Thanks! Appreciate knowing about the new promos. I believe you about the episodes as you have seen much more of this period online than I have.
Guiding Light - (1983?) (15A1) - YouTube
Skimming through one of them and I'm so fixed on the moments with Helena, Philip, Eve and Justin - two of them stalwarts of the Dobsons era, one brought in by Marland, and Grant's Philip, brought in during one of the short-lived writers (Browne?). They'll all be gone within a few months while Philip is there to the final episode.
I feel bad for Eve essentially being a maid. No wonder she leaves within a month (?) to live in Rome with hunky Ben, or wherever he was by then.
You can tell that we've really entered into the "piece of ass" era of soaps as we not only have Philip shirtless and working out when Helena arrives, but at the end of the episode, he's shirtless again!
Interesting how Helena was agog at him like a cartoon character - I doubt they were hinting at anything, more just her reacting the way they thought viewers would.
The scene where Justin kisses Helena is one that Tom O'Rourke put on Youtube in a reel.
The moment with Justin and Philip horsing around makes me a little sad as we got so little of that. This was presumably put in for the anguish of the upcoming paternity reveal...not that it mattered as Justin was written out not long after.
Also nice to see some of these glimpses of Josh, Trish and Vanessa before we start getting into Lewismania. Trish in particular was swallowed whole by them.
I didn't even know Floyd and Lesley Ann were still involved at this point.
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