Its too bad Y&R can't offer the full unedited versions on DVD. Imagine the sales....we won't charge your card until we ship them....right now we are only taking orders....i can dream...lol

I would die if they did a gothic/horror week. I am more of a OLTL fan but Y&R exceeds at that film noir atmosphere and I am dying to see the Suzanne Lynch/Nikki and Paul in the cult, the dungeon, more of Eve/Julia/Nikki with Victor's first "death", the Norman Bates story and the Veronica story. 

 

Super excited for the 1981 episode and really really hope it has good Vanessa/Lorie scenes. I know there are edits on YouTube...but nothing in good qaulity available right?

 

In fact they could probably do a Victor's Many Deaths week. Didn't he "die" in 1983, 1993, 1999 and somewhere in the 2000s and 2010s? 

Edited April 25, 20205 yr by soapfave06

Am I wrong, or was that Paul Tulley, a.k.a. OLTL's original Dr. Larry Wolek, playing Norman?

13 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

The 1996 episode that aired on Friday was pulling a 7.7 rating and 28 share. As some have said it wasn't as good as previous but the show was still pulling big numbers. 

Indeed. Y&R would still pull off in 7’s into 1999 actually while all the other soaps slipped into the 4’s and 3’s. 

55 minutes ago, GLATWT88 said:

I think instead of theme weeks surrounding characters, Y&R should consider theme weeks around popular storylines. They can air 5 of the more exciting episodes of a particular storyline over the course of the week with actors providing commentary at the beginning and even halfway point to fill in viewers. I know this is probably time consuming and not worth the effort from CBS, but it would be exciting for me. These old episodes finally made me understand why YR has been #1 all these years. Honestly, when I started watching soaps I always wondered why YR was ranked so high, aside from its production value in comparison to some of the soaps, I didn't find it that interesting a lot of the time. Now I get it and I definitely see that it was holding onto viewers from its past. 

 

I agree! I watch these old episodes and I'm immediately invested in the storyline again, only for it to fade away once the rerun is over! They should roll up their editing sleeves and pack some weeks devoted exclusively to a storyline.

12 minutes ago, Aback said:

 

I agree! I watch these old episodes and I'm immediately invested in the storyline again, only for it to fade away once the rerun is over! They should roll up their editing sleeves and pack some weeks devoted exclusively to a storyline.

 

I actually searched up the storylines after watching the episodes and I was so intrigued reading the summaries that I wished they were able to show more of it. IMO, since they do plan on being off the air for some time - it would be logical that they played out storylines instead of one off epsiodes, but either way I've enjoyed watching. 

Wait, Would Terry Lesters Jack possibly be in this episode?

9 minutes ago, AdamNewmanFan said:

Wait, Would Terry Lesters Jack possibly be in this episode?

I hope so. He was my favorite Jack and was so glad he joined ATWT.

 

And since she'll be on Monday's show

 

 

36 minutes ago, AdamNewmanFan said:

Wait, Would Terry Lesters Jack possibly be in this episode?

Yes! He started playing Jack In July 1980

2 hours ago, sheilaforever said:

Is it a „new“ episode for us here at SON? Or is it already online?

 

kudos to CBS for digging rather deep in the vault

I have it on my 1990 playlist so it’s not really new. Haha

18 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

Yes! He started playing Jack In July 1980

Interestingly the first go around of John/Jill/Jack occurred in 1981 but I believe Halsey’s John was gone by this point. 

1 hour ago, Soapsuds said:

 

 

Too bad Nina Arvesen never had another truly significant role (I know she was in SB after this, but that role didn’t seem to amount to much). She was so perfect for Cassandra - perfect match between an actress and character. Very alluring.

Edited April 26, 20205 yr by BetterForgotten

1 hour ago, soapfan770 said:

Interestingly the first go around of John/Jill/Jack occurred in 1981 but I believe Halsey’s John was gone by this point. 

I think the Original John/Jill/Jack stuff started in the Summer 1980. I know there was that one other John actor we saw in this episode.
 

 

26 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Too bad Nina Arvesen never had another truly significant role (I know she was in SB after this, but that role didn’t seem to amount to much). She was so perfect for Cassandra - perfect match between an actress and character. Very alluring.

She was a stunning beauty. I was glued to my TV.  Nina's storyline was one of my favorites of all time.. Mark Derwin at the time was a great find too. 

I always found it interesting that Kimberlin Brown originally auditioned for Cassandra. She would have never worked for that type of character or story, IMO.

1 hour ago, soapfan770 said:

Interestingly the first go around of John/Jill/Jack occurred in 1981 but I believe Halsey’s John was gone by this point. 

As YRFan23 said it started more in summer 1980. Though from reading synopsis, it seems to have been a bit of a non starter. When Brett Halsey was fired in Mar 1981, Jon-Michael Reed suggested it was because he was such a dud in the role and best I can tell the story was given very little airtime until the resolution at the beginning of 1981. After John caught Jill and Jack in bed he left town and the remainder of 1981 was Jill and Jack, then towards the end of the year Jill and Andy. So depending on who is in this episode, we might get Terry Lester, we might actually see Deborah's Jill with Andy as well.