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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 174717" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>I was watching the end scenes from one daytime soaps in the States for weeks before my DANIEL BOONE reruns aired at 4pm which fluctuated with the Olympics. I was never able to get into daytimes soaps, but I kept watching the final scenes of this one (EDGE OF NIGHT, perhaps?) in which a gunman perched in an upstairs window kept waiting to shoot someone. It went on forever... I missed one episode, the one where the shooting occurred, naturally, and I still couldn't tell what had happened, the story having already zoomed ahead.</p><p></p><p>And that typified daytime soap dynamics: it was all either too slow or too fast. </p><p></p><p>Before that was DARK SHADOWS but I don't remember my first glance at it. It just arrived in my world somehow.</p><p></p><p>My first (three) memories of DALLAS was the shot of the first Southfork's face front at the end of the closing credits, the one with "Neil T. Maffeo" over it (which only happened in the first three episodes) which I knew had to be that new DALLAS series because I'd seen it advertised previously. The first scene I recall watching was Bobby coming up the steps of Jenna#1's apartment a few months later. The next scene I remember quite a while later was Major Nelson driving down the street at night with a fecal-feasting grin and a Stetson, watching a detective in the rearview mirror tailing him and chuckling, all set to a jaunty John Parker tune, and I was like "<em>Noooo --- <strong>no</strong> sir. I am <strong>not</strong> doing this!</em>" and changed the channel quickly.</p><p></p><p>Heh. And here I am. </p><p></p><p>Same thing with DYNASTY -- I saw a TVGuide ad for the pilot which asserted the show would become part of the viewer's life, and I sneered (quite properly, by the way). Although I had some curiosity about Linda Evans because I'd found her to be a much more enigmatic actress in the '70s than she'd been in BIG VALLEY, I didn't really start watching until I'd heard them say in a very early ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT installment that Joan Collins had just signed to do 22 episodes of DYNASTY playing John Forsythe's ex-wife, and I thought: <em>How interesting -- they're giving Forsythe a black ex-wife!</em> ...You see, I'd always thought Joan Collins was a light-skinned, British black woman.... Imagine my surprise when a few episodes in and I realized she was caucasian.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 174717, member: 57984"] I was watching the end scenes from one daytime soaps in the States for weeks before my DANIEL BOONE reruns aired at 4pm which fluctuated with the Olympics. I was never able to get into daytimes soaps, but I kept watching the final scenes of this one (EDGE OF NIGHT, perhaps?) in which a gunman perched in an upstairs window kept waiting to shoot someone. It went on forever... I missed one episode, the one where the shooting occurred, naturally, and I still couldn't tell what had happened, the story having already zoomed ahead. And that typified daytime soap dynamics: it was all either too slow or too fast. Before that was DARK SHADOWS but I don't remember my first glance at it. It just arrived in my world somehow. My first (three) memories of DALLAS was the shot of the first Southfork's face front at the end of the closing credits, the one with "Neil T. Maffeo" over it (which only happened in the first three episodes) which I knew had to be that new DALLAS series because I'd seen it advertised previously. The first scene I recall watching was Bobby coming up the steps of Jenna#1's apartment a few months later. The next scene I remember quite a while later was Major Nelson driving down the street at night with a fecal-feasting grin and a Stetson, watching a detective in the rearview mirror tailing him and chuckling, all set to a jaunty John Parker tune, and I was like "[I]Noooo --- [B]no[/B] sir. I am [B]not[/B] doing this![/I]" and changed the channel quickly. Heh. And here I am. Same thing with DYNASTY -- I saw a TVGuide ad for the pilot which asserted the show would become part of the viewer's life, and I sneered (quite properly, by the way). Although I had some curiosity about Linda Evans because I'd found her to be a much more enigmatic actress in the '70s than she'd been in BIG VALLEY, I didn't really start watching until I'd heard them say in a very early ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT installment that Joan Collins had just signed to do 22 episodes of DYNASTY playing John Forsythe's ex-wife, and I thought: [I]How interesting -- they're giving Forsythe a black ex-wife![/I] ...You see, I'd always thought Joan Collins was a light-skinned, British black woman.... Imagine my surprise when a few episodes in and I realized she was caucasian. [/QUOTE]
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