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[Joseph]

She cared for Jill, but obviously expected her to be her caretaker........

I would get her long-suffering husband for myself if given the chance too!

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[yrfan1983]

Picturing Kay and Dina’s friendship got me thinking up a 1960s-set YR flashback spin-off! I think it’s pretty good… someone get Josh Griffith on the phone!

I know all the timelines don’t sync up but just roll with it…

Dina chafes at mothering baby Jack and needs a distraction. Kay introduces her to tennis instructor Brent Davis.

Wayward teens Brock and Lorie start sleeping together and dream of departing to Europe. 

Lorie does all she can to sabotage her prodigy sister Leslie.

The Foster family is stable. But suddenly, Bill Sr is fired from his bookkeeping job…

Teens Snapper and Greg are played by the hottest new young actors in Hollywood. 

Jill will be played by a child actor, and rarely seen… though she will show a talent for hair and make-up.

Pregnant teen Sally’s degenerate father is murdered. Rookie detectives Carl Williams and Frank Lewis are on the case.

[YRfan23]

Haha I’d watch that!

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I mean AMC was suppose to get what I thought was a prequel “reboot” as well!? 

[BoldRestless]

I love this! We could also follow along with Regina and Bruce Henderson in Chicago, and perhaps young Nikki and Paul could join Jill in the tween set by 1970?

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[Joseph]

This reminds me of how much I wanted to watch the episodes of the Abbott Flashbacks from Dina's Alzheimers Storyline (2017 - 19), doesn't anyone know the dates and where I could find them???

Also Include Jack's Crush On Lorie, He mentioned it Twice! Once With TL and again with PB in 2002! 

This would work on different seasons....

Season 1 is Dina's Affair and Kay Meeting and Marrying Phillip, The Start of Jabot, Mamie And Audrey North's Crush on John, etc.

Season 2 can have the rest of the stuff you mentioned!

[Khan]

And, in a nod to history, you could call the spinoff "The Innocent Years." 

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[SoapDope]

1969: 16 year old Julia marries 29 year old Victor.

Casey Reed scolds her 13 year old sister Nikki for acting out a strip tease in front of the mirror.

      

 

 

Edited July 24, 2024 by SoapDope

[Joseph]

Wasn't Victor Born on 1947 though? And I think Originally Casey would be 13 in 1969, Nikki would be about 9!

[Paul Raven]

And in the jungles of Vietnam, young GI Jack Abbott falls for the sweet Luan.

Meanwhile Mamie worries about her selfish sister Lilimae who confides in a visit that she is pregnant with a second child she doesn't want.

[BoldRestless]

I'd love to see Esther's origin story! She'd be a teen in the 60s. What were her hopes and dreams?

[kalbir]

 

There's a Julia scene from 1983 where she mentions being married to Victor for 10 years. Julia and Victor divorced in 1981 so that puts their marriage in 1971 and I would think Julia went from high school graduation to marriage, so birth year 1953.

When we first learned about Cora in spring 1984, Victor mentioned it was Christmas night 35 years earlier that Cora took him to the orphanage and Victor was 7 years old at the time. Victor at 7 years old in 1948, birth year 1941 (that's also EB's birth year).

Casey was introduced in 1978 as a new resident doctor. I would guess she was 26 then, so birth year 1952. Nikki was introduced as a high school student in 1978, I would guess she was 17 then so birth year 1961.

 

The Vietnam rewrite contradicted established history. Dina abandoned the family in 1971 when Jack was 16. The Vietnam rewrite had Jack serving until 1972 when he was 20 years old. I guess origin story could say that Jack was devastated over his mother leaving the family, leading to his enlisting in the military.

When we met Dru in 1990, I believe she was about 19 or 20 years old, so yes on a visit to Genoa City in the early 1970s Lillie Belle could have confided to her sister Mamie that she got pregnant from a marital rape.

[BoldRestless]

Also, in 1986, Leo the bartender gives Jack a gun (which he disposes after Jill is shot) and Jack is not familiar with how to use a gun at all. It's not plausible that he served in the army.

[YRfan23]

Retcon aside I guess one could argue Jack “pretended” not to know how to use a gun back then because he didn’t want a lot of people to know about his military background?  I once heard that most men of a certain generation don’t talk about their time in the war, so I guess we could think of it like that? 
 

Of course it’s always easy to say that the Vietnam story was Bill Bell writing for Peter Bergman and not Jack Abbott, which has pretty much been that way since 1989. lol 

[SoapDope]

The time lines have all been altered and screwed with so much, it can be played with anytime a storyline dictates. Nikki & Paul supposedly had old Steve Burton (born 1970) as a son....are we supposed to believe he was born 1979-1980 ? Amelia Heinle was born in 1973 and Joshua Morrow 1974. Victoria was born 1982 and Nick 1988.

You would have alter dates backwards to make story work to write these characters in a Y&R prequal during the 60's and early 70's time period (pre 1973). 

In my 1969 storyline with Nikki I made her 13 based on MTS birth year of 1956 even thought Nikki is supposed to be younger. It would make the character be more interesting as a teen than a tween during the late 60's. 

Around 1972 you could have a young Traci Abbott watching a local music show and seeing a 10 or 12 year old Danny Romalotti singing a cover of David Cassidy's Echo Valley 2-6809.....LOL

[Joseph]

That's nothing, have you stopped to think of the B&B Story and Timeline?

Edited July 25, 2024 by Joseph