B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles

[AMCOLTLLover]

For me personally 2001 and 2002 had the least flaws and were exciting and great written overall during the entire year of both years 

[Maxim]

I agree. From the Bradley Bell era those are my favorite years. And maybe add in 2005 for jokes. It was a trainwreck, but incredibly fun when it was airing.  

[Marquise]

I also enjoy watching 2001-2002 episodes becouse i think i have watched them only once or twice (lol episodes from the begining i have wathced numerous times). 

I want to thank the Angled for uploading the 1997 episodes becouse i am still wathing those!

[Pedro]

Wait for EP #2793 from VL... It seems deliberate I mean come on... Just after the scene with James the screen goes black and there is only voice. Just when Ridge comes to Taylor and says everything is behind them now. Miracoulsly, the ending credits are visible. This cannot be an accident, I mean, I don't believe it one bit! Looks more to me like erasing Tridge history from the memory! 

Edited August 13, 2024 by Pedro

[boldau]

Can’t it just simply be an error with the tape supplied? Are you suggesting the RTL broadcaster is trying to “erase Tridge history” from a 1998 episode? 

[Pedro]

How is RTL responsible for the error?? They buy the product. They only upload what they are given. Besides in the history of their YT official channel they just skipped some important episode or two with Taylor. Am I supposed to believe all of this is just an error? No background music is nothing when compared to the black screen, looks like one scene is deleted or lost somehow, it wouldn't be so strange if in a half of the scene the screen would go black and it would stay black till the very end. It would look more like an error to me

Edited August 13, 2024 by Pedro

[boldau]

You’re quick to point fingers of blame and deem it a conspiracy lol. Please learn how distribution rights work, there is a valid reason why YouTube does not yet have seasons 9 and others. 

[Pedro]

I am not talking about the whole seasons, I am talking about their uploading of the episodes from one season and skipping particular episodes, for what reason is it I don't know, but it does not look like distribution rights to me... If showing some season, then show it complete not with one or two episodes missing, this is illogical

[Maxim]

Oh, no, this is such bad news. I was hoping at least Videoland episodes are perfect. I hope they don't do this again the future. 

[BoldKara]

It looks like they're going to skip 3667-3670 for Season 15 in the YouTube schedule. 3671 will play directly after 3666 according to their schedule. They've skipped random episodes before but not 4 in a row.

[Maxim]

These episodes are important. They've got to be kidding. This is the Breacon sex scandal stuff. This has got to be a joke! 3667 is just when Brooke wakes up after having sex with Deacon for the first time. 

ARE THEY for real - these episodes have stuff that will drive 1 year worth of story.

WTF. 

[boldbeautifuluk]

That's bad if they skip them. 

[BoldRestless]

Are there songs in the episodes that youtube could have flagged?

[boldau]

Personally, I don’t feel episodes are deliberately being skipped on YouTube. I take a more positive spin in that there are other underlaying factors, mostly relating to YouTube. Entire seasons are added to YouTube in one mass upload (drag and drop). From personal experience with YouTube, you often get error messages with mass file uploads. Given full seasons of Bold contain approximately 250 episodes - that’s 250 line items so it would be easy to miss any potential errors unless you scroll each one and perform a QA check. Another factor maybe that the episode did upload successfully, however YouTube flagged it for copyright (e.g. music). This would require the uploader to look through all 250 uploads and clear copyright material - but once again, the uploader may have overlooked given the volume of episodes uploaded at the same time. 

Another potential factor is that the missing episodes did upload successfully but didn’t premiere. I did flag this many months ago, but if you look at season 13 playlist there are a few episodes marked “private”, this would indicate the episodes are there, they just didn’t go live. One of these episodes would of course be Macy’s funeral episode.  

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For 3667-3670 that is upcoming, I dare say it’s a combination of what I have said above. Episode 3666 was flagged for copyright on YouTube and had its original music track replaced. The scene with Brooke and Deacon kissing on the bed at the end of the episode is not the original music track: 

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I agree due diligence should be a priority, but try enforcing that on an intern (who may have been given the task to upload episodes). 

I think we should be thankful we have gotten the episodes we have received to date. Yes, I know it’s annoying some episodes are missing, but let’s hope those are rectified in due course. There are alternate ways to contact the show to highlight any YouTube error: [email protected] 

In terms of missing seasons on YouTube (e.g. season 9 and others), those cannot be uploaded until the broadcast/streaming rights expire for RTL/Videoland. 

Edited August 14, 2024 by boldau

[Maxim]

We are always grateful, but I think it's quite normal and natural to want all of the episodes to be uploaded, when you are watching a soap. They are trying to promote these episodes by having actors talk about them in previews of what's to come, so it's mind-blowing to me how they will allow 4 episode break in the middle of the show's hottest storyline of 2001-2002, actually in the start of it. You just don't miss things like that. If you have time to record trailers and actors encouraging people to watch, you have time to check the unpremiered videos, or remove copyright music and etc - youtube actually gives you the opportunity to delete the music only and keep the video, so if you want, you can still keep the episode online.

I wouldn't have been saying anything if these episodes didn't have 2 very important eps with Brooke and Deacon just after they had sex. It's not some B-story like Tony and Kristen was or anything like that. Not something I would skip. 

I think it's great that we can try to email Bold about these episodes and I encourage more people to do this, since I doubt they will take action after 1 or 2 emails. It would need to be multiple people.

So thank you for providing that email, and I would be one of the people telling them about this mistake. We'll see where it goes.