GL on DVD!

[Chris B]

I keep forgetting how poorly archived those tapes are. For all we know there could be goldmines for all of the soaps in an unlabeled box buried in a corner somewhere.

[RogerNewcomb]

It's in the right hands now. Eventually this will all be properly documented.

[silascrocker]

The One Christmas Episode I have a Number for is Episode 13,812,which aired 12/24/2001.

Ross tells The Springfield Christmas Story. Poor Reva gets Stuck in the Towers Elevator

with Her Enemies Edmund & Olivia etc

The Christmas Episodes For 1981 & 1982, Features Christmas in Bert Bauer's Living room.

1981= Mike Sings. 1982= Bert,Mike & ED gather around Piano while Sara Mcintyre Plays.

Bert looks at the camera & say Merry Christmas.

I don't remember 1979 or 1980 Christmas Episodes but would Love to see those Again. In the 80's

HB Lewis read the X-mas story.

I would love to go back in time to my childhood with a DVD Recorder or VCR...

[DRW50]

Have you ever stumbled onto any soaps which aren't GL but were somehow put in those archives?

[RogerNewcomb]

Hopefully whatever Mike sings is in the public domain.

I saw the last episodes of EON and SFT last week. Only ATWT and (most of) GL are at SoapClassics so that's the first time I had seen any tapes not related to those two shows. There's no physical room for the others in the office at this point.

[Soapsuds]

I have but with the Lily and Holden DVD and an earlier ATWT release. I would contact them by email at their website.

[soapfave06]

Oh Roger I wanted to say how happy I was you finally got to include Rita/Lenore Karsdorf like you wanted too for so long.

I am happy to see that the older episodes are more preferred. I am liking the mix of old and new, especially being able to see how the show changed and one character in the early years and then 20 or 30 years later.

I am hoping you happen to come across some more with Sara, like the gas light story, or the one with Charlotte Waring and later on, Dean Blackford.

[Chris B]

Okay even though I'm still waiting on Phillip/Lilden DVDs (ordered the day each was released), I'm going to take the risk and order this new DVD! Fingers crossed this one makes it (and that I get a response about the other two).

[Goldensoaps]

Does anyone know the date of the online free episode??? Thank you!!

[RogerNewcomb]

I believe it's Oct. 21, 1988

[Goldensoaps]

Great!!!!!! Roger, Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!! And please, do not forget SEARCH FOR TOMORROW and THE EDGE OF NIGHT...It would be great to have a DVD pack with 20 episodes for each show, as they are shows of 20 minutes, not 40 min.

[RogerNewcomb]

i would love that. Logistics, time, resources are the main things holding it back from being possible right now. Start making lists of episodes and any where you have the exact episode number might make it feasible sooner. When they launched the first DVD last fall, they were looking at ATWT then GL for 2011/12 DVDs then streaming. I'll follow up to see what the long range timetable might be for the other shows.

[~bl~]

The German DVD release of Springfield Story is up on amazon.de . Here is a link. http://www.amazon.de/Die-Springfield-Story-begann-Staffel/dp/B007RU6JI8/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1334854697&sr=1-2

[saynotoursoap]

This is magnificient news, ~bl~. Thank you for sharing the link with us!

Weeks ago, I had given up searching for this alleged release.Now that it is here, I am thrilled. The set includes 5 discs, and it appears that all of the episodes are from 1979, during the final months of the Dobsons. I see that Lenore Kasdorf (Rita Bauer) and Rita Lloyd (Lucille Wexler) are included as the main stars. I suspect these episodes will begin in August or September 1979 with events leading to the onscreen death of Brandon Spaulding and revelation (to the audience) that Amanda Wexler is the illegitimate daughter of Alan Spaulding. If episodes are consecutive rather than random, we will see Alan and Hope make love, Rita attempt to resist the sexual advances of her former fiance Greg Fairbanks, the wedding of Elizabeth and Justin Marler, Holly's prison stabbing by top dog Gail, and a mysterious patient in a remote French clinic who has visions of Holly shooting Roger Thorpe.

This is the Guiding Light I know and love. I cannot wait.

[saynotoursoap]

Perhaps with an Another World release, you might include a bonus episode of its spinoffs Somerset and Lovers and Friends. Several episodes of Somerset have been saved, and I know the Procter and Gamble archives in Cincinnati has one episode of Lovers and Friends in its collection. Since so few episodes remain. not enough for a dedicated release of each title, maybe they can be included as bonuses.