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43 minutes ago, will81 said:

I have uploaded all the 1986 cast charts to the vault. I did some reformatting and fixed some errors. I also decided that subs would be moved and combined with the contract player. So for example Brenda D and Deb Adair will be together and listed based on their combined appearances as Jill. JUst gives a better idea of how much the character was on for the month and I did the same with Gisele and Jeanne and Terry and Brett.

 

On to finishing 1987. I also have the Jon-Michael Reed / Nancy Reichardt (she took over May 86 when JMR passed) newspaper recaps from post Mar 1983. So I will begin to upload those soon as well.

 

I also have Lynda Hirsch as well, but hers are more confusing. While both published recaps on a Friday. JMR must have gotten synopsis from the networks or production companies as his are Mon-Fri. Lynda most likely watched and recapped, so hers seem to be Thu - Wed. If you want me to post them I will, but it often makes things confusing.

Thank you so much for all of this!! :D I’ll love to see the post March 1983 recaps, since they haven’t been uploaded on tumblr in almost 2 years! 

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1 hour ago, YRfan23 said:

Thank you so much for all of this!! :D I’ll love to see the post March 1983 recaps, since they haven’t been uploaded on tumblr in almost 2 years! 

No worries. I just tried to upload a few to a new thread and it wouldn't let me. They are jpg files. Does anyone know how to contact admin and ask if there is some way to fix this. I don't want to put them in the vault as they are all soaps and not just Y&R, but if there is no fix I might just have to do that.

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15 hours ago, will81 said:

I do remember the full version of Jill and Katherine's confrontation about the pictures from Jan 84 being online a very long time ago, and it was better picture quality too, and a few other things were floating about at one point, but I do not remember full episodes from that era.

 

Though I do remember episodes from when Nikki was pregnant being about, a few of them, but that may have been well over 10 years ago, when I had no clue how to save them

 

I knew I had remembered correctly about the pictures scene. I sooo wish we could find it. Somebody must have it somewhere I’m sure. 

 

14 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

That's so sad that there's lost media out there from that era. Phillip's death scene (in English) used to be online too but I never saw it. Were these things on WOST or Soap Hunks? Surely someone out there has saved a copy. 

 

There is a full episode around where Nikki is pregnant and goes to get an abortion but then can't go through with it after she meets a woman who had lost her child. (March 29, 1982 - in the vault).

 

Yes!! I remember seeing Phillip’s death scene too on that site! It’s so weird how it seems like the episodes surrounding his death in English just don’t seem to exist at all. I know they do, but they just don’t seem to turn up. I’m sure they will sometime, I hope. 

 

14 hours ago, will81 said:

The one I am thinking of (and it was several) was when Nikki told Kevin that Victor was the baby's father so he would reconcile with Carolyn. There were at least three or four episodes online from that time period. But this was early days of youtube and I didn't know how to save them

 

Damn, I so wish I would’ve thought logically back then and downloaded that stuff. But I was so wrapped up in watching it in the moment that it didn’t even cross my mind that it could be gone someday!

 

14 hours ago, fivethej said:

 

I know someone within the last few yrs had nearly every Y&R episode posted on youtube but entire thing was taken down.

 

Ugh, that’s such a shame they were taken down. ☹️☹️

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe someday there will be another Anonymous Angel who will upload those lost episodes/scenes! I'm still waiting for the Angel that starts uploading episodes from January 1983-March 1984 (right before Jeanne's facelift) :D

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I don't remember if I posted this one or not but I added it to the vault the other day. I believe it's the only 1988 from the Y&R Anon Angel:

 

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42 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

I don't remember if I posted this one or not but I added it to the vault the other day. I believe it's the only 1988 from the Y&R Anon Angel:

 

Wow! Just skimmed through... one of Cassandra's first appearances! And looks like Amys exit 😭  Thanks for these treasures, BoldRestless and Angel!

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So I have decided to start a tumblr. I am going to upload all of Jon-Michael Reed's columns and recaps, as well as Lynda Hirsch and anything else soap related I come across. Also any scans I eventually get done of the 70's soap magazines will go there too as well as (I hope, lol) the remaining SOD 90's mags that I have. I figured it is easier than opening several threads here. I put together a very basic one that I might redesign as I go along. Here is the link https://thesoapsofyesterday-blog-blog.tumblr.com

 

Give me a few days to start uploading stuff, I will probably just send a message once I have started putting things up, but it will be slow. Very slow, haha

4 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

I don't remember if I posted this one or not but I added it to the vault the other day. I believe it's the only 1988 from the Y&R Anon Angel:

 

So happy to get more 1988. So awesome, thankyou

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It's so frustrating to see Amy go. I love Olivia, but having Dru be a long lost sister to Amy that the family never talked about and utilizing the already long history of Amy and Nathan, not to mention Frank Lewis, would have been so awesome. We saw Loretta so little that the same tension between Dru and Loretta could have been used. I guess that would have left Mamie out in the cold though, although the show retconned relationships all the time. So I guess Bell could have still had Mamie be Amy and Dru's aunt and the show could have gotten away with it.

 

Then again having Dru and Olivia and keeping Amy as well was still a great option too.

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16 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

Starting a tumblr is a great idea, thanks, and please do post when it's updated cause I probably won't remember to check it, lol.

Haha, no worries

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6 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

I don't remember if I posted this one or not but I added it to the vault the other day. I believe it's the only 1988 from the Y&R Anon Angel:

 


Thanks for sharing!!! Just a few thoughts:

 

 

—This was Amy’s ‘88 exit? I am glad she at least got something as opposed to just disappearing and of course we got her brief 1990 return. Oddly enough 16 years later in 2004 Lynne was given a similar exit as she had leave to help her mother in Ohio or something.

 

- I have seen glimpses of it before but ED’s brunette hair just looks unnatural on her. In fact the hair is so straightened for the late 80s I’m trying to tell if she was actually wearing a wig or not.

 

- How much longer was Marc on the show? His 87-88 return always struck me as odd and from what I can tell it was much ado about nothing about Marc and Joanna’s affair as both SSH and Frank M. Bernard are only three years apart in age. Marc was basically a Dynasty reject on Daytime instead.

 

-The shots of Cassandra that Paul fantasizes about are basically a prelude to how Cassandra and Brittany Norman will later appear in the opening credits of 1988-91

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12 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

Marc was basically a Dynasty reject on Daytime instead.

Hahaha. Yeah, Marc was way too Dynasty. That was fine for 1983, 1984 when Dynasty was at the height of it's popularity, but by 1987, 1988 Dynasty was way past it's prime.

 

Another late to the party Dynasty element Y&R used: Victor moving from the ranch to a luxury penthouse that was more befitting of a foreign diva. I see what you did there Ed Scott 😆

 

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1 hour ago, kalbir said:

Hahaha. Yeah, Marc was way too Dynasty. That was fine for 1983, 1984 when Dynasty was at the height of it's popularity, but by 1987, 1988 Dynasty was way past it's prime.

 

Another late to the party Dynasty element Y&R used: Victor moving from the ranch to a luxury penthouse that was more befitting of a foreign diva. I see what you did there Ed Scott 😆

 


LOL. This is the part where I wish the show had actually kept Dina on longer than they originally did and have her become

more of a vibrant long term character instead of popping up every few years after spending lots of time in spas with younger men or whatever the excuse was. I have read the show almost brought on Marc’s kid sister Danielle Mergeron (think Cricket’s age I guess, maybe even as old as Lauren/Traci) can’t even imagine how that would’ve gone down had they done so.

 

As far as penthouses go lol I hadn’t even thought about that but then again Dallas

also gave April a glamorous penthouse as well around the same time too. 

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Nice interview with Barbara Crampton. She looks great! Glad to see she is back working on film horror projects

https://www.cbr.com/interview-sacrifice-barbara-crampton-cults-lovecraftian-nostalgia/

However, I get a little annoyed in interviews like this is that neither she nor the interviewer make any mention of her noteworthy 10-year soap career. In fact in this interview she is called an “80/90s pop culture icon” so wouldn’t being a well-known soap opera star be part of that...? 

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