Y&R to air classic episodes

[kalbir]

@YRfan23 I would think a Nick/Sharon week would have all Sharon Case episodes, and not the first two Sharons. We already saw Nick/Sharon 1996 wedding, and Cassie's adoption, so I guess the next Nick/Sharon episodes to show could be Noah's birth and Sharon learning Cassie is her child. I also don't want to see anything from the last 15 years.

[Soap-princess]

Newman Family Week? I wouldn’t mind seeing the cabin scene with Nick and Sharon from 2009, but nothing else after Kay Alden left would entice me. 

Edited July 19, 2020 by Soap-princess

[StepBack]

Looks like unfortunately that 70's clip of Jill entering Kay's home for the first time was taken down

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Did anybody get a chance to save it? 

[ltm1997]

I really wish they’d show episodes from 1979...I’ve said a thousand times that I think it’s the best year of the show. Oh how I’d love to be able to see the Kay/Derek/Jill/Suzanne saga play out in a two-episode back-to-back showing. I honestly believe they should do a best of the 70’s week and let the fans pick what episodes they want to see by doing a poll. I’d LOVE to see the full episodes also of Kay driving Phillip over the cliff, Jill attempting to attack Kay with a letter opener, Jill falling down the Brooks’ staircase, Jill performing the tracheotomy on Stuart, Nikki killing her father, Suzanne gaslighting Kay, and Kay revealing herself to Derek and Jill in her bedroom after their wedding. There’s so much more but that’s some of the good stuff. 

 

Do you think if ALL of us contact them individually on some sort of platform, they’ll cave and show them?

[Chris B]

Watching the first couple episodes and having seen other past episodes, I find it interesting that Y&R launched with a solid cast. Most soaps I’ve seen from the beginning started with at least ONE dud, but everyone seems good and I know each character lasted at least a year or two. It’s also interesting that Katherine and Lorie were two of the most popular characters, yet we know both came later. I’d love to see the full first year to get a feel of how the show was before they arrived and then to see how the dynamic shifts when both arrived. It seems like Y&R started strong and didn’t really have to work out the kinks of other soaps. In contrast, it took Bill Bell years to get B&B going. 

[vetsoapfan]

 

As a longtime fan of William J. Bell, I was eager to see the launch of his new show in 1973. I knew the writing would be good. But besides the writing, I was amazed at everything else too: the cast, the direction, the sets, the BACKGROUND MUSIC...everything. The show clicked right off the bat, and had none of the difficult growing pains that challenge almost all new soap operas.

 

Of the debut cast, Brenda Dickson seemed to be the greenest at first, but she melded well with her cast mates and didn't exhibit the campiness that she later became known for.

 

Janice Lynde was not the first actress hired to play Leslie Brooks. The show had originally cast a singer/actress named Mary Grover in the role. But after a few weeks, shortly before the show debuted on television, Bill Bell felt an emergency recast was necessary. Lynde was hired at the last minute and had two weeks' worth of episodes to film in just a few days. That must have been a nightmare, but she pulled it off, and Lynde went on to be mesmerizing in the role.

 

Mary Grover:

 

 

That early cast of Y&R was just...on fire.

[Soap-princess]

Compared to now when half the cast is easily replaceable....

[vetsoapfan]

 

Yep. In its early years, I was interested in every single actor and character on the show. When I look at the four remaining soaps today, I'd be happy to axe 2/3 of the actors/characters.

[DRW50]

I saw that Brenda Dickson had put up a message about tomorrow's repeats (although she thought they were from 1971).

[trainman]

 

 

'79 through '82 or '83 for me.  Lots of great stuff in there, and the storytelling really moved along.

Edited July 19, 2020 by trainman

[Darn]

 

[BetterForgotten]

Lol, Oh Brenda...

[Marco Dane]

Y&R was on fire in the 70's now its spark is gone...

[BetterForgotten]

Funny thing though, wasn’t it speculated and said that Bell wasn’t happy with how the first year or so of the show turned out and at one point wanted to cancel it himself?

 

I know even going back to the first years he and John Conboy were often like oil and water and Bell (having probably picked this up from Irna herself) had no problem calling Conboy every afternoon after the shows had aired ripping him a new one if he felt the material hadn’t translated on the screen in the way he had hoped.

[All My Shadows]

I mean, If Sony had any imagination, they would’ve asked Brenda to record the intro for tomorrow’s presentation. “Just go on for as long as you want to, darling, we’ll edit together the highlights.”