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VIDEO: 50 Years Of DAYS: The Hortons and The Bradys!
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This week as the celebration ramps up, NBC.com has released a 2-minute clip package featuring Tom and Alice – the iconic MacDonald Carey and Frances Reid – and Caroline and Shawn played by Peggy McCay and Frank Parker.
Featured in the retrospective to honor the legacy of the longest-running scripted show in NBC history are moments from: the first scenes between Tom and Alice discussing the Horton children all having left the family nest, and one of the great hankie moments of all-time when Alice walks-in and hears Tom recite his poetry under his pen name and alias Norm de Pleume, and is so touched to learn that his poetry reading is all about his love for her.
Meanwhile, Caroline and Shawn are seen lovingly in a moment where Caroline sings to her now deceased husband as the show honors the matriarchs are of both long-enduring families who have meant so much to the series, and to its fans.
Watch the Hortons and the Bradys clip after the jump! Let us know what was your favorite moment from it! And tell us your favorite Tom and Alice or Caroline and Shawn moments through the years!
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WATCH: ‘The Longest Days of our Lives’ Quarantine Soap Spoof With Jimmy Fallon, Kristen Wiig & Will Ferrell
Wanna know how your daytime dramas might looks if we continue to be quarantined for months, and months, and months to come ? Well, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon showed viewers last night just how in a hilarious soap opera satire
Fallon, along with guests Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell (you couldn’t have asked for a funnier trio to do this) play characters in a soap opera called, The Longest Days of our Lives.
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Within it watch for: evil twins, doppelgangers, bitchslaps galore, and lots of other soap tropes and plenty of breaking character and all out laughing.
The spoof is now up on You Tube where the loglines say: “Jimmy shares a clip of a soap opera that has adapted to social distancing by having actors (Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig) film their scenes in quarantine using video chat.”
Check it out below and then let us know what you thought of the hilarity that ensued via the comment section.
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DAYS Favorite Charles Shaughnessy To Reunite With Cast of ‘The Nanny’ For Virtual Table Read
Now here is a fun way to go a bit retro during the coronavirus ‘stay at home’ safety measures. Days of our Lives enduring favorite Charles Shaughnessy (Shane and Drew Donovan) will be taking part in a virtual table read of the beloved primetime comedy series pilot episode of The Nanny,
Shaunghnessy starred on the series along with Fran Drescher and now the two, plus most of the other original cast members will reunite though the magic of Zoom and the table read that will be posted up on the Sony Pictures YouTube page the morning of Monday, April 6th.
Photo: SONY Pictures
Charles enthused on the announcement via his Instagram: “Yes! This! So fun to connect with these wonderful people and re-live a more sane, magical and fun time!”
Shaughnessy and Drescher will reprise their roles of Maxwell Sheffield and Fran Fine. Some other cast members have soap connections as well: Madeline Zima, sister of former Young and Restless actress Yvonne Zima (Daisy Callahan), will reprise her role of Grace Sheffield, and Nicholle Tom, sister of Bold and Beautiful’s Heather Tom (Katie Logan), will play Margaret ‘Maggie’ Sheffield.
Photo: CBS
In addition, Daniel Davis (Niles), Lauren Lane (C.C. Babcock), Benjamin Salisbury (Brighton Sheffield), Renee Taylor (Sylvia Fine), Alex Sternin (Maggie’s boyfriend), DeeDee Rescher (Dotty), Rachel Chagall (Val Toriello), Jonathan Penner (Danny Imperiali), and Ann Hampton Callaway will take part in the virtual read event. Only James Marsden, who appeared as Eddie, will not be part of the April 6th cast reunion.
The Nanny enjoyed a six-season run on NBC from 1993 – 1999 for six seasons. As for Drescher, she can currently be seen in the TV series Indebted while Shaunghessy appears in The Magicians.
So, will you be checking out the virtual table read of The Nanny this coming Monday? Do you hope Shane comes back to DAYS for another visit? Comment below.
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Arianne Zucker and Shawn Christian Will Be Live & Together On IG During Airing Of Today’s Special Episode of DAYS
Days of our Lives has quite the episode planned for fans today. Look for the returns of Shawn Christian (Daniel), T-Boz (Sheila), Greg Rikaart (Leo) and more drama and comedic hijinks to stir up the pot in Salem.
Now, Arianne Zucker (Nicole) and her real-life beau, Shawn Christian will also help make the episode even more special, now that they announced yesterday that they will be up on their individual Instagram accounts at 1PMPST. The duo will chat with fans on both of their feeds.while hanging out together.
You can join the party by following Ari at @ari8675 and Shawn at @ShawnChristian
We can tell you just how much fun these two are during live broadcasts from our Soap Nation Live Daytime Emmy Nominations special 2019 in which Arianne was the co-host and Shawn was a very special surprise in-studio guest.
Get ready for today’s DOOL on April Fools today. Check out Ari and Shawn’s announcement for today’s IG live with them below.
So will you be hanging out with Shawn and Ari on IG today? Let us know in the comment section.
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I remember the first episodes and other families who lived in Salem: the Andersons, Grants, and Peters…i could go on for DAYS…lol…the show was at its best during the Bill Bell era but i still enjoyed it afterwards too…there are too many great moments to list here and im looking forward to new ones!!!
Nice video. No favorites. All good. Days really knows how to celebrate a 50 year Anniversary! Keep it up!
Wow – that takes me way back to my teens! Loved Tom & Alice so much – it’s like seeing my grandparents again. My fav was Tom’s poem to Alice – somehow I missed that one the first time around. Thanks.
Thanks for bringing this to us, Michael Fairman! And thanks for the DAYS coverage of late!!! You’ve been very fair, Mr. FAIRman!!!!!
For those who may not know and would care to:
The group scene in this video wiith Macdonald Carey (Tom Horton) and Frances Reid (Alice Horton) featured John Clarke (Mickey Horton), Maree Cheatham (Marie Horton) and Richard Colla (Tony Merritt).
Mickey and Marie are brother and sister and two of Tom and Alice’s five children. Tony Merritt was engaged to Marie.
Actor Richard Colla is the real life husband of Device Alexander who played Dr. Lesley Webber on GH after she played Susan Hunter Martin on DAYS!!!!!
So nice to see the scenes, including Calliope Jones Bradford played by Arleen Sorkin!
I’ll always miss Tom and Alice!
The Brady family is special too!!! Frank Parker (Shawn Brady) and Peggy McCay (Caroline Brady) were magic together!
*Denise Alexander.
Tony Merrit was also later played by Don Brisco who later played Chris Jennings the werewolf on Dark Shadows!!!
I know so many people love 80’s Days, but Bill Bell wrote so many amazing Stories during his era. SL’s that are still being played out today. Kinda crazy that we will never have HW’s like Agnes, Douglas, Pat Falken Smith, Sherri Anderson, Harding Lemay, Sam Hall/Gordon Russell, and Bill Bell. These writers were more like playwrights than just TV writers.
I guess it should be noted these writers never had to deal with all the Network mandated crap. But it saddens me that in an era where Daytime could actually be breaking more ground like it did in the 60’s and 70’s, most soaps have been playing it safe when it comes to Storytelling, basically repeating the things that worked in the past, as opposed to trying push towards the future. But Im very excited about Days 50.
Travis, I totally agree with you. Give me the DAYS from the Bell era! The storytelling and the acting were so compelling, which you don’t see on the soaps these days. I remember every writer that you mentioned and they were creative and didn’t need to be cartoonist and my favorite word CAMPY. So many viewers today take that as a sign of a great writer. Think about this; back in the 60s and 70s, networks combined, there were about 16 to 17 soaps on the air. Now, we down to four. Not that hard to understand why. I wish DAYS much success, because they are working hard to turn the show around.