7 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

 

Oddly this stuff feels like it was yesterday too!

Sigh.....it does!......I highly doubt it but if there was ever a time Brad Bell had a special showing of these Catalina episodes with the cast, I hope Scott Cliffton, JMW, Darin Brooks and whoever else has only been on B&B since like 2009.....shook their heads and said: "Damn.....why have we never gotten great material like that!??" 

not that they could play it, but yeah....

19 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Those 1988 clips are really fascinating to watch. Did Jack tell Leanna all that about the abortion? I don't know how Ashley ever forgave him. I'd read about this story but reading it and seeing it are so different. Ashley's agony is so palpable it is hard to watch. I imagine those who felt this story was anti-abortion didn't have their minds changed by moments like these. 

 

The reporters are ludicrous, but it's all good melodramatic fun in true Bill Bell style. 

 

I wonder if Bell was inspired by all the Trump frenzy going on around this time. 

 

This is just about it for Eileen, isn't it? I feel like they have softened her look. Did they already have Brenda in mind? 

 

I always used to get confused when people would say that Eileen and Eric have chemistry, but I can really feel it in the '80s episodes. That hug was so bittersweet.

 

I love the Asian woman in the kicky hat and earrings, sharing a knowing smirk with her fellow tabloid reporter. She should have gotten a bigger role. 

I need to get 1988 episodes! it's gonna be on my holiday list! LOL I just realized a lot isn't on YT from that year...and it's been 30 years!!

Edited October 8, 20187 yr by YRfan23

3 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

not that they could play it, but yeah....

I need to get 1988 episodes! it's gonna be on my holiday list! LOL I just realized a lot isn't on YT from that year...and it's been 30 years!!

 

1988 was another of those transition years for the show in some ways, with Leanna and Cassandra (Cassandra in particular bringing such a shift in style and letting Bell get back to some of his favorite themes he couldn't do with increasingly familiar characters). I think I have just seen a few that were uploaded a while back, like one where Cricket was arguing with Jessica. 

1 minute ago, DRW50 said:

 

1988 was another of those transition years for the show in some ways, with Leanna and Cassandra (Cassandra in particular bringing such a shift in style and letting Bell get back to some of his favorite themes he couldn't do with increasingly familiar characters). I think I have just seen a few that were uploaded a while back, like one where Cricket was arguing with Jessica. 

I agree.....I think the show shooting to Number 1 that year was a result of Bill Bell getting a lot squared away from before......not that the prior years were bad or anything, but I think lots of familiarity with the show itself starts at the end of 1988.

Just now, YRfan23 said:

I agree.....I think the show shooting to Number 1 that year was a result of Bill Bell getting a lot squared away from before......not that the prior years were bad or anything, but I think lots of familiarity with the show itself starts at the end of 1988.

 

I always forget it was 1988 and think it was 1987. Maybe that's from all the years Brenda spent telling us she got the show to #1. 

Just now, DRW50 said:

 

I always forget it was 1988 and think it was 1987. Maybe that's from all the years Brenda spent telling us she got the show to #1. 

I get confused too, because I thought the show initially went to number 1 around 1986-87 and shared the spot with GH....I guess that's where Brenda is coming from...

31 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

I get confused too, because I thought the show initially went to number 1 around 1986-87 and shared the spot with GH....I guess that's where Brenda is coming from...

Interesting that the show was #1 in ‘88, considering the writers strike happened that summer. Susan SH commented that the actors had to edit/rewrite scripts during that time. I think the fall of ‘88 was when things improved, after BB was back at the helm.

Just now, yrfan1983 said:

Interesting that the show was #1 in ‘88, considering the writers strike happened that summer. Susan SH commented that the actors had to edit/rewrite scripts during that time. I think the fall of ‘88 was when things improved, after BB was back at the helm.

I always thought Bill Bell stayed put during the strike in 1988? unless I'm mistaken....

man I would love to see those scenes where we can tell it's the actors "improving" their scripts!  

1 hour ago, YRfan23 said:

I always thought Bill Bell stayed put during the strike in 1988? unless I'm mistaken....

man I would love to see those scenes where we can tell it's the actors "improving" their scripts!  

Really?? That would be a shocker. Any writer who didn’t strike with the union would be considered a “scab writer” (not good)

Y&R began its unbroken run at #1 after Days hit #1 with the Steve & Kayla wedding in July 88.

Google+ is shutting down in a matter of months. This is the main place that 'new' Y&R episodes have shown up this past year, aside from those @YRfan23 shares with us, so it sucks. Hopefully that Pannoni uploader will find somewhere else we will know about.

21 hours ago, yrfan1983 said:

Interesting that the show was #1 in ‘88, considering the writers strike happened that summer. Susan SH commented that the actors had to edit/rewrite scripts during that time. I think the fall of ‘88 was when things improved, after BB was back at the helm.

 

The contribution actors make to scripts is really underestimated. Joan Collins was known for re-writing pages of Alexis' dialog and Ed DeBlasio, the Dynasty script king who wrote more than half of the shows teleplays, said her changes were always for the better. 

59 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Google+ is shutting down in a matter of months. This is the main place that 'new' Y&R episodes have shown up this past year, aside from those @YRfan23 shares with us, so it sucks. Hopefully that Pannoni uploader will find somewhere else we will know about.

aww man....   it was nice while it lasted wasn't it....

Honestly where is a good place for uploading?? I've dream't for 5 years to make my videos public again, but I know that's asking too much...

I'm following Classic SOD on Tumblr and 1990 is nuts, (in retrospect), when covering sexuality.

 

I tried to copy/paste but it wouldn't work.  Page 56 has a coded story about Terry Lester and his "assistant" who was also his "cheerleader" and catered parties for Merv Griffin.  Then, Page 58 has a story about the seminal gay movie "Longtime Companion"  and laments how AIDS was really tough for soap writers to deal with.

 

There's also an odd line about how the actor who played Bunny on Santa Barbara couldn't be a cross-dresser in real life because he is getting married.

 

I think any actor has the right to maintain privacy from their fans, but the mixed messages of acceptance, fear, and mocking are remarkable.  Considering that SOD rarely named AIDS as a cause of death for actors, it does make one wonder about their editorial choices.  Previous daytime magazines had used coded gay language in order to promote the actors as sex symbols, but SOD created a niche as a news source, so their editorial choices are more suspect.  28 years later, I hope Terry Lester's assistant had a nice National Coming Out Day on Thursday. 

 

Edited October 12, 20187 yr by j swift

10 hours ago, j swift said:

I'm following Classic SOD on Tumblr and 1990 is nuts, (in retrospect), when covering sexuality.

Those latest uploads are a trip around the world and then some.

I don't know the person who posted this but looking at this picture made me wonder if AH's Victoria was supposed to be some AB/Mac clone?  Especially considering the fact that AshBash and David Tom were highly popular as a couple, I wouldn't put it past Y&R to find a clone and then try to build  them up to be this big romance.  It's just something about the way Bashioum is posed her that makes me think so.

 

#FBF In 2000, Billy and Mac were each other’s first love! #YR ❤️ pic.twitter.com/MGCfPa2hgg

— Franco N (@FrancoCNac) November 16, 2018

Yes, I know David Tom had been replaced by Biller Miller by then but still, the original suspicion remains.