chaos, Upstairs Downstairs, Guiding Light

[yahtzee63]

So, I thought I was flying down to NOLA for the house closing Tuesday night, but no! The flight is Tuesday morning. This makes tomorrow extra special chaos, during which I have -- you know, let's just say I have a lot to do. It's a little overpowering. But I'm canceling what I can cancel and determined to just get up in the morning and hit it hard

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[brightly_woven]

I think my golden years choices were a little earlier than that. I stopped watching sometime between 1988-1992. (started about the same time as you and also watched As the World Turns and Capitol, then later Days of Our Lives).

The whole Kelly/Morgan/Philip/Beth thing was my favorite story line ever.

I do love Riva, though.

Alan Spalding was pretty great too.

Hmmmm...the Lewises? Yeah, I'll take em.

That's about as much as extensively as I can converse about GL.

[yahtzee63]

The Kelly/Morgan era (late '70s/early '80s) and the Beth/Philip era (mid-'80s) would be tied, in my mind, for the Silver Age. Both of those were very, very strong periods for the show; the day Morgan told off Nola for once and for all was SO HUGE for me. I mean, I loved it. And when Philip helped Beth run away from evil, evil Bradley? My God, that was some good stuff.

[brightly_woven]

Were they really not all on together. My mind has conflated them into some sort of 4-some. Hmmm...wasn't there another couple with Kelly/Morgan? Gah! I'm 40 and you'd think I was 80 sometimes.

LOL

[yahtzee63]

Kelly and Morgan were more their own couple, with Nola as meddler. However, you might be thinking of the "Four Musketeers" of the mid-'80s, Philip/Beth/Rick/Mindy, aka possibly the best love quadrangle ever. They all loved each other dearly; they were all four distinct, appealing personalities; the young actors were all very good; and they were destined to rip each other's hearts out six ways from Sunday.

[brightly_woven]

YES!!!! Okay. Yes. they are the four I was thinking of, but Kelly was also hot-hot-hot and that was a great storyline too. (He Needed Me!)

Phew. I thought I was going nuts.

[yahtzee63]

Just for the record, when the show ended in 2009, Philip and Beth were married, and Rick and Mindy were engaged for 2010.

[brightly_woven]

Seriously? WOW. I knew GA was back from the covers of Soap Digest. Hadn't noticed the others. Reminds me of Bo&Hope.

[yahtzee63]

They dragged a lot of characters (including Ed and Josh) back in for the finale and a lot of rushed-but-happy endings.