I've always suspected that backstage shenanigans were responsible, and that Felicia Minei Behr's "You don't always end up with your soulmate" comment to Soap Opera Weekly (?) was just a cover.

4 hours ago, Darn said:

Turned it on again just now and it's on the SAME EPISODE. I feel like I'm losing my mind. Can I get s Groundhog's Day that's more fun?

I'd like to know this too as I really enjoyed Edmund and Brooke. I was sad that the triangle didn't go on longer after Maria returned.

Yeah I didn't mind Maria at all (actually I didn't mind them introducing the whole Santos clan even if the parents were kinda awful) but was always into Brooke and Edmund.

I have turned on PlutoTV and found a repeat of an episode I keep on coming across as well. What I've been doing, now that they seem to be listing in the guide the proper episode numbers and descriptions, I check what's playing later and if I'm home then will tune in (I have seen all of the current batch now, though.) But I admit it's a pain and not something I can constantly do.

Surprised to see the start of this Loving episode and Ally is watching AMC...at a time when the show regularly crossed over with AMC.

LOVING SOAP OPERA Random Episodes Part Thirteen!

6 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

Yeah I didn't mind Maria at all (actually I didn't mind them introducing the whole Santos clan even if the parents were kinda awful) but was always into Brooke and Edmund.

I felt as if Maria took Brooke's storyline. I think Brooke was meant to be the one eventually moving into Wildwind and clashing with Erica under the same roof.

But I guess if that had happened the Santos family would not have been fleshed out and we wouldn't have gotten Julia, Noah, Mateo, etc. and Hayley would not have married Mateo and Kelly Ripa would be hosting Live with someone else 😂

5 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

I felt as if Maria took Brooke's storyline. I think Brooke was meant to be the one eventually moving into Wildwind and clashing with Erica under the same roof.

But I guess if that had happened the Santos family would not have been fleshed out and we wouldn't have gotten Julia, Noah, Mateo, etc. and Hayley would not have married Mateo and Kelly Ripa would be hosting Live with someone else 😂

Or... Kelly Ripa wouldn't have the job at all, because she never would have met Mark and she never would have been secretly pregnant that the psychic predicted on air which really made her popular for the Live audience.... haha, so many what ifs with that fun butterfly effect game

I loved Maria and the entire Santos clan, so I'm happy with how things turned out.

Y'all being able to watch this era right now really has me jealous. I know the Nixon family is trying hard to make this a reality in the States, so I just know it'll come eventually.

4 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Surprised to see the start of this Loving episode and Ally is watching AMC...at a time when the show regularly crossed over with AMC.

LOVING SOAP OPERA Random Episodes Part Thirteen!

This is great, and to have it be Laura Wright's character is even better (for me). That AMC opening will always be my favorite, and really my favorite soap opera opening of all time.

I've never seen an episode of Loving, but I did a Wiki rabbit hole of that and The City today and learned all about how Frankie first debuted there, and who Jacob was - I'm shocked! I'd love to get my hands on the infamous Loving Murders episode - really those last 4-5 months. I'd watch all of that and The City (which was barely over a year long, sadly)... that would be fun to watch!

BUFFALO COURIER-EXPRESS, Saturday, March 1, 1980 [TV Page)

'Children' Plays Up Daisy's Appearance by Jon Michael Reed

The All My Children audience could smell the plot herring a mile away, or at least months ago when ruthless tycoon Palmer Cortlandt began raging and flying off the handle at the mere mention of his "deceased" The scent grew stronger when Palmer's daughter Nina and her beloved beau, Cliff, began questioning the circumstances of Daisy's death. Then Myra, the mysteriously domineering Cortlandt housekeeper, arranged a seance so Nina could "speak"" to her mother's spirit. By this time, the smell was positively overwhelming. The rotted herring, or, rather, the rotted corpse of Daisy Cortlandt was revealed not to be a corpse at all. She's very much alive, secretly quartered in Myra's servant bedroom.

DAISY, of course, is Myra's prodigal daughter, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who married, then ran away with a lover from Palmer and her infant daughter. All these years, she's been paid through Palmer's hefty bank account to play dead. And when should Daisy make her long-awaited "appear- ance" but at Nina's 19th birthday party, which was a masked ' ball extravaganza the likes of which haven't been seen in soap annals.

THE BALL, incidentally, was taped on location at a bona-fide Victorian mansion with long, dark, threatening corridors and involved a. full orchestra, nearly a hundred extras, and virtually every "AMC" character bedecked in dazzling array. Although one would have thought that this type of Gothic mystery plot had been washed . out of soap opera linen by now, it has attracted a huge and deliriously "glued" audience. In the hands of a soap-writing veteran like "AMC's" Agnes Nixon, this old-turkey plot has turned out to be a surprisingly young and juciily appealing one. Add a dash of old fashioned, pure and innocent romance between Nina and Cliff, and the old as-the-soap-opera hills recipe has turned out to be a gourmet treat.

BUT THE MOST savory ingredient in the whole stew is the casting of, actress Gillian Spencer as Daisy. Gillian is no stranger to soap operas. For the past few years she's been a dialogue writer for "As the World Turns" and briefly for "Guiding Light." Prior to that, she was in front of the "ATWT" cameras as Jennifer Hughes, Dr. Bob's late and lamented wife. And even earlier she portrayed Vicki Lord Riley on "One Life to Live" before Erika Slezak inherited the role. In her previous soap incarnations, Gillian was a gentle, delicate-as-a-flower heroine, although she received "training" for Daisy when she played Nikki, Vicki's "trampy" splitpersonality on "OLTL" for a spell. This time out, as Daisy, Gillian has an even greater opportunity to project a wdrnan with a "'trollopy' past and a devilishly naughty nature, She's playing it to the hilt and "AMC" couldn't have made a finer choice. Welcome back, darling Jill.

9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Surprised to see the start of this Loving episode and Ally is watching AMC...at a time when the show regularly crossed over with AMC.

LOVING SOAP OPERA Random Episodes Part Thirteen!

Yeah this was so inconsistent--I believe what's her name (the Masquerade killer) on The City also auditioned to be on AMC even though The City had Jack from AMC in an episode (as well as a cross over with OLTL I think??) Funny, Jeremy's in the episode, does he know he can check on his friends by turning on the TV?

5 hours ago, Jonathan said:

I felt as if Maria took Brooke's storyline. I think Brooke was meant to be the one eventually moving into Wildwind and clashing with Erica under the same roof.

But I guess if that had happened the Santos family would not have been fleshed out and we wouldn't have gotten Julia, Noah, Mateo, etc. and Hayley would not have married Mateo and Kelly Ripa would be hosting Live with someone else 😂

HA!