On 9/11/2025 at 1:12 AM, Soapsuds said:

 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I found Finn very interesting and likable. It was a great interview in spite of Alan's typical interruptions, Brian Fellow-like "That's crazy!"s and the copious amounts of annoying commercials constantly breaking in. All of that was a chore to get through but it was great to hear from Finn. I liked her a lot. 

2 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

15 years ago today, the world stopped turning.😪😪😪

 

Your #1 soap? 😊😊

2 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Your #1 soap? 😊😊

Yes, it is.

Wow, hard to believe it's been 15 years since the final episode.

Added July 28, 1988 to my Internet Archive episodes. Another partial episode, but a rare one:

https://archive.org/details/atwt-various-episodes-1986-1996/ATWT+1988-07-28+(partial).mp4

^{Does anyone know when these episodes aired?}

 

 

 

Thank you

9 hours ago, blueberrywaffle said:

^{Does anyone know when these episodes aired?}

 

 

 

Thank you

The first full week of November 1990.

Does anyone here remember the tornado that caused Kim to lose her memory? I have a vague and probably innacurate recollection of weird organ/ synthesiser music and an image of Kim being twisted and turned via the technology of the time.

I'm probably wrong

Later I remember Patty McCormick, Little Miss Bad Seed, as a temporary recast Kim, regaining her memory after being injured from the tornado,  and quietly telling John Dixon to get lost.

 

8 hours ago, Stevel said:

Does anyone here remember the tornado that caused Kim to lose her memory? I have a vague and probably innacurate recollection of weird organ/ synthesiser music and an image of Kim being twisted and turned via the technology of the time.

I'm probably wrong

I remember Kim standing on a front porch near the front door, and behind her was film of a real tornado. They used rather primitive green-screen (sometimes called chromakey) effects to put the tornado and Kim in the same shot.  It didn't look very realistic, but it was probably the best they could do with that technology.  I don't remember any special background music, but they may have used something new and weird for that scene.  

Are there any episodes of ATWT where a female character is arrested and having their mugshots taken? 

Starting around 10-11 minutes in this Locher Room episode about fans who name their kids after soap characters, there's an ATWT segment. A man talks about how he watched ATWT when he was a kid and loved Sierra - he knew when he grew up, he would want to name his daughter Sierra. And he did. They also interviewed a fan and her daughter, the daughter named after Margaret Colin. Colin herself briefly appears as a surprise guest.

@DramatistDreamer You might enjoy the Sierra part. 

13 hours ago, Tisy-Lish said:

I remember Kim standing on a front porch near the front door, and behind her was film of a real tornado. They used rather primitive green-screen (sometimes called chromakey) effects to put the tornado and Kim in the same shot.  It didn't look very realistic, but it was probably the best they could do with that technology.  I don't remember any special background music, but they may have used something new and weird for that scene.  

Did you see the later episode, when Patty McCormack was subbing for Kathryn Hays, and the show reshot the tornado footage to use in a flashback?

That was a real head-scratcher to me. I didn't see the point of going to the trouble.

45 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

Did you see the later episode, when Patty McCormack was subbing for Kathryn Hays, and the show reshot the tornado footage to use in a flashback?

That was a real head-scratcher to me. I didn't see the point of going to the trouble.

No, I don't remember seeing Patty McCormack subbing for Kathy Hays.  I was in junior high school at the time, and I was probably lucky to even see the original Kim/tornado scene. That must have occurred on a day-off from school -- otherwise, I have no idea why I was at home to see it.   

Edited September 25Sep 25 by Tisy-Lish

2 hours ago, Tisy-Lish said:

No, I don't remember seeing Patty McCormack subbing for Kathy Hays.  I was in junior high school at the time, and I was probably lucky to even see the original Kim/tornado scene. That must have occurred on a day-off from school -- otherwise, I have no idea why I was at home to see it.   

ATWT was not one for doing a lot of action-oriented stories and scenes back then; it was a very slow-moving, character-driven drama. The tornado scenes were memorable, because  they were more like something The Edge of Night would do. TEON used to do tons of action stuff back then.

Although physically totally different than Hays, McCormack was a pretty good temporary Kim. I'll just always think of her as The Bad Seed, in the famous film of the same name.

On 9/24/2025 at 8:01 AM, Tisy-Lish said:

I remember Kim standing on a front porch near the front door, and behind her was film of a real tornado. They used rather primitive green-screen (sometimes called chromakey) effects to put the tornado and Kim in the same shot.  It didn't look very realistic, but it was probably the best they could do with that technology.  I don't remember any special background music, but they may have used something new and weird for that scene.  

Thanks Tishy. The music I remember sounded like a more violent version of the little sound on the game show Musical Chairs, when losing characters were devoured by the wall.