To answer my own question, right now they seem to be cycling through 6611-6622. I hope I can catch them all before they change. And we're squarely into the interim period between McTavish and Broderick when Hal Corley was writing (who I got to interview for my MA dissertation on the Kevin Sheffield storyline.) Michael Delaney is already featured as a teacher but hasn't come out yet...

Thanks so much!

I see Lorraine Broderick is listed in the credits as Script Supervisor. I wonder what that job entailed exactly.

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I'm so jealous of y'all getting to rewatch 1995 in such wonderful quality. I loved the whole Arlene/Alec/Hayley storyline! It looks like Agnes Nixon's family is working hard to make it happen for the States - I can't wait for that day!

4 hours ago, Khan said:

I see Lorraine Broderick is listed in the credits as Script Supervisor. I wonder what that job entailed exactly.

Hal spoke a bit about this. But now I won't remember the details (I did transcribe and save the interview... somewhere.) But for some reason Broderick was too busy to take over immediately after McTavish was gone--she certainly couldn't be a part of story meetings (maybe now it would be easier with Zoom :P though I guess they could have had her on a conference call) but she knew she'd be coming in in the Fall as so was already reading the scripts that he and the team were in charge with an was aware of story seeds being planted. Was Broderick maybe still contracted to GL? (I don't really know off hand when her work as one of the HW there started and ended just that it seemed to start around 91 when Nixon was back as official AMC HW.)

(Agnes Nixon WAS still constantly at story meetings too--apparently she was very excited by the whole gay stuff, which of course was a story theme she had been trying for years.) I THINK she may have still had the "executive head writer" credit she took when McTavish took over from her in 1992 too, but from what I heard when she wasn't HW she knew to not so much suggest story ideas but to try to massage the stories being told with suggestions about different perspectives to take with them, etc (he said he often would get 2am calls from her with a story detail she thought of.)

I mean as OTT as McTavish's work was starting to get, and no longer being the stuff FMB as EP wanted to produce (and ratings starting to slip) I think there's a reason that still the transition in Spring/Summer/Fall 1995 of AMC between McT, then just HC as interim HW and finally Broderick still for a day to day viewer comes off as pretty seamless (compared to other soaps and times when there's a HW change, especially when there's a period with no official HW--look at Loving in the early 90s, well Loving any time really) speaks to all of this.

4 hours ago, Khan said:

I see Lorraine Broderick is listed in the credits as Script Supervisor. I wonder what that job entailed exactly.

HAHAH I'm an idiot but will leave what I wrote. I see that you meant for the 1980 episode!! SIGH. Well Wiki says this, which of course doesn't mean it's true: She joined All My Children as scriptwriter and breakdown writer in 1979, under the guidance of then-head writer Agnes Nixon.

In 1982, Broderick was promoted to Associate Head Writer alongside fellow Nixon protégée Wisner Washam. Washam was promoted to Head Writer the following year. In 1986, Broderick was appointed co-Head Writer, sharing duties with Washam, who would exit the show himself in 1987, leaving Broderick as the sole head writer."

I assume Script supervisor would mean making sure episodes were consistent with each other etc?

5 hours ago, Marco Dane said:

This is AMAZING thank you. And now I'm just gonna sound like a whiner, but is the sound sync completely off for anyone else (it seems progressive but gets worse so that you notice in the back half)? It wasn't for the half episode clip lol

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36 minutes ago, EricMontreal22 said:

This is AMAZING thank you. And now I'm just gonna sound like a whiner, but is the sound sync completely off for anyone else (it seems progressive but gets worse so that you notice in the back half)? It wasn't for the half episode clip lol

Yes.