I didn't see a thread for Capitol so I decided to start one.

CBS premiered Capitol as a prime time special on Friday March 26, 1982, and the daytime premiere was three days later in the timeslot previously occupied by CBS's then-longest running daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.

Capitol was best described as Dallas meets the Reagan administration, with its Washington DC political backdrop combined with the glitz and glamour that characterized CBS's biggest primetime drama.

Despite being middle of the pack ratings-wise during it's run, Capitol ended a little less than 5 years later on Friday March 20, 1987, and three days later CBS premiered Bill Bell's 2nd show The Bold and the Beautiful.

I feel Capitol went on the air so CBS could draw a younger audience to compete with ABC (who pretty much owned daytime in the early 1980s with the action/adventure plots on General Hospital and the young love plots on All My Children). I also feel Capitol was used as a placeholder as CBS was probably waiting for Y&R (which became CBS's highest-rated daytime drama in the 1982/1983 season) to be established among the top 3 daytime dramas (which it was from the 1983/1984 season onward) before they were ready to give Bill Bell a 2nd show.

What did you think of Karen Kelly?

I thought Deborah Mulowney was a little rough here too but she had some charisma.

After seeing more of her Capitol work I wish Hickland had played a heroine a little more often on soaps (of course Lindsey thought she was a heroine, even though she wasn't). She is very effective in these damsel in distress situations.

What was her character like on Texas? Yeah, she does well on Capitol. She's stronger and brighter than Julie #1.

There was something so honest and green about Leslie Graves and Karen seems a lot more "on" and actory in comparison. I guess she's okay but she can be a little grating which I don't think Brenda was ever supposed to be. She's supposed to be the poor litle !@#$%^&*] up who you sympathize with because her parents are tyrants and she doesn't have the best role models, kinda thing. I'd never seen Sam be so forceful with any of his children as he is in this clip. I have an old SOD article where a fan wrote in criticizing Capitol for defanging all of the Cleggs minus Myrna.

I haven't seen her Texas work.

Brenda seems very fake to me here.

Sam was scary! I'd never seen that side before.

You'd think Tyler was a central character at this time, yet he was dumped only a few months later, wasn't he?

I remember that Hickland was pretty green on Texas but the show had awful writing in the early days. It didn't help that her character Courtney was supposed to be a surgeon (she looked more like a young nurse) and was involved with Lee Patterson's character,who was old enough to be her father.

I didnt even recognize that girl as KK who I liked on Rituals but hated as Brenda LOL.

The Brenda character suffered greatly imo after Graves left, she lost all her spark and uniqueness that made her rootable but also annoying in a good way, she just became an annoying ingenue.

Damn Dane Witherspoon is FIONE!!!

Amd yeah I have def seen this Sam before especially when it comes to the McCandlesses

I guess I never got why Sam had such an ax to grind with the McCandlesses. If I saw more of the first year I'd probably understand. I get why Myrna is all butthurt because Clarissa "stole" Baxter from her (which if I was Sam I'd be like, "Get over it woman, you're with me now"). I'm wondering if Judson and his politics foiled some moves Clegg Industries tried to make or something. It just seems that Sam's vitriol is way too strong to just be about his son vs. their son running for office.

IIRC, too, didn't Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Communist witch-hunt play a part in the feud between the Cleggs and McCandlesses?

Yes, but again, that was Myrna's doing, before she even married Sam. When Baxter chose Clarissa over her, Myrna got revenge on her former bff by accusing Clarissa's father, Judge Judson, of being a commie sympathizer. This got him blacklisted, ruining his political career.

February 1984 Digest

Thanks for sharing! I watched Lana in some program about a year or so ago when they reopened the Natalie Wood case. She seems to think RJ knows more than he's admitted to knowing.

I always associate her with Diamonds are Forever.

http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=O1OAQsehx10

I wanted to tell people that SFK has four or five Capitol videos on his Youtube channel (SoapFoxKirby). Please watch!

Here's a few promos also uploaded on another channel, and part of a January 1986 episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpilYEvzq6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmYit9VsdT4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06iAFaPX2Es

SFK has put up more episodes, and this cool set of promos. They use that hyperbolic promo style much more believably than the other CBS soaps did at this time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZJjxdLzMIY

Thanks to saynotoursoap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbysj2TeLl8