On 11/21/2023 at 8:13 PM, kalbir said:

For whatever reason, Bill Bell didn't have Eric adopt an American accent but he also didn't factor in Eric's German heritage into Victor's back story.

He did, actually. In the beginning, not much after.

Maybe he didn't specifically say Victor was German, but early on he was an immigrant. There was a scene on the Fourth of July where Victor was in a bar or restaurant, and some loudmouthed drunk was spewing anti-American stuff.

He told the guy off and made a speech about how proud he was to be an American citizen and how much he loved America. He may have even alluded to having escaped East Germany.

The reason I remember the speech so well is because up to this point Victor was a very dark villain, He had put his wife's lover in a cage in his basement and fed him a roasted rat.

The passion, the poignancy that Eric gave that scene (it didn't come off as "America, love it or leave it" more like gratitude) really turned around how I saw the character, as way more complex than I previously thought. I suspect I was not the only audience member who started to look at Victor that way and that might have been the beginning of making him into the major star of the show.

But, yes, they soon dropped that he was an immigrant and just basically ignored the fact that he had the accent. Just like they ignored that he fed that guy a rat.

I should have put that scene under the Iconic Soap Moments topic. More than 40 years later and still remember it.

Edited 23 hours ago23 hr by DeeVee

10 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Blaine and Jerry(or Joey)on AW. I think Texas had a couple on the run(can't recall who)

Blaine, Jerry and Sandy. They shot a whole big chase scene with them and two gunmen in the streets right outside the studio.

On Texas, it was Elena and Joe. He kidnapped her for some reason, and they eventually began to fall for each other.

Edited 23 hours ago23 hr by AbcNbc247

8 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Blaine, Jerry and Sandy. They shot a whole big chase scene with them and two gunmen in the streets right outside the studio.

On Texas, it was Elena and Joe. He kidnapped her for some reason, and they eventually began to fall for each other.

Thanks for the extra info. I'll add Margo and Tom and 'Mr Big' on ATWT.

As far as daytime soap operas were concerned, did woman-in-jeopardy storylines tend to become more egregious during the 1980s?

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by FlyRightOrchestraGuy
Felt need to replace "stories" with "storylines"

On 11/12/2023 at 7:36 PM, Paul Raven said:

Another trend was the push to location shooting. It certainly was a welcome change from interiors but instead of it becoming a regular thing where we saw characters in their yards or outside workplaces-day to day stuff, it was saved up for splashy sweeps stunts in most cases. A

one truly effective use of a location shoot was atwt frannie/sabrina reveal in london and venice.