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.

Totally off the beaten path from 1980, but the mention of the gay SL in '95 and her involvement makes me wonder if Agnes was also definitely involved in what Ginger Smith and co. were planning at AMC 2.0 in 2013, namely for Eric Nelsen's A.J. Chandler to turn out gay. That's confirmed by the actor, which would've made Miranda his lifelong bestie/nascent crush into his f*ghag. Those two were pretty much the youth center of the show, and we've been told Agnes did have her creative hands on the show at that late point. (I can certainly see some of her recurring themes and fixations)

Wow. I hadn't heard that--is there a Ginger Smith interview I've missed about future storylines? That would have played out so well (at least in my mind.) We KNOW she was actively still involved in the reboot (which was from all reports still while her Parkinson's was pretty manageable.) I mean Ray MacDonnell himself said that Agnes knew he wanted to do comedy and personally wrote (or at least came up with the idea) for him to have a comic moment with Billy Clyde (I think it was a scene where Billy Clyde misunderstands Joe and thinks he wants to hire a hooker--and maybe a male one or Billy himself? My memory is gone, I used to know all this stuff :P ) So she was consulting at the least. And yeah, Wisner Washam didn't speak much about the Donna Pescow gay storylines on AMC from around 1983 but did say the initial idea was Agnes' (and that she wanted a gay male character but ABC had various requirements--like it being a less connected character and that it must be a woman because they wanted their Dynasty to be groundbreaking for having a regular gay male character in the cast... God ABC had some weird requirements--similar to the incest abuse storyline for Lily on Loving that Marland has said was Nixon's idea and then was somewhat ruined in the end because ABC wanted their TV movie of the week on the subject to be a "TV first" which just seems... insane. Would someone have actually said, if they advertised their movie that way, that "well, aren't you doing a similar storyline already on Loving, you liars!")

And then of course when she returned to AMC in 1999-2001, ultimately more as a co-HW, really besides trying to return a sense of Pine Valley to the show after McTavish's second run, her main reason to be there was the Bianca storyline...

2 minutes ago, EricMontreal22 said:

Wow. I hadn't heard that--is there a Ginger Smith interview I've missed about future storylines? That would have played out so well (at least in my mind.)

I don't know if she's ever spoken about it. But Eric Nelsen went public with it some years ago, said Ginger and maybe someone else took him out to lunch in the spring or summer of '13 (before the Hulu shows got canned) to discuss it. Let me see if I can dig it up.

It's from a Michael Fairman interview in 2020 about The Bay:

I think I dropped a bird in Gregori Martin’s (creator, The Bay) ear by telling him that before All My Children ended, they were going to have my character of AJ Chandler have a storyline where he is gay.  The producers sat me down and talked through an entire storyline arc with me.  Basically, Ginger Smith (ex-executive producer, All My Children) and Alison, our casting director, and one other person from the show, took me to lunch in New York. They pitched me what they wanted to do for my character, and asked me if I would be comfortable with it, and they wanted my opinion, everything.  It was really cool how they approached it, and I was like, “100% completely.”  I look at what Chandler Massey (Ex-Will Horton) did on Days and where that brought him and his storyline, and I thought, “Yes, there’s going to be so much more depth and stuff to play than just being this fun little rich kid.”  At the time, there really wasn’t much depth to AJ.  So, I was like, “Yes.  I will be all over it.  Absolutely.”

Nice to see EN still works pretty regularly and has had some success in various spheres. I do think a lot of the handling of poor little rich boy A.J., young ingenue Miranda and the Pete/Celia fairytale romance stuff was all classic old school Agnes. As was what you mentioned, and of course Angie and the abortion drama.

9 hours ago, Marco Dane said:

omg this is amazing. Mona is radiant. Love her.

I've never seen this year. Had no idea who one of the characters was - so I looked him up and it was Sean Cudahy, yeah I truly never heard of him before. Doesn't matter, I enjoyed the whole thing. Thanks for posting!

I love that I got to see my Mona!

And Benny! love him.

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