Members MrQuartermaine Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 Geary, Samms, & Wagner were in the 30th photo, but they were all on contract at the time, not past cast. I have a B&W copy of the 30th photo. Where, I have no idea, but when I find it, I'll put on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 For worst I have to mention ATWT's 40th, as there is an image seared in my brain of Mark and Connor having sex in a treehouse, a tacky story and relationship (she was cheating on her husband and I think he'd even built the treehouse for her). They used this in a flashback montage for the best of ATWT, days after it aired. Best of 40 years, my ass! And then they had a montage of characters and made sure to close on all of their new characters, who were gone by the end of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AMCHistory Posted September 23, 2012 Members Share Posted September 23, 2012 I'd love to see either photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted September 24, 2012 Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 Thank you for this great explanation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted September 24, 2012 Members Share Posted September 24, 2012 I don't know why the 40th anniversary gets such a bad wrap. One, every character got a close-up at the end of the montage. It showed them in order of seniority, from newest to longest tenured. Secondly, it was nearly eight minutes in length. Surely the twenty seconds of Mark/Connor didn't negate all the historic clips shown (or was any more offensive than the Diego/Em boinkfest, which couldn't have been too much before he raped her or he was revealed as a bad guy, period. I forget.) Trying to encapsulate 40 years in eight minutes---when the video only goes back to the late 70's/early '80's---was a herculean task, and still managed to represent a good cross-section of characters and stories. I was a lot more disappointed/disgusted with the "Divas on a Bus" and TV spoof episodes for the 50th anniversary---completely useless excercises in TV Writing For Creatively Dead HWs and the EPs With Delusions of God-hood. I personally thought the GL anniversary where they "recreated" the radio days was stupid. With a capital S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted September 25, 2012 Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 In theory, it was a good idea (although, I probably would have confined the story just to GUIDING LIGHT's initial creation as a radio series). But the whole exercise lacked heart, something that GL's anniversaries and milestones rarely lacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 25, 2012 Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 I wasn't watching by that time so I didn't see them. I think I saw some of the divas on a bus episode, which was kind of stupid. I still cared when the show was 40 and it just felt like a slap in the face, especially since they didn't have any returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted September 25, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 I wish they could have expanded GL's 70th anniversary a little bit more. Maybe after they aired it they could have made in into a 2 hour movie of the week or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted September 25, 2012 Members Share Posted September 25, 2012 GLs anniversaries in 1997 and 2002 were peetty good imo. Even though the one in 2002 was focused around Jeva I liked that at least Paul Rauch gave a damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StevieM Posted September 26, 2012 Members Share Posted September 26, 2012 Days of our Lives' 25th anniversary was absolutely spectacular. I also enjoyed GH's 10,000th episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted September 26, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 26, 2012 What was the first soap to regularly celebrate Anniversaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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