16 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).

Thank you, @DRW50 I am always game for some Skye Chandler. 😊

7 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@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."

Isn't it wild? I've not heard two different voices like that have a seemingly casual conversation about a topic, with real facts, be AI. I wonder why AI hates Megan McTavish so much though LOL - I wonder if there is so much written distaste out there and it picked up on it.

I also hate the 'unalive' word too, so ridiculous. Let's just use our words, call a spade a spade.

14 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

 

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.

Yeah, this was created by Google's NotebookLM which makes podcasts. You provide the inputs, it outputs a podcast. It's wild.

9 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

Yeah, this was created by Google's NotebookLM which makes podcasts. You provide the inputs, it outputs a podcast. It's wild.

Ahhh interesting, thank you   Very wild.

And yet, more engaging and more informative than every episode of "Soap Talk."

God this AI sounds like it loves reading SON. Lots of these stuff sound like straight from our board. 🤣🤣🤣

2 hours ago, Khan said:

And yet, more engaging and more informative than every episode of "Soap Talk."

🤣

AMC starting from 57 minutes to an hour and 3 minutes. @slick jones this has another cast crawl.

An hour and 7 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes.

59 minutes to an hour and six minutes (this also has a cast crawl)

 

16 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

AMC starting from 57 minutes to an hour and 3 minutes. @slick jones this has another cast crawl.

An hour and 7 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes.

59 minutes to an hour and six minutes (this also has a cast crawl)

 

Woot Woot!    @DRW50 thanks for the tag.

Some Palmer and Natalie wedding material, the first being about 45 minutes to 55 minutes, the second an hour and six minutes to an hour and 12 minutes. The first also has a cast credit crawl. There's a wonderful moment in the wedding scenes where Erica greets Palmer warmly...and then privately threatens Natalie if she ever hurts Palmer.

 

More 1987 from about 22 to 43 minutes.

 

Dixie Martin & Greg Nelson run into each other on the subway!

1 hour ago, TheyStartedOnSoaps said:

Dixie Martin & Greg Nelson run into each other on the subway!

This is so great, thanks for sharing!  Love to see that.

4 hours ago, TheyStartedOnSoaps said:

Dixie Martin & Greg Nelson run into each other on the subway!

Hahaha! Lovely photo. They still look good. Thanks for this.

On 3/19/2025 at 9:05 AM, alwaysAMC said:

LOL - after all these years, I'm starting to think the real soap opera might have been the behind the scenes:

 

PRODUCER: One of the things that still frustrated me in this genre is the inability to evolve in terms of staff, and people and writers. For example: I think some of GH’s darkest hours were the Megan McTavish years, and I think some of GL’s were the Megan McTavish years, and I think some of AMC darkest hours were the Megan McTavish years. Then I read somewhere that Brian Frons was courting Megan McTavish to come back, and I thought, really?

I seem to recall it was suspected (or outed?) the the producer in question was Christopher Cullen, who had been a long time director turned producer for GL but had a history of working at both OLTL and AMC as a director/production assistant in the late 90's when McTavish was at both shows before at so he would have been familiar with her history.  Cullen later had a bit of colorful run as a producer for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills where he was known to instigate some drama. 

 

On 3/19/2025 at 6:05 PM, alwaysAMC said:

How wild would it be if someone else wrote them to throw HER under the bus hahaha.  They're well-written though, so I know a good writer did it.

LOL that would be wild if someone did that to her. 

Apologies all I felt compelled to go back and read this mess tonight here and gained some new insights after seeing some recent McTavish comments. 🙈

The memoirs are basically like  a spooky campfire story,  except one about about a very tormented, twisted soap writer who ended up very bitter.