When Carly first showed up, I loved it. Sarah Brown played the role so well. Today, I go back and forth with her. I don't like her around Sonny, I think she becomes weak and a hypocrite. Even so, I think that the introduction of Caroline Benson was one of GH's most well told stories. They need to write her much better, because she is iconic. Right now she appears to be nothing more than another women to prop Sonny.

I should probably make a big thread or do a blog but I just end up doing it individually. Thanks. 

 

Daily TV Serials is my favorite too, of those I've read. It's opinionated but not too much so, and has a lot of great content. It's a shame that SOD seemed to pretty much shut all these out of the market, although some, like Dawn to Dusk, were pretty bare by that point anyway. 

 

YES! It would be great if you assembled all of your on-line material into a single blog. Imagine a webpage filled with nothing but vintage articles, the best of the best, culled from wonderful magazines of yesteryear. Woohoo!

 

I have often thought that we in the SON community, should start our own video-archive page, with extensive collections of soap opera episodes from around the web. We could have individualized sections for each show, like "THE GUIDING LIGHT: 1950s," "GENERAL HOSPITAL: 1970s," "AS THE WORLD TURNS: 1980s," etc. It would be an ever greater asset if we could also edit these archives in order to put each new video addition into chronological order. TGL: 05/11/52, followed by TGL: 05/17/52, and so forth. The task would be herculean task , but in the end, it (like your potential magazine-article blog) would be worth the effort.

 

 

My babies

Nice to see you posting again.

 

R.I.P., Alan Young. He was best known for starring in Mister Ed, but he also played a villain on GH in the mid-80s.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alan-young-dead-mister-ed-816846

 

Young discussed his GH experience in this clip beginning at 25:10:

 

I thought he'd passed away a few years ago. I'm sorry to hear this. He was a real TV pioneer.

1981 -  GH brings back Audrey's sister Lucille for one episode. Lucille Wall had been on from the first year until the mid 70's.

 

Great pictures. Cool that they worked near the Barney Miller set. (I've always liked that show.) Thanks for sharing!

FX's The Americans has featured some classic '80s soap from the period ('81-'83, thus far); tonight they featured some of the Grant/Celia DVX story, with Grant the Russian spy paralleling the show's premise.

 

 

 

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May 17, 1983 - I don't think this episode has been up before:

 

Awww.   Grant, Celia, Jimmy Lee - all the good Qs and Nurse Jessie in her blue sweater.  The good old days.