on air as the show was cancelled a few weeks before the anniversary.

I remember the character of Rose flirting with Mac the night the North Woods Inn burned to the ground. Rachel followed Mac to the restaurant and caught him dancing with Rose. An electrical problem caused the Christmas tree at the restaurant to catch fire. Mitch had to rescue Mac from the burning building.

If the P&G shows ever see the light of day again, it wouldn’t surprise me if they showed up on the CBS owned Pluto TV. Pluto TV has a lot of classic TV content- including vintage Price is Right, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and a ton of Goodson-Todman game shows on Buzzr. They also have a Soaps channel with Y&R and B&B episodes and a Dark Shadows channel. If you watch any of this content, P&G buys advertising blocks on the various channels. One day, I was watching one of the sitcom channels and every commercial in the 30 minute block was for a P&G product.

This will be the first time in 73 years that NBC has no entertainment programming (soaps and game shows) between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM.

Given the cliffhanger ending of BS2, will the story continue on DAYS or are we getting a BS3? Today's episode was all over the place jumping from Hong Kong to Caracas, but it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

I thought the exact same thing- and they used the original song Tonight, I Celebrate My Love by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack. They did a great job using the song at the DiMera party in Hong Kong, as well. The party set is small, but at least they had a lot of extras in those scenes today.

Today's episode was the best episode of the week. The episode was written by Carolyn Culliton. KA and PR definitely still have chemistry together. The one thing that is evident is that Beyond Salem needs to be at least two weeks long. Without spoiling anything, one episode of Beyond Salem could have been a Bo and Hope flashback episode looking at past clips of the couple.

Pammy Davis was a character played by Pamela Toll on the first year of Somerset (1970-71). She was the daughter of Gerald and Marsha Davis, and she was Rachel's half sister. I know at some point in 1987-88, there was a blurb in Soap Opera Digest that TPTB were playing with the idea of bringing Pammy back to Another World, but nothing ever came of it.

I've always believed that the character of "Paulina" should have been the return of Nancy McGowan. This would have been a good nod to history-Nancy not liking Vicky and Nancy having a crush on Jake. Paulina was an unnecessary character, and the storylines that did play out could have been done with the character of Nancy.

1984-85 Another World- Nancy, Perry, Ben, Marley, Jake, Vicky, Julia, Thomasina, and Carter

I'm not sure of the exact date, but NBC bought ownership of The Doctors from Colgate. From 1979-82, NBC placed The Doctors in 3 different timeslots. From March 1979-August 1980 The Doctors moved from its longtime 2:30 start time to 2:00 PM. From August 1980-March 1982, the show moved to 12:30 PM. From March-December 1982, the show aired at 12:00 PM when Search for Tomorrow jumped networks. By March 1982, a lot of NBC affiliates did not ever air The Doctors as part of the lineup.

Fred Silverman did not have a successful run at NBC like he did at CBS and ABC. Along with the programmers at NBC, he did three things that would cause Another World to never be a top rated soap the rest of the time it was on the air (19 years): 1. AW was already starting to lose viewers to ABC before NBC went ahead with the 90 minute expansion in 1979. 2. The 90 minute expansion would cause AW to move out of the 3:00 PM timeslot where it had aired for the first 15 years of the program's success. Now, AW began at 2:30 PM. 3. Once, NBC and P&G saw that the 90 minutes AW was not working, they considered the antebellum concept called Reunion. This morphed into the Dallas "clone" Texas, moving Berverlee McKinsey's Iris from Another World to Texas. They essentially removed one of AW's biggest stars from the show. NBC also moved AW to the 2:00 PM timeslot, giving Texas the 3:00 timeslot against General Hospital and Guiding Light. Texas should have been given the 2:00 timeslot between Days and AW when it made its debut and AW returned to the 3:00 PM timeslot. These moves would cause a general collapse of NBC daytime that would result in the cancellation of both The Doctors and the short lived Texas. Days and AW would start to show signs of getting it together in 1983- with Days faring better than AW.

His character just stopped appearing on the show. There was no real explanation of what happened to his character.

Larry Haines played Sidney "Sharky" Sugarman from February to July 1989. He dated Ada during World War II and in 1989. Ada and Sidney's WWII backstory was explained in the 1989 Valentines to Singles episodes. The character was dropped shortly after the death of Mac Cory. The show used Ada to support Rachel after Mac's passing, and they probably chose to use Ada with this storyline rather than featuring her dating Sidney.

AW- 1966-67 once Rachel and Ada arrive in Bay City- and Agnes Nixon begins the Rachel/Steve/Alice triangle.

1982-83 was another of those infamous P&G producer swaps: Mary Ellis Bunim and Fred Bartholemew switched EP positions at Seach for Tomorrow and As the World Turns in late 1981. Bartholemew was EP in March 1982 when Search switched from CBS to NBC. Early in 1983, Gail Kobe, the EP of cancelled Texas, becomes EP of Guiding Light. Allen Potter, then Guiding Light's EP and AW's first EP, returns to AW when Paul Rauch left and/or was fired from Another World. None of the P&G soaps had a good year in 1982. Creatively, they were all over the place in terms of quality and writing. This was also around the time that the P&G Executive in Charge of Production would switch from Robert Short to Ed Trach. It makes you wonder why they swapped EPs the way they did in 1982-83, and they would do the same thing again in 1995 with the same results.

Has this so-called "twist" aired yet, because nothing on the show is original or "twist" worthy right now. How many times have we seen an amnesia story that will last a few months, then the character is cured? The writers would have been better off making Steffy blind by saying she bumped her head when she was shot. Sheila could have been trying to sneak into Steffy's hospital room multiple times trying to kill her before she identifies Sheila as the shooter. At least that would have been a little more suspenseful.

🤣🤣🤣 These 1982 storylines were all over the place and made little sense. I'd like to know whose idea was to sideline Douglass Watson in 1982 after he won back to back Emmys in 1980 and 1981. Shouldn't Mac been the one in the helicopter chasing Rachel and Tom in San Diego? Especially given Mac's history with Mitch. Someone behind the scenes was trying real hard to get the audience to like Steve Frame, lol.

Someone somewhere was definitely interfering with the writing based on how they wrote the character of Rachel. From March to July, Rachel had Matthew kidnapped by The Male Panthers, a father's rights group that Mitch was involved with to take Matthew to Mexico on a boat. Rachel gets Matthew back, then Tom, one of The Male Panthers leads Rachel through a car chase in San Diego, while Steve Frame chases them in a helicopter. Mitch goes to jail, and Rachel becomes involved with a Russian artist, Nikolai Pierenko. Nikolai's wife, Belia, is played by Elizabeth Franz, who would later show up in the summer playing another character, Alma Rudder. This lasts about a month, then Rachel again declares her love for Steve Frame as the show tried to replicate the Alice/Steve/Rachel triangle with a different Alice and Steve. Then, Rachel and Steve find themselves in danger when the become trapped in the BelAire Towers when the skyscraper collapses. All of this happened to Rachel in four months, and Mac is like a supporting character in her storyline. This continues for much of 1982, Mac even gives his Christmas toast that year in Liz Matthews living room without Rachel, Ada, Amanda, and Matthew who celebrate Christmas at the Cory mansion with Steve Frame.

Two new AW episodes on YouTube April 15 and 16, 1982

Could it possibly be that Finn being shot by Sheila is an April Fools? Is the twist that they pulled an April Fools on the viewers? Has any other soap done an April Fools joke on the audience before?

These clips with Mac showing up alive would be from the week of February 13, 1984. Mac was presumed dead in the plane crash and turned up alive in the Friday cliffhanger on February 10th. The February 10th episode is on YouTube.

Lisa's premonitions seemed to disappear. The day she left Bay City was the same day that her aunt, Felicia Gallant, celebrated her birthday. Lisa had no premonition that Felicia was in danger being stalked by the strongman in the hall of mirrors, or that the situation would result in the murder of Jason Frame.

The Sin Stalker mystery on AW had some terrifying moments- Dr. Glaser trying to kill Crystal Gayle while she singing at Tops. It was an ingenious way to write her into the storyline when she appeared on the show to sing AW's new theme song. Then, the Sin Stalker broke into the Cory mansion during a thunderstorm with no electricity on Mac's birthday and tried to kill Nancy. Ada even got in on the action racing to save Nancy when she heard her screams. And when the Sin Stalker was finally revealed, he lured Donna to a lighthouse and was followed by John Hudson. Dr. Glaser tried to kill John by throwing him off the top of the lighthouse which resulted in John being blinded from hitting his head in the fall.