Its been a while since someone did something like this, so i just decided to post this! this is from the January 9, 1990 issue of SOD.

Most Shocking Twist(Daytime)-Billy is Dylan's Father (Jordan Clarke/Morgan Englund)- GL

Most Shocking Twist(Primetime)-Greg Marries Abby (William Devane/Donna Mills/Tonya Crowe/Brian Green)- KL

Best Wedding-Josh and Reva Lewis (Kim Zimmer/Robert Newman)- GL

Best Breakup-Vicky and Jamie Frame (Anne Heche/Laurence Lau)- AW

Best Reconciliation-Phillip Spaulding and Rick Bauer ( Michael O' Leary/Grant Alexsander)- GL

Worst Reconciliation-Cliff and Nina Warner (Peter Bergman/Taylor Miller)- AMC

Best Casting(Daytime)-Susan Marie Snyder- ATWT

Best Casting(Primetime)-Cathy Podewell-Dallas

Best Opening Credits-Generations

Worst Opening Credits-Loving

Most Intriguing Couple-Roger Thorpe and Holly Lindsey ( Maureen Garrett/Michael Zaslow)- GL

Most Boring Couple-David Rampal and Melanie Cortlandt ( Trent Bushey/Paige Turco)- AMC

Best Death Scene-James Stenback(Anthony Herrera)-ATWT

Worst Death Scene-Hugh Gardner (Jack Betts)-Generations

Best Love Story-Katharine Delafield and Robert Scorpio (Tristan Rogers/Edie Lehmann)- GH

Most Tortured Love Story-Trisha Hartman and Trucker McKenzie (Noelle Beck/Robert Tyler)-Loving

Best Enemies(Daytime)-Jill Abbott and Nina Chancellor (Jess Walton/Tricia Cast)-Y&R

Best Enemies(Primetime)-Sable and Alexis Colby ( Joan Collins/Stephanie Beacham)- Dynasty

Best New Character-Sally Spectra (Darlene Conley RIP ) B&B

Most Ruined Character-Kirk Anderson (Tom Wiggin)- ATWT

Best Amnesiac-Felicia Jones (Kristina Malandro)- GH

Best Imposters-Alex Masters/Angela Forrester (Randy Mantooth/Judith Borne) Loving/B&B (TIE)

Most Creative Storyline-The Daisy Awards- OLTL

Biggest Letdown-Valentine's Day Special- AW

Best Mystery-George Rawlin's Murder- Y&R

Worst Action Sequences-AMC

Best Re-casting-Anjelica Curtis (Judith Chapman)- Days

Best Comeback-Tracy Quartermaine ( Jane Elliot)- GH

Best Love Triangle-Robert/Eden/Cruz (A Martinez/Marcy Walker/Roscoe Born)- SB

Worst Love Triangle-Ethan/Laura/Michael (Christopher Norris/Frank Runyeon/Leigh McCloskey)- SB

Best Fantasy-Mason Goes to Heaven- SB

Best Tease- Leanna Randolph (Barbara Crampton)- Y&R

Biggest Waste of Talent (Daytime)-Sharon Gabet- OLTL

Biggest Waste of Talent(Primetime)-Ana-Alicia- FC

Best Bickering-John and Lucinda Dixon (Elizabeth Hubbard/Larry Bryggman)- ATWT

Most Entertaining Couple-Ruby Bright and Marco Dane (Jesscia Tuck/ Gerald Anthony)- OLTL

Gimme A Break-The Virgin Katherine/Roger Thorpe's Mask/The De-Patching and Re-Patching of Steve Johnson- GH/GL/Days (THREE WAT TIE)

Most Entertaining Rogue-Jack Deveraux (Matthew Ashford)- Days

Most Over-Exposed Heroine (Can't wait to see everyones agreement! ) Cricket Blair (Lauralee Bell)- Y&R

Most Improved Show-GL

Most Intriguing Story-Adam Chandler,Brooke English, and Dixie Cooney- AMC

Most Ruined Show- FC

Best Show (Primetime)-KL

Most Disappointing Show-OLTL

Best Show-AMC

If anyone already posted a best and worst of this year, i apologize! I'm still new two these boards and still don't know what and what has not been posted.

Megan was an actress on a soap opera, Bo was the producer. I think there was a murder mystery eventually on the show. Anyway, the daytime emmys were coming around so OLTL did their version called The Daisys. I think it might even have aired opposite the emmys at the same time. I could swear I was switching channels back and forth.

I thought they put some of the Daisy Awards into the primetime Emmys. I just remember Michael Logan or someone saying that the Daisys were better than that year's Emmys.

Mari Lyn Dennison's stalker, Neil, tried to kill Bo and Sarah, and did kill some people, like Lolly the gossip columnist. It's all a bit cheesy but what I've seen of it on Youtube is great entertainment. And it has a young Chris Noth!

I loved Megan, I wish there were characters like that on OLTL now. That character probably should have never had a chance, with the Eterna stuff and the insta-feud with Viki, but she was wonderful.

I thought they put some of the Daisy Awards into the primetime Emmys. I just remember Michael Logan or someone saying that the Daisys were better than that year's Emmys.

Mari Lyn Dennison's stalker, Neil, tried to kill Bo and Sarah, and did kill some people, like Lolly the gossip columnist. It's all a bit cheesy but what I've seen of it on Youtube is great entertainment. And it has a young Chris Noth!

I loved Megan, I wish there were characters like that on OLTL now. That character probably should have never had a chance, with the Eterna stuff and the insta-feud with Viki, but she was wonderful.

I had no idea it was on YT. Wow Mary-Lynn...she and Wade are sort of forgotten characters now. Anyway, I loved Eterna and if I could choose any story to see on YT in its entirety that would be the one. Next would be Lois Kibbee's story about Jaime, Patrick London, and the two Bos.

I had no idea it was on YT. Wow Mary-Lynn...she and Wade are sort of forgotten characters now. Anyway, I loved Eterna and if I could choose any story to see on YT in its entirety that would be the one. Next would be Lois Kibbee's story about Jaime, Patrick London, and the two Bos.

You can see a lot of this on Youtube, not all, but a lot of it.

This is the first of 20 parts (the clips are about 4-5 minutes each) of the Faux Bo story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XE0tpxhS4

This just has Didi's electrocution and death.

http://www.youtube.com/user/NicholasSpears

This is when Faux Bo kidnaps Didi and subdues Tina.

Later on, Bo and Elizabeth Sanders try to get Asa to show her leniency.

At this channel, just search for Fraternity, or Neil, Mari Lyn, Lolly, Audrey, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/user/VickRobCal

Edited April 25, 201015 yr by CarlD2

Re the stuff with Lois Kibbee, there was a great scene where Elizabeth, her plot all blown to hell, decides she's going to shoot herself. Asa, her nemesis and the man whose family she had held hostage, is standing there basically goading her to do it. He gets her so riled up she decides not to commit suicide and realizes that was Asa's intent all along. Two masters at work.

Most Over-Exposed Heroine (Can't wait to see everyones agreement! ) Cricket Blair (Lauralee Bell)- Y&R

That basically sums up 1986-1989 Y&R right there.

Re the stuff with Lois Kibbee, there was a great scene where Elizabeth, her plot all blown to hell, decides she's going to shoot herself. Asa, her nemesis and the man whose family she had held hostage, is standing there basically goading her to do it. He gets her so riled up she decides not to commit suicide and realizes that was Asa's intent all along. Two masters at work.

That sounds like a astonishing scene to watch play out. Say what you will about Mid-late 80s OLTL, campy, fun, etc. but it sounds like whenever they brought the suspense and drama they really knocked it out of the park.

Re the stuff with Lois Kibbee, there was a great scene where Elizabeth, her plot all blown to hell, decides she's going to shoot herself. Asa, her nemesis and the man whose family she had held hostage, is standing there basically goading her to do it. He gets her so riled up she decides not to commit suicide and realizes that was Asa's intent all along. Two masters at work.

Lois Kibbee was great; It's a shame more of her work does not exist online. I would take her over just about everyone working in daytime today. I can't even think who could play a Kibbee type character today..Constance Towers maybe if she toned down the comedy.

Edited April 26, 201015 yr by quartermainefan

Really? This must have been a good year for soaps if this was the most ruined character. Was this based on his lies about having a wife and kids?

I think so, although considering and comparing to the damages done to Kirk nearly a decade later, the character was not ruined at all.

Best Casting(Primetime)-Cathy Podewell-Dallas

Eh, really? Podewell was okay, but Cally did nothing for JR. It should have been JR and April and maybe put Cally with Bobby, not the other way around. If anything this should have gone to Kimberly Foster, although it wasn't until the final season she really shined as the rejuvenated bitchy Michelle.

Biggest Letdown-Valentine's Day Special- AW

I remember watching the SoapNet rerun...two minutes in I think I fell asleep. Pretty much a precursor to GL's Wednesdays...

Edited April 26, 201015 yr by soapfan770

WOW, thanks for telling me. That doesn't sound very intriguing to me, but maybe it translated onto screen differently...LOL. Was it intriguing to you (and to anyone else here )?

I've been watching numerous soaps for over 40 years (since I was born) and the Adam/Brooke/Dixie/Tad story is my all-time favorite. I loved it so much I saved almost every scene and it was everything I want a soap story to be.

David and Lanie were the most boring? I thought they were a well recieved couple?

I have a very high tolerance for boredom and even I found them pretty boring. David and the actor who played him were too bland and they were both kind of goody goodies … and AMC had so many other great couples at the time that they kind of paled in comparision.

What was so bad about Cliff and Nina's reconciliation?

Cliff and Nina were my favorite couple in the 1980's but by the time the writers rushed their reconciliation and they got re-married in 1989 it was very anti-climatic as there was not much to it. It was nice that they got to leave town together and live happily ever after but there was so much more exciting and intriguing stories going on at the time on AMC that their reconciliation seemed quite ho-hum and I don't even really remember it.

Does SOD's Best and Worst come with the "Most Over Exposed" category anymore? I'm sure it would be very difficult to choose now.

Most Over-Exposed Heroine (Can't wait to see everyones agreement! ) Cricket Blair (Lauralee Bell)- Y&R

If Terry Lester was still alive he could have told us that.

The Cliff/Nina thing was rushed-- Funny AMC fared so badly, yet was best show--this is when Maggie DePriest came in to shape things up.

Does SOD's Best and Worst come with the "Most Over Exposed" category anymore? I'm sure it would be very difficult to choose now.

If Terry Lester was still alive he could have told us that.

LOL, well i know one or two male characters that would totally fit this category every year, if they still do it. Ever here of a Sonny Corrinthos, or a Jason Morgan?.... (but would they actually be considered heroes?...)