Best and Worst EP's and HW's

[Toups]

DAYS (started watching in 1993)

Best EP: Ed Scott

Worst EP: Stephen Wyman

Best HW: Jim Reilly (1993-1997)

Worst HW: Dena Higley (Spring to Summer 2003)

OLTL (started watching in 1998)

Best EP: no pick

Worst EP: no pick

Best HW: Ron Carlivati

Worst HW: Dena Higley

GH (started watching in 1996)

Best EP: Wendy Riche

Worst EP: JFP

Best HW: Bob Guza (1996, 1998)

Worst HW: Bob Guza

Y&R (started watching in 1999)

Best EP: Ed Scott

Worst EP: Lynn Latham

Best HW: Kay Alden

Worst HW: Lynn Latham

B&B (don't remember when I started watching LOL.....early 2000's?)

Best EP: Brad Bell

Worst EP: Brad Bell

Best HW: Brad Bell

Worst HW: Brad Bell

Sunset Beach (entire series)

Best EP:

Worst EP:

Best HW: Chris Whitesell and Meg Bennett (January 1998 - August 1998)

Worst HW:

LOL So true. You can't go year-to-year with Brad. It's week-to-week. But I can't hate the guy. He's not in my Higley/Latham hatred-league.

[EricMontreal22]

I actually largely loved what Agnes seemed to be trying to do--restructuring Pine Valley to its class based roots, etc--when she briefly returned. Of course by the end she was apparently just writing the Bianca stuff and we got Passanante, but... I don't buy JHC having anything good or bad with McTavish's pretty good first year back.

[Khan]

Exactly. Bianca's coming-out tale, in particular, was supposed to be Agnes' swan song and crowning glory as a HW. Yet, by most writers' standards, and certainly by hers, it was all so underwhelming.

[Khan]

Let's put it this way: as bad as GUIDING LIGHT became under John Conboy and Ellen Weston -- and I say it was GL's worst-ever regime, because those two had inherited a good-but-not-great canvas and then managed to piss it all away -- there still was hope for another turnaround. It's only when DK (and Ellen Wheeler) couldn't capitalize on the remaining good-will among hold-out fans -- either through lack of budget, network and/or sponsor interference, or by misunderstanding what the audience actually wanted to see (or all of the above) -- that people began preparing for the end.

[DRW50]

Speaking only for myself, I'd kind of been waiting for the end since around 1995 or 1996. I think Kreizman made a lot of mistakes but I also think there was a very strong chance the show was going to be canceled if it had been left where it was by the end of Conboy/Weston. One could say that was for the best (although I did like the last year so I'm glad it didn't happen), but there really was so little left by 2004. Even the decisions they made like demoting JvD were controversial more because of the actor's years on the show than because of anything the show had done with him in recent time.

[darraholic]

DAYS:

BEST EP: Al Rabin

Worst EP: Gary Tomlin, Stephen Wyman, Ken Corday

Best HW: William Bell, Pat Falken Smith, James E Reilly (1st Run)

Worst HW: Tom Langan, Dena Higley (Both Times), James E Reilly (2nd Run)

[Saving ATWT]

For ATWT, I consider Goutman and Pissy to be the worst. I also hated Lorriane Brodrick's vision for the show--only writing for newbies, dry characters. I actually enjoyed Black's time. The Dobson's were equally good as Marland.

As an aside, Y&R wasn't bad under LML. She stopped the ratings slide and wasn't boring like Jack Smith. Like what she did with Brad and understand why she saw no future for what remained of the Abbot family--John was dead weight; Ashley ran out of steam circa 1998; Tracy is a bore; Jack is Victor's bitch.

MAB is killing the show.