<p>My DVR won’t know what to do from 1-2pm everyday. No OLTL? How do we protest?</p>
<p>I remember watching All My Children with my Mom when I was a little girl, along with The Secret Storm and The Edge of Night (the last two were canceled long ago). Does anyone remember Pheobe Tyler (later Wallingford) and all the ways she worked to make her children’s lives a living hell (Anne and Link and…there was another one, wasn’t there?). I cut my teeth on soaps and started watching them of my own accord, starting in high school. I’ve watched them off and on ever since, though, like others have said, they really get on my nerves sometimes with the absurdity of their storylines. I’d stop watching them for long periods of time (6 months to a year) before tuning back in to see what was happening. It’s ironic that, just today, I tuned in to watch AMC, only to see Erica Kane about to ditch poor Jack at the alter to run off with Palmer Courtland’s nephew (sorry, the name escapes me at the moment…(Kaleb?)), and I just had to roll my eyes, turn off the TV, and run some errands. I was hoping to see the day when Erica would actually join the ranks of a truly mature and well-adjusted adult. But, I guess that’ll never happen now…</p>
<p>I’ll admit though that at one point, I was truly addicted to the soaps and would watch AMC, OLTL, and GH back to back, daily. Am I the only one who found that my energy was strangely drained by the end of GH? What’s your favorite absurd soap storyline? Mine is from GH, when the Cassadines’ “weather machine” caused a blizzard in Port Charles in the middle of summer, and Luke and Laura were trapped in Helena and Nicco’s sub-terrainian lair. (<em>snort, guffaw!</em>) But thinking back on it, it was so long ago, I’m not even sure if I’m remembering that right…:p</p>
<p>Oh, I remember Phoebe well. Talk about a helicopter mom!</p>
<p>How about Ruth and Joe Martin?</p>
<p>How 'bout on OLTL when they went back in time to the Old West? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>OLTL went back in time twice. How about when Bo and Rex went back to the 60s? I love the time travel stories. How about when Viki went to Eterna?</p>
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<p>Yeah…that was one of the storylines that prompted me to take an extended break from watching OLTL.:p</p>
<p>At least Days of our Lives is still on (isn’t it)? It was always comforting to me that I could not watch an episode for 5 years, turn the show on, and still be able to follow all the plots that were going on! Never liked the other ones, though.</p>
<p>Regarding OLTL - I always relished the many ways Viki managed to have children without knowing she’d ever had them. Now that’s quality writing!</p>
<p>What soaps are left besides General Hospital?</p>
<p>When D was a toddler, I would watch AMC while she was playing. One day she asked me out of the blue if Dimitri was mad at Erica. D was 2 years old. I decided right then and there I couldn’t watch them in her presence anymore! She was paying more attention than I realized!</p>
<p>Both of my boys would watch with me over the summer, but they were teens. There were a couple of cringe-worthy things, but nothing on a soap is as bad as “Jersey Shore.”</p>
<p>This is sad news. I started watching GH in college, back in the Luke and Laura days. I also watched the Edge of Night. When my oldest daughter was a baby, I discovered OLTL, and have watched it on and off ever since. I don’t watch much anymore, but it still feels like losing an old friend.</p>
<p>I started watching AMC in grade school when my principal father would come home for lunch during the summer! A father/daughter bonding moment!
He loved the evil Billy Clyde Tuggle…dad had quite the sense of humor. When ever I hear about someone in a well, I can’t think of anyone but Dixie!
So for 35+ years I have been watching this show…September will be strange. What will my DVR do? I am hoping someone just keeps writing the scripts and posts them somewhere. No need to produce the thing…I know who the characters are!
Though in college I did arrange my class schedule around GH. I am a bit happy that my D does not have this same obsession.</p>
<p>Last night, I heard on one of the Hollywood entertainment shows that OWN Network is considering purchasing these shows and airing them. It might just be a rumor though. And it wasn’t clear whether the idea was to merely air “vintage” episodes, or to keep the cameras rolling on them. If Oprah (who apparently once was a big fan of AMC) were to step in and save the shows, it would be wonderful. I won’t hold my breath, though. </p>
<p>I thought Soapnet was supposed to be the savior of daytime, because working viewers could come home and catch up at night…</p>
<p>the people I know at OLTL are writers, but I actually knew one of the “old timers” Lee PAtterson who played Joe Reilly back in the 70’s…</p>
<p>Billy Clyde Tuggle (can’t remember the name of the actor) is married to Christine Baransky…yup</p>
<p>and for those of you who still TIVO OLTL, Erica Slezak (Vicki) is supposedly going to be morphing into Nikki Smith yet again very soon…</p>
<p>I have been travelling (collage1: hope all is well!!), and did not hear about OWN picking up the two cancelled shows, but it does certainly make sense…even if they decide to show the repeats back to 1970 (how much fun would that be!!)</p>
<p>for my history, one has to go back to when Dark Shadows followed the original half hour version of One Life to LIve (3:30 pm)…and then in the NY market, the 4:30 movie…that’s how old I am (or how young I was when I got hooked)…It was more difficult to follow All my Children back then cause, well, I did have to go to school…haha</p>
<p>I had a crush on Joe Reilly.</p>
<p>I liked Robert and Anna on GH, too!</p>
<p>I started watching soaps with my mom when I was very little. I remember seeing the beginning of “The Edge of Night,” and asking her what “edge” meant. She pantomined a spider crawling off the edge of the table to demonstrate the meaning.</p>
<p>I also used to plan classes so I wouldn’t miss many episodes of AMC or GH. Nina and Cliff, Greg and Jenny. Sigh! That was so fun.</p>
<p>I have not watched soaps in years, but did really enjoy them at one time (Luke and Laura’s wedding…Laura coming back…!!). I remember when I first married DH, his mom and sister-in-law would have conversations about characters on GH that sounded like they were talking about their best friends.</p>
<p>I remember being in the hospital the day after my daughter was born, watching Erica give birth to Bianca - what a hoot! Erica never even broke a sweat. Afterward, it was fun to compare Bianca’s age to my daughter’s age - they really took some liberties there.</p>