Thank you for sharing all these articles. 

Sarah ended up miscarrying, I'm assuming? That certainly would have been interesting to touch upon in later years.

Was Cord and Tina's daughter named after Sarah Gordon, or is no connection at all?

Yes. Sarah was presumed dead in late 1990, and baby Sarah was born in January 1991. She was given the name Sarah Victoria at her baptism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZId4GLVOQII

Carl, thank you for that JDP stuff! I haven't been here in awhile and just saw these. I'll watch them soon. 

 

Edited March 9, 20169 yr by MissLlanviewPA

No problem. That channel has various others too (Phil Carey, Erika, Strasser, RSW). I just noticed the JDP first as I thought you'd enjoy them. It's bittersweet as that came around not long before JFP took a hatchet to the character...

Here's another good clip, which also references Carla. 

 

 

Oh my goodness this is a GREAT scene. Wow! I'm shocked it aired on daytime, because the daytime of the last 15 years has been lily white and stupefyingly regressive.

1969 photo

Is that Niki?

Great photo!

September 1994 Update

 

 

 

This whole boilerplate "now I'm living for me for the first time" song and dance they used to sell this story made no real sense when viewers had already seen her living for herself, not her father or children or husband, when she left Clint for Sloan. Did they even acknowledge this?

 

And this is just eye roll city:

 

I have a confession to make...

 

I think these promos work better and faster than a dose of castor oil.

There's a Blair one too, on the channel.

 

They're all so generic and so so '90s...much like JFP in general in modern years.

May 72 Viki marries Steve Burke

Actor Peter Brown (Charles Sanders #2) has passed away.

 

I'd never seen this before.

 

One of the few appearances of the actual Rodi (the very talented LaTonya Richardson).

 

Max was always super-super-intense with Mia Korf's Blair, and it often comes across to me as offputting. I never got the sense that Gottlieb knew exactly what to do with him.

 

The Megan stuff is so sad, as is to be expected, of course. I can imagine what a treat the flashbacks were to viewers at the time, especially some of the older flashbacks.

 

I loved Andrew but it's impossible for me to take those scenes seriously when the general is played by Busmalis from Oz. 

Two more episodes!

 

 

The continuum of so much of what makes OLTL immortal to me - the social conscience, the gritty realism and character analysis, the cinematic scope at its best, the escapist fantasy - is all in these episodes with their past and present sequences showing the whole range. Even though my experience with the Megan character is minimal and limited to what I can find on YouTube, that whole week is some of my favorite stuff from OLTL. And it contains so many of the reasons I think the show is timeless, versatile and could be revived at almost any point, because it always stayed current, modern and visceral in one way or another. It's not bound to a hospital or a family or a town so much as it's bound to breaking boundaries.

Edited April 3, 20169 yr by Vee