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In regards to Love of Life's syndication deal, I have to wonder if Marcus thought it was a real possibility. At the time, her comical serial "The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts" was also airing and in some press she mentioned that stations were looking to find a nightly serial given the moderate success of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." I wonder if Marcus suspected she could get a production company to push a more edgy "Love of Life" to a late night audience focusing on the Rosehill College set.

Love of Life never had an opportunity to go into syndication. This idea is one of a myriad of mistakes in Christopher Schemring's book. The truth is Love of Life was canceled so quickly, syndication was out of the question. When CBS announced the cancellation, the series literally had a couple of weeks to tape the final episodes. There simply wasn't time to work out a syndication deal, and considering the low viewing figures, I doubt it would have been successful. The Edge of Night and The Secret Storm were the two daytime soaps with the best likelihood of going in first-run syndication, though sadly, those deals also never reached fruition.

I would like to present a video montage as part of my presentation, but my only problems are: 1) I am not technologically saavy and 2) I am now disabled. If anyone could put together a montage of the hsow for me on a DVD, I would be eternally grateful.

You should contact Mark Faulkner from The Edge of Night Homepage. Mark knows more about Edge than anyone I know. He has sent me material for my You Tube channel. He owns extremely rare episodes from the 60's through the 80's, including color CBS years not even in P&G's archives. I am certain he could help you with a multimedia presentation. I am willing to send you a copy of my video montage set to the Edge theme, too. I have three different montages using the early 70's, late 70's, and early 80's themes.

Eric, you asked about the dates for the first 65 episodes:

Episode # 1: Aired 9/15/64:

Episode # 2: Aired 9/17/64:

Episode # 3: Aired 9/22/64:

Episode # 4: Aired 9/24/64:

Episode # 5: Aired 9/29/64:

Episode # 6: Aired 10/1/64:

Episode # 7: Aired 10/6/64:

Episode # 8: Aired 10/8/64:

Episode # 9: Aired 10/13/64:

Episode #10: Aired 10/15/64:

Episode #11: Aired 10/20/64:

Episode #12: Aired 10/22/64:

Episode #13: Aired 10/27/64:

Episode #14: Aired 10/29/64:

Episode #15: Aired 11/5/64:

Episode #16: Aired 11/10/64:.

Episode #17: Aired 11/12/64:

Episode #18: Aired 11/17/64:

Episode #19: Aired 11/19/64:

Episode #20: Aired 11/24/64:

Episode #21: Aired 11/26/64:

Episode #22: Aired 12/1/64:

Episode #23: Aired 12/3/64:

Episode #24: Aired 12/8/64:

Episode #25: Aired 12/10/64:

Episode #26: Aired 12/15/64:

Episode #27: Aired 12/17/64:

Episode #29: Aired 12/24/64:

Episode #30: Aired 12/29/64:

Episode #31: Aired 12/31/64:

Episode #32: Aired: 1/5/1965

Episode #33 - Aired: 1/7/1965

Episode #34 - Aired: 1/12/1965

Episode #35 - Aired: 1/14/1965

Episode #36 - Aired: 1/19/1965

Episode #37 - Aired: 1/21/1965

Episode #38 - Aired: 1/26/1965

Episode #39 - Aired: 1/28/1965

Episode #40 - Aired: 2/2/1965

Episode #41 - Aired: 2/4/1965

Episode #42 - Aired: 2/9/1965

Episode #43 - Aired: 2/11/1965

Episode #44 - Aired: 2/16/1965

Episode #45 - Aired: 2/18/1965

Episode #46 - Aired: 2/23/1965

Episode #47 - Aired: 2/25/1965

Episode #48 - Aired: 3/2/1965

Episode #49 - Aired: 3/4/1965

Episode #50 - Aired: 3/9/1965

Episode #51 - Aired: 3/11/1965

Episode #52 - Aired: 3/16/1965

Episode #53 - Aired: 3/18/1965

Episode #54 - Aired: 3/23/1965

Episode #55 - Aired: 3/25/1965

Episode #56 - Aired: 3/30/1965

Episode #57 - Aired: 4/1/1965

Episode #58 - Aired: 4/6/1965

Episode #59 - Aired: 4/8/1965

Episode #60 - Aired: 4/13/1965

Episode #61 - Aired: 4/15/1965

Episode #62 - Aired: 4/20/1965

Episode #63 - Aired: 4/22/1965

Episode #64 - Aired: 4/27/1965

Episode #65 - Aired: 4/29/1965

Paul Raven, the You Tube episode to which you referred was posted by me under a different name. It was episode 36. I pulled it because 20th Century Fox emailed me and threatened legal action if it wasn't removed. Due to copyright issues, I have not uploaded additional episodes of the prime-time or daytime version of Peyton Place. Many will notice the Return to Peyton Place promo I uploaded was not identified in any form. It was inserted into an upload featuring promos for two other serials. So far, it has slipped by Fox unnoticed.

I don't think they meant to do that to the Frames -- they cast a lot of actors in those roles who were not interested in staying long term, they were mostly theater actors.

I do think they had some issues with the Matthews. Lemay's book suggests it was the actors, but I kind of wonder if they resented that this popular, established family was on the show and they had not created the family. They really broke that family up, they killed off or wrote out everyone but Pat and Liz and Russ and the Matthews father (who passed away in the early 80s), and it seemed like Pat and Russ left a few years after Lemay did. Susan came and went but never stayed. The family became very disjointed and scattered and that made it easy for later regimes to snuff them out.

Harding Lemay did not "decimate" the Matthews family. The only family member he wrote off was Mary, and Lemay was the writer who actually brought Liz and Susan back to the canvas. In many respects Lemay strengthened the family by giving Pat front-burner storylines and making her a stronger, more intelligent character and aging her children Michael and Marianne to create conflict in Pat's marriage to John Randolph.

I don't think Lemay resented anything about the Matthews family. His issues were with Ginny Dwyer and Jacquie Courtney because they refused to adapt to his theatrical style. Dwyer and Courtney wanted to continue playing Mary and Alice like a 1950's soap, which didn't work with Lemay's dialogue and tone. Lemay was often times arrogant and snobbish, but I believe he truly wanted to elevate AW to something other than predictable soap melodrama, and on most levels he succeeded. AW remained #2 or #3 during the majority of his tenure, and even when the ratings fell in his last year, it was only by one rating point. Three years after Lemay left, the show's ratings had dropped three rating points. In my opinion Lemay was far better for AW than Paul Rauch.

Rauch was the one who should have been replaced. He is responsible for decimating AW.

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Rita could have returned to Springfield at some point,but succeeding writers showed little interest in the past-a big mistake.

Pamela Long intended to resurrect Rita in 1989 when Roger and Holly returned. P&G went so far as to contact Lenore Kasdorf and attempt to arrange a contract. Kasdorf resuming the role was Long's proviso for going ahead with the story. Kasdorf declined the offer because she was settled in California. She stated later she regretted the decision and would have returned if asked again. Kasdorf's return was not speculation. I was given this information by Long, and Kasdorf confirmed it in an interview for -I believe- Soap Opera Digest sometime around the show's 40th anniversary in 1992.