1 hour ago, Franko said:

Another round of the 1987 mixtape episodes (h/t to @DRW50 for that turn of phrase) has been uploaded. These are from November.

@Vee, @Khan, @Kane, @EricMontreal22, @j swift, @slick jones, @Soapsuds, @All My Shadows, @alwaysAMC, @beebs, @dc11786, @kalbir, @Maxim, @P.J., @Paul Raven, @robbwolff, @Reverend Ruthledge, @Tisy-Lish, @Wendy, @Xanthe

 

Thanks @Franko!!!  

GL fans - who is the man playing the Johnny character that's flying the plane? He looks so familiar to me! 

8 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

Thanks @Franko!!!  

GL fans - who is the man playing the Johnny character that's flying the plane? He looks so familiar to me! 

James Goodwin - IMDb

Thanks @Franko

45 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

James Goodwin - IMDb

Thanks!  That isn't who I was thinking of, but I know who it was reminding me of:  John Loprieno.  I know he's Cord on OLTL, but I was thinking more of Star Trek Voyager's "Year of Hell" that he was in. When Johnny was in the plane, with that lighting, really reminded me of John.  

 

Thanks for this.

4 hours ago, Franko said:

Another round of the 1987 mixtape episodes (h/t to @DRW50 for that turn of phrase) has been uploaded. These are from November.

@Vee, @Khan, @Kane, @EricMontreal22, @j swift, @slick jones, @Soapsuds, @All My Shadows, @alwaysAMC, @beebs, @dc11786, @kalbir, @Maxim, @P.J., @Paul Raven, @robbwolff, @Reverend Ruthledge, @Tisy-Lish, @Wendy, @Xanthe

 

OH MY GOD...who Donna sleeping with? He's GORGEOUS.

My other question---who takes the time to do this back in the day?

4 minutes ago, P.J. said:

OH MY GOD...who Donna sleeping with? He's GORGEOUS.

If you're referring to B&B

Mark Mallory | TheBoldandtheBeautiful Wiki | Fandom

35 minutes ago, kalbir said:

If you're referring to B&B

Mark Mallory | TheBoldandtheBeautiful Wiki | Fandom

Thanks! Yeah---I remember Rocco, but not any other guy Donna hung around with.

51 minutes ago, P.J. said:

OH MY GOD...who Donna sleeping with? He's GORGEOUS.

My other question---who takes the time to do this back in the day?

He is!!  I just randomly found him on LinkedIn and he's still very handsome, living in Dallas!  

A mention of Anna on Days in the wedding outfit thread reminded me of a long-standing grudge I have against Margaret dePriest and I wondered whether she is the only headwriter who resorted to this over and over again: taking (or creating) a character who has never been onscreen and has always been dead when mentioned in the story, and having it suddenly turn out that that character is alive and ready to create conflict. 

On Another World she did this 3 times in 1986-1987:

Reginald Love (previously called Brandon) -- Donna, Peter, and Nicole's father. He had faked his death and run away to Paraguay for at least 15 years.

Mary McKinnon (previously called Teresa) -- MJ, Kathleen, Ben, and Cheryl's mother. Reginald had faked her death and given her or taken advantage of her amnesia to take her to Paraguay with him.

John Hudson (previously never acknowledged) -- Michael Hudson's brother. Presumed dead in Vietnam.

There was also the character of Brittany Reynolds Peterson on AW created in 1985 in the absence of any credited headwriter, so I guess I have to admit that Depriest is only 75% guilty here.

However I believe Depriest introduced both Anna on Days and Eric Kane on AMC using the same technique. Are there any other similar back-from-the-dead characters, and if so which HW created them?

I do not count cases where previously alive onscreen characters are brought back from the dead. That is a different thing driven by different backstage issues. 

GL's Buzz

10 hours ago, Xanthe said:

A mention of Anna on Days in the wedding outfit thread reminded me of a long-standing grudge I have against Margaret dePriest and I wondered whether she is the only headwriter who resorted to this over and over again: taking (or creating) a character who has never been onscreen and has always been dead when mentioned in the story, and having it suddenly turn out that that character is alive and ready to create conflict. 

On Another World she did this 3 times in 1986-1987:

Reginald Love (previously called Brandon) -- Donna, Peter, and Nicole's father. He had faked his death and run away to Paraguay for at least 15 years.

Mary McKinnon (previously called Teresa) -- MJ, Kathleen, Ben, and Cheryl's mother. Reginald had faked her death and given her or taken advantage of her amnesia to take her to Paraguay with him.

John Hudson (previously never acknowledged) -- Michael Hudson's brother. Presumed dead in Vietnam.

There was also the character of Brittany Reynolds Peterson on AW created in 1985 in the absence of any credited headwriter, so I guess I have to admit that Depriest is only 75% guilty here.

However I believe Depriest introduced both Anna on Days and Eric Kane on AMC using the same technique. Are there any other similar back-from-the-dead characters, and if so which HW created them?

I do not count cases where previously alive onscreen characters are brought back from the dead. That is a different thing driven by different backstage issues. 

 

10 hours ago, Spoon said:

GL's Buzz

 

Thanks! It's not completely clear to me who the HW on GL would have been when Buzz first appeared. Was it Stephen Demorest?

1 hour ago, Xanthe said:

Thanks! It's not completely clear to me who the HW on GL would have been when Buzz first appeared. Was it Stephen Demorest?

Nancy Curlee and Demorest, I think. 

OLTL/Y&R/B&B/PSSNS: Andrea Evans tribute channel on youtube launched May 2025.

clips from all her soaps, interviews, Emmys, etc

Michael Fairman says it was launched by her family and he typed up description of the contents here:
https://michaelfairmantv.com/andrea-evans-tribute-you-tube-channel-launched/2025/08/13/
 

Apparently they are continuing to add more material to the channel

https://www.youtube.com/@AndreaEvansTribute

Edit to add:  Fairman says: "At launch, there are currently over 57 videos on the channel, and there should be well over 100 more to be added in the future."
 

Edited August 14Aug 14 by janea4old

This isn't related to a US soap but I thought it was interesting: https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/hollyoaks/a65795910/brookside-return-hollyoaks/

To celebrate it's 30th anniversary, Hollyoaks is doing a special crossover episode with it's long cancelled sister soap Brookside. Brookside ran from 1982-2003 and basically paved the way for Hollyoaks. I believe they've had crossovers in the past as well. 

I thought that was a clever way to celebrate their anniversary and something that was truly surprising. I'd love to see a US soap attempt something like this. We've seen crossovers and some elements similar like Delia in Ryan's Bar on GH but it sounds like they're actually going to bring back some of the popular Brookside characters and let us into that world at least for one episode. They've also gotten permission to film at the old neighborhood used for Brookside back in the day which I'm sure will be exciting for fans of that show.