Jump to content

Y&R: Old Articles


DRW50

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 14.3k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted Images

  • Members

Well I see the '86 clips are still rolling along.  '86 was a good year for Y&R.  I wonder if we'll get into 1987...  I don't recall '87 being a particularly exciting year.  I just remember that Douglas returns, Matt leaves, Nikki fakes being ill, Rose comes back again, and then there's the whole Nikki & Jack / Victor & Ash story, but I really can't recall what else was going on.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Besides Cricket eating the show, there was Ashley's breakdown after aborting Victor's baby, Nikki's recovery from her illness that she hid from Victor, Katherine and Jill's custody battle over Phillip, Nina becomes pregnant with Chance, Paul and Lauren divorce, Lauren becomes involved with Brad, Jill hires Rex to woo Katherine; I think that covers the main non-Cricket 1987 stories. November 1986 had the EP change from H. Wesley Kenney to Ed Scott and June 1987 was the first of the big three late 1980s recasts when Brenda Dickson was fired and replaced with Jess Walton.

 

There was also what seems to be a slight cast purge during the second half of 1986 to through 1987, with the departures of Marla Adams, Colleen Casey, Alex Donnelly, Steven Ford, Lauren Koslow, Julianna McCarthy, Phil Morris, Robert Parucha, Jon St. Elwood, James Storm, Stephanie Williams. I wonder how much of it was Bill Bell running out of story for the characters and how much of it was Ed Scott doing some house cleaning.

Edited by kalbir
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Correct me if I am wrong, but by the time Ed Scott arrived as the senior EP, was there any real independent power there?

 

If there was cleaning house, it was done on Bell’s behalf.  From everything I have read, Conboy was the only EP that did what he wanted, and would piss Bell off when he saw the air shows.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Oh, wow!  Deborah Adair briefly appears as Jill in 1986 clip 119.

 

Secondly...  Has anyone seen the “Stories Behind the Stories” videos that Doug Davidson posted a little ways back on his Instagram account?  The videos are broken into parts, and chronicle a lot of behind the scenes stuff that was going on during Doug's involvement with the Cassandra Rawlins storyline.  Interesting stuff.  Links below...

 

Episode 1:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAyKR0_AcRG/

 

Episode 2:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWO3I1gFlW/

 

Episode 3:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBn3QQYBZ2T/

 

Episode 4:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5-cGNF6Yj/

 

Episode 5:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCLh0z3hUj-/

 

Episode 6:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCdiis-Bwna/

 

Episode 7:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCvhokrh2Gi/

 

Episode 8:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDBe6hyh9CA/

 

He also gave some background on the other actors involved in that story, including his TV parents Carolyn Conwell (Mary) and Brett Hadley (Carl).  He even posted a recent photo of Hadley, still going strong at 89...

 

 

Please register in order to view this content

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

 

I notice a folder has been opened in the vault for 1987!

 

Hoping to catch up on watching clips and uploading more of my stuff this weekend.

 

 

I watched the first clip and it was really informative... I've never actually watched the Cassandra storyline in full in its entirety, so I feel like I should wait until I do... I mean I know more or less what happens but not in full detail. 

 

Hadley does look good. It's too bad we didn't get any Y&R reunion specials like they did for ATWT and GL... being that it's still on the air almost every Zoom interview was current cast members (except Kimberlin Brown). It sure would have been nice if someone did reunions for the Brooks family, Williams family, Barber Family (with VR and TLW)... there's so much nostalgia there. Would also be interesting to get, say, Heather Tom and Amelia Heinle together with the other Newmans, or imagine Jess Walton and Brenda Dickson together with Kate Linder sharing memories about Jeanne!

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Now that most of the “Jack works at a homeless shelter” story has been posted in the clips, I’m curious – what are people’s impression of the story?

 

I watched the original airings as a teen and assumed that this story would be used to “humanize” / “redeem” Jack… but that didn’t wind up being the case… he just went back to his scheming dastardly ways in ’87.

 

Do you think this was just one of Bill Bell’s “summer social issue” stories... or maybe it was originally intended to redeem Jack but then later they decided to go another route… or…?
 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

 

Didn't Beth Maitland also get "purged" (temporarily) during all of that?   Seems like Traci announced rather suddenly that she was going to Stanford to finish her degree, packed her bags, and swooshed out of town rather suddenly.  Also seems like Beth Maitland was removed from the cast list.  Brad walked around grouchy about it for several weeks, became closer with Lauren, then Neil Fenmore died, Brad started working with Lauren on the Fenmore Foundation, and after a few months, Traci came swooping back in.  I never knew if the intention had always been to bring Traci back later in the year, or if Bill Bell just kinda changed his mind about getting rid of her in the first place.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • Whoa. She should have fought like hell to get that. Was it the greatest show ever? No, but it had a fantastic cast and was practically guaranteed to last multiple seasons because of its star power. Could have certainly led to bigger and better things. If it had flopped she could have always gone back to soaps. Judith Light broke through on a sitcom where she was basically second banana to Tony Danza. That grew into a very busy and distinguished career. The woman is still regularly booked to this day.
    • I could understand her being frustrated by the fact that she'd been in the business 10+ years at that point, and probably couldn't even get in the door. But then again, she'd already gone out for pilot season once (that we know of) and she and  her agent knew a 35-ish woman had a very difficult time in Hollywood. I know she did a few guest spots, but other than Designing Women, nothing I saw--not even a Murder She Wrote, and that show had tons of ex-soapers on it. I mean, God bless Marilu Henner, but even having been on Taxi, she couldn't get arrested for years either.
    • I didn't rewatch that period, so I'm not really sure how much Bill is on. I recall something about him living at the boardinghouse. I think Van made Matt his guardian, and why she didn't name Josh would be a mystery to me, other than the HW decided they needed to keep Bill in Matt's sphere. Nola is also his aunt, although they don't know each other well, and Van wouldn't have trusted her anyway. There's Dinah---but she's unreliable. Billy gets out of jail around NYE.
    • Please register in order to view this content

         
    • That's on Kimmer. As someone posted above...she was offered roles in pilots but she would be part of an ensemble or supporting. She didn't want that so she came back to GL. I don't know what she thought would happen..someone offering her "Here's Kimmer!" or The "Zimmer Comedy Powerhouse Hour" variety show..but her housefrau fans did not have the same pull in HW as they did on the soaps. Forbes and Watros knew that you had to take small parts to get noticed ands start a career in primetime. I know she was in consideration for the wife in Evening Shade, but when you go up against Marilou Henner, the soap diva looses. I could see her frustrated in a role like that, where she has to be the understanding wife with a bit of sass, but she could have made it work, if it wasnt for her huge ego.  I think it would have been an issue haveing all the powerhouse comedy actors surrounding...(lets face it..Alice Ghostly woudl have wiped the floor with her...) but it would have been a good launching padd.
    • Oh good, so I don't have to wait too long haha. I'm glad she cares about seeing Bill graduate. I'm guessing I'm in for a bumpy ride between Bill and Matt, if he's going to be his caretaker? Who else could it be, maybe Josh?
    • John Spencer      pg. 445    THEATER THE GLASS MENAGERIE    October 1979     Gentleman Caller      NYC THE GLASS MENAGERIE    1979 - 80    Gentleman Caller        Tyrone Guthrie Theater   Minneapolis   MONSIEUR DE MOLIERE     1979  - 80      Tyrone Guthrie Theater   Minneapolis   ROMEO AND JULIET     1979 - 80        Tyrone Guthrie Theater   Minneapolis  LAKEBOAT      1981                  NYC     007 CROSSFIRE      1984      Romanov      Actors Theatre of Louisville     CAROUSEL      1986 - 87    Jigger  The Opera House at the Kennedy Center     Washington, D. C.     FRANKIE AND JOHNNY AND THE CLAIR DE LUNE  
    • Maeve makes a few sporadic appearances, but returns full-time the next spring/summer. She's back in time to see Bill and Michelle graduate, although she skulks around town and wasn't going to tell anyone she was alive. She comes back wearing this HUGE hat---which was a throwback to the old Vanesaa. lol.
    • Aww, yeah it's very heartbreaking and I mostly enjoyed the Nola/Vanessa scenes because they finally let their walls down and came together in a beautiful moment. So Nola was at the hospital already and bumped into Vanessa, who had MRI papers that fell out of her hand and Nola went down to pick them up and asked her what was going on. Later, Vanessa confided in her about her disease. Then, Nola told Zachary on the beach (he prodded her and already alluded to knowing something was going on with Van), and then Vanessa found out she told him and got a little upset. Now, however, Nola is strangely absent while everyone is mourning her death. I'm curious if Nola will actually tell people about her MRI results. I would assume so. Only Nola, Rick, Roger and Zachary know anything, although there is the MRI results letter from the mail that everyone has missed seeing at home. I'm sure it'll all come out at some point. But... I just saw the next episode and the opening already cut Vanessa out and added Dahlia and Zachary. I guess Maeve is gone for a long time

      Please register in order to view this content

       That will break my heart seeing the town continue to mourn her and assume she's dead. I can't wait to see her return though, and I have to imagine feelings will be torn between loving that she's alive and being very angry she did all of this. While I hate what Vanessa is doing, I'm happy to hear it's not totally against her character. I think you're right, had Henry still been around, she wouldn't put him through this. I'm still surprised she is with Bill, though. I get her feelings on Matt, because she wants him to move on, but still very heartbreaking. I'm glad this was Maeve's choice to have a break vs. being fired.    Interesting, so I'm curious to see who they eventually pair Phillip with. They're flirting with a Phillip/Annie pairing, but I'm not sure if they'll go that route with the Jeva drama, her growing pill addiction, and Rick's past with her.  Ugh, yeah I'm so sad to see Bridget do a total 180 in the last couple weeks. She has always been a strong character from what I've seen, but now she's just bending over backwards to get Hart to love her and it reeks of desperation. Yeah, sure, this new Hart is eye candy, but I'm already tired of seeing Hart/Dinah have sex all over Springfield and the Cayman Islands haha.
    • Yes.  I remember them together during the early summer of 1986.  They didn't share scenes again for 30 years until 2017 because Carrie wasn't on the show when Anna returned during Sydney's kidnapping.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy