17 hours ago, Khan said:

One good (or bad, depending on how you look at it) example would be GL's Ben Reade, who was revealed to have been molested while attending school outside Springfield.  Unfortunately, the revelation came during the climax of the Garden of Eden storyline, as a means of explaining why Ben would have murdered all those prostitutes.  Now, if GL had been committed to telling a RESPONSIBLE story about the long-term effects that being molested could have on someone like Ben Reade WITHOUT the nasty serial killer angle, then I probably wouldn't have objected (or objected as strongly), because, in that case, it's established that the molestation had occurred during a period when Ben was away from SF.  But, if you'd told me it had happened while he was still IN SF, featured regularly, or that (God forbid) Fletcher was the one who molested him...?  Well, now you've got a problem, lol.

That's a good point. This will summon @DRW50 to the discussion, as they have never gotten over this story and I don't blame them.

I think my view is pretty well summed up here...I've rarely felt so sickened by a story. At least Jim Reilly  did not pretend his stories of this nature were about getting people help or social awareness. 

7 hours ago, Vee said:

That's a good point. This will summon @DRW50 to the discussion, as they have never gotten over this story and I don't blame them.

I don't blame @DRW50 either.  It was a terrible way to bring up what is, for many, a painful topic.  It was one thing to reveal that Ben had been molested, but to use that to explain or justify killing others was nothing short of stomach-churning.  It had to have been one of GL's lowest points ever.

7 hours ago, DRW50 said:

At least Jim Reilly did not pretend his stories of this nature were about getting people help or social awareness. 

Agree.

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16 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I think my view is pretty well summed up here...I've rarely felt so sickened by a story. At least Jim Reilly  did not pretend his stories of this nature were about getting people help or social awareness. 

I am already known for endlessly castigating TGL over all its blunders in the show's painful, final  decades, but I must add my voice to the chorus condemning this egregious storyline as well.

20 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I think my view is pretty well summed up here...I've rarely felt so sickened by a story. At least Jim Reilly  did not pretend his stories of this nature were about getting people help or social awareness. 

It was awful.  And a waste of a great set of characters that I was enjoying for disgusting shock factor.  I wasn’t a longtime fan of GL but I had been watching for a bit and was really enjoying the last part of Rauch’s tenure before Conboy.

The team of Paul Rauch, Carolyn Culliton and Millee Taggart were really onto something at GL.  It wasn't anywhere near as wonderful as the Nancy Curlee era, or even the early part of James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten's run, but it was the most consistently entertaining that the show had been in some time.

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Was Taggert and co. the whole run with Joan Collins as Alex, Phillip and Olivia and Richard being euthanized, or am I thinking of Labine? I am not super-educated on GL changeover.

1 minute ago, Vee said:

Was Taggert and co. the whole run with Joan Collins as Alex, Phillip and Olivia and Richard being euthanized, or am I thinking of Labine? I am not super-educated on GL changeover.

I'm pretty sure Millee Taggart was the HW (and Paul Rauch the EP) for Dame Joan as Alex and the Richard story.

That's what I thought.

 

  

6 hours ago, Khan said:

The team of Paul Rauch, Carolyn Culliton and Millee Taggart were really onto something at GL.  It wasn't anywhere near as wonderful as the Nancy Curlee era, or even the early part of James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten's run, but it was the most consistently entertaining that the show had been in some time.

I watched quite a bit of the early Essensten/Brown era, some of Labine, and I loved what Culliton and Taggart were doing.  Loved it.  And then Conboy came in and dismantled all of what I was enjoying.  I never got back into GL again after that, until I saw most of the Curlee era online.

The Classic GH thread has become The GL thread.

Turning things back to GH, let's take a look at the week of March 2-6, 1992, which would be early in Wendy Riche's run. According to the Curlyqgrl summaries, Tristan Rogers had just left, and the top stories include:

-- the final days of David, Monica's old flame (Dawn's dad)

-- Mac + Holly (who have taken over for Robert & Anna in leading the "Nanny Network" mystery)

-- Deception getting off the ground

 

If you need to be arbirtary (like me), you could argue that the Riche era "really began" on Monday, April 6, the first episode after Robert & Anna's funeral. (Either that or Friday, March 27, the episode that introduced Karen.)

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Laura Carrington was just too pretty for words in that dress and veil.

The ad leading up to Anna's rescue was so dramatic. (Nearly two years in the making!)

 

Also, Simone and Tom made the cover of Jet.