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:

Nah to me that is simplifying it wayyy too much, he is more spastic than that... it is more like best HW: Brad Bell for two weeks in January, worst HW: Brad Bell for the next three months, best HW: Brad Bell for a single episode that B&B submits to the emmys, worst HW: Brad Bell for next three months, etc. etc.

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.

But Jean really did nothing as EP. I mean, sure her production values were fine, but that's because she just left everything as the previous regime had it. I can see where people would prefer that to someone who made changes to the show that sucked.

But to me. Jean did absolutely nothing as a producer. You know that cliched saying about reinventing the wheel that I've already seen posted in this thread? Well, not only did Jean do nothing to reinvent it, she didn't even have to change a tire while she was at AMC. Only difference is the writing was more sh!tastic for Jean than it was for those that worked prior to - well, at least when Passanante's work was airing. But JDB's AMC under Agnes Nixon's pen was just as boring and that's a problem.

Now I hate JHC as well and don't think she was a figurehead at all (IMO, AMC was the afterthought for Frons even moreso than OLTL). I voted them both as the worst ever, but at least I'm not seeing much defense of her here. Frankly, if anyone got shat on writing-wise, it was JHC. I actually thought JHC's production enhanced and gave McTavish's initial storylines a sense of importance that they may not have had under Burke. IMO, JHC's production in the beginning year or so of McTavish's run actually made her storylines more interesting than they actually were. I do give her credit there.

They're two different kinds of evils, JDB and JHC. Equally sh!tastic, yet unfair to compare.

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.

But JDB's AMC under Agnes Nixon's pen was just as boring and that's a problem.

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.

Worst HW: Ellen Weston, from what I saw, but Kreizman might have been worse.

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.

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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.

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.

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)

ALL MY CHILDREN

Best EP: Felicia M. Behr

Best HW: Wisner Washam & Lorraine Broderick

Worst EP: Jean Dadario-Burke

Worst HW: The poison pancake HW.....lol

AS THE WORLD TURNS

Best EP: Robert Calhoun..no one comes close....Mary Ellis Bunim second

Best HW : Douglas Marland; Bridget & Jerome Dobson, Caroline Franz and John Saffron Mid 1983–1984 John Saffron 1984 – November 1984 Tom King and Millee Taggart November 1984 – April 1985 Cynthia Benjamin and Susan Bedsow Horgan April 1985 – November 1985 Susan Bedsow Horgan

Worst EP: John Valente...he was the one who totally turned the show south with him being put EP....a fatal blow to the show. and Chris Goutman...TIE

Worst HW: Stephen Black & Henry Stern...actually their ATWT was dark but not as bad as what Jean Pissy did....Jessica Klein's HW was boring....

GENERAL HOSPITAL

Best EP: Wendy Riche & Gloria Monty

Best HW: Claire Labine by a mile long

Worst EP: Jill Farren Phelps

Worst HW: Elton John...aka Bob Guza

GUIDING LIGHT

Best EP: Robert Calhoun..hmmmm..he was damn good

Best HW: Pam Long tied with Millie Taggart..the whole James E Reilly foursome in 92 I believe.

Worst EP: John Conboy & Ellen Wheeler...dont cry Ellen.....

Worst HW: Ellen Weston...bitch.....lol

ONE LIFE TO LIVE

Best EP: Paul Rauch & Susan Bedsow Horgan

Best HW: Michael Malone

Worst EP: Jill Farren Phillips

Worst HW: Dena Higley

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.