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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Selected programming for Dec. 14-15, 2024
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:58:53 -0800
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On 12/14/24 6:46 PM, shawn wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:20:49 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
> wrote:
>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:56:31 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 12/14/24 3:20 PM, shawn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And yet another week with nothing to watch. Luckily I have a long
>>>>> backlog of shows/movies to watch.
>>>>
>>>> You mean "weekend". But point taken.
>>>>
>>>> I have stuff to do this weekend. If I have time, I'll probably pull a
>>>> movie or two off streaming. I still don't feel like watching X-Mas TV
>>>> flicks, esp. because this year there hasn't been anyone cast that's a
>>>> "must see" (or the "must sees", like Merritt Patterson or Jen Lilley,
>>>> have finally "aged out"...).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, I didn't notice it was only for a few days. So used to them always
>>> covering a week I just assumed that was the case. I ended up
>>> rewatching EDGE OF TOMORROW again for likely the 3rd time today.
>>>
>>
>> There are those of us that still think of that as a soap opera.
> 
> LOL. That was a bit of a trip.. EDGE OF NIGHT and SEARCH FOR TOMORROW.
> Both of which I had heard of but never watched. My soap watching was
> limited to CBS in the early 80s when visiting my parents. So it was
> THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and AS THE WORLD TURNS (with the young Meg
> Ryan)

"Search for Tomorrow" was actually also airing on CBS at that time. 
(Obviously, so was "Guiding Light", which was probably the best of that 
lot.)

I never saw "Edge of Night" - in fact, I didn't even know it existed 
until years later.