Do you remember crazy Alma Rudder...........she was the one that gave me nightmares, dressing up as Blaine's Raggedy Ann Doll, and locking her in the closet, shooting Sandy, and terrorizing almost everyone in Bay City!

Chris

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Alma Rudder was great but AW's greatest villian/psycho was Sven back in the mid to late 70's. He was played by Roberts Blossom. Man that guy gave me nightmares galore. That had to be one of the best psycho-type storylines ever in the history of daytime.

I started out with GL in late 1990, I was really invested in that show from 1991-1994, hence my love and adoration for Nancy Curlee.

I adore Nancy Curlee. She & her husband rocked, and, of course, to me, it's the last best writing Reilly did.

If it were still on the air, it would be my soap. I supported it throughout the good and bad

I supported PC through the good & the bad, but I much preferred the good.

I started watching in 1997, although my mom watched all through my childhood. She started watching GL after GH paired off Luke and Laura (my mom was a big Laura/Scotty fan). My first real memory is the Annie storyline. I can even remember commenting to my mom that the person she referred to as Roger looked differently.

I knew people who made audio tapes of the soaps off of TV, via an early cassette tape, set on a timer, and then listened to them at night.

GH pushed me away with Luke & Laura, too, and I didn't return until the Labine/Riche show.

Sadly, I missed the LeMay years, although I've done LOTS of re-reading and re-viewing of some old episodes during those years.

I watched it my whole life, but sadly, my vivid memory only goes back to right before the Sin Stalker. I do have vague memories of moments during the Arizona storyline, and even Rachel/Janice in the pool. (Little Mikey had nightmares of Janice Frame) But in terms of really vivid memories, I remember Michael coming back, I remember Donna's picture of what the fans suspect are the triplets, I remember John's return, the Sin Stalker, etc. And it's DEAD solid in my mind from Cass and Kathleen forward.

ETA: The tail end of Cass/Kathleen, I mean. When they left the show together the first time.

Incredible time, though. I hate storylines like the Sin Stalker, but David O'Brien (also previously on THE DOCTORS, and, sadly, RIP far too young) just fascinated me, with how brilliantly he played both the shrink & the Sin Stalker. Ooooooh.

I adore Nancy Curlee. She & her husband rocked, and, of course, to me, it's the last best writing Reilly did.

You and I will get along just well.

I think what Curlee did really well was make GL feel like a real community. I don't think any soap has come close since to the community atmosphere GL felt like in the early 90's. There was something very heart-felt from her writing, and you could tell she was writing from a fan's point of view.

GL hasn't felt the same since Curlee left, and I don't think it ever will again.

I long for the day Curlee makes a daytime comeback, but I do wonder how she'd cope in today's daytime environment with all the micro-management and behind the scenes chaos.

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I long for the day Curlee makes a daytime comeback, but I do wonder how she'd cope in today's daytime environment with all the micro-management and behind the scenes chaos.

I, uh, think that's why she is firmly ensconced in retirement! Surely it must have been tough for her to create under Jill, since that's a bit like character-person versus event-person!

Glad to know we'll get along fine. I wish Hulu was showing that time on GL!

I, uh, think that's why she is firmly ensconced in retirement! Surely it must have been tough for her to create under Jill, since that's a bit like character-person versus event-person!

Yeah, that's what I've heard too, she left mainly because of corporate interference. I've always found it interesting that her husband, Stephen Demorest, continuted writing for the genre though. I guess everyone needs to pay the bills, eh.

Glad to know we'll get along fine. I wish Hulu was showing that time on GL

Oh me too! I think it's a shame they started GL and ATWT from 2007. They should've started GL and ATWT from 1991, like they did AW. And to be honest, I don't see the fuss with Swajeski's AW tenure, both GL and ATWT were far superior shows during that time and headed by better writers, IMO.

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I grew up watching the ABC soaps with my mom, but we both stopped watching OLTL around the time Llanview was infiltrated with mobsters (1983, I think) and started checking out AW, which my mom kept up with more than me. We switched from GH to GL shortly afterward.

My friend Miki got me hooked on ATWT in college and filled me in more on the history of GL. She also used to love Y&R so I switched from watching Loving before AMC to the first half of Y&R. I stopped watching Y&R around the time Cricket was raped (I just hated her character so much) and I gave up on ATWT when I went to work full time in 1991 and realized I could only squeeze in two soaps at night (AMC & GL).

I stopped watching GL after Maureen Bauer was killed off. I've tuned back in over the years, but Springfield hasn't felt the same to me since.

So, AMC is my show. I started watching it in the summer of 1980 and have only taken two breaks from it, during the Satin Slayer fiasco and again when Zach & Greenlee were trapped in that shaft. Its the one show that keeps drawing me back in, though, so I doubt I'll ever be able to give it up.

AMC for me too. It got me to realize how much I could love soaps (even though I was just a kid, I had always thought they seemed beneath wasting any time watching). During holiday break late 1991 or so, when I was just 11 my sis and brother became hooke don the Natalie in the well thing--when we had to go back to school they stopped watching but I kept up--first watching as much as I could on lunch breaks, then moving to taping it.

From there I became a big Loving fan due to the Carter Jones AMC cross-over, and aroudn the gay storyline in '92 I got into One Life to Live--and grew interested in the history of soaps in general, with some awareness of all of them. Loving actually was prob my second fave--even over OLTL--perhaps partly because I liked being into such an "underdog" soap (I remember SOD would hardly mention it and most people i knew had never even heard of it). I kept up with loving/City till it was done, though I admit to being less loyal to OLTL which had some stretches I found very hard to keep with--despite affection for that show.

On the other hand AMC is hard for me to shake even during eras I've almost completely hated. I've missed chunks--the year I was in Europe I missed most of, obviously, then when I started university I had no TV for a year and had to rely on internet summaries (no youtube or other video methods then) and catching the random episode. But I keep coming abck to it and suspect I will till it's gone or I am--even if in many ways the show is unrecognizable from what made me a fan, it also feels a lot (I'm embarassed to say) like family to me--so it's partly a comfort thing.

GL is the ultimate "my soap" since 1999 when AW went off air even though I watch GL since 1989.

The other soaps worth mentioning that I was loyal to:

AW from 1990-1999

Santa Barbara from 1988-1993

Generations 1989-1991

Days of Our Lives 1989-1993 (the year the original Jack & Jennifer left the show the first time around)

Loving from 1991-1995

B&B 1990-1995

My other relatives were huge fans of AMC and Ryan's Hope during the 1970s and 80s, while my sister was wild about GH during 1977-1985.

Grew up with and know the history and characters by heart; Guiding Light. I remember vaguely as a kid watching GL's blackout, and A-M switching Eleni's birth control.

GL, all the way.

AMC is definitely my number #1. After that SuBe, DAYS and Y&R.

Guiding Light. :wub:

Always has been, Always will be.

GH

Damn them