2 hours ago, Taoboi said:

You were a better kid than I. lol. I vaguely remember the Ward house, but that sounds like such a beautiful scene to watch, but you know how much I love Laura. :)

It ended up being their house/Laura’s house. Laura had what seemed like fantasies of a young black family living here with their children while they were hiding there from Frank Smith. Months later we learn it was the Ward house before Bradley died. It was one of those “feelings” Laura used to have that were borderline psychic but never fully explained. Laura even digs up Bradley’s bones while gardening IIRC, setting up the story with Mary Mae Ward and Edward. I miss writing like that.

Awesome, thanks @SoapDope78

3 hours ago, titan1978 said:

It ended up being their house/Laura’s house. Laura had what seemed like fantasies of a young black family living here with their children while they were hiding there from Frank Smith. Months later we learn it was the Ward house before Bradley died. It was one of those “feelings” Laura used to have that were borderline psychic but never fully explained. Laura even digs up Bradley’s bones while gardening IIRC, setting up the story with Mary Mae Ward and Edward. I miss writing like that.

Hmmmmm foreshadowing.

BTG might have its flaws, but one thing that I really loved in its first year was the amount of foreshadowing that MVJ had done...something that was made clear when CBS would do its repeats of episodes last year.

On 5/6/2026 at 10:06 AM, I Am A Swede said:

My favourite big soap moment will always be the moment on B&B when years of tension and growing animosity between Brooke and Stephanie finally exploded during the BeLief story. That whole story was excellent, with Stephanie's hatred for Brooke being the cause of her own undoing. She was the driving force behind the attempt by the Forresters to trick Brooke into signing over her rights to the patent without her ever knowing the whole story. But the manipulations and dirty tricks backfired not once but twice during the story, and that was finally one time too many. Brooke confronted the Forresters and got slapped by Stephanie, not for the first time. But this time she didn't take it lying down and slapped Stephanie right back and had to be dragged out by Connor to stop things from escalating even more. All this ultimately ended with Brooke seizing controlling interest in Forrester Creations, and Stephanie and Eric only had themselves to blame for that.

This was more than 30 years ago, and it's still the best story in B&B history, by far.

Bill Bell's last hurrah before he passed the reigns to Bradley.

On 5/6/2026 at 12:33 PM, Khan said:

I've always looked upon "Cruise of Deception" as being the last gasp of classic, '80's DAYS, even though it happened in '90. I loved it

Many Days fans I know consider the shipwreck the last big action/adventure storyline of the supercouple era.

On 5/6/2026 at 12:33 PM, Khan said:

the show was never the same.

Reilly and his sci-fi storylines.

On 5/6/2026 at 7:22 PM, SoapDope78 said:

Y&R: Scenes I never thought I would see. In reading old synopsis/summaries of Lorie finding about Leslie's pregnancy, you kind of picture Lorie seeing Leslie step from the shower and Lorie coldly/smugly saying "Just how pregnant are you Leslie". while being somewhat composed. When I finally got to see the scenes OMG WOW ! Those summaries does not do them justice. Lorie goes ape crap and has a screaming meltdown at a cowering Leslie. I kept waiting for Lorie to start physically assaulting her. Good thing Lucas comes in and pretty much nearly puts her in a headlock while she's still raging.

Leslie was on the verge of collapse and Lorie was shrieking. That confrontation would have been more powerful without those elements.

Another memorable Y&R confrontation was Nikki/Ashley at the ranch where Nikki confronts Ashley about being involved with Victor. Nikki gets all in Ashley's face and Ashley is trying to hold it together.

It's probably not high on anybody's list, but I saw the tornado on AMC when it first aired. That was a time when soaps had a budget to make scenes like that effective.