Y&R: Old Articles

[YRfan23]

Yes

[YRfan23]

LOL I don't know how accurate these are but this is Brenda Dickson's resume for IMDB.....It's hilarious....again I'm not certain if the actors themselves fill these out or if they have somebody do it for them.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225734/resume?ref_=nm_ov_res

[SoapDope]

Yes he was. I wonder why they never brought him back when they aged Chloe. If they couldn't get the original actor or wanted to recast. They could have gotten someone zany like Matthew Cowles.

[YRfan23]

Here's 5/14/93, last May 93 re-upload I have.....some scenes are missing in this episode cause apparently there was a news interruption at some point,

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[amybrickwallace]

Matthew Cowles would have been perfect. It wasn't only daytime where he played disturbed characters well. He was in a second season episode of the original L&O as a character nicknamed "Lemonhead", who ended up catatonic.

[SoapDope]

On the Another World board there was discussion about the 1978 Emmy Awards. It got me to thinking, why was Y&R and it's performers never nominated or considered for emmys till the mid 1980's ?

The 70's and early 80's had fantastic actors on the show that was deserving of a nomination. Jeanne Cooper and Brenda Dickson had the major storyline of Jill/Phillip/Katherine. I have heard that Janice Lynde's performance during Leslie's mental breakdown was worthy of an award. Jamie Lyn Bauer had lots of meaty material during her entire time on the show. Y&R it seems was never on the ballot.

[YRfan23]

Well B&B rarely got emmy noms during it's first 4 or 5 years on the air either so maybe they were still finding their way....

[amybrickwallace]

It seems that SB was one of the few exceptions, as it debuted in 1984, got its first nominations in 1986 and then started winning the biggies a couple of years after that - including Best Show three years running. I am surprised, though, that Y&R took so long to get major Emmy attention with someone of Bill Bell's pedigree at the helm.

[soapfan770]

Just out of curiosity but did we ever see the Crimson Lights set before 1994? I still don't remember Sharon, Matt, and Amy coming on screen but I do recall having a major WTF moment with seeing Morrow as the aged Nick as little Nick had appeared not too long before that(B&B later did this with Rick).

Y&R had that early Best Show win in 1975 I believe and won again multiple times in the 80s but the acting and writing was overlooked for the most part. Of course competition was stiff at the time--GL, ATWT, AW, and Ryan's Hope were giving their highest output too during those years too. Harding Lemay even gave a famous anecdote that Bell stood up to receive the Outstanding Writing Emmy for either Days and Y&R when in actuality Lemay had won. I believe Tracey Bregman was the first Y&R actor or actress to win an Emmy, while Terry Lester was first to get a nomination.

[SoapDope]

Some great person has uploaded several clear copies 1970's episodes of Y&R on youtube.

 

Here is an example:

 

 

 

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[amybrickwallace]

What treasures!! Thank you for sharing them.

[SoapDope]

I can't believe Dorothy Green who played Jennifer didn't get nominated for the mastectomy story. Her performance blew me away from the episodes I saw above. The scenes where she learns she has cancer and asks the girls to leave her alone for a while and then breaks down and when she wakes up and tells Snapper she doesn't want to live like this is heart wrenching.

[Paul Raven]

Great to see these episodes.

This is the first time I've seen Tom Selleck,Susan Brown and Paul Stevens on Y&R.

So Susan's character Fran was an old friend of Stu's and a possible romantic interest.Any one know how long she was on and how far her story progressed?

Didn't Lanna Saunders play Mrs Selleck? I know Y&R wanted to sign Tom but he refused so they eventually dropped him. I wonder what story Bill Bell would have played had Jed stayed on. Maybe a variation of the Lance/Lorie story?