1 hour ago, YRBB said:

Does anyone know/remember: Was the Marge plotline unpopular with the audience? Did it go pretty much as planned?

 

11 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

I think the press praised Cooper in the beginning for Marge's portrayal, but the story just dragged on too long, and according to SOD at the time....the gimmick wore off quickly................I guess fans also thought Katherine and Esther trapped in the isolated cabin when this was all going on was boring...

 

Amongst viewers and some of the soap press while they lauded Jeanne Cooper and were entertained, the common criticism of the story was the doppelganger part was a bit of stretch for a more reality based show like Y&R, quite similar to Brad in a cage the previous year. Of course no one in 1990 could predict twenty years later doppelgangers would become a dime a dozen and more ridiculous with the next one, that we'd see Katherine Chancellor in a landfill and co-piloting helicopters, or there would be death by volcano. 

^ I was riveted by the story, thanks to the excellent acting and tight plotting. Sad when it ended

13 minutes ago, yrfan1983 said:

^ I was riveted by the story, thanks to the excellent acting and tight plotting. Sad when it ended

Yeah, it kept me entertained as well....I just wish I had all of September/October 1989-May 1990 so we could see the entire story and not just the chunks I have!!  

7 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

I think the press praised Cooper in the beginning for Marge's portrayal, but the story just dragged on too long, and according to SOD at the time....the gimmick wore off quickly................I guess fans also thought Katherine and Esther trapped in the isolated cabin when this was all going on was boring...

 

7 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Amongst viewers and some of the soap press while they lauded Jeanne Cooper and were entertained, the common criticism of the story was the doppelganger part was a bit of stretch for a more reality based show like Y&R, quite similar to Brad in a cage the previous year. Of course no one in 1990 could predict twenty years later doppelgangers would become a dime a dozen and more ridiculous with the next one, that we'd see Katherine Chancellor in a landfill and co-piloting helicopters, or there would be death by volcano. 

 

33 minutes ago, yrfan1983 said:

^ I was riveted by the story, thanks to the excellent acting and tight plotting. Sad when it ended

 

Thanks. Yeah, I loved it and thought it was fun and entertaining. Cooper certainly seemed to be having a ball. I just became curious when someone on YouTube said it was "unpopular" with viewers and had to be wrapped up sooner than planned. I took it with a heavy dose of salt, but figured I'd check. Maybe it'd be different if we watched it unfold day by day.

 

I do like the occasional outlandish story though, and late 80s, early 90s Y&R served it nicely with Brad in the Cage and Katherine's kooky doppelganger. I feel they always found ways to ground the crazy stories like those, or Matt Clark's face-change and deliver them as realistically as possible.

On 11/28/2017 at 8:17 PM, yrfan1983 said:

Thank you @ltm1997! I finally had a chance to watch these.  The 3rd one is really great. It’s a bummer it’s in Italian, but it still has many key scenes from ’86 to ’89, including:

 

Jill’s press conference where she almost spills the beans about sleeping with Jack, and John stops her; Nikki’s fake illness; Ashley telling Victor in the rain that she had the abortion; Ashley in the sanitarium with Steven and then getting married; weird fantasies of Leanna dropping spiders on Victor and then strangling him; Brad and Traci’s wedding; Brad in a cage with Lisa; Lauren and Jack rescuing Brad; Brad collapsing in the courthouse at Traci’s divorce; Steven shot and Ashley in mourning;  Nina sleeps with drunk Phillip  (he’s basically unconscious and it looks disturbing); Nina and Phillip’s wedding; Phillip’s drunk car crash and everyone watching him die in the hospital (baby Phillip is crying and it’s so sad!); Jessica’s story (we see her taking a big handfull of pills – is that how she dies?); Jill and David grooming the bum Rex; Rex and Katherine’s marriage; Clint, Robert and Shirley meet Marge; Marge dressing for the 1st time as Katherine; Paul and Cassandra’s courtship and the George Rawlins saga.

What?? How did I not see this 😁😁 must watch later!!! I actually did skim to some of the Leanna/Victor scenes, and even though it was just fantasies, It’s fun to see that Leanna was the one person who made Victor squirm...(besides Eve Howard)

2 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

What?? How did I not see this 😁😁 must watch later!!! I actually did skim to some of the Leanna/Victor scenes, and even though it was just fantasies, It’s fun to see that Leanna was the one person who made Victor squirm...(besides Eve Howard)

LOL...you'll love all of it...it's like a late-80s Greatest Hits CD!

5 minutes ago, yrfan1983 said:

LOL...you'll love all of it...it's like a late-80s Greatest Hits CD!

Haha I feel so silly for not watching it sooner 😁😁

 

Special 1991 Holiday Promo for Y&R, with pictures of some of the cast when they were younger at the end if this GL clip
 

 

Edited December 28, 20177 yr by YRfan23

 

Thanks for more great uploads. I keep hoping someone will post more mid to late 90's episodes. Happy New Year's everyone.

Edited December 29, 20177 yr by Dax7000

The Museum of Broadcasting Chicago has in the archive a screen test for Y&R featuring these performers

 

Baker, David L. 
Cheyne, Hank 
Diamont, Don 
Dickson, Brenda 
Eckholdt, Steven 
Kayser, Allan J. 
Wilson, Robert 

 

I assume this was for Brad Carlton and they were testing with Brenda Dickson as Jill.

46 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

The Museum of Broadcasting Chicago has in the archive a screen test for Y&R featuring these performers

 

Baker, David L. 
Cheyne, Hank 
Diamont, Don 
Dickson, Brenda 
Eckholdt, Steven 
Kayser, Allan J. 
Wilson, Robert 

 

I assume this was for Brad Carlton and they were testing with Brenda Dickson as Jill.

That's so cool!  

I'm searching on the site, it looks like they have even more archived episodes to view too!

1 hour ago, YRfan23 said:

That's so cool!  

I'm searching on the site, it looks like they have even more archived episodes to view too!

 

And they're not streaming, right? 

Some interesting names from these Y&R audition tapes archived at Museum of Broadcasting Chicago

 

From various years: young actors audition for roles on "Y & R."

 

Alexander, Jason 
Bernsen, Corbin 
Bowman, Pamela 
Daniels, David Mason 
Davidson, Eileen 
Davidson, Eileen 
Hauser, Wings 
Herring, Lynn 
Hickland, Catherine 
Hunley, Leann 
Lester, Terry 
Mowery, Carrie 
Purcill, Karen 

Edited December 30, 20177 yr by Paul Raven