Thanks for figuring out the date.

9 hours ago, Goldensoaps said:

Wonderful episode!!!! This episode is #3087 and it was broadcast in the USA on 7th August 1980...when Asa gave a big  birthday party for Sam and Mimi!! Although it says episode 4: The party continues....in the German broadcast...

 

That's because it was the 4th episode that was broadcast here  Apparently, the package consisted of 357 episodes, starting with #3083 and probably ending with #3444 (if they didn't skip some episodes in-between – that did happen to other US soaps).

 

The 1st episode was shown on January 2nd, 1989, on Pro7 (the network's logo can be seen in the video above). After 100 episodes, Pro7 cancelled the show on May 19th, 1989. The remaining episodes – that probably already had been dubbed in the late 80s – were then shown on a pay-tv station between 1997 and 2000. And then they wondered why nobody tuned in... imagine watching "brand new" episodes that were in reality almost 20 years old.

 

They actually gave every episode a title, just like a primetime show.

55 minutes ago, Huntress said:

 

That's because it was the 4th episode that was broadcast here  Apparently, the package consisted of 357 episodes, starting with #3083 and probably ending with #3444 (if they didn't skip some episodes in-between – that did happen to other US soaps).

 

The 1st episode was shown on January 2nd, 1989, on Pro7 (the network's logo can be seen in the video above). After 100 episodes, Pro7 cancelled the show on May 19th, 1989. The remaining episodes – that probably already had been dubbed in the late 80s – were then shown on a pay-tv station between 1997 and 2000. And then they wondered why nobody tuned in... imagine watching "brand new" episodes that were in reality almost 20 years old.

 

They actually gave every episode a title, just like a primetime show.

Interesting! So if the first episode shown in Germany is 3083(are you sure?)...that episode number 4 is 3086...According to an Oltl script ep 3081 is 30th July 1980....then episode 3086 is 6th August 1980.

 

In Spain, they broadcast the same first 130 episodes from August 1980- February 1981 in 1986. But they only broadcast these 130 episodes...

 

I guess in all the European markets they broadcast the same episodes...

 

And by the way, have you got more episodes in German of these years? Thank you!

Edited July 19, 20187 yr by Goldensoaps

Did you notice the Bukes' yellow patio furniture just like the Ewings? 

I'm re-reading early '80 OLTL history from the anniversary book (got it for $1 on Amazon).  I never realized that Larry Wolek was a real "Perils of Pauline" character during that period.  From 1981 -1984 he was kidnapped every summer (and held mostly shirtless) in various jungles and basements.  Ivan Kipling and Rachel Wilson (his obsessed former client) tortured him and tied him down every time the temperature turned warm in LLandview.

Edited July 24, 20187 yr by j swift

6 hours ago, j swift said:

I'm re-reading early '80 OLTL history from the anniversary book (got it for $1 on Amazon).  I never realized that Larry Wolek was a real "Perils of Pauline" character during that period.  From 1981 -1984 he was kidnapped every summer (and held mostly shirtless) in various jungles and basements.  Ivan Kipling and Rachel Wilson (his obsessed former client) tortured him and tied him down every time the temperature turned warm in LLandview.

It is a pity they didn't use Larry until hhe end of the series. In my opinion, he should have been as important in Llanview as Viki! Larry was pure Oltl history! I would have loved to see Larry and Viki together in the last Oltl scene!

I regret that he was not used in the later years of the show.   I do think, though, that his final storyline was interesting and well-written.

In 1991 there is a sudden shift in many of the stories that summer including the sudden departures of Stephanie Hesser and the Medina family (Gabrielle's mother and sister who never fit with her origin story; but I digress).  Does anyone recall the backstage changes that lead to this sudden shift?

I always attribute that to Paul Rauch's exit as EP, and Linda Gottlieb's arrival.

 

8 hours ago, Khan said:

I always attribute that to Paul Rauch's exit as EP, and Linda Gottlieb's arrival.

 

Yes.

 

Other than Paul Marquess gutting Hollyoaks I think this is the most blatant producer change I've ever seen on a soap. I don't think she threw out episodes, the way Gloria Monty apparently did when she took over GH, but you can feel a change in everything almost overnight.

When Linda Gottlieb came aboard she cleaned house and I do mean CLEANED HOUSE.  She quickly dispatched a dozen or more actors.  Some characters, like Hunter and Andy got a brief exit story but I don't remember others like Rafe and Brenda getting a proper exit at all.

15 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

Yes.

 

Other than Paul Marquess gutting Hollyoaks I think this is the most blatant producer change I've ever seen on a soap. I don't think she threw out episodes, the way Gloria Monty apparently did when she took over GH, but you can feel a change in everything almost overnight.

 

By the time Rauch's reign of terror on OLTL was over, the show needed extensive and immediate major surgery, so I am glad it happened so quickly.

 

In my recollection, the only other times that soaps changed so drastically, so quickly, were when Gloria Monty came aboard GH and changed...almost everything right away, and when Gail Kobe and Pamela Long took over TGL, and destroyed its core within a year or so.

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