1 hour ago, Spoon said:

I'd argue that Conboy might have been the worst thing to happen to GL. Taggart/Culliton's breif HW stint in 2002 showed that the show still had potential to be really good again. Cowboy just tore that all down. The show was in much worse shape when Ellen Wheeler took over. I mean I actively dislike Wheeler's run too, but she had even less of a budget to work with than Conboy did.

@Spoon I can't say it doesn't bother me that John Conboy more or less fired Kimberly Beck from Capitol in 1983. In 1990, Conboy became executive producer of Santa Barbara. SB writer Patrick Mulcahey quit the show after just one meeting with him. Mulcahey later wrote for Guiding Light for a while.

Edited 19 hours ago19 hr by FlyRightOrchestraGuy
Wanted to bring up Patrick Mulcahey's stint as "Guiding Light" writer

GUUUYS...someone started a thread on X about how someone needs to start a streaming service to show old soaps...that SoapNet happened too soon...that GUIDING LIGHT, for instance, has 72 years worth of episodes just gathering dust in warehouses...

And I'm like, 😭😭😭 no, my dear fellow fans, most of those tapes are likely gone forever.

Soap fans are like silent movie fans, certain someone unwittingly has what they want sitting in a garage or attic.

But it was nice to see so many people say they would love another SoapNet-style channel.

Well, I do agree that an app devoted to old soaps would be nice. I just don't know how much is available.

I've accepted that we'll probably never see any GL prior to 1979. I would love to see Roger/Holly storylines from MG first episode in 1976 until MZ departure in 1980.

Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by kalbir

1 hour ago, kalbir said:

I've accepted that we'll probably never see any GL prior to 1979. I would love to see Roger/Holly storylines from MG first episode in 1976 until MZ departure in 1980.

Oh my gosh, I would love to see all of these episodes too. What a treat that would be!

Annette

With our luck, they'd put up the last crappy five years, and that's it.

27 minutes ago, P.J. said:

With our luck, they'd put up the last crappy five years, and that's it.

Every 1988 episode coming soon haha

54 minutes ago, GL95 said:

Every 1988 episode coming soon haha

"Reva's Amish Adventure!" playing now....ugh.

13 minutes ago, P.J. said:

"Reva's Amish Adventure!" playing now....ugh.

Haha though I feel like by the time we hit timetraveling through portraits that I was getting nostalgic for the time where Amish Reva was the most ridiculous Reva plot.