Y&R: January 2025 Discussion Thread

[Liberty City]

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[janea4old]

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 USA
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 Canada

Y&R airs Classic Episode #8361
(Original US Airdate: April 6, 2006
Original Canada Airdate, April 5, 2006)

Not sure why they picked this particular episode?

Description listed by soapoperanews.net
"Sharon confronts Phyllis about her affair with Nick, Jack deals with a crisis at Jabot, and Victoria keeps a secret from Brad."

Description from the TV listings at zap2it.com
"Sharon confronts Phyllis; Brad sees an overnight bag in Nick's office; Jack and Michael meet with shareholders; Brad demands that Victoria fire J.T.; Gloria tells Kay and Jill about her assignments from Jack; Nick meets Phyllis.

This is detailed recap (of course skip if you want to be surprised.)
https://tvmegasite.net/updates/yr/2006/yr-04-05-06.shtml
(The number in the URL is the Canadian airdate)

There's a fuzzy copy of the original in the vault. 
Good for someone to save this if possible to get a better copy in the vault.

Maybe they picked it for Sharon confronting Phyllis about the Phick affair? 

The Jabot crisis is about Gloria's tainted face cream. 

J.T./Colleen scenes *and* J.T./Victoria scenes.

Adrianne León (then Adrianna León) as Colleen.

Edited December 31, 2024 by janea4old

[Soapsuds]

Is that Brad or $Bill?

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It's so great to see Katherine again.

Thad looking fine!

Gloria ewwwwwww!!

[janea4old]

The above-described 2006 repeat (#8361) is now up on the GlobalTV website in Canada.
If anyone has a VPN to see Canada, you could watch and hopefully download it. 
Listed as "Dec/31/2024 NEW"
Sharon confronts Phyllis; Brad sees an overnight bag in Nick's office; Jack and Michael meet with shareholders; Brad demands that Victoria fire J.T.; Gloria tells Kay and Jill about her assignments from Jack; Nick meets Phyllis.
https://watch.globaltv.com/series/32666602/episode/GLOB0057134600000000/

[soapfan770]

@janea4oldI think they chose it as it one of, if not the first fight between Phyllis and Sharon. 
 

It’s was definitely eerie to see some of those names in the writing credits like Jim Houghton.

It’s actually nice to see Newman Enterprises look like an actual busy office, when is the last time we actually saw multiple extras in the Newman offices?

[dragonflies]

Katherine, Colleen, JT, Brad! This is a great episode

[soapfan770]

Actually not a bad episode from 2006 at all.

It was good to see JT,  Colleen, Katherine, and Brad here as well.

AH Victoria feels like a totally different character. Years of bad writing and misunderstanding Victoria really took its toll.

MS can still act.

Finally that classic score at the end, loved it! 
 

Hate that the tainted face  cream part though. It started out interesting but got dragged out and became so comical. It’s weird to realize the story began in March 2006 and didn’t get finally resolved until November 2008.

[VelekaCarruthers]

Was this a Lynn Latham episode or still Kay Alden Jack Smith?

[Liberty City]

Head writers: Kay Alden, Lynn Marie Latham & John F. Smith

[VelekaCarruthers]

Before Lynn ruined the show. But even her tenure can't hold a candle to Griffith's last several years of brain dead, non creative, lifeless stories.

[Liberty City]

I don't know who I'd prefer to watch: Josh Griffith's current stories or Latham's [former] regimes.

[detroitpiston]

I’ll take Latham over Griffith any day, felt that way in 08 as well when we had to suffer through months of Victor and Sabrina going to art galleries and Zapato the dog.

YR giving LML exec producer and headwriter power and firing Alden and Smith was one of the dumbest decisions made. Her reign was fine by me before that

[kalbir]

2006 onward are not classic years. I consider John Abbott death the end of Y&R as we knew it.

[cassadine1991]

Damn wish Paramount+ had this episode 

[Antoyne]

So pissed they don’t post any of the classic episodes cause my DVR doesn’t record them

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