This is episode was before I started watching OLTL. I thoroughly enjoyed evert minute of it. I had no idea that Thorsten was on the show!

I could hardly wait for them to replace it at the time, but I look back on the satin sheets opening fondly (I take credit for dubbing "Satin Sheets" and "Falling Pictures" on message boards almost 15 years ago ). I do think it would have been a better Loving opening, but I still love it for that period on OLTL, I think it fit perfectly with LG's aesthetic.

Yeah it was music from I think late 90's opening with the porn theme. I hope someone uploads it so you can see it LOL

Nah, that was definitely a stripped down version of the current ('04) theme. You could hear some of the riffs in the background. Either way, it sounded like sh!t and didn't fit that opening in any way, at all. I don't know why ABC wastes time/money modifying things like that when the episode itself is full of characters who look 15 years younger, not to mention previous actors playing roles, actors who are dead, MTV's House of Style fashions, etc. We know it's a rerun!

I'm sure it was a rights issue. I believe Lee Holdridge composed it, and I'm sure he keeps tabs on his stuff.

Oh and I forgot how soaps used to always have a much more obvious "hum" of background noise (the lights, etc)--even by that time.

I noticed the "hum" too, and I LOVE that. That's one of those things that you can only get on videotaped shows it seems. Watch the tensest moments from All in the Family, Good Times, etc, and it's there. It's almost like a part of the underscore.

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It could only be a rights issue IMHO--they simply wouldn't bother otherwise--I'm kinda surprised they didn't just put in the new opening or a title card or something.

Still I wonder if Malone/Griffiths care/know that their names were removed in the "new" credits>

Irene's diary is what brought David Vickers to town. He claimed to be Irene's and Victor's son and in the diary, Irene confessed to killing Victor which would of course mean that Dorian was innocent and could get off death row. Turns out, the entire thing was orchestrated by Dorian, David was a fake but of course Irene really did have a son by Victor in the form of Todd. What I can't remember is how Dorian got the diary in David's hands to begin with and why Viki still wanted it at this point (Irene was her best friend and Tina's mother too, I guess she just wanted to see what else Irene had to say about her DES-picable daddy?)...

Let's see if I can dig this up from the old memory bank!

After imprisoning Dorian for weeks, Jean agreed to set her free on a major condition: she was to marry David Vickers, thus freeing Tina from David and Joey from Dorian. Jean acknowledged that Viki cared about both Tina and Joey and this was the only way to get David and Dorian out of their lives. Dorian agreed to do Jean's bidding on the condition that Irene's diary was returned to her. At the time, it was in the police evidence room.

David married Dorian under much duress. Jean turned into Tori, and Dorian pressed her for the return of the diary. The diary incriminated David, exposing him as a fraud, which in turn would result in the overturning of Dorian's release from death row for Victor's murder. After much prodding, Tori got the diary out of the police evidence room and handed it over to Dorian. She locked it up in her safe. David was rooting around Dorian's house and found the diary. He used it to blackmail her into providing him with a very handsome allowance and credit limit on his newly obtained gold card!

Dorian was furious and did everything she could to get the better of David, but as long as he had the diary, she was doomed. She confided in Blair; Blair and Dorian cooked up the scheme where they wore the identical dresses - Blair was to begin a seduction of David in a motel room, blindfold him, and leave. Dorian was to take over and finish the job if necessary!

Meanwhile, Blair enlisted Todd's help to get the diary where David stashed it while David romped with Blair and Dorian. Todd was successful and handed the diary over to Blair, who handed it over to Dorian. Viki was after the diary because she knew that it would expose David as a fraud, and that would result in getting Dorian back on death row.

Phew!

Whatever happened to Nora's sister?

This is the only clip of today's repeat with the modified old opening that I could find on Youtube -- but it is very low quality. The opening starts at the 2:25 mark.

While I'm somewhat certain that they didn't air the original 1992-95 theme music with the opening because of copyright issues, I am surprised that they didn't just use a title card, or the current theme. Instead they went with a watered down version of the current theme, which is a variation of the 1995-2004 theme music.

Scotty. I'm surprised they just didn't go with the Tour Of Llanview II opening. Considering that it premiered only about a week after this episode.

Scotty. I'm surprised they just didn't go with the Tour Of Llanview II opening. Considering that it premiered only about a week after this episode.

Well I thought about that too, but I think that Lee Holdridge composed both of those openings....so that may have been a factor.

I wonder if it will somehow factor into the eppy they are showing on SoapNet Sunday. It's from 2003 so it's TOLII.

I really hope they don't screw that one up.

I wonder if it will somehow factor into the eppy they are showing on SoapNet Sunday. It's from 2003 so it's TOLII.

I really hope they don't screw that one up.

I'm not sure. Maybe someone will upload it to Youtube if they do though.

But I agree, I hope they don't mess with it...it one of my favorite OLTL themes, after the original TOL opening.

Why didn't they just use different credits, the ones they changed too after the porn opening. Most of the characters were still there for it to work

Why didn't they just use different credits, the ones they changed too after the porn opening. Most of the characters were still there for it to work

Well, we were just talking about why they may have decided not to use the theme music that came after it....but as for the images and logos, I don't know.

I thought it also neat that they kept the original old title card mid-show bumper (although they did change that music as well), and the original closing credits slide from when it originally aired. I can still remember OLTL using simply an end card for some episodes, all the way up until 2004.

I watched today's show simply because of classic Nathan Fillion. But in addition to him I got Marty and Patrick, who I adored AND Roger Howarth as Todd. *sniff sniff* God how I miss his Todd.

I loved seeing my man again today. Roger.