SoapsNthings Any idea why so many episodes of GL between March and July are MIA?? That was the height of Nola's machinations. Much more 79 and 80 on YT than 81.
@@neworleansguy10 I agree, episodes from that period are few & far between here at RU-vid. If I had any, I would've surely uploaded them for everyone. I wouldn't mind watching them, myself. 🙂
This was the best era in The Guiding Light's history. From 1977 to 1983 until the Lewis family took front and center and moved the Bauers to the back burner
Another wonderful, well written episode during the Dobson tenure. The disintegration of the friendship between Jackie and Elizabeth was heartbreaking, given that they managed to be friends despite their mutual involvement with Alan, Mike, and Justin. Both women deserved to have a place in Phillip's life. I think that Phillip as an adult went through multiple marriages and divorces out of his subconscious feeling that Elizabeth and Jackie rejected him. Both characters should have figured prominently in Phillip's adult life (as opposed to Jackie's death in a plane crash and Elizabeth's move to Switzerland).
@@soapsnthings4182Funny those were also some of the best years of General Hospital too but this was great and At the time I knew fans of this show that never missed this. Love the theme!! I can see this was truly a very atmospheric soap!
Lots of early Hope (well, at least Elvera Roussel's Hope). Did you happen to catch her first episode on one of the March '79 uploads I put up a little while back?
SoapsNthings Perfect!:) Elvera Roussel is the Hope I was referring to. She is the only Hope:)! and you said you have lots more of her!:)! You just made my day:)! again!:)! I think I did catch the first one. I'm not sure. I'll go back and check. You are my favorite new channel!:)! Thank you so much.
SoapsNthings Thank you so stinkin' much for posting these episodes!! I miss this time in daytime TV!! This was when Guiding Light was good. Before it got weird when Quentin McCord, the Reardons, the Lewis' came on board. I totally hated Reva Shayne Lewis!! I totally loved Elizabeth, Jackie, Rita, Eve. Thanks once again?
+softwater88 You're MORE than welcome! Not only was it something I just loved to do on a semi-regular basis, but it was fun. Not just to upload and reminisce along with the rest of you while re-watching these episodes once again, but it was a labor of love. Like you, I wasn't fond of the fact that Reva was front-stage-center (especially between the years 1985 to Reva's "demise" in 1990). Frankly, GL became "The Reva Shayne Show, starring Kim Zimmer"! But like you, I preferred watching Jackie, Justin, Hope, Elizabeth, Mike, Amanda et all. Such a shame once Gail Kobe took over the reins as Executive Producer, it was "Out with the old....in with the new". Gone were so many of our favorite core characters. :-(
SoapsNthings So many have said the said the same thing, about Guiding Light becoming the Reva Show, and I would have to agree with them. At first, I liked Reva, but not any more than I did any other character, and she most certainly was not my favorite, and once they started giving the whole show to her, well, there was no reason for that. There were far, far stronger performers like Maureen Garrett and Elvera Roussel. I will tell you, though, another performer I adored was Kristi Ferrell, Reva's sister, Roxie. Ferrell's the real deal, had yards on Zimmer, and yet, always took a back seat to her, which I think is terrible. Judi Evans is fantastic in all that she does, and for a long, long time Judi was my very favorite, and she'll always be among them, but there was just something about Kristi, and I was looking for Guiding Light to let her rocket off and they never did. Big mistake. My all time favorite, along with Kristi, is actually Another World's Anna Kathryn Holbrook. Now that is move over Zimmer. It's ashamed that Guiding Light felt it was necessary to resort to a Zimmer only route. One thing though, I understand that Michael Zaslow was very fond of Zimmer and her acting abilities and Zaslow hardly strikes me as someone who did not know the best of his field since he was undoubtedly it. I don't think it's not that Kim can't act, but that her importance compared to the importance of other characters and actors was drastically overrated. Look at what GL ended up doing to Zaslow, and Maureen Garrett never got even one much deserved Emmy to Kimmy's over plated six. For some inexplicable reason, P & G made Reva their doll. Ellen Wheeler, by the way is another performer who blows Zimmer out of the water. Her AW's Marley, especially at the show's end was pitch perfect, and I don't like the way Zimmer always puts her down. Ellen is Ellen, an outstanding Emmy Winner in her own right. Finally, Zaslow's former One Life to Life co-star Judith Light actually gave one of the most famous performances in soap opera history, and way before Zimmer. Light is the real deal too. Kimmy Zimmer's alright, has reasonable abilities, but she pales in comparison to these other miracle ladies...she just does.
They just don't write soaps like this any more..I don't even watch America soaps now..No melodrama..I watch British soap but they are getting just like america soaps now..I'm Really enjoying this..
Whoa! I forgot that they changed the fonts for the credits. Earlier, the title was in Helvetica, and the credits were Times New Roman. Now the title/credits are all Helvetica font. Character names in gold, performer names in white.
That would have been the fall of 1978, probably September or early October. Ed and Rita went to New York together, and he bought her the bracelet there. It later figured in the Roger storyline, as Roger ripped it from Rita's wrist and pocketed it when he raped her, and later gave it to Holly as a gift (which Ed thought that Roger gave it to Holly to mock the fact that he had given an "identical" one to Rita, not realizing that it was, in fact, the same bracelet).
Christopher Bernau was an actor, and a very good one. That is what actors do - they portray characters. It's not a surprise. Do you think that Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award because he was a cannibalistic serial killer in real life?
I think Fairbanks' dirty laundry all came out around the time that Rita had the miscarriage, a few months after these scenes, by which time he'd also managed to make an enemy out of Sara McEntire, from whom he tried to steal a promotion. I can't remember if it was Rita who told Ed that Greg was the man she'd had the affair with, of it it might have been Sara (since Rita had confided this to her), but once Ed learned the truth, he fired him, and he then left Springfield.
What I never could figure out was why Rita was still keeping his identify a secret by this time. Ed already knew that she'd had an affair (just didn't now with whom), so it wouldn't have mattered by then if she'd revealed his identify, if for no other reason than to spare her little sister a bit of pain, since by this time, creepy Greg was dating Eve. Rita was always depicted as being very protective of Eve, so it seemed strange to me that she just let her continue to date Greg without telling her the truth, and letting her know what a bottom-feeder he really was.
The actor who played Fairbanks, David Greenan, later became a psychologist and family therapist. He is also an adjunct professor at Teachers College at Columbia University. I always like to find out what happened to the actors following their stint on television series, including soaps.
Eve found out about Fairbanks too, and she told him to kick rocks. This didn't cause a rift between her and Rita though, not like when they both were involved with Dr. Tim Ryan. Who was also a Doctor at Cedars. Eve stopped speaking to Rita because of it.
