1 hour ago, GL Oldtimer said:

@Soaplovers One of the reasons I enjoyed watching Guiding Light so much in the early 90s is because of the way the entire town of characters seemed to interact with each other. The writers did such a great job of weaving characters in and out of each other's orbits. That really did get lost by 1995 or so.

Annette

It happens super suddenly in 1995-you can see it with the boarding house. As has been discussed here, Bridget/Lucy were close and Marion targets David because he's protective of Lucy (and wants the room). Then I am pretty sure Lucy never talks to David again after leaving the hospital to visit him and almost never interacts with Bridget again. They also acknowledge the Bridget/AM "cousin" connection through marriage and it just gets dropped. Then the boarding house is basically just where the Reardons plus David live for the most part.

They also just really made the various workplaces pretty insular for the most part. At one point in 1992 you had all of Van/Mo/AM/Blake/Alex all working at Spaulding. By 1995 you'd think it was just AM/Lucy and whichever of Brent or Marion works there at the time. The Journal and WSPR also got whittled down to almost nothing but had some interesting combinations of characters passing through over the years. It was fun having AM/Holly briefly working together for instance. (Since Roger/Holly were actually together when Lucy's rape went public is I'm guessing why they avoided Holly trying to talk to Lucy when she had made a point of reaching out to Vanessa in the past, but again you just didn't have those types of interactions by then.)

2 hours ago, GL Oldtimer said:

I think the date of that episode is January 13, 1992.

That's the right date. Thank you.