4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

My memory is often poor and just pops up at random, so I appreciate the kindness. I didn't realize Hayley's exit from the show was via a talk show but that's a cute nod to her Regis & Kelly success. 

Yeah, it was cute. They also had a psychic come onto Wave and predict Hayley was pregnant with Enzo, just like it happened in real life on Regis.  

20 hours ago, DRW50 said:

My memory is often poor and just pops up at random, so I appreciate the kindness. I didn't realize Hayley's exit from the show was via a talk show but that's a cute nod to her Regis & Kelly success. 

Very cute nod. Would you say Hayley was the last great heroine on AMC? Nah, I almost forgot about Bianca. Hayley was a great character.

From about an hour and 6 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes you get some clips from mid-March 1987.

 

12 hours ago, DRW50 said:

From about an hour and 6 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes you get some clips from mid-March 1987.

 

Thanks for posting - that's quite the hodgepodge of clips!  Did that skip to ATWT after AMC? Looks like Lisa Brown!  I didn't realize she was on ATWT.

I also didn't realize Kassie DePaiva was on GL! 

Love the AMC scenes in there.

About 20 minutes of material in this starting at 14 minutes, the highlight of which might be a location shoot with Erica, Barbara and Travis that starts with a basketball team and ends with Erica being in danger and running around a building! I can't remember if this was ever up before. I know some of the race car stuff references would be in a Soapnet repeat. They definitely had a lot of confidence in Travis/Larkin for this amount of location material.

There's a good amount of location footage in these in general (just a reminder of how much bigger the budgets used to be) as they also herald the arrival in Pine Valley of Mitch Beck, on a motorbike. 

@slick jones There are several credits crawls in this (the one at 33 minutes has a full cast list). Linda Cook also appears in the "tape 3" material below, so that means she was on AMC through 1987 rather than 1986.

More scenes from about 42 to 51 minutes. Some of Jesse undercover, and some of Skye. These two sets of clips must be some of Robin Christopher's very first material. She seems so green (and she was indeed just 22 around this time) it's jarring with this Playboy Channel-ass material where she meets and [!@#$%^&*] a stranger who then abandons her the next morning after taking her car (he does leave it somewhere for her and gives her a call). I wonder how differently Antoinette Byron would have played it.

How long was Mitch Beck around for anyway?

Brian Fitzpatrick is hot (even if we don't get to see any skin), but this is mostly just another reminder of how sad Skye's life was, no matter what year or town she was in.

It's also an unintended contrast with the AIDS crisis as there is no mention of condoms so she, for all we know, has unsafe sex with some pickup. I wonder if this may have been one of the reasons the show started an AIDS story months later. 

(based on Skye's role in that story I'm not sure she cared much about learning safe sex practices)

Not really trying to tag everyone as it's just fragments but @Maxim you might be interested in the Skye material and @Jonathan the Erica material. @marceline You might enjoy the Jesse/Angie material.

1 hour ago, alwaysAMC said:

Thanks for posting - that's quite the hodgepodge of clips!  Did that skip to ATWT after AMC? Looks like Lisa Brown!  I didn't realize she was on ATWT.

I also didn't realize Kassie DePaiva was on GL! 

Love the AMC scenes in there.

It did, yes. Lisa was on ATWT from 1985-1993 (with a few later guest appearances). An often very heavy role.

I just posted a few more as I saw your reply so this is good timing. 

I'm always fascinated by 1987 for AMC as the show was all over the place in story yet also successfully rebuilding itself from some rocky years (until the writers' strike and other issues would once again topple the cart).

Edited July 13Jul 13 by DRW50

39 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I just posted a few more as I saw your reply so this is good timing. 

I'm always fascinated by 1987 for AMC as the show was all over the place in story yet also successfully rebuilding itself from some rocky years (until the writers' strike and other issues would once again topple the cart).

This is great, I'll have to watch these videos later today!  I also meant to mention that I had no idea there was a Skye before Christopher! That was a shocker.

Sadly I haven't seen much of AMC from the 80s - only random clips here and there. My first memories of AMC are from 1990 (I was only 6 haha). I really remember everything starting 1991.

37 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

This is great, I'll have to watch these videos later today!  I also meant to mention that I had no idea there was a Skye before Christopher! That was a shocker.

Sadly I haven't seen much of AMC from the 80s - only random clips here and there. My first memories of AMC are from 1990 (I was only 6 haha). I really remember everything starting 1991.

I've only seen drips and drabs too. I always mean to watch more.

Yes. Skye was even Australian before Robin. Soap viewers were asked to accept a lot back then.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

About 20 minutes of material in this starting at 14 minutes, the highlight of which might be a location shoot with Erica, Barbara and Travis that starts with a basketball team and ends with Erica being in danger and running around a building! I can't remember if this was ever up before. I know some of the race car stuff references would be in a Soapnet repeat. They definitely had a lot of confidence in Travis/Larkin for this amount of location material.

There's a good amount of location footage in these in general (just a reminder of how much bigger the budgets used to be) as they also herald the arrival in Pine Valley of Mitch Beck, on a motorbike. 

@slick jones There are several credits crawls in this (the one at 33 minutes has a full cast list). Linda Cook also appears in the "tape 3" material below, so that means she was on AMC through 1987 rather than 1986.

More scenes from about 42 to 51 minutes. Some of Jesse undercover, and some of Skye. These two sets of clips must be some of Robin Christopher's very first material. She seems so green (and she was indeed just 22 around this time) it's jarring with this Playboy Channel-ass material where she meets and [!@#$%^&*] a stranger who then abandons her the next morning after taking her car (he does leave it somewhere for her and gives her a call). I wonder how differently Antoinette Byron would have played it.

How long was Mitch Beck around for anyway?

Brian Fitzpatrick is hot (even if we don't get to see any skin), but this is mostly just another reminder of how sad Skye's life was, no matter what year or town she was in.

It's also an unintended contrast with the AIDS crisis as there is no mention of condoms so she, for all we know, has unsafe sex with some pickup. I wonder if this may have been one of the reasons the show started an AIDS story months later. 

Not really trying to tag everyone as it's just fragments but @Maxim you might be interested in the Skye material and @Jonathan the Erica material. @marceline You might enjoy the Jesse/Angie material.

It did, yes. Lisa was on ATWT from 1985-1993 (with a few later guest appearances). An often very heavy role.

I just posted a few more as I saw your reply so this is good timing. 

I'm always fascinated by 1987 for AMC as the show was all over the place in story yet also successfully rebuilding itself from some rocky years (until the writers' strike and other issues would once again topple the cart).

Thanks @DRW50 I found a bunch of info! and the OLTL heaven scenes1  

That Loving promo for Nick's murder is chef's kiss. (But really, most of the material's fascinating.)

Ruth Warrick has said in a couple of interviews, and I've read in one or two soap opera history books, that a few months after the premiere of All My Children, Agnes Nixon was ready to fire Ruth because she was not happy with the way Warrick had been playing Phoebe.  In Warrick's interviews, she explained that at that time she was told this by a friend/confidant, and not directly from Nixon. So Ruth immediately made changes in the way she played Phoebe, and apparently these changes made Nixon happy, because she was not fired after all.   So, does anyone know what changes Warrick made to her interpretation of the role? And in what ways she changed her acting style?   And more specifically, can anyone describe how Warrick had been playing Phoebe before she heard about her impending exit, and what changes she made that ultimately saved her job?  

Edited July 13Jul 13 by Tisy-Lish

25 minutes ago, Tisy-Lish said:

Ruth Warrick has said in a couple of interviews, and I've read in one or two soap opera history books, that a few months after the premiere of All My Children, Agnes Nixon was ready to fire Ruth because she was not happy with the way Warrick had been playing Phoebe.  In Warrick's interviews, she explained that at that time she was told this by a friend/confidant, and not directly from Nixon. So Ruth immediately made changes in the way she played Phoebe, and apparently these changes made Nixon happy, because she was not fired after all.   So, does anyone know what changes Warrick made to her interpretation of the role? And in what ways she changed her acting style?   And more specifically, can anyone describe how Warrick had been playing Phoebe before she heard about her impending exit, and what changes she made that ultimately saved her job?  

I think Ruth said she had played Phoebe as a bubblehead when it came to her comments about the Vietnam War. It was Phoebe's views on Vietnam that Ruth did not feel comfortable playing.

8 hours ago, DRW50 said:

About 20 minutes of material in this starting at 14 minutes, the highlight of which might be a location shoot with Erica, Barbara and Travis that starts with a basketball team and ends with Erica being in danger and running around a building! I can't remember if this was ever up before. I know some of the race car stuff references would be in a Soapnet repeat. They definitely had a lot of confidence in Travis/Larkin for this amount of location material.

There's a good amount of location footage in these in general (just a reminder of how much bigger the budgets used to be) as they also herald the arrival in Pine Valley of Mitch Beck, on a motorbike. 

@slick jones There are several credits crawls in this (the one at 33 minutes has a full cast list). Linda Cook also appears in the "tape 3" material below, so that means she was on AMC through 1987 rather than 1986.

More scenes from about 42 to 51 minutes. Some of Jesse undercover, and some of Skye. These two sets of clips must be some of Robin Christopher's very first material. She seems so green (and she was indeed just 22 around this time) it's jarring with this Playboy Channel-ass material where she meets and [!@#$%^&*] a stranger who then abandons her the next morning after taking her car (he does leave it somewhere for her and gives her a call). I wonder how differently Antoinette Byron would have played it.

How long was Mitch Beck around for anyway?

Brian Fitzpatrick is hot (even if we don't get to see any skin), but this is mostly just another reminder of how sad Skye's life was, no matter what year or town she was in.

It's also an unintended contrast with the AIDS crisis as there is no mention of condoms so she, for all we know, has unsafe sex with some pickup. I wonder if this may have been one of the reasons the show started an AIDS story months later. 

(based on Skye's role in that story I'm not sure she cared much about learning safe sex practices)

Not really trying to tag everyone as it's just fragments but @Maxim you might be interested in the Skye material and @Jonathan the Erica material. @marceline You might enjoy the Jesse/Angie material.

Thank you so much!

13 hours ago, Jonathan said:

Thank you so much!

 

21 hours ago, DRW50 said:

About 20 minutes of material in this starting at 14 minutes, the highlight of which might be a location shoot with Erica, Barbara and Travis that starts with a basketball team and ends with Erica being in danger and running around a building! I can't remember if this was ever up before. I know some of the race car stuff references would be in a Soapnet repeat. They definitely had a lot of confidence in Travis/Larkin for this amount of location material.

There's a good amount of location footage in these in general (just a reminder of how much bigger the budgets used to be) as they also herald the arrival in Pine Valley of Mitch Beck, on a motorbike. 

@slick jones There are several credits crawls in this (the one at 33 minutes has a full cast list). Linda Cook also appears in the "tape 3" material below, so that means she was on AMC through 1987 rather than 1986.

More scenes from about 42 to 51 minutes. Some of Jesse undercover, and some of Skye. These two sets of clips must be some of Robin Christopher's very first material. She seems so green (and she was indeed just 22 around this time) it's jarring with this Playboy Channel-ass material where she meets and [!@#$%^&*] a stranger who then abandons her the next morning after taking her car (he does leave it somewhere for her and gives her a call). I wonder how differently Antoinette Byron would have played it.

How long was Mitch Beck around for anyway?

Brian Fitzpatrick is hot (even if we don't get to see any skin), but this is mostly just another reminder of how sad Skye's life was, no matter what year or town she was in.

It's also an unintended contrast with the AIDS crisis as there is no mention of condoms so she, for all we know, has unsafe sex with some pickup. I wonder if this may have been one of the reasons the show started an AIDS story months later. 

(based on Skye's role in that story I'm not sure she cared much about learning safe sex practices)

Not really trying to tag everyone as it's just fragments but @Maxim you might be interested in the Skye material and @Jonathan the Erica material. @marceline You might enjoy the Jesse/Angie material.

It did, yes. Lisa was on ATWT from 1985-1993 (with a few later guest appearances). An often very heavy role.

I just posted a few more as I saw your reply so this is good timing. 

I'm always fascinated by 1987 for AMC as the show was all over the place in story yet also successfully rebuilding itself from some rocky years (until the writers' strike and other issues would once again topple the cart).

LOL at Erica walking through a basketball game, owning everyone in her path like the boss she was. I'm also quite shocked at the seedy dive bar where Angie slapped the man, and then later in the ending credits, the bunny lingerie dancer was on full display! How R-rated for the times haha.

I randomly came across this podcast on YT, and it feels very AI, in fact I still don't know if it's AI or not. But, it's a great summary from beginning to end. They hit the highlights. I can't tell if they intentionally threw shade at Megan McTavish or not, but it's funny. The fact Susan Pratt got a shout out during the entire show's timeline in this short 35 minute podcast is wild. Again, had to be random AI.

I do think this highlights how amazing AMC was in pushing the envelope with social issues. AMC was 100% a trailblazing soap opera.

Edited July 14Jul 14 by alwaysAMC

I just realized I'm the same age (41) as AMC was when it was cancelled and ended on ABC (before Prospect Park). That is wild to me.

@alwaysAMC I listened to some of that, and both laughed and felt disturbed all over again at the prevalence of AI in everything now. The male voice actually says "slight pause" at 21 minutes. The female voice seems to just be there to flame the hell out of McTavish, entertaining as that may be. I've seen a lot of these videos cropping up and hadn't clicked on them. I wonder if they are all AI. Can't wait to see them take on Golden Windows!

(and AI voice, McTavish's 1999 firing was not her third)

I know that is a thing now because of tiktok bans and maybe Youtube bans now but I hate hearing "unalive."

Edited July 14Jul 14 by DRW50