Passed away this last week. Neil Sedaka on GL in 1982

18 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Passed away this last week. Neil Sedaka on GL in 1982

I'd love to see that episode. As there's both Lee Lawson (and that's probably William Roerick's arm between them) and Elvera Roussel, I wonder if this was supposed to be at the Spauldings, or maybe Amanda's? It's definitely not at Wired for Sound.

Baaaad bllooood*

Favorite characters/couples by decade?

12 hours ago, P.J. said:

I'd love to see that episode. As there's both Lee Lawson (and that's probably William Roerick's arm between them) and Elvera Roussel, I wonder if this was supposed to be at the Spauldings, or maybe Amanda's.

My guess is this is December 1982, either Christmas or New Year's, at the Spaulding mansion. From the way Hope is dressed, I would lean more towards New Year's.

Alan and Hope "temporarily" moved back to the mansion from their little cottage for the 1982 holidays so they could properly entertain now that Alan was back at the head of Spaulding.

The lady in the maid outfit makes it obvious this is not a venue like Wired For Sound. I don't recognize her as someone who worked for Amanda or Alan and Hope at the time. Floyd had been living at the Spaulding mansion, remember. He must have had his own staff. Possibly, she worked for Floyd.

Or she was hired just for the party. So it could be Amanda's, or even the Chamberlains'. It's really hard to tell because of the frickin' camera in the way. 😂

I wonder if this episode is on the German channel. I'm going to look later and see if I can find it or episodes running up to this party.

49 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

The lady in the maid outfit makes it obvious this is not a venue like Wired For Sound. I don't recognize her as someone who worked for Amanda or Alan and Hope at the time. Floyd had been living at the Spaulding mansion, remember. He must have had his own staff. Possibly, she worked for Floyd.

No, this is at Wired for Sound...the maid is actually Sedaka's real life maid, appearing in her own uniform. GL was her favorite show, so he agreed to do this.

7 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

No, this is at Wired for Sound...the maid is actually Sedaka's real life maid, appearing in her own uniform. GL was her favorite show, so he agreed to do this.

That is wild! (But seriously, she came to the performance in her maid uniform?)

I also realized after I posted that it had to be summer because the men are wearing white jackets. Assuming no white for men after Labor Day was still a thing in 1982.

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1 hour ago, Spoon said:

Favorite characters/couples by decade?

I can only speak to half of the 90s so far, as you know :) But my choices:

Couples:

Lucy/A-M

Jesse/Michelle (w/ Budig)

Rick/Abby

*I like Holly/Roger, but need to see more of their backstory, I just got the tail-end sadly.

*I like aspects of Matt/Vanessa 😇

Characters I enjoy/look forward to:

Roger, A-M, Vanessa, Rick, Annie (Watros), Alex, Bridget, Brent/Marian, Lucy, Hamp and his sax.

1 hour ago, DeeVee said:

That is wild! (But seriously, she came to the performance in her maid uniform?)

I also realized after I posted that it had to be summer because the men are wearing white jackets. Assuming no white for men after Labor Day was still a thing in 1982.

What?? Craziness, because I can not imagine Alan, Hope, Henry or Bea at Wired for Sound!

What a sweet story about his maid. Here I thought she was the least interested extra in the world of extras! She must've been thrilled!

1 hour ago, Spoon said:

Favorite characters/couples by decade?

Oh, this fun:

1970s: Bert, Roger, Jackie, Rita, Holly.

My fave couple during this period was Ed and Holly. It seemed to me very obvious they belonged together. They had genuinely fallen in love but the reveal about Christina's paternity wrecked their relationship. Fantastic star-crossed energy that got spoiled because Marland didn't want to write for Holly. I think they always should have been the end game.

1980s: Bert, Alan, Ross, Vanessa, Henry, Alexandra, Harley.

Fave couples:

Sorry, Billy fans, but for me, Ross and Vanessa also had a star-crossed energy that was never taken advantage of.

Alan and Hope: please remember I was very young at the time. My feelings about them as a couple are different now.

Rick and Mindy: the hill I will die on.

Alan Michael and Harley.

I would say Quint and Nola, but they were the type of couple who were done the minute they got married. But up until then, I enjoyed their romance.

I thought Henry and Bea were so sweet together. I wish they'd had the cojones to make them a real couple.

1990s: Bridget, Mo, Roger, AM, Annie.

I'm having a hard time coming up with favorite couples from this era. A really, really hard time. Which is probably a major reason I was a spotty viewer during this era.

I liked Phillip and Harley--Grant and Beth had terrific chemistry. But they didn't write for them very well, IMO.

2000s: Bill, Edmund (yeah, I liked him, shut up), Gus (THAT'S RIGHT, I LIKED HIM TOO).

Yes, I liked Gus and Harley. SHOOT ME. Also think the writing went against them.

YES, I liked Cassie and Edmund. I will admit I hated myself for it because Edmund was a sociopath, but the actors had fantastic chemistry, which was getting pretty rare on this show at this point.

I'll never get over what they did to Bill, putting him with [REDACTED]. At least they gave him a happy ending.