GH: Classic Thread

[DRW50]

Thanks. 

[vetsoapfan]

Thank you @SoapDope78 for the post, and @DRW50 for the tag.

[Liberty City]

I had not; thanks for linking.

[Paul Raven]

Thanks so much @SoapDope78 Wow-the first week of 1 hr shows and Gloria Monty's tenure.

It's been reported that she scrapped the first few shows that had already been taped in the hour format, but like so many stories from the good ol' days that might be a myth.

Nothing about what we saw there suggests any noticeable changes in direction or production.

 

[Khan]

I apologize if this has been covered already, but does anyone know whether Douglas Marland was HW'ing by that point?  If he was, then I see what he meant when he said (in so many words) that he had inherited a mess when he started at GH.  Aside from Alan and Monica, none of that material seems very promising.  The story with Mark Dante and the Corbins is the wrong kind of predictable (y'know, the kind where you know what's going to happen, but you just don't give a crap?), the stuff with Scotty and Laura is cute but toothless, I don't know WHAT the hell Gina and Steve Carlson's character are arguing about and Rick Webber has to be the dumbest man alive not to see David Hamilton twirling his invisible moustache over how to make a killing off Lamont Corbin's declining health.  (By the way, "LAMONT CORBIN"?  What is this, "The Shadow"?  And "Corbin Limited" sounds like some jive I'd hear over on Y&R.)

In a way, it's kind of like watching today's GH, right down to the dialogue that's serviceable and pushes plot along but says nothing about the characters' inner lives.

Edited 1 hour ago by Khan