Members soapfan770 Posted May 19, 2020 Members Share Posted May 19, 2020 From the 01-02-1996 issue of SOD, these were their picks for the best and worst of 1995. Hope you all enjoy: Most Romantic Couple - Noah & Julia of All My Children Most Boring Couple - Justus and Simone of General Hospital Most Daring Plot Device - The Devil Does Salem (DAYS) Best Wacko (Prime-Time) - Kimberly on Melrose Place Most Conniving Character - Rachel on Central Park West Best Triangle - Brooke/Ridge/Taylor, B&B Worst Triangle - Tomas/Maggie/Nick - Another World Most Tortured Love Story - Nick & Sharon, Y&R Most Unlikely Couple - Steve & Clare, Beverly Hills 90210 Best Contemporary Story - Edmund & Maria’s Infertility, AMC Worst Contemporary Story - Lost In Cyberspace - AMC Best Location Shoot - Amish Country on Guiding Light Worst Location Shoot - Malta on As The World Turns Best Cat Fight (Daytime) - Mamie & Jill on Y&R Best Bickering (Prime-Time) - Peter & Michael, Melrose Place Best Wedding - Ned & Lois on General Hospital Worst Wedding - Bo & Nora on One Life To Live Most Tortured Heroine - Teddy on Sisters Most Tragic Hero - John on Days Of Our Lives Most Adjusted Kid - Claudia on Party Of Five Least Adjusted Kid - Rick Forrester on The Bold & The Beautiful Best Trend - Increased Ethnicity on Daytime Worst Trend - Casting Models Who Can't Act Best Mystery - The Loving Murders Best Scam Gone Wrong - Kirk & Sam's Marriage on ATWT Most Entertaining Couple - Dorian & David on One Life To Live Best Wacko (Daytime) - Phyllis on Y&R Most Realistic Couple - Holly & Fletcher on Guiding Light Least Realistic Couple - Brenda & Miguel on General Hospital Best Recast (Male) - Tom on General Hospital Worst Recast (Male) -The Kevin’s OLTL Best Recast (Female) - Dinah on Guiding Light Worst Recast (Female) - Orlena on ATWT Lynn Best Plot Device - Stefano's Amnesia on Days Of Our Lives Most Preposterous Plot - Justine Impersonates Rachel on AW Most Ruined Character - Laura on General Hospital Best Husband - Jack on The Young and The Restless Worst Husband - Nathan on The Young and The Restless Best Wife - Nancy on As The World Turns Worst Wife - Paulina on Another World Best Breakup - Alex and Hayley on AMC Worst Breakup - Alex and Ava on Loving Most Realistic Illness - Stone's AIDS on General Hospital Most Unrealistic Illness - Amanda's Cancer on Melrose Place Best New Character (Male) - Antonio on One Life To Live Best New Character (Female) - Maggie on The Bold & The Beautiful Most Shocking Comeback (Male) - Peter Reckell on Days Of Our Lives Most Shocking Comeback (Female) - Marcy Walker on All My Children Most Shocking Twist (Daytime) - Grant Shot Himself, Another World Most Shocking Twist (Prime-Time) - Amanda's Past, Melrose Place Best Relocation - Lauren's Move on Y&R and B&B Biggest Industry Risk - The City Best Confession - Annie's Past on Guiding Light Worst Confession - Tony on Days Of Our Lives Most Compelling Departure - Todd on One Life To Live Least Compelling Departure - Duncan & Shannon on ATWT Dumbest Male Character - Keemo on Y&R Dumbest Female Character - Jessica on B&B Most Rejuvenated Character - Felicia on General Hospital Biggest Waste Of Talent - Peter Simon on Guiding Light Best Tearjerker - Ryan's Death on Another World Best Return - Sami on Days Of Our Lives Best Daytime Story - John & Lisa's Feud on As The World Turns Worst Daytime Story - Reva's Ghost on Guiding Light Best Prime-Time Story - Dylan's Departure on Beverly Hills 90210 Most Improved Show - Another World Best Prime-Time Show - Party Of Five Best Daytime Show - All My Children Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetterForgotten Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 When did Mamie and Jill have an actual cat fight? I always remember their altercations being more verbal than physical, but still highly enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 A mixed bag of a year with O.J. raging on. Loved AMC in 1995, though, with Alec/Hayley/Arlene, Liza’s return, and Erica’s pill-popping story that led up to her infamous Woman of the Year speech in early ‘96. For me, that was my favorite year for AMC of the entire ‘90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) I don't remember Jill and Mamie getting in a physical fight, only verbal altercations. I remember Jill and Katherine having their courthouse catfight in 1995. Edited May 20, 2020 by kalbir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfave06 Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 Was surprised to see increases diversity because in everything I have seen the early 90s had increased diversity and that was all but gone by 1996. Very surprised to see Nora and Bo with worst wedding too. I thought it was popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted May 20, 2020 Author Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 They didn’t, but the mag found Jill and Mamie’s feud over John and the whole firing and $1 million story far more worthy of actual physical fight that occurred that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AbcNbc247 Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) Funny how everyone talks about what a lousy year 1995 was for AW, but it was voted Most Improved Show. Did people at SOD actually like that the show was becoming more like DAYS? Edited May 20, 2020 by AbcNbc247 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dion Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 I think 1995 was probably the last year of that 90's period when most of the soaps truly did try to make an effort to increase diversity. B&B had introduced Michael and Jasmine. GH had Justus and Simone (despite them being boring as a couple lol) involved in dramas with the Hardys, and Keesha was involved with Jason. Y&R still had the Voliens (Jack's wife Luan, son Keemo and step-daughter Mai) while the Winters/Hastings/Barbers bubble had expanded slightly with the addition of Malcolm the year before. Noah and Julia were a big couple on AMC and the rest of the Santos clan was involved in storylines. Antonio Vega was becoming a lead on OLTL But yes, during the course of 1996 many of these stories were dropped or permanently consigned to the backburner, characters written out or killed off etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 You also had GL introducing characters such as Marcus Williams, Dahlia Crede, and Griffin Williams around this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 It was an overall great year for AMC. I only knew about Liza from soap mags and I think I had read that AMC hardcover book. I loved her instantly. Lots of good stuff from this best/worst of list! I also totally agree about Laura being most ruined that year. I appreciate she was now a mother of two, and worried about her kids. It just seemed silly that all of a sudden she had enough. It would have made way more sense for her and Luke to be mad at Sonny for deciding to take over the local mob scene, not fight with each other. Certainly most realistic illness was right- Stone’s death is still one of the most real portrayals of AIDS ever, because you got to see the daily decline of someone in that stage of the illness thanks to the nature of soaps airing daily. Even though I enjoyed RKK as Bo, when Reckell came back I was so happy. Especially for the climax of Gina learning she was Hope, it meant so much more having both of them play those scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) In 1995, DAYS had 5 regular black actors, I think 4 of them on contract - James Reynolds (Abe), Renee Jones (Lexie), Tanya Boyd (Celeste), Thyme Lewis (Jonah), and recurring Tammy Townsend (Wendy). Sadly, aside from Lexie discovering who her parents were and Celeste being Stefano's henchwoman, most of them had nothing to do. Side note: I don't know why they didn't at least try to make Jonah Carver DAYS' version of Shemar. He certainly had the looks, IMO. Edited May 20, 2020 by Gray Bunny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) Shemar had two clones as his mid-1990s time slot competitors, Keith Hamilton Cobb and Thyme Lewis. 1995 SOD Awards Best Male Newcomer went to Keith Hamilton Cobb and not Shemar. Seriously SOD readers, you picked a Shemar clone over the real thing? Oddly enough Y&R hired Keith Hamilton Cobb without his dreadlocks in their second attempt to replace Shemar (the first was that doctor Wesley). Edited May 20, 2020 by kalbir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dion Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 Yes and they also had Marie Alise Recasner as Nurse Lynn who, while not quite a regular, ended up playing a small but significant part in the Sami/Austin/Carrie/Lucas storyline (having previously dated Jonah and would later go on to drug Laura for Stefano). In fact, she probably had more to do than Jonah and Wendy did in their last two years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 Peter Parros was on ATWT around that time and was pretty hot himself. But man, they definitely sh!t on him over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted May 20, 2020 Members Share Posted May 20, 2020 Keith Hamilton Cobb was cast on AMC around the same time Shemar was cast on Y&R, wasn't he? I think he probably took off with viewers a little earlier as Y&R had that bizarre cold medicine sex story with Malcolm and Dru. ATWT never did market him for his looks, even though he was a very handsome man. That didn't really happen with ATWT until that awful Doc Reese character - a first and a last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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