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Tossing a few cents into the “If” jar, this show is not for ABC primetime. I think it would be a little smash if streamed, getting good numbers from a loyal soap hungry niche audience looking out at a sea of streaming content. It won’t stand a chance in primetime regardless of the names involved. We are soap fans. Many other viewers are not, and this being a derived premise will turn too many viewers off. Maybe a first or second curiosity watch, but I don’t anticipate that viewership in ABC primetime would sustain this show. Streaming from the start.

I’m from the D.C. area and that iconic synth pan flute solo got a Go-go remix that had a fair amount of airplay in the ‘80s. I loved watching Oprah when I got home from school. Lots of warm memories. Haunting ones as well. Her show really was the perfect way to wrap up an afternoon of soap viewing and her final episode was emotional viewing like any soap finale. I also must say that Oprah and Webster have got to be where I got this itch to visit Chicago. Still haven’t made it yet but those two shows definitely birthed my interest in the city. We had a sock hop on a Friday night in the 7th grade and Oprah’s episode that afternoon was all about the latest dance moves. I feel like everyone there that night had watched. Paul Simon’s 10th anniversary theme still makes me verklempt. I’ve uploaded some clips to YT of a makeover episode I loved with Joan Collins, Debbie Allen, and Ali MacGraw. Boyz II Men surprised two teenage fans and serenaded them as they cried their eyes out. The Trudy Chase episode. Her description of her abusers filling a basket full of snakes and pouring it over her head has stuck with me for all these years and has my hackles raised as I type this. I loved when Patti LaBelle was on and they cooked Patti’s macaroni and cheese together. Patti commended Oprah on her dough kneading for the biscuits. Oprah’s response: “I did a movie.” Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and Bette Midler on for The First Wives Club. ANY time Susan Lucci and the All My Children cast were on. She’d also have Knots cast members on every now and then which I enjoyed. Any time Whitney was on. When O adopted the I’m Every Woman theme, she dedicated some time in the season opener to playing the various versions (upbeat, slow and serious, Gospel) of the song for the audience. Some awkward moments that live on in my memory include O using the term “skid marks”, and in her trashier days asking a guy how it was possible that he and another guy had sex with a woman at the same time. The guy replied, “I mean, we basically sandwiched her.” O: “You sandwiched her. Okay. Uh, I just want to remind everybody that this is a daytime show…” I was in elementary school at the time and even then I remember thinking, “Bitch, you asked!”

That’s what my grandfather’s shower would do to my hair when I was little.

@soapfan770 Wow, thank you!

What I loved was that I was legitimately excited to go on this cheesy little adventure. It was akin to that old school anticipation of a new soap’s debut. I hadn’t felt that since November 13, 1995 with The City. Yet in a limited run, you instinctively know that the show doesn’t have time to [!@#$%^&*] around, it has to take off running and be intriguing every day. Also there’s no fear of cancellation as it isn’t meant to last. It’s just icing. I loved when All My Children did those web only minisodes back in its final year or so. I haven’t watched Chad and Abby in Paris, no real draw for me there, but Beyond Salem was at least to me an undeniably fun little jaunt. I’m smiling playing that OLTL opening in my head.

I felt Téa’s, “I don’t f^cking care!” in my bones. So satisfying. Having just caught up on three months of B&B (I was burning through several episodes a night), I really wish the PP soaps were still available for my next nightly viewing project. Just like with the P&G Soap Classics page on AOL, I wrongly assumed that anything uploaded to the Internet would be there forever. As someone touched upon upthread, it can be overwhelming when so much content is uploaded in a short period of time. IIRC, months of Texas were uploaded in a few weeks. It was almost too much of a good thing. I’m forgetting exactly what kept me from staying current with the PP soaps. I would certainly make the time now.

And Augusta on Santa Barbara.

Were Rick and Myra still together when they left the show? I feel the same about the killing of Alan Quartermaine. Why lose a strong actor and vital living character only to keep bringing them back for tired ghostly appearances?

As the announcer spoke that, Marj tossed back her head and let out one of her inimitable little vocalizations. That woman got offered everything.

JLB is the name I remember reading years ago, and later, SSH.

Robin and Beverlee are also so incredibly physically different. Of course they have that original recipe Rachel and Iris connection, AW’s two most famous devious women, but this would have been a quintessential example of “so-and-so is playing an altogether new character”.

B&B is airing as I type this. If I’m not careful, this show is going to take over too many hours of my day with the current, from the beginning, and Pluto eps airing. I’m a little frustrated with the Pluto website. I can’t find a full schedule, it only appears to show what’s airing at the moment. Any help?

I am so looking forward to seeing Erika Slezak again.

Yes, Robin believes this is the source of JFP’s beef with her. Robin said that a member of the soap press saw her leaving CBS after her meeting with Jill. She had promised OLTL first refusal so to speak if she ever decided to return to daytime. So she headed over to ABC and Linda Gottlieb took a meeting with her. Linda wasn’t familiar with Robin but she had big plans for the 25th anniversary. Linda’s decision to take Robin on was based on Robin’s strong history with the show and the reputation of her talent.

Robin Strasser said on her hotline that this is what she and JFP talked about doing with Alex on GL, they planned to youthen the role. Michael Zaslow championed Robin for the part, Robin took the meeting, and was pretty much set to take over after Beverlee McKinsey’s departure.

😆😬 I just watched that episode. Yes indeed. And Zende is so friggin’ CORNY.

The Real is featuring cast members of Potomac each episode this week. I have not watched the show but I have met GB and her lovely daughters in my shop in Maryland. I have seen clips and I can attest that she is so much sweeter than they have portrayed her to be; I don't quite get it but I guess if I watch the show I'd have a better idea?

I appreciated today’s focus on Abe, and John and Marlena without weaving in other storylines. That’s how they did it back in the ‘90s as well. Deidre’s altered voice sounds eerily like Drake’s.

I’m still playing catch up. Paris’ fantasy with Finn and the sunblock was tew much. 😆 Quinn’s, “For crying out loud, Shawna. What are you, the door police?” lives in my head rent free.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10128891/Soap-stars-Chad-Duell-Courtney-Hope-tie-knot-goth-themed-wedding-Malibu.html

Robert (Bob) Krimmer aka Wortham Krimmer. Wortham is his former wife’s last name. He talked about taking her name in a SOD interview back in the ‘90s.

Rosa Langschwadt/Nevin Deborah Mullowney/Farentino I remember reading that the name change was Vanessa Marcil’s idea. Maybe she didn’t want to be the Baker’s wife.

That scurry cracked me up too.

Agnes Nixon refused to hire a white actress for the role which had almost always been the case for dramatized depictions of this subject matter. Fredi Washington being the most famous exception.

Thank you, Errol!