remembering Tess sniping about "just Rosanna" makes me smile everytime.

Almost all episodes of 1989 are on Youtube, quite a bit of 1986-1988. Try munecojim and Oakdalian.

AllMyShadows, what CarlD2 said. I would suggest start with November 1985 and then work your way through the substantial collection of 1986+ episodes.

Duly noted, guys! I'll get started ASAP.

Tess sums up my 4 years of feelings on Rosanna in a single promo!

Parker.

Not sure if I posted this. It's from last month. Oakdalian has put up two more episodes since that time.

Marisa Tomei asked about her ATWT run. I haven't seen that often.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKItM4_Qhnc

Thanks to saynotoursoap. I had taken breaks from ATWT at this point so I'd never seen this. While this episode reminded me of why (Lily/Holden - ugh; Linc murder - dull and depressing), it was wonderful to see so many favorites. I had no idea they'd brought Lyla back for this Christmas, and it's great to see Bianca too. Lucinda with the leather jacket is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDdocMMQHI

Thanks to saynotoursoap. I had taken breaks from ATWT at this point so I'd never seen this. While this episode reminded me of why (Lily/Holden - ugh; Linc murder - dull and depressing), it was wonderful to see so many favorites. I had no idea they'd brought Lyla back for this Christmas, and it's great to see Bianca too. Lucinda with the leather jacket is priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDdocMMQHI

The purse lady and my favorite Connor Walsh!

Marisa Tomei asked about her ATWT run. I haven't seen that often.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKItM4_Qhnc

First of all, it was more than one year, Marisa. Second, yes, when you view the clip with Phyllis Diller out of context, it looks ridic as hell. But it was actually part of a sweet little story for Marcy Thompson.

Ugh, whatev. I hate actors.

First of all, it was more than one year, Marisa. Second, yes, when you view the clip with Phyllis Diller out of context, it looks ridic as hell. But it was actually part of a sweet little story for Marcy Thompson.

Ugh, whatev. I hate actors.

I feel like it's a "thing" to bash one's soap work, or at least diminish it, regardless of whether the era they were in was great or not. It's kinda pathetic. If I were on a soap for five years and truly thought the writing was great, I would proudly say so. And I would say so if I thought it was horrid. But I wouldn't downplay it in shame.

She did seem a little ashamed but not by some standards. I think she was on for about a year and a half, or two years, so she wasn't far off.

Here's the 2000 Christmas episode, which had worthless characters but wasn't too bad compared to later ones. I think this is the year Penny and Lyla came back, for the last time.

Here's the 2000 Christmas episode, which had worthless characters but wasn't too bad compared to later ones. I think this is the year Penny and Lyla came back, for the last time.

https://www.youtube....h?v=uqkgcUQPSYE

I didn't know Penny was in it so it was a really great surprise when she showed up. I enjoyed most of it (since I haven't seen much from this era of the show) except for the guy who stole the money and that supposed trio; the actors were OK but it all seemed so boring. And Hunt Block was annoying as hell. Not to mention how smug and punch-worthy Margo and Tom were (that is a recast Tom, correct?). Great to see Lyla, of course.

Such a shock to jump from Marland 1986 to this. All the characters, their offspring, so much history in between! Shocking to see the developments.

Edited December 25, 201212 yr by YRBB

Just dropped that Christmas episode on my DVD player....

Somewhat interesting article about Irna Phillips regarding how she lived "vicariously" through her characters.

Harvard Magazine, Lynn Liccardo

IF EVER A WRITER embodied Thornton Wilder’s observation that “art is not only the desire to tell one’s secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time,” it was Irna Phillips.

In 1930, Phillips—a 29-year-old, unemployed Chicago schoolteacher and part-time radio actress—was asked to write and act in radio’s first serial drama, Painted Dreams. She jumped at the chance. In the next 43 years, she would create or co-create 18 radio and television serials; four were still on the air when she died, includingGuiding Light and As the World Turns, the two longest-running daytime dramas on television. Acting out the parts, she dictated her stories to secretaries for six to eight hours a day, producing an estimated two million words a year and earning more than $250,000 annually in the 1940s, when she had five programs on the air. She knew the role soap played in “soap operas,” and had a decades-long relationship with Procter & Gamble, but she focused on content: her innovations included adding doctors, lawyers, and other professionals as characters and cliff-hanger endings for episodes.

Soap-opera historians have long acknowledged the impact on the genre of As the World Turns in particular. When it premiered in 1956, serial dramas were all 15 minutes long; ATWT doubled that. Phillips believed “better story and characterization could be developed in a half-hour format”; when Procter & Gamble initially resisted, she took action. Aided by her longtime colleagues Agnes Nixon and Ted Corday, she wrote and taped a pilot at her own expense, and changed the face of daytime drama forever. ATWT also departed radically from its predecessors in style: for the first year, there was virtually no plot. Critic Robert LaGuardia has noted that “story to Irna was simply a vehicle; it was from the moment-to-moment emotions of her characters, expressed to each other in quiet scenes, that viewers derived vicarious pleasure.” Phillips knew that viewers would need time to get used to this format, and nothing illustrates her industry clout more than the licensing-agreement clause requiring CBS to air the show for a full year regardless of ratings. Fans expressed their pleasure by keeping ATWT at the top of the daytime ratings for 20 years, making it the first soap opera to fully penetrate the cultural landscape: an episode of the current television hit Mad Men showed secretary Joan Holloway engrossed by an “unmissable” ATWT episode from 1962—the end of the genre’s first super couple, Penny Hughes and Jeff Baker.

The whole article is at the link

http://harvardmagazi...a-irna-phillips

I don't watch Mad Men. Was that episode one which is on Youtube as well?

I don't know if this has been posted, but this channel has been uploading some rare episodes from the late 70's and early 80's:

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