An insult to the loyal viewers of Y&R

I have been a fan of "The Young & the Restless" for many years now,in fact it is the ONLY soap opera I bother to watch and I usually watch it in the evenings on Soapnet.Throughout the years there have been various plot twists,including Sheila Carter,the psycho bitch/nurse/kidnapper/master of disguise who couldn't be killed-but when Sheila went undercover,she was incognito and it was a believable and workable disguise.I only wish I could say the same for their current storyline with the starstruck Amber,a lovely blonde who disguised herself as a chick named "Marina" to get entered into a modeling contest being held by her ex-husbands familys cosmetics company.

Ambers "transformation" is so transparent,you would have to be a complete and total idiot not to see its the same person.All she does is adopt a snooty European accent,and throw a horrific red wig on her head and VIOLA!Viewers are supposed to believe that even her former husband,who has spoken to her in disguise,is too ignorant not to see right through it all!I know alot of you probably don't watch soaps of any kind and thats cool-I just had to get this off my chest and hope that if there are any fans out there who feel the same way as I do,that they know its not just them.I honestly do not know how the cast keeps from cracking up everytime they have to pretend they cannot tell who this mystery woman Marina is.I am almost insulted enough to email CBS and probably will!

80's Flashback TV

One of my favorite shows to come from the 80's was "Unsolved Mysteries" which premiered 20 years ago on NBC,and went to the CBS network in 1997,where actress Virginia Madsen cohosted.It was cancelled in 1999 and resurrected again by Lifetime in 2001 for one more year.It featured re-enactments of mysteries ranging from ghost stories to reunited family members to crimes and appealed to the public for any tips on the cases.Quite a few old cases were solved after being rerun many years later on Lifetime and when that happened,Lifetime would add an update to the end credits.The spooky theme music and Stacks voice was enough to give you the willies before you even watched the show.They did alot of UFO related stories if I recall.

If you were home alone,the scary re-enactments were just too much to take lol but you still watched anyway.I really miss this show,so I was psyched to learn that both HBO and Spike TV have expressed interest in a revamped version of "Unsolved Mysteries" and rumors are flying that James Earl Jones will lend his talents to the HBO show.Great choice,but he is no Robert Stack!

I remember they had one mystery on the show that was local-a man in Sussex County came home to find his mother dead late one night at the hands of a hitchhiker he left on the road earlier after a scuffle.He had picked the guy up at an Arbys in Harrington and if I am not mistaken,there was new info in that case not too long ago.It was a great show and I would love to see it brought back-it has value,just like "Americas Most Wanted" does.Most of the episodes are available on DVD in volumes 1 thru 6,each volume with approximately 30 episodes each and organized by genre-UFO's,ghosts,miracles,etc.