1 minute ago, alwaysAMC said:

Personally, I hate missing an episode, but I'm probably an outlier. I think they assume people might miss an episode or jump in/out, which is why they can be so repetitive sometimes. And the constant reminder in dialogue over who is related to who. It bugs me, but I get it.

Do you dislike missing an episode because you find the soaps so compelling, or just out of habit?

This is actually a serious question (I'm not being snarky), because even back in the golden 1970s, if one particular show (i.e. Somerset, which had wild swings in quality from great to atrocious) was going through a dreary period, I still hated to miss episodes. I never knew when a positive change for the better would suddenly take place. Back then, weak stretches on soaps were quickly rectified. When writer Roy Winsor assumed the reigns of Somerset, Rick Edelstein came aboard How to Survive a Marriage, and Claire Labine took over Love of Life, the surge is quality was immediate and exhilarating. I was afraid of missing the turnarounds!

42 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

Do you dislike missing an episode because you find the soaps so compelling, or just out of habit?

This is actually a serious question (I'm not being snarky), because even back in the golden 1970s, if one particular show (i.e. Somerset, which had wild swings in quality from great to atrocious) was going through a dreary period, I still hated to miss episodes. I never knew when a positive change for the better would suddenly take place. Back then, weak stretches on soaps were quickly rectified. When writer Roy Winsor assumed the reigns of Somerset, Rick Edelstein came aboard How to Survive a Marriage, and Claire Labine took over Love of Life, the surge is quality was immediate and exhilarating. I was afraid of missing the turnarounds!

I would say it's a little of both, but I generally just get FOMO and hate to miss anything, good or bad. Like some TV shows that I just got bored with (i.e. Walking Dead) - I still watched out of habit or at least had on in the background because I wanted to see how it ended or what happened generally. But for soaps, with the fast pace and cliffhangers, I hate to miss anything. When I was a kid and the VCR broke or didn't tape a day, or my mom watched without me because I was grounded that week, I was heartbroken LOL.

6 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

I would say it's a little of both, but I generally just get FOMO and hate to miss anything, good or bad. Like some TV shows that I just got bored with (i.e. Walking Dead) - I still watched out of habit or at least had on in the background because I wanted to see how it ended or what happened generally. But for soaps, with the fast pace and cliffhangers, I hate to miss anything. When I was a kid and the VCR broke or didn't tape a day, or my mom watched without me because I was grounded that week, I was heartbroken LOL.

Actually, I too continue to watch certain primetime shows looooong after they have started to bore me, but not soaps anymore.

I loathed the awful ninth season of Little House on the Prairie, but sensed the show was on its last legs and had a strange compulsion to stick with it until the bitter end. The tenth "season" (comprising of just three 2-hour movies) was weak as well, but I was glad that I saw the series finale because it ended up being semi-decent.

7 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

Actually, I too continue to watch certain primetime shows looooong after they have started to bore me, but not soaps anymore.

I loathed the awful ninth season of Little House on the Prairie, but sensed the show was on its last legs and had a strange compulsion to stick with it until the bitter end. The tenth "season" (comprising of just three 2-hour movies) was weak as well, but I was glad that I saw the series finale because it ended up being semi-decent.

Hahaha yep   But you're right, if I were watching a soap I wasn't passionate about and it wasn't good/holding my attention, I may just give it up these days because 5 hours a week is a lot of commitment vs. 1 hour a week like primetime.  But soaps back in the 90s, like AMC, never got awful enough to me where I felt like I could or wanted to quit. 

3 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

Hahaha yep   But you're right, if I were watching a soap I wasn't passionate about and it wasn't good/holding my attention, I may just give it up these days because 5 hours a week is a lot of commitment vs. 1 hour a week like primetime.  But soaps back in the 90s, like AMC, never got awful enough to me where I felt like I could or wanted to quit. 

That is an excellent point: some soaps in the 1990s still warranted patience and continued checking in. I think I finally gave up completely on the genre with the cancellations of TGL, ATWT, and AMC. I no longer had FOMO about the remaining shows. I was too burned out to care.

 

On 8/4/2025 at 11:31 PM, Jonathan said:

Honestly, I fear that when All My Children got cancelled, all those tapes just ended up dumped in some storage warehouse and forgotten. Decades of episodes—thousands of hours of storytelling—possibly sitting in unlabeled boxes, slowly deteriorating. It’s heartbreaking to think about how much TV history and cultural legacy might be lost like that. I hope they’ve been properly archived or digitized… but I’m not holding my breath.

Don't make me cry.

I felt like watching this again.

 

 

1992:  Who remembers this shocking moment at the Wildwind Ball when Helga wheels in a comatose Angelique? At first, Erica finds her alone and freaks out about seeing a 'dead body', complete with her candelabra. Later, Helga wheels her into the main room and announces to Dimitri and Natalie that his true wife is alive. I loved how Helga yells at Natalie to get out of the castle. All of this happening just after Janet threw Natalie down the well and AMC introduces Dimitri and Wilwind. So gothic, so cool and so riveting. This was great soap opera. There is a reason AMC was must-see TV in the early 90s. 

 

Cady McClain had a Cooney family reunion! Getting together with her on-screen brother Will #1 - Lonnie Quinn. He is now a weatherman for WCBS & CBS News

Geraldo does a story on the new trend of Disco in 1975. Nick Benedict appears at the 10:05 mark talking why he likes coming there.

 

Checking in on the mix tape episodes, which have now reached 1988 ... Lauren Holly was stunningly beautiful.

Remembering Mary Fickett, All My Children's original Ruth (Brent) Martin. She was the first daytime actor to be honored with an Emmy Award (a year before the Daytime Emmys were created). Mary passed away 14 years ago today. #AMC pic.twitter.com/2nwXcUanWK

— Dan J Kroll (@DanJKroll) September 8, 2025

48 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Thank you for posting. Mary was such a great presence on screen.

On 9/10/2025 at 8:23 PM, Soapsuds said:

HBD Jacob!  I wonder what he's doing these days. I remember he started/tried a singing career just after Covid. He's such a good actor, I hope he's doing something out there.