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The 15,000th episode is being taped today.  From Jessie Harrison's Instastory.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/jessiehessie1/

Confirms the return of Schnetzer and Loring for Doug's funeral.  Says there will be more.  Taping this week and airing in December, for the 15,000th, episode.

Delete.

Thanks @Reverend Ruthledge. 

@DRW50 I'm sure that's Philip Sterling playing the lawyer.  The actor playing Grimes looks so familiar but I can't place him.  Seems like I've seen him in one of those old 1950s sci-fi movies, lol.  I was happy to see Bernie Grant in this role.  I enjoyed him on OLTL and Somerset.  I recognized Beulah Bondi playing the grandma in the Oxydol commercial.  Thanks again for tagging me!

Here are a few newsclips from February 1960 and May 1960.  Was Ed Bauer originally called Billy, as the second article mentions??

Thanks @DRW50!

Sad news.  Lynn Loring's family has announced that she died on December 23.

Stephen Schnetzer mentioned on The Locher Room that he is going to film a few episodes on Days as Steven Olson (Julie's brother).  Around 11 minutes in.

Jennifer Leak's obituary.

https://www.easthamptonstar.com/obituaries/2024328/jennifer-leak-dauria

On 3/6/2024 at 11:24 AM, vetsoapfan said:

Thank you. That was very helpful. It saddens me that the show has killed him off, but at least we know Tommy's fate, now.

Sorry @vetsoapfan, didn't mean to quote you when I posted this.  Don't know how that happened. 

No luck with Leona Powers, other than a 1959 letter from a viewer asking whether she played Mrs. Allen on GL.  The newspaper columnist didn't know the answer.

Bill Hayes' memorial is being streamed.

I'm now wondering whether AnnaLynne McCord is a recast for Nicole.  She started working around the time Ari's contract was up.

Obituary from The New York Times.  Susan is quoted regarding the final scenes she and Bill taped together.

'He and his wife taped their final scene together on “Days of our Lives" just weeks before he died.

“The last scene I got to play with him is about how much we love each other,” Ms. Seaforth-Hayes said in a phone interview, “and I was blessed with an opportunity to hover over the words ‘Have I ever told you how much I love you?’ And Doug answers, ‘No, you never did.’ That was something Billy and I would say frequently in life.”'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/arts/television/bill-hayes-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU0.mC2C.HtGyE8ywThpW&smid=url-share

Came across a reel that Paul Tinder had posted on Vimeo.  There is a scene at the beginning with Neil and Liz regarding their daughter Noelle's diabetes.  The last scene appears to be from 1977 or 1978, when skeevy Neil was coming on to his receptionist, Betty Worth (Jenny Sherman), in her apartment.  That scene starts around 12:05.

She really doesn't.  She was a favorite when I was young and I still listen to her music.