Y&R to air classic episodes

[DRW50]

 

Ugh. I still remember the breathless overhype over Billy and Chloe and the desperate attempts to push them. It made the subsequent backflips away from that pairing all the more amusing - pretty much the only entertaining thing in that storyline.

[BoldRestless]

 

https://www.soapcentral.com/yr/recaps/2009/090504.php 

 

Could it be Katherine & Murphy's wedding from May 4th? She's in the May 5th episode, but it doesn't look like anything special. This is meh, but still earlier than either B&B or GH have gone. You'd think that for Katherine if anyone, they'd have more older stuff. I still have some hope they might do more 80s and 90s stuff with MTS and EB, since they're the same actors playing the part, and Katherine's best scenes from the 70s and 80s are mostly with Brenda Dickson or characters no longer on the show (though there is no excuse for not using more late 80s/early 90s material). 

Edited April 23, 2020 by BoldRestless

[YRBB]

Any Katherine week that doesn't include the 1998 attic catfight and the brilliant episode where she almost starts drinking again in 1999 then throws her drink at the mirror has failed itself.

[ChantelOldYRFan]

I agree that they should have included the 1998/1999 episodes, but I can’t wait to see the 2004 shows in crisp HD. The production values in the first few years after the HD switch and up until noticeable budget cuts were amazing.

[soapfan770]

I believe Billy & Chloe were initially popular because they were the anti-Cane & Lily. MAB felt the need to “correct” Billy & Mac when she had the opportunity. However once the show began writing Chloe as the “victim” in her marriage and later on in the Chance/Chloe/Ronan/Heather quad from hell it was over for the character. 

[yrfan1983]

'Y&R's Lauralee Bell and Doug Davidson Relive Chris & Paul's Honeymoon in Nevis

https://www.tvinsider.com/931945/young-and-the-restless-paul-christine-wedding-honeymoon/

[KMan101]

 

lol same here. But then I thought about it and I'll take anything still from 2004 over the last 10 years.

 

THIS. Interesting it seems they're, as of now, skipping 1998-2003, right? Which would be Alden's tenure ... maybe I'm reading into it too much, lol

Edited April 23, 2020 by KMan101

[Errol]

 

Honestly, I loved Chloe and Billy. They were a pair that I was rooting for. At this point, regardless of storyline, I'd take them back or even Chloe with Adam. Not a fan of Billy/Victoria. Never was.

[full hearts]

I remember Billy/Chloe being popular online, that whole quad got a lot of discussion on boards. Though they tested Billy around so much it was hard to get invested in anything.

[soapfan770]

So did I, they were just disposed of so quickly once we got the “second coming” of Bill & Mac. 

[KMan101]

 

Same. I hate Billy/Victoria. I liked Chloe and Billy as well. On paper it made sense. Esther's daughter and Jill's son together should be driving years and years of story. Sigh.

 

I think some people just don't or didn't care for Billy Miller so they don't understand the interest in the couple, I guess.

[Darn]

 

Doug Davidson: Bill [Bell, Y&R’s co-creator, head writer, and senior executive producer] was a master at building to a climax like the honeymoon and from there it would break off into three or four different stories. Characters would go onto different rivers of their own. There wasn’t really a let down after a climax. It was like going to a different altitude.

 

PRECISELY. That was the beauty of Y&R, when one story was crescendo-ing another was just revving up and another was barely off the ground. It was magic.

 

 

[Planet Soap]

For other themed weeks, it's be good to see Lauren & Sheila week (which could also be shown on B&B), Nikki & Victor week, Drucilla week (would never happen), and psyco week (featuring Matt Clark, Tricia, Sheila, Sean, Suzanne Lynch etc...) 

 

Y&R remained uninterrupted here up until today. Hopefully this isn't a preview for tomorrow. State governors watching us look forward to the classics: 

[BoldRestless]

Lauralee and Doug's love for the show really came though in that interview! They talk about it like fans!

[soapfan770]

 

Miller was great on his first year on the show or so; once he was up for "intense contract negotiations" every fall he became an increasing lazy diva, at least on Y&R because his primetime gigs showed he could do much better. And the show catering to Heinle to fire David Tom? Notice she's never opened her mouth up since lol.