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Which episodes would you like to see on DVD?

posted 13 years ago by jason248521
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The episodes that I would like to see on DVD are:

Reva drives off the bridge

Roger rapes Holly

Brent/Marion terrorizes Lucy

Maureen dies

Blake and the twins are in a car accident

Dinah marries Roger

Cassie comes to Springfield

Reva and Cassie discover that they are sisters

Abby shoots Roy in the courtroom

Roy's friends set The Lewis House on fire...trapping Reva, Abby, and Michelle

Reva's plane goes down

Dolly holds Reva captive

The Nursery Rhyme Stalker sends harmful gifts to the mothers of Springfield

Dinah loses Laura

Jenna discovers that Holly is the Nursery Rhyme Stalker

Jenna's spirit visits her family and friends

Dinah sets the Farmhouse on fire and is trapped and gets burned

Dinah shoots Hart

The plane carrying Beth and Philip crashes

Holly kidnaps the children of Springfield

Reva saves Holly from jumping off of the train trestle

Cassie marries Richard

Edmund causes a car accident involving Reva and Cassie, resulting in Reva to become blind and Cassie to miscarry her baby

Lorelei is revealed to be Beth

*I would like to see more episodes, but I think that this is enough...for now*

[–] northernlad 13 years ago

Not sure about specific episodes I would like to see again but there are storylines I would love to watch again, the first and formost is the 80's storyline of Annabelle and Tony and their haunted cottage...I would LOVD to see that played out again from beginning to end.

That boy is a Monster!

[–] alanjobe 13 years ago

Anything during the Pamela K Long years. Long was the head writer from about 1983-1990 and created or developed some of the best characters the show ever had.

Al - Alicia
An - Andrew
Jo - Joseph
Be - Benjamin

[–] Shakeekee (15) a year ago

The Dreaming Death storyline with all episodes and when the music box exploded and killed Hilary Bauer. Also the complete episodes of the 5th Street Fire catastrophe. Also the entire Darcy/Beth/Lujack/Phillip Storyline.

[–] joanre101 13 years ago

I would love, love, love to see the whole year of 1983 again. I was a senior in high school when the year began and a freshman in college when it ended. That whole time on the show is very close to my heart, particularly the Four Musketeers -- Beth, Mindy, Phillip and Rick.

I grew up in a small town in the south and all my childhood friends got married very young and dropped out of school. I felt alone and abandoned. I lived vicariously through the friendship of those four characters. I brought the show to college with me after I graduated and it was wonderful to have the consistent presence of the show and its characters in my life.

I was young and in the throws of my first love back then. I remember identifying very strongly that summer and fall with Phillip and Beth. Just last night was stumbled on some Youtube videos of the prom. Unfortunately, while I did find the scenes of Rick and Phillip fighting over Beth and Phillip comforting Beth before they were named prom King and Queen, I didn't get to see what I would really most wanted to see -- Phillip and Beth dancing to "Truly." The only time I have ever seen that was when it originally aired nearly 29 years ago.

[–] Lokisgodhi 12 years ago

@ joanre101

I was a little bit behind you. Didn't see the early four musketeers era. I think I started in either late 1983 or 1984. When Mindy found out she was pregnant with Philip's child.

I do remember the whole Alexandra finds out LuJack is her son. LuJack and Beth are together. Philip goes nuts and sabotages LuJack's club and caused Beth's blindness.

The whole Simon Luvonoczek posing as a Spaulding to get back at Alex for taking his father away. Simon getting together with Jessie Matthews.

When they brought the Lewis clan in as Gl's version of Dallas' Ewings.

I could go one but really there was no bad GL back then. It was a magnificent show through the 1980s and the early 1990s.

[–] rjhjr8 11 years ago

Joanre - LOVE your post. I'd also love to watch that entire year again.

[–] perryjp20-1 12 years ago

ANYTHING with Annie Dutton! Cynthia Watros, of course...

[–] comedylover88 12 years ago

Anything with Annie Dutton, Roger Thorpe, and Dinah Marler (Wendy Moniz years)

I love Jesus Christ and am 100% proud!

[–] stanbrown32 11 years ago

I would be really, really happy if I could just get these scenes on DVD:

1) Ed (Peter Simon) and Maureen (Ellen Parker) are in marital counseling--this was after Holly (Maureen Garrett) had come back to town as Holly Lindsey. Ed blurts out that he and Holly had slept together--and Maureen had the most wounded look on her face. The whole sequence was brilliantly written and acted--they all should have won Emmys for it.

2) Holly talks to Michelle--it's after Maureen had been killed, and Michelle needed a mother. I think she was feeling awkward and strange because she hadn't developed as quickly as some of her classmates, and Holly bought her a training bra? Again, the writing and acting were amazing--completely true to life and beautiful.

For longer sequences, like the DVD sets with 10 episodes in sequence:

1) The sequence with Philip/Beth/Rick/Mindy when Philip learned that Beth had been abused by her stepfather and they run away to New York City at Christmas. Rick and Mindy go after them, trying to find them before Bradley does.

2) A good Quinton/Nola sequence--say the Temple of Gold story's climax.

[–] engle_james 11 years ago

I agree- most of 1983 would be wonderful to have on dvd. Between the Phillip/Beth/Rick/Mindy story (which also involved Lillian) and Beth's sexual abuse at the hands of her step-father, and the umbrella flashback story involving Annabelle Simms and her mother and the men of Springfield (much like the popular novel and mini-series "Celebrity,") well, that was a tour-de-force year for Guiding Light.